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LECTURE AID
Learning Competencies
• Know the recognition criteria for liabilities and their essential
characteristics.
• Identify the characteristics of a financial liability.
• Know the initial and subsequent measurements of financial
and non-financial liabilities.
• Know how to classify liabilities as current and noncurrent.
• Under IFRIC 17, the liability to pay a dividend is recognized when the
dividend is appropriately authorized and is no longer at the discretion of
the entity, which is:
1. the date when the declaration of the dividend (e.g., by management or
the board of directors) is approved by the relevant authority
(e.g., the shareholders) if the jurisdiction requires such approval, or
2. the date when the dividend is declared (e.g., by management or
the board of directors) if the jurisdiction does not require further
approval.