Faithful representation

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Financial reporting - accounting concepts.

Under the IFRS Conceptual Framework, faithful representation means representation of the substance of an economic phenomenon instead of representation of its legal form only.

A faithful representation seeks to maximise the underlying characteristics of completeness, neutrality and freedom from error.


Information must be both relevant and faithfully represented, if it is to be useful.


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