Notes To The Financial Statements

2A. APPLICATION OF NEW AND REVISED INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS (IFRSs)

In the current year, the Group and the Bank have applied all of the new and revised Standards and Interpretations issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (“IFRIC”) of the IASB that are relevant to its operations and effective for accounting periods beginning on 1 July 2020.

New and revised Standards that are effective for the current year

The following relevant revised Standards have been applied in these financial statements. Their application has not had any significant impact on the amounts reported for the current and prior periods but may affect the accounting treatment for future transactions or arrangements.
IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements – Amendments regarding the definition of material
IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Change in Accounting Estimates and Errors – Amendments regarding the definition of material
IFRS 3 Business Combinations – Amendments to clarify the definition of a business
IFRS 16 Leases – Amendment to provide lessees with an exemption from assessing whether a COVID-19-related concession is a lease modification
Amendments to References to
the Conceptual Framework in
IFRS Standards
Amendments to IFRS 2, IFRS 3, IFRS 6, IFRS 14, IAS 1, IAS 8, IAS 34, IAS 37, IAS 38, IFRIC 12, IFRIC 19, IFRIC 20, IFRIC 22, and SIC-32 to update those pronouncements with regards to references to and quotes from the framework or to indicate where they refer to a different version of the Conceptual Framework
IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures – Amendments regarding pre-replacement issues in the context of the IBOR reform
IFRS 9 Financial Instruments – Amendments regarding pre-replacement issues in the context of the IBOR reform
Amendments to IAS 39, IFRS 7 and IFRS 9 Interest Rate Benchmark Reform

The amendments, which are applicable for financial reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020, focus on hedge accounting issues related to uncertainties arising in the period leading up to the replacement of IBORs with alternative nearly risk-free rates, and provide reliefs to allow hedge accounting to continue during the period of uncertainty before an IBOR is replaced. The amendments are mandatory for all hedge relationships directly affected by interest rate benchmark reform, and are required to be applied on a retrospective basis.

The Group and the Bank do not apply hedge accounting and hence above amendments do not have an impact on the financial statements of 30 June 2021.

New and revised Standards in issue but not yet effective

At the date of authorisation of these financial statements, the following relevant Standards were in issue but effective on annual periods beginning on or after the respective dates as indicated:
IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements – Amendments regarding the classification of liabilities (effective 1 January 2023)
IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements – Amendments to defer the effective date of the January 2020 amendments (effective 1 January 2023)
IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements – Amendments regarding the disclosure of accounting policies (effective 1 January 2023)
IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors - Amendments regarding the definition of accounting estimates (effective 1 January 2023)
IAS 12 Income Taxes - Amendments regarding Deferred Tax related to Assets and Liabilities arising from a Single Transaction (effective 1 January 2023)
IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment – Amendments prohibiting a company from deducting from the cost of property, plant and equipment amounts received from selling items produces while the company is preparing the asset for its intended use (effective 1 January 2022)
IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets – Amendments regarding the costs to include when assessing whether a contract is onerous (effective 1 January 2022)
IFRS 3 Business Combinations – Amendments updating a reference to the Conceptual Framework (effective 1 January 2022)
IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures - Amendments regarding replacement issues in the context of the IBOR reform (effective 1 January 2021)
IFRS 9 Financial Instruments - Amendments regarding replacement issues in the context of the IBOR reform (effective 1 January 2021)
IFRS 9 Financial Instruments – Amendments resulting from Annual Improvements to IFRS Standards 2018-2020 (fees in the ’10 per cent’ test for derecognition of financial liabilities) (effective date 1 January 2022)
IFRS 16 Leases - Amendments regarding replacement issues in the context of the IBOR reform (effective 1 January 2021)
IFRS 16 Leases - Amendments to extend the exemption from assessing whether COVID-19 related rent concession is a lease modification (effective 1 April 2021)
The directors anticipate that these Standards and Interpretations will be applied in the Group’s and the Bank’s financial statements at the above effective dates in future periods. The directors have not yet had the opportunity to consider the potential impact of the application of these amendments.