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2006 Annual Report - Fiat SpA

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Appendix<br />

Transition of the Parent Company <strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. to<br />

International Financial <strong>Report</strong>ing Standards (IFRS)<br />

In compliance with European Regulation no. 1606 of July 19,<br />

2002, starting from 2005 the <strong>Fiat</strong> Group has adopted the<br />

International Financial <strong>Report</strong>ing Standards (“IFRS”) issued<br />

by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) for<br />

the preparation of its consolidated financial statements. On the<br />

basis of national legislation implementing that Regulation, the<br />

annual statutory accounts of the Parent Company <strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A.<br />

at December 31, <strong>2006</strong> have also been prepared using those<br />

accounting standards. As a consequence the Parent Company<br />

<strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. is presenting its financial statements for <strong>2006</strong> and its<br />

comparative figures for the prior year in accordance with IFRS.<br />

This Appendix provides reconciliations of the company’s<br />

Balance Sheets at January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005 and<br />

its Income Statement for the year ended December 31, 2005,<br />

together with notes, as required by IAS 1 – Presentation of<br />

Financial Statements.<br />

This information has been prepared as part of the transition by<br />

<strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. to IFRS and in connection with the preparation of its<br />

statutory accounts for the year ending December 31, <strong>2006</strong> in<br />

accordance with IFRS; it does not include all of the disclosures<br />

which would be necessary for a full presentation of the financial<br />

position and results of operations of <strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. as of and for<br />

the year ended December 31, 2005 in conformity with IFRS.<br />

Reconciliations required by IFRS 1<br />

As required by IFRS 1 – First-time Adoption of International<br />

Financial <strong>Report</strong>ing Standards, this Appendix describes the<br />

principles adopted in preparing the opening Balance Sheet<br />

at January 1, 2005 in accordance with IFRS and the main<br />

differences with the Italian accounting principles used to<br />

prepare the Italian financial statements for the year ended<br />

December 31, 2005, and provides reconciliations between the<br />

figures already published, prepared in accordance with Italian<br />

accounting principles, and the corresponding figures<br />

redetermined in accordance with IFRS.<br />

The Balance Sheet and Income Statement for the year ended<br />

December 31, 2005 have been prepared in accordance with<br />

the provisions of IFRS 1 on the basis of the IFRS already<br />

effective from January 1, <strong>2006</strong> as published at December 31,<br />

2005. As a result in particular the amendment to IAS 39 issued<br />

in 2005 regarding the recognition and measurement of<br />

financial guarantee contracts in the financial statements<br />

of the guarantor and having effect from January 1, <strong>2006</strong><br />

has been applied.<br />

First-time adoption of IFRS<br />

General principle<br />

In compliance with IFRS 1, <strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. has applied the<br />

accounting standards effective at the reporting date of its<br />

first IFRS financial statements to its opening Balance Sheet<br />

at January 1, 2005 and retrospectively throughout all the<br />

periods presented in those statements, except for the<br />

exemptions permitted by IFRS 1 and elected by the company<br />

as described in the following. In particular, as <strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. has<br />

adopted IFRS for its separate financial statements at a later<br />

date than for its consolidated financial statements (in which<br />

there was an opening IFRS Balance Sheet at January 1, 2004),<br />

it has measured assets and liabilities in accordance with IFRS<br />

at the same value in both Balance Sheets (separate and<br />

consolidated), with the exception of the items for which there<br />

are consolidating adjustments.<br />

There are the following differences in the opening Balance<br />

Sheet at January 1, 2005 compared to that included in the<br />

financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2004<br />

prepared in accordance with Italian accounting principles:<br />

■ all assets and liabilities whose recognition is required by<br />

IFRS, including those not permitted in the application of Italian<br />

accounting principles, have been recognised and measured<br />

in accordance with IFRS;<br />

■ all assets and liabilities whose recognition is required<br />

by Italian accounting principles but is not permitted by IFRS<br />

have been derecognised;<br />

■ certain Balance Sheet items have been reclassified<br />

in accordance with IFRS.<br />

The effects of these adjustments have been recognised directly<br />

in opening equity at January 1, 2005, the date of first-time<br />

adoption of IFRS.<br />

Appendix Transition of the Parent Company <strong>Fiat</strong> S.p.A. to International Financial <strong>Report</strong>ing Standards (IFRS) 301

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