BC15 In its deliberation of the amendments to IAS 28, the Board considered whether the requirements now in paragraphs 7-9 of IAS 28 regarding potential voting rights when assessing significant influence should be changed to be consistent with the requirements developed in the consolidation project.
BC16 The Board observed that the definition of significant influence in IAS 28 (ie ‘the power to participate in the financial and operating policy decisions of the investee but is not control or joint control of those policies’) was related to the definition of control as it was defined in IAS 27. The Board had not considered the definition of significant influence when it amended IAS 28 and concluded that it would not be appropriate to change one element of significant influence in isolation. Any such consideration should be done as part of a wider review of the accounting for associates.