Need to Know: IFRS 10 - Consolidated Financial ... - BDO Canada

42 IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial StatementsPotential voting rightsPotential voting rights are relevant when control is assessed. However, like IAS 27(2008), IFRS 10 requires that profitor loss and changes in equity are allocated to non-controlling interests on the basis of existing ownership interests(IFRS 10.B89). In an extreme scenario where a parent consolidates a subsidiary because it controls it by means of100% potential voting rights, all profit or loss and changes in equity would be allocated to non-controlling interests.In circumstances where an entity has, in substance, an existing ownership interest as a result of a transaction thatcurrently gives it access to returns associated with an ownership interest, the proportion allocated to the parent andnon-controlling interests is determined by taking into account the eventual exercise of those potential voting rightsthat currently give the entity access to returns (IFRS 10.B90). These circumstances are relatively unusual, but mightarise when an entity holds a combination of equity instruments, potential voting rights and derivatives that give itexposure to equity-like returns. Other arrangements might include contractual terms, under which a restriction onan entity’s ability to pay dividends could result in potential voting rights having an entitlement to returns.If an investee is a subsidiary and is consolidated by a parent entity, then in the parent entity’s financial statements,instruments containing potential voting rights which in substance currently give access to returns are outside thescope of IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement (or IFRS 9 Financial Instruments if it has beenearly adopted). All other instruments containing potential voting rights are accounted for in accordance with IAS 39or IFRS 9 (IFRS 10.B91).7.7.1. Non-controlling interestsA parent is required to present its non-controlling interests in the consolidated statement of financial position withinequity but separately from the equity of the owners of the parent (IFRS 10.22).Profit or loss, and each component of other comprehensive income, is required to be attributed to the owners ofthe parent and to non-controlling interests. An allocation is made to non-controlling even if this results in the noncontrollinginterests having a deficit balance (IFRS 10.B94).Changes in a parent’s interest in a subsidiary that do not result in the parent losing control of the subsidiaryare regarded as transactions with owners in their capacity as owners and are therefore accounted for in equity(IFRS 10.23). This will usually be changes in ownership holdings between over 50% and 100% ownership. Thedifference between the amount by which the non-controlling interests are adjusted and the fair value of theconsideration paid or received is directly recognised in equity (IFRS 10.B96).7.7.2. Loss of controlThe loss of control in a subsidiary is usually straightforward to identify, and typically results from a single event(such as a disposal of a subsidiary). A parent might however lose control in a subsidiary in two or more transactions.IFRS 10.B97 provides indicators when such arrangements are required to be accounted for as a single transaction.A parent is required to account for the arrangements as a single transaction if one or more of the conditions set outbelow are met:––They are entered into at the same time or in contemplation of each other––They form a single transaction designed to achieve an overall commercial effect––The occurrence of one arrangement is dependent on the occurrence of at least one other arrangement––One arrangement considered on its own is not economically justified, but it is economically justified whenconsidered together with other arrangements (e.g. when a disposal of shares is priced below market and iscompensated for by a subsequent disposal priced above market).