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DIRECTOR

THE COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY

OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

ORDER NO 1V-360

ON THE AMENDMENT OF THE ORDER NO 1V-1164 OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE

COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF

LITHUANIA OF 28 DECEMBER 2005 “ON THE APPROVAL OF THE RULES FOR

COST ACCOUNTING ACCORDING TO THE FULLY DISTRIBUTED COSTS

METHOD“

7 April 2011

Vilnius

Pursuant to Paragraph 7 of Part 6 of Article 7, Article 23, Article 32, Part 1 of Article

33, Part 9 of Article 34 and Part 2 of Article 35 of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on

Electronic Communications (Official Gazette Valstybs žinios No. 69-2382, 2004):

1. I a m e n d Order No 1V-1164 of Director of the Communications Regulatory

Authority of the Republic of Lithuania of 28 December 2005 “On the Approval of the Rules

for Cost Accounting According to the Fully Distributed Costs Method”:

1.1. I c h a n g e the preamble to:“Pursuant to Paragraph 7 of Part 6 of Article 7, Article 23, Article 32, Part 1 of Article 33,

Part 9 of Article 34, Part 2 of Article 35 of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Electronic

Communications (Official Gazette Valstybs žinios No. 69-2382, 2004) as well as taking into

account the Directive 2002/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March

2002 on Access to, and Interconnection of, Electronic Communication Networks and

Associated Facilities (the Access Directive) (OJ 2004, Special edition, Chapter 13, Volume 29,

p. 323) as amended by the Directive 2009/140/EC (OJ 2009 L 337, p. 37) of the EuropeanParliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009, the Directive 2002/22/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on Universal Service End Users’Rights Relating to Electronic Communications Networks and Services (the Universal Services

Directive) (OJ 2004, Special edition, Chapter 13, Volume 29, p. 323) as amended by the

Directive 2009/136/EC (OJ 2009 L 337, p. 11) of the European Parliament and of the Council




APPROVED by

Order No. 1V-1164 of the Director of the

Communications Regulatory Authority of theRepublic of Lithuania of 28 December 2005

(Amended by Order No. 1V-360 of the

Director of the Communications Regulatory

Authority of the Republic of Lithuania of

7 April 2011)

THE RULES FOR COST ACCOUNTING ACCORDING TO THE FULLYDISTRIBUTED COSTS METHOD

I.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

1. The rules for cost accounting according to the fully distributed costs method (hereinafter

referred to as the Rules) are aimed at creation of prerequisites for implementation of the Law of

the Republic of Lithuania on Electronic Communications (Official Gazette Valstybs Žinios

No. 69-2382, 2004) (hereinafter referred to as the Law) and ensuring of electroniccommunications regulation in the field of cost accounting in observance of the principles of

technological neutrality, functional equivalence, proportionality, minimal necessary regulation,

legal certainty in a dynamic market, economic development, ensuring efficient competition,

objectivity of regulatory criteria, conditions and procedures, transparency and non-

discrimination.

2. The Rules have been prepared pursuant to Paragraph 7 of Part 6 of Article 7, Article 23,

Article 32, Part 1 of Article 33, Part 9 of Article 34 and Part 2 of Article 35 of the Law as well

as taking into account the Directive 2002/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 7 March 2002 on Access to, and Interconnection of, Electronic Communication Networks

and Associated Facilities (the Access Directive) (OJ 2004, Special edition, Chapter 13, Volume

29, p. 323) as amended by the Directive 2009/140/EC (OJ 2009 L 337, p. 37) of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009, the Directive 2002/22/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on Universal Service End Users’

Rights Relating to Electronic Communications Networks and Services (the Universal Services

Directive) (OJ 2004, Special edition, Chapter 13, Volume 29, p. 323) as amended by theDirective 2009/136/EC (OJ 2009 L 337, p. 11) of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 25 November 2009 and the European Commission Recommendation 2005/698/EC of 19

September 2005 on Accounting Separation and Cost Accounting Systems under the Regulatory

Framework for Electronic Communications (OL 2005 L 266, p. 64).

3. The Rules shall be applicable to the undertakings, having significant market power on the




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Valstybs Žinios No. 99-3517, 2001; No. 79-3099, 2008) and the Law of the Republic of

Lithuania on Accounting (Official Gazette Valstybs Žinios No. 99-3515, 2001).

5. The Undertaking has to ensure that the information provided to The CommunicationsRegulatory Authority (hereinafter referred to as the Authority) according to the Rules shall be

accurate, fair, reasonable, comparable and comprehensive. All the documents provided to the

Authority by Undertaking according to Rules shall comply to the requirements of the Rules for

Submission of documents to the Authority of the Republic of Lithuania, approved by order No.

