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Gamuda Berhad (29579-T) • Annual Report 2012
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Summary of significant accounting policies (cont’d.)
2.23 Financial assets (cont’d.)
A financial asset is derecognised when the contractual right to receive cash flows from the asset has expired.
on derecognition of a financial asset in its entirety, the difference between the carrying amount and the sum of
the consideration received and any cumulative gain or loss that had been recognised in other comprehensive
income is recognised in profit or loss.
Regular way purchases or sales are purchases or sales of financial assets that require delivery of assets within
the period generally established by regulation or convention in the marketplace concerned. All regular way
purchases and sales of financial assets are recognised or derecognised on the trade date i.e., the date that
the Group and the Company commit to purchase or sell the asset.
2.24 Impairment of financial assets
The Group and the Company assess at each reporting date whether there is any objective evidence that a
financial asset is impaired.
Trade and other receivables and other financial assets carried at amortised cost
To determine whether there is objective evidence that an impairment loss on financial assets has been incurred,
the Group and the Company consider factors such as the probability of insolvency or significant financial
difficulties of the debtor and default or significant delay in payments. For certain categories of financial assets,
such as trade receivables, assets that are assessed not to be impaired individually are subsequently assessed
for impairment on a collective basis based on similar risk characteristics. objective evidence of impairment for
a portfolio of receivables could include the Group’s and the Company’s past experience of collecting payments,
an increase in the number of delayed payments in the portfolio past the average credit period and observable
changes in national or local economic conditions that correlate with default on receivables.
If any such evidence exists, the amount of impairment loss is measured as the difference between the asset’s
carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows discounted at the financial asset’s
original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.
The carrying amount of the financial asset is reduced by the impairment loss directly for all financial assets
with the exception of trade receivables, where the carrying amount is reduced through the use of an allowance
account. When a trade receivable becomes uncollectible, it is written off against the allowance account.
NoTES To ThE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
31 July 2012