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- December 8, 2022 at 8:57 am #673635December 8, 2022 at 5:27 pm #673980
So, this was a disaster…
December 8, 2022 at 5:29 pm #673982Who had the question on the emissions rights grant? Didn’t have a clue on that one
December 8, 2022 at 5:31 pm #673983All my questions were intangible assets ffs probably weren’t even but that’s what I picked up on lol
December 8, 2022 at 5:40 pm #673985I had the emissions grants one – thought it was quite interesting!
I wrote that it was a provision of 77,000 since they went over by 1,000 tonnes and it was a requirement by gov made in the beginning of the year (past event) with a penalty of breaching the limit (present obligation) and it could be measured reliably at $55 x 140% mark up penalty.
They also wanted to recognize a contingent asset but cant because IAS20 requires proof of government acceptance on the request by the company.
For the Q1 groups consol did anyone get a negative goodwill? I couldn’t figure out how to get goodwill with 2.10 per share x 8 million shares = 16.8mil consideration and FVNA = 20 (with the tax effect?) wasn’t sure what to do with the DTA.
Q4 was crazy – could hardly think of what to write about the APM of underlying PBT but just went ahead with usefulness and broke it down via conceptual framework.
December 8, 2022 at 6:05 pm #673990That’s interesting my mind just went blank. I was focusing on how to account for the rights granted by the government, was this an intangible asset? I got the bit regarding disclosing the contingent asset.
Yes on the groups question I got a negative goodwill using the fair value method. I couldn’t figure out how to calculate the FV of NCI as there was no share price given?
December 8, 2022 at 6:17 pm #673991Wow the exam was very very refreshing as always 🙂
First question unrealized tax losses ?
The rest for consolidation quite straight forward
The ethics was weird, can’t generate too much from different issues, the scenario was quite repetitive
Government grand , I think I stepped on it quite long , I showed 40,000 tones as a deferred asset and calculated its FV based on price given on 1 Jan, not sure amount it at all but I sounded reasonably for me on that moment
It was something about the option and less back just skipped it, not my cup of tea 🙂
Revenue recognition quite straight forward
Justify why the transaction is not a lease and not intangible asset, pretty good
Question about APM what a mess! Very very general question and speaking about everything and nothingDecember 8, 2022 at 6:21 pm #673993Ah yes the rights should be an intangible asset
For FV NCI I just did two ways – under prop net asset approach:
FV NCI at acq = 20% (their share) x FVNA of 20 = 4
FV approach:
FV NCI at acq = 4 + NCI goodwill of -0.8 = 3.2
NCI goodwill = 20/80 x CI goodwill… so 20/80 x -3.2 = -0.8
December 8, 2022 at 6:29 pm #673994how about the loan that was repayable only if certain conditions in development were met? what was that about??
December 8, 2022 at 6:39 pm #673996Such a tricky one but not sure if the rest of you got something along similar lines:
The loan was received on 1 Jan X7 to be repaid on 31 Dec X8 at $10mil.
So I discounted the loan back 2 years @ 0.826 discount rate. Unwind each interest expense every year for 2 years through an amortized cost table and it should end up with the final amount at $11 mil repaid back including interest of 10%.
Which sort makes sense since 10 mil + (10% x 10) = 11 on 31 Dec X8. It’s likely that the loan will be repaid since they signed some agreement to make sure it met the regulation approval thingy.
It was a really difficult paper, even the put option element (which I said was a financial derivative liability) was so out of the ordinary from what we were used to
December 8, 2022 at 6:48 pm #673997So challenging! SO MUCH about intangibles, it didn’t seem balanced at all.
No group consolidation, NCI, cashflows – a lot of theory not many calculations at all just a goodwill working for 5 marks.
The first question was to recognise if the following in the acquisition:
customer relationships & contracts – I didn’t include but now thinking it should have been as it stated it was measured reliably.For the manufacturing unit that was sold two months after, I put that it was a discontinued op – does that get included in the net assets on acq?
Then a retail function that was not ready to sell for 11 months so didn’t recognise as a disc. op. and included in net assets at FV.
The question then went on to say what do you do in x6 and x7. I simply just didn’t have a lot to say and then wasted so much time!
Any thoughts on the share-based payment where the employee paid for them by a loan plus interest?
UK FRS – were you supposed to impair the loan even though it was in the following year and only the interest?
Completed ran out of time for the CGU question at the end.
ARGHH not varied at all. The other version sounds a lot nicer
December 8, 2022 at 6:50 pm #673998There was a question whether the government auction was an active market? I said yes but I wasn’t sure.
