IFRS 15 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
Workpaper assignment
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Contract costs
Professional file: revenue review of an industrial and services group
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
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 35 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)
Context
The Arvelis group (fictitious entities) designs and manufactures custom packaging lines and standard machines (Arvelis Machines division); it also performs plant upgrade works, provides maintenance contracts and sells spare parts, in particular on its online platform ArvelisParts (Arvelis Services division). Its reporting date is 31 December and it applies IFRS. You are in charge of the revenue review file at 31 December 20X4: existence of the contracts, performance obligations, transaction prices, allocation, timing of recognition, modification, contract balances, principal or agent, contract costs, entries, impact, note, responses to the reviewer's notes and conclusion. The entries of the file are presented as not yet recorded and cash collections are not dealt with, unless otherwise stated (teaching assumptions). Impairment of receivables and contract assets under IFRS 9, amortisation of contract cost assets and income tax are outside the scope.
Assignment
Contract costs workpaper (Valcourt contract).
Purpose of the workpaper
Classify the costs of obtaining and fulfilling the contract (incremental, eligible for capitalisation, within another standard or expensed), determine the contract cost asset, its amortisation and impairment, then record the entries and pass the items of the note.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Determine the costs of the Valcourt contract to be recognised as an asset.
- Record the entries of the file.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.