1V-292 of the Director or the Authority of 16 September 2004 (Official Gazette Valstybs

žinios No. 141-5171, 2004; No. 73-2675, 2005)

6. Definitions:“Working capital” means the difference between current assets and current liabilities used

in Undertakings activities.

“Accounting period” means the time period, coinciding with the fiscal year of the

Undertaking, for which the set of financial accounts is being prepared.

“Basic rate of profit” means the average annual rate of profit, i. e. non-risk rate of profit

of the long-term (no shorter than 10 years’) securities (bonds) of the Government of the

Republic of Lithuania.

“Common costs” means costs, which shall be neither directly nor indirectly assigned to aspecific service/product, and in distribution of which the principle of causality is impossible to

be implemented, however the said costs are mandatory for continuity of the activities of the

Undertaking.

“Wholesale service/product” means any service/product, which is provided to other

electronic communications operators and/or providers of electronic communications services,

which use that service/product as a resource for ensuring the provision of retail

services/products.

“Final service/product” means a wholesale or retail service/product being provided to the

user of the service.

“Price pressure” means the situation where the difference between the prices of the retail

and the corresponding wholesale services/products, set by an Undertaking with significant

market power is not sufficient in order for another efficiently operating electronic

communication service provider to be able to operate profitably by purchasing wholesale

services/products and providing analogue or similar retail services/products on the basis of

such wholesale services/products.“Capital” means the financial resources, invested into production of the service/product.

The value of the capital is calculated by adding up the amounts of the owner’s equity and the

borrowed capital, specified in the balance statement of the undertaking or by adding up the

amounts of the capital goods and the employed capital.

“Adjustments” means the increase or reduction of the value of the capital due to the




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“Non-distributed costs” means the costs, incurred by an Undertaking during the

accounting period, however which costs are mandatory neither for provision of final

services/products (creation of value of products/services of regulated prices), nor for businesssupport (ensuring of uninterrupted electronic communication activities). The Undertaking shall

incur the said costs at the expense of its profit.

“Indirect costs” means the costs, which are indirectly related to a specific service/product

and distributed to different cost accumulation objects by using standard coefficients or cost

carriers/drivers, based on economic valuation.

“Indirect cost distribution” means distribution of an Undertaking’s costs to one or among

several cost centers, services/products and/or network components in proportion according tothe corresponding cost carrier/driver by using the impartial activity and/or financial

information for identification of the carrier distribution base.

“Standard coefficient” means the coefficient, showing the part of the costs to be

distributed to a specific cost center. Standard coefficients can be set as an economically based

fixed value or can be changed during each accounting period depending on the scope of the

corresponding cost carrier.

“Equity” means the right of the owners of an Undertaking to a part of property of the

Undertaking, remaining after deduction of all the liabilities from the total of assets.“Backbone (transport) network” means the public telecommunication network,

connecting separate network components except those held as parts of access network (for

instance, the backbone public telephone communication network begins at the distribution

equipment unit, nearest to the termination point of the network, initiating the call and ends at

the farthest distribution equipment unit from the termination point of the network, terminating

the call).

“Revenues” means the increase of economic benefit of an Undertaking during the

accounting period, evidenced by an increase of the assets (or their value) of the Undertaking

and/or reduction of liabilities, resulting in increase of the equity, with the exception of the

additional contribution by the owners of the Undertaking.

“Service/product” means a public electronic communications service/product and/or the

service/product of the provision of the public electronic communications network.

“Total cost of a service/product” means the total amount of the costs, needed for

provision of one service/product.

“Access network” means the aggregate of links between the public telecommunicationnetwork termination points and the nearest connections with the backbone (transport) network.

Access network begins at the network termination point and ends at the distribution equipment

unit, nearest to the network termination point.

“Reasonable return on investments” means the return on investments, which the

Undertaking would receive in case it decides to invest its capital into another similar low-risk




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“Cost accounting system” means the accounting system, needed for identification of total

costs of the products/services, provided by an Undertaking for the electronic communication

market regulation purposes.“Costs center” means the main internal activity/process, supporting internal

activity/process, internal network activity/process or internal service/product, to which, in the

intermediate cost distribution phase a certain amount of indirect costs is attributed, in order to

allocate the indirect costs to the final services/products according to the principle of causality.

“Homogeneity of costs” means the feature, allowing for grouping of costs according to

their carrier and the trends of change of amount of costs with time (taking into consideration

such factors as development of technologies, increase of efficiency, etc.).

“Cost carrier/driver” means the factor, resulting in formation of specific costs, according

to which the formed costs are distributed to the cost centers and/or final services/products in

the cost accounting system.

“Cost article” means the group of costs, distinguished by an Undertaking, taking into

consideration the characteristics of the cost distribution process and the homogeneity of costs.

