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.
IAS 10 disclosure checklist
Plant fire and plan to discontinue a business after the reporting date: going concern and disclosures
Section 1 of 8
Objective
Section brief
- 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
- Advanced
- Estimated time
- ≈ 30 min
- Progress
- 0 / 4 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Filatures de Combreval SA (fictitious entity) suffers, after its 20X5 reporting date, a fire at its weaving plant and then decides to discontinue that business. You assess the consequences for the 20X5 statements, with little guidance.
Assignment
IAS 10 checklist: non-adjusting events
Purpose of the workpaper
Check in the draft notes the date and author of the authorisation for issue, the update of disclosures about conditions existing at the reporting date, the material non-adjusting events (nature and estimate of the effect) and the dividends declared after the reporting period; compute the amounts to disclose and record the findings.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Estimate the financial effect of the fire to be disclosed.
- What must be disclosed in the 20X5 statements?
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.