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Question 3b i

Kappa prepares financial statements to 31 March each year. The following share-based payment arrangements were in force during the year ended 31 March 2015:

(i) On 1 April 2013, Kappa granted options to 500 employees to subscribe for 400 shares each in Kappa on 31 March 2017, providing the employees still worked for Kappa at that time. On 1 April 2013, the fair value of each option was $1·50.

In the year ended 31 March 2014, ten of these employees left Kappa and at 31 March 2014, Kappa expected that 20 more would leave in the three-year period from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2017. Kappa’s results for the year ended 31 March 2014 were below expectations and at 31 March 2014 the fair value of each option had fallen to 25 cents. Therefore, on 1 April 2014 Kappa amended the exercise price of the original options. This amendment caused the fair value of these options to rise from 25 cents to $1·45.

During the year ended 31 March 2015, five of the employees left and at 31 March 2015, Kappa expected that ten more would leave in the two-year period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2017. The results of Kappa for the year ended 31 March 2015 were much improved and at 31 March 2015, the fair value of a re-priced option was $1·60. (9 marks)

Required:
Show how and where transactions (i) and (ii) would be reported in the financial statements of Kappa for the year ended 31 March 2015.

Note: The mark allocation is shown against both of the two transactions above.
Ignore deferred tax.