“Borrowed capital” means the long-term liabilities of an undertaking, for which the

Undertaking must pay later than within the time period of the fiscal year.

“Direct costs” means the costs, which directly and unambiguously result from provision ofa specific service/product.

“Network component” means any network equipment or element, which is a composite

part of a public telecommunication network and which can be physically or logically identified

as an independent element (segment) of the network.

“Assets” means tangible, intangible and financial valuables, which an Undertaking

manages, uses and/or disposes of, and in using which economic benefit is expected to be

derived.

“Internal activity/process” means an intermediate activity/process of an undertaking,

necessary for the Undertaking in creating the value of the end service/product, that is, in

providing end services/products.

“Average market revenue rate” means the average annual profit rate of a portfolio,

properly diversified by Lithuania’s securities market.

“Total costs of the service/product” means direct, indirect and joint costs of the

service/product.

Other definitions used in Rules shall be construed as they are given in the Law, the Law ofthe Republic of Lithuania on Financial Accountability of Enterprises, the Law of the Republic

of Lithuania on Consolidated Accounts of Group of Undertakings and the Law of the Republic

of Lithuania on Accounting and the Rules for Provision of Universal Electronic

Communication Services, approved by Resolution No. 699 (Official Gazette Valstybs ŽiniosNo. 55-2439, 2003; No. 23-749, 2006).




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into the accounting and allocate them to the services/products according to the fact of earning

revenues and without taking into account the fact of receiving and paying money;

7.3. the principle of objectivity – following the principle of objectivity an Undertakingshall allocate the costs incurred during the accounting period in an impartial manner without

seeking to distort the costs of any service/product or a structural part of any service/product

and without seeking to influence the decisions taken by the users of accounting information;

7.4. the principle of stability – following the principle of stability an Undertaking, when

calculating the services/products costs during different accounting periods shall constantly use

the chosen system of cost distribution, with the exception of the cases specified in Paragraphs

7.4.1 and 7.4.2 of these Rules. The cost distribution system used by an Undertaking shall be

subject to changes if:

7.4.1. significant events or circumstances that have occurred determine the necessity to

execute logical changes of the cost accounting system, used by the Undertaking;

7.4.2. the Authority requests to change the system used by the Undertaking when the system

differs from these Rules and (or) contradicts other legal acts;

7.5. the principle of transparency – following the principle of transparency an Undertaking

shall allocate costs incurred during the accounting period in such a way that every cost

distribution step and final statements of the accounting period shall provide the possibility toclearly, transparently and in a simple way identify direct, indirect, common costs and internal

transfers of services and products, provided by the undertaking;

7.6. the principle of usefulness – following the principle of usefulness an Undertaking shall

prepare and use such a cost distribution system, which would be exhaustive, suitable and

understandable to both internal and external receivers of information being provided;

7.7. the principle of reliability – an Undertaking shall ensure that the submitted information

directly reflects the financial state of the undertaking and it does not contain any errors or

discrepancies.

8. An Undertaking shall include the specific costs to the cost accounting system only once –

when calculating the total cost of the products/services, the same costs can not be included

several times.

9. In case an Undertaking, assigned to provide universal electronic communication services

intends to present the request to compensate the losses, incurred when providing universal

electronic communication services according to the procedure, set by the legal acts of the

Republic of Lithuania, the Undertaking shall separate universal electronic communicationservices and the related costs in the accounting system.

III. COSTS ESTIMATION

10. An Undertaking shall estimate the costs, incurred in its activities referring to the entries,




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5173, 2003; No. 115-4929, 2009). In case of the Authority requires to implement current cost

accounting for all or certain services/products, the Undertaking, during time period set by the

Authority, shall adjust the values of costs, transferred from the accounting records to the costaccounting system in such a way, that transferred costs shall represent not actual acquisition

costs but current costs.

12. When calculating the depreciation and/or amortization of fixed assets, Undertaking must

select and apply an economically viable lifetime of fixed assets and depreciation and/or

amortization calculation method. The Undertaking shall reconcile depreciation and/or

amortization costs in cost accounting system with the corresponding depreciation and/or

amortization costs, calculated in the financial accounting.

13. When transferring the data from the financial accounting records to the cost accounting

system an Undertaking shall:

13.1. ensure the transfer of all and accurate data;

13.2. group the transferred costs at least into the cost groups, specified in Paragraph 14 of

the Rules. The Undertaking shall distinguish cost groups according to the homogeneity of the

costs. When ensuring the implementation of the principles, specified in Paragraph 7 of the

Rules the Undertaking can group the costs into more detailed groups, than those specified in

Paragraph 14 of the Rules.13.3. ensure the possibility in the cost accounting system to verify the accuracy and

comprehensiveness of transfers of costs, i. e. an Undertaking must ensure the possibility to

identify the cost accounts, used in the accounting during the examinations of the cost

accounting system (according to the bookkeeping accounts plan, approved by the

Undertaking), from which specific amounts of costs were transferred to the cost accounting

system.

