Background
The overall assessment focuses on identifying the level of Post-implementation Review (PIR) of IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement, which could be used by the organisation in formulating their annual report. The relevant fair value measurement is mainly depicted by the International Accounting Standard Board. In addition, appropriate knowledge on analytical techniques with familiar and unfamiliar provisions. Adequate examination of the problems and issues from umber of perspectives. The fair value measurement mainly helps in conducting fair representation of the annual report, which is conducted by the company every fiscal year. the organisation also discloses fair value measurements, which could be used in depicting the measurement used in valuing the assets, liabilities, and entities own equity.
1 – Reviewing and discussing the PIR of IFRS 13
The augmentation of fair value measurement disclosure and the post implementation review of the IFRS code would eventually help IASB to effectively identify the effectiveness of its regulatory measure. The relevant IFRS code has helped organisations to determine fair value measurement of different assets, liabilities, and equity value. The IFRS 13 relatively helps the organisation to prepare the financial statement by providing Useful information and disclosing all the relevant notes in their annual report. However, the ethical utilisation of IFRS 13 is not detected by IASB, which relatively augmented the use of post implementation review of the IFRS 13 (Barker and Schulte 2017).
Being one of the public group companies listed in London Stock Exchange adequate review of the post implementation review measure that is imposed by IASB needs to be evaluated. The valuation measures of Tesco Plc need to be conducted fairly, as maximum of the valuation of the organisation is based on measurement and disclosure of certain liabilities (Cenciarelli, Santis and Greco 2018). The main reason behind IASB opting for the Post implementation review of IFRS 13 is due to the limitation and hindrance that might occur within the organisation for effectively utilising the valuation method. There are certain areas that is focused by IASB during the post implementation review of IFRS 13. The aims of the board are to acquire the required information of the organisation with the help of IFRS 13 and detect is usefulness for the users in the financial statements. Moreover, IASB also AIMS in detecting the challenges and preventing them from occurring during the formulation of financial statement (DeFond et al. 2018).
The major focus of post implementation review is on assessing the effects of IFRS 13, while detecting the overall unexpected cost incurred by the organisation during the implementation of the IFRS 13. In addition, the board also aims in getting deeper understanding of both uses and preparers of the perspective annual report which indicates the fair value measurement disclosures of the organisations. The priority levels, issues, and current practices of IFRS 13 are relatively disclosed, which might allow IASB to understand the impact fair value measurement. On the other hand, Dvorak (2017) indicated that IASB aims in understanding the limitations of IFRS 13, which would eventually help in improving the fair value measurement conducted by the organisation during the formulation of the annual report.
Assessment of the Post-implementation review of IFRS 13
2 – Fair Value Measurement Disclosures
Fair value measurement has a relevant disclosure which needs to be conducted by organisation during the preparation of the annual report. Moreover, IFRS 13 is used in detecting the fair value measurement of different assets and other valuation of the organisation. The current standard relatively indicates that fair valuation needs to be conducted by the organisation with adequate disclosure requirements that allows the users to understand the measures taken by the organisation in valuing the assets. The definition of fair value is relatively indicated in IFRS 13, where the price of a particular set needs to be at the perspective of buyers of assets who are willing to pay for the transfer of asset or liability. this relatively indicates that the current market value of the Asset and liabilities needs to be implemented in fair value measurement, which has been depicted in IFRS 13. On the contrary, Farrugia (2014) argued that fair valuation is a relatively based on the perception of the organisation, where manipulation is conducted to increase value of the organisation by increasing assets value and reducing liability value in the annual report.
There are certain measures that needs to be followed by the organisation when complying with IFRS 13 during the preparation of the annual report. The measures of depicted as follows.
- Assets and liabilities needs to be measured with inclusion of the current condition, location, and any kind of restrictions on this day. this highly reflects the actual value of the Asset or liability of the organisation.
- The second measures that need to be evaluated by the organisation is the principal market in which the orderly transaction needs to be taken place for the Asset or liability. this would eventually help in protecting the actual or fair value for the Asset or liability of the organisation and allow the organisation to present the actual value in their annual report.
- The third component relatively focuses on non-financial assets, where the biggest and the best used for the asset is relatively evaluated to understand its impact on the valuation of the organisation. the non-performing asset is a relatively evaluated on two different fronts where it is used in combination with other assets on a standalone basis (González-Sánchez 2018).
- Lastly, the fair value measurement relatively value which the assumption that the market participants would use when pricing the Asset or liability, as it helps in understanding the level of market value for the particular component.
3 – Prioritising Level 1 inputs or the unit of account
Certain priority that needs to be followed by IFRS 14 known as the level of input or the unit of account. These priorities are relatively depicted as follows.
- The overall fair value measurement conducted by the organisation on the Asset or liabilities needs to be considered as unit of account for the item being measured. Moreover, the unit of account is relatively applying other IFRS standards, which needs to be maintained by the organisation in their annual report.
- Moreover, the organisation need to select inputs that are relatively consistent with the liabilities assets characteristics. These characteristics would be carried out by the market participants during the transaction for the Asset or liability. This detection is mainly helps in identifying the fair value of the Asset or liability for the organisation (Ifrs.org 2018).
- Lastly, level 1 input needs to be compared to without any kind of adjustments to the fair value of the Assets and liabilities of the organisation.
From the evaluation it is also indicated that fair value of an investment in subsidiary needs to be conducted by the organisation where the active market value of the investment needs to be conducted by the company. In addition, the recoverable amount of the cash generating unit is considered as the basis of fair value where the disposable cost is deducted to identify the active market value for the cash generating unit. Both the concepts have relatively helped in improving the level of fairness in disclosure of the annual report. Moreover, the problems faced by the organisation in conducting the fair measurement of there is it was relatively discussed during draft of IFRS 13. Therefore, from their opinion it is indicated that fairness in the measurement can be identified when measurements are objective and verifiable by the organisation (MARTÍN and Osma 2018).
Fair Value Measurement Disclosures
There are certain criticisms regarding the net valuation process that is used in IFRS 13, as organisations were not able to adequately comply with the measurement components laid down by IASB. In addition, these measurements were relatively indicated as unfair and unethical by IASB, as organisations were able to manipulate their valuation to increase the actual value of their assets (Mueller 2015). This is relatively provided with adverse impact on the measures used by IASB in minimising the fraudulent activities of the organisation and depicting the actual valuation of the Assets and liabilities. However, the monitoring process implemented by IASB has a relatively helped in Supporting the operations of IASB and detecting different limitations of IFRS 13 (Sundgren, Maki and Somoza-Lopez 2018).
Conclusion:
After evaluating the assessment, the significance of fair value measurement and the implementation of Post implementation review for IFRS 13 can be identified. From the assessment the significance and evaluation of the value is relatively derived and how organisation could effectively depict their actual financial position in the annual report. In addition, the relevant discussion on fair value measurement disclosure and the price rising level 1 inputs are the unit of account discussed in IFRS 13 is a relatively depicted in the assessment. The limitations of fair value measurement are detected by IASB, where adequately review of the implementation process that is conducted by the organisation is analysed. this implementation reviewing process has a relatively allowed IASB to understand the level of problems that is faced by the organisation in valuing their Assets and liabilities. Overall, fair value measurement is considered to be one of the biggest
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