IFRS 17

Insurance contracts

The IASB finished its long-standing project on insurance contracts accounting and published IFRS 17, ‘Insurance contracts’ on 18 May 2017 to replace IFRS 4, which currently permits a wide variety of practices in accounting for insurance contracts. IFRS 17 will fundamentally change the accounting by all entities that issue insurance contracts and investment contracts with discretionary participation features.

The standard applies to annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2021(*), with earlier application permitted if IFRS 15, ‘Revenue from contracts with customers’ and IFRS 9, ‘Financial instruments’ are also applied.

(*) The effective date was tentatively decided by IASB to be delayed for one year until 1 January 2022.

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