RE: after IM price19 Jul 2022 11:04
Directly from IFRS website
The need for implementation guidance
4 The International Accounting Standards Board (Board) issued the IFRS for SMEs Standard in July 2009. It was a new Standard expected to be applied throughout the world by small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) that do not have public accountability. Many of those entities had not been applying IFRS Standards.
5 The IFRS for SMEs Standard is based on the principles in IFRS Standards, but is a separate Standard with simplified requirements. The simplifications reflect the needs of users of SMEs’ financial statements and SMEs’ technical and financial abilities to produce those financial statements. Such simplifications include:
(a) omitting topics in IFRS Standards that are regarded as not relevant for most SMEs;
(b) allowing SMEs to use the easier option where IFRS Standards allow accounting policy choices;
(c) simplifying many of the principles in IFRS Standards for recognising and measuring assets, liabilities, income and expenses;
(d) requiring substantially fewer disclosures; and
(e) simplifying wording.
6 The Trustees and the Board established the SMEIG to support adoption and implementation of the IFRS for SMEs Standard.
7 In June 2020 the Trustees revised the Terms of Reference and Operating Procedures to recognise the role of the SMEIG in also supporting application of the IFRS for SMEs Standard.