IAS 10 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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IAS 10 Events after the Reporting Period — wording before IFRS 18Applicable today
Applies to annual periods beginning before January 1, 2027.
Schedule of adjustments for events after the reporting period
Lawsuit settled and customer bankruptcy after the reporting date: adjustments and tax effect
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Objective
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- What to document
- The engagement, its scope and the working mode chosen.
- Why
- A workpaper answers one precise question: framing it avoids off-topic work.
- How
- Read the objective and the assignment, then choose the mode (guided, semi-guided, professional).
- Expected result
- You know which question the workpaper must settle, and for which reporting date.
- Your role
- Preparer of the IAS 10 workpaper
- Level
- Intermediate
- Estimated time
- ≈ 40 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Menuiseries Talbrac SA (fictitious entity) is approving its 20X5 statements. Between the reporting date and authorisation, a lawsuit is settled, a customer is liquidated and a lawyer gives details on a second dispute. You prepare the adjustments.
Assignment
Adjustments schedule: dispute and Orbecq receivable
Purpose of the workpaper
For adjusting events, quantify at the reporting date the adjustment of the litigation provision, the additional loss allowance on receivables, the inventory write-down indicated by a later sale and the effect of a fraud discovered before authorisation; compute the tax effect at the rate given by the case, the adjusted profit and post the closing entries.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Compute the adjustment to the litigation provision.
- Compute the additional loss allowance on Orbecq.
- Total the pre-tax adjustments.
- Compute the tax effect.
- Determine the adjusted profit.
- Post the adjusting entries at 31 December 20X5.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.