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IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements

2013



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Welcome to the EU Tacis IFRS Workbooks sixth (2013) edition! This is the tenth anniversary of the first edition in 2003. The changes from the 2012 edition are minimal, with no new standard issued in the past year. Major changes are anticipated to IFRS 9, IFRS 4, IAS 17 and IAS 18. Exposure drafts (proposals) have been issued, but have not yet been incorporated into the standards. To the books, we have added an article: ‘IFRS- grabbing the tiger by the tail’ which has been published by bankir.ru in Russian. This article covers IFRS teaching issues for each standard and a number of opinions and discussion points.

The set of books provides a book for every standard, plus three books on consolidation. Financial instrument bookkeeping is covered in IAS 32/39 (book 3) and in IFRS 9. IFRS 7 is complemented by FINREP, which illustrates practical use and presentation formats. An introduction to IFRS and transformation models from Russian accounting to IFRS complete the set.

Each workbook is a combination of Information, Examples, Self-Test Questions and Answers.

Thanks are due to those who made these publications possible and to you, our readers, for your continued support. I would like to express my gratitude to: Igor Sykharev and Tatiana Trifonova of the Ministry of Finance who provided a link from the Ministry’s site. Gulnara Makhmutova and Adel Valeev provided the updated Russian texts and editing. Marina Korf and Yulia Ykhanova of bankir.ru provided help, advice and space on its website. Sergey Dorozhkov and Elina Buzina of Association of Russian Bankers’ Institute of Banking ran excellent IFRS courses on all standards which enabled us to test this material and learn new insights from them and the participants. Please join us there for the best consolidation course in Russia.

World Bank courses for the Bank of Tanzania (‘BOT’) provided new IFRS and banking insights: thanks to Albert Mkenda BOT and my colleague Benson Mahenya among many others. IFRS assistance to the Bank of Mongolia (‘BOM’) with PricewaterhouseCoopers (thanks to Ekaterina Nekrasova, Jelena Pesic and Vladislav Kononenko) provided exposure to Mongolian commercial bank reporting and blending IFRS with bank prudential ratios. Oyungerel Gonchig, Project Manager at World Bank, Mongolia, and our counterparts at BOM: Oyuntsatsral Banid, Bunchinsuren Dagva, Borkhuu Gotovsuren, Batmaa Ochirbat and Gantsetseg Myagmarjay contributed to a memorable project.

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Robin Joyce

Professor of the Chair of International Banking and Finance,

Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Professor, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public

Administration under the President of the Russian Federation

Visiting Professor of the Siberian Academy of Finance and Banking Moscow, Russia 2013

IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements

Effective date: 1 January 2013.

Contents

Introduction 5

Definitions 6

General requirements 7

Objective 8

Exception- consolidated financial statements not required 9

Control 10

Power 11

Returns 11

Link between power and returns 11

Investment Entities 12

Accounting requirements 16

Non-controlling interests (minority interests) 17

Loss of control 18

Loss of control in stages 18

Self-Test Questions 20

Answers. 22

Introduction

IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements establishes principles for the presentation and preparation of consolidated financial statements, when an undertaking controls one, or more, other undertakings. IFRS 10 supersedes IAS 27 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements and SIC-12 Consolidation - Special Purpose Entities. (Note: IAS 27 remains for Separate Financial Statements.)

The basic rule is the same as before:

if you control another undertaking, you consolidate it; if you do not control it, you do not consolidate it.

The global financial crisis that started in 2007 highlighted the lack of transparency about the risks to which investors were exposed from their involvement with 'off balance sheet vehicles' (such as securitisation vehicles), including those that they had set up, or sponsored. IFRS 10 is more specific in its definition of control, with the aim of ensuring that all undertakings that should be consolidated are consolidated.

IFRS 10 gives guidance to practitioners, though most will know which undertakings they control. Also, it gives a basis to auditors to

determine if additional undertakings should be consolidated, especially if their client is reluctant to do so.

