Online Feedback Form

We have provided this (optional) online feedback form for you to use to send us your feedback on the Simple Format Reporting Standards. 

We encourage you to use it.  Providing your feedback in this way will make it easier for us to analyse your feedback.

Use this form to add your responses to the questions below. 

The form contains all the questions included in the Request for Information.

Please complete both sections A and B.

You may choose to answer all questions in Section B or respond only to those questions of most interest to you.

When you have finished both Sections A and B, please select the submit button at the base of the form to send us your response. 

Please note: You can send us your feedback at any time, but we need to hear from you by 31 March 2021.

 After the closing date, the NZASB will then consider all the feedback we have received.


Fill out the online form here


Section A

Firstly, some questions about you.

This will help us to better understand the context for your responses to the matters raised in the Request for Information, so please include some information about yourself or the organisation(s)that you represent.

I am answering:

Please select one

Which of the following best describes your role?


Do you have a background in commerce, finance, or accounting?

Including both professional experience and education


Which Standard(s) are you commenting on?

You can select more than one

Section B

Next, the Review questions. 

You may choose to answer all questions in this section or respond only to those questions of most interest to you.


1.  What is your overall view on how the standards are working?

(Please try to give clear reasons to support your feedback).

To help you answer this question you might want to consider whether:

  1. performance reports prepared using the standards provide the right kind of information;

  2. any new issues have emerged since the standards were issued;

  3. there is anything you think we did not think about or anything we did not get right; and

  4. the costs of applying the standards are higher than you expected


2.  What parts of the standards, guidance, or templates have been working well? Are there any that have been particularly useful?

(Please try to give clear reasons to support your feedback).


3.  Are there any specific issues that you have encountered in applying the standards, guidance, or templates?

(Please try to give clear reasons to support your feedback).


4.   Have you developed any custom guidance to help apply the standards?

If yes, please tell us what the guidance covers and whether you think it could be useful to others?


5.  Do you have any other comments you would like to raise about the standards, guidance, or templates?

(Please try to give clear reasons to support your feedback.)

When you are ready please select the submit button below to send us your response.

We really appreciate your spending the time to give us your feedback. Thanks!

Please note we intend publishing all comments on the XRB website, unless they may be defamatory. If you have any objection to this, we will not publish them. However, they will remain subject to the Official Information Act 1982 and, therefore, may be released in part or in full. The Privacy Act 1993 also applies.