IAS 23 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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Specific borrowing inclusion file
File of a capitalised project: capitalisation of borrowing costs, suspension, placing in service and interaction with an asset grant
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
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 50 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Hélios Matériaux SA (fictitious entity) builds in 20X5 two qualifying assets: a kiln, financed by a specific loan of 1,500,000 EUR and by an equipment grant of 300,000 EUR, with an interruption of two months, and a warehouse, financed by the general borrowings. The file takes the two assets through to the financial statements of 20X5 and 20X6 (cumulative effects), with the documents, the judgements, the open points and the review. Teaching simulation: the review trail of the file (preparation, reviewer notes and final sign-off) is simulated for demonstration purposes; it is neither a real review nor a validation of the content.
Assignment
Specific borrowing file
Purpose of the workpaper
For each borrowing (one instance per borrowing), describe the loan and the asset, state whether a qualifying asset exists, enter the principal, the rate for the period (annual effective rate multiplied by the fraction of the period) and the unspent funds temporarily invested, then compute the actual costs, the investment income, the eligible costs and the costs to be expensed. The effective rate is a datum of the file (the effective interest method of IFRS 9 is not covered here).
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Compute the actual borrowing costs of the inclusion period of the kiln.
- Compute the investment income on the temporary investment.
- Compute the eligible borrowing costs of the kiln.
- Record the borrowing costs, the grant, the transfer, the depreciation and the release.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.