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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.

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Closing timetable and governance

Memo

Closing timetable and governance

Caldérac Industries SA (fictitious entity, pumps and hydraulic equipment) has a 31 December 20X5 reporting date; tax rate of 25%. The company has a management board and a supervisory board, the latter made up solely of non-executive members. Annual results are announced to the press on 5 March 20X6. On 24 March 20X6, the management board approves the statements and authorises their submission to the supervisory board, which reviews them on 8 April 20X6; the general meeting will approve them on 20 May 20X6. The articles give no party the power to amend the statements after issue (case data). Draft 20X5 profit before the points below: 3,600,000; materiality threshold: 100,000.

Schedule of adjustments for events after the reporting period

Review file of the events after the reporting period of an industrial group

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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.
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Preparer of the IAS 10 workpaper
Level
Expert
Estimated time
≈ 40 min
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Context

Caldérac Industries SA (fictitious entity) is finalising its 20X5 statements. Between the reporting date and approval, management received a lawyer's letter, a bank letter, a customer's receivership notice, the statement of inventory sales and management board minutes. You prepare the review file of the events after the reporting period, submitted to the reviewer before approval.

Assignment

Adjustments schedule: dispute, receivable and inventory

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 provision for the Ostrand dispute.
  • Compute the loss on the Corbassin receivable.
  • Determine the net realisable value of the P-series batch and the write-down.
  • Total the adjustments and compute their tax effect.
  • Determine the adjusted 20X5 profit.
  • Post the adjusting entries at 31 December 20X5.

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