Company: BBU
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-017216
Chunk: 156

Company: Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 5
Chunk 156
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 from an entity that is under common control at the carrying values in the transferor’s financial statements.

Indicators of impairment

Judgment is applied when determining whether indicators of impairment exist when assessing the carrying values of the partnership’s assets, including the determination of the partnership’s ability to hold financial assets, the estimation of a cash-generating unit’s future revenues and direct costs, the determination of discount rates, and when an asset’s or cash-generating unit’s carrying value is above its recoverable amount.

For some of the partnership’s assets, forecasting the recoverability and economic viability of property and equipment requires an estimate of reserves. The process for estimating reserves is complex and requires significant interpretation and judgment. It is affected by economic conditions, production, operating and development activities, and is performed using available geological, geophysical, engineering and economic data.

  102      Brookfield Business Partners  

Revenue recognition

Judgment is applied where certain of the partnership’s subsidiaries use the cost-to-cost method to account for their contract revenue. The stage of completion is measured by reference to actual costs incurred to date as a percentage of estimated total costs for each contract. Significant assumptions are required to estimate the total contract costs and the recoverable variation works that affect the stage of completion and the contract revenue, respectively. In making these estimates, management has relied on past experience or the work of experts, where necessary.

Judgment is also applied where certain of the company’s subsidiaries generate revenues from contracts with multiple performance obligations. The partnership applies judgment in order to identify and determine the number of performance obligations, estimate the total transaction price, determine the allocation of the transaction price to each identified performance obligation, and determine the appropriate method and timing of revenue recognition.

Financial instruments

Judgments inherent in accounting policies relating to derivative financial instruments relate to applying the criteria to the assessment of the effectiveness of hedging relationships and estimates and assumptions used in determining the fair value of financial instruments, such as: equity or commodity prices; future interest rates; the creditworthiness of the partnership relative to its counterparties; the credit risk of the partnership’s counterparties; estimated future cash flows; discount rates and volatility utilized in option valuations.

Decommissioning liabilities

Decommissioning costs will be incurred at the end of the operating life of some of the partnership’s oil and gas facilities, mining properties and manufacturing facilities. These obligations are typically many years in the future and require judgment to estimate. The estimate of decommissioning costs can vary in response to many factors including changes in relevant legal,