June 5 (Reuters) - Europe's largest software maker SAP adjusted its dividend policy on Wednesday, signalling potentially higher payouts from now on.

The company now aims to pay a dividend of at least 40% of the group's non-IFRS profit after tax from continuing operations, while it previously paid dividends from its profit after tax determined in accordance with the IFRS accounting standard.

In the past two years, the two figures differed significantly.

The company's profit after tax according to IFRS amounted to 1.71 billion euros ($1.86 billion) in 2022 and 5.93 billion euros in 2023, while the non-IFRS result reached 4.55 billion euros and 7.96 billion euros in those years, respectively.

For SAP, the non-IFRS figures are the key ones in the balance sheet.

With the change, the company seeks to align its dividend payout and financial performance more closely as well as reduce volatility in the dividend payout ratio, it said in a statement. ($1 = 0.9198 euros) (Reporting by Linda Pasquini and Hakan Ersen, editing by Andrey Sychev and Miranda Murray)