Consolidation techniques are detailed in IFRS 3 Business Combinations and in our 3 consolidation workbooks found on the website.

The disclosure requirements for interests in subsidiaries are specified in IFRS 12 Disclosure of Interests in Other Undertakings.

IFRS 10 requires an undertaking that is a parent to present consolidated financial statements. A limited exemption is available to some undertakings. A subsidiary that is held for sale is consolidated until sold, but its presentation and valuation follows IFRS 5.

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|Definitions  | | | |

|  |consolidated |The financial statements of a group in which the assets, liabilities, equity, income, expenses and cash flows of the parent and its | |

| |financial statements |subsidiaries are presented as those of a single economic undertaking. | |

|  |control of an |An investor controls an investee when the investor is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the | |

| |investee |investee and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the investee. | |

|  |decision maker |An undertaking with decision-making rights that is either a principal or an agent for other parties. | |

|  |group |A parent and its subsidiaries. | |

|  |non-controlling |Equity in a subsidiary not attributable, directly or indirectly, to a parent. | |

| |interest | | |

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|  |parent |An undertaking that controls one or more undertakings. | |

|  |power |Existing rights that give the current ability to direct the relevant activities. | |

|  |protective rights |Rights designed to protect the interest of the party holding those rights without giving that party power over the undertaking to which| |

| | |those rights relate. | |

|  |relevant activities |For the purpose of IFRS 10, relevant activities are activities of the investee that significantly affect the investee's returns. | |

|  |removal rights |Rights to deprive the decision maker of its decision-making authority. | |

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|  |subsidiary |An undertaking that is controlled by another undertaking. | |

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 The following terms are defined in IFRS 11, IFRS 12, IAS 28 or IAS 24:

●     associate

●     interest in another undertaking

●     joint venture

●     key management personnel

●     related party

●     significant influence.

General requirements

IFRS 10 defines the principle of control and establishes control as the basis for determining which undertakings are consolidated in the consolidated financial statements. IFRS 10 also sets out (some of) the accounting requirements for the preparation of consolidated financial statements.

An investor controls an investee when it is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the investee and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the investee.

The three elements of control:

(i)     power over the investee;

(ii)     exposure, or rights, to variable returns from involvement with the investee; and

(iii)     the ability to use power over the investee to affect the amount of the investor's returns.

How to apply the control principle:

(i)     when voting rights, or similar rights, give an investor power, including situations where the investor holds less than a majority of voting rights and in circumstances involving potential voting rights.

(ii)     when an investee is designed so that voting rights are not the dominant factor in deciding who controls the investee, such as when any voting rights relate to administrative tasks only and the relevant activities are directed by means of contractual arrangements.

(iii)     in agency relationships.

(iv)     when the investor has control over specified assets of an investee.

EXAMPLE: CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS DIRECTING ACTIVITIES

Many offshore companies are set up for a specific purpose, such as securitisation. For legal and tax purposes, local directors (such as lawyers and accountants) run such companies. The onshore unit will not wish to be seen managing the offshore unit. The onshore investing company may have contract with the offshore unit for specific services that the offshore unit will provide.

The contract may automate (like an ‘autopilot’) the transactions of the offshore unit: receive funds from specific operators and remit these funds to a nominee of the onshore company.

The contract runs the offshore unit. The directors administer the contract. The ownership of the offshore unit is irrelevant, as all is governed by the contract.

IFRS 10 requires an investor to reassess whether it controls an investee if facts and circumstances indicate that there are changes to one, or more, of the three elements of control.

Objective

The objective of IFRS 10 is to establish principles for the presentation and preparation of consolidated financial statements when an undertaking controls one, or more, other undertakings. IFRS 10:

(i)     requires an undertaking (the parent) that controls one or more other undertakings (subsidiaries) to present consolidated financial statements;

(ii)     defines the principle of control, and establishes control as the basis for consolidation;

(iii)     sets out how to apply the principle of control to identify whether an investor controls an investee, and therefore must consolidate the investee; and

(iv)     sets out the accounting requirements for the preparation of consolidated financial statements.