14. An Undertaking, when transferring incurred costs during its activities into the cost

accounting system, shall group the costs at least into the following groups:

14.1. direct costs (separately distinguishing the costs, related to provision of universal

electronic communication services, in case the Undertaking is assigned with provision of

universal electronic communication services);

14.2. payments to other operators for wholesale services/products;

14.3. depreciation and/or amortization costs;

14.4. network costs (network planning, management and development costs, network

equipment procurement, implementation, maintenance and repair costs);14.5. the costs of provision of the information about subscribers of the public telephone

communication services (the costs of provision of information by telephone or presentation of

lists of subscribers (printed or electronic), excluding the electronic communication service

costs, necessary for provision of such information);

14.6. the costs of issuance of bills and settlement for the provided services/products;




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electronic communication activity and other activities) and separate these costs during the cost

distribution process.

16. An Undertaking shall distinguish the reasonable return on investments as a separate costgroup in the cost accounting system.

17. The value of the capital, employed in the activities of an Undertaking shall be calculated

as the sum of the equity and borrowed capital, corresponding to the balance equation [1]:

K =E + D = FA + CA – CL – PR [1],

where:

K – the value of the capital employed in the activities,

E – equity,

D – borrowed capital,

FA – fixed assets used in activities,

CA – current assets,

CL – current liabilities,

PR – provisions.

18. When calculating the reasonable return of investments an Undertaking shall calculate

the value of the capital employed during accounting period as arithmetic average of values of

the capital employed at first day of the accounting period and at the last day of each quarter ofthe accounting period.

19. An Undertaking shall calculate the cost of capital as the average weighted cost of

capital according to the following formula [2]:

WACC = RE * E/(E+D) + RD * D/(E+D) [2],

where:

E – equity,

D – borrowed capital,

WACC – weighted average cost of capital (%),

RE – cost of equity (%),

RD – cost of borrowed capital (%).

19.1. An Undertaking shall calculate the cost of the equity according to the cost of capital

model formula [3]:

RE = RF + * (RM - RF) [3],

where:

RE – cost of equity (%),RF – basic rate of profit (%),

RM – market average rate of profit (%),

– beta coefficient, showing the issuer’s (undertaking’s) shares’ and the total shares

market’s risk ratio.

19.2. The cost of capital, borrowed by the Undertaking (RD) shall reflect the interest rate,




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the procedure, set by the Rules for Public Consultations regarding Decisions of the

Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania. In case the Authority

requires the undertaking to set a separate value of cost of capital for certain services/productswhen calculating the cost of such services/products, the undertaking shall, within the time

period, set by the Authority recalculate the value of the cost of capital, applicable to the

services/products and adjust the reasonable return on investments, attributed to such services

correspondingly and submit to the Authority the updated information on the costs of such

products.

21. According to Paragraph 8 of the Rules an Undertaking during calculation of reasonable

return on investment shall eliminate cost articles, recorded in the accounting records, which are

included in costs when calculating reasonable return on investments.

22. In case, referring to Paragraph 11 of the Rules the Authority requires the Undertaking

to implement current cost accounting for all or certain services/products, the Undertaking shall:

22.1. asses the current value of the capital, employed in its activities and calculate the

adjustments of the bookkeeping value of the capital, employed in its activities;

22.2. calculate the current costs of depreciation and/or amortization of fixed assets and the

corresponding adjustments. Adjustments of depreciation and/or amortization of fixed assets

shall be calculated as the difference between the amount of depreciation and/or amortization,calculated upon evaluation of bookkeeping value of fixed assets and the amount of

depreciation and/or amortization, calculated upon evaluation of the current value of the fixed

assets. In addition the Undertaking must calculate the volume of capital, identify the

bookkeeping value and the adjustment amounts and separately distinguish them in the annual

report for the accounting period, submitted to the Authority according to Paragraph 50 of the

Rules;

22.3. can not restore value of the fixed assets, which value is equal to the liquidation value

in the accounting records;22.4. use the following logical algorithm for calculation of the current value of fixed assets

when identifying the current value of the capital, employed in its activities [4]:

CC = min [ RC ; ma ( NRV; NPV ) ] [4],

where:

CC – current value of the fixed asset,

RC – Replacement cost of the fixed asset (identified according to the market price of an

identical (analogical) fixed asset (modern equivalent) or according to the performed functionsor capacities, and not necessarily according to efficiency; in both cases the Undertaking shall

use the value of new (not-operated) fixed asset),

NRV – net replacement (market) value of a fixed asset (identified according to the price of

a fixed asset, operated for a corresponding period, established in the secondary market),

