You are a Financial Controller at BCD and are in the process of preparing the year-end financial statements. A member of your finance team has come to see you about her provisions balance at year- end.
She says that the Managing Director has asked her to increase the provisions balance by $1 million overall. She thinks this is because BCD has had a very good year in terms of profit, and the Managing Director wants to put some profit aside to protect against any future reductions in profit. $1 million is material to BCD.
You believe that the provisions balance was fairly stated without the additional $1 million.
Which TWO of the following would be appropriate actions in this scenario?

Which of the following principles are the basic principles followed by the consolidated income statement?
Select ALL that apply.

The basic earning per share computed by a company for year ended 31st March 20X7 is £2 per share.
The company had certain convertible debentures outstanding as on 31st March 20X7. The conversion of debentures to equity shares would result in the earnings per share to be £2.2. Which of the following should the company disclose?

UV has raised $100,000 through the issue of two irredeemable financial instruments:
* 6% debentures with a current market value of $101.50 per $100 nominal value; and
* 8% preference shares with a current share price of $2.20 each.
The corporate income tax rate is 20%
What is the post tax cost of debt for each of these instruments?

At 31 October 20X1 RS has in issue 10% debentures 20X8 with a carrying value of $350,000.
Extracts from its statement of profit or loss for the year ending 31 October 20X7 are as follows:

What is the interest cover for RS for the ended 31 October 20X7?