For the last question, five, about personal views of the benefit to wider stakeholders (shareholders, community etc.) of AASB 112: Income Taxes, the professional body advisor said that even without considering the tax standard, ‘many stakeholders can barely understand and annual report.’
The audit partner said, ‘many people do not like the AASB 112 standard…as it runs contrary to the conceptual framework of accounting.’
The framework requires that a transaction has occurred and is accounted for.
In many cases DTAs are ‘not connected to any past event’, but rather a future event. AASB 112 requires repeated
explanation to management. The mining Chief Financial Officer said, ‘I think the standard is just confusing.’
IFRS harmonised standards are important for large multi-nationals for comparability, but for the rest of industry ‘they are marginal at best.’ The tax partner stated: Tax expense is quite often the single largest expense of a company.
Therefore, it is essential that it is correctly provisioned otherwise the accounts will be materially misstated.
The balance sheet approach has the advantage that you are required to prove your balance and the movement from year to year.
This reduces the errors in the accounts.
Under the old standard you did not have to reconcile movements and tax expense was used [incorrectly] as a balancing item. Whilst, the current standard [AASB112] is more difficult to apply in practice, it is a lot more transparent.’
For the last question, five, about personal views of the benefit to wider stakeholders (shareholders, community etc.) of AASB 112: Income Taxes, the professional body advisor said that even without considering the tax standard, ‘many stakeholders can barely understand and annual report.’ The audit partner said, ‘many people do not like the AASB 112 standard…as it runs contrary to the conceptual framework of accounting.’ The framework requires that a transaction has occurred and is accounted for.In many cases DTAs are ‘not connected to any past event’, but rather a future event. AASB 112 requires repeatedexplanation to management. The mining Chief Financial Officer said, ‘I think the standard is just confusing.’ IFRS harmonised standards are important for large multi-nationals for comparability, but for the rest of industry ‘they are marginal at best.’ The tax partner stated: Tax expense is quite often the single largest expense of a company.Therefore, it is essential that it is correctly provisioned otherwise the accounts will be materially misstated. The balance sheet approach has the advantage that you are required to prove your balance and the movement from year to year.This reduces the errors in the accounts.Under the old standard you did not have to reconcile movements and tax expense was used [incorrectly] as a balancing item. Whilst, the current standard [AASB112] is more difficult to apply in practice, it is a lot more transparent.’
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