Objective
The objective of this Standard is to prescribe the accounting treatment and disclosures related to agricultural activity
Scope
This Standard shall be applied to account for the following when they relate to agricultural activity:
- biological assets, except for bearer plants;
- agricultural produce at the point of harvest; and
- government grants covered by paragraphs 34 and 35.
Definitions
Agricultural activity is the management by an entity of the biological transformation and harvest of biological assets for sale or for conversion into agricultural produce or into additional biological assets.
Agricultural produce is the harvested produce of the entityβs biological assets.
A bearer plant is a living plant that:
- is used in the production or supply of agricultural produce;
- is expected to bear produce for more than one period; and
- has a remote likelihood of being sold as agricultural produce, except for incidental scrap sales.
A biological asset is a living animal or plant.
Biological transformation comprises the processes of growth, degeneration, production, and procreation that cause qualitative or quantitative changes in a biological asset
Costs to sell are the incremental costs directly attributable to the disposal of an asset, excluding finance costs and income taxes
A group of biological assets is an aggregation of similar living animals or plants.
Harvest is the detachment of produce from a biological asset or the cessation of a biological assetβs life processes.
The following are not bearer plants:
- plants cultivated to be harvested as agricultural produce (for example, trees grown for use as lumber);
- plants cultivated to produce agricultural produce when there is more than a remote likelihood that the entity will also harvest and sell the plant as agricultural produce, other than as incidental scrap sales (for example, trees that are cultivated both for their fruit and their lumber); and
- annual crops (for example, maize and wheat).
When bearer plants are no longer used to bear produce they might be cut down and sold as scrap, for example, for use as firewood. Such incidental scrap sales would not prevent the plant from satisfying the definition of a bearer plant.
Produce growing on bearer plants is a biological asset.
Agricultural activity covers a diverse range of activities; for example, raising livestock, forestry, annual or perennial cropping, cultivating orchards and plantations, floriculture and aquaculture (including fish farming). Certain common features exist within this diversity:
- Capability to change. Living animals and plants are capable of biological transformation;
- Management of change. Management facilitates biological transformation by enhancing, or at least stabilising, conditions necessary for the process to take place (for example, nutrient levels, moisture, temperature, fertility, and light). Such management distinguishes agricultural activity from other activities. For example, harvesting from unmanaged sources (such as ocean fishing and deforestation) is not agricultural activity; and
- Measurement of change. The change in quality (for example, genetic merit, density, ripeness, fat cover, protein content, and fibre strength) or quantity (for example, progeny, weight, cubic metres, fibre length or diameter, and number of buds) brought about by biological transformation or harvest is measured and monitored as a routine management function
Biological transformation results in the following types of outcomes:
- asset changes through
- growth (an increase in quantity or improvement in quality of an animal or plant),
- degeneration (a decrease in the quantity or deterioration in quality of an animal or plant), or
- procreation (creation of additional living animals or plants); or
2. production of agricultural produce such as latex, tea leaf, wool, and milk.
Recognition and measurement
An entity shall recognise a biological asset or agricultural produce when, and only when:
- the entity controls the asset as a result of past events;
- it is probable that future economic benefits associated with the asset will flow to the entity; and
- the fair value or cost of the asset can be measured reliably
Disclosure
An entity shall disclose the aggregate gain or loss arising during the current period on initial recognition of biological assets and agricultural produce and from the change in fair value less costs to sell of biological assets.