Post Balance Sheet Events

WaxworkACCA June 2009

Scope and objectives

It prescribes: (a) when an entity should adjust its financial statements for

events after the reporting period; (b) the disclosures that an entity should give about the date

when the financial statements were authorised for issue and about events after the reporting period.

The Standard also requires that an entity should not prepare its financial statements on a going concern basis if events after the reporting period indicate that the going concern assumption is not appropriate

It should be applied in the accounting for, and disclosure of, events after the reporting period.

Events after the reporting period

Those events, favourable and unfavourable, that occur between the end of the reporting period and the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Two types of events can be identified: (a) those that provide evidence of conditions that existed at the end

of the reporting period (adjusting events ) (b) those that are indicative of conditions that arose after the

reporting period (non-adjusting events )

Recognition and Measurement

Adjusting events:

An entity shall adjust the amounts recognised in its financial statements to reflect adjusting events after the reporting period

Non adjusting events

An entity shall not adjust the amounts recognised in its financial statements to reflect non-adjusting events after the reporting period.

Dividends

If an entity declares dividends to holders of equity instruments (as defined in IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation) after the reporting period, the entity shall not recognise those dividends as a liability at the end of the reporting period.

It is disclosed in the notes in accordance with IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements.

Going concern

An entity shall not prepare its FS on a going concern basis if :

management determines after the reporting period either that it intends to liquidate the entity or to cease trading, or that it has no realistic alternative but to do so.

Disclosure

An entity shall disclose the date when the financial statements were authorised for issue and who gave that authorisation.

If the entity’s owners or others have the power to amend the financial statements after issue, the entity shall disclose that fact.

Disclosure

If an entity receives information after the reporting period about conditions that existed at the end of the reporting period, it shall update disclosures that relate to those conditions, in the light of the new information (When evidence becomes available after the reporting period about a contingent liability that existed at the end of the reporting period)

In addition to considering whether it should recognise or change a provision under IAS 37, an entity updates its disclosures about the contingent liability in the light of that evidence.

Disclosure

An entity shall disclose the following for each material category of non-adjusting event after the reporting period:

(a) the nature of the event; and

(b) an estimate of its financial effect, or a statement that such an estimate cannot be made.

Waxwork a

Post BS events are events occurring after the BS date but before the accounts are signed.

Adjusting events are those events which give us more information regarding the financial situation which existing at the Balance Sheet date.

Non adjusting events are those events ‘which simply happen’ after the balance sheet date.

The exception to the above is when a non adjusting event threatens going concern.

Adjusting events should be disclosed with full narrative and illustration of the financial effects

Note examiners comments here- he did not want examples, very strange!

Waxwork b)

1)Non adjusting event, value of inventory at the BS date was not reduced.

Concept here that at the BS date the inventory was not unsaleable or required a reduction in value, the fall occurred because of an event which happened after the BS date- as opposed to further information becoming available about something which existed at the BS date.

Large trading losses may lead us to question going concern. Waxwork should certainly disclose the loss of $16m, they may disclose the insurance claim of $9m

Waxwork b)

11)The subsequent sale give us information about a condition that existed at the BS date and therefore we should write down the inventory.

At BS date 70% of the stock had a cost of $322000. This should be written down to $238k (280x85%). Dr CofS Cr Inv (BS) 84k

The remaining stock with a value of $138k (460-322) should be investigated and possibly written down by 26% (238/322=74%) or some other sum if necessary

Waxwork b)

111) The changes are announced after the year end so no adjustment is required