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A company is required to comply with both IFRS and U.S. GAAP lease accounting rules. The company has already booked their U.S. GAAP leases.
What accounting method should the company select to create the alternate contract for IFRS?
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
For IFRS 16, a long-term operating lease is treated in a manner comparable to a finance lease. The alternate supplier contract must therefore use the ROU asset depreciation expense accounting method. This method supports recognition of the right-of-use asset and lease liability, followed by depreciation or amortization of the ROU asset and separate interest expense over the lease term.
Straight line expense and ROU asset operating expense are associated with the single lease-expense pattern used for an ASC 842 operating lease rather than the IFRS 16 finance-style expense pattern. Workday does not automatically select the method without the relevant configuration; the accounting method is assigned through the lease contract type and book-code design and becomes a controlling attribute of the alternate contract. The original U.S. GAAP contract can continue to generate its own expense recognition, while the alternate IFRS contract produces the different accounting in an IFRS-specific book code and, where required, the IFRS asset book. Selecting ROU asset depreciation expense therefore establishes the appropriate IFRS treatment and prevents the alternate contract from duplicating the U.S. GAAP operating-lease expense pattern.
Official Workday reference: Workday - Multibook Asset Accounting for Leases; topics: IFRS 16 operating leases and ROU asset depreciation expense.
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