deals with the accounting for a business combination at
the acquisition date.
PFRS 3
deals with the preparation
and presentation of consolidated financial statements after the
business combination.
PFRS 10
“the financial statements
of a group in which the assets, liabilities, equity, income,
expenses and cash flows of the parent and its subsidiaries are
Presented as those of a single economic entity.”
Consolidated financial statements
“a parent and its subsidiaries.
Group
“an entity that controls one or more entities.”
Parent
“an entity that is controlled by another entity.”
Subsidiary
is the basis for consolidation. PFRS 10 requires an investor
to determine whether it is a parent by assessing whether it
controls the investee.
Control
“an investor controls an investee when the investor 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.”
Control of an investee
An investor has ___ over an investee when the investor has
existing rights that give it the current ability to direct the
investee’s relevant activities
Power
“activities of the investee that significantly affect the investee’s returns.”
Relevant activities
When voting rights do not have a significant effect on an
investee’s returns, such as when voting rights relate to administrative tasks only and contractual arrangements
determine the direction of the relevant activities, the investor
needs to assess those contractual arrangements in order to determine whether it has rights sufficient to-give it power over the investee.
Administrative rights
If two or more investors individually (unilaterally).have the 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.
Unilateral rights
are “rights designed to protect the interest of the party holding those rights without giving that party Power over the entity to which those rights relate.
PROTECTIVE RIGHTS
In assessing whether it has a power, an investor considers only ____ i.e. rights which the investor has the ability to exercise.
substantive rights
The investor’s ability to direct the relevant activities of an investee is normally obtained through ____
voting rights
When determining the existence of control, an investor considers potential voting rights that are currently exercisable, regardless f the intention or financial ability to exercise them.
Potential voting rights
The financial statements of the parent and its subsidiaries used in preparing consolidated financial statements shall have the same reporting date.
Reporting dates
shall be used, If the subsidiary uses different accounting policies, its financial statements need to be adjusted to conform to the parent’s accounting policies before the, are consolidated
Uniform accounting policies
Consolidation begins from the date the investor obtains control of the investee and ceases when the investor loses control of the investee.
Consolidation period
Income and expenses of the subsidiary are based on the amounts of the assets and liabilities recognized in the consolidated financial statements at the acquisition date.
Measurement
The _____ of the subsidiary are based on the amounts of the assets and liabilities recognized in the consolidated financial statements at the acquisition date.
Income and expenses
are accounted for in the parent’s
separate financial statements either:
a. at cost;
b. in accordance with PFRS 9; or
c using the equity method
Investments in subsidiaries
are transactions between a parent and a subsidiary. The effects of these transactions are eliminated when preparing consolidated financial statements because the parent
and the subsidiary are viewed as a single reporting entity. This is like the statement
“You cannot transact with your own self.” To exemplify, let me tell you a story.
Intercompany transactions
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