IAS 32 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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Classification of an issued instrument: financial liability, equity instrument or compound instrument: Euro warrants
Instruments settled in own shares: fixed-for-fixed condition, settlement options, contingent clause and option plan within IFRS 2
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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 32 workpaper
- Level
- Intermediate
- Estimated time
- ≈ 60 min
- Progress
- 0 / 3 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Calvire SA (fictitious entity), whose functional currency is the euro, entered into several contracts on its own shares in 20X6. You prepare the classification note for these contracts at the closing date of 31 December 20X6.
Assignment
Classification of the contracts on own shares of Calvire
Purpose of the workpaper
Record the contractual terms of the instrument, the settlement clauses, the contingent events, the currency of the exercise price and, where relevant, the redemption rights of the holder. The classification rests on these terms, not on the intention of the parties or the name of the instrument; amounts and terms are case data and the classification remains a supported judgment.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Compute the fixed amount payable on exercise of the euro warrants.
- Compute the difference in the euro counter-value of the exercise price of the dollar warrants between the two scenarios.
- Compute the number of shares to be delivered at the first price.
- Compute the number of shares to be delivered at the second price.
- Classify each of the five contracts within IAS 32 as an equity instrument or a financial liability or asset.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.