3PRESENTATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
As set out in IASB's Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting 2018, the objective of general‐purpose financial reporting is to provide financial information about the reporting entity which is useful to existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors in making decisions about providing resources to the entity. Although financial statements prepared for this purpose meet the needs of these specific users, they do not provide all the information which the users may need to make economic decisions since they largely portray the financial effects of past events and do not necessarily provide non‐financial information.
In the past, many considered the lack of guidance on the presentation of the financial statements under IFRS to be a significant impediment to the achievement of comparability among financial statements. Users ...
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