2.2 Scope
Entities are required to apply IFRS 1 in their first IFRS financial statements and in each interim financial report, if any, prepared in accordance with
IAS 34 Interim Financial Reporting for part of the period covered by those first IFRS financial statements.
An entity’s first IFRS financial statements are the first annual financial statements in which it adopts IFRSs by including an explicit and unreserved
statement of compliance with IFRSs.
A careful assessment of the specific facts and circumstances is required to determine whether financial statements fall within the scope of IFRS 1.
The Standard notes by way of example that IFRS financial statements would be considered to be an entity’s first IFRS financial statements if the
entity presented its most recent previous financial statements:
• in accordance with national requirements that are not consistent with IFRSs in all respects;
• in conformity with IFRSs in all respects, except that the financial statements did not contain an explicit and unreserved statement that they
complied with IFRSs;
• containing an explicit statement of compliance with some, but not all, IFRSs;
• in accordance with national requirements inconsistent with IFRSs, using some individual IFRSs to account for items for which national
requirements did not exist; or
• in accordance with national requirements, with a reconciliation of some amounts to the amounts determined under IFRSs.