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Objective No. 3: To evaluate the category wise performances of the banks. Finally follows the
consolidation of the different SC strategies. Therefore, it is argued that CRE managers will first need
to catalogue existing leases and gather all available data about all ten management buttons, illustrated
in figure 6.2, to be included in the financial statements. Corporations where not willing to profound
in individual cases. At almost every organisation CREM practices have evolved from a narrow
definition focusing on managing, acquisition and disposal, of real estate to managing a wide range of
functions that support internal and external corporate factors. The completeness of information is
related to the willingness of corporations to provide additional information towards the operational
lease disclosers. Since the transaction between a lessor and a lessee is based on a lease agreement, it
is appropriate to use consistent definitions. To be able to maximise shareholders value, it is essential
for CRE strategies to be fully aligned with the corporate business strategy. Porter (1985) emphasises
that competitive advantage cannot be understood without inventory of the corporation as a whole.
Studies of Luckerath-Rovers (2007) in the Netherlands (figures 2.8 and 2.9) and the SEC13 in the
U.S. (SEC, 2005) also support these findings. Through the numerous amounts of studies and schools
of thought it is hard to answer the question “what is strategy?”. As mentioned before the profitability
performance measurements are all related to financial benchmarks and thereby suitable for cost
orientated strategies. Next follows the introduction of different supply chain strategies. The
researcher wanted to find out that if there is any significant difference regarding the. For CREM
departments that act lower than the strategist level these performance indicators are in general
financially driven by their added value in terms of profitability and productivity. Figure III
summarises where IFRS regulations influence the (CRE) strategy process. The lease contract will be
recognised both at the asset side as a Right of Use (ROU) asset and the present value (PV) of
payments to be made over the lease term is recognised as the lease liability on liability side of the
balance sheet. Real estate decisions were made on property to property basis without a strategic
driver- let alone in consideration with other supportive activities. Company Y will therefore ask the
lessor to add the IRR to the lease contract in order to minimise the lease liability. Downstream of the
order penetration point the supply chain follows an agile principle responding to customer demand.
Is this is situation that is still desirable in the future when the proposed IFRS lease accounting is
addressed. Also note that these AEX listed corporations demark the research because of the fact that
otherwise the research would be too broad and complex since, for example, different market
situations and tax situations have to be dealt with. Lowest costs 2. Differentiation 3. Cost focus 4.
Differentiation focus Positioning school Porter can be seen as one of the founding fathers of the
positioning school. Wurdemann, W. W. (2012). Corporate Real Estate Performance; Added value
measured. That fair value is measured at the date the entity obtains the goods. Balance technically
leases will become less flexible and it will cause an additional tension between lease and lessor. This,
subsequently, implies that the potential gains from such decisions can be significant (Fiolleau, 2013).
The RED is now expected in the first quarter of 2013. IBs. Despite being similar to the IBs in size
the FCBs have very few branches comparatively. Thereby, CREM divisions of companies that work
with IFRS will experience an on-going Figure 7.2: Management support tool Page 149.
Industry Overview depicts the current banking structure of. Thereby the practical implantation is
limited (Mattousch, 2010). But again changes are subsidiary to the specific situation and changes
will differ for each lease transaction. These types of information gathered in the process of making
the report will be helpful in. Chapter 1 Introduction Within this chapter the problem outline is
discussed. At the same time these functions also give a company the chance to create differentiators
(Sehgal 2009). IFRS were issued by the Board of the International Accounting Standards Committee
(IASC), known as International Accounting Standard Board(IASB). To understand these processes
may require examining the role of exceptional people and extreme circumstances, the enabling and
constraining forces of the environment, and exploring some of the conditions in which mixtures of
these occur (Pettigrew, 1987). Actually, the competitive strategy is an important part of the business
strategy. The other management buttons -the location, the rent, lease term, financing arrangement
and the number of assets- are, thus, in virtually all situations known. At every accounting date the
core assumptions adopted in terms of rent and options will need to be reviewed to ensure that they
do not differ significantly from those previously adopted. This makes alignment of multiple strategies
a complex matter. Despite this statement, there is not a right or wrong stage within the ladder. A
Study on Performance Evaluation of the Commercial. These rules, RJ 292 in particular, are
supervised by the Dutch Autoriteit Financiele Markten (AFM). Page 35. General banking activities
of agrani bank, internship report, aiub by sudipt. This could imply that the relationship between the
corporate Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and CRE managers will have to change, because every time
a lease occurs the balance sheet will be impacted. Corporations who operate lower on the Joroff-
model tend to be more inclined to be affected by IFRS lease accounting. Imhoff et al., (1991) apply
the model to the total of future lease obligations and dealt with them as one single lease contract.
