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  • Archived

    Effective: 1 July, 2007 - 31 December, 2019
    Categories: Recordkeeping
    Source: GIPS Executive Committee

    Why isn’t this Guidance Statement applicable retroactively?

    Firms have been required, since the inception of the Standards, to maintain the necessary records to support their performance presentations. The guidance provided in this document is not intended to require firms to go back and change the records they have maintained to satisfy provision 1.A.1. This guidance is provided so that firms are aware there may be different documents available to the firm to use for meeting the recordkeeping requirements of the Standards.