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Agenda
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1. Applicable Standard and Scope
• The requirements of asset impairment are set out
in IAS 36 Impairment of Assets that
– aims at prescribing the procedures for an entity to
apply to ensure that the entity’s assets are carried
at no more than their recoverable amount.
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1. Applicable Standard and Scope
• IAS 36 requires an entity to apply accounting for the impairment on all
assets, except for the following assets:
1. inventories (see IAS 2, Chapter 2);
2. assets arising from construction contracts (see IAS 11, Chapter 10);
3. deferred tax assets (see IAS 12, Chapter 13);
4. assets arising from employee benefits (see IAS 19, Chapter 12);
5. financial assets that are within the scope of IAS 39 (see Chapter 15 and 16);
6. investment property that is measured at fair value (see IAS 40, Chapter 5);
7. biological assets related to agricultural activity that are measured at fair
value less estimated point-of-sale costs (see IAS 41 Agriculture);
8. deferred acquisition costs, and intangible assets, arising from an insurer’s
contractual rights under insurance contracts within the scope of IFRS 4
Insurance Contracts; and
9. non-current assets (or disposal groups) classified as held for sale in
accordance with IFRS 5 (see Chapter 22).
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1. Applicable Standard and Scope
• Specifically, IAS 36 does not apply to financial assets
within IAS 39, instead the impairment of such other
financial assets are referred to IAS 39. However, IAS
36 still applies to financial assets classified as:
1. subsidiaries, as defined in IAS 27 Consolidated and
Separate Financial Statements;
2. associates, as defined in IAS 28 Investments in
Associates; and
3. joint ventures, as defined in IAS 31 Interests in Joint
Ventures.
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2. General Approach in Assessing
• IAS 36 requires that impairment loss is recognised
when an asset’s carrying amount is higher than its
recoverable amount.
• An impairment loss is the amount by which the
carrying amount of an asset (or a cash-generating unit)
exceeds its recoverable amount.
– Carrying amount is the amount at which an asset is
recognised after deducting any accumulated
depreciation (amortisation) and accumulated
impairment losses thereon.
– The recoverable amount of an asset is the higher
of Recovered through
sale
• its fair value less costs of disposal and
Recovered through use
• its value in use.
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2. General Approach in Assessing
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3. Identifying any Impairment Indication
• At each reporting date, an entity is required to assess whether there is
any indication that an asset may be impaired.
– If any such indication exists, the entity will then estimate the
recoverable amount of the asset.
• For specific kinds of intangible assets and goodwill, no matter whether
there is any indication of impairment,
– an entity is still required to estimate their recoverable amounts and
compare the amounts with their carrying amounts.
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3. Identifying any Impairment Indication
• The comparison of an asset’s recoverable amounts with its carrying
amounts is termed as an impairment test.
• Such annual impairment test is required for the following assets:
1. an intangible asset not yet available for use;
2. an intangible asset with an indefinite useful life; and
3. goodwill acquired in a business combination.
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3. Identifying any Impairment Indication
• In assessing whether there is any indication that an asset may be impaired, an
entity is required to consider, as a minimum, the following indications:
External sources of information
a) an asset’s market value declined significantly more than would be
expected
b) significant changes with an adverse effect on the entity in the
technological, market, economic or legal environment
c) market interest rates or other rates increased that likely affects the
discount rate used in calculating an asset’s value in use
d) the carrying amount of the net assets of the entity is more than its market
capitalisation
Internal sources of information
a) evidence is available of obsolescence or physical damage of an asset
b) significant changes with an adverse effect on the entity in which, an asset
is used or is expected to be used.
c) evidence is available from internal reporting that indicates that the
economic performance of an asset is, or will be, worse than expected.
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
• When there is any indication that an asset may be impaired at each
reporting date or when there is an intangible asset or goodwill that is
subject an annual impairment test, an entity is required to measure the
recoverable amount of the asset.
• IAS 36 defines an asset’s recoverable amount as the higher of:
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
Value in Use
• Value in use is the present value of the future cash flows expected to
be derived from an asset or cash-generating unit.
– The following elements shall be reflected in the calculation of an asset’s
value in use:
a) an estimate of the future cash flows the entity expects to derive from
the asset;
b) expectations about possible variations in the amount or timing of those
future cash flows;
c) time value of money, represented by the current market risk-free rate of
interest;
d) price for bearing the uncertainty inherent in the asset; and
e) other factors, such as illiquidity, that market participants would reflect in
pricing the future cash flows the entity expects to derive from the asset.
