IFRS 18 · mandatory 1 January 2027

Align your financials to IFRS 18 — before 2027.

Upload your annual report. Ariva Align extracts both periods, converts every income-statement line to the new IFRS 18 categories, reconciles against your filed figures, and produces the C3 transition note and a board deck — in under a minute.

2027 is closer than it looks

IFRS 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements is mandatory for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027. Every IFRS reporter must restate how their primary statements look — and restate comparatives. With Q1 2026 filings now available, the clock has started.

New income-statement categories

Operating, investing, and financing — applied line by line, based on your business model.

Two new mandatory subtotals

Operating profit, and Profit before financing and income taxes.

Management-defined Performance Measures

Disclosed and reconciled to an IFRS subtotal — with tax and NCI effects.

C3 transition reconciliation

A line-by-line note showing how every IAS 1 line was reclassified.

One standard. Thirteen markets. One deadline.

IFRS 18 lands on essentially the same date across the world's major IFRS jurisdictions. Only the local label changes — AASB 18 (Australia), HKFRS 18 (Hong Kong), SFRS(I) 18 (Singapore), NZ IFRS 18 (New Zealand), and IFRS as endorsed in Saudi Arabia. Ariva Align produces the IFRS 18 presentation and disclosures that underpin all of them.

Canada · United Kingdom · Australia · New Zealand · Singapore · Hong Kong · South Africa · United Arab Emirates · Saudi Arabia · Qatar · Bahrain · Kuwait · Oman

For-profit entities adopt in 2027; some not-for-profit and superannuation entities in Australia and New Zealand follow a year later.

The whole standard — not just the headline

From report to IFRS 18 in under a minute

Upload your IAS 1 annual report (PDF or Word). Ariva Align reads both years, matches each line to the IFRS 18 taxonomy, applies activity-dependent classification, and checks the figures against your printed totals before you see them. No GL data. No mapping work.

Every requirement covered

New categories and subtotals, MPM reconciliations, comprehensive income, changes in equity cross-checked to the balance sheet, expenses by nature, the C3 first-adoption note, and a validation pass.

A board deck, ready to download

Every conversion produces a PPTX impact deck: what changes, what doesn't (profit and equity are unchanged), the new subtotals, key reclassifications, and the C3 note.

AI where it helps, determinism where it counts

Rule-based mapping and arithmetic are deterministic and auditable. AI suggests mappings for unfamiliar accounts and drafts MD&A from the reported figures — and never invents a number. Every action is logged.

How it works

Path A — From your existing report (fastest)

  1. Upload your annual report (PDF or Word).
  2. Extract — current and comparative columns identified automatically.
  3. Convert — every line mapped to IFRS 18; figures reconciled against the filing.
  4. Review — new subtotals, reclassifications, C3 note, disclosures.
  5. Export — board deck (PPTX), statements (Word + Excel), notes.

Path B — From a trial balance

  1. Upload your GL trial balance (CSV).
  2. Map — rules engine first, AI-assist for the rest.
  3. Build — statements, subtotals, MPMs, equity, validation.
  4. Draft — AI-generated MD&A from your figures.
  5. Export — Word and Excel.

Reconciled in testing — to the dollar

We took Barrick Mining Corporation's published FY2025 annual report, rebuilt its trial balance with realistic, messy account names, and converted it through Ariva Align. The headline figures reconciled to the published report, and 39 of 39 messy accounts mapped correctly.

8,588Operating profit
7,154Profit for the period
51,577Total assets
6,848Total comprehensive income
35,916Closing total equity
39 / 39Accounts mapped

USD millions. Illustrative trial balance derived from public figures — not Barrick's actual GL data.

Who it's for

Corporate reporting teams

Running the IFRS 18 transition and comparative restatement.

Advisory & audit firms

Converting many clients with a consistent, audit-trailed workflow.

Finance transformation / FP&A

Modernising close-to-report.

FAQ

Is it audit-certified?

No — Ariva Align produces IFRS 18 presentation and disclosures and checks internal consistency. It supports preparers; it does not replace the audit.

Do we need to adjust our opening balance sheet?

No. IFRS 18 changes presentation only — profit and equity are unchanged from IAS 1. No opening balance sheet adjustment is required.

Does the AI make up numbers?

No. Arithmetic and classification are deterministic; AI only suggests mappings and drafts narrative from your figures.

Our chart of accounts is unusual.

Mapping rules are editable and extensible, and AI-assist handles accounts no rule has seen before.

What about Q1 2026 / interim filings?

Upload any IAS 1 filing with two columns — the platform extracts both periods and restates the comparative. There is a dedicated interim (IAS 34) workflow for quarterly reports.

Where does our data go?

Your data is hosted on Ariva Align's managed cloud infrastructure and isolated to your organization — no other customer can access it. AI-assisted extraction sends only the needed text to the model provider to return a result; it is not used to train models.

See your own numbers aligned to IFRS 18.

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