Exception- consolidated financial statements not required

IFRS 10 applies to all undertakings, except:

(1)     a parent need not present consolidated financial statements if it meets all the following conditions:

(i)     it is a wholly-owned subsidiary, or is a partially-owned subsidiary, of another undertaking and all its other owners, including those not otherwise entitled to vote, have been informed about, and do not object to, the parent not presenting consolidated financial statements;

(ii)     its debt or equity instruments are not traded in a public market (a domestic or foreign stock exchange or an over-the-counter market, including local and regional markets);

(iii)     it did not file, nor is it in the process of filing, its financial statements with a securities commission or other regulatory organisation for the purpose of issuing any class of instruments in a public market; and

(iv)     its ultimate or any intermediate parent produces consolidated financial statements that are available for public use and comply with

IFRSs.

(2)     post-employment benefit plans, or other long-term employee benefit plans, to which IAS 19 Employee Benefits applies.

EXAMPLES: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOT REQUIRED

In large groups of companies, the top (holding) company will have to present consolidated financial statements. Its subsidiaries which control other group companies are excused from producing (sub) consolidations if they do not have listed debt or equity instruments and non-controlling interests (minority interests) do not object.

Control

An investor, regardless of the nature of its involvement with an undertaking (the investee), shall determine whether it is a parent by assessing whether it controls the investee.

An investor controls an investee only if the investor has all the following:

(i)     power over the investee;

(ii)     exposure, or rights, to variable returns (profits and losses) from its involvement with the investee; and

(iii)     the ability to use its power over the investee to affect the amount of the investor's returns.

An investor shall consider whether it controls an investee. The investor shall reassess whether it controls an investee if facts and circumstances indicate that there are changes to one, or more, of the three elements of control.

If two, or more, investors each have existing rights that give them the unilateral ability to direct different relevant activities, the investor that has the current ability to direct the activities that most significantly affect the returns of the investee has power over the investee.

EXAMPLE: JOINT CONTROL = NO CONTROL

Two or more investors jointly control an investee when they must act together to direct the relevant activities. As no investor can direct the activities without the co-operation of the others, no investor individually controls the investee. Each investor would account for its interest in the investee in accordance with the relevant IFRSs, such as IFRS 11, IAS 28 or IFRS 9.

Power

An investor has power over an investee when the investor has the current ability to direct the activities that significantly affect the investee's returns.

Power arises from rights. Sometimes assessing power is straightforward, such as when power is derived from shareholding voting rights. In other cases, the assessment will be more complex and require more than one factor to be considered, for example when power results from one, or more, contractual arrangements.

An investor with the current ability to direct the relevant activities has power, even if its rights to direct have not yet been exercised. Evidence that the investor has been directing relevant activities can help determine whether the investor has power, but such evidence is not, in itself, conclusive in determining whether the investor has power over an investee.

EXAMPLES: GOVERNMENT POWER IN COMPANIES

Following the 2008 crisis, many banks and companies were rescued by their governments. The governments had control of many of these banks and companies as a result. Some governments played a passive role in these commercial undertakings, in return for management promises that the rescue finance would be repaid. Until then, the governments have power. Some may choose not to exercise it, but they can if and when they wish to do so.

An investor can have power over an investee even if other undertakings have existing rights that give them the current ability to participate in the direction of the relevant activities, for example when another undertaking has significant influence.

Returns

An investor is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns (profits and losses) when the investor's returns from its involvement can vary as a result of the investee's performance. The investor's returns can be only positive, only negative, or both over time.

Although only one investor can control an investee, more than one party can share in the returns of an investee. For example, holders of non-controlling interests can share in the profits, or distributions, of an investee.

Link between power and returns

An investor controls an investee if the investor not only has power over the investee and exposure, or rights, to variable returns from its involvement, but also has the ability to use its power to affect the investor's returns from its involvement.

