Consolidated Financial Statements of the F.I.L.A. Group
Separate Financial Statements of F.I.L.A. S.p.A.
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Business combinations
Business combinations are recognised utilising the acquisition method, based on which the
identifiable assets, liabilities, and contingent liabilities of the company acquired, which are in
compliance with the requirements of IFRS 3, are recorded at their fair value at the acquisition date.
Deferred taxes are recorded on adjustments made to book values in line with present values.
The application of the acquisition method due to its complexity provides for a first phase which
provisionally determines the fair values of the assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities acquired, to
permit a recording of the operation in the consolidated financial statements in the year in which the
business combination occurred. The initial recording is completed and adjusted within 12 months
from the acquisition date. Amendments to initial payments which derive
from events or circumstances
subsequent to the acquisition date are recorded in the income statement for the year.
Goodwill is recognised as the difference between:
a) the sum:
of the
payment transferred;
of the non-controlling interest, measured aggregation by aggregation or at Fair Value (full
goodwill) or the share of the net assets identifiable attributable to
non-controlling interests;
and, in a business combination realised in several phases, of the fair value of the interest
previously held in the acquisition, recognised to the income statement for the year any
resulting profit or loss;
b) the net value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed.
The costs related to the business combination are not part of the payment transferred and are therefore
recorded in the income statement for the year.
If the Group’s interest in the fair value of the identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities
recognised exceeds the cost of the business combination, the excess is immediately recognised in the
income statement. Goodwill is periodically reviewed to verify recovery through comparison with the
fair value or the future cash flows generated from the underlying investment.
At the end of the analysis, the goodwill acquired in a business combination is allocated, at the
acquisition date, to the individual Group cash-generating units, or to the group of cash-generating
units which should benefit from the synergies of the business combination, independently of the fact
that other assets or liabilities of the Group are allocated to this unit or group of units. Each unit or
group of units to which the goodwill is allocated:
represents the smallest identifiable group of assets that generates cash
streams largely independent
of the cash streams from other assets
or groups of assets;
is not greater than the operating segments identified based on IFRS 8 Operating Segments.