Also the question about sale agreement and warranty did not have a clue! I said a warranty should be accounted for as a provision but that’s it.
APM question mentioned that it’s helpful for comparison but also didn’t know much.
December 8, 2022 at 7:01 pm #674001Does anyone remember the mark allocation for each question?
December 8, 2022 at 7:05 pm #674003The good will calculation. The P’s investment (80%) was $2.10 x 8m= $16.8 then the NCI was $2.10 x 2m= $4.2 (FV) then taking off the NA at $20 gave a goodwill of $1m…No?
Did anyone get the question asking what the treatment was of the 2 year software Contract? The question said it wasn’t a lease or Intangiable, so what was it?
December 8, 2022 at 7:27 pm #674009No you’re right, sorry I was mistaken on the goodwill calc. ahhhhh careless marks lost
FVNA = 20
80% share x 20 = 16
COI = 16.820% share x 20 = 4
FVNCI = 4.216.8 – 16 = 0.8
4.2 – 4 = 0.2
Goodwill (FV approach) = 0.8 + 0.2
Goodwill (Prop NA approach) = 0.8December 8, 2022 at 7:27 pm #674010I got this one. I thought that given they only had access to the software and not control that the expense should be spread over the 2 years of the contract with the initial cost being a prepayment
December 8, 2022 at 7:40 pm #674011I said to treat it as a prepayment over the 2 years as well! After the exam I was thinking I messed that question up!
Considering how big the topics are at SBR and that tutors keep telling us to learn a bit of everything, not a lot actually came up for me apart from a tiny bit of consolidation (mainly NCI calcs), revenue, APM, ethics, intangibles. That’s it I think…
Goodluck to everyone! 🙂
December 8, 2022 at 7:49 pm #674012Not to worry about! You get more marks for the writing than the numbers on SBR anyway.
December 8, 2022 at 11:08 pm #674024I thought the APM question was fine – they shouldn’t give APM more prominence than IFRS (which they did by putting it in bold), nor should they give an over optimistic view of company performance. And the question said specifically about usefulness and appropriateness to investors – that bizarre speculative statement on what profit could’ve been wasn’t appropriate and giving a misleading view of profits when really you are loss making is just trying to mislead investors
December 8, 2022 at 11:09 pm #674025Also landed on software being a prepayment to expense over 2 years 🙂
December 8, 2022 at 11:15 pm #674026dominiquehooper wrote:So challenging! SO MUCH about intangibles, it didn’t seem balanced at all.
Yes this is paper that I got too. I couldnt believe how much was on the paper about intangibles, goodwill and impairment kept popping up everywhere. I spent more than I really had to be strict with myself and force myself to move onto the next question just I made sure I answered everything. Have to say I was happy that cashflows didn’t come up, wished that there was a little more variation on the paper since there’s so much in the syllabus to cover.
There was also a question about Gymadvisor – it was an ethics question to do with the customer data breach and how the finance director & company should have dealt with it.The time really flies and no matter how many ACCA exams you do, still cant find that balance of time!!!
December 9, 2022 at 1:30 am #674043Good luck with your exam!
December 9, 2022 at 4:44 am #674047why did you do 55 *140% as 40,000 were given by gov and 10000 were purchased i guess so shouldn’t it be 5*140%? also for inital 50000 were they considered as government grant?
December 9, 2022 at 5:05 am #674048Frooti wrote:why did you do 55 *140% as 40,000 were given by gov and 10000 were purchased i guess so shouldn’t it be 5*140%? also for inital 50000 were they considered as government grant?
Q mentioned a penalty of 140% on the price per tonne of the grant and it was 55 on 31 Dec. They had 40,000 initially and purchased 10,000 extra so 50,000 tonnes within their rights limit. They then used 51,000 tonnes by year end hence exceeded by 1,000.
From what I understand 1,000 x 55 x 140% penalty = provision recognized
I also don’t think the emissions right can be grant because it needs to be offset against a PL expense or if it’s an SOFP be written off against carrying value of the asset the grant is for. I can’t identify a specific expense or asset for it to be written off against where it would recognize it as deferred income which couldn’t make sense since there was no receipt of funds or a reduction for the asset/expense. Any thoughts? I wrote it was an intangible because it could direct the activities of the emission in operations and had probable Econ benefits from the rights and cost can measured reliably with no physical presence
December 9, 2022 at 7:04 am #674054Did the afternoon exam. Can someone explain the the goodwill bit. So it was customer contract at 0.5m and then they had fair value of expected customer contract renewal of 3.6m. Not sure if the 3.6 gets added to goodwill?
Also didn’t understand for the facility it still had the 0.5m of contracts to complete before it could be sold?
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