Question :
Air France-KLM (AF), a French company, makes its financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards. AF's annual report for the year ended 31st March, 2011, which adds financial statements and disclosure notes, is given with all new textbooks. This material also is included in AF's "Registration Document 2010-11," dated June 15, 2011.
Required:
1. Sealy Corporation reported the subsequent line items in its statement of cash flows for the three months ended February 27, 2011:
Amortization of discount on secured notes 382,000
Amortization of debt issuance costs and other 1,175,000
In AF's financial statements, Note 30: "Financial Debt" explains the company's long-term debt. Neither of the two items above is reported in the financial statements of Air France, and neither is likely to appear there in the future. Why?
2. Evaluate the long-term borrowings in AF's balance sheet and the related note. Note that AF has convertible bonds outstanding that it issued in 2005. Purpose the journal entry AF would use to record the issue of convertible bonds. Purpose the journal entry AF could use to record the issue of the convertible bonds if AF used U.S. GAAP.
3. AF does not select the fair value option (FVO) to report its financial liabilities. Evaluate Note 32:3. "Market value of financial instruments." If the company had elected the FVO for all of its debt measured at amortized cost, what could be the balance at March 31, 2011, in the reasonable value adjustment account?
4. Is IFRS or U.S. GAAP more restrictive for evaluating when firms are allowed to elect the fair value option for financial assets and liabilities? Describe