IAS 7 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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IAS 7 as amended by IFRS 18
Applies to annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027. Early application permitted. Only together with early application of IFRS 18, which is permitted and must be disclosed (IFRS 18, para. C1).
Cash flow classification matrix: Conversion of bonds into shares
Fifteen transactions to classify: operating, investing, financing or outside the statement
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 7 workpaper
- Level
- Foundation
- Estimated time
- ≈ 25 min
- Progress
- 0 / 3 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Lunadis Équipements SAS (fictitious entity) distributes and services handling trucks. Its accountant is preparing the first statement of cash flows for 20X8 from the list of cash transactions. You help classify each transaction.
Assignment
Cash flow classification matrix
Purpose of the workpaper
For each transaction of the period (one instance per transaction), describe the facts and the amount paid or received, check whether it is a cash flow, apply the definitions and examples of the three activities, identify the flows of a single payment that may be classified differently, apply the classification rules for interest, dividends and taxes (entity status given by the case) and the conditions for net presentation, then justify the classification and the disclosures.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Classify the fifteen transactions and identify those that do not appear in the statement.
- Identify the interest element of the loan instalment and of the rent, and the related principal.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.