Module Aim 
This course is designed to provide candidates with an overview of the presentation and disclosures of financial statements and an advanced knowledge of selected important accounting standards.
Syllabus Learning Outcomes 
Candidates will be able to: 
 Understand the framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements and the disclosure issues. 
 Identify the basic and further issues in the preparation of consolidated financial statements.  Understand the basic concepts of deferred tax accounting, the disclosures and presentation issues. 
 Understand the concepts relating to foreign currency transactions and translation. 
 Account for financial instruments. 
 Understand emerging or other accounting issue
Module outline and detailed syllabus
1. Overview of Financial Statements 
 Framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements 
 Objective of financial statements 
 Qualitative characteristics of financial statements 
 Recognition and measurement of the elements of financial statements 
 Concepts of capital and capital maintenance 
 Financial statements 
 Statement of Financial Position 
 Statement of Comprehensive Income
  Concept of comprehensive income 
 Income Statement 
 Statement of Cash Flows 
 Statement of Changes in Equity 
 Notes to accounts 
 Other disclosure issues in the financial statements 
 Changes in accounting policy and estimates and correction of errors 
 Events after the balance sheet date 
 Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets 
 Operating segments 
 Related party disclosures 
 Earnings per share 
2. Consolidated Financial Statements 
 Basic issues in the preparation of consolidated balance sheet and consolidated income statement 
 The acquisition method  Goodwill on consolidation 
 Fair value adjustments  
 Non-controlling interests 
 Inter-company transactions and unrealised gains/losses 
 Further issues in the preparation of consolidated balance sheet and consolidated income statement 
 Investments in associates and equity accounting 
 Loss of control 
 Re-measurement of previously-held interests on acquisition date 
 Reverse take-overs 
 Complex group structure (e.g. father-son-grandson structure) 
 Interests in joint-ventures 
3. Accounting for Income Taxes 
 Basic concepts in deferred tax accounting 
 Rationale for deferred tax accounting 
 Concept of tax base and temporary differences 
 Taxable and deductible temporary differences 
 Recognition of deferred tax assets/liabilities 
 Accounting for temporary differences 
 Recognized assets and liabilities in separate financial statements 
 Revaluation of recognized assets and liabilities in separate financial statements 
 Initial recognition of assets and liabilities in separate financial statements 
 Fair value adjustments recognized under the acquisition method in consolidated financial statements 
 Goodwill 
 Investment in subsidiaries and associates 
 Accounting for deferred tax assets 
 Accounting for tax losses 
 Deductible temporary differences 
 Measurement issues 
 Measurement of deferred tax assets/liabilities 
 Measurement of tax expense 
 Presentation issues 
 Presentation of current tax payable 
 Presentation of deferred tax assets/liabilities 
 Presentation of tax expense 
 Disclosure requirements 
 Reconciliation of effective tax rate/amount to statutory tax rate/amount 
 Analysis of temporary differences 
 Other disclosures 
4. Foreign Currency Transaction and Translation 
 Foreign currency transactions and balances 
 Concepts relating to functional currency and presentation currency 
 Translation of foreign currency transactions and balances into an entity’s  functional currency
 Monetary items versus non-monetary items 
 Treatment of exchange gains/losses
 Foreign operations
 Re-measurement of foreign currency financial statements to the functional currency 
 Translation of financial statements prepared in an entity’s functional currency to a different presentation currency 
 Translation of foreign currency financial statements of subsidiaries and associates to the presentation currency of the parent 
 Translation gains and losses arising from translation of the separate financial statements of a subsidiary or an associate 
 Translation gains and losses arising from the translation of goodwill and fair value adjustments 
 Allocation of translation gains and losses to non-controlling interests 
5. Accounting for Financial Instruments
 Theoretical and practical considerations underlying the application of FRS 32, FRS 39 and FRS 107 
 Recognition and derecognition 
 Recognition of financial assets: primary instruments and derivative instruments, stand-alone and embedded derivatives 
 Recognition of financial liabilities 
 Derecognition of financial assets and liabilities 
 Measurement 
 Measurement of financial assets: “fair value through profit or loss”, “available-for-sale”, “held-to-maturity”, and “loans and receivables” 
 Measurement of financial liabilities 
 Presentation 
 Substance over form 
 Split accounting for compound instruments 
 Off-setting of financial assets and financial liabilities 
 Disclosure 
 Risk management policy 
 Fair values 
 Other disclosures 
 Hedge accounting 
 Fair value hedge 
 Cash flow hedge 
 Hedge of investment in foreign entity 
6. Emerging or Other Accounting Issues
This topic deals with conceptual and qualitative issues relating to: 
 IFRS 9 Financial Instruments 
 Compensation-related issues including accounting for share-based compensation  
 Issues addressed in exposure drafts (ED/FRS and ED/INT FRS) that have significant impact on future accounting practices 
 Contentious or evolving issues relating to Topics 1- 5 of this syllabus