Unit – 3
Investment Accounting
A value security is an interest in stock gave by another organization. The representing an interest in a value security is controlled by the measure of control of and impact over working choices the organization buying the stock has over the organization giving the stock. On the off chance that under 20% of the stock is procured and no huge impact or control exists, the venture is represented utilizing the expense strategy. On the off chance that 20–half of the stock is possessed, the financial backer is generally ready to fundamentally impact the organization it has put resources into. Expecting the financial backer doesn't control the quantity of positions on the Board of Directors or stand firm on key official situations, this speculation would be represented utilizing the value strategy. In the event that the financial backer has half or to a greater extent an organization's stock, huge impact and control are considered to exist and the financial backer reports its outcomes utilizing solidified fiscal summaries. Despite the fact that percent of casting a ballot stock claimed fills in as a rule, the measure of impact and control is utilized to decide the representing value protections.
Cost technique
The expense strategy for representing corporate shares records the obtaining costs in a resource account, "Value Investments." As with obligation speculations, securing costs incorporate commissions and charges paid to gain the stock.
The representing speculations happens when assets are paid for a venture instrument. The specific kind of bookkeeping relies upon the goal of the speculator and the relative size of the venture. Contingent upon these components, the accompanying kinds of bookkeeping may apply. Value speculations represented by utilizing the expense technique are delegated either exchanging protections or available‐for‐sale protections, and the estimation of the venture is acclimated to showcase esteem. At the point when a value speculation represented under the expense strategy is sold, an increase or misfortune is perceived for the distinction between its obtaining cost and the returns got from the deal.
Equity method
The value technique for representing corporate securities is utilized when the financial backer can altogether impact the working and monetary strategies or choices of the organization it has put resources into. Given this impact, the financial backer changes the estimation of its value venture for profits got from, and the income (or misfortunes) of, the enterprise whose stock has been bought. The profits got are represented as a decrease of the speculation esteem since profits are a fractional return of the financial backer's venture.
Consolidated financial statements
An organization that claims more prominent than half of another substance is known as the parent organization. The organization whose stock is possessed is known as the auxiliary organization. A parent organization utilizes the value strategy to represent its interest in its auxiliary. At the point when budget summaries are readied, the resources and liabilities (accounting report), incomes and costs (pay explanation), and incomes (income articulation) of both the parent organization and auxiliary organization are joined and appeared in similar proclamations. These assertions are called united accounting reports, solidified pay articulations, and combined income explanations—together they are called merged budget summaries—and address the monetary position, aftereffects of tasks, and incomes of the parent organization and some other organizations it controls.
An obligation security is an interest in bonds gave by the public authority or a partnership. At the hour of buying a security, the procurement costs are recorded in a resource account, for example, "Obligation Investments." Acquisition costs incorporate the market cost paid for the security and any venture expenses or dealer's payments. For instance, if Computers Galore buys five of the 10%, ten‐year $1,000 bonds gave by VEI on July 1 for $5,500 and pays representative's charges of $50, the section to record the buys would incorporate both the price tag and merchant's expenses in the expense of the speculation.
General Journal
Date | Account Title and Description | Ref. | Debit | Credit |
20X0 |
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July 1 | Debt Investment |
| 5,550 |
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| Cash |
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| 5,550 |
| Purchase of five VEI bonds |
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The bonds pay interest each December 31 and June 30. At the point when the semi annual premium is gotten on December 31, the section to record it expands (charges) money and builds (credits) premium income for $250 ($5,000 × 10% × 6/12).
General Journal
Date | Account Title and Description | Ref. | Debit | Credit |
20X0 |
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Dec. 31 | Cash |
| 250 |
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| Interest Revenue |
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| 250 |
| Interest on VEI bonds |
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The bonds might be held to development or sold. In the event that they are held to development, the bonds are delegated a long‐term speculation and the distinction between the development esteem and the expense of the bonds is amortized to the pay explanation over the existence of the bonds. On the off chance that the securities are held available to be purchased (not held for development), their worth changes as the market changes. At the hour of the deal, an addition or misfortune is recorded for the distinction between the book esteem and the returns got from the deal. For instance, on the off chance that one of the bonds was sold for $1,050 on June 1, the passage would incorporate a deficiency of $60, the contrast between the expense of $1,110 ($5,550 all out obtaining cost partitioned by 5 securities procured) and the returns of $1,050.
General Journal
Date | Account Title and Description | Ref. | Debit | Credit |
20X1 |
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June 1 | Cash |
| 1,050 |
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| Loss on Sale of Debt Investments |
| 60 |
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| Debt Investments |
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| 1,110 |
| Sale of one VEI bond |
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Held to development speculation.
