Question

Auto Inc. (Auto) is a company based in New York that manufactures automobiles and exports the finished vehicles to Europe. Auto manufactures two models; the most popular model is a four-door sedan (Sedan), and the other is a less common, highly customizable luxury sports car (Luxury Car). Auto contracts Trans-Atlantic Inc. (Atlantic) to ship its products to Europe. Atlantic has a fleet of 10 multi-use shipping vessels, each with capacity for 2,000 vehicles. The terms of the shipping contracts are as follows: • Sedan contract terms: o The term is five years. o MV Manhattan, a ship in Atlantic’s fleet, is dedicated to shipping Auto’s Sedans for the term of the contract. o Auto determines (1) which European ports receive shipments and (2) the order in which deliveries are made to the ports; Auto instructs Atlantic accordingly. o Auto has the option to send the ship below capacity. If the ship is below capacity, Atlantic cannot use the excess capacity to ship products of its other customers. • Luxury Car contract terms: o The term is five years. o Atlantic is required to deliver shipments of Luxury Cars within five weeks of notification from Auto that an order of Luxury Cars is ready for shipping. o Atlantic may choose any ship from its fleet to complete the request. o Auto may provide 250 to 2,000 Luxury Cars in a single request; however, shipping requests of Luxury Car generally do not exceed 500 vehicles in a single request because of the lower production volume and longer manufacturing time of Luxury Car. o Atlantic has the option to use excess capacity to ship products of its other customers. o After notification from Auto that Luxury Cars are ready to ship, Atlantic determines when within the five-week period to ship the cars, as well as the shipping route. Auto’s CFO understands that the new leasing standard has certain provisions that may affect how the company treats contracts of this nature. Required: Analyze the above and prepare a memorandum addressing the impact (if any) of the new leasing standard on Auto’s shipping arrangements for the following considerations: Case 17-1: You Tell Me: Am I a Lease? Page 2 Copyright 2017 Deloitte Development LLC All Rights Reserved. 1. Determine whether each of Auto’s contracts with Atlantic for Sedan and Luxury Car contains an identified asset. 2. Determine whether each contract conveys the right to control the use of the identified asset to the lessee.

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solution

For this situation the agreement with Atlantic for vehicles has a recognizable resource and the recognizable resource is MV Manhattan, the ship that is committed to delivery Auto's Sedans for the term of the agreement.

According to IFRS 16:9 a benefit is regularly recognized by being unequivocally determined in an agreement. For this situation it has been explicitly indicated that MV Manhattan will be utilized to dispatch Auto's Sedans. Also Atlantic can't utilize the abundance ability to send results of its different clients thus Auto has not given Atlantic the directly of substitution.

If there should be an occurrence of first contract with respect to vehicles the renter for example Auto Inc. has the directly to control the utilization of the recognized resource. Be that as it may, this isn't so in the second contract as in the second contract Atlantic has the directly to substitution and this privilege is substantive as Atlantic can choose any ship. Hence Atlantic has the viable capacity to substitute elective resources all through the time of utilization and they would monetarily profit by substitution.