NPV – net present value of a fixed asset (identified by discounting the revenues to be




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24. Numerical values of cots carriers/drivers (allocation coefficients) shall be based on the

information periodically collected and recorded by an Undertaking. If an Undertaking

determines the numerical values of these drivers by the method of selective observation(sample selection), such selection shall be representative and carried out in accordance with the

principle of random selection and objectivity principle referred in Paragraph 7.3 of the Rules

and it should be assured that the deviation (error) is less than 1 per cent by confidence level of

95 per cent. If it is not possible to ensure such parameters of selection (sample selection)

because of objective reasons, an Undertaken, shall do the following:

24.1. carry out the selection according to the principle of objectivity referred in Paragraph

7.3 of the Rules and ensure that the estimate of numerical values of cost drivers obtained

represent actual situation;

24.2 when submitting information to the Authority, according to the Paragraph 50.4 of the

Rules, clearly distinguish the drivers which numerical values are determined by not complying

with requirements of random selection, representativeness, reliability and deviation (error) as

described above and describe the reasons and base the choose of such method.

25. The Undertaking shall ensure that estimation of numerical values of cost

carriers/drivers (distribution coefficients) is based on periodic documentation, carried out no

less than once a quarter. The Undertaking has a right to prove the estimate of numerical valuesof cost carriers/drivers (distribution coefficients) according to documents collected at the end

of the accounting period if these numerical values are collected continually and correctness and

fairness of these values is guaranteed by control of Undertaking. The Undertaking has a right to

prove the estimate of numerical values of cost carriers/drivers according to documents prepared

once a year, if numerical values of cost carriers/drivers are constant. If Undertaking decides to

collect information, proving numerical values of cost carriers/drivers less than quarterly, it

shall provide arguments in System Description referred to Paragraph 43 of Rules. The

Undertaking shall allow the Authority and auditor (audit company) to verify the reliability,fairness and correctness of numerical values of cost carriers/drivers used in cost accounting

system in all circumstances mentioned in this paragraph.

26. The Undertaking shall, following the principles specified in Paragraph 7 of these Rules

All the costs incurred, all incurred costs (with respect to the final services/products being

provided) distribute to one of following categories:

26.1. direct costs;

26.2. indirect costs;26.3. common costs. The Undertaking shall form such a cost accounting system which,

during cost distribution process, would form the smallest possible part of common costs (no

more than 10 per cent of all the costs, incurred by the Undertaking during the accounting

period), i. e. the undertaking shall, taking into account the principle of causality, form the cost

accumulation centers in such a way that the largest part of costs would be distributed directly




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according to separate network components, which are used for the provision of wholesale and

retail electronic communication services in the way, giving the possibility to identify the

network components, needed for the provision of a specific service/product;28.2. cost center of main activities – the costs, related with the execution of the main

functions, necessary for the provision of services/products to their users (for instance issuance

of invoices, customer care and other costs, related with servicing of the users) shall be

allocated to the main activities cost center;

28.3. cost center of supporting activities – the costs, not related with provision of specific

services/products but which are an important part of the activities of the Undertaking (for

instance planning, human resources, financial costs) shall be allocated to the supporting

activities cost center.

29. For the purpose of ensuring successful implementation of the principles, set in

Paragraph 7 of the Rules an Undertaking:

29.1. shall establish a sufficient number of internal activities (processes) and intermediate

cost accumulation centers;

29.2. may detail the cost centers, foreseen in Paragraph 28.1 – 28.3 of the Rules and, when

allocating indirect costs, create more cost centers.

30. An Undertaking shall indirect costs, distributed to the cost centers, allocate to theservices/products. Such cost distribution must be executed by the Undertaking by using the

cost carriers, which reflect the causative relation of cost formation between the cost center,

whose costs are distributed and the cost center, to which the costs are distributed in the most

impartial way. The Undertaking shall prove that each indirect cost carrier corresponds to the

principles, foreseen in Paragraph 7 of the Rules.

31. The Undertaking shall distribute indirect costs according to principles referred in

Paragraph 7 of Rules and taking into account the following stages:

31.1. the costs of supporting activity shall be distributed to the cost center of mainactivities, network cost center and services/products or groups of services/products;

31.2. the main activity costs shall be distributed to the network cost center and

services/products or groups of services/products;

31.3. network costs shall be distributed to services/products or groups of

services/products.

