The Corporation’s consolidated financial statements were prepared and are presented in accordance with the accounting practices adopted in Brazil and with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The separate financial statements of the parent company were prepared in accordance with the accounting practices adopted in Brazil and are disclosed jointly with the consolidated financial statements.
The accounting practices adopted in Brazil include those provided for in Brazilian corporations law and the Pronouncements, Guidelines and Interpretations of the Accounting Pronouncement Committee (CPC), as approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM). Until December 31, 2013, these practices differed from IFRS for the separate financial statements, as they required accounting for investments in subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures though the equity method, while IFRS standards required them to be measured at cost or fair value.
With the issue of pronouncement IAS 27 (Separate Financial Statements), revised by IASB in 2014, the separate statements prepared in accordance with IFRS allowed the use of the equity method of accounting to measure investments in subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures. In December 2014, CVM issued Resolution 733/2014, which approved the Document of Revision of Technical Pronouncements no. 07 related to Pronouncements CPC 18, CPC 35 and CPC 37 issued by the Accounting Pronouncements Committee, accepting said revision of IAS 27, and allowing its adoption as of fiscal years ended December 31, 2014. As a result, the separate financial statements of the Parent Company are also in compliance with IFRS standards as of this fiscal year.