IFRS norms format for cos to be notified soon

The government today said it will soon notify the format that companies will have to follow while preparing their account books as per the international accounting norm IFRS from next fiscal.

In an official statement, the Corporate Affairs Ministry also said that it is ready with the depreciation rates that companies will have to follow while compiling their financial statements.

"The revised Schedule VI(Format of Financial Statements), Schedule XIV (Depreciation Rate) and proposed converged accounting standards are ready and are proposed to be notified shortly," the statement said.

The Ministry also pointed out that companies will have to comply by the International Financial Reporting Standards from April 2011.

"To ensure this and to implement the G-20 commitment to achieve a single set of high quality global accounting standards, the government has taken a decision to achieve convergence of Indian Accounting Standards with IFRS in a phased manner beginning April, 2011," it said.

On industry's apprehensions about implementation of IFRS from the next fiscal, the MCA said that all the issues have been taken care of.

"The Industry has always expressed a feeling of readiness on the matter. The concerns expressed by them at various stages have been redressed through issue of suitable clarifications," it said.

According to the roadmap laid out by the Corporate Affairs Ministry, companies will have to prepare their accounts as per the new norm in a phased manner, beginning with companies that have a networth of over Rs 1,000 crore.

Further, while scheduled commercial banks and urban cooperative banks will adopt IFRS from April 1, 2013, all insurance companies will convert their opening balance sheets with IFRS from April 2012.

Large, listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), will converge their opening books of accounts with IFRS norms from April 1, 2013.