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Scope
IFRS 8 applies to the separate or individual financial statements of an entity (and to the consolidated financial
statements of a group with a parent):
Whose debt or equity instruments are traded in a public market or
That files, or is in the process of filing, its (consolidated) financial statements with a securities commission
or other regulatory organization for the purpose of issuing any class of instruments in a public market [IFRS
8.2]
However, when both separate and consolidated financial statements for the parent are presented in a single financial
report, segment information need be presented only on the basis of the consolidated financial statements. [IFRS
8.4]
Operating segments
IFRS 8 defines an operating segment as follows. An operating segment is a component of an entity: [IFRS 8.2]
That engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues
and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same entity)
Whose operating results are reviewed regularly by the entity’s chief operating decision maker to make
decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance and
For which discrete financial information is available
Reportable segments
IFRS 8 requires an entity to report financial and descriptive information about its reportable segments. Reportable
segments are operating segments or aggregations of operating segments that meet specified criteria: [IFRS 8.13]
its reported revenue, from both external customers and intersegments sales or transfers, is 10% or more of
the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments; or
the absolute measure of its reported profit or loss is 10% or more of the greater, in absolute amount, of:
o the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss
o the combined reported loss of all operating segments that reported a loss
its assets are 10% or more of the combined assets of all operating segments
Two or more operating segments may be aggregated into a single operating segment if aggregation is consistent
with the core principles of the standard, the segments have similar economic characteristics and are similar in
various prescribed respects. [IFRS 8.12] Operating segments can be combined if they share a majority of the
following five aggregation criteria:
a. Nature of product or service
b. Nature of production process
c. Type or class of customers
d. Marketing method or the method used to distribute the product
e. The nature of the regulatory environment, for example, banking, insurance, or public utility
If the total external revenue reported by operating segments constitutes less than 75% of the entity’s revenue,
additional operating segments must be identified as reportable segments (even if they do not meet the quantitative
thresholds set out above) until at least 75% of the entity’s revenue is included in reportable segments. [IFRS 8.15]
Disclosure requirements
# This disclosure requirement was added by Annual Improvements to IFRSs 2010-2012 Cycle, effective for annual periods beginning
on or after 1 July 2014.
*This disclosure is required only if such amounts are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, or in the case of specific
items of revenue and expense or asset-related items, if those specified amounts are included in the relevant measure (segment profit or
segment assets).