Asset Impairment: IFRS & AASB 136

This assignment delves into the topic of asset impairment, specifically focusing on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) 136. Students are tasked with critically evaluating the approaches to impairment recognition under both standards, comparing their disclosure requirements and exploring the influence of impairment decisions on financial reporting. The assignment encourages students to analyze relevant research and case studies to understand the complexities of asset impairment and its implications for businesses.

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Advance Financial Accounting
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Table of Contents
Answer to Part A:.......................................................................................................................2
Answer to I:................................................................................................................................2
Answer to II:..............................................................................................................................2
Answer to III:.............................................................................................................................3
Answer to IV:.............................................................................................................................3
Answer to V:..............................................................................................................................3
Answer to VI:.............................................................................................................................4
Answer to VII:............................................................................................................................5
Answer to VIII:..........................................................................................................................5
Answer to Part B:.......................................................................................................................6
Answer to I:................................................................................................................................6
Answer to II:..............................................................................................................................6
Answer to III:.............................................................................................................................7
Answer to IV:.............................................................................................................................7
Answer to V:..............................................................................................................................8
Reference List:...........................................................................................................................9

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Answer to Part A:
Answer to I:
The Australian Agriculture Company LTD has recorded the impairment of the assets
for the year ended 31St March 2017. For the purpose of impairment testing the Australian
Agriculture Company LTD has tested plant and equipment and industrial land and building.
The impairment of property and equipment and industrial land and equipment for
determining the carrying values of these assets (Picker et al. 2016). The impairment testing is
done by the Australian Agriculture Company LTD on the circumstances when it becomes
apparent that the carrying value might not be recoverable.
Answer to II:
The impairment testing for the plant and equipment and industrial land and equipment
is conducted by Australian Agriculture Company Ltd in order to make sure that these assets
are not carried anything beyond their recoverable value. According to the Australian
Agriculture Company Ltd an asset that does produce high independent cash inflows the
recoverable value is ascertained to the cash generating unit to which the assets belongs (Yu
and Xu 2015). Given that there is any sign of impairment existed and on the circumstances
where the carrying value of the asset goes beyond the recoverable amount the written down
amount of the assets is written down or transferred to the cash generating units.
In carrying out the impairment of the plant and equipment the recoverable if the
amount of the assets is higher than the fair values then the cost is subtracted front the sales
and value in use. In determining the value in use, the projected future cash flows are
discounted to their current amount by making use of the pre-tax discount rate (Lubbe,
Modack and Watson 2014). This eventually reflects the present market assessments relating
to the time value of the money and the risk that is associated to the cash generating unit.

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Answer to III:
On conducting a detailed analysis of the Australian Agriculture Company Ltd annual
report it is noticed that the company has not recorded any impairment expenditure.
Additionally, there have been no instances associated to the impairment expenditure in the
preceding years of 2015 and 2016 respectively as stated in assessing the cash flow statement
of the firm. However, it is noticed that provision related to impairment of receivables have
been stated in the financial statement (Tsalavoutas, André and Dionysiou 2014). The trade
receivables are regarded as the non-interest bearing and are usually based on the 14 day
terms. An impairment is identified at the time when there are objective evidences that no
individual accounts receivable will be considered collectible.
Answer to IV:
The preparation of the financial statements requires the organization to make certain
judgements, estimations and assumptions that might create an impact on the reported amount
of the firm in the financial statements. The Australian Agriculture Company Ltd on regular
basis evaluates and estimates the assets, liabilities, income and expenditure (Ono, Rodrigues
and Niyama 2014). The judgement and the estimation is conducted based on the historical
cost experience and other numerous factors that are reasonable in the circumstances where
the carrying value of the assets and liabilities is not readily obtainable from the other sources.
The impairment of financial and non-financial assets is based on the different assumptions
and circumstances which might materially create an impact on the financial result or financial
position of the firm.
Answer to V:
The accuracy of the impairment testing will be impacted by the degree and
subjectivity of the estimations and judgements relating to the inputs and parameters that is

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used in ascertaining the recoverable amount. Hence the application of the International
Accounting Standard 136 requires careful consideration. The goodwill impairment testing
requires the exercise of substantial amount of subjectivity in compliance with the present
standard of accounting (Banker, Basu and Byzalov 2016). On assessing the annual report of
the Australian Agriculture Company Ltd the allocation of the goodwill to the cash generating
unit does not contain any kind of subjectivity and this reflects that impairment testing of the
assets are carried out in an opportunistic manner.
Nevertheless, the computation of the value in use needs sufficient amount of
estimation and assumptions for using the appropriate discount rate in the determination of the
anticipated future cash flow. Taking into the consideration the analysis it can be stated that
there prevails a lower amount subjectivity in the determination of the impairment testing. The
result of the impairment testing is significantly influenced by the involvement of the lower
amount of subjectivity (Ajupov, Mishina, and Ivanov 2014). The result of the impairment
testing is constantly influenced by the prevalence of the subjectivity and there are numerous
factors that are related with the application of the impairment assets. An organization can
experience differences in determining the carrying value of the asset and recoverable amount.
Answer to VI:
The knowledge regarded the impairment testing of assets was very surprising after
conducting an in depth analysis of numerous information. Surprisingly a large amount of
evidences has been presented by the company in the annual report relating to the impairment.
The company has made use of the cash flow projections in ascertaining the recoverable value
of the cash generating unit (Penner, Kreuze and Langsam, 2016). In in depth explanation of
the estimation and assumptions have been applied by the company in ascertaining the
carrying value of the assets.

