Question

(Audit )

PalEx a Palestinian listed company issued its financial statements on the 31st of December 2019. The company does not issue comparative statements. The company Audit report in 2018 was qualified due to material departure from IFRS in accounting for inventory. The company now Accounts for their inventory using FIFO. You are an auditor PalEx asked to review the financial statements.

Required:

- Can you conduct a review Explain your answer?

- Based on your answer what would you advise PalEX do

- If they accept your advise and you performed all your procedures write the report

please short and best answers.

Answer 1

Changes in accounting policies

An entity is permitted to change an accounting policy only if the change:

is required by a standard or interpretation; or results in the financial statements providing reliable and more relevant information about the effects of transactions, other events or conditions on the entity's financial position, financial performance, or cash flows.

Note that changes in accounting policies do not include applying an accounting policy to a kind of transaction or event that did not occur previously or were immaterial.

If a change in accounting policy is required by a new IASB standard or interpretation, the change is accounted for as required by that new pronouncement or, if the new pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions, then the change in accounting policy is applied retrospectively.

Retrospective application means adjusting the opening balance of each affected component of equity for the earliest prior period presented and the other comparative amounts disclosed for each prior period presented as if the new accounting policy had always been applied.

However, if it is impracticable to determine either the period-specific effects or the cumulative effect of the change for one or more prior periods presented, the entity shall apply the new accounting policy to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities as at the beginning of the earliest period for which retrospective application is practicable, which may be the current period, and shall make a corresponding adjustment to the opening balance of each affected component of equity for that period. Also, if it is impracticable to determine the cumulative effect, at the beginning of the current period, of applying a new accounting policy to all prior periods, the entity shall adjust the comparative information to apply the new accounting policy prospectively from the earliest date practicable.