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On the ‘Disclosure Initiative – Principles of Disclosure’: The EAA Financial Reporting Standards Committee’s View
This paper summarises the contents of a comment letter produced by a working group of 12academics in response to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Discussion Paper onprinciples of disclosure. The comment letter was submitted by the Financial Reporting StandardsCommittee (FRSC) of the European Accounting Association (EAA). The work includes reviews ofrelevant academic literature of areas related to the various questions posed by the IASB in the DiscussionPaper, including the‘disclosure problem’and the objective of the project, the suggested principles ofeffective communication, the roles of the primaryfinancial statements and notes, the location ofinformation and the use of performance measures. The paper also discusses the disclosure of accountingpolicies, the objectives of centralised disclosure, and the New Zealand Accounting Standards Boardstaff’s approach to disclosure