TUNG LOK RESTAURANTS (2000) LTD / Annual Report
2016
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Notes to the financial statements
For the financial year ended 31 March 2016
2.
Summary of significant accounting policies (cont’d)
2.21
Borrowing costs
Borrowing costs are capitalised as part of the cost of a qualifying asset if they are directly attributable to the acquisition,
construction or production of that asset. Capitalisation of borrowing costs commences when the activities to prepare
the asset for its intended use or sale are in progress and the expenditures and borrowing costs are incurred. Borrowing
costs are capitalised until the assets are substantially completed for their intended use or sale. All other borrowing
costs are expensed in the period they occur. Borrowing costs consist of interest and other costs that an entity incurs in
connection with the borrowing of funds.
2.22
Employee benefits
(a)
Defined contribution plans
Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit plans are charged as an expense when employees have
rendered the services entitling them to the contributions. Payments made to state-managed retirement benefit
schemes, such as the Singapore Central Provident Fund, are dealt with as payments to defined contribution
plans where the Group’s obligations under the plans are equivalent to those arising in a defined contribution
retirement benefit plan.
(b)
Employee leave entitlement
Employee entitlements to annual leave are recognised as a liability when they accrue to the employees. The
estimated liability for leave is recognised for services rendered by employees up to the end of the reporting
period.
2.23
Taxes
(a)
Current income tax
Current income tax assets and liabilities for the current and prior periods are measured at the amount expected
to be recovered from or paid to the taxation authorities. The tax rates and tax laws used to compute the amount
are those that are enacted or substantively enacted by the end of the reporting periods, in the countries where
the Group operates and generates taxable income.
Current income taxes are recognised in profit or loss except to the extent that the tax relates to items recognised
outside profit or loss, either in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. Management periodically
evaluates positions taken in the tax returns with respect to situations in which applicable tax regulations are
subject to interpretation and establishes provisions where appropriate.
(b)
Deferred tax
Deferred tax is provided using the liability method on temporary differences at the end of the reporting period
between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts for financial reporting purposes.
Deferred tax liabilities are recognised for all temporary differences, except:
–
Where the deferred tax liability arises from the initial recognition of goodwill or of an asset or liability in
a transaction that is not a business combination and, at the time of the transaction, affects neither the
accounting profit nor taxable profit or loss; and
–
In respect of taxable temporary differences associated with investments in subsidiaries, associates and
interests in joint ventures, where the timing of the reversal of the temporary differences can be controlled
and it is probable that the temporary differences will not reverse in the foreseeable future.
