IAS 24 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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Note on transactions and balances with related parties: content, allowances, categories, arm's length and aggregation
Key management personnel compensation by category, management entity services and a loan to a manager
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Objective
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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.
- Your role
- Preparer of the IAS 24 workpaper
- Level
- Advanced
- Estimated time
- ≈ 60 min
- Progress
- 0 / 3 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Sorelvia Énergie SA (fictitious entity) closes its books on 31 December 20X6. Its key management personnel comprises three salaried managers (chief executive, chief financial officer, chief operating officer). The investment director is made available to it by Gestion Altimar SAS, a separate advisory company that invoices its services to the entity. A loan was granted to the chief financial officer. The accounting department prepares the note on key management compensation.
Assignment
Note on transactions with key management
Purpose of the workpaper
Identify the transactions and balances by category of related party, compute the totals by category, the closing allowance (opening, expense, write-offs) and the net balance of the receivable, assess whether an arm's length statement can be substantiated and whether items may be aggregated (judgements, no threshold imposed), then prepare the illustrative entries and the note. Amounts are case data.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Is the loan to the chief financial officer to be disclosed and what must be said about it?
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.