The phase where an organisation is in is an indicator for the added value delivered by CRE to the
overall core business. Large CRE portfolios will have a larger impact than small CRE portfolios and,
thus, benefit from a different significance on the agenda of the corporate board. “CRE managers will
become the spider in the web between the COO and CFO.” The initial intensions versus the possible
effects Will the IASB and FASB accomplish what they want to achieve. Based on this analysis,
Wurdemann (2012) developed the model as illustrated in figure 4.3. Figure 4.3 illustrates, thus, the
macro value drivers of shareholders’ value and their corresponding management focus on micro value
drivers that can be influenced by the CRE decisions that need to be made, whereby the position of
the operating decisions and the influence of IFRS lease accounting are added. AirFrance-KLM,
KPN, Shell, Fugro and TNT Express suffer mostly by their non-real estate leases. Control includes
the ability to prevent other entities from directing the. What are the practical implications of the lease
capitalisation for AEX listed corporations. Standards. An entity shall exclude from the transaction
price the amount of the part (or parts) of. The added value consists besides the active coordination
with other departments out of realising a profit. If the interest of the CFO dominates, in terms of
balance sheet reporting, will this probably result in deviating decisions. This shows that CRE
decisions are being made by several interviewees without taking all the seven focus areas, as figure
3.5 discussed, into account.
A corporation will have to apply the new standard to its annual financial statement for any fiscal year
that begins after the effective date. An impairment of a contract asset shall be measured, presented
and disclosed on. If the lease transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incident to ownership
from lessor to lessee then the lease is classified as a finance lease. After this sequence the
performance is measured and reflected to the stakeholders. Bar chart, line chart and pie chart have
been used for. What are the strategies we require to ensure the want and needs of our stakeholders? -
Processes. The IFRS exempts an insurer temporarily (ie during phase I of this. The ROU asset will be
amortised equal to other non-financial assets. Commercial Banks (FCBs), Private Commercial Banks
(PCBs) and Islamic Banks (IBs). For Ahold, AkzoNobel, PostNL, Randstad and Reed Elsevier the
impact is higher than the median and directly related to the CRE leases. The following descriptions
and corresponding activities were used in the survey, these descriptions and corresponding activities
are based on previous research conducted by Matousch (2010). This information provision can be
subdivided in the elements neutrality and completeness. The study aimed at evaluating and
comparising the performances of some selected tools of. The paper has been prepared under my
guidance and is a record of the bona fide work carried. Chart 11: The trend of ROA. (Source:
Bangladesh Bank Annual Reports, 2008-2015). For example, the fact that a customer could decide to
not purchase the. Standards. An entity shall exclude from the transaction price the amount of the
part (or parts) of. For lessees with large operating lease commitments, the impact of the changes will
be significant; particularly the retail industry with large lease portfolios. Composing the data system
is one thing, however, the challenging and most time consuming part is keeping the data system up to
date and preclude the system from contamination. FCBs, meaning that they cannot earn net interest
income solely by the expansion of branches. Chart 3 shows the return on assets of all the scheduled
banks in CY14. Adobe InDesign Design pixel-perfect content like flyers, magazines and more with
Adobe InDesign. These are very interesting and uncertain times for publicly traded companies;
legislations are changing due to the economic and financial turmoil. They will be able to provide
better services in countries. Under normal circumstances, the IASB and FASB would release the final
standard not much later than the time of issuing the ED. On the other hand, when payments between
lease and non-lease components cannot be distinguished, lessees will have to recognise all the
payments on-balance and measured using the proposed lease accounting standard. Chart 12 indicates
a severe fluctuation in the trend of return of equity. The real estate portfolios where downsized and
the management focus were efficiency and cost reduction. The product flow consists of sourcing
goods, moving them from supplier to customer plus caring for any customer returns or service needs.
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Since the total assets are the denominator in the calculation this ratio will decrease by active
capitalization of the operational lease obligations. Banks (SBs), Private Commercial Banks (PCBs),
Foreign Commercial Banks (FCBs) and. This, once more, highlights the link between the different
management buttons. These authors are well known for their contribution to academic research. The
IFRS requires the acquirer, having recognised the identifiable assets, the. The income statement
reports the outcome of using assets (for example real estate leases) to generate earnings and explains
the change in retained earnings. The argument of corporations that the time span for implementing is
too short is also highly doubtful. For example; if the impact is significantly higher for KPN than for
Vodafone or T-Mobile then stakeholders should raise questions. The IASB cooperates, as the
independent standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation, with national accounting standard
setters to achieve convergence in accounting standards around the world. Through the numerous
amounts of studies and schools of thought it is hard to answer the question “what is strategy?”. The
financial performance can also be influenced by the implementation of Added use value strategies but
these are not in full control of the CREM, since it depends on the relation and interaction with other
corporate resources. Providing transparency in an early stage with all stakeholders is crucial. This
report is named as “A Study on Performance Evaluation of the Commercial Banks in. Thereby, are
these CREM divisions the ones that, due to IFRS lease accounting, will no longer close SLB
contracts, because their decisions are not strategically driven. AEX listed companies are obligated to
use the IFRS standards. Figure 3.10: Adaption of the Joroff-model Page 74. So what is the impact of
the proposed lease accounting changes. However, in the case of an operating lease the lessee simply
accounts annual lease payments as expenses over the lease term. Assuming that this relates to
maximising shareholder value, one needs to be able to explain to stakeholders how the CREM will
affect the KPIs. As stated, this causes the gross-up of balance sheets as a result of the assets and
liabilities which will appear on-balance. The proposal that leases should be re-measured will require
CRE managers to redesign processes and controls to ensure proper management of all lease
agreements. International Financial Reporting Standard 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers
(IFRS 15) is set out in. All of these approaches are for the greater part based on assumptions. The
information flow involves sending orders and updates on the delivery status. Revising the current list
of corporate financing arrangements is thus a necessity and this was supported by the interviewees.
