The useful life of an asset is defined in terms of the asset's expected utility to the enterprise. The asset management policy of an enterprise may involve the disposal of assets after a specified time or after consumption of a certain proportion of the economic benefits embodied in the asset. Therefore, the useful life of an asset may be shorter than its economic life. The estimation of the useful life of an item of property, plant and equipment is a matter of judgement based on the experience of the enterprise with similar assets. When such a change in depreciation method is necessary the change should be accounted for as a change in accounting estimate and the depreciation charge for the current and future periods should be adjusted.
The depreciation charge for a period is usually recognised as an expense. However, in some circumstances, the economic benefits embodied in an asset are absorbed by the enterprise in producing other assets rather than giving rise to an expense. In this case, the depreciation charge comprises part of the cost of the other asset and is included in its carrying amount. For example, the depreciation of manufacturing plant and equipment is included in the costs of conversion of inventories . Similarly, depreciation of property, plant and equipment used for development activities may be included in the cost of an intangible asset.
However, a class of assets may be revalued on a rolling basis provided revaluation of the class of assets is completed within a short period of time and provided the revaluations are kept up to date. Division of Facilities Management will provide a list of assets to the Financial Accountant in respect of each completed capital development project to be potentially reclassified as plant and equipment or minor assets. Division of Facilities Management will also advise the Division of Finance of the breakdown of the major components and equipment in order to accurately depreciate the asset. Major components and equipment will be recognised as an asset component in Banner to allow for that component to be derecognised and/or replaced in future periods, if appropriate. In the short run, it would have temporarily stabilised the rupee by intervening in the foreign exchange market. But, that would have led to the loss of the country's foreign exchange reserves.
Parts of some items of property, plant and equipment may require replacement at regular intervals, such as replacing a hot water service, over the life of a building. These costs are considered repairs and maintenance and do not extend the useful life of the building. However, at times, the University would move internal walls or undertake a complete building refurbishment which are deemed to extend the useful life of a building, and should be capitalised. Those countries which were dewsteoyed becuase if this debt trap, economic destruction had their stocke markets desroyed. I think Sri lankan govt also changed Money exchange control act or money laundering act, PRepared a land registry when we had a Land reform commision or what ever.
Stock market, interest rate or currency manipulations are also for making easy the businesses of foreign investors life easy. But, Rice, paddy market, vegetable, Spices even Tea are suffering. So, what is the development of this so called Economic hub. Indonesia, Kenya and India are in the fore front.
Other than these, the govt wants and they asking I heard that Namunukula, Hunnasgiriya like mountains to be free for development which will be covered with real estate development. Eventually Sri lanka will be a California which has floods, Erosions, Droughts and revier catchment area loses and rivers will be dry. High intererst rates make poor pay more money to the banks which are in the Stick market. I think private banks are gaining while state banks are losing. JEwellery pawn market is with the private sector too, I think. The depreciable amount of an item of property, plant and equipment should be allocated on a systematic basis over its useful life.
The depreciation method used should reflect the pattern in which the asset's economic benefits are consumed by the enterprise. The depreciation charge for each period should be recognised as an expense unless it is included in the carrying amount of another asset. The purpose of this policy is to establish the requirements for the management of the University of Newcastle's property, plant and equipment and intangible assets. It ensures the University's capital assets are accurately recorded in the asset register and general/operating ledgers.
Almost entirety of PHP internal functions now enforce type checking, and instead of warnings, PHP now throws TypeError or ValueError exceptions. On legacy code bases, this change can cause issues, now that the errors are more boldly and unforgivably handled. Subsequent to initial recognition as an asset, an item of property, plant and equipment should be carried at its cost less any accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. When writing to a property that has not been declared, PHP will silently create a dynamic property instead.
In modern code, this is rarely done intentionally. This RFC proposes to deprecate and later remove the creation of dynamic properties, unless the class explicitly allows dynamic properties. StdClass and __get/__set are not affected by this change. Leasehold improvements include all costs incurred for the purpose of improving or altering leased land or buildings for the University's benefit over the term of the lease. Leasehold improvements generally cannot readily be removed upon termination of the lease.