32. In order to ensure the observance of the principles, foreseen in Paragraph 7 of the

Rules when allocating costs, an Undertaking periodically and at least once per quarter ofaccounting period shall:

32.1. review the internal activity and technology processes in order to receive the

information, necessary for the distribution of costs, including the reasonable return on

investments, between the services/products and, if necessary change the cost accounting

system correspondingly in due time;




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example, service installation costs are incurred once; investments in equipment, required to

provide new service, can not be recovered by one-off charges as this shall be considered as

purchase-sell of equipment, not provision of the service).37. The Undertaking to whom cost accounting remedy was imposed when calculating

costs of new services falling into particular regulated market (here in after – New regulated

services) shall calculate total costs of these services according to principles set below:

37.1. take into account information about costs of technologically similar services and

costs of services similar regarding structure of costs where costs have been calculated

according to Sections I – V of the Rules. In this case the Undertaking shall review costs similar

to actually provided service by taking into account difference between comparable services in

technological aspects as well as deference in provision of these services, or;

37.2. carrying out individual cost modeling of New regulated services according to

estimate or alternative sources of information, or;

37.3. applying methods mentioned in paragraphs 37.1 and 37.2 of these Rules.

38. The Undertaking shall calculate costs of New regulated services separately from costs

accounted in cost accounting system, but taking into account the principles of causality,

objectivity, transparency set in Paragraph 7 as well as taking into account principle of

efficiency, i. e. the Undertaking during estimation of cost of New regulated services shall:38.1. include only those costs that are related with provision of New regulated services;

38.2. distribute costs objectively not aiming artificially to transfer costs to regulated

services or from regulated services and disclose the calculation in order easily evaluate cost

accounting (i. e. easily evaluate internal transfers and causality of costs);

38.3. attribute to New regulated services such amount of costs (resources) that is needed to

provide New regulated services efficiently;

38.4. estimate long run perspective of New regulated services (life cycle of the product),

i. e. estimate log run costs to provide a service;38.5. proportionally and objectively estimate effects of economies of scale for retail and

wholesale services in order to ensure that total costs of wholesale services would not exceed

total costs of retail service that are using such wholesale services as inputs (i. e. by distributing

costs the situation of price pressure shall be avoided).

39. The Undertaking shall provide estimates of total costs of New regulated services,

calculated according to Paragraph 37 of the Rules, to the Authority in advance before

publishing public offer to provide these services.

V. SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION, RELATED TO THE COST ACCOUNTING

SYSTEM AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS, RELATED TO COST ACCOUNTING




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Undertaking shall within the time period of six months from the date of setting the said

obligation submit to the Authority and publish on its Internet website a comprehensive

description of the cost accounting system implemented (hereinafter referred to as the SystemDescription), comprised of such elements as detailed descriptions of accounting management

principles, strategies, methodologies and applicable procedures, cost distribution methods,

accumulation of cost carriers/drivers, approval and control procedures, adjustments and

approval of cost accounting system and other elements. The Undertaking in its System

Description shall indicate the time period to be held as the fiscal year of the Undertaking.

System Description is a free form document.

44. If obligation of cost accounting according to these Rules was already imposed on

Undertaking before obligation of cost accounting was imposed in particular market, such

Undertaking, if required to implement cost accounting obligation imposed, shall review and

submit to the Authority the reviewed System Description within one month after obligation of

cost accounting had been imposed.

45. After Rules being updated, the undertaking, which has obligation of cost accounting,

shall review System Description, submit it to the Authority and publish it on Undertaking’s

Internet website within 30 days after updates of the Rules took into effect.

46. The System Description must conform to the following principles:46.1. the principle of objectivity – in the System Description an Undertaking shall show its

cost accounting system in an unbiased way, without distorting it and without attempting to

influence the decisions of the users of the information, provided by the System Description;

46.2. the principle of consistency – the System Description shall stay in force permanently

with the exception of the cases when according to Paragraphs 7.4.1 and 7.4.2 of the Rules the

cost accounting system is changed or in case the Authority requires to have the System

Description amended in case the System Description does not comply with the requirements,

provided by the Rules or other legal acts;46.3. the principle of transparency – an Undertaking shall form the System Description in

the way, ensuring the possibility to identify economic logics and stages of distribution and re-

distribution of costs of all the types in a clear, transparent and simple way, starting from

transfer of the initial data to the cost accounting system and ending with calculation of the cost

price of the end service/products;

46.4. the principle of usefulness – an Undertaking shall prepare a comprehensive and

appropriate System Description, understandable to the information recipients, i. e. therecipients of information should be able clearly understand what cost centers are used, what

costs are accumulated in cost centers, what logical relations are between the cost centers and

what cost drivers are used in allocating the costs.

47. The System Description to the Authority shall be provided with the following annexes:

47.1. plan of operation time periods of fixed asset and/or groups of fixed assets;




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information clearly and unambiguous identify all steps of cost distribution and redistribution

(levels) and the logical cost distribution basis, selected;

47.4. other information, proving that the cost accounting system, used by the Undertakinghas been developed in observance of the Rules and the System Description complies with the

principles, set in Paragraph 46 of the Rules.

