Information about major customers (para. BC58)

BC58 ED 8 proposed that, in respect of the disclosures about major customers, a group of entities known to be under common control should be treated as a single customer. Some respondents noted that this could be difficult when entities are state‑controlled. The Board noted that it was considering proposals to amend IAS 24 Related Party Disclosures with regard to state‑controlled entities, and a consequential amendment to the IFRS on reporting segments might result from those proposals. In the meantime, the Board decided to require in the IFRS that a government (whether national, state, provincial, territorial, local or foreign) and entities known to the reporting entity to be controlled by that government should be treated as a single customer. This makes the requirements relating to government‑controlled entities the same as those relating to privately controlled entities.