Notice Type
General Section
Notice Title

Approval of Financial Reporting Standard 41 Disclosing the Impact of Adopting New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (FRS–41) (Notice No. 45)

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 29 of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (“the Act”), that the Accounting Standards Review Board has approved, as a financial reporting standard for the purposes of the Act,
Financial Reporting Standard 41 Disclosing the Impact
of Adopting New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (and the consequential amendments to FRS 24 Interim Financial Reports set out in this standard (“the consequential amendments”)), which has been submitted to it by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand.
FRS-41 Disclosing the Impact of Adopting New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (together with the consequential amendments) is:
? to apply to all issuers and may be applied by all
other reporting entities and groups, the Crown and
all departments, offices of Parliament and Crown entities, and all local authorities (each of which is defined in the Act) other than where expressly exempted by its terms, the terms of any other approved financial reporting standard or by law;
? to apply to annual, half-yearly and quarterly reporting periods ending on or after 30 June 2005, and ceases to apply to such periods when an entity adopts NZ IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards; and
? a Regulation for the purposes of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989.
Copies of FRS-41 Disclosing the Impact of Adopting
New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (together with the consequential amendments) may be inspected free of charge at, and will
be made available for purchase from, the offices of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand,
40 Mercer Street (P.O. Box 110-342), Wellington, and
27-33 Ohinerau Street (P.O. Box 3334), Auckland.
Dated this 17th day of May 2005.
WARWICK HUNT, Chairman, Accounting Standards Review Board.