IFRS 3 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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Step acquisition: remeasurement of the previously held interest, other comprehensive income reclassified, goodwill, pre-existing relationship, remuneration and separate transactions
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
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 3 workpaper
- Level
- Expert
- Estimated time
- ≈ 75 min
- Progress
- 0 / 5 steps done (review excluded)
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
Previous interest, separate transactions and consideration of the reverse acquisition
Purpose of the workpaper
List the previously held interest (carrying amount, fair value, cumulative amounts in other comprehensive income), compute the remeasurement gain and the goodwill, then review the items that are not part of the exchange: settlement of a pre-existing relationship, payments linked to employment. Fair values and the measure of the settlement are case data or case conventions, never rules presented as imposed.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- 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.
- Compute the remeasurement gain on the 20 % interest held before.
- Are the retention bonus of EUR 200,000 and the pre-existing receivable of EUR 80,000 part of the exchange?
- Record the remeasurement of the 20 % interest.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.