IAS 7 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows — wording before IFRS 18Applicable today
Applies to annual periods beginning before January 1, 2027.
Supplier finance arrangements disclosure: Purchasing cards
A distributor's reverse factoring programme: qualification and disclosures
Section 1 of 7
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 7 workpaper
- Level
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 45 min
- Progress
- 0 / 3 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Fontrevel Distribution SA (fictitious entity) distributes household equipment. Since 20X3, its suppliers have been able to sell their invoices to Banque Orsanne under a programme set up by Fontrevel. The audit committee asks for a full note for the 20X5 financial statements.
Assignment
Supplier finance arrangements disclosure
Purpose of the workpaper
For each arrangement (one instance per arrangement), describe the contract terms, check whether it has the features of a supplier finance arrangement or is excluded, document the classification of the liabilities and of the payments to the finance providers (a judgement the standard does not settle), reconcile the liabilities that are part of the arrangement from opening to closing, then prepare the disclosure: terms, carrying amounts and line items, amounts already paid to suppliers, ranges of payment due dates and non-cash changes.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Which arrangements are supplier finance arrangements?
- How should the programme liabilities and the payments to the bank be classified?
- Reconcile the programme liabilities.
- Draft the note on supplier finance arrangements.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.