IAS 24 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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State-related entity exemption check: scope, limits, disclosure kept and extent: Sales with the Republic of Zorvane
Related party file of a group: mapping, key management compensation, transactions and balances, State (IAS 24)
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 24 workpaper
- Level
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 40 min
- Progress
- 0 / 4 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Telmar Industries SA (fictitious entity) is preparing its financial statements of 31 December 20X6. The file covers four parts: the map of related parties (the chief executive Mr Rémi Cassard, his mother Ms Odile Cassard, his brother Mr Hugo Cassard, Cassard Logistique SARL which he controls, the plan Telmar Retraite, Gestion Ardenne SAS which provides the chief financial officer, and the Republic of Zorvane); the compensation of the managers; the transactions and balances with Cassard Logistique SARL; the relationship with the State. As the preparer, you document each judgement; a reviewer then checks the file. 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
State-related entity exemption check
Purpose of the workpaper
Identify the relationship of the State with the entity and the entities related through the same State, check the limits of the exemption (natural persons, ordinary dealings), compute the transactions of the State group from the proportion given by the case, assess the extent of the disclosure to keep (judgement, no threshold imposed), then prepare the note.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Compute the sales made with the Republic of Zorvane and its entities.
- What disclosure to keep despite the exemption, and does it concern the loan to the chief executive?
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.