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Answer to VII:
On conducting the analysis of the annual report it is understood that noteworthy
information has been provided by the Australian Agriculture Company Ltd relating to the
impairment. The users of the financial information would be better able to gain an
understanding of the financial position of the firm and impairment testing simultaneously.
The company has not applied the international accounting standard 36 relating to the
impairment of intangible assets that enables the firm in implementing the discretion of
impairment testing (Nawaiseh 2016). The management of the firm has not acted in an
opportunistic manner and the outcome that is derived from the impairment testing possess the
possibility of influencing the changes in estimation and accounting assumptions.
Answer to VIII:
The financial statement of the Australian Agriculture Company Ltd is in compliance
with the historical cost basis and the financial assets are valued at fair cost. The company in
its annual report has provided a detailed explanation relating to the value of the assets and
liabilities in the separate section. The company has recognized the accounts receivable at the
fair value and has subsequently done amortization at the amortized cost. Measurement of the
intangible assets has been conducted on the fair value means (Kabir, Rahman and Su 2017).
The deferred shares are valued based on the fair value based on the market price of the
company shares. The livestock is measured by the company based on the fair value following
the deduction of cost and any form of changes that is identified in the income statement. The
company at the end of the accounting year measures the livestock based on the fair value.

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Answer to Part B:
Answer to I:
An important classification is required to be made by the lessees and Lesser in the
form of operating lease and capital lease in respect of the earlier standard of accounting for
lease. Commercial firms under the current lease standard are offered with the choice of
stating the amount of lease as liabilities and assets for small period but not for the long period
of time. Unlike the capital lease, operating lease is not obligatory to be stated in the balance
sheet. This provides the companies with the opportunity of stating their lease assets and
liabilities in the balance sheet on the optional basis (Sinclair and Keller 2014). The total
liabilities under the present financial statement is undervalued since commercial entities are
not obligatory required to state their operating lease in spite of having several lease liabilities
that is applicable to the companies. Commercial firms generally value their liabilities that
may be significantly greater than the liabilities that prevailed out of the balance sheet.
External investors would not be able to obtain a true and fair view of the lease liabilities and
assets (Vasile and Vasile 2015). Consequently, the investors may not be able to get the true
and fair view of the firm.
Answer to II:
The earlier standard of lease mandated the commercial entity to identify lease capital
on the statement of financial position. The standard required appropriate disclosure for
helping the investors in determining the financial position of firm along with the
determination of the timing, amount and ambiguity related with the cash flow originating
from the lease (Bond, Govendir and Wells 2016). Both the quantitative and qualitative
aspects lacked to provide sufficient data relating to lease standard that is considered in the
financial report. This enables the commercial entity in attaining the specific book-keeping

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result on the balance sheet. This result in less realistic presentation of lease liabilities and
lease assets originating from lease.
Demonstration of lease is not compulsory in the present standard of lease but they
accompany commitment for the commercial entity in making payments. This reflects that
commercial entity that is not presenting liabilities is undervaluing the business liabilities
(AACo 2018). There are numerous lease liabilities that results in noteworthy differences
between the liabilities that is stated in the statement of financial position and liabilities that
are not included. Hecnce, the amount of debt presented in the balance sheet results in sixty-
six times less than off than the liabilities that are off the balance sheet.
Answer to III:
Airline organization generally entered in huge leasing of the aircraft and in agreement
with the earlier standard of lease they are not mandated to be reflected in the balance sheet. In
the current standard of accounting aircraft companies have classified leases on historical cost
basis with revelation made are off the balance sheet. There are numerous differences amid the
airline firms that are leasing most of the air fleet and the airline companies that are
purchasing the airplane (Camfferman and Zeff 2015). Apparently the financial position of the
airline firms exclusively varies from other firms in real situations because their financial
requirements are not alike. As a result of this, external investors find it difficult to determine
and assess the true and fair position of the firm. There are also arise problems in determining
the financial leverage and operative suppleness of the airline companies. Accordingly, this
results in no level playing field for the airline firms.
Answer to IV:
The new standard presented on lease would not be considered popular among
everybody because of numerous criticism associated with it. Unpopularity of the lease

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standard is primarily because the balance sheet profiles of the lessees would change
significantly which would enable the commercial entity look highly leveraged. Subsequently
this result in rising cost for the firms. Leasing of huge number of small assets would result in
added difficulties with higher cost of reporting. Additionally, lenders have estimated the
adverse impact that would create on the balance sheet liabilities (Brusca and Martínez 2016).
Commercial entities would be required to update their accounting system for improving their
accounting disclosure to provide sufficient information to the shareholders. Business would
be forced to incur added cost of implementing the new standard which would require them to
spend more. Therefore, the above stated elements have significantly contributed to the
unpopularity of the new leasing standard.
Answer to V:
Implementation of the new standard of accounting relating to lease will lead to more
realistic demonstration of commitments and rights of commercial firms that is originating
from the lease standard. Both the qualitative and the quantitative data related to the lease
transaction is stated in the balance sheet of the company. The outside investors would get the
better understanding of the financial obligation relating to leases (Camfferman and Zeff
2015). The new standard would enable the leasing activities of the lessors know to the users
of financial statement along with the credit risk associated to such activities. The application
of new standard would help in promoting transparency and clear representation of the leasing
facts in the financial report. Hereafter, the investors would be offered with more informed
decision making by obtaining the true view of the financial position for a commercial entity.

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