IFRS 15 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
- Course
- Exercises
- Case studies
- Workpapers
- Exams
Specific arrangements
Distributor: volume rebate, right of return and consideration payable to a customer
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 IFRS 15 workpaper
- Level
- Intermediate
- Estimated time
- ≈ 50 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 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
Specific arrangements workpaper (sale with a right of return).
Purpose of the workpaper
Account for the specific arrangements of the file: right of return, principal or agent, prepayments, unexercised rights and upfront fees, licences and royalties, repurchase agreements, consignment, bill-and-hold and acceptance clauses, then record the entries.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Calculate the refund liability and the revenue.
- Calculate the asset for the right to recover products and the cost of sales.
- Record the entries for the year.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.