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NHF Finance Forums 2012
SORP and IFRS (or new UK GAAP) – Alphabet Soup!
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Plans for the session
Part 1 Introduction, background, taking stock
Part 2 Implications for housing sector
Part 3 Where do you go from here?
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Part 1 Introduction, background, taking stock
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Introduction and background
Plans for convergence of UK GAAP with international standards – talked about for a number of years
Many sectors have already adopted IFRS
- Listed companies
- Health bodies
- Central and local government
There has been significant (long!) debate concerning adoption of IFRS in the housing sector
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Introduction and background
August 2009 – ASB consultation on Future of UK GAAP
Autumn 2010 – updated consultation, large housing response
January 2012 – “The FRS” consultation released
ASB recognised impact of previous FRSME on housing sector
Proposed accounting
regime
Previous Tier
structure
Current proposals
(January 2012)
Tier 1
EU Adopted IFRS
EU-listed entities
AIM entities
Other publicly
accountable entities
EU-listed entities
AIM entities
Tier 2
The FRS (new UK
GAAP)
Non publicly
accountable entities
Other entities
Tier 3
FRSSE
Small non publicly
accountable entities
Small entities (as
defined by Company
Law)
Housing Associations
If required by Company Law
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The IFRS transition timetable for the housing sector – latest position
2014 2015 2016
Transition date Opening IFRS balance sheet
(1 April 14 for March year ends)
Comparative IFRS year end
2014/15 comparatives
First IFRS year end 2015/16 Annual report
(and 2014/15 comparatives)
2014/15 IFRS Comparatives
2015/16 First year of reporting
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Introduction and background
Role for Statement of Recommended Practices (SORPs’)
- SORPs would still be needed
- Provide supplementary (and sector specific guidance)
e.g. accounting treatment for:
- Leases (Low Cost Home Ownership / shared ownership)
- Treatment of grant
- Pensions (SHPS)
- No transition to IFRS/new UK GAAP allowed for housing until new SORP published
Accounts Directions still have same legal status
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Part 2 Implications for housing sector
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Introduction and background
Key areas of change – “The FRS”
• Statement Format
• Borrowing costs
• Valuation of property, plant and equipment (including housing properties)
• Grants
• Leasing
• Defined Benefit Pension schemes (SHPS)
• Financial Instruments (IFRS 9)
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Impact on the housing sector?
Statement Format
• Balance Sheet = Statement of Financial Position
• I&E/P&L = Statement of Comprehensive Income
Statement of Changes in Equity
• Cash flow Statement = Statement of Cash Flows
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Impact on the housing sector?
Statement of Financial Position
• Follow Companies Act format
- except to the extent that these requirements are not permitted by any statutory framework under which non-company entities report (e.g. Accounts Direction?)
• Liabilities should be shown as current unless there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for 12 months or more
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Impact on the housing sector?
Statement of Comprehensive Income
• Can show down to ‘profit or loss’ in a separate income statement
• Other comprehensive income (OCI) = STRGL equivalent
• No exceptional items
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Impact on the housing sector?
Statement of Changes in Equity
• Contain:
- total comprehensive income (split into P&L* and OCI)
- retrospective restatements for policy changes or error corrections*
- dividend payments*
- other distributions
- issues of shares
• If an entity has no OCI, and only the *items, it can add these to P&L as a ‘statement of income and retained earnings’
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Impact on the housing sector?
Statement of Cash Flows
• Presents changes in ‘cash and cash equivalents’
• Three main headings (operating, investing, financing)
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Impact on the housing sector?
Presentation Fairness
• Financial statements shall present fairly the financial position, financial performance and cash flows
• The Companies Act – true and fair view
Fair presentation = true and fair view
Estimates, Errors
• Estimates corrected prospectively
• Errors corrected retrospectively
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Impact on the housing sector?
Capitalisation of borrowing costs
• Previous proposals did not allow capitalisation.
• “The FRS” now allows capitalisation.
• Accounting policy choice – must be applied consistently.
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Impact on the housing sector?
Tangible fixed assets – housing properties
• Previous proposals did not allow valuation
• “The FRS” allows valuation – accounting policy choice.
• Must be applied consistently.
• What about the Valuation basis?
- needs to be an income based model
- EUV-SH meets the definition
- is EUV-SH still the best model?
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Impact on the housing sector?
Property, plant or equipment or investment properties?
Will housing properties meet the definition of investment properties under IFRS? Some types of tenure will....which ones?
• The draft FRS considers concept of ‘held for social benefit’
- if yes – then property, plant or equipment
- if no – then investment property
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Impact on the housing sector?
Property, plant or equipment or investment properties?
• Tenure types under consideration?
- general needs
- shared ownership
- market rent
- intermediate rent
- affordable rents
- shared equity
- key worker, student accommodation
- rent to Homebuy
- others?
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Impact on the housing sector?
