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In April 2001 the International Accounting Standards Board (Board) adopted IAS 36 Impairment of Assets, which had originally been issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee in June 1998. That standard consolidated all the requirements on how to assess for recoverability of an asset.
In December 2003 the Board issued a revised IAS 39 as part of its initial agenda of technical projects. The revised IAS 39 also incorporated an Implementation Guidance section, which replaced a series of Questions & Answers that had been developed by the IAS 39 Implementation Guidance Committee.
B.27 Example of calculating amortised cost: debt instruments with stepped interest payments SECTION E MEASUREMENT E.4 Impairment and uncollectibility of financial assets. E.4.1 Objective evidence of impairment E.4.2 Impairment: future losses E.4.3 Assessment of impairment: principal and interest E.4.4 Assessment of impairment: fair value hedge
Example 1. Entity A, a telecoms company, has both goodwill and intangibles with indefinite useful lives and a 31 December year end. Under IAS 36, ‘Impairment of assets’, these assets are required to be tested annually for impairment irrespective of indictors of impairment (IAS 36 para 10).
designed to cover impairment losses as described in IAS 39. Those that are provide a method for measuring OCVA-type losses in the national accounts.
IAS 36 Impairment of Assets sets out requirements for impairment which cover a range of assets (and groups of assets, termed ‘cash generating units’ or CGUs). A number of assets are excluded from its scope (e.g. financial
1 paź 2006 · IAS 39 restricts the ability to reclassify financial assets and financial liabilities to another category. Reclassifications in or out of the fair value through profit and loss category are not permitted.