An investor with decision-making rights must determine whether it is a principal or an agent. An agent does not control an investee when it exercises decision-making rights delegated to it.

EXAMPLE: AGENTS

In some countries, foreign directors may not hold office in local companies. Local directors are appointed to act as agents for foreign holding companies who have invested locally. Such directors have powers delegated to them, but they do not receive the profits and losses of the investees. (They receive fees and bonuses for their services.)

Investment Entities

Investment Entities (Amendments to IFRS 10, IFRS 12 and IAS 27), issued in October 2012, introduced an exception to the principle that all subsidiaries shall be consolidated.

The amendments define an investment undertaking and require a parent that is an investment undertaking to measure its investments in particular subsidiaries at fair value through profit or loss in accordance with IFRS 9 (or IAS 39) instead of consolidating those subsidiaries in its consolidated and separate financial statements. In addition, the amendments introduce new

disclosure requirements related to investment entities in IFRS 12.

Determining whether an undertaking is an investment undertaking

IFRS 10

A parent shall determine whether it is an investment undertaking. An investment undertaking is an undertaking that:

(i) obtains funds from one or more investors for the purpose of providing those investor(s) with investment management services;

(ii) commits to its investor(s) that its business purpose is to invest funds solely for returns from capital appreciation, investment

income, or both; and

(iii) measures and evaluates the performance of substantially all of its

investments on a fair value basis.

In assessing whether it meets the definition above, an undertaking shall consider whether it has the following typical characteristics

of an investment undertaking:

(i) it has more than one investment;

(ii) it has more than one investor;

(iii) it has investors that are not related parties of the undertaking; and

(iv) it has ownership interests in the form of equity or similar interests.

The absence of any of these typical characteristics does not necessarily disqualify an undertaking from being classified as an investment undertaking. An investment undertaking that does not have all of these typical characteristics provides additional disclosure required by IFRS 12.

If an investment undertaking has a subsidiary that provides services that relate to the investment undertaking’s investment activities, it shall consolidate that subsidiary in accordance with IFRS 12 and apply the requirements of IFRS 3 to the acquisition of any such subsidiary.

IFRS 12

Investment entity status

When a parent determines that it is an investment entity in accordance with IFRS 10, the investment entity shall disclose information

about significant judgements and assumptions it has made in determining that it is an investment entity. If the investment entity does not have one or more of the typical characteristics of an investment entity (see IFRS 10), it shall disclose its reasons for concluding that it is nevertheless an investment entity.

When an entity becomes, or ceases to be, an investment entity, it shall disclose the change of investment entity status and the reasons for the change. In addition, an entity that becomes an investment entity shall disclose the effect of the change of status on the financial statements for the period presented, including:

(i) the total fair value, as of the date of change of status, of the subsidiaries that cease to be consolidated;

(ii) the total gain or loss, if any, calculated in accordance with paragraph B101 of IFRS 10; and

(iii) the line item(s) in profit or loss in which the gain or loss is recognised (if not presented separately).

Interests in unconsolidated subsidiaries (investment entities)

An investment entity that, in accordance with IFRS 10, is required to apply the exception to consolidation and instead account for its

investment in a subsidiary at fair value through profit or loss shall disclose that fact.

For each unconsolidated subsidiary, an investment entity shall disclose:

(i) the subsidiary’s name;

(ii) the principal place of business (and country of incorporation if different from the principal place of business) of the subsidiary;

and

(iii) the proportion of ownership interest held by the investment entity and, if different, the proportion of voting rights held.

If an investment entity is the parent of another investment entity, the parent shall also provide the disclosures for investments that are controlled by its investment entity subsidiary. The disclosure may be provided by including, in the financial statements of the parent, the

financial statements of the subsidiary (or subsidiaries) that contain the above information.

