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New standard Current US GAAP Current IFRS
This list is not intended to be a checklist
or all-inclusive. No one factor is
determinative on a stand-alone basis.
Measuring performance
obligations satisfied over time
A contractor should measure progress
toward satisfaction of a performance
obligation that is satisfied over time
using the method that best depicts the
transfer of goods or services to the
customer. Methods for recognising
revenue when control transfers over time
include:
• Output methods that recognise
revenue on the basis of direct
measurement of the value to the
customer of the entity’s performance
to date (for example, surveys of goods
or services transferred to date,
appraisals of results achieved).
• Input methods that recognise revenue
on the basis of the entity’s efforts or
inputs to the satisfaction of a
performance obligation (for example,
cost-to-cost, labour hours, labour
cost, machine hours, or material
quantities).
The method selected should be applied
consistently to similar contracts with
customers. Once the metric is calculated
to measure the extent to which control
has transferred, it must be applied to
total contract revenue to determine the
amount of revenue to be recognised.
The effects of any inputs that do not
represent the transfer of goods or
services to the customer, such as
abnormal amounts of wasted materials,
should be excluded from the
measurement of progress.
It may be appropriate to measure
progress by recognising revenue equal to
the costs of the transferred goods if goods
are transferred at a significantly different
time from the related service
A contractor can use either an input
method (for example, cost-to-cost,
labour hours, labour cost, machine
hours, or material quantities), an
output method (for example,
physical progress, units produced,
units delivered, or contract
milestones), or the passage of time
to measure progress toward
completion.
There are two different approaches
for determining revenue, cost of
revenue, and gross profit once a
‘percentage complete’ is derived: the
Revenue method and the Gross
Profit method.
A contractor can use either an input
method (for example, cost-to-cost,
labour hours, labour cost, machine
hours, or material quantities), an
output method (for example, physical
progress, units produced, units
delivered, or contract milestones), or
the passage of time to measure
progress toward completion.
IFRS requires the use of the Revenue
method to determine revenue, cost of
revenue, and gross profit once a
‘percentage complete’ is derived. The
Gross Profit method is not permitted.