Strategic Business Reporting

Strategic Business Reporting

Strategic Business Reporting


Lea Hoenke
Diese Lernkarten decken die zentralen Aspekte des strategischen Geschäftsberichts nach IFRS ab, von der Erst- und Folgemessung von Vermögenswerten über die Behandlung von Investment Properties bis hin zu Segmentberichterstattung und Impairment-Tests. Sie richtet sich besonders an Studierende der Betriebswirtschaftslehre oder angehende Wirtschaftsprüfer, die ein tiefes Verständnis für internationale Rechnungslegungsstandards benötigen.
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How to treat time value of money, restructuring costs, onerous contracts & Decommissioning costs associated with assets

Time Value of Money

  • If the time value of money is material (generally if the potential outflow is payable in one year or more), the provision should be discounted to present value initially.
  • Subsequently, the discount on this provision would be unwound over time, to record the provision at the actual amount payable.
  • The unwinding of this discount would be recorded in the statement of profit or loss, separately, as interest expenses on the unwinding of discounts.

Restructuring costs

  • If the employees have been informed, then an obligation exists and a provision must be made. If the employees have not been informed, then the company could change its mind. In this case, there is no present obligation to incur the costs associated with this.
  • These costs should exclude any costs associated with any continuing activities. Therefore, any provision should only include items such as redundancy costs and closure costs

Onerous contracts

  • As soon as an entity is aware that a contract is onerous, the full loss should be provided for as a liability in the statement of financial position.

 Decommissioning costs associated with assets

  • if an entity creates an obligation for future costs due to the construction of a non-current asset. In this case, the provision should be included within the original cost of the asset, as this is directly attributable to the construction of that asset.

When is a contingent asset disclosed?
 

when payment is probable = DISCLOSURE

Virtually certain = Recognise asset + income

 

cash vs equity settled share based payment

1. Equity-settled

The company gives the employee shares or share options.

The company recognises:

Dr Employee expense
Cr Equity

measure at the fair value of the equity instruments at grant date.

NO SUBSEQUENT REMEASUREMENT OF FV

2. Cash-settled

The company gives the employee cash based on the company's share price/value.

The company recognises:

Dr Employee expense
Cr Liability

The liability is measured at fair value and remeasured at every reporting date and at settlement.

when is a contract modification accounted for as a separate or new contract and when is it an adjustment of the original contract?

The modification is treated as a completely separate contract if:

  1. Additional goods/services are distinct, AND
  2. The additional price reflects their stand-alone selling price (with appropriate adjustments if applicable).

The original contract is untouched, and the new machines are accounted for under the new contract.

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If the modification doesn't meet both conditions above, ask:

Are the remaining goods/services distinct from those already transferred?

If YES → treat the modification as if:

Old contract is terminated + new contract is created.

This is a prospective adjustment.

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If the remaining goods/services are not distinct from what has already been transferred, they form part of one single performance obligation that is already partially satisfied.

→ Treat the modification as part of the original contract.

→ Adjust revenue using a cumulative catch-up adjustment.

 

Based on the Conceptual Framework of Financial Reporting, what do the primary users of financial statements require?

  • information to help assess reporting entity's future net cash flows
  • mgmt stewardship of the entity's assets

when is information useful to investors?

  • when it is relevant
  • when it offers a faithful presentation of the entity's underlying transactions
    • free from material errors

What does IFRS Practice Statememt 2: Making Materiality Judgements say about correction of errors

immaterial errors do not need to be corrected to ensure complaince with IFRS Standards, however correcting all errors lowers the risk that cumulative errors will become material

How are Inventories valued?

IAS 2

Lower of:

Cost

NRV

How are upfront payments treated for contract obligations that are satisfied over time?

you receive payment in advance but you still have to deliver

recognise a contract liability for amounts which relate to the future

recognise a deferred tax asset based on the contract liability amount / temporary taxable difference

Where does IAS 36 not apply to

Inventories

Biological assets measured at FV - cost to sell

Inv property measured at FV

Certain financial assets IFRS 9

When is a convertible loan classified as Liability and when as compound instrument?

Liability = contractual obligation to deliver cash

Based on IAS 32, a contract which may be settled as equity iinstruments is a liability if:

  • conversion option is not a derivative, will result in issue of VARIABLE AMOUNT OF SHARES
  • conversion is a derivative, but will NOT result in exchange of fixed number of shares / cash
  • NO FIXED FOR FIXED!!!!