An investment entity shall disclose:

(i) the nature and extent of any significant restrictions (eg resulting from borrowing arrangements, regulatory requirements or

contractual arrangements) on the ability of an unconsolidated subsidiary to transfer funds to the investment entity in the form of

cash dividends or to repay loans or advances made to the unconsolidated subsidiary by the investment entity; and

(ii) any current commitments or intentions to provide financial or other support to an unconsolidated subsidiary, including

commitments or intentions to assist the subsidiary in obtaining financial support.

If, during the reporting period, an investment entity or any of its subsidiaries has, without having a contractual obligation to do so,

provided financial or other support to an unconsolidated subsidiary (eg purchasing assets of, or instruments issued by, the subsidiary or assisting the subsidiary in obtaining financial support), the entity shall disclose:

(i) the type and amount of support provided to each unconsolidated

subsidiary; and

(ii) the reasons for providing the support.

An investment entity shall disclose the terms of any contractual arrangements that could require the entity or its unconsolidated

subsidiaries to provide financial support to an unconsolidated, controlled, structured entity, including events or circumstances that

could expose the reporting entity to a loss (eg liquidity arrangements or credit rating triggers associated with obligations to purchase assets of the structured entity or to provide financial support).

If during the reporting period an investment entity or any of its unconsolidated subsidiaries has, without having a contractual obligation

to do so, provided financial or other support to an unconsolidated, structured entity that the investment entity did not control, and if that

provision of support resulted in the investment entity controlling the structured entity, the investment entity shall disclose an explanation of the relevant factors in reaching the decision to provide that support.

IAS 27

An investment entity that is required, throughout the current period and all comparative periods presented, to apply the exception to

consolidation for all of its subsidiaries in accordance with IFRS 10 presents separate financial statements as its only financial

statements.

If a parent is required, in accordance with IFRS 10, to measure its investment in a subsidiary at fair value through profit or loss

in accordance with IFRS 9, it shall also account for its investment in a subsidiary in the same way in its separate financial statements.

Accounting requirements

Consolidation shall begin from the date the investor obtains control of the investee. It ceases when the investor loses control of the investee.

When preparing consolidated financial statements, an undertaking must use uniform accounting policies for reporting like transactions and other events in similar circumstance, or make appropriate adjustments to achieve conformity.

Consolidated financial statements:

(i)     combine like items of assets, liabilities, equity, income, expenses and cash flows of the parent with those of its subsidiaries.

(ii)     offset (eliminate) the carrying amount of the parent's investment in each subsidiary and the parent's portion of equity of each subsidiary (IFRS 3 explains how to account for any related goodwill).

(iii)     eliminate in full intragroup assets and liabilities, equity, income, expenses and cash flows relating to transactions between undertakings of the group (profits or losses resulting from intragroup transactions that are recorded in assets, such as inventory and fixed assets, are eliminated in full).

Intragroup losses may indicate an impairment that requires recognition in the consolidated financial statements.

IAS 12 Income Taxes applies to temporary differences that arise from the elimination of profits and losses resulting from intragroup transactions.

Measurement

Income and expenses of the subsidiary are based on the amounts of the assets and liabilities recorded in the consolidated financial statements at the acquisition date.

EXAMPLE: DEPRECIATION OF ASSETS USING THE FAIR VALUES, RATHER THAN BOOKS VALUES

Depreciation expense recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income after the acquisition date is based on the fair values of the related depreciable assets recorded in the consolidated financial statements at the acquisition date.

Potential voting rights

When potential voting rights, or other derivatives containing potential voting rights, exist, the proportion of profit or loss and changes in equity allocated to the parent and non-controlling interests in preparing consolidated financial statements is determined solely on the basis of existing ownership interests and does not reflect the possible exercise, or conversion, of potential voting rights and other derivatives.

IFRS 9 does not apply to interests in subsidiaries that are consolidated. When instruments containing potential voting rights and give access to the returns associated with an ownership interest in a subsidiary, the instruments are not subject to the requirements of IFRS 9.

