What is included in the summary of significant accounting policies?
Financial statements will require important disclosures to be made as they are a key component of the financial statements because they provide critical assumptions and estimates.
The visual below provides some of the more common significant accounting policies, but that is not a complete list as Management needs to use discretion in determining what would be important to the readers of their financial statements.
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