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National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations
Part 8 Business Acquisition Report
Section 8.4

Financial Statement Disclosure for Significant Acquisitions

(1) Comparative Annual Financial Statements—If a reporting issuer is required to file a business acquisition report under section 8.2, subject to sections 8.6 through 8.11, the business acquisition report must include the following for each business or related businesses:

(a) a statement of comprehensive income, a statement of changes in equity and a statement of cash flows for the following periods:

(i) if the business has completed one financial year,

(A) the most recently completed financial year ended on or before the acquisition date; and

(B) the financial year immediately preceding the most recently completed financial year, if any; or

(ii) if the business has not completed one financial year, the financial period commencing on the date of formation and ending on a date not more than 45 days before the acquisition date;

(b) a statement of financial position as at the end of each of the periods specified in paragraph (a); and

(c) notes to the financial statements.

(2) Audit—The most recently completed financial period referred to in subsection (1) must be audited.

(3) Interim Financial Report—Subject to subsection (4) and sections 8.6 through 8.11, if a reporting issuer is required to include financial statements in a business acquisition report under subsection (1), the business acquisition report must include financial statements for

(a) the most recently completed interim period or other period that started the day after the date of the statement of financial position specified in paragraph (1)(b) and ended,

(i) in the case of an interim period, before the acquisition date; or

(ii) in the case of a period other than an interim period, after the interim period referred to in subparagraph (i) and on or before the acquisition date; and

(b) a comparable period in the preceding financial year of the business.

(3.1) Contents of Interim Financial ReportCanadian GAAP Applicable to Private Enterprises—If a reporting issuer is required under subsection (3) to include an interim financial report in a business acquisition report and the financial statements for the business or related businesses acquired are prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP applicable to private enterprises, as permitted under National Instrument 52-107 Acceptable Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards, the interim financial report must include

(a) a balance sheet as at the end of the interim period and a balance sheet as at the end of the immediately preceding financial year, if any;

(b) an income statement, a statement of retained earnings and a cash flow statement, all for the year-to-date interim period, and comparative financial information for the corresponding interim period in the immediately preceding financial year, if any; and

(c) notes to the financial statements.

(4) Earlier Financial Statements Permitted—Despite subsection (3), the business acquisition report may include financial statements for a period ending not more than one interim period before the period referred to in subparagraph (3)(a)(i) if

(a) the business does not, or related businesses do not, constitute a material departure from the business or operations of the reporting issuer immediately before the acquisition; and

(c) either

(i) the acquisition date is, and the reporting issuer files the business acquisition report, within the following time after the business’s or related businesses’ most recently completed interim period:

(A) 45 days, if the reporting issuer is not a venture issuer; or

(B) 60 days, if the reporting issuer is a venture issuer; or

(ii) the reporting issuer filed a document before the acquisition date that included financial statements for the business or related businesses that would have been required if the document were a prospectus, and those financial statements are for a period ending not more than one interim period before the interim period referred to in subparagraph (3)(a)(i).

(5) Pro Forma Financial Statements Required in a Business Acquisition Report—If a reporting issuer other than a venture issuer is required to include financial statements in a business acquisition report under subsection (1) or (3), the business acquisition report must include

(a) a pro forma statement of financial position of the reporting issuer,

(i) as at the date of the reporting issuer’s most recent statement of financial position filed, that gives effect, as if they had taken place as at the date of the pro forma statement of financial position, to significant acquisitions that have been completed, but are not reflected in the reporting issuer’s most recent statement of financial position for an annual or interim period; or

(ii) if the reporting issuer has not filed a statement of financial position for any annual or interim period, as at the date of the acquired business’s most recent statement of financial position, that gives effect, as if they had taken place as at the date of the pro forma statement of financial position, to significant acquisitions that have been completed;

(b) a pro forma income statement of the reporting issuer that gives effect to significant acquisitions completed since the beginning of the financial year referred to in clause (i)(A) or (ii)(A), as applicable, as if they had taken place at the beginning of that financial year, for each of the following financial periods:

(i) the reporting issuer’s

(A) most recently completed financial year for which it has filed financial statements; and

(B) interim period for which it has filed an interim financial report that started after the period in clause (A) and ended immediately before the acquisition date or, in the reporting issuer’s discretion, after the acquisition date; or

(ii) if the reporting issuer has not filed a statement of comprehensive income for any annual or interim period, for the business’s or related businesses’

(A) most recently completed financial year that ended before the acquisition date; and

(B) period for which financial statements are included in the business acquisition report under paragraph (3)(a); and

(c) pro forma earnings per share based on the pro forma financial statements referred to in paragraph (b).

(6) Pro Forma Financial Statements based on Earlier Financial Statements Permitted—Despite paragraph (5)(a) and clauses (5)(b)(i)(B) and (5)(b)(ii)(B), if the reporting issuer relies on subsection (4), the business acquisition report may include

(a) a pro forma statement of financial position as at the date of the statement of financial position filed immediately before the reporting issuer’s most recent statement of financial position filed; and

(b) a pro forma income statement for the period ending not more than one interim period before the interim period referred to in clause (5)(b)(i)(B) or (5)(b)(ii)(B), as applicable.

(7) Preparation of Pro Forma Financial Statements—If a reporting issuer is required to include pro forma financial statements in a business acquisition report under subsection (5),

(a) the reporting issuer must identify in the pro forma financial statements each significant acquisition, if the pro forma financial statements give effect to more than one significant acquisition;

(b) the reporting issuer must include in the pro forma financial statements

(i) adjustments attributable to each significant acquisition for which there are firm commitments and for which the complete financial effects are objectively determinable,

(ii) adjustments to conform amounts for the business or related businesses to the issuer’s accounting policies, and

(iii) a description of the underlying assumptions on which the pro forma financial statements are prepared, cross-referenced to each related pro forma adjustment;

(c) if the financial year-end of the business differs from the reporting issuer’s year-end by more than 93 days, for the purpose of preparing the pro forma income statement for the reporting issuer’s most recently completed financial year, the reporting issuer must construct an income statement of the business for a period of 12 consecutive months ending no more than 93 days before or after the reporting issuer’s year-end, by adding the results for a subsequent interim period to a completed financial year of the business and deducting the comparable interim results for the immediately preceding year;

(d) if a constructed income statement is required under paragraph (c), the pro forma financial statements must disclose the period covered by the constructed income statement on the face of the pro forma financial statements and must include a note stating that the financial statements of the business used to prepare the pro forma financial statements were prepared for the purpose of the pro forma financial statements and do not conform with the financial statements for the business included elsewhere in the business acquisition report;

(e) if a reporting issuer is required to prepare a pro forma income statement for an interim period required by paragraph (5)(b), and the pro forma income statement for the most recently completed financial year includes results of the business which are also included in the pro forma income statement for the interim period, the reporting issuer must disclose in a note to the pro forma financial statements the revenue, expenses and profit or loss from continuing operations included in each pro forma income statement for the overlapping period; and

(f) a constructed period referred to in paragraph (c) does not have to be audited.

(8) Financial Statements of Related Businesses—If a reporting issuer is required under subsection (1) to include financial statements for more than one business because the significant acquisition involves an acquisition of related businesses, the financial statements required under subsection (1) must be presented separately for each business, except for the periods during which the businesses have been under common control or management, in which case the reporting issuer may present the financial statements of the businesses on a combined basis.