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This 6 page paper is based in a case study provided by a student. A company has decided to make changes to his accounting policies and his undertaken some financial transactions. The paper considers the way that these events should be treated according to international accounting standards. Subjects discussed include accounting for leases, the capitalization of interest on the creation of assets, revaluing fixed assets, making provisions for closure of the department and accounting for shares bought in another firm. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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File: TS14_TEdarka1.rtf
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1. The Lease The first issue is the entrance of Darka into a finance lease where they will be leasing an asset for substantially the whole of its economic life. This
is dealt with under IAS 17, which applies to all leases with a few exceptions, such as minerals and oils and other resources of this type as well as plays,
patents and similar items (Accountancy, 1998). The lease will be classified as either a finance lease or an operating lease; this is a finance lease which means that there has
been a substantial transfer of the risk and the rewards associated with ownership and it is classified in this way due to the length being for the substantial economic life
of the asset. Darka is a Lessee, there are certain principles which he applied to the accounting of the financial lease. When that lease starts there should be an
entry on the balance sheet for the item as both an asset and a liability, valued at either the present value of the minimum lease payments will be to, with
red and discounting applied, or the fair value of the asset, using which every value gives the lowest figure (seen under IAS 17.20). The payments on the finance he should
be apportioned between the charge for finance, and the outstanding liability (seen under IAS 17.25) (IASB, 2009). The policy concerning depreciation and the way it is accounted for should be
the same for both the leased and the island assets (seen under IAS 17.27). The Lessee of a finance lease will need to disclose the carrying amount, a reconciliation figure
between the present value under total minimum lease payments, the amounts which are payable over several peer to time, one figure for the next year, another for years
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