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Periodic Transfere of Revaluation Suplus to Retained Earnings

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  • May 21, 2013 at 3:12 pm #126507
    Ngu
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    F7 Q2. What is the technical bases of transfering the revaluation reserve to retained earnings over the useful life of the revalued asset. My thinkin is it negates the initial transfer of such excess to Non Disributable Reserves, which should, by defination, be ‘non-distributable’. I looked though IAS 16, cant find it. Help…

    May 21, 2013 at 4:34 pm #126520
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    To understand this you need to understand realisation.
    Assets are either realised by sale or use and therefore any related gains are also realised on sale or over use.
    Unrealised gains go in OCI(reserves) and realised gains go into Ret.Earnings.
    By sale:
    Land is revalued upwards by $1m
    Gain goes into Rev. Reserve(unrealised)
    Land is subsequently sold
    The $1m becomes realised and is moved from reserve(unrealised gains) to retained earnings(realised gains)

    By use:
    PPE is revalued upwards by $80m
    Remaining life is 8 yrs.
    Gain goes into Rev. Reserve(unrealised)
    Since PPE will depreciate over 8 years,
    the Rev. Reserve should decrease at the same rate.
    That rate = 80/8= $10m per year.
    So $10m will be released over 8 years to the Ret. Earnings
    until the entire gain is realised.

    Note that the revaluation reserve is indeed non-distributable when we recognise a surplus but over time
    every asset will be realised and so will their gains.

    May 21, 2013 at 5:09 pm #126532
    Ngu
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    Thank you Rajiv for the explation however, the essential part of the question still remains unanswered. That is, 1. In which IFRS is this requirement and 2. Is this pereiodic transfere from NDR Rev. Reserve representing realisation through usage not a nagation. Para 41 of IAS 16 allows transfere upon disposal of a revalued asset.

    May 21, 2013 at 7:01 pm #126553
    Rajiv
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    Okay, to answer your specific questions:
    1. IAS 16 para. 41 states that the entire revaluation
    surplus may be transferred in full to retained earnings on disposal( realisation by sale)
    or a portion released over the period of use (realisation by use).
    So this is actually a policy choice, however most companies do the annual
    transfer for PPE because they intend to use not sell it.
    They still have to recognize the gain so they do this by setting
    off the excess depreciation( see calc. above) through Ret. Earnings.

    2. Since the company cannot distribute its revaluation reserve, and it
    doesn’t intend to realize the full amount by sale, it releases an amount
    into Ret Earnings which it CAN distribute and at the same time complies
    with the accruals principle.
    Quite frankly, as the IASB allows it, this is the method EVERY company
    would choose, so it’s not really an option.

    Hope this clears things up.

    May 22, 2013 at 4:02 am #126609
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    yea, sure it does, thank you once again

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