48. All the annexes to the System Description, mentioned in Paragraph 47 of the Rules shall

be held integral parts thereof. In case of an amendment of the System Description, an

Undertaking shall amend annexes thereof, in case they are in conflict with the updated System

Description.

49. An Undertaking shall notify the Authority about logical changes in the used cost

accounting system:

49.1. within the time period of 30 days from the date of the changes in case such changes

result in significant differences;

49.2. with submission of the annual report, mentioned in Paragraph 50 of the Rules to the

Authority, in case the changes did not result in any significant differences.

50. An Undertaking must, once per accounting period, but not later than till the first day of

the sixth month of the following accounting period, prepare and submit to the Authority the

detailed annual report, sufficient for the Authority to assess whether the cost accountingsystem, used by the Undertaking complies with the requirements, provided by the Rules and

other legal acts, approved by the Authority (hereinafter referred to as the Annual Report). In

the Annual Report the Undertaking shall present the following information with the exception

of the cases when the Undertaking presents the corresponding information to the Authority

when executing the rules on accounting separation, including the requirements, related with

accounting separation:

50.1 the report on calculation of the capital, employed in the activities of the Undertaking;

50.2. detailed plan of cost accounts (General ledger accounts), including subaccounts if suchare used, with filled in data of the accounting period and information how these cost accounts

were attributed to account categories of cost accounting system;

50.3. the description of fixed assets depreciation and amortization costs (according to Form

provided in Annex 1 if Rules) consisting of: identification code of a particular fixed asset

which could be linked to code of account (resource) of cost accounting system, name of the

fixed asset, date of acquisition, date of commencement of operation, the foreseen time period

of operation, acquisition cost, the foreseen liquidation value, the value at the beginning of theaccounting period, the value at the end of the accounting period, the amount of

depreciation/amortization during the accounting period, the method of calculation of

depreciation/amortization, other information. In case the Undertaking manages the cost

accounting according to the current value or has made a revaluation of assets, the Undertaking

shall additionally specify the current value (revalued value) of the fixed asset at the beginning




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50.6. the spreadsheet (matrix) forms, formed for each cost distribution stage, used for

provision of the information on the costs (name of costs, identification code, accumulated costs

to be distributed), distributed at each stage, the cost carrier and its values (name of costcarrier/driver, identification code, total value of carrier/driver), according to which the

distribution is executed and the cost center, to which the costs in question are attributed and

what part of costs were attributed. Additionally, the Undertaking shall present report showing

which cost centers were attributed to the final services, i. e. the Undertaking shall present a

matrix showing the last stage of cost distribution to final services;

50.7. the report about total costs of final products/services for the present and previous

accounting periods (according to Form provided in Annex 2 of Rules) consisting of: the name

of each service/product, measurement units of service/product, the number of service/product

units, provided to the service users during the present and previous accounting period, the total

costs per each service/product and per service/product unit, the amount of return on investment

attributed to each service/product and the amount of revenues per each service/product and per

service/product unit for present and previous accounting periods;

50.8. The statement from the head of the Undertaking or his/her authorized person that the

cost accounting system and the submitted information complies with the directly applicable

legal acts of the European Union, regulating the implementation of the cost accountingobligation, the provisions of the Rules and other legal acts, regulating the implementation of

the cost accounting obligation;

50.9. the explanatory letter, specifying the principles of preparation of the submitted reports

and other information, helping to comprehend the data, presented in the reports;

50.10. the set of annual financial accounts, prepared by the Undertaking in observance of

the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Financial Accountability of Enterprises. In case the

Undertaking consists of several legal persons, the Undertaking shall submit to the Authority the

set of financial accounts of each of such persons and the set of consolidated financial accountsaccording to the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Consolidated Financial Accountability of

Group of Undertakings;

50.11. other information, allowing to verify that the undertaking has implemented the

requirements, provided in the Rules during the accounting period.

51. The Annual report and its explanations and supplementary documents form the integral

total of the financial information.

52. In case of request by the Authority the Undertaking shall, within the time period of 30days explain the documents, submitted to the Authority and/or provide additional information.

