Myer Holdings Limited: Asset Impairment Analysis

This assignment tasks students with analyzing Myer Holdings Limited's adherence to the Australian Accounting Standard Board (AASB) 136 guidelines regarding asset impairment. Students must examine the company's methods for identifying impairments, calculating losses, and the supporting evidence provided in the case study. The analysis should demonstrate an understanding of AASB 136 requirements and Myer Holdings' application of these principles.

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Executive summary:
The report discusses about media release of ASIC that would assist readers in providing clear
idea about concepts of impairment of assets and treatment of it by Myer holdings limited.
Moreover, report also demonstrate test of impairment in according with AASB 136.
Information required for determining impairment of assets, impairment evidence and
management flexibility in determining impairment of assets are also demonstrated in report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.................................................................................................................................4
a)Evidence of Impairment testing of assets of Myer Holdings limited.....................................4
b)Outlining process for determining asset impairment..............................................................5
c) Information is required in determining asset impairment......................................................6
d)Management flexibility in determining impairment of assets................................................7
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................8
Reference:..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction:
Australian securities and investment commission has asked companies to focus on
providing relevant information that are meaningful and useful to their users of financial
reports. It is required by auditor and directors to focus in accounting policy choice and assets
value. ASIC is of the view that most of companies make use of unrealistic assumptions for
testing values of assets and application of inappropriate approaches in areas of revenue
recognition. Risk criteria forms the basis of reviewing financial reports that helps in
determining compliance with accounting standards and Corporation act. For addressing
issues, ASIC features some of zones by declaring range of concentrations of public
organization and listed organizations. It is stated by commissioner of ASIC that chiefs and
evaluator as per past announcing periods should concentrate on decisions of bookkeeping
strategies and estimating benefits (Albu et al. 2014).
AASB 136 states that it is required by entity to conduct impairment test for assets that
will ensure that assets are not overvalued. Value of assets that can be compared to
recoverable sum and associated benefits are no involved in financial reports. Recoverable
value of assets for disposal and value in use is more than assets fair value less costs. Such
assets might involve goodwill and intangible assets. Any organization showing signs of
repairing assets should undertake impairment test (Oulasvirta 2014). Moreover, test can also
be undertaken for assets where they do not make any income such as cash generating unit.
There are internal and external sources of indication for carrying out assets impairment.

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Discussion:
a)Evidence of Impairment testing of assets of Myer Holdings limited
Considering the case of Myer Holdings limited, it is not possible to recognize
goodwill from acquisition of business by separating cash generating unit. Therefore, it is
required for business to allocate goodwill.
Asset flow- It can be identified from the given data relating to flow of assets that they
are consistent or have increased by little amount. There is no evidence of impairment test and
it is not required to conduct test of impairment as evident by decreasing trend of stores.
Establishment of indication of impairment is difficult from the given data.
Asset base- There has not been much change in assets base of Myer holdings limited
and for the past few years, they have remained more or less same in value. Considering the
asset base for undertraining impairment, there is clear indication that assets are not required
to be impaired (Bond et al. 2016).
Turnover of assets- It can be ascertained from Myer holding ltd financial statements
that asset turnover ratio has ranged from 1.40 to 1.80. During the period under consideration,
there is no significant movement of asset turnover ratio. Therefore, impairment of test is not
indicated using this particular test.
Therefore, considering the above strategies, it is certainly not possible for undertaking
impairment. However, looking at the departmental store of company in Frankston, there are
some indications for impairment. Myer has planned for altering the colours of their
departmental stores for competing with Amazon. Changing system of storing products would
also be altered that will result in more free space (Preiato et al. 2014). All the aspects

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discussed above are considered as partial construction that qualifies determination of
impairment of assets according to AASB 136.
b)Outlining process for determining asset impairment
Calculation of recoverable amount of assets and value in use is done by Myer
holdings ltd for determining assets impairment test. Forecasting cash flow is done based on
model that is approved by management of organization. Extrapolation of cash flow for more
than five years is done using the terminal growth rate. Some of the assumptions for
calculation are given below:
 Terminal growth rate is assumed at 2.5%
 Gross profit operating margin is assumed to be at 39.5%.
 Pre-tax discount rate is assumed to be at 14.4%.
Management of organization decides future flow of cash resulting from cash
generating unit of assets and their carrying value. Future cash flow is estimated based on
budget and value can be considerably lower than budget. In order to determine existence of
impairment of assets, separate examination of each stores of company is done. If any
indication of impairment of stores are indicated using the test, then the management of
organization measures recoverable value of unit and make comparison with value in use
(Lawson et al. 2013).

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c) Information is required in determining asset impairment
Information required for determining impairment test of Myer Holdings ltd are as
follows:
 Recoverable amount of assets within the intention of estimating is expressed as
percentage that is higher among the fair value of assets deducted by selling price and
fair value in use.
 Loss from impairment of assets is recognized as cost under misfortune and benefit
account. Against the perceived revaluation, affected resources are revalued under
immaterial resource (IAS 38) and IAS 16 PPE (IAS 16) (Guthrie and Pang 2013).
 It is essential to determine recoverable values and value in use relating to impairment
of assets.

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 When the recoverable amount is lower than carrying amount, then only cash
generating unit is considered for impairment.
 Under the balance sheet statement the loss amount resulting from asset impairment is
deducted from asset closing value. Moreover, under revenue statements, loss arising
from impairment is treated as loss.
 It is necessary on part of organization to switch off loss arising from impairment
relating to goodwill in past period. Furthermore, for assessing recoverable measures
of asset impairment and they are require to utilize the information.
 For acknowledging misfortune of debilitation, it is required by company to have wide
divulgences.
d)Management flexibility in determining impairment of assets
It is not anticipated by ASIC that directors would be looking for bookkeeping and
budgetary report and in this regard, they are required to look for counselling support and
clarification. There needs to be suitable examination and documentation of data and they
need to be delivered on convenient premise. Nature of money related data is strengthened in
market and focusses on preparation of budgetary report. It is certainly possible that
management of organization might not be expert in accounting and they can seek accounting
advice from accounting firms and accounting experts. This will assist management in clearly
presenting their financial statements. Myer Holding limited carry out asset impairment test at
least once in a year as found in the case study. Impairment test is undertaken according to
AASB 136. While completing the assets impairment tests, it can be ascertained that Myer
holding is very adaptable. Survey is conducted by organization regarding assets carrying
value and whether there exists any evidence of impairment. Test relating to impedance is not
guaranteed as per pre requisites of AASB 136. Different level of uncertainties is decided by

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level of management that help in giving assurance of the fact that cash generating unit of
Myer holdings would be advantageous without money bound streams. Therefore, it can be
identified from the evidence depicted by case study and discussing the relevant facts deduce
that there is active engagement on part of company for determining impairment test annually
that are in compliance with AASB 136.
Conclusion:
From the above analysis, it can be concluded that Myer holdings limited determine
the asset impairment tests by complying with the requirement of AASB 136. For measuring
the loss arising from impairment, it is required by company to measure the value in use and
recoverable value in the event of indication of asset impairment. Therefore, it can be
concluded that management of Myer holdings limited is flexible when it comes to determine
the loss arising from impairment and carrying out asset impairment test.

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