Draft Statement of Recommended Practice – Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs SORP) is issued for consultation
CCAB has published an updated draft of its LLPs SORP for comment. The underlying purpose of the SORP is to deal with issues that are specific to LLPs and ensure that, as far as possible, LLPs present financial statements that are comparable with those of other entities.
The draft LLPs SORP has been updated in response to stakeholder feedback received as part of the 2021 LLPs SORP consultation. On consideration of the feedback, the LLPs SORP Steering Group is proposing to add guidance for the following areas
Guidance has been added to consider certain narrow scenarios in which Section 26 Share-based Payment of FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic or Ireland might apply.
Guidance has been added to cover cases where a parent LLP has a subsidiary that is also an LLP and that will therefore need to be consolidated into the parent’s group accounts. Guidance is proposed in relation to the appropriate treatment of members’ debt and equity interests in the subsidiary LLP for the purpose of determining whether a non-controlling interest in the net assets of the group is recognised
An LLP may have two distinct types of members, all providing capital to it: those that provide services in return for a share of profits and those that do not provide services, but still receive a share of profits. Guidance has been added to the SORP on the treatment of profits which are automatically divided to members who do not provide any services to the LLP.
In addition to the above proposed changes, the LLP SORP has been updated to reflect the new requirements for certain LLPs to provide climate-related financial disclosures in either the strategic report, if one is prepared, or in the energy and carbon report otherwise.
It is proposed that the updated SORP would be effective for periods commencing on or after 1 January 2024.
Comments are invited by e-mail: executive.office@ccab.org.uk; the consultation will close on Friday 27 October 2023. Should members wish to send comments to ACCA, please send these to ukpolicy@accaglobal.com.