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Example 6 - Treatment of Future Capital Expenditure

In this example, tax effects are ignored.

Background

  1. At the end of 20X0, enterprise F tests a plane for impairment. The plane is a cash-generating unit. It is carried at depreciated historical cost and its carrying amount is RMI50,000.It has an estimated remaining useful life of 10 years.

  2. For the purpose of this example, it is assumed that the plane's net selling price is not determinable. Therefore, the plane's recoverable amount is its value in use. Value in use is calculated using a pre-tax discount rate of 14%.

  3. Management approved budgets reflect that:

    1. in 20X4, capital expenditure of RM25,000 will be incurred to renew the engine of the plane; and

    2. this capital expenditure will improve the performance of the plane by decreasing fuel consumption.

  4. At the end of 20X4, renewal costs are incurred. The plane's estimated future cash flows reflected in the most recent management approved budgets and a current discount rate are the same as those estimated at the end of 20X0.

At the End of 20X0
Schedule 1 Calculation of the plane's value in use at the end of 20X0

Year

Future cash flows(1)

Discounted at 14%


RM

RM

20X1

22,165

19,443

20X2

21,450

16,505

20X3

20,550

13,871

20X4

24,725(1)

14,639

20X5

25,325(2)

13,153

20X6

24,825 (2)

11,310

20X7

24,123 (2)

9,640

20X8

25,533 (2)

8,951

20X9

24,234 (2)

7,452

20X10

22,850 (2)

6,164

Value in use


121,128

(1) Excludes estimated renewal costs reflected in management budgets.
(2) Excludes estimated benefits expected from the renewal of the engine reflected in management budgets.
  1. The plane's carrying amount is higher than its recoverable amount (value in use). Therefore, F recognises an impairment loss for the plane.

    Schedule 2. Calculation of the impairment loss at the end of 20X0


    Plane
    RM

    Carrying amount before impairment loss

    150,000

    Recoverable amount (Schedule 1)

    121,128

    Impairment loss

    (28,872)

    Carrying amount after impairment loss

    121,128

    Years 20X1-20X3

  2. No event occurs that requires the plane's recoverable amount to be re-estimated. Therefore, no calculation of recoverable amount is required to be performed.

At the End of 20X4
  1. The capital expenditure is incurred. Therefore, in determining the plane's value in use, the future benefits expected from the renewal of the engine are considered in forecasting cash flows. This results in an increase in the estimated future cash flows used to determine value in use at the end of 20X0. As a consequence, in accordance with paragraphs 97-98 of FRS 1362004, the recoverable amount of the plane is recalculated at the end of 20X4.

Schedule 3. Calculation of the plane's value in use at the end of 20X4

Year

Future cash flows(1)

Discounted at 14%


RM

RM

20X5

30,321

26,597

20X6

32,750

25,200

20X7

31,721

21,411

20X8

31,950

18,917

20X9

33,100

17,191

20X10

27,999

12,756

Value in use


122,072

(1) Includes estimated benefits expected from the renewal of the engine reflected in management budgets.
  1. The plane's recoverable amount (value in use) is higher than the plane's carrying amount and depreciated historical cost (see Schedule 4). Therefore, K reverses the impairment loss recognised for the plane at the end of 20X0 so that the plane is carried at depreciated historical cost.

Schedule 4. Calculation of the reversal of the impairment loss at the end of 20X4

Plane
RM

Carrying amount at the end of 20X0 (Schedule 2)

121,128

End of 20X4


Depreciation charge (20X1 to 20X4-Schedule 5)

(48,452)

Renewal expenditure

25,000

Carrying amount before reversal

97,676

Recoverable amount (Schedule 3)

122,072

Reversal of impairment loss

17,324

Carrrying amount after reversal

115,000

Carrying amount: depreciated historical cost (Schedule 5)

115,000(1)

(1) The value in use of the plane exceeds what its carrying amount would have been at depreciated historical cost. Therefore, the reversal is limited to an amount that does not result in the carrying amount of the plane exceeding depreciated historical cost.
Schedule 5. Summary of the carrying amount of the plane

Year

Depreciated historical cost

Recoverable amount

Adjusted depreciation charge

Impairment loss

Carrying amount after impairment


RM

RM

RM

RM

RM

20X0

150,000

121,128

0

(28,872)

121,128

20X1

135,000

n.c.

(12,113)

0

109,015

20X2

120,000

n.c.

(12,113)

0

96,902

20X3

105,000

n.c.

(12,113)


84,789

20X4

90,000


(12,113)



Renewal

25,000


-




115,000

122,072

(12,113)

17,324

115,000

20X5

95,833

n.c.

(19,167)

0

95,833

    n.c. = not calculated as there is no indication that the impairment loss may have increased/ decreased.


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