IFRS 16 - Leases
JAMSHAID MANZOOR
CPA, CMA, MBA, IFRS, UAE Taxation Certified, Advanced Accounting Certified KHDA, Financial Management Certified CPD London, Management Accounting Expert BCC London. Group Risk Management, Taxation & IFRS Manager - UAE
Overview
IFRS 16 specifies how an IFRS reporter will recognise, measure, present and disclose leases. The standard provides a single lessee accounting model, requiring lessees to recognise assets and liabilities for all leases unless the lease term is 12 months or less or the underlying asset has a low value.
Lessors continue to classify leases as operating or finance, with IFRS 16’s approach to lessor accounting substantially unchanged from its predecessor, IAS 17.
IFRS 16 replaces the following Standards and Interpretations:
Objective
IFRS 16 establishes principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases, with the objective of ensuring that lessees and lessors provide relevant information that faithfully represents those transactions.
Scope
IFRS 16 Leases applies to all leases, including subleases, except for:
Leases to explore for or use minerals, oil, natural gas and similar non-regenerative resources; Leases of biological assets held by a lessee (see IAS 41 Agriculture); service concession arrangements (see IFRIC 12 Service Concession Arrangements); licences of intellectual property granted by a lessor (see IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers); and rights held by a lessee under licensing agreements for items such as films, videos, plays, manuscripts, patents and copyrights within the scope of IAS 38 Intangible Assets
A Lessee can elect to apply IFRS 16 to leases of intangible assets, other than those items listed above. Please go through my all relevant articles below:
Recognition Exemptions:
Instead of applying the recognition requirements of IFRS 16 described below, a lessee may elect to account for lease payments as an expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term or another systematic basis for the following two types of leases:
1.????Leases with a lease term of 12 months or less and containing no purchase options – this election is made by class of underlying asset.
2.????Leases where the underlying asset has a low value when new (such as personal computers or small items of office furniture) – this election can be made on a lease-by-lease basis.
Identifying a Lease:
A contract is, or contains, a lease if it conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration.
Control is conveyed where the customer has both the right to direct the identified asset’s use and to obtain substantially all the economic benefits from that use.
An asset is typically identified by being explicitly specified in a contract, but an asset can also be identified by being implicitly specified at the time it is made available for use by the customer.
However, where a supplier has a substantive right of substitution throughout the period of use, a customer does not have a right to use an identified asset.
A supplier’s right of substitution is only considered substantive if the supplier has both the practical ability to substitute alternative assets throughout the period of use and they would economically benefit from substitution.
A capacity portion of an asset is still an identified asset if it is physically distinct (e.g., a floor of a building). A capacity or other portion of an asset that is not physically distinct (e.g., a capacity portion of a fibre optic cable) is not an identified asset, unless it represents substantially all the capacity such that the customer obtains substantially all the economic benefits from using the asset.
Separating Components of a Contract:
For a contract that contains a lease component and additional lease and non-lease components, such as the lease of an asset and the provision of a maintenance service, lessees shall allocate the consideration payable on the basis of the relative stand-alone prices, which shall be estimated if observable prices are not readily available.
As a practical expedient, a lessee may elect, by class of underlying asset, not to separate non-lease components from lease components and instead account for all components as a lease.
Lessors shall allocate consideration in accordance with IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers.
Key Definitions:
1. Interest Rate Implicit in the Lease
The interest rate that yields a present value of
a.????The lease payments
b.????The unguaranteed residual value equal to the sum of
I.??????The fair value of the underlying asset
II.????Any initial direct costs of the lessor.
2. Lease Term
The non-cancellable period for which a lessee has the right to use an underlying asset, plus:
a.??????????????Periods covered by an extension option if exercise of that option by the lessee is reasonably certain.
b.??????????????Periods covered by a termination option if the lessee is reasonably certain not to exercise that option
Lessee’s Incremental Borrowing Rate
The rate of interest that a lessee would have to pay to borrow over a similar term, and with a similar security, the funds necessary to obtain an asset of a similar value to the right-of-use asset in a similar economic environment.
Accounting By Lessees:
Upon lease commencement a lessee recognises a right-of-use asset and a lease liability.
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The right-of-use asset is initially measured at the amount of the lease liability plus any initial direct costs incurred by the lessee. Adjustments may also be required for lease incentives, payments at or prior to commencement and restoration obligations or similar.?
