Notes to the consolidated financial statements
(In thousands of Brazilian Reais R$, unless otherwise stated)
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Impairment testing of cash-generating units (CGU) goodwill
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The Company annually tests the recoverable amounts of goodwill arising from business combinations. Property, plant and equipment and intangible
assets with finite lives that are subject to depreciation and amortization are tested for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable.
For the purpose of analyzing impairment, concession contracts were defined as cash generating units, each registered with an individual
company. The basis for annual assessment and testing is September 30.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, we did not
identify any impairment indicators, so that no impairment test was necessary for property, plant and equipment and intangible assets with a defined useful life, except for the cash-generating unit represented by the Rumo Malha Oeste S.A.
(Malha Oeste) concession, which presents negative results with low cash generation.
The recoverable amount for fixed assets
of this cash-generating unit was determined using the discounted cash flow method of the cash-generating unit.
The main assumptions used
were (i) EBITDA projected for the cash generating unit, with no increase in volume transported, in the remaining term of the concession, and (ii) the discount rate (wacc) of 9% per year, before the taxes. The calculation resulted in a
recoverable amount of R$ 109,000, compared to a book value of R$ 99,000, which includes property, plant and equipment and intangible assets.
The balance of goodwill recorded by the Company is associated with the port and terminal lifting operation, so this cash-generating unit needs
to be tested annually.
The recoverable value of this cash-generating unit was determined by the net sale value of the unit, using the
EBITDA multiples technique, a technique considered level 3 in the hierarchy of fair value estimates.
The main assumptions used were
(i) EBITDA generated by the cash-generating unit in 2019, and (ii) average of the multiples practiced by market agents for companies (10.9x) in the sector in which the Company operates. The calculation resulted in a recoverable amount of
R$ 2,183,000, compared to a book value of R$ 819,039, which includes property, plant and equipment and intangible assets.
The
determination of the recoverability of the assets depends on certain key assumptions, as previously described, which are influenced by the market, technological and economic conditions prevailing at the time when this recovery is tested and,
therefore, it is not possible to determine whether new losses due to recovery reduction will occur in the future and, if they occur, whether they would be material. The amount of goodwill tested at Cosan Logística is R$100,451.
The main assumptions used consider, mainly, the expected growth of operations based on the Gross Domestic Product (Produto Interno Bruto
PIB) segmented by country, as well as the average growth levels experienced in recent years and other macroeconomic aspects, as well as the expected sale price of the shares, using discount rates that reflect specific risks related to the business,
as shown in the table above.
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