In the event that the financial specialist means to hold a venture to its development date (which adequately restricts this bookkeeping strategy to obligation instruments) and can do as such, the speculation is named held to development. This venture is at first recorded at cost, with amortization changes from that point to mirror any premium or rebate at which it was bought. The venture may likewise be recorded to mirror any perpetual hindrances. There is no continuous acclimation to advertise an incentive for this kind of venture. This methodology can't be applied to value instruments, since they have no development date.
Exchanging security.
In the event that the financial specialist expects to undercut its interest in the term for a benefit, the speculation is named an exchanging security. This speculation is at first recorded at cost. Toward the finish of each ensuing bookkeeping period, change the recorded venture to its reasonable incentive as of the finish of the time frame. Any hidden holding gains and misfortunes are to be recorded in working pay. This speculation can be either an obligation or value instrument.
Ready to move.
This is a speculation that can't be sorted as a held to development or exchanging security. This speculation is at first recorded at cost. Toward the finish of each ensuing bookkeeping period, change the recorded speculation to its reasonable incentive as of the finish of the time frame. Any hidden holding gains and misfortunes are to be recorded in other thorough pay until they have been sold.
Value strategy.
On the off chance that the speculator has huge working or monetary power over the investee (by and large viewed as at any rate a 20% premium), the value strategy ought to be utilized. This venture is at first recorded at cost. In ensuing periods, the financial specialist perceives a lot of the benefits and misfortunes of the investee, after intra-element benefits and misfortunes have been deducted. Likewise, if the investee issues profits to the financial specialist, the profits are deducted from the speculator's interest in the investee.
Materialness of AS 13 Accounting for Investments
AS 13 Accounting for Investments doesn't manage the accompanying:
- The base for perceiving profits, premium, and rentals which are acquired on the speculations that are covered by AS 9
- Money or working leases which are covered by AS 19
- Interests in retirement advantage plans and extra security undertakings which is covered by AS 15
- The accompanying which is framed under the Central or the State Government Act or proclaimed under Companies Act, 2013
- Mutual Funds
- Investment Funds and related Asset Management Companies
- Banks just as open monetary establishments
Types of Investments
A. Current Investments - Current Investments will be ventures which by their temperament are promptly feasible and are proposed to be held for not exactly a year from the date when such speculation is finished.
B. Long haul Investments - Long-term speculations are ventures other than the current speculations, despite the fact that they may be uninhibitedly attractive.
Cost of Investments
- Intermediary, obligations, and expenses - The expense of speculations incorporate charges identified with procurement of business, obligations, and charges
- Non-money thought – on the off chance that speculations are gained, or halfway procured, by
- Issuing shares
- Issuing other securities
- some other asset,
the expense of obtaining is the reasonable estimation of protections which are given or the resources which are surrendered.
The reasonable worth may not basically be same as the standard or ostensible estimation of protections which are given. It very well may be judicious to consider reasonable estimation of such speculation obtained on the off chance that it's more clear
- Premium, profit or other receivables – Dividends, premium and other receivables that are regarding the ventures are generally considered as pay, is the ROI (return on the speculation).
Nonetheless, in specific conditions, such inflows mean a recuperation of the expense and doesn't shape part of the pay.
On the off chance that it's hard to do such assignments, cost of speculation is normally decreased to the degree of profits receivable just on the off chance that they address unmistakably the recuperation of a bit of the expense
- Right Shares – on the off chance that correct offers offered are accordingly bought in for, cost of such right offers is then added to conveying the measure of unique holding.
In the event that the rights aren't bought in for, notwithstanding, are sold, deal continues from the offer of such rights are moved to P/L articulation. Yet, where a venture is obtained on a cum-right premise and market estimation of the speculation following turning out to be ex-right is not exactly the expense for which such speculation was gained, it very well may be judicious to apply the returns from the offer of rights to lessen conveying the measure of the venture to the market esteem
Conveying Amount of Investments
Current ventures should be conveyed in fiscal reports at lower of cost and reasonable worth which is resolved either by class of speculation or on an individual speculation premise, in any case, not on the general premise.
Long haul ventures should consistently be conveyed in fiscal summaries at their expense. However, when there's a decay, aside from brief, in worth the drawn out speculation, conveying sum is decreased for perceiving such decrease.
Venture Property
Venture property is speculations that are made in land or structures which aren't imagined to be utilized essentially for use, or in business tasks of, the contributing organization.
