How to Capitalize Borrowing Costs under IAS 23
Should you capitalize or not? When it comes to determining the cost of your assets, most standards ask to include all directly attributable items. What about interest and other borrowing costs? Did you know that if you have 10 dollars in your pocket and no…
3 Biggest Myths in Accounting for PPE
I often talk with many professionals about a practical application of IFRS and the topic of long-term tangible asset is very frequent. To my surprise I found out that a lot of them believed that with regard to accounting for property, plant and equipment (especially…
Can you capitalize it as PPE or not?
Is it an item of property, plant and equipment or a part of its cost? Or is it a piece of inventories instead? Or just an expense that goes straight in profit or loss? Hmmm, what about an intangible asset? In 90% of all cases,…
How to Account for Artwork under IFRS
A few weeks ago I visited our dentist together with my little 4-year old girl just to check up everything’s OK with her little teeth. While we were sitting in the waiting room, my little one playing with the small teeth replicas (OMG!), I looked…
Our machines are fully depreciated, but we still use them! What shall we do?
Do you work in the production company? And did you find out that some of your production assets are still in operation but they were fully depreciated? In this case, the original estimate of machinery’s useful life proved to be incorrect. Here’s one of the…
IAS 36 Impairment of Assets
Did you know that the world-wide economic crisis followed by the recession caused a sharp downfall of assets’ prices? In some countries, the prices of property fell by 30-50%! Such a steep and fast decrease had an impact on the IFRS financial reporting, too. Companies…
How to Calculate Pre-tax Rate for Value in Use
Dealing with impairment of assets, or cash generating units (CGU), involves one quite difficult task – to determine asset’s / CGU’s recoverable amount. Sometimes it might be an easy job, especially when fair value can be established and it is probably higher than value in…
IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment – summary
Standard IAS 16 prescribes the accounting treatment for property, plant and equipment and therefore it is one of the most important and commonly applied standards. The main issues dealt in IAS 16 are recognition of property, plant and equipment, measurement at and after recognition, impairment…
