Amendment to Ind AS 40, Investment Property - (12-06-2018)

Amendment to Ind AS 40, Investment Property - (12-06-2018) ED/ Ind AS/2018/07 Exposure Draft Amendments to Ind AS 40, Investment Property (L

Amendment to Ind AS 40, Investment Property - (12-06-2018)
ED/ Ind AS/2018/07
Exposure Draft
Amendments to Ind AS 40, Investment Property
(Last date for the comments: July 11, 2018)
Exposure Draft
Reinstating Fair Value Option (Amendments to Ind AS 40, Investment Property)
Following is the Exposure Draft of changes proposed in Ind AS 40, Investment Property, issued by the Accounting Standards Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, for comments. The Board invites comments on any aspect of this Exposure Draft. Comments are most helpful if they indicate the specific paragraph or group of paragraphs to which they relate, contain a clear rationale and, where applicable, provide a suggestion for alternative wording. How to Comment Comments should be submitted using one of the following methods, so as to receive not later than July 11, 2018:- Electronically: Click on the below mentioned option to submit a comment letter or visitatthefollowinglink(Preferredmethod):http://www.icai.org/comments/asb/
- With the exception noted in paragraph 32A, Aan entity shall choose adopt as its accounting policy either the fair value model in paragraphs 33-55 or the cost model prescribed in paragraph 56 and shall apply that policy to all of its investment
- [Refer Appendix 1] Ind AS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors states that a voluntary change in accounting policy shall be made only if the change results in the financial statements providing reliable and more relevant information about the effects of transactions, other events or conditions on the entitys financial position, financial performance or cash flows. It is highly unlikely that a change from the fair value model to the cost model will result in a more relevant presentation.
- This Standard requires all entities to measure the fair value of investment property, for the purpose of either measurement (if entity uses the fair value model) or disclosure (if it uses the cost model)even though they are required to follow the cost model. An entity is encouraged, but not required, to measure the fair value of investment property on the basis of a valuation by an independent valuer who holds a recognised and relevant professional qualification and has recent experience in the location and category of the investment property being valued.
- After initial recognition, an entity that chooses the fair value model shall measure all of its investment property at fair value, except in the cases described in paragraph 53.
- [Refer Appendix 1]
- A gain or loss arising from a change in the fair value of investment property shall be recognised in profit or loss for the period in which it arises.
- [Refer Appendix 1] Ind AS 116 specifies the basis for initial recognition of the cost of an investment property held by a lessee as a right-of-use asset. Paragraph 33 requires the investment property held by a lessee as a right-of-use asset to be remeasured, if necessary, to fair value if the entity chooses the fair value model. When lease payments are at market rates, the fair value of an investment property held by a lessee as a right-of-use asset at acquisition, net of all expected lease payments (including those relating to recognised lease liabilities), should be zero. Thus, remeasuring a right-of-use asset from cost in accordance with Ind AS 116 to fair value in accordance with paragraph 33 (taking into account the requirements in paragraph 50) should not give rise to any initial gain or loss, unless fair value is measured at different times. This could occur when an election to apply the fair value model is made after initial recognition
- In determining the carrying amount of investment property under the fair value model, an entity does not double-count assets or liabilities that are recognised as separate assets or liabilities. For example:
- [Refer Appendix 1]
- In some cases, an entity expects that the present value of its payments relating to an investment property (other than payments relating to recognised liabilities) will exceed the present value of the related cash receipts. An entity applies Ind AS 37, Provisions,
- There is a rebuttable presumption that an entity can reliably measure the fair value of an investment property on a continuing basis. However, in exceptional cases, there is clear evidence when an entity first acquires an investment property (or when an existing property first becomes investment property after a change in use) that the fair value of the investment property is not reliably measurable on a continuing basis. This arises when, and only when, the market for comparable properties is inactive (eg there are few recent transactions, price quotations are not current or observed transaction prices indicate that the seller was forced to sell) and alternative reliable measurements of fair value (for example, based on discounted cash flow projections) are not available. If an entity determines that the fair value of an investment property under construction is not reliably measurable but expects the fair value of the property to be reliably measurable when construction is complete, it shall measure the fair value of that investment property under construction at cost until either when its fair value becomes reliably measurable or construction is completed (whichever is earlier). If an entity determines that the fair value of an investment property (other than an investment property under construction) is not reliably measurable on a continuing basis, the entity shall measure the investment property using cost model in Ind AS 16 for owned investment property or in accordance with Ind AS 116 for investment property held by lessee as a right-of-use asset. The residual value of the investment property shall be assumed to be zero. The entity shall continue to apply Ind AS 16 or Ind AS 116 until disposal of the investment propertymake the disclosures required by paragraphs 7 9(e)(i), (ii) and (iii).
- In the exceptional cases when an entity is compelled, for the reason given in paragraph 53, to measure an investment property using the cost model in accordance with Ind AS 16 or Ind AS 116 make the disclosures required by paragraphs 79(e)(i), (ii) and (iii), it measures at shall determine the fair value of all its other investment property, including investment property under construction. In these cases, although an entity may use the cost model make the disclosures required by paragraphs 79(e)(i), (ii) and (iii) for one investment property, the entity shall continue to account for determine the fair value of each of the remaining properties using the fair value modelfor disclosure required by paragraph 79(e).
