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The requirements of FRS3

For periods which end on, or after, 22nd June 1993, the annual accounts of companies are required to comply with Financial Reporting Standard 3 (FRS3). FRS3 takes the stance that no single earnings figure can be suitable for all purposes, and that readers of accounts should be encouraged to make their own profit adjustments so that the resulting earnings figure suits their particular need.

To achieve this, FRS3 requires that EPS reflect all Profit & Loss charges or credits, including those which are unusual, abnormal or non-recurring. Prior to FRS3 such items would mostly have been labelled extraordinary, and would have been excluded from EPS altogether.

To ensure that adjustments can be made properly, FRS3 requires the Profit & Loss Account to carry adequate descriptive information of any items which are, in reality, likely to be excluded from earnings calculations, together with attributable tax and minority interest amounts.


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