Fas 1 Vs Ias 1 (Aaoifi Vs Ifrs)
Fas 1 Vs Ias 1 (Aaoifi Vs Ifrs)
Fas 1 Vs Ias 1 (Aaoifi Vs Ifrs)
FAS 1 vs IAS 1
(AAOIFI vs IFRS)
Md Nahid Imam
Certified Islamic Banker
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The standard also makes it clear that Islamic banks and financial institutions, in addition to
other conventional disclosures (Para 3/2), should disclose two (2) very important aspects of
their unique functions i.e.
(i)
(ii)
the role of the Shariah adviser or the Shariah board in supervising the banks
activities and the nature of advisers or boards authority in accordance with the
banks bye-laws and in actual practice; and,
the banks responsibility towards Zakat.
For the disclosure of significant accounting policies, AAOIFI FAS 1 made a number of
disclosure requirements such as
(i)
disclosure of accounting policies;
(ii)
disclosure of bases and methods adopted by the banks management for
revaluation of assets, liabilities and restricted investments to their cash equivalent
value;
(iii) disclosure of earnings or expenditures prohibited by the shariah and how the
bank intends to dispose of the assets generated by the prohibited earnings or
acquired through prohibited expenditures;
(iv)
disclosure related to unrestricted and restricted investment accounts;
(v)
disclosure on the distribution of unrestricted investment accounts, by type, in
accordance with maturity (Para 3/9); (vi) disclosure of the method used by the
Islamic bank in allocating investment profits (or losses) between unrestricted
investment account holders or their equivalent (Para 3/18);
(vi)
disclosure on returns to each type of investment accounts and their rate of return.
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