Reporting date

The financial statements of the parent and its subsidiaries used in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements shall have the same reporting date, or the subsidiary prepares, for consolidation purposes, additional financial information as of the same date as the financial statements of the parent.

The parent shall consolidate the financial information of the subsidiary using the most recent financial statements of the subsidiary, adjusted for the effects of significant transactions, or events, that occur between the date of those financial statements and the date of the consolidated financial statements.

The difference between the date of the subsidiary's financial statements and that of the consolidated financial statements shall be no more than three months, and the length of the reporting periods and any difference between the dates of the financial statements shall be the same from period to period.

Non-controlling interests (minority interests)

A parent shall present non-controlling interests in the consolidated statement of financial position within equity, separately from the equity of the owners of the parent. These are external owners of shares in the parent company’s subsidiaries.

EXAMPLE: NON_CONTROLLING INTERESTS

Svetlana’s bank owns 60% of a subsidiary bank in the Ukraine. Local investors own the other 40% of the subsidiary.

The local investors, their shares of results and the net assets of the Ukraine bank are shown as non-controlling interests in the consolidated financial statements.

An undertaking shall attribute the profit, or loss, and each component of other comprehensive income to the owners of the parent and to the non-controlling interests, even if this results in the non-controlling interests having a deficit balance.

If a subsidiary has outstanding cumulative preference shares that are classified as equity and are held by non-controlling interests, the undertaking shall compute its share of profit or loss after adjusting for the dividends on such shares, whether or not such dividends have been declared.

Changes in the proportion held by non-controlling interests

Purchases and sales of shares in subsidiaries between the parent and the non-controlling interests increase, and decrease, their accounts in equity, whilst control is maintained. Profits, or losses, on these transactions are recorded in the equity of the parent.

Loss of control

If a parent loses control of a subsidiary, the parent immediately:

(i)     derecognises the assets and liabilities of the former subsidiary from the consolidated statement of financial position.

(ii)     recognises any investment retained in the former subsidiary at its fair value when control is lost, and subsequently accounts for it (and for any amounts owed by, or to, the former subsidiary) in accordance with relevant IFRSs.

That fair value shall be regarded as the fair value on initial recognition of a financial asset in accordance with IFRS 9 or, when appropriate, the cost on initial recognition of an investment in an associate, or joint venture.

(iii)     records the gain, or loss, associated with the loss of control attributable to the former controlling interest.

Loss of control in stages

A parent might lose control of a subsidiary in two or more transactions. Circumstances may indicate that the multiple arrangements should be accounted for as a single transaction.

One, or more, of the following indicate that the parent should account for the multiple arrangements as a single transaction:

(i)     They are entered into at the same time, or in contemplation of each other.

(ii)     They form a single transaction designed to achieve an overall commercial effect.

(iii)     The occurrence of one arrangement is dependent on the occurrence of at least one other arrangement.

(iv)     One arrangement considered on its own is not economically justified, but it is economically justified when considered together with other arrangements.

EXAMPLE: TRANSACTION CONSIDERED ON ITS OWN AS NOT ECONOMICALLY JUSTIFIED

When a disposal of shares in a subsidiary is priced below market and is compensated for by a subsequent disposal of shares in the same undertaking that are priced above market.

If a parent loses control of a subsidiary, it shall:

(1)     derecognise:

(i)     the assets (including any goodwill) and liabilities of the subsidiary, at their carrying amounts at the date when control is lost; and

(ii)     the carrying amount of any non-controlling interests in the former subsidiary at the date when control is lost (including any components of other comprehensive income attributable to them).

(2)     record:

(i)     the fair value of the consideration received, if any, from the loss of control;

(ii)     if the loss of control involves a distribution of shares of the subsidiary to owners, that distribution; and

(iii)     any investment retained in the former subsidiary, at its fair value at the date when control is lost.

(3)     reclassify to profit or loss, or transfer directly to retained earnings if required by other IFRSs, the amounts recorded in other comprehensive income in relation to the subsidiary.

