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Chapter 1
Qualitative characteristics of financial
information
10.1 Characteristics
The Framework identifies two fundamental qualitative characteristics and four
enhancing qualitative characteristics as follows:
Fundamental qualitative characteristics
– Relevance – Information is relevant when it influences the economic
decisions of users by helping them evaluate past, present or future events
or confirming or correcting their past evaluations.
– Faithful representation – If information is to represent faithfully the
transactions and other events that it purports to represent, transactions
must be accounted for and presented in accordance with their substance
and economic reality and not merely their legal form.
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