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''Financial reporting - accounting principles.''
1.


Non-GAAP measures are amounts calculated and disclosed by management that supplement the reporting and disclosures required by law and financial reporting standards.
A basis of allocating costs or allowances across successive time periods by applying a consistent periodic percentage charge to - for example - the reducing net book value of a fixed asset.




Non-GAAP disclosures must:
For example,
*Be reconciled with related GAAP measures and
a fixed asset has a cost of $12m, to be depreciated on a reducing balance basis at a rate of 40% per year.
*Not be misleading.


The depreciation charge for Year 1 would be


Examples include non-GAAP earnings.
$12m x 40%


Non-GAAP measures are also known as ''alternative performance measures''.
= $4.8m.




:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Alternative performance measures - examples'''''</span>
The net book value at the end of Year 1 (and the start of Year 2)


:"The Group’s performance is assessed using a number of financial measures which are not defined under IFRS and are therefore non-GAAP (or alternative) performance measures. These are set out as follows:
= 12 - 4.8
:*CER is a measure which allows management to identify the relative year-on-year performance of the business by removing the impact of currency movements which are outside of management’s control.
:*Margin percentages (which are calculated by dividing the relevant profit figure by revenue) for each of the relevant profit metrics provide management with an insight into relative year-on-year performance.
:*Adjusted profit measures, as described in note 1(c) to the consolidated financial statements, are believed by the Directors to enable a reader to obtain a fuller understanding of underlying performance since they exclude items which are not reflective of the normal course of business...


:The key adjusted profit measures comprises adjusted operating profit.
= $9.2m.


:Adjusting items (which are excluded to arrive at adjusted performance measures) are also described on the face of the income statement and in note 7 to the consolidated financial statements.
:*Adjusted earnings per share measures are derived from adjusted profit after tax with the rationale for their use being the same as for adjusted profit metrics and are reconciled to their IFRS equivalent in note 11 to the consolidated financial statements.
:*Free Cash Flow is defined on the face of the consolidated cash flow statement and provides management with an indication of the amount of cash available for discretionary investing or financing after removing capital related items."


:''Abcam plc - Annual Report - 2020''
The depreciation charge for Year 2
 
= $9.2m x 40%
 
= $3.68m.
 
 
The net book value at the end of Year 2 (and the start of Year 3)
 
= 9.2 - 3.68
 
= $5.52m.
 
And so on.
 
Using a reducing balance basis of depreciation, the net book value never falls to zero (unless the asset is disposed of).
 
 
2.
 
''UK tax.''
 
UK Writing Down tax Allowances are normally available to be claimed on a reducing balance basis.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Accounting policies]]
* [[Depreciation]]
* [[Adjusted earnings]]
* [[Straight line]]
* [[Cash flow statement]]
* [[Sum of the digits]]
* [[Consolidated group accounts]]
* [[Writing down allowance]]
* [[Constant exchange rate]] (CER)
* [[Disclosure]]
* [[Earnings per share]]
* [[Generally accepted accounting principles]]
* [[Financial reporting]]
* [[Free cash flow]]
* [[GAAP]]
* [[Income statement]]
* [[International Financial Reporting Standards]] (IFRS)
* [[Non-GAAP earnings]]
* [[Operating profit]]
* [[Reconciliation]]
* [[Reporting entity]]
* [[Underlying]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]

Revision as of 15:00, 26 November 2014

1.

A basis of allocating costs or allowances across successive time periods by applying a consistent periodic percentage charge to - for example - the reducing net book value of a fixed asset.


For example, a fixed asset has a cost of $12m, to be depreciated on a reducing balance basis at a rate of 40% per year.

The depreciation charge for Year 1 would be

$12m x 40%

= $4.8m.


The net book value at the end of Year 1 (and the start of Year 2)

= 12 - 4.8

= $9.2m.


The depreciation charge for Year 2

= $9.2m x 40%

= $3.68m.


The net book value at the end of Year 2 (and the start of Year 3)

= 9.2 - 3.68

= $5.52m.

And so on.

Using a reducing balance basis of depreciation, the net book value never falls to zero (unless the asset is disposed of).


2.

UK tax.

UK Writing Down tax Allowances are normally available to be claimed on a reducing balance basis.


See also