THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
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The economic resource must be under the control of the business
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This gives a business
the exclusive right to decide how the resource is used as well as the right to any benefits
that flow. Control is usually acquired by a business through legal ownership or through a
contractual agreement (for example, leasing equipment). The event, or transaction, leading
to control of the resource must have occurred in the past. In other words, the business
must already exercise control over it. (See Reference 1 at the end of the chapter.)
These may include:
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cash generated from producing goods or services;
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cash received from the proceeds on selling the resource;
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the value received when exchanged for another economic resource;
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the value received when used to satisfy debts incurred by the business; and
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cash generated from renting or leasing it.
You may have thought of others.
Assume a business owns a 40 per cent stake in a gold mine. As this ownership stake
will not give control over the whole of the gold mine, can this resource be regarded as
an asset of the business?
In this case, the asset of the business will be the 40 per cent share of the mine that is
under its control, rather than the whole of the gold mine.
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