The Group has historically had high-quality debtors and an impeccable repayment history. As a result there isn't a general provision model applicable to the Group.
The ECL for trade receivable for segments with a history of provisions of credit losses has been calculated using a Provision Matrix approach and Time Value of Money loss approach for segments with no history of credit
losses.
Provision matrix (segments: Funds and Government)
Provision matrix calculates the cash flows and then discounts those cash flows to calculate the real outstanding debtors (the outstanding debtors taking into account time value of money by subtracting the discounted cash
flows from the initial outstanding debtors).
The roll rates, loss rates and ultimate loss rate are calculated which will be the percentage of trade debtors as at year- end that are written off.
Time value of money (segments: Private, Healthcare and Retail)
The debtors whose expected credit losses are calculated using the time value of money are those that have not been previously or historically written off due to the fact that they are slow payers. The expected credit losses
are therefore limited to the effects of the time value of money due to slow paying (the opportunity cost of delayed payments). Therefore, this is based on the premise that all debtors will be collected, the time value
of money loss is the ultimate IFRS 9 impairment, and there is no credit loss.
Time value of money loss is calculated as (cash flows less discounted cash flows)/cash flows. |