Crypto Currency Disclosure Requirements for Financial Reporting

As a result, entities should ensure that their financial statements contain clear and robust disclosures. Those will include some of the applicable generic disclosures required by IFRS, depending on the accounting classification by the issuer/holder.

 

Topic

Examples

Involvement with cryptographic assets and related transactions, including purpose for transactions

1-Description of the cryptographic assets held, including their characteristics

2-Business model for holding cryptographic assets

3-Details of ICO transactions undertaken (cash and non-cash transactions)

4-Success of project, especially with regard to the promises included in ICO whitepaper

Accounting policies, and judgements made

1-Accounting standard applied to cryptographic assets held

2-Measurement basis

3-On/off balance sheet treatment of cryptographic assets held for third

parties, including rationale

4-Recognition of ICO proceeds (especially nature of credit in an ICO

issuance)

5-Possible future regulatory developments, including changes in accounting

standards and/or interpretations

Sources of estimation uncertainty

1-Non-level 1 fair values

2-Pattern of recognition of deferred revenue

Events after the reporting period

1-Major change in the value of cryptographic assets held

2-Achieving/not achieving an ICO or other significant milestone (such as key performance obligations)

Fair value of cryptographic assets

1-Fair value of cryptographic assets held

2-Level of the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurements are categorised

3-Description of the valuation techniques and inputs used to determine fair value

4-Inputs used to determine fair value measurement, especially considerations around determination of the principal or most advantageous market and reliability and sources of data used

5-A discussion of the sensitivity to unobservable inputs

Risks and how they are managed

1-Nature and extent of risks arising from the holding of cryptographic assets

2-Risk management process, strategies and actions

 

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