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IAS 8

Definitions

• Retrospective application

• is applying a new accounting policy to transactions, other events

and conditions as if that policy has always been applied.

• Retrospective restatement

• is correcting the recognition, measurement and disclosure of

amounts of elements of financial statements as if a prior period

error has never occurred.

• Prospective application

• of a change in accounting policy and of recognising the effect of

a change in an accounting estimate, respectively, includes

• applying the new accounting policy to transactions, other events and
conditions occurring after the date at which the policy is changed; and

• recognising the effect of the change in the accounting estimate in the

current and future periods affected by the change.
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