Expenditure that can be separately identified as plant and equipment or a minor asset should be treated in accordance with the guidance under clauses to . In PHP 8.0, they are work as value-objects as opposed to fully-features classes with methods in them. Majority of these classes do not allow instantiating with the new Foo() construct either, and must be instantiated with the existing functions that returned resource objects in prior versions. One country cannot overstimulate one factor and grow. That is not sustainable and will collapse and reverse all developments. So, artificially lowering exchange rate or simply sitting and watch, but saying this is going to help export also will not help.
She gives one of her finger to the baby to hold and she makes very mild movements. This will force the baby to sway with her and learn to walk. If move fast, baby will be dragged and its legs don't pick up the needed rhythm. This is how developed nations fine tune their inflation.
If the country's total wealth is Rs1000B and country's currencies totaled to that amount, then no inflation will set in. But as per price schedules, the wealth is Rs 1000B and the total currencies added up to Rs 10100B there will 10% excess cash. Most of our devaluation of the currency is from internal inflation and country needs to import more. Irrelevant of income, if country's population grows, needs grow, and then demand for consumption grows.
Any part of peoples' need let be behind not satisfied by production will bring down their standard of living. I think Dr. Wijewardane knows that there is another side to this rupee depreciation story. Geor Zorro is known as a economic hitman who could bankrupt small countreis. Ranil wickramsinghe met Georze Zorroes in an economic summit in Indonesia.
There was a talk that the govt borrowed money from him via Belgium – a private loan. ITi sknown that there are secret methods to introduce printed money economies and send those to bankruptcy. There was some research project to destroy centgral banks.
There was a plan to introduce BITCOINS once the central bank is gone. Mangala Samraweera also got a Grant for $ 7.5 million I suppose for Lands, Politics and Ports. Some how if you search there are countries hit by those people. Another Article says that some countries want Sri lanka to be Debt trapped which sri lanka is doing.
NOw they are doing the same plan to Zambia and they identified it as Sri lanka in Africa. Ranil, Ravi K, Mangala and Arjun Mahedran – Economic Team was discussing with some private Consultants worked near HArward and Ranil implemented this economic destruction with the help of others. Even the bond scam was preplanned even before the January 15th Protest vote win.
But it would be disastrous unless the country is able to improve its productivity to offset the loss of competitiveness. This was exactly what Singapore did over the last 60 years or so. Comparatively, in 1950, Singapore dollar had been fixed at S$ 3.06 against the US dollar when the Sri Lanka rupee had been fixed at Rs 4.76 per dollar.
But due to the continued surplus in the current account, Singapore dollar continued to appreciate in the market reaching a level of S$ 1.30 per US dollar today. But it did not affect its competitiveness since Singapore was successful in improving its productivity to offset the loss in competitiveness. Hence, Sri Lanka with its low productivity growth should not seek to appreciate its currency. The Commission Staff and other parties present a class cost of service study and propose a revenue requirement allocation based on the cost to serve each of the rate classes.
Rate classes are generally made up of groups of similar customers such as residential, small business and commercial, and industrial. The CCOS is used to link the revenue recovered from each customer class to the costs caused by each customer class, respectively. The starting point for class allocation of the revenue requirement is the principle that the cost causer should be the cost payer, but other policy and equity factors may also be considered. Once the Commission determines how the revenue requirement will be divided among the customer classes (residential, commercial, etc.), it must determine how best to collect that revenue from the customers in each class.
The collection of the revenue requires the development of a specific rate design for each customer class . Rate design is the final step in the revenue allocation process. Revaluations should be made with sufficient regularity such that the carrying amount does not differ materially from that which would be determined using fair value at the balance sheet date. The University accepts donated non-financial assets (i.e. land, buildings, plant and equipment, artworks and rare books) in line with the Donation Acceptance and Management Policy.
The depreciable amount of a capital asset wil be allocated on a systematic basis over its useful life using the straight line method. Depreciation of an asset begins when it is available for use, that is, when it is located and commissioned and capable of being operated in the manner intended. A review of the depreciation rate for each class of asset will be performed on an annual basis.
