IAS 36 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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Impairment note: Note — Services unit
Professional file: annual impairment review of an industrial group
Section 1 of 7
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 36 workpaper
- Level
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 35 min
- Progress
- 0 / 3 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 Impairment note (property, plant and equipment class, line M7, Pumps and Services units).
Purpose of the workpaper
Prepare the note: losses and reversals by class (profit or loss and other comprehensive income), information on each material loss or reversal (events, amount, recoverable amount, basis, rates) and, for units carrying goodwill, key assumptions, horizon, rates and sensitivity.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Which information by class of assets and on the loss of the Pumps unit and the reversal on line M7 do you present? Calculate the loss of the property, plant and equipment class.
- Which information on estimates and which sensitivity do you present for the Pumps and Services units?
- Correct the draft disclosure note and reply to the reviewer's notes.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.