IAS 23 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
- Course
- Exercises
- Case studies
- Workpapers
- Exams
Capitalisation timeline file: start, suspension and end
Construction site: start, extended interruption, temporary delays and end of inclusion
Section 1 of 9
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 23 workpaper
- Level
- Advanced
- Estimated time
- ≈ 60 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Constructions Aubrac SA (fictitious entity) builds a plant and its office annex, financed by a specific loan of 3,000,000 EUR at 6% per year (15,000 EUR per month), drawn on 1 February 20X5. Year end 30 November 20X5. The site experiences a three-month interruption, a rain delay and a staggered completion.
Assignment
Capitalisation timeline file
Purpose of the workpaper
For each asset under construction, describe the site, enter the expenditure, the progress payments and grants received, the duration between the start and the end of inclusion and the duration of extended suspensions, then compute the eligible expenditure and the inclusion period. Assess each interruption (extended suspension or temporary delay, substantial work) and the completion date. The borrowing costs of each phase come from the loan statement (a datum of the file).
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Do the interruption from June to August and the delay in October suspend inclusion? Justify.
- On what date does inclusion end and what about the annex completed on 31 October? Justify.
- Compute the eligible expenditure.
- Compute the inclusion period.
- Record the borrowing costs by phase and the placing in service.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.