Wah Seong Corporation Berhad Annual Report 2017

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2017 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS WAH SEONG CORPORATION BERHAD ANNUAL REPORT 2017 88 2 SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 2.2 Changes in accounting policies and disclosures (continued) (b) Standards, amendments to published standards and interpretations to existing standards that are applicable to the Group and the Company but not yet effective (continued) • MFRS 9 ‘Financial Instruments’ (effective from 1 January 2018) will replace MFRS 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’ (continued) For liabilities, the standard retains most of the MFRS 139 requirements. These include amortised cost accounting for most financial liabilities, with bifurcation of embedded derivatives. The main change is that, in cases where the fair value option is taken for financial liabilities, the part of a fair value change due to an entity’s own credit risk is recorded in other comprehensive income rather than the income statement, unless this creates an accounting mismatch. MFRS 9 introduces an expected credit loss model on impairment that replaces the incurred loss impairment model used in MFRS 139. The expected credit loss model is forward-looking and eliminates the need for a trigger event to have occurred before credit losses are recognised. • MFRS 15 ‘Revenue from contracts with customers’ (effective from 1 January 2018) replaces MFRS 118 ‘Revenue’ and MFRS 111 ‘Construction contracts’ and related interpretations. The core principle in MFRS 15 is that an entity recognises revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to the customer in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Revenue is recognised when a customer obtains control of goods or services, i.e. when the customer has the ability to direct the use of and obtain the benefits from the goods or services. A new five-step process is applied before revenue can be recognised: • Identify contracts with customers; • Identify the separate performance obligations; • Determine the transaction price of the contract; • Allocate the transaction price to each of the separate performance obligations; and • Recognise the revenue as each performance obligation is satisfied. Key provisions of the new standard are as follows: • Any bundled goods or services that are distinct must be separately recognised, and any discounts or rebates on the contract price must generally be allocated to the separate elements. • If the consideration varies (such as for incentives, rebates, performance fees, royalties, success of an outcome etc), minimum amounts of revenue must be recognised if they are not at significant risk of reversal. • The point at which revenue is able to be recognised may shift: some revenue which is currently recognised at a point in time at the end of a contract may have to be recognised over the contract term and vice versa. • There are newspecific rules on licenses, warranties, non-refundable upfront fees, and consignment arrangements, to name a few. • As with any new standard, there are also increased disclosures. The Group and the Company will apply these standards and amendments from financial year beginning on 1 January 2018. It is not expected to result in any material impact on the financial position and results of the Group and the Company upon adoption of these standards and amendments apart from disclosures. MFRS 15 requires separate presentation of contract assets and contract liabilities in the statement of financial position. This will result in some reclassifications as of 1 January 2018 in relation to engineering contracts and contract liabilities in relation to amount due from and due to customers contract which are currently in statement of financial position, if any.