IFRS 3 Business Combinations - Summary

• published: 10 Sep 2014
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http://www.ifrsbox.com This is the short summary of IFRS 3 Business Combinations. The objective of IFRS 3 is to improve the relevance, reliability and comparability of the information that a reporting entity provides in its financial statements about a business combination and its effects. IFRS 3: • Recognizes and measures the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree; • Recognizes and measures the goodwill acquired in the business combination, or a gain from a bargain purchase; • Determines what information to disclose about the business combination. An investment must constitute a business before we can apply IFRS 3. IFRS 3 requires application of the acquisition method for each business combination. 4 steps: • Step 1: Identifying the acquirer, • Step 2: Determining the acquisition date, • Step 3: Recognizing and measuring the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree; • Step 4: Recognizing and measuring goodwill or a gain from a bargain purchase. If you’d like to learn how to consolidate, or anything about IFRS in general, please visit http://www.ifrsbox.com and subscribe to our free IFRS mini-course. Thank you!