IAS 38 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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Indefinite life and impairment
Professional file: year-end close of the intangible assets of a software publisher
Section 1 of 9
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 38 workpaper
- Level
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 40 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Logiciels Boréal (a fictitious company) publishes mapping software. It closes its accounts on 31 December and applies the cost model to all its intangible assets. During 20X2 it acquired the licence of a rendering engine, the Orion licence, developed an online module internally, the Atlas project, and sold an old licence, the Delta licence. It also holds an acquired trademark, Boréal Maps, regarded as having an indefinite useful life, and a support platform licence, the Gamma licence. You are in charge of the 20X2 year-end file: workpapers, proposed entries, review of the draft note, answers to the reviewer's notes and conclusion of the file.
Assignment
Workpaper Indefinite life and impairment (Boréal Maps trademark).
Purpose of the workpaper
Review at each year-end whether the indefinite life is still supported, organise the annual impairment test (recoverable amount provided under IAS 36), record the impairment loss and, if the life becomes finite, calculate the prospective charge. Prepare the disclosures.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Is the indefinite life of the trademark still supported and how is the trademark tested?
- Calculate the impairment loss on the trademark.
- Which impairment and sale entries do you record?
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.