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
• Estimating the value in use of an asset Value in Use
involves the following steps: Basis for Estimates of
a) estimating the future cash inflows and Future Cash Flows
outflows to be derived Composition of Estimates
• from continuing use of the asset, and of Future Cash Flows
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
Value in Use
• Future cash flows are estimated in the currency in which they will be
generated and then discounted using a discount rate appropriate for
that currency.
• An entity translates the present value using the spot exchange rate at
the date of the value in use calculation.
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
• In calculating the present value of Value in Use
estimated future cash flows, a pre-tax
discount rate should be used and it should
reflect current market assessments of:
1. the time value of money; and
2. the risks specific to the asset for which the
future cash flow estimates have not been
adjusted.
Discount Rates
• Such discount rate required by IAS 36 is
the return that investors would require if
This rate is estimated from
they were to choose an investment that
either:
would generate cash flows of amounts,
• the rate implicit in current
timing and risk profile equivalent to those
market transactions for
that the entity expects to derive from the similar assets or
asset.
• the WACC of a listed entity
that has a similar asset
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
• IAS 36 requires an intangible asset with an indefinite
useful life to be tested for impairment annually by
comparing its carrying amount with its recoverable
amount, irrespective of whether there is any indication
that it may be impaired.
• IAS 36 offers an alternative to the entity holding such
intangible asset.
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
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4. Measuring Recoverable Amount
• No matter whether the amount of an asset is its fair
value less costs of disposal or its value in use, all these
amounts reflect a present value calculation (implicit or
explicit) of estimated net future cash flows expected
from an asset.
• However, there are differences on these estimated net
future cash flows as follows:
1. Fair value less costs of disposal reflects the
market participants’ expectation of the present
value of the future cash flows to be derived from
the asset, less the direct incremental costs to
dispose of the asset; and
2. Value in use is the entity’s estimate of the present
value of the future cash flows to be derived from
continuing use and disposal of the asset.
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5. Recognising an Impairment Loss
• If, and only if, the recoverable amount of an asset is less than its
carrying amount,
– the carrying amount of the asset must be reduced to its recoverable
amount.
– That reduction is an impairment loss.
• An impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss,
– unless the asset is carried at revalued amount in accordance with
accounting standard, for example, in accordance with the
revaluation model in IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment.
• Any impairment loss of a revalued asset is treated as a revaluation
decrease in accordance with that accounting standard.
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5. Recognising an Impairment Loss
Example
Melody Beauty Shop performed an impairment review on some assets
on . While the freehold land was stated at fair value with a revaluation
surplus of $5,000, other assets were stated at cost less accumulated
depreciation or amortization.
The result of the impairment review is summarised below:
Ascertain the impairment loss and prepare the required journal entries.
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5. Recognising an Impairment Loss
Example
By using the information on hand, the assets of Melody Beauty Shop should have
the following impairment losses:
Recoverable Carrying Impairment
amount amount loss
Freehold land, at fair value $ 22,000 $ 30,000 $ 8,000
Intangible asset, at amortised cost 820 900 N/A
Machinery, at depreciated cost 2,100 3,000 900
While there was a revaluation surplus of $5,000 for freehold land, part of the
impairment loss for the freehold land can be recognised in the revaluation surplus.
Then, the journal entries for the recognition of impairment losses should be:
Dr Revaluation surplus $ 5,000
Profit or loss ($8,000 - $5,000) 3,000
Cr Freehold land $ 8,000
To recognise the impairment loss on freehold land.
Dr Profit or loss 900
Cr Machinery $ 900
To recognise the impairment loss on machinery.
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6. Cash-generating Units
• If it is not possible to estimate a recoverable amount
of an individual asset alone, an entity will be then
required to estimate the recoverable amount of the
cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs, i.e.
the asset’s cash-generating unit (CGU),
– That is defined as the smallest identifiable group
of assets that generates cash inflows that are
largely independent of the cash inflows from other
assets or groups of assets.
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6. Cash-generating Units
• The recoverable amount of an individual asset cannot
be determined if:
1. the asset’s value in use cannot be estimated to
be close to its fair value less costs of disposal;
and
2. the asset does not generate cash inflows that are
largely independent of those from other assets.
