Additional Financial Reporting Issues

  Additional Financial Reporting Issues

  Additional Financial Reporting

Issues Chapter Topics

• and current cost accounting approaches.

  Infation accounting – general purchasing power

• Infation accounting – diferences in standards worldwide.
• Business combinations and consolidated financial statements (ggroup accounting..
• International approaches to group accounting.
• International approaches to segment reporting.

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Issues Learning Objectives

  

1. Explain the concepts underlying two methods of

  accounting for changing prices (ginfation.— general purchasing power accounting and current cost accounting.

  2. Describe attempts to account for infation in

  diferent countriesr as well as the rules found in International Financial Reporting Standards (gIFRSs. related to this issue.

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Issues Learning Objectives

  3. Discuss the various issues related to the

  accounting for business combinations and the preparation of consolidated financial statements (ggroup accounting..

  4. Present the approaches used internationally to

  address the issues related to group accountingr focusing on IFRSs.

  5. Describe segment reporting requirements in IFRSs and followed in countries around the world.

  Infation Accounting – Conceptual

Issues Impact of infation on fnancial statements • Understated asset values

• Overstated income and overpayment of taxes.
• Demands for higher dividends.
• Difering impacts across companies resulting in lack of comparability.

  Infation Accounting – Conceptual

Issues Impact of infation on fnancial statements

• Historical cost ignores purchasing power gains and losses.
• Purchasing power losses result from holding monetary assetsr such as cash and accounts receivable.
• Purchasing power gains result from holding monetary liabilitiesr such as accounts payable.
• The two most common approaches to infation accounting are general purchasing power

  Infation Accounting – Conceptual

Issues Net Income and Capital Maintenance

• Historical costr general purchasing power and current cost accounting all fow from diferent concepts of capital maintenance.
• Net income represents the amount of dividends that can be paid out while still maintaining the company’s capital balance.

  Infation Accounting – Conceptual

Issues Net Income and Capital Maintenance

• Historical cost net income maintains a nominalr not adjusted for infationr amount of contributed capital.
• General purchasing power net income maintains the purchasing power of contributed capital.
• Current cost net income maintains the productive capacity of physical capital.

Infation Accounting -- Methods General Purchasing Power (GPP) Accounting

• Updates historical cost accounting for changes in the general purchasing power of the monetary unit.
• Also referred to as General Price-Level-Adjusted Historical Cost Accounting (gGPLAHC..
• Nonmonetary assets and liabilitiesr stockholders’ equity and income statement items are restated using the General Price Index (gGPI..
• Requires purchasing power gains and losses to be

Infation Accounting -- Methods Current Cost (CC) Accounting

• Updates historical cost of assets to the current cost to replace those assets.
• Also referred to as Current Replacement Cost Accounting.
• Nonmonetary assets are restated to current replacement costs and expense items are based on these restated costs.
• Holding gains and losses included in equity.

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Internationally United States and United Kingdom

• SFAS 33r Financial Reporting and Changing Prices briefy required large U.S. companies to provide GP and CC accounting disclosures.
• This information is now optional and few companies provide it.
• In the UKr SSAP 16 required current cost informationr this was also was only briefy required.
• Both countries have experienced low rates of infation since the 1980s.

  

of Infation in Financial Informationr is a well-

known example.

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Internationally Latin America

• Latin America has a long history of significant infation.
• Brazilr Chiler and Mexico have developed sophisticated infation accounting standards over time.
• Like the U.S. and UKr Brazil has abandoned infation accounting.
• Mexico’s Bulletin B-10r Recognition of the Efects

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Internationally Mexico – Bulletin B-10

• Requires restatement of nonmonetary assets and liabilities using the central bank’s general price level index.
• An exception is the option to use replacement cost for inventory and related cost of goods sold.
• Another exception is imported machinery and equipment.
• This exception allows a combination of country of origin price index and the exchange rate between Mexico and country of origin.

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Internationally Netherlands – Replacement Cost Accounting

• Prior to the required use of IFRSs in 2005r Dutch companies could use replacement cost accounting.
• In 2003 only Heineken used this approach.
• Heineken presented inventories and fixed assets at replacement cost.
• Cost of sales and depreciation were also based on replacement costs.
• The entry accompanying the asset revaluation

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Internationally International Financial Reporting Standards

• IAS 15r Information Refecting the Efects of Changing Prices was issued in 1981.
• This standard has been withdrawn due to lack of support.
• The relevant standard now is IAS 29r Financial Reporting in Hyperinfationary Economies.
• IAS 29 is required for some companies located in environments experiencing very high levels of infation.

