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Group profile and case conventions

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Group profile and case conventions

Sorvane Group SA (fictitious entity) closes its consolidated accounts on 31 December 20X6. Case conventions: amounts in EUR; fair values, discount rates, percentages and allocation keys are case data; case convention (pedagogical assumption, not attributed to IFRS 3): Tarvel is a business, Sorvane is its acquirer and the acquisition date is 1 October 20X6, as established by the identification analysis; for Tarvel, the non-controlling interest, made up of ordinary shares only, is measured at the proportionate share of the identifiable net assets; deferred tax effects are set aside; the expense of the replacement award is spread on a straight-line basis; the entries are illustrative: the combination entry records the assets and liabilities assumed excluding leases, and the lease entry records the lease liability and the right-of-use asset, the difference against market terms being charged to goodwill.

Identifying a business combination: scope of the standard, business or group of assets, common control, acquirer and acquisition date: Tarvel — identification

File of an acquiring group: complex allocation (leases, reacquired rights, replacement awards, employee benefits, liabilities within IAS 37), reverse acquisition in outline, allocation of goodwill and disclosures

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Estimated time
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Context

Sorvane Group SA (fictitious entity) takes control of Tarvel Technologies SA in 20X6 by increasing its interest from 20 % to 70 %. The consolidation file must deal with the measurement exceptions (lease, reacquired right, replacement award, retirement plan, litigation, insurance contracts), the previous interest, the items outside the exchange, the goodwill, its allocation to cash-generating units, a reverse acquisition and the disclosures.

Assignment

Identification of Tarvel and reverse acquisition of Pelgrane

Purpose of the workpaper

Describe the transaction and the items acquired, check the exclusions from the scope, assess the inputs and processes (and, if the acquirer so elects, the concentration test), identify the acquirer and the date on which control is obtained, then support each judgment. Amounts, percentages and dates are case data: no threshold is presented as imposed by the standard.

Questions of the file covered by this workpaper

  • Tarvel: confirm the business, the acquirer and the acquisition date retained by the case and place the 20 % interest already held.
  • Pelgrane and Dorvane transaction: who is the accounting acquirer? Compute the share of the voting rights of the owners of Dorvane, the number of shares Dorvane would have had to issue and the consideration.

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