• In such cases, value in use and, therefore,
recoverable amount, can be determined only for the
asset’s cash-generating unit.
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6. Cash-generating Units
• In an impairment testing,
– the recoverable amount of a cash-generating unit
is compared with the carrying amount of that unit.
– The recoverable amount of a cash-generating unit
is also the higher of fair value less costs of sell
and value in use of the unit.
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6. Cash-generating Units
Example
• Ocean Care Entertainment Park has leased a site from the government
to establish an entertainment park since 1980 and has agreed to restore
the site and remove all the facilities before it vacates and returns the
site to the government.
• An unamortised provision for the restoration costs is $200 million.
• Since the opening of a similar new park in the region in 2007, Ocean
Care has operated the park at a loss.
• It has to test impairment of the park.
• A proposal from a potential buyer offers $900 million to purchase the
park.
• The park as a cash-generating unit should have a value in use
excluding restoration costs of $900 million.
• Given that the carrying amount of the park’s assets is $1 billion at the
end of 2007, should Ocean Care recognise any impairment loss?
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6. Cash-generating Units
Example
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6. Cash-generating Units
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6. Cash-generating Units
Corporate Assets
Can be allocated on such portion shall be included as part of the carrying
a reasonable and amount of the CGU for impairment test
consistent basis
Cannot be allocated The entity shall:
on a reasonable and 1) compare the carrying amount of the CGU (excluding the
consistent basis corporate asset) with its recoverable amount
• recognise any impairment loss first
2) identify the smallest group of CGUs that includes the CGU
Firstly, test under review and to which a portion of the carrying amount
smaller CGU of the corporate asset can be allocated on a reasonable and
consistent basis; and
3) compare the carrying amount of that group of CGUs,
Then, test larger including the portion of the carrying amount of the corporate
CGU containing asset allocated to that group of CGUs, with the recoverable
amount of the group of CGUs.
the goodwill
• Any impairment loss shall be recognised.
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6. Cash-generating Units
• An impairment loss
– is recognised for a CGU
• if, and only if, the recoverable amount of the CGU
(group of CGUs) is less than the carrying amount of the
CGU (group of CGUs).
– is allocated to reduce the carrying amount of the
assets of the CGU (group of CGUs) in the following
order:
a) first, to reduce the carrying amount of any goodwill Goodwill
allocated to the CGU (group of CGUs); and first
b) then, to the other assets of the CGU (group of CGUs)
pro rata on the basis of the carrying amount of each Other on
asset in the CGU (group of CGUs). pro rata
These reductions in carrying amounts shall be treated
as impairment losses on individual assets
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6. Cash-generating Units
• In allocating an impairment loss for a CGU, an entity shall not reduce
the carrying amount of an asset below the highest of:
a) its fair value less costs of disposal (if determinable);
b) its value in use (if determinable); and
c) zero.
• The amount of the impairment loss that would otherwise have been
allocated to the asset shall be allocated pro rata to the other assets of
the CGU (group of CGUs).
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6. Cash-generating Units
Example
• Bear Bull performed an impairment review on the CGU X, which has the
following assets on hand:
Carrying amount
Goodwill $ 1,000
Property, plant and equipment, at depreciated cost 3,000
Intangible assets, at amortised cost 2,000
Investment property, at depreciated cost 2,500
Financial assets, at fair value 1,070
Inventory, at cost 500
Trade receivables 1,300
Total 11,370
• After an impairment review, Bear Bull found that the recoverable amount of
CGU X is $8,000 and of the investment property is $2,000
• Calculate the impairment loss and allocate to the individual asset.
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6. Cash-generating Units
Example
Carrying
Carrying amount after
Allocated amount after
impairment loss impairment loss
impairment loss
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7. Reversing an Impairment Loss
• An impairment loss recognised in prior periods
for an asset (other than goodwill) can be
reversed if, and only if, there has been a change
in the estimates used to determine the asset’s
recoverable amount since the last impairment
loss was recognised.
• In other words, if there is no such change, no
recognised impairment loss can be reversed.
• If there is such change, the carrying amount of
the asset will be increased to its recoverable
amount, subject to a limitation
• That increase is a reversal of an impairment
loss.
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7. Reversing an Impairment Loss
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7. Reversing an Impairment Loss
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Chapter 8
Impairment of Assets
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