Property, plant or equipment or investment properties?
• Investment properties
- accounted for at valuation
- changes in valuation recognised in profit and loss
- hold at cost if ‘undue cost or effort’ in obtaining valuation
Current position
• SORP working party has assessed tenure types against guidance and will consult on its proposals
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Impact on the housing sector?
Grants
• Current treatment – held against asset, depreciate net asset.
• “The FRS” allows choice of 2 options:
• Performance model
• grant with no conditions is recognised in income when grant is receivable.
• grant with conditions is recognised in income when grant conditions are met
• Accruals model
• classified as either capital or revenue
• capital grants recognised in income over life of asset
• revenue grant recognised in income over related costs for grants intended use
• deferred grant is held as liability and shall not offset the assets
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Impact on the housing sector?
Grants
• FRS 102 gives option to use either performance or accruals method for SHG.
• Key question - Should an option be given to use either performance or accruals method?
• Some examples....
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Impact on the housing sector?
Grants
How would performance method apply to SHG?
• The two proposed approaches to accounting for SHG are either :
1) Take the view that all SHG conditions met and book to I&E as revenue.
2) Conclude that conditions never met so hold all grant as liability until repaid.
If assume conditions never met then the higher depreciation charge mentioned previously will not be offset by income from grant amortisation. Consequently there would be a negative impact on the I&E.
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Impact on the housing sector?
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Example 1: Performance method (all conditions met) Cost 100 (land 30) Grant 50 UEL 100 years Dr Non-current asset cost 100 Cr Cash 100 Dr Cash 50 Cr Grant income 50 Dr Depreciation expense (100-30)/100 = 0.7 Cr Accumulated Depreciation 0.7 Year 1 I&E impact is ‘surplus’ of (50-0.7) = 49.3 Year 2 I&E impact is ‘deficit’ of 0.7
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Example 2: Performance method (conditions not met) Cost 100 (land 30) Grant 50 UEL 100 years Dr Non-current asset cost 100 Cr Cash 100 Dr Cash 50 Cr Deferred Income 50 Dr Depreciation expense 0.7 Cr Accumulated Depreciation 0.7 Year 1 I&E impact is ‘deficit’ of 0.7 Year 2 I&E impact is ‘deficit’ of 0.7
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Grants
How would accruals method apply to SHG?
• Grant should be accounted for as relating to revenue or grant related to an asset.
• Where relates to an asset then recognise in I&E over life of asset.
• Where relates to revenue recognise in I&E over period corresponding to the related costs.
• Where grant is deferred then recognise as deferred income, not net against value of asset.
• Accruals method will result in amortisation of grant to I&E over life of asset thereby offsetting (in part) the increased depreciation charge on the asset mentioned previously.
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Example 3: Accruals method
Cost 100 (land 30) Grant 50 UEL 100 years Dr Non-current asset cost 100 Cr Case 100 Dr Cash 50 Cr Deferred Income 50 Dr Depreciation expense 0.7 Cr Accumulated Depreciation 0.7 Dr Deferred Income (50/100) = 0.5 Cr Grant income 0.5 Year 1 I&E impact is ‘deficit’ of (0.7-0.5) = 0.2 Year 2 I&E impact is ‘deficit’ of 0.2
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Impact on the housing sector?
Grants (continued)
Current position
• Sector had £35billion of grant as at 31 March 2011
• Transitional treatment not stipulated in FRS.
• Considering impact on Valuation accounting
• What about RCGF?
• What about timing of grant payments?
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Impact on the housing sector?
Pensions
• Multi-employer scheme e.g. Social Housing Pension Scheme (SHPS)
• Multi employer exemption still holds....
• However, liability linked to past service will require recognition
Current position
• SORP working party will consult on outcome
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Leases
• Lease standards changing but not yet included in the FRS
• Finance lease v operating lease
- current leases need to be assessed
- classification based on who owns risks and rewards?
- 90% test removed – now a balance of factors
- leasing future developments – direction of travel is ‘on balance sheet’
Current position
• Not a SORP consultation issue as financial impact deemed to be low (although experience is that resource impact is high).
Impact on the housing sector?
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Financial Instruments
• Very complicated – and changing...
Current position
• Changes to financial instruments standards on the way
• IFRS 9, timing very uncertain as content still under review
Impact on the housing sector?
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Main impact on sector
• Valuation of loans and derivatives that have ‘mark-to-market’ exposure
• Any embedded derivatives in loan / swap agreements, leases, other complex contracts (for example, rental guarantee agreements)
• Impairment of financial assets (rent arrears cannot be based on general provisions)
• Disclosure requirements, onerous and lengthy
Impact on the housing sector?
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What are categories of hedges
Fixed rate assets/liabilities
Assets/liabilities in foreign
currencies
Firm commitments
Variable rate assets/liabilities
Highly probable forecast
transactions
Assets / Liabilities / Firm
Commitments in foreign currencies
Net investments in foreign
operations
Fair Value
Hedge
Cash Flow
Hedge
Net investment
Hedge
Common hedges for housing sector
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Simply, what is a cash-flow hedge
Measure hedging instrument at fair value
Effective portion Cash flow
hedge reserve
Profit or loss
Ineffective portion
Strict rules to prove “effectiveness”
Requires mature systems and
documentation
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Part 3 Where do we go from here?
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Conclusions and what next?
Conclusions (at this stage!)....
Issue Position
Borrowing Costs Choice allowed
Valuation Choice allowed
Investment properties Tenure types – consultation on
which ones qualify as IPS
Grant Accounting policy change –
what’s the impact?
Pensions Past service cost recognition
Leases Detailed exercise but low impact
Financial Instruments Changing, volatile – waiting for
IFRS 9
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Conclusions and what next?
What next?
• Final FRS planned to be published January 2013
• IFRS 9 timing uncertain
• “SORP consultation planned for February 2013
• Republished IFRS/new UK GAAP SORP – March 2014.
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Practical challenges that arise under IFRS include:
• Communication strategy • Training strategy • Project Management support • Resource / skills to manage
the change • Corporate governance • Embedding knowledge –
new policies and processes
• Accounting and consolidation systems enhancement
• Data gaps • New systems required • Update chart of accounts • New procedures • Training
• Accounting policies & procedures
• Updated & new controls • New valuations • Impairment modelling • Increase data collection • Management reporting • Budgeting process
Practical Implications of IFRS conversion
PROCESS SYSTEMS PEOPLE
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A successful conversion model
Phase 3
Embed Change
Phase 1
Impact
Assessment
Phase 2
2.1 Project Set-Up
2.2 Component Evaluation
& Issues Resolution
2.3 Initial
Conversion
Financial and Accounting
Operations and Resources
Systems
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Phase 1: Impact assessment
Objectives
• Identify the principal issues, created by transition to IFRS, which require further investigation;
• Identify the broad implications of such issues – these may be grouped into impact on financial results, processes, systems and people; and
• Formulate a high level IFRS implementation plan for the next stage of the overall project.
Phase 1 – Impact assessment
Conduct desktop review
High level diagnostic
sessions
Report findings & develop implementation
plan
Phase 1.1 Phase 1.2 Phase 1.3
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Next steps
• Establish if there is a training need?
• Get an impact assessment.
• Produce a detailed implementation plan.
• Make decisions on appropriate project governance.
• Allocate appropriate resource to the team
• Communicate :
- Internally and
- Externally
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Contacts
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Jargon buster – financial instruments
Terminology Meaning
Amortised cost = Initial recognition amount
- principal payments
+/- discounted amortisation
- any impairment (financial asset)
Swap (basic) Interest payments exchanged are based on two different floating rate indices.
Cash flow hedge A hedge of the exposure to variability in cash flows that:
- is attributable to a particular risk of asset or liability (e.g. future interest payments on
variable rate debt) or a highly probable forecast transaction; and
- could affect profit or loss.
Derivative financial
instrument
Swaps, futures, forwards, which create rights and obligations that have the effect of transferring
between the parties to the instrument, one or more of the financial risks inherent in an
underlying primary financial instrument.
Effective interest method Method of calculating the amortised cost of a financial asset or a financial liability (or
group of financial assets or financial liabilities) and of allocating the interest income or expense
over the relevant period.
Financial asset Any asset that is cash, or contractual right to receive cash (eg, rental debtors)
Financial liability Any liability that is cash (loan), or contractual right to exchange or settle obligations with
financial assets.
Impact on the housing sector?
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Jargon buster – financial instruments
Terminology Meaning
Embedded derivative Derivative instrument that is embedded in another contract – the “host contract”. The host
contract might be a debt or equity instrument, a lease, an insurance contract or a sales or
purchase contract. Embedded derivative is part of a host contract (a clause or section) which
causes the cash flows from that contract to be modified, based on a specified variable such as
interest rate, security price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates or
other variable. Embedded derivatives will have to be identified, separated and marked-to-
market through the income statement where the economic risks and characteristics of the
embedded derivatives are not “closely related” to those of the host contract.
“Closely related” An embedded derivative that modifies a contracts inherent risk (such as a fixed or floating
interest rate swap) would be considered closely related. Conversely, an embedded derivative
that changes the nature of the risks of a contract is not closely related.
Closely related: Inflation linked contracts if not leveraged.
Not closely related: Option to extend the remaining term of a debt instrument at a fixed rate.
Mark-to-Market Refers to the valuation of positions or exposure at current market value as opposed to cost. In
the detail, mark-to-market is the daily adjustment of open positions to reflect profits and losses
resulting from price movements occurring.
Callable instrument An instrument that gives the issuer the right to call it back from the holder (that is, to terminate
the instrument).
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