53. The undertaking, to whom obligations of cost accounting and transparency had been

imposed, shall no later than till the first day of the sixth month of the following accounting

period, publish on its Internet website the System Description and information mentioned in

Paragraphs 50.1, 50.5, 50.8, 50.9 of Rules as well as other non-confidential information of cost




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Paragraph 50, initiates verification (hereinafter – Verification). For Verification the Authority

use services of independent auditor (audit company). Costs of independent auditor (audit

company), participating in Verification, are covered by the Authority. The Authority, afterinforming the Undertaking in advance (not later than 30 days until beginning of the audit), may

determine the beginning of the audit until date set in Paragraph 50 of these Rules, but not

earlier than two months until that date. The Undertaking shall provide all relevant information

for the Authority and auditor (audit company) for Verification and properly communicate with

the Authority and auditor (audit company). Opinion of the Authority for Verification and

opinion of the auditor are public and are published on Authority’s Internet website.

VI.

FINAL PROVISIONS

56. In case the Authority in its decision regarding Undertaking, having significant market

where remedy of cost accounting is imposed, sets otherwise, this Undertaking, exempt

Undertakings mentioned in Paragraph 57 of these Rules, shall implement these Rules within

six months after remedy on cost accounting is imposed. If the day, when remedy on cost

accounting is imposed, is not first day of accounting period, the Undertaking shall prepare first

Annual Report for period, which begins on the day when cost accounting remedy was imposed

and ends on the last day of that accounting period.

57. In case Undertaking was oblige to implement cost accounting system according to these

Rules before the day when cost accounting remedy had been imposed in particular market, the

Undertaking shall within one month update its cost accounting system already implemented in

such a way, that it could provide information about costs of services of that particular market to

the Authority according to these Rules.

58. In case an Undertaking consists of two or more legal persons and the cost accounting

obligation has been set to all of such legal persons, the Undertaking shall implement a commoncost accounting system, eliminating transactions between the legal persons, forming the

Undertaking and the results of such transactions.

59. The Authority, in assessing the data provided by the Undertakings, including the data on

the amount and structure of the costs incurred may use:

59.1. directly obtained data of the cost accounting system of the Undertaking and other

information received when the Undertakings carry out the Rules as well as other requirements

laid down in legal acts;

59.2. other available data on the corresponding costs of services/products, which can be

received by:

59.2.1. comparing prices and costs of corresponding services/products, taking into account

the best practice of the European Union member states, practice of similarly developed

countries and practice of the Republic of Lithuania;




Annex 1 to

the Rules forCost Accounting

FORM FOR DESCRIPTION OF DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION OF FIXED ASSETS

Name of fixed asset

Identification

number of fixed

asset (code)

Measurement

unit, unit

Number

of units

Acquisition

date

Date of

operation of

asset

Costs of

acquisition

Expected

lifetime

Expected

liquidation

value

Residual value at

the beginning of

accounting

period

Residual value at

the end of

accounting period

Depreciation

(amortization)

in accounting

Method of

depreciation

(amortization)

calculation

Other

information*

A s s e t g r o u p N o . 1

Fixed asset

No. 1

Fixed asset

No. 2

Fixed asset

No. 3

Fixed asset

No. …

A s s e t g r o u p

N o . 2

Fixed asset

No. 1

Fixed asset

No. 2

Fixed asset

No. 3

Fixed asset

No. …

…

Fixed asset

No. 1

Fixed asset

No. …

A s s e t g r o u p N o . n

Fixed assetNo. 1

Fixed asset

No. 2

Fixed asset

No. 3

Fixed asset

No. …

*Note: In undertaking manages cost accounting according to current cost accounting principles and or has revalued fixed assets, it shall additionally provide information about: current (revalued) value of fixed asset at

the beginning and end of the accounting period, depreciation (amortization) of current accounting period from current values of assets and corresponding correcting records for accounting period, which shall show

differences that have formed due to method chosen to value fixed assets. The undertaking may present additional and other information in relation to calculation of depreciation (amortization) costs._______________________________________




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Annex 1 to

the Rules forCost Accounting

FORM FOR REPORT ABOUT TOTAL COSTS OF FINAL PRODUCTS/SERVICES

Name of a

service

Identification code of a

service

Measurement units of

a service,

unit.

Volumes of

services/products

provided, units

Direct costs Indirect costs Common costs

Total costs

including return

on investment

(ROI)

Return on

investment (ROI)Total revenues

Total costs

including ROI per

unit of a

services/product

Total revenues

per unit of a

service/product

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

C u r r e n t

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

P r e v i o u s

a c c o u n t i n g

p e r i o d

B u s i n e s s u n i t N

o . 1

Service

(product)

No. 1

Service

(product)No. 2

Service

(product)

No. 3

Service

(product)

No. …

B u s i n e s s u n i t N o . 2

Service

(product)

No. 1Service

(product)

No. 2

Service

(product)

No. 3

Service

(product)

No. …




3

…

Service

(product)No. 1

Service

(product)

No. …

B u s i n e s s u

n i t N o . n

Service

(product)

No. 1

Service

(product)

No. 2

Service

(product)

No. 3

Service

(product)

No. …

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