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
Review file of the events after the reporting period of an industrial group
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
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 30 min
- Progress
- 0 / 4 steps done (review excluded)
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
IAS 10 checklist of the notes
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 flood to be disclosed.
- Compute the interim dividend declared.
- Prepare the IAS 10 disclosures and record the findings on the draft notes.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.