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Insurance House P.J.S.C. Condensed Interim Financial Statements

Notes to the condensed interim financial statements (continued)

For the period ended 30 June 2023

3 Significantaccountingpolicies(continued)

3.1 IFRS17-Insurancecontracts(continued)

The Company provides qualitative and quantitative information about:

 Amounts recognised in its financial statements from insurance contracts

 Significant judgements and changes in those judgements, when applying the standard.

Transition

Changes in accounting policies resulting from the adoption of IFRS 17 have been applied using a full retrospective approach to the extent practicable. Under the full retrospective approach, at 1 January 2022 the Company:

 Identified, recognised and measured each portfolio of insurance and reinsurance contracts as if IFRS 17 had always been applied;

 Identified, recognised and measured any assets for insurance acquisition cash flows as if IFRS 17 had always been applied;

 Derecognised previously reported balances that would not haveexisted if IFRS 17 had always been applied. These included some deferred acquisition costs for insurance contracts, intangible assets related to insurance contracts (previously referred to as 'value of business acquired’), insurance receivables and payables, and provisions for levies that are attributable to existing insurance contracts. Under IFRS 17, they are included in the measurement of the insurance contracts; and

 Recognised any resulting net difference in equity.

The Company has applied the transition provisions in IFRS 17 and has not disclosed the impact of the adoption of IFRS 17 on each condensed consolidated interim financial statements line item and Earning per share. The effects of adopting IFRS 17 on the condensed consolidated interim financial statements at 1 January 2022 are presented in the condensed interim statement of changes in equity.

Insuranceandreinsurancecontractsclassification

TheCompanyissues insurancecontracts inthenormal courseofbusiness, under which it acceptssignificant insurance risk from its policyholders. As a general guideline, the Company determines whether it has significant insurance risk, by comparing benefits payable after an insured event with benefits payable if the insured event did not occur, Insurance contracts can also transfer financial risk.

Insuranceandreinsurancecontractsaccountingtreatment Separatingcomponentsfrominsuranceandreinsurancecontracts

The Company assesses its insurance and reinsurance products to determine whether they contain distinct components which must be accounted for under another IFRS instead of under IFRS 17. After separating any distinct components,theCompany appliesIFRS 17to all remainingcomponents ofthe(host)insurance contract. Currently, the Company's products do not include any distinct components that require separation.

Some reinsurance contracts issued contain profit commission arrangements. Under these arrangements, there is a minimum guaranteed amount that the policyholder will always receive - either in the form of profit commission, or as claims, or another contractual payment irrespective of the insured event happening. The minimum guaranteed amounts have been assessed to be highly interrelated with the insurance component of the reinsurance contracts and are, therefore, non-distinct investment components which are not accounted for separately. However, receipts and payments of these investment components are recognised outside of profit or loss.

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