South Korea’s Monetary Providers Fee (FSC) introduced on Tuesday the implementation of latest guidelines, slated to take impact from January 2024.
Rules will mandate corporations that concern or personal cryptocurrencies to supply detailed crypto disclosures of their monetary statements.
The disclosures should embody a spread of knowledge, together with the quantity and traits of their crypto tokens, their enterprise fashions, and their inside accounting insurance policies in regards to the sale of cryptocurrencies and related earnings.
Furthermore, firms holding cryptocurrencies for funding functions can be required to reveal details about the token’s classification, ebook worth, and the market worth of their holdings.
The FSC indicated that the first goal of those guidelines is to bolster accounting transparency at a time when the nation’s authorized authorities proceed an investigation into the collapse of Terra final yr, which worn out roughly $40 billion in a matter of days.
Traditionally, there was a divergence of views in Korea between firms and their auditors on the timing and standards for figuring out when the sale of digital belongings to clients must be thought of revenue. Nevertheless, the newest guidelines are anticipated to carry readability to this concern.
They state that the gross sales of digital belongings can be acknowledged as revenue solely after the corporate has fulfilled its obligations to its holders. As well as, the prices related to creating digital belongings and their platforms won’t be acknowledged as intangible belongings.
The announcement indicated that tips for audit procedures are at present beneath improvement.
These draft tips have been endorsed by the Korea Accounting Requirements Board on July 7, in line with the FSC’s announcement.