IFRSs Flashcards
IAS 2 Inventory - What costs are included?
How is it measured?
Purchase Price
Conversion
Cost to bring to present condition and location
Lower or Cost or NRV
IFRS 8 Operating segments - what is an operating segment?
A component of an entity that:
- Engages in activities from which they earn revenues including those in relation to transactions with other components of the same entity.
- Whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the entities chief operation officer to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance.
- for which discrete information is available
IFRS 8 - Segmental reporting
What should be disclosured?
- Information available to users of the f/s to evaluate the nature of the financial effects of the business activities of the economic environment.
10% of the below = Operating segment
- Revenue
- Profit or Loss
- Assets
‘Other’ - Can only use this category if the segment has less than 25% of external revenue in ‘other’
IAS 7 - Define ‘ Cash or Cash equivalent’
Short term, highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash which which are subject to an insignificant change in value.
Held to meet short term cash needs
IAS 8 - Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors
What is a policy?
Specific rules, principles, bases, conventions etc applied in preparing the financial statements
IAS 8 - Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors
When can you change an accounting policy?
- If it’s required by law/ standard
- If it provides more reliable, relevant information to do so.
Changes are applied retrospectively and must be disclosed.
IAS 8 - Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors
How are change in accounting estimates applied?
Prospectively
IAS 8 - Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors
What is considered a prior period error? How should they be corrected?
A misstatement or omission on prior period financial statements as a result of not using reliable info that should have been available. Errors must be ones clearly identifiable when the F/S were issued
Correct retrospectively
- opening bal
- comparative
IAS 8 - Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors
What should be disclosed when an entity changes an accounting policy?
Reason for the change
The amount of the adjustment in the current period.
The amount of the adjustments in the comparative for the prior period.
IAS 34 - Interim Reporting
What should be included in an interim report
Condensed: SoFP SOCE Cashflow Explanatory notes Basic and diluted EPS
at period end vs last year end
IAS 10
When would you disclose a non adjusting event?
If it’s significantly material to the financial statements
IFRS 11 - What is a joint venture?
Which accounting method is used?
Where two or more parties have joint control and the right the net assets of a separate entity.
Use equity accounting.
IFRS 11 - What is a joint operation
Parties have joint control and rights to net assets and obligation for liabilities. Not usually a separate entity.
Consolidate in proportion to their share line by line
IAS 12 - Income Tax
Temporary differences accounted for…
- Depreciation/ tax allowances on PPE
- Share Options - annual expenses allowed for tax when exercised
- Benefit pension plan - charge /contributions allowed for tax.
IAS 16- PPE
Are revenue based methods of depreciation considered appropriate or not, and why?
No.
Revenue generate by an activity that involves the use of an asset generally reflects factors other than the consumption of the economic benefit.
This is rebuttable.
IFRS 5 - what is the definition of an asset geld for sale and what are the criteria that need to be met?
How is it measured?
Carrying value must be primarily recoverable by it’s sale rather than continued use.
Critera:
- Management committed
- Available in immediate condition
- Actively marketed at a reasonable price
- Sale highly probably
- Sale expected within 12 months
Measure at the lower of Carrying amount or FV - Cost to sell.
IFRS 5 - what is a discontinued operation?
A component of an entity that has:
- Been disposed off, or classified as held for sale
- Part of a single co-ordinated plan to dispose of a separate major line of business or geo area of operations
- Subsidiary acquired with a view to resell.
IFRS 10 - What’s the proforma for Gain or loss on disposal of a sub in full?
Proceeds
(Remaining Goodwill)
NCI
(Net Assets)
= Gain or loss on disposal
IFRS 10 - What’s the proforma for Gain or loss on disposal of a sub in part?
Proceeds FV or residual holding (Remaining Goodwill) NCI (Net Assets)
= Gain or loss on disposal
IFRS 11
Define Joint Control
The contactually agreed sharing of an arrangement which exists only when decisions about the relevant activities require the unanimous consent of the parties sharing control.
It must be clear which parties are required to agree
IFRS 13 - Define Fair Value measurement
The price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants.
3 tier heirachy
IFRS 13 - Fair Value
What is required to be disclosed?
- Info about levels into which FV measurement falls
- Transfers between level 1 and 2
- Methods used and inputs
-Changes in techniques
-Additional disclosures for level 3 measurements
Rec of opening and closing bals, quantitive info and assumptions
IAS 21 - effects of FX rates
What is the functional currency?
The currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates.
IAS 21 - effects of FX rates
What are the primary factors?
- CCY which mainly influences the sales price of goods and services
- CCY of the country whose competitive forces and regulations mainly influence the sales price of goods and servies
- CCY which influences the labour, materials, and costs of providing goods or services
IAS 21 - effects of FX rates
What are the secondary factors
- CCY in which funds from financing activities are generated
- CCY in which receipts from operations are retained.
For individual companies, which exchanges rates are used from translation?
P&L - Average rate / spot rate of transaction
Non monetary - not translated
Monetary - closing rate.
Gain or losses to P&L if individual
Gain or losses on translation from foreign operation - OCI
IAS 28 - Define significant influence
Power to participate in but not control the financial and operating policies and decisions of an entity.
Presumed with a holding of between 20% - 50% unless it can be demonstrated this is not the case.
Equity accounting
Business combinations must include a business.
What is a business?
Must have processes to convert inputs to outputs.
Input - economic resource
Process - systems protocols etc
Outputs - Goods, services, income
Goodwill impairment using the proportionate method
CGU
Goodwill is grossed up - impairment allocated to goodwill first (unless specific asset it impaired).
Only the P’s proportion of the impairment allocated.
The rest is notional
IFRS 15 - Revenue from contracts with customers
What’s the 5 step model?
- Identify the contract
- Identify the performance obligation
- Determine the contract price
- Allocate the contract price
- Recognise when obligations are met