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Non-monetary items
Rate at transaction date (if item at historical cost)
START Rate at revaluation date (if item carried at revalued amount).
Impairment test
Primary factors Measure non-monetary assets at the lower of either:
When determining the Carrying amount x historical rate
appropriate functional currency, Net realisable value/recoverable amount x closing rate at the end of
management should give priority the period.
to the following factors: Is the entity a foreign
operation? Translation gains or losses on asset/liability recognised in profit or loss.
Currency influencing sales
prices for goods and services
If yes, is the foreign
Currency of country whose operation ‘integral’ to its
competitive forces and ‘parent’? That is, does it FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY
regulations determine sale carry on business as if it ESTABLISHED
prices is an extension of the
Currency mainly influencing Loan forming part of net investment in foreign operation
parent’s own operations?
input costs. Exchange gains and losses to equity on consolidation only. Recorded in
If it is ‘integral’ to its profit or loss in the separate (entity only) financial statements.
Secondary factors ‘parent’, the foreign
The primary indicators may be CONSOLIDATION OF FOREIGN
operation has the same
determinative. However, the functional currency as ENTITIES AND TRANSLATION OF
following two indicators serve as the parent. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO A Disposal of a foreign operation
supporting evidence. The cumulative amount of exchange differences that was recognised in
Currency in which funds/receipts: (Parent: the entity that
PRESENTATION CURRENCY equity is reclassified to profit and loss (recycled).
from financing activities are has the foreign operation
generated as its subsidiary, branch
from operating activities are associate or joint General principle
retained. arrangement). Foreign exchange gain or loss to profit or loss
Translation method
Assets & liabilities – closing rate Exception
Income and expenses – rate at Where a gain or loss on a non-monetary item is recognised in equity,
transaction date (for practical purposes a the foreign exchange gain or loss is also recognised in equity.
monthly or quarterly rate might
KEY PRINCIPLES approximate the transaction date rates)
The resulting exchange differences are
No need to present financial statements in functional currency. A recognised in other comprehensive
presentation currency can be selected income (foreign currency translation
Accounting records must be kept in functional currency reserve).
A group does not have a functional currency. Functional currency is
assessed separately for each entity in the group.
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