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1.2 Qualitative characteristics of useful financial information

The Framework identifies types of information that are useful to the users of financial
statements.

Fundamental qualitative characteristics:

 relevance and

 faithful representation.

Enhancing qualitative characteristics:

 comparability

 verifiability

 timeliness and

 understandability.

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