I don't believe that this is the right strategy, because in contemporary code, classes being "locked" is the default state, while classes that require dynamic properties are a rare exception. Additionally, this requires that class owners consistently add the "locked" keyword to be effective. An Project WBS/AUC can be partially settled if only part of the asset is in service. For example, an WBS element/AUC may be used to capture all the components for standard audio visual installation, and then each room settled as the installation takes place.
In order to do this, there must be a reasonable basis of measurement for the value of each partial settlement. For example, AVS has a range of standardised room installations, each with a specific equipment list. Equipment and overhead costs can be calculated on the basis of a room installation type. PHP 8.0 is a major version update and a remarkable milestone in PHP, as it brings several new features to type system, syntax, error handling, strings, object-oriented programming, and more. In its review of the application, Commission staff - a group of accountants, economists, financial analysts, and engineers - reviews the utility's books and records. Commission staff has the ability to submit requests for additional data or information to the utility and the utility must respond to these requests.
This review can take several months to complete. Staff then provides a non-binding recommendation to the three-member Commission. Intervenors, such as consumer groups or industrial customers, may also file recommendations in the case. The Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board is the state-appointed representative of residential and small commercial ratepayers in rate cases before the Commission.
In some cases, agreements are reached that can settle all or some of the issues raised in the application. The Commission does not have to accept proposed settlement agreements. The Commission may accept, reject, or modify any settlement agreement. The cost of capital invested in assets is called a rate of return that reflects the actual cost of debt and a reasonable return or profit the utility has an opportunity to earn on equity invested by shareholders. For fixed assets other than non-depreciable land, the only grounds for not charging depreciation are that the depreciation charge and accumulated depreciation are immaterial. The depreciation charge and accumulated depreciation are immaterial if they would not reasonably influence the decisions of a user of the financial statements.
When an item of property, plant and equipment is revalued, the entire class of property, plant and equipment to which that asset belongs should be revalued. The frequency of revaluations depends upon the movements in the fair values of the items of property, plant and equipment being revalued. When the fair value of a revalued asset differs materially from its carrying amount, a further revaluation is necessary. Some items of property, plant and equipment may experience significant and volatile movements in fair value thus necessitating annual revaluation. Such frequent revaluations are unnecessary for items of property, plant and equipment with only insignificant movements in fair value.
Instead, revaluation every three or five years may be sufficient. Capital projects that involve the purchase of multiple capital items (sub-group of capital assets) that are required to work together to achieve expected benefits, will be capitalised. This will occur regardless of the cost of the individual items as long as the value of the sub-group of assets exceeds $10,000. Prior to the end of the financial year, each asset class not subject to an independent valuation in that year will be reviewed internally to ensure the Assets are still in use and are recorded at Fair Value.
Relevant statistical data is to be used to determine Fair Value and Asset values are to be updated only if the change is material. Every company can have different rates for the various classes as determined by their assets policy. These can differ from those in the income tax act. A determination will be made as to whether the project is eligible for capitalisation and, if applicable, the project will be assigned to an asset class. Capital assets that are in their first year of capitalisation are carried at their initial cost, less any accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Subsequent to their first year of capitalisation, capital assets are carried at their depreciated replacement cost.
For assets that have not yet been subject to a formal appraisal, depreciated replacement cost increment or decrement factors will be applied to the initial asset cost. The Commission determines what the appropriate amount of expense is for each expense type. Some expenses are disallowed in part or completely because they are deemed unnecessary for the provision of utility service.
Included within the expense category is on-going depreciation of plant and equipment. After all disallowances are reflected, the Commission authorizes the total dollar amount of expenses necessary to provide electric service. The Commission determines if new plant has been put in service and is now "used and required to be used" in providing "efficient and sufficient" service. If new plant has been shown to provide a benefit to consumers it is allowed in the rate base. Any plant that is not allowed in rate base does not factor in setting rates. If the code changes dynamically and we have to be sure that everything works as expected then we need an easy and understandable system that helps us remove old features.
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