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- May 6, 2014 at 12:16 pm #167624
Hi Mike
For assets measured at fair value are they subject to impairment testing?
Also for pass paper 12/2005 Ambush: it states that IFRS 9 requires loans and receivables to be measured at amortised cost using interest rate method. what does this mean?
For part C.:
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Ambush is reviewing the accounting treatment of its buildings. the company uses revaluation model for its buildings. The buildings had originally cost $10m on 1/12/2003 and has useful economic life of 20yrs. they are being dep at straight line basis to an nil residual value. The buildings were revalued downwards on 30/11/2004 to $8m which was the buildings recoverable amount. At 30/11/2005 the value of the buildings had risen to $11m which is to be involved in the financial statments. The company is unsure how to treat this?I dont understand the reversal of impairment. do you always divide the impairment loss from last year by the amount of years left?
in 2004 cost is $10m dep is $0.5 impairment loss is 1.5 and carrying amount is $8
in 2005 the cost is $8,i initally thought the depreciation would be the $ 0.5as this is straight line basis? Also I would thought there would be a gain of ( 11-7.58= 3.42 that goes to revaluation surplus which increases the OCI CR. I dont understand why they reverse the impairment from 2004 to 2005.thanks alot for your help
May 6, 2014 at 3:36 pm #167650I believe that I’m correct in saying “Yes, they are subject to impairment testing”
“measured at amortised cost using interest rate method” means arriving at a present value using the effective rate of interest as reduced by the actual interest paid
re Ambush, surely the depreciation in 2005 is $8m divided by the remaining 19 years of estimated useful life and not $0.5m as you have proposed
The reversal of the previous impairment should, in my view, be the straight-forward reversal of the impairment but not to a level greater than if would have been if we had not impaired in the first place
Does that help?
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