BC105 The Board is committed to maintaining a ‘stable platform’ of substantially unchanged standards for annual periods beginning between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2008. In addition, some preparers will need time to make the system changes necessary to comply with the revisions to IAS 1. Therefore, the Board decided that the effective date of IAS 1 should be annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009, with earlier application permitted.

BC105A The exposure draft Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income published in May 2010 proposed changes to presentation of items of OCI. The Board finalised these changes in June 2011 and decided that the effective dates for these changes should be for annual periods beginning on or after 1 July 2012, with earlier application permitted. The Board did not think that a long transition period was needed as the changes to presentation are small and the presentation required by the amendments is already allowed under IAS 1.

BC105B The Board had consulted on the effective date and transition requirements for this amendment in its Request for Views on Effective Dates and Transition Requirements in October 2010 and the responses to that document did not give the Board any reason to reconsider the effective date and the transition requirements.