IAS 36 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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Cash-generating unit, goodwill and corporate assets: Services unit
Professional file: annual impairment review of an industrial group
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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 36 workpaper
- Level
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 60 min
- Progress
- 0 / 4 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Corvenne Industries (a fictitious group) manufactures fluid-handling equipment. The group closes its year on 31 December, applies the cost model to its non-current assets and monitors three activities: industrial pumps (unit A), valves (unit B) and maintenance services (unit C). In 20X3 it acquired Hydra Pompes: the goodwill and the Hydra brand, with an indefinite useful life, arising from that business combination are in the statement of financial position. A shared IT services centre serves the three units. You are in charge of the annual impairment review file at 31 December 20X5: indicator review, identification of units, recoverable amount, allocation of losses, reversal of a prior loss, entries, disclosure note, replies to the reviewer's notes and conclusion. The measurements made under IFRS 13, the measurement of goodwill under IFRS 3 and the treatment of any restructuring plan under IAS 37 are given data; deferred tax effects (IAS 12) are outside the scope of the file.
Assignment
Workpaper Cash-generating unit, goodwill and corporate assets (Pumps, Services).
Purpose of the workpaper
Identify the unit tested, allocate its share of corporate assets, determine its carrying amount (goodwill notionally grossed up when non-controlling interests are measured at their share of net assets), compare it with the recoverable amount, allocate the loss first to goodwill and then pro rata to the other assets subject to their floor, and recognise only the share relating to the recognised goodwill.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Calculate the share of the IT services centre allocated to each unit.
- Calculate the carrying amount of the Pumps, Services and Valves units.
- Calculate the impairment loss of the Pumps and Services units.
- Allocate the loss of the Pumps unit.
- Which entries do you record at 31 December 20X5?
Documents in the file
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