In many cases operating leases are truly the rental agreements that they should be packaged as.
(Edman, 2011) As a result, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was adopted in 2002 to solve the problems that
had occurred with the auditing of U.S. corporations. In response to this act, the IASB and FASB
started with a project to develop a global financial reporting system in 200615, including reporting
for leases, which would have to prevent these major Enron scandals. Number of assets Discount rate
Service contracts Rent Subleases Location Lease term Purchase option Renewal options Page 139.
CREM has, thus, grown as a professional discipline over the past decades. Within the literature a
variety of CRE definitions can be found, which evolved from time to time. Hypothesis H2a: The
Number of Branches of PCBs, FCBs and IBs has a significant. This return to the core business is
also known as the added value of CRE.
The blue bars reflect the total increase- and sets the CRE impact in perspective to the total impact.
But due to the different business models and industries it is hard to compare the 23 corporations
with each other, which is directly the limitation of this study. Second, they should predict and model
what the potential impact could be. At the very outset, I would like to express my deepest gratitude
to Almighty Allah Subhan. Leasing instead of owning an asset based on maximising the flexibility is
another principle than making a lease vs. In first instance the CRE related impact seems to be
significant, especially for corporations with a high retail lease exposure like Ahold. It should
therefore be seen within the wider spectrum which also encompasses, for example, Basel III and
Solvency II. The lease accounting changes on the other hand affect an international wide range of
corporations in all kinds of industries. But again, lacking an explicit CRE strategy, operating
decisions may be made that are unrelated to or even in conflict with the corporate business strategy
rather than being consistent with the real estate strategy and thereby reinforcing the overall business
strategy. A high(er) discount rate reduces the NPV of the lease liability. This stresses that only
corporations can provide accurate and reliable information about future operating lease commitments
and their credibility. This causes CRE managers to implement changes with respect to data
management, transaction management and portfolio decision-making. However, all interviewees
argue that, depending on the nature of the asset, IFRS lease accounting may change some aspects of
the lease agreements, thereby having a “less negative” effect on their financial statements. During
the restructuring in the early 90’s business units not related to the core business where eliminated.
These definitions are retrieved from the IASB’s 2010 ED and additional deliberations with the
FASB. Well known scandals are, inter alia, Enron in 2001, WorldCom, Xerox, Sunbeam, Waste
Management, Adelphia, Tyco, HealthSouth, Global Crossing in the U.S. (Coates, 2007) and, for
example, Ahold in the Netherlands. Benchmarking corporations one on one is therefore meaningless,
since all components are subsidiary to a specific sector or business model. As a consequence he
argues that “financial analysts could easily have 36 The ED of August 2010 forms the basis, board
deliberations and papers till October 2012 are examined within the macro analysis. Between Groups
10594690.38 2.00 5297345.19 20.24 0.00 3.55. IFRS vs GAAP. Principles-based Approach (IFRS)
Rules-based Approach (GAAP). Overall the experts agree that the new IFRS lease accounting
guidance is a desired regulatory issue. Wurdemann, W. W. (2012). Corporate Real Estate
Performance; Added value measured. The transaction price can be a fixed amount of customer
consideration. Probably the capitalisation of the operational leases in the disclosures will not be the
major issue, since professional stakeholders already adjust these for operational leases, which is a
quite conservative way of thinking according (Luckerath-Rovers, 2007). The way the payments are
accounted for, however, do change. Figure 2.16 visualises the variables of the real estate lease
example and illustrates the dissimilarity between the ROU asset and the lease liability during the
lease term because of the differences in expense payments between the two approaches. The IFRS
Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation under the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware. This implies that CREM divisions will have, to a greater or lesser extent, to deal with the
consequences of these changes. The added lease liability then represents a fair value and is
comparable to if the lease liability would be treated as a financial lease from the beginning. Most
evident is the fact that the lessee would have to use a Figure 4.7: CREM communication Source:
Adaption of Brounen et al. (2012) Page 90. Searching for and interviewing people who are
responsible for the supply chain management, operations and business of medium-to-large-sized
companies that have a significant degree of internationalization will achieve this objective.

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