- If an entity has previously measured the fair value of an investment property at fair value, it shall continue to measure the fair value of that property at fair value until disposal (or until the property becomes owner-occupied property or the entity begins to develop the property for subsequent sale in the ordinary course of business) even if comparable market transactions become less frequent or market prices become less readily available.
- Paragraphs 60-65 apply to recognition and measurement issues that arise when an entity uses the fair value model for investment property. When an entity uses the cost model, transfers between investment property, owner-occupied property and inventories do not change the carrying amount of the property transferred and they do not change the cost of that property for measurement or disclosure purposes.
- For a transfer from investment property carried at fair value to owner-occupied property or inventories, the propertys deemed cost for subsequent accounting in accordance with Ind AS 16, Ind AS 116 or Ind AS 2 shall be its fair value at the date of change in use.
- If an owner-occupied property becomes an investment property that will be carried at fair value, an entity shall apply Ind AS 16 for owned property and Ind AS 116 for property held by a lessee as a right-of-use asset up to the date of change in use. The entity shall treat any difference at that date between the carrying amount of the property in accordance with Ind AS 16 or Ind AS 116 and its fair value in the same way as a revaluation in accordance with Ind AS 16.
- Up to the date when an owner-occupied property becomes an investment property carried at fair value, an entity depreciates the property (or the right-of-use asset) and recognisesany impairment losses that have occurred. The entity treats any difference at that date between the carrying amount of the property in accordance with Ind AS 16 or Ind AS 116 and its fair value in the same way as a revaluation in accordance with Ind AS 16. In other words:
- If, in accordance with the recognition principle in paragraph 16, an entity recognises in the carrying amount of an asset the cost of a replacement for part of an investment property, it derecognises the carrying amount of the replaced part. For investment property accounted using cost model, Aa replaced part may not be a part that was depreciated separately. If it is not practicable for an entity to determine the carrying amount of the replaced part, it may use the cost of the replacement as an indication of what the cost of the replaced part was at the time it was acquired or constructed. Under the fair value model, the fair value of the investment property may already reflect that the part to be replaced has lost its value. In other cases, it may be difficult to discern how much fair value should be reduced for the part being replaced. An alternative to reducing fair value for the replaced part, when it is not practical to do so, is to include the cost of replacement in the carrying amount of the asset and then to reassess the fair value, as would be required for additions not involving replacement.
- The disclosures below apply in addition to those in Ind AS 11617. In accordance with Ind AS 11617, the owner of an investment property provides lessors disclosures about leases into which it has entered. A lesseeAn entity that holds an investment property as a right-of-use assetunder a finance lease provides lessees disclosures as required by Ind AS 116 for finance leases and lessors disclosures as required by Ind AS 116 for any operating leases into which it has entered.
- An entity shall disclose:
- In addition to the disclosures required by paragraph 75, an entity that applies the fair value model in paragraphs 3355 shall disclose a reconciliation between the carrying amounts of investment property at the beginning and end of the period, showing the following:
- In addition to the disclosures required by paragraph 75, an entity that applies the cost model in paragraph 56 shall disclose:
- An entity that has previously applied Ind AS 40 (cost model) and elects for the first time to classify and account for some or all eligible investment property at fair value interests held under operating leases as investment property shall recognise the effect of that election as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings for the period in which the election is first made. In addition:
- IAS 40, Investment Property permits both cost model and fair value model (except in some situations) for measurement of investment properties after initial recognition. Ind AS 40, Investment Property permits only the cost model. As a consequence, paragraph 30 is amended and paragraph D7 (a) is deleted.
- The measurement provisions of this Ind AS do not apply to the following assets, which are covered by the Ind ASs listed, either as individual assets or as part of a disposal group:
- IFRS 10 requires all investments to be measured at fair value to qualify for the exemption from consolidation available to an investment entity. Since, Ind AS 40, Investment Properties requires all investment properties to be measured at cost initially and cost less depreciation subsequently, subparagraph (a) of B85L have been deleted as this deal with investment property measured at fair value which is not relevant in the Indian context.
- With regard to subsequent measurement, paragraph 34 of IFRS 16 provides that if lessee applies fair value model in IAS 40 to its investment property, it shall apply that fair value model to the right-of-use assets that meet the definition of investment property. Since Ind AS 40, Investment Property, does not allow the use of fair value model, paragraph 34 has been deleted in Ind AS 116. Accordingly, reference to paragraph 34 has been deleted in paragraph 29. Paragraph C9(b) and paragraph C9(c) of Appendix C, Effective Date and Transition, given in context of fair value model of investment property have been deleted. However, paragraph numbers have been retained in Ind AS 116 to maintain consistency with paragraph numbers of IFRS 16.
- IAS 40 permits both cost model and fair value model (except in some situations) for measurement of investment properties after initial recognition. Ind AS 40 permits only the cost model. The following paragraphs of IAS 40 which deal with fair value model have been deleted in Ind AS 40. In order to maintain consistency with paragraph numbers of IAS 40, the paragraph numbers are retained in Ind AS 40:
- IAS 40 requires disclosure of fair values of investment property when cost model is used. Since this requirement is retained in Ind AS 40, paragraphs 53, 53A, 53B, 54 and 55 and certain other paragraphs of IAS 40 have been modified. The modifications include deletion of reference to use of cost model when fair value measurement is unreliable.
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