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IFRS 17Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)

Workpaper assignment

Step 4 of 5
Mission · workpaperWorkpaper · IFRS 17L3 · Advanced

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Company profile and case conventions

Memo

Company profile and case conventions

Tarvelle Assurances SA (fictitious entity) closes its accounts on 31 December 20X7, in EUR. Groups P and Q were recognised in 20X6. Case conventions (pedagogical assumptions, not attributed to IFRS 17): locked-in rate of 5% for group P and the portfolio, current rate of 6%; coverage unit: insured capital multiplied by the duration; the favourable change first reduces the loss component, within the limit of its balance; the liability is presented as a liability for remaining coverage and a liability for incurred claims.

Insurance service result, insurance finance expense, choice of disaggregation into other comprehensive income and checklist for the reconciliation of the liability: Insurance finance expense

Subsequent measurement: margin roll-forward, coverage units, loss component, insurance service result and finance expense

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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 IFRS 17 workpaper
Level
Advanced
Estimated time
≈ 75 min
Progress
0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)

Context

Tarvelle Assurances SA (fictitious entity) closes its accounts on 31 December 20X7. Two groups issued in 20X6 are to be followed: group P (protection, profitable) and group Q (property, onerous). You prepare the margin roll-forward, the reversal of the loss component, the insurance service result and the finance expense of the year.

Assignment

Insurance service result and finance expense

Purpose of the workpaper

Record the opening and closing balances, the insurance revenue, the claims and other expenses, the rate of the period and the choice of disaggregation of the finance expense. Compute the insurance service result and the finance expense of the period, record the entries, then prepare the checklist of the information, including the reconciliation of the liability (not computed by the template), and the conclusion. The choice of disaggregation and the amounts of the period are case data.

Questions of the file covered by this workpaper

  • Compute the insurance service result.
  • Record the claims incurred in the period.
  • Compute the insurance finance expense of the period at the locked-in rate.
  • Record the finance expense in profit or loss.
  • The choice to disaggregate the finance expense: where does the part due to the change in rate go?
  • Record the part in other comprehensive income.

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