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Financial Asset Credit Losses

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  • May 22, 2017 at 8:50 pm #387507
    Steve
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    I’ve been pulling my hair out over this for a while

    Under IFRS 9 credit losses should be calculated using the effective rate of interest but in the below example past exam Q the current interest rate has been used to calculate the PV

    In the June 2010 exam there is an impaired financial asset:

    ‘Ashanti feels that as at 30 April 2010, the bond is impaired and that the best estimates of total future cash receipts are $2.34 million on 30 April 2011 and $8 million on 30 April 2012. The effective annual interest rate is 8% or 4% on a semi annual basis, The current interest rate for discounting cash flows as at 30 April 2010 is 10%. No accounting entries have been made in the financial statements for the above bond since 30 April 2009’

    The answer discounts the $2.34m and $8m by 10% over 2 years to get an impairment of $8.7m.

    I would have discounted this by the effective rate 8%. What am I missing, why would I use the actual interest rate as opposed to the effective rate to calculate the loss?

    Thanks,

    May 26, 2017 at 7:27 am #388140
    P2-D2
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    Hi,

    Are you using the past exam paper itself from the ACCA website? If so then it will not have been updated. The up to date revision kit question will have been updated to use the rules of IFRS 9, using the 8%.

    Thanks

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