Business, Legal & Accounting Glossary
Qualitative characteristic of financial statements, understandable by users.
The property of being understandable.
The quality of comprehensible language or thought.
Understandability is the principle that the financial information provided by a company should be such that its significance is capable of being perceived by a person with a reasonable knowledge of accounting and business and a willingness to study it with reasonable diligence.
The information provided should not leave out anything material, but should also not be so comprehensive in nature that it obscures any main points of significance.
This concept is defined in S.2 of the Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
The concept is also recognised in the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting.
comprehensibility, intelligibility, clarity, interpretability, readability
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