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Actuarial gains and losses are changes in the present value of the defined benefit obligation resulting from: (a) experience adjustments (the effects of differences between the previous actuarial assumptions and what has actually occurred); and (b) the …

The return on plan assets is interest, dividends and other income derived from the plan assets, together with realised and unrealised gains or losses on the plan assets, less: (a) any costs of managing plan assets; and (b) any tax payable by the plan …

A settlement is a transaction that eliminates all further legal or constructive obligations for part or all of the benefits provided under a defined benefit plan, other than a payment of benefits to, or on behalf of, employees that is set out in the terms …

The following terms are used in this Standard with the meanings specified: …

Accounting estimates are monetary amounts in financial statements that are subject to measurement uncertainty. …

Accounting policies are the specific principles, bases, conventions, rules and practices applied by an entity in preparing and presenting financial …

Material is defined in paragraph 7 of AASB 101 and is used in this Standard with the same meaning. …

Prior period errors are omissions from, and misstatements in, the entity’s financial statements for one or more prior periods arising from a failure to use, or misuse of, reliable information that: (a) was available when financial statements for those …

Retrospective application is applying a new accounting policy to transactions, other events and conditions as if that policy had always been …

Retrospective restatement is correcting the recognition, measurement and disclosure of amounts of elements of financial statements as if a prior period error had never …