- 8 Marks
CR – May 2017 – L3 – Q3b – Impairment of Assets (IAS 36)
Identify indicators of impairment and discuss how to test for impairment of assets with dependent cash flows.
Question
IAS 36 stipulates how a company should test for impairment of assets. A multinational oil marketing company operating in Nigeria is not sure how to test for impairment of its assets, especially those that do not generate cash flows that are independent of other assets.
Required:
(i) Identify TWO external and TWO internal indicators that an asset of the multinational oil company may have been impaired. (2 Marks)
(ii) Briefly discuss how the multinational oil company should test for impairment of assets that do not generate independent cash flows. (6 Marks)
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