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Practical caseIAS 20L3 · Advanced

Income grant and asset received free of charge: matching to costs and fair value

4 documents8 tasks≈ 70 min
0 / 12 items completed
Standards
IAS 20 — Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance
Assistance levelNo help · reduced assistance
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  • Step-by-step work: shown

Case brief

Situation

Agrilogis SAS (fictitious entity, food-processing business) closes its books on 31 December 20X5. It obtained three forms of support in 20X5: a programme grant spread over three years, a grant for training costs already incurred, and a warehouse transferred by a municipality for a price below its value.

Your assignment

Assess the reasonable assurance and the costs the programme grant compensates; identify the missing information; compute the share for 20X5 and the value of the grant received in the form of an asset; record the three forms of support (case data) and present their effect; conclude.

Work on this file as you would in practice: read the situation, open the documents, sort the useful information, then carry out the work requested. The solution is revealed once you submit.

Advanced level: no help, the work is grouped by kind.

Documents

File documents

4 documents: open each one to read it.

Document 1Contract

Programme grant agreement

Agreement of 1 January 20X5 with the regional agency: grant of 240,000 EUR for a three-year recruitment and training programme (20X5 to 20X7), whose budgeted costs are 180,000 EUR in 20X5, 240,000 EUR in 20X6 and 180,000 EUR in 20X7. The agency has notified the approval of the programme; management has the capacity to carry it out. Annual payment on supporting documents; the actual costs of 20X5 are in line with the budget.

Data

Key data from the documents

The figures of the documents, gathered for your work.

ItemValueFound in
Programme grant€240,000.00
Budgeted programme costs in 20X5€180,000.00
Budgeted programme costs in 20X6€240,000.00
Budgeted programme costs in 20X7€180,000.00
Training grant€30,000.00
Training costs of 20X5€50,000.00
Fair value of the warehouse received€80,000.00
Cash payment for the warehouse€20,000.00
Tariff 20X6€3,200.00

Sorting the information

Not every document matters: identify those that affect the accounting treatment.

Part 1 · Classification · Analysis

Sort each document: does it affect the accounting treatment?

Drag each item into its category, or tap the category under the item.

To sort4

  • Programme grant agreement

  • Letter from the chamber of agriculture

  • Deed of transfer of the warehouse

  • Tariff 20X6

Relevant to the treatment0

    No effect0

      Questions

      Work programme

      8 tasks in the order of the file. Calculations, entries and effects on the financial statements are marked; written answers are self-assessed against the solution.

      1. Task 1Analysis

        What is the nature of each of the three forms of support and which recognition rules apply?

      2. Task 2Missing information

        What information is missing to allocate the programme grant?

      3. Task 3Professional judgement

        Does reasonable assurance exist and which costs does the programme grant compensate? Justify.

      4. Task 4Calculation

        Compute the share of the programme grant for 20X5.

        Calculator

        Click in an answer field to be able to insert the result.

        Part 1 · Calculation

        Compute the share of the programme grant for 20X5.

        1. €

        Checks

        • 0 / 1 step entered
        • Amounts readable
      5. Task 5Calculation

        Compute the value of the grant received in the form of an asset.

        Calculator

        Click in an answer field to be able to insert the result.

        Part 1 · Calculation

        Compute the value of the grant received in the form of an asset.

        1. €

        Checks

        • 0 / 1 step entered
        • Amounts readable
      6. Task 6Journal entries

        Record the three forms of support.

        Calculator

        Click in an answer field to be able to insert the result.

        Part 1 · Journal entry · Journal entries

        Entry 1 of 3

        One line = one account and one side. Add a line if the entry needs more; the balance check updates live.

        1. Line 1

        2. Line 2

        TotalsDebit0Credit0

        Calculator

        Click in an answer field to be able to insert the result.

        Part 2 · Journal entry · Journal entries

        Entry 2 of 3

        One line = one account and one side. Add a line if the entry needs more; the balance check updates live.

        1. Line 1

        2. Line 2

        TotalsDebit0Credit0

        Calculator

        Click in an answer field to be able to insert the result.

        Part 3 · Journal entry · Journal entries

        Entry 3 of 3

        One line = one account and one side. Add a line if the entry needs more; the balance check updates live.

        1. Line 1

        2. Line 2

        3. Line 3

        TotalsDebit0Credit0
      7. Task 7Effects on the financial statements

        What is their effect on the financial statements?

        Part 1 · Classification · Analysis

        State the direction of the effect on each financial statement aggregate.

        1. Financial position (balance sheet)

        2. Profit or loss

        3. Other comprehensive income

        4. Equity

        Calculator

        Click in an answer field to be able to insert the result.

        Part 2 · Calculation · Analysis

        Quantify the effect on the aggregates concerned.

        1. €
        2. €
        3. €

        Checks

        • 0 / 3 steps entered
        • Amounts readable

        Result: Amount of the effect — Equity

      8. Task 8Conclusion

        Write the conclusion.

      Workspace

      Your working draft for this file: points noted, leads, intermediate calculations.

      Saved on this device only; never graded.

      Conclusion

      Submission and solution

      Complete every item of the file to submit it (0 / 12).

      Document this file

      These working papers use the data and results of this case.

      Normative references

      • IAS 20 §7
      • IAS 20 §12
      • IAS 20 §17
      • IAS 20 §23
      • IAS 20 §29