Share issue expenses accounting

Dear Sir/Expert,

kindly resolve following query.

A listed PSU was gone for Public issue Further Public Offer (FPO) recently, due to market conditions the issue was withdrawn back by compnay. now question is Expenditure was inccured by company for FPO issue how to account?  Company can adjust same FPO exp amount against the security premium amount already available ? or need to be charged to Profit and Loss account? suppose if the compnay already adjust against security premium amount what is next step to do if it wrong treatment? give suitable and supporting section for same.

Thanking you.

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This discussion addresses the accounting treatment for expenses incurred on a withdrawn Further Public Offer (FPO). It explores whether these costs can be offset against the security premium account or should be charged directly to the Profit and Loss account. Guidance suggests that abandoned equity transaction costs are typically expensed in profit and loss, ensuring a true and fair view of equity.

YThere is nothing wrong with what you want to do. You can offset when a standard permits you to. Usually during share forfeiture, all the gain will be transferred to capital reserves. Similarly, Adjust the total loss and transfer the excess loss to P&L. I am sure there will be no impact on tallying because total loss recognised in P&L account will reduce the equity and so does when total loss / partial loss recognised in securities premium reserves account and P&L. I’ll check out if there’s another treatment in IndAS later on

The FPO costs are allocated between issue and listing costs. The issue costs say 1000₹ are debited to equity and listing costs say 1000₹ are debited to OCI which again debited Reserves account by 1000₹. Cash/creditors accounts is credited by 2000₹. This is what has happened initially as I confirmed this from IFRS which was easy to find the material for.

You have to show true and fair view of equity at the beginning and at ending, so, 

By SPLOCI-PL loss 2,000

To Equity 1,000

To Reserves 1,000

if listing costs are applicable

This way, retained earning will be reduced and no other accounts while remeasuring the year end balances. I tried my best to find the IndAS for transaction costs reversals, but not prescribed for reversals. 

Or, one can even disclose the transaction costs and leave it off because Total equity had reduced anyways and one can’t recover that amount.

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/audit/in-audit-ind-as-32-and-ind-109-financial-instruments-noexp.pdf

 

on page 18, the costs of equity transactions which are abandoned is expensed in profit and loss.

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