When 'Prescribed' becomes Misleading - Ind AS 16

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When 'Prescribed' becomes Misleading - Ind AS 16

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Ever wonder if the financial statements you read are actually telling the whole story? This source dives into a critical audit observation where a company’s depreciation policy may be hiding more than it reveals.While the company claimed its assets were depreciated based on "prescribed" useful lives under the Companies Act, 2013, the audit reveals a startling truth: those lives are merely indicative, not mandatory. By failing to estimate and disclose the specific useful lives for each class of property, plant, and equipment, the company appears to have bypassed the strict requirements of Ind AS 16.The intrigue deepens with the application of Ind AS 1, which warns that "vague or unclear" language can result in "obscuring information",. This means that even if a transaction is disclosed, the way it is written could have the same effect as omitting or misstating it entirely. Is the financial health of the company being masked by language that reduces understandability for the user? This source provides a fascinating look at how technical non-compliance and "obscured" disclosures can leave primary users in the dark.

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