This is to address the temporary consequences of the different effective dates of IFRS 9Financial Instruments and the new insurance contracts Standard.
Both IFRS 9 (which was issued in July 2014 and has an effective date of 1 January 2018) and the new Insurance Contracts Standard (which will replace IFRS 4 and have a later effective date) are relevant to companies that issue insurance contracts. Some of those companies have expressed concerns about the need to implement two significant changes in accounting on different dates. They have also highlighted that potential increased accounting volatility could arise in profit or loss if the new requirements for financial instruments were to be applied before the new requirements for insurance contracts.
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