2006 Annual Report - Fiat SpA
2006 Annual Report - Fiat SpA
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 />
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