Regulator’s update prompted by “the current economic uncertainties facing a number of countries around the world”
The Financial Reporting Council has today published “An update for directors of listed companies: Responding to increased country and currency risk in financial reports” (the Update).
The FRC has issued this Update to highlight significant issues that directors may address “when considering how best to provide a balanced and understandable assessment of a company’s position and prospects in the context of increased country and currency risk” in annual and half-yearly financial reports. The Update sets out various codes and regulations – including the UK Corporate Governance Code, the Listing Rules and IFRS – that may require a company to make these risk-based disclosures. The accompanying FRC press release is here.
The update specifically mentions the risks arising from regime change in the Middle East, the funding pressures on “certain European countries” and the curtailment of capital spending programmes, and sagely notes that the “outcome of these events remain uncertain”.
