Required treatment- development costs should be recognised as an asset when they meet the criteria in paragraph 17 of IAS 9 and it is probable that these costs will be recovered. Such costs should be allocated on a systematic basis to future periods in accordance with paragraph 20 of IAS 9.
Eliminated treatment – the Exposure Draft will propose that development costs which meet the criteria in paragraph 17 of IAS 9 should not be charged as an expense in the period in which they are incurred”