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ASPE alert: Subsequent events and other considerations related to COVID-19
Learn about whether companies applying Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE) in Part II of the CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting (Handbook) should adjust annual financial statements issued in 2020 for the effects of COVID-19.
Should companies applying ASPE in Part II of the Handbook adjust annual financial statements issued in 2020 for the effects of COVID-19? The accounting treatment will depend on whether the financial statements cover a period that has been affected by COVID-19 or whether COVID-19 is a subsequent event.
Topics include:
- when to disclose the effects of COVID-19 in the financial statements
- when to adjust the financial statements for the effects of COVID-19
- going concern matters
- auditor considerations