Ðề: Cash generating units là gì ?
Đọc ví dụ trong IFRS, chắc bác sẽ hiểu cụ tỉ hơn:
Example 1
A mining entity owns a private railway to support its mining activities. The railway is used to transport the ore mined and does not generate revenue the way passenger trains do. The private railway could be sold only for scrap value and it does not generate cash inflows that are largely independent of the cash inflows from the other assets of the mine.
It is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of just the private railway by itself because its value in use cannot be determined and is probably different from scrap value. Therefore, the entity estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the private railway belongs, i.e. the mine as a whole.
Example 2
A bus company provides services under contract with a municipality that requires minimum service on each of five separate routes. Assets devoted to each route and the cash flows from each route can be identified separately. One of the routes operates at a significant loss.
Because the entity does not have the option to curtail any one bus route (it MUST operate all five), the lowest level of identifiable cash inflows that are largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or groups of assets is the cash inflows generated by the five routes together. The cash-generating unit for each route is the bus company as a whole.