Blue Oak Investments owns a retail business which has suffered badly during the recession. Blue Oak Investments treats this business as a separate cash generating unit. The carrying amounts of the assets comprising the retail business are: $’000 Building 900 Plant and equipment 300 Inventory 70 Other current assets 130 Goodwill 40 An impairment review has been carried out as at 31 December 20X9 and the recoverable amount of the cash generating unit is estimated at $1.3m. Required Restate the carrying amounts of the assets of the retail business after accounting for the result of the impairment review.

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 Blue Oak Investments owns a retail business which has suffered badly during the recession. Blue Oak Investments treats this business as a separate cash generating unit.

The carrying amounts of the assets comprising the retail business are:

 

 

 

$’000

Building

900

Plant and equipment

300

Inventory

70

Other current assets

130

Goodwill

40

An impairment review has been carried out as at 31 December 20X9 and the recoverable amount of the cash generating unit is estimated at $1.3m.

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Restate the carrying amounts of the assets of the retail business after accounting for the result of the impairment review.

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