ACCT 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Book Value

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Many individual assets do not generate cash inflows in their own right. Therefore, sometimes it is not possible to determine the ra for an individual asset. Instead, need to determine the ra of the cash generating unit (cgu) to which the asset belongs. A cgu is defined as the smallest identifiable group of assets that generates cash flows that are largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or groups of assets". Impairment test is applied to the cgu, not the individual asset. Impairment loss arises when ca of cgu > ra. Principles for determining ra are the same for cgus as for individual assets. Loss is allocated to each asset in cgu on pro-rata basis. Losses are accounted for in the same way as for individual assets discussed earlier. Limits: the ca of an individual asset cannot be reduced below the highest of:

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