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8 ACCA Strategic Professional questions with answers and explanations.
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IFRS S1 requires disclosure of sustainability-related risks and opportunities that could reasonably be expected to affect the entity's:
Correct answer: Prospects, including cash flows, access to finance and cost of capital
The information is for primary users making decisions about providing resources to the entity.
The four core content areas of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 are:
Correct answer: Governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets
The structure follows the TCFD recommendations.
Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions are:
Correct answer: Indirect emissions from purchased electricity, steam, heating or cooling
Scope 1 is direct and Scope 3 covers other indirect emissions in the value chain.
Which statement about IFRS 18 is correct?
Correct answer: It requires income and expenses to be classified into operating, investing, financing, income taxes and discontinued operations
IFRS 18 replaces IAS 1 and requires defined subtotals, including operating profit.
A transition risk in the climate-related context is:
Correct answer: A carbon tax that raises the cost of a company's inputs
Transition risks come from policy, technology, market and reputation changes. Floods and heatwaves are physical risks.
Management-defined performance measures under IFRS 18 are:
Correct answer: Subtotals of income and expenses used in public communications that are not specified by IFRS
Entities must disclose and reconcile these measures in a single note.
A company's sustainability report states that it is 'carbon neutral' but its calculation excludes most of its value chain. Which concern does this raise?
Correct answer: Misleading information, because the claim is not faithfully represented
The claim does not give a complete picture, and users can be misled about performance.
Under IAS 1 and the Conceptual Framework, information is material if:
Correct answer: Omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions of primary users
Materiality is judged by effect on users' decisions, not by a fixed percentage.