Annual Report 2025
Accounting Policies
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Notes – Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 30: Accounting Policies - continued
Income statement
Fair value adjustment biological assets
Fair value adjustments of biological assets include the
adjustments of the company’s biological assets for the
financial year measured at fair value.
Costs of sales
Costs of sales include the consumption of raw materials
and consumables used to achieve net revenue.
Other external expenses
Other external expenses comprise expenses for distribution,
sale, administration, premises, bad debts, etc.
Staff costs
Staff costs comprise salaries and wages, social security
costs, pension contributions, etc. for the Company’s staff.
Amortization, depreciation and impairment losses
Amortization, depreciation and impairment losses relating
to intangible and tangible assets comprise amortization,
depreciation and impairment losses for the financial year,
calculated on the basis of the residual values and useful
lives of the individual assets and impairment testing as well
as gains and losses from the sale of intangible assets as
well as property, plant and equipment.
Financial income and expenses
These items comprise interest income and interest
expenses, the interest portion of finance lease payments,
payables and transactions in foreign currencies, mortgage
amortization premium/allowance on mortgage debt, etc. as
well as tax surcharge and repayment under the Danish Tax
Prepayment Scheme.
Tax
Tax for the year, which consists of current tax for the year
and changes in deferred tax, is recognized in the income
statement by the portion attributable to the profit/loss for
the year and recognized directly in equity by the portion
attributable to entries directly in equity. Current Danish
income tax is allocated among the jointly taxed entities
proportionally to their taxable income (full allocation with a
refund concerning tax losses).
Balance Sheet
Intangible assets
Acquired intellectual property is amortized over the term of
the agreement, but over no more than 5 years. Intellectual
property rights etc. are written down to the lower of
recoverable amount and carrying amount.
Property, plant and equipment
Other fixtures and fittings, tools and equipment and
property plant and equipment in progress are measured at
cost less accumulated depreciation. Cost comprises the
cost of acquisition and expenses directly related to the
acquisition and costs for set-up. In case of assets of own
construction, cost comprises directly attributable costs of
labor, materials, components and sub-suppliers.
The categories land and buildings are measured at fair
value less accumulated depreciation on buildings and
impairment losses recognized at the date of revaluation.
Valuations are performed with sufficient frequency to
ensure that the carrying amount of a revalued asset does
not differ materially from its fair value.
A revaluation surplus is recorded in other comprehensive
income and credited to the asset revaluation surplus in
equity. However, to the extent that it reverses a revaluation
deficit of the same asset previously recognized in profit or
loss, the increase is recognized in profit and loss. A
revaluation deficit is recognized in the income statement,
except to the extent that it offsets an existing surplus on the
same asset recognized in the asset revaluation reserve.
An annual transfer from the asset revaluation reserve to
retained earnings is made for the difference between
depreciation based on the revalued carrying amount of the
asset and depreciation based on the asset's original cost.
Upon disposal, any revaluation reserve relating to the
particular asset being sold is recognized in retained
earnings without passing the income statement. Financial
expenses directly attributable to purchases, construction or
production of a qualifying asset are included as part of the
cost of the asset. A qualifying asset is an asset that
necessarily takes a substantial period of time to get ready
for its intended use or sale. The Group uses the local,
effective rate of interest on credit for construction and
overdraft facilities for the calculation of expenses for
capitalization.
Depreciation of a non-current asset is commenced when it
is put into use. Depreciation based on cost reduced by any
residual value is calculated on a straight-line basis over the
expected useful lives of the assets, which are:
Production buildings 25-40