Speculation Treatment on Disposal
On special or removal of the venture, the contrast between the conveying cost and continues from the business net of any costs is moved to P&L.
Renaming of Investments
Where a drawn out speculation is renamed as a current venture, the exchange is made at conveying sum and lower of cost at the date of such exchange. Where a speculation is renamed from current venture to long haul venture, the exchange is made at the lower of its expense and the reasonable estimation of such venture at the date of such exchange.
Revelations in the Financial Statements
The beneath referenced are the exposures in the fiscal reports regarding AS 13 Accounting for Investments is appropriate:
(a) Bookkeeping arrangements utilized for deciding conveying measure of speculation
(b) The sums which are remembered for the benefit and misfortune proclamation for:
(I) Dividends, premium, and rentals on the speculations introducing the pay from such long haul and current ventures independently. Net pay should be expressed, measure of TDS (charge deducted at source) included under the Advance Taxes Paid
(ii) Benefits and misfortunes on the removal of current speculation and the progressions in conveying the measure of the venture
(iii) Benefits and misfortunes on the removal of long haul speculation and the progressions in conveying the measure of the venture
(c) Generous restrictions on the privilege of possession, feasibility of the ventures or settlement of pay and continues of removal
(d) The aggregate sum of both the cited and unquoted speculations, giving the all-out market estimation of the cited ventures
(e) Different exposures as unequivocally as needed by the important rule overseeing the organization.
Outline 3:
On first March 1992, XY Corporation Ltd. bought Rs. 30,000, 5% Government Stock at Rs. 95 cum-interest. On first May 1992, the organization sold Rs. 10,000 of Stock at Rs. 97 cum-interest. On fifteenth December 1992, another Rs. 10,000 Stock was sold at Rs. 93 ex-interest. On 31st December 1992, the end date of the monetary year, the market cost of the Stock was Rs. 92.
Half-yearly interest is gotten each year as on 30th June and 31st December.
Set up a record account in the venture record expecting that the stock exchange book is shut 20 days before the date of instalment of interest. Overlook annual duty and financier.
Solution:
In the books of XY Corporation Ltd.
5% Govt. Stock Account
(Interest Payable: 30th June and 31st December)
Dr. Cr.
Date | Particulars | L F | Nominal | Interest | Principal | Date | Principal | L F | Nominal | Interest | Principal |
1992 Mar. 1
May 1
Dec. 31
1993 Jan. 1 |
To Bank A/c -Purchase at cum-interest “ Profit and Loss A/c -Profit on Sale “ Bank A/c -Interest directly paid to the purchaser “ Profit and Loss A/c -Interest for the year transferred
To Balance b/d |
| Rs 30,000 | Rs 250
250
896
| Rs 28,250
116
| 1992 May 1
June 30
Dec. 31 |
By Bank A/c –Sale at cum-interest “ Bank A/c -Interest ( Rs. 20,000× 5/100 × 6/12) Bank A/c –Sold at Ex-Interest “ Profit and Loss A/c “ Bank A/c -Interest ( Rs. 20,000× 5/100 × 6/12) “ Profit and Loss A/c –Loss on Stock Valuation “ Balance c/d |
| Rs 10,000
10,000
10,000 | Rs 167
500
229
5004
| Rs 9,533
9,300
117
216
9,200 |
30,000 | 1,396 | 28,336 | 30,000 | 1,396 | 28,336 | ||||||
10,000 |
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9,200 |
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Workings:
Purchase at Cum-Interest 28,500 (Rs. 30,000 × 95/100)
Less: Interest (Rs. 30,000 × 5/100 × 2/12) 250 28,250 | 2. Sale and Interest on 1.5.1992 Rs Sale at Cum-Interest (Rs. 10,000 × 97/100) 9,700
Less: Interest (Rs. 10,000 × 5/100 × 4/12) 167 9,553 |
3. Sale and Interest on 15.12.1992 Sale at Ex-Interest (Rs. 10,000 × 93/100) 9,300
Interest (Rs. 10,000 × 5/100 × 51/2 / 12) 229 | 4. It must be remembered that although the stock was sold on 15.12.1992, the name of the buyer was not recorded in Stock Register due to closing of a stock transfer book, i.e., we received the interest and later on we paid to the buyer personally. |
Key Takeaways:
- The accounting for investments occurs when funds are paid for an investment instrument. The exact type of accounting depends on the intent of the investor and the proportional size of the investment. Depending on these factors, the following types of accounting may apply: Held to maturity investment.
Reference-
1. Financial Accounting by B.B Dam
2. Financial Accounting by K.R Das
