Note 33 – Key estimates and assessments

Certain assumptions about the future and certain estimates and assessments as of the balance sheet date are particularly significant to measurement of assets and liabilities in the balance sheet. According to management assessment, none of the asset and liability amounts reported are associated with risk that material adjustment will be required in the next year.

Impairment of goodwill

The value of recognized goodwill is tested at least once a year to determine whether the asset may be impaired. The test requires assessment of the value in use of the cash generating unit, or groups of cash generating units, to which the goodwill has been allocated. This in turn requires that the expected future cash inflows from the cash generating units must be estimated and a relevant discount rate determined to calculate the present value of cash inflows.

See Note 13 for a description of impairment testing and assumptions used in the process.

Financial and operational leasing agreements

The largest and most important portion of the Group’s signed lease agreements involves properties. Consequently, in its classification, the Group has assessed whether the leasing agreements are financial or operational in nature. The leasing agreements contain no clauses to the effect that the ownership of the properties will transfer to the Company on the expiration of the agreements. Since the lease fees that the Group pays to the lessor are index-adjusted on a regular basis to correspond to market rent levels and since the Group assumes no risk for the residual value of the properties, it is deemed that largely all financial risks and advantages associated with the properties accrue to the lessor. Based on these qualitative factors, the agreements have been classified as operational leasing agreements. However, there is one agreement that has been classified as financial and its recognized amount amounted to SEK 3 M on the balance sheet date.

In addition to the above, the Group has a number of financial leasing agreements associated with leases of machinery and equipment, whose carrying value amounted to SEK 11 M as per the balance sheet date.

For additional information on the Group’s leasing agreements, please see Notes 5, 15 and 31.

Inventories

The cost of inventory is tested upon each close of books against estimated and assessed future selling prices. In the judgment of BE Group’s management, necessary impairments have been recognized based on the information available when the closing accounts were prepared.