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Internationally International Financial Reporting Standards

• IAS 29 includes guidelines for determining the environments where it must be used.
• Nonmonetary assets and liabilities and stockholders’ equity are restated using a general price index.
• Income statement items are restated using a general price index from the time of the transaction.
• Purchasing power gains and losses are included in

  Business Combinations and

Consolidated Financial Statements Background and conceptual issues

• Business combinations are the primary mechanism used by MNEs for expansion.
• Sometimes the acquiree ceases to exist.
• In other casesr the acquiree remains a separate legal entity as a subsidiary of the acquirer (gparent..
• Accounting for the parent and one or more subsidiaries is often called group accounting.

  Business Combinations and

Consolidated Financial Statements Group Accounting – Determination of control

• Control provides the basis for whether a parent and a subsidiary should be accounted for as a group.
• Legal control through majority ownership or legal contract is often used to determine control.
• Efective control can be achieved without majority ownership.
• IAS 27r Consolidated and Separate Financial Statementsr uses the efective control definition.

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Consolidated Financial Statements

Group Accounting – Full Consolidation

• Full consolidation involves aggregation of 100 percent of the subsidiary’s financial statement elements.
• When the subsidiary is not 100 percent ownedr the non-owned portion is presented in a separate item called minority interest.
• Full consolidation is accomplished using one of two methods; purchase method or pooling of interests method.

  Business Combinations and

Consolidated Financial Statements Full Consolidation – Purchase Method

• When one company purchases a majority of the voting shares of another companyr the purchased assets and liabilities are stated at fair value.
• The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net assets is goodwill.
• IFRS 3r Business Combinationsr measures the minority interest as the minority percentage multiplied by the fair value of the purchased net assets.

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Consolidated Financial Statements Full Consolidation – Goodwill

• Significant variation exists internationally in accounting for goodwill.
• U.S.r IFRSr and most other countries require goodwill to be capitalized as an asset.
• Some countries require amortization over a period of up to 40 years.
• U.S.r Canadar and IFRS do not require amortization but do require an annual impairment test.
• Japan allows immediate expensing of goodwill.

  Business Combinations and

Consolidated Financial Statements Group Accounting – Equity Method

• When companies do not controlr but have significant infuence over an investeer the equity method is used.
• Twenty percent ownership is often used as the threshold for significant infuence.
• The equity method is sometimes referred to as one-line consolidation.
• Some diferences exist between countries regarding standard pertaining to the equity method.

  Business Combinations and

Consolidated Financial Statements Group Accounting – Other

• Pooling of interests method is no prohibited by IFRS and in many countries.
• Pooling of interests was historically a popular method because it allowed for lower expense recognition compared to the purchase method.
• Proportionate consolidation method under IAS 31r

  Financial Reporting of Interests in Joint Venturesr but is prohibited by U.S. GAAP.

Segment Reporting Background

• MNEs typically have multiple types of businesses located around the world.
• Consolidated financial statements aggregate this information.
• Diferent types of business activity and location involve diferent growth prospects and risks.
• Financial statement users desire information to be disaggregated in order to facilitate its usefulness.

Segment Reporting Background

• Beginning in the 1960sr standard setters began to require disclosures by segment.
• Segments are defined both by line-of-business and geographic area.
• The AICPA and Association of Investment Management and Research (gAIMR. recommend segment reporting consistent with how a business is managed.
• A significant point of resistance to segment reporting is concerns about competitive

Segment Reporting

IAS 14, Segment Reporting

• Requires segment reporting both by line-of- business and geographic area.
• The company chooses one of these as a primary reporting format.
• Significantly more information is required for the primary reporting format.
• Generallyr the primary reporting format will be consistent with internal reporting to upper management.
• Reportability of a segment is based on the

Segment Reporting

IAS 14, Segment Reporting – Signifcance Test

• Reportability of a segment is based on the significance of the segment.
• A segment is deemed reportable if it meets one of three significance tests.
• The significance tests are based on revenuer profit or lossr and assets.
• A segment is reportable if it equals or exceeds 10 percent on any one of these tests.

Segment Reporting SFAS 131, Disclosures about Segments

  of an Enterprise and Related Information

• Requires reporting of significant operating segments which can be based on either line-of- business or geographic area.
• The significance tests and required disclosures are similar to IAS 14.
• SFAS 131 does notr howeverr require reporting of both line-of-business and geographic segments.
• If reporting is based on line-of-businessr some additional information about foreign operations is

Segment Reporting Segment Reporting Internationally

• There is a significant lack of convergence internationally in the area of segment reporting.
• In a number of countriesr segment reporting is not required if deemed to be of competitive disadvantage by the company.
• The IASB-FASB short-term convergence project is looking at this area.
• IASB is planning to follow the SFAS 131 management approach to identifying segments.

  

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