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IAS 19 – fast results, prepared by experienced actuarial professionals

 

IAS 19 is a waste of your time.

For most companies IAS 19 serves one purpose only – IFRS compliance. Your auditor and perhaps the authorities require it – even if the impact on your financials is expected to be minimal. There is little choice in the matter and IAS 19 has to happen.

The good news is that all companies reporting under IFRS are subject to this same burden. If you can perform this work more efficiently than your competitors, then you have advantage.

Knowing these onerous requirements are due, many companies are researching IAS 19 to find out … what exactly? What to ask for? Who to ask? Where to find an experienced actuary? What figures should go where and who will provide them?

As a business owner, or financial professional, there are many crucial matters in your business life – meeting payroll, growing sales, managing expenses – all essential to survival. IAS 19 is not one of these matters.

Getting IAS 19 done

What we offer is hassle-free IAS 19 results – with minimum demands of your time or effort.

For accounting professionals we provide a bulk calculation service so that you can fully service multiples of your clients under IFRS.

Whether you have 100 employees or 10,000, multiple companies within your group, or for multiple years, confidently leave the details to us. We will get results to you quickly and efficiently and we will guide you exactly how to use the results.

Please write our Head of Employee Benefits, Ms Susan Turner, at susanturner@luxactuaries.com.

I want to know more

You may want to learn more about IAS 19. There are many hundreds of pages of guidance, but we will discuss the main issues and attempt to demystify what might be new concepts in considering long-term future financial outcomes.

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IAS 19 Demystified

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Here we give basic information. We give greater depth and examples to regular searches and questions in our Blog.

IAS 19 pdf (requires registration on the site). We do not keep the pdf on this site as the copyright issues are unclear. This document consists of 52 pages containing some 178 paragraphs.

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What is IAS 19?

IAS 19 is the International Accounting Standard governing employee benefits accounting requirements. Under IAS 19, long-term employee benefits require an actuarial valuation.
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What is an IAS 19 actuarial valuation?

An IAS 19 actuarial valuation is an assessment of a company’s current and future liabilities generated by employee benefits promises. To complete this valuation, an agreed set of financial and demographic assumptions are used. These are based on the actuary’s best estimates, preferably supported by historical data.
An IAS19 actuarial valuation requires skilled personnel, both in qualification and in specific experience and application, to meet the stringent reporting requirements. It is necessary to employ professionally qualified actuaries to perform this task.
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Why conduct an IAS 19 valuation?

It is important for companies to understand with certainty their end of service gratuity liabilities and to determine whether they are under or over accruing for these employee benefit obligations. It is also important to understand the impact these liabilities will have on a company’s future cashflow.
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Does IAS 19 apply to all countries and companies?

Any company or entity that chooses to meet IFRS disclosure requirements will have to comply with IAS 19 as one of the underlying requirements. Meeting IFRS might be mandated by government, or company Head Office, or by desire to commit to global financial reporting standards and to access world markets, or as a matter of best practice.
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How does our Lux process work?

Collect; we reconcile and validate employee payroll data,
Engage with your team to set the valuation basis,
Calculate the actuarial cost of liabilities,
Conclude and make recommendations to Senior Management,
Present an extensive actuarial report within five to ten working days
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What does the report show?

Our actuarial report, fully compliant with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’  professional standards (IFoA – London, UK) sets out the following:
1. Data: summary statistics
2. Assumptions: we set out the impact and materiality or significance of each of our assumptions (demographic and financial)
3. Methodology: we detail our approach in reaching the results, in accordance with IAS 19
4. Results: we set out the figures you should use in the year-end financials, in an easy-to-understand format, directly transferable to your financials
5. Future year expected cost, for budgeting and planning purposes
6. Projections: we roll forward the results and provide a projection of estimated benefits versus expected future cash flows over the remaining lifespan of the benefits scheme, for use in your longer-term budgeting process.
7. Member level cost and liability, as per agreed scope
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How does Lux make your work as HR or Finance Director easier?

We undertake the actuarial valuation on behalf of your Company and ensure that the report is delivered in a timely, easy-to-use format.
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What are the advantages of conducting an IAS 19 actuarial valuation?

A company’s adoption of IFRS, including IAS 19, ensures its financial statements are uniform and comparable to its peers. For long-term employee benefit liabilities, a projection of future cashflow is required up to employees’ estimated time of leaving/retirement/death. The projection should be conducted under multiple economic scenarios, in order to understand associated risks. This modelling of the future is what the actuarial profession specialises in.
By commissioning an IAS 19 actuarial valuation it helps your Company to understand, with certainty, your employee benefit obligations. Such an exercise also serves to identify intrinsic risks and associated mitigating actions which, if necessary, can be implemented without undue delay.
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What other employee benefits services does Lux offer?

We offer more than actuarial valuation solutions. As employee benefit specialists we are well equipped to provide our clients with a number of value-added services, such as:
– Validation of internal accounting calculations and reporting
– Advice on scheme design, to match employee benefits liabilities, and/or reward employees via contributory savings
– Guidance on scheme governance and how to mitigate the risks – associated with employee benefit liabilities, including funding solutions
– Cost/Benefit analysis of introducing an employee benefits scheme, based on different scenarios
– Advice on asset/liability matching and risk-reducing strategies
– Employee payroll data audits, to verify accuracy and completeness
– Employee communications, including scheme booklets and total reward statements
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How do I find out more?

Lux Actuaries & Consultants
Susan Turner, BSC, FPMI
Head of Employee Benefits Services
+971 52 851 4075
susanturner@luxactuaries.com

Actuaries at your service

Lux Actuaries prepare many IAS 19 reports – small to large companies, for annual financial reporting, bulk employee transfers, M&As – when credibility of results matter.

You may also be interested in the existing Lux Actuaries IAS 19 page.

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IAS 19 Example

Real world examples are complicated. However, to help you understand the general workings of the Actuary in determining the DBO we ignore decrements (mortality, attrition) and only allow for a benefit paid on a guaranteed retirement. X is the only employee of a company that pays an End of Service Benefit (EOSB) lump sum benefit …

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