(4)     recognise any resulting difference as a gain, or loss, in profit or loss attributable to the parent.

On the loss of control of a subsidiary, the parent shall account for all amounts previously recorded in other comprehensive income in relation to that subsidiary on the same basis as would be required if the parent had directly disposed of the related assets, or liabilities.

EXAMPLES: RECLASSIFICATION OF ITEMS IN OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

If a gain or loss previously recorded in other comprehensive income would be reclassified to profit or loss on the disposal of the related assets or liabilities, the parent shall reclassify the gain or loss from equity to profit or loss (as a reclassification adjustment) when it loses control of the subsidiary.

If a revaluation, surplus previously recorded in other comprehensive income, would be transferred directly to retained earnings on the disposal of the asset, the parent shall transfer the revaluation surplus directly to retained earnings, when it loses control of the subsidiary.

Self-Test Questions

1. Consolidation by all companies when they control:

i) Only onshore companies

ii) Onshore and offshore companies, but not partnerships

iii) Any type of undertaking

2. Companies may be exempt from consolidation if:

i) Control is temporary

ii) The subsidiary is in a different sphere of business from the parent

iii) It is an intermediate holding company without listed financial instruments

3. Control is evidenced by:

(i)     power over the investee;

(ii)     exposure, or rights, to variable returns from involvement with the investee;

(iii)     the ability to use power over the investee to affect the amount of the investor's returns;

iv) i+ii+iii

4. Shareholdings or contractual relationships, which identifies control better:

i) Shareholdings

ii) Contractual relationships

iii) It depends on how the undertaking is run

5. In the case of joint control (unanimity of decisions), who consolidates the undertaking under joint control

i) Neither party

ii) Both parties

6. Does a parent retain control, even if it rarely, or never exercises that power

i) Yes

ii) No

7. If the parent uses an agent to direct the activities of a subsidiary, does it need to consolidate it

i) Yes

ii) No

8. Non-controlling interests are:

i) Shareholders in the parent company

ii) Shareholders in the parent company and the subsidiary

iii) Shareholders in the subsidiary

9. When taking control of a subsidiary, it is consolidated:

i) Immediately

ii) From the start of the next accounting period.

10. When losing control of a subsidiary, it is deconsolidated:

(i) Immediately

(ii) From the start of the next accounting period.

Answers.

|1 |iii |6 |i |

|2 |iii |7 |i |

|3 |iv |8 |iii |

|4 |iii |9 |i |

|5 |i |10 |i |

IFRS WORKBOOKS (History and Copyright)

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This is the latest version of the legendary workbooks in Russian and English produced by 3 TACIS projects, sponsored by the European Union (2003-2009) and led by PricewaterhouseCoopers. They have also appeared on the website of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

The workbooks cover all standards of IFRS based accounting. They are intended to be practical self-instruction aids that professional accountants can use to upgrade their knowledge, understanding and skills.

Each workbook is a self-standing short course designed for approximately three hours of study. Although the workbooks are part of a series, each one is independent of the others. Each workbook is a combination of Information, Examples, Self-Test Questions and Answers. A basic knowledge of accounting is assumed, but if any additional knowledge is required this is mentioned at the beginning of the section.

Having written the first three editions, we continue to update them and provide them to you free to download. Please tell your friends and colleagues. Relating to the first three editions and updated texts, the copyright of the material contained in each workbook belongs to the European Union and according to its policy may be used free of charge for any non-commercial purpose. The copyright and responsibility of later books and the updates are ours. Our copyright policy is the same as that of the European Union.

We wish to especially thank Elizabeth Appraxine (European Union) who administered these TACIS projects, Richard J. Gregson (Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers) who led the projects and all friends at bankir.ru for hosting the books.

TACIS project partners included Rosexpertiza (Russia), ACCA (UK), Agriconsulting (Italy), FBK (Russia), and European Savings Bank Group (Brussels).

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