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- May 26, 2016 at 2:20 am #317136
Hello dear tutor…
I have studied ACCA’s related article about debt and equity and now I have 2 main questions about classification of debt and equity in two seperate parts(A and B) as follows:
Part A:
I know that:
-if there is unconditional right to avoid repayment for the issuer,this will be classified as equity.
-if the issuer cannot avoid repayment, this will be classified as debt.My question is about conditional repayment as follows:
Is it correct to say:
1-if conditions are beyond the control of both parties(issuer and holder), this will be classified as DEBT.
2-if conditions are under the control of the holder,this will be DEBT again.
3-if conditions are under the control of issuer, this will be classified as EQUITY.Part B:
1-In June 2014-Q4b,in realtion to LIDAN’s B shares,if the lowest price of LIDAN’s A share since its information was 0.5(lower than 1 ie nominal value of B shares)instead of 5,does the classification change from liability to equity?if yes why?if no,what should happen for A shares in order to change the classification of B shares from debt to equity?2-in the answer examiner said:
“Where a contract has settlement options,it is debt unless all of the settlement alternatives result in it being an equity”.
What does this sentence mean?Thank you
May 30, 2016 at 10:00 am #318101Hi,
I agree with what you say in Part A, though I’m not too sure if there would be a situation where both parties have no control over the conditions.
In Part B, I doubt we would change the classification subsequent to the intial classification but if it were to be under those circumstances on initial classification then we could change the classification as there wouldn’t be an obligation.
The last part is referring to where potential settlement can be in shares as opposed to cash.
Thanks
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