Classify as liability, measure at AC or FVTPL, recognise interest expense in financing section

If the conversion results in an issue of a fixed umber of ordinary shares, it is a compound financial instrument

1. Account for liability: PV of future cashflows discounted at EIR

2.Equity = nominal - Liability

Liability +Finance charge (EIR) - Cash payment

 

What is an MPM according to IFRS 18 Presentation & DIsclosure of Financial Statements

MPM = subtotal of income & expenses which is used in public communications outside financial statements and which complements IFRS Accounting standards

If it meets definition as MPM, information about all MPMs must be disclosed in a note to the FS

  • why mgmt finds it useful
  • how it is calculated
  • reconciliation to closest IFRS subtotal
  • Tax & NCI effect of reconciliation item

An MPM CANNOT be an IFRS Defined subtotal:

  • Operating profit/loss
  • Profit/loss before financing & income taxes

Explicitly excluded from MPM

  • Gross profit
  • profit from continuing operations
  • Profit before tax

cash vs cash equivalents

Cash equivalent s0 Short-term, highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value

Cash comprises cash on hand and demand deposits.

How are cryptocurrencies accounted for?

IAS 38 Intanginle Assets

Digital assets appear to meet the definition of an intangible asset (IAS 38): “An identifiable non-monetary asset without physical substance.”

  • An asset is identifiable if it is separable or arises from contractual or other legal rights.
  • An asset is separable if it is capable of being separated or divided from the entity and sold, transferred, licensed, rented or exchanged, either individually or together with a related contract, identifiable asset or liability.

What disclosure is required for digital assets?

As there is so much judgement and uncertainty involved in the recognition and measurement of digital assets, disclosure is required to inform users in their economic decision-making.

  • IAS 8 Basis of Presentation of Financial Statements requires disclosure of management’s judgements made regarding its accounting for holdings of assets, in this case cryptocurrencies or tokens.
  • IAS 10 Events after the Reporting Date requires disclosure of any material non-adjusting events. This would include whether changes in the fair value of digital assets after the reporting period are of such significance that non-disclosure could influence the economic decisions of users.

Which Standards apply for Sustainability disclosures? Who has to apply the standards?

  • Application of standards is VOLUNTARY - adopted by listed/private companies
  • IFRS S1: General requirements for disclosure of sustainability related financial information
  • IFRS S2: Climate-related disclosures

What are the General Requirements for Sustainability related Disclosures?

  1. Governance
    1. Governance processes used to monitor & manage sustainability related risks & opportunities
  2. Strategy
    1. approach to managing sustainabiity related risk & opportunities
  3. Risk mmt
    1. process used to identify, assess and monitor risk & opportunities
  4. Metrics and targets
    1. entity's performance in relation to sustainability related risks & opportunities incl. progress towards any targets set

Include Opportunities for all of the above

ISSB & IFRS Connection

  1. same fundamental (relevance, faithful presentation) & qualitative characteristics
  2. same enhancing qualitative characteristics
  3. same definition of materiality
    1. information is material if omitting, misstting or obscuring information could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial reports make on the basis of those reports
  4. same primary users
  5. same reporting period for sustainabikity reporting as for FS = 12 months

What needs to be considered as part of risk & opportunities

  • effect on financial positioin, performance and cashflow in current period
  • anticipated effect in short mediuma and long term
  • info about resilience of the entity's strategy & business model to climate related changes
  • include climate related scenario analysis = what if analysis
  • ALWAYS INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES

How are Climate related risks categorised?

  1. Physical risks
    1. result from weather related events such as floods/droughts
    2. e.g rising temperatures can lead to rising sea levels & loss of biodiversity
  2. Transition risks
    1. resulting from move towards lower-carbon economy -> changing laws&regulations = high compliance costs

What must the disclosure of metrics & targets entail according to IFRS S2?

  1. info about climate-related targets
  2. info about greenhouse gas emissions
    1. Scope 1 - GHG emissions you have caused
    2. Scope 2 - GHG emissions (indirect) you have bought in (acquired electricity etc)
    3. Scope 3 - any indirect GHG emissions, not in scope 2
      1. difficult to identify = hidden risk
  3. disclosure of gross & net targets
  4. disclosure of planned use of carbon credits to achieve any net GHG emissions target
  5. disclosure o fmeeting or not of the targets & metricts

Europea Sustainablity Reporting Standards vs IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards

  1. Materiality Approach
  2. Materiality Assessment
  3. Location of reports
  4. sector specific disclosures
  5. Enforceability
  6. Scope of companies
  7. target users
  8. coverage

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