This standard requires an entity whose debt/equity securities are traded publically to disclose details to allow users of its Financial Statements (FS) to evaluate the nature and financial effects of the various business activities in which it is engaged and different economic environment in which it operates. However, when both separate & consolidated FS for the holding is presented in a single financial report, segment information needs to be offered based on the compressed FS.
Core principal
Its core principle is an entity should disclose information to help users of its FS to assess the nature and financial effects of the varied business activities in which it operates and the economic environments in which it functions.
Operating segments
This standard defines operating segment as follows:
For example, the corporate headquarters or some operational departments may not earn income or earn incomes that are only related to business activity. These would not be operating segments. In addition, IFRS 8 mentions specifically that a company’s post-retirement benefit plans are not operating segments.
Reportable segments
Information is necessary to be disclosed about any operating segment that fulfils any of the following quantitative limits:
Disclosure requirements
Disclosures in IFRS 8 are that an entity should reveal ‘information to help users of its FS to assess the nature and financial effects of different business activities in which it operates and the economic environments in which it engages.’ In fulfilling this principle, an entity must disclose:
Additionally, prescribed entity-wide disclosures are required even if an entity has only one reportable segment. These comprise information about each product and service or groups of products and services. For example, evaluation of revenues and certain long term assets by geographical area are required – with an expanded requirement to disclose revenues or assets by a separate foreign country (if material), irrespective of the identification of operating segments. If the information mandatory for these measurements is not available, and the cost to develop it would be more, that fact must be disclosed. IFRS 8 has also introduced a need to disclose information about transactions with big customers. If revenues from transactions with one external customer amount to 10 per cent or more of the entity’s revenues, the entire revenue from each customer and the segment/segments in which those turnovers are reported must be disclosed. The entity is not required to disclose major customers’ identities or the amount of sales that each segment reports from that customer. For this purpose, a group of entities known to the reporting entity to be under common control will be considered a single customer, and the government and the entities known to the reporting entity to be under the control of that government will be considered one customer.
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