After lease commencement, a lessee shall measure the right-of-use asset using a cost model, unless:
I.????????????????The right of use asset is an investment property and the lessee fair values its investment property under IAS 40; or
II.??????????????The right-of-use asset relates to a class of PPE to which the lessee applies IAS 16’s revaluation model, in which case all right-of-use assets relating to that class of PPE can be revalued.
Under the Cost Model a right of use asset is measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment. Please go through my all relevant articles below:
The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the lease payments payable over the lease term, discounted at the rate implicit in the lease if that can be readily determined.
If that rate cannot be readily determined, the lessee shall use their incremental borrowing rate.
Variable Lease Payments that depend on an index or a rate are included in the initial measurement of the lease liability and are initially measured using the index or rate as at the commencement date.
Amounts expected to be payable by the lessee under residual value guarantees are also included.
Variable Lease Payments that are not included in the measurement of the lease liability are recognised in profit or loss in the period in which the event or condition that triggers payment occurs, unless the costs are included in the carrying amount of another asset under another Standard.
The Lease liability is subsequently remeasured to reflect changes in:
The lease term (using a revised discount rate); the assessment of a purchase option (using a revised discount rate); the amounts expected to be payable under residual value guarantees (using an unchanged discount rate); or future lease payments resulting from a change in an index or a rate used to determine those payments (using an unchanged discount rate).
The remeasurements are treated as adjustments to the right of use asset.
Lease modifications may also prompt remeasurement of the lease liability unless they are to be treated as separate leases.
Covid-19 Related Rent Concessions:
A Lessee may elect not to assess whether a COVID-19 related rent concession is a lease modification. A lessee that that applies the exemption accounts for COVID-19 related rent concessions as if they were not lease modifications.
IBOR (Interbank Offered Rates) Reform:
A lessee accounts for modifications required by the IBOR reform (modifications required as a direct consequence of the IBOR reform and made on an economically equivalent basis) by updating the effective interest rate. All other modifications are accounted for using the applicable requirements.
Accounting By Lessor:
Lessors shall classify each lease as an operating lease or a finance lease.
A lease is classified as a finance lease if it transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership of an underlying asset. Otherwise, a lease is classified as an operating lease.
Examples of situations that individually or in combination would normally lead to a lease being classified as a finance lease are:
The lease transfers ownership of the asset to the lessee by the end of the lease term the lessee has the option to purchase the asset at a price which is expected to be sufficiently lower than fair value at the date the option becomes exercisable that, at the inception of the lease, it is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised the lease term is for the major part of the economic life of the asset, even if title is not transferred at the inception of the lease, the present value of the minimum lease payments amounts to at least substantially all of the fair value of the leased asset the leased assets are of a specialised nature such that only the lessee can use them without major modifications being made.
Upon lease commencement, a lessor shall recognise assets held under a finance lease as a receivable at an amount equal to the net investment in the lease.
A lessor recognises finance income over the lease term of a finance lease, based on a pattern reflecting a constant periodic rate of return on the net investment.
At the commencement date, a manufacturer or dealer lessor recognises selling profit or loss in accordance with its policy for outright sales to which IFRS 15 applies.
A lessor recognises operating lease payments as income on a straight-line basis or, if more representative of the pattern in which benefit from use of the underlying asset is diminished, another systematic basis.
Sale and Leaseback Transactions:
To determine whether the transfer of an asset is accounted for as a sale an entity applies the requirements of IFRS 15 for determining when a performance obligation is satisfied. Please go through my relevant article below:
If an asset transfer satisfies IFRS 15’s requirements to be accounted for as a sale the seller measures the right-of-use asset at the proportion of the previous carrying amount that relates to the right of use retained. Accordingly, the seller only recognises the amount of gain or loss that relates to the rights transferred to the buyer.
If the fair value of the sale consideration does not equal the asset’s fair value, or if the lease payments are not market rates, the sales proceeds are adjusted to fair value, either by accounting for prepayments or additional financing.
Disclosure:
The objective of IFRS 16’s disclosures is for information to be provided in the notes that, together with information provided in the statement of financial position, statement of profit or loss and statement of cash flows, gives a basis for users to assess the effect that leases have.
Effective Date and Transition:
An Entity applies IFRS 16 for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019. Earlier application is permitted if IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers has also been applied.
Note: As a practical expedient, an entity is not required to reassess whether a contract is, or contains, a lease at the date of initial application.
A Lessee shall either apply IFRS 16 with full retrospective effect or alternatively not restate comparative information but recognise the cumulative effect of initially applying IFRS 16 as an adjustment to opening equity at the date of initial application.
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