EFRAG Invites Companies to Participate in the Field-testing of New Standards

The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) will conduct field-testing of the new requirements on joint arrangements (IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements and IFRS 12 Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities) and the new requirements on consolidation (IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements and IFRS 12 Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities), all published by the IASB in May 2011. The purpose of the field-testing is to identify potential implementation and application difficulty, and to estimate the effort required to implement and apply the new requirements. The findings of the field-testing will be used by EFRAG in developing its technical and its cost and benefit assessment of the new standards against the EU endorsement criteria.