IFRS 15 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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Determining the transaction price
Distributor: volume rebate, right of return and consideration payable to a customer
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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 IFRS 15 workpaper
- Level
- Intermediate
- Estimated time
- ≈ 40 min
- Progress
- 0 / 4 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Lumaris SAS (a fictitious entity) manufactures small household appliances. On 1 October 20X1, it signed a one-year framework agreement with Distrimax SA (a fictitious entity), a chain of stores that resells its appliances to consumers. The first deliveries took place in November 20X1. Case data: control of the appliances transfers to Distrimax on delivery. You are preparing, for the year ended 31 December 20X1, the determination of the transaction price of these deliveries and their accounting.
Assignment
Transaction price workpaper (variable consideration, constraint and consideration payable to a customer).
Purpose of the workpaper
Step 3: start from the fixed consideration, estimate the variable consideration under the method retained and then apply the constraint, include non-cash consideration and consideration payable to the customer, assess the financing component and record the interest entries.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- What are the components of the consideration promised by Distrimax?
- Estimate the variable consideration arising from the volume rebate.
- What amount of variable consideration do you include in the transaction price?
- Determine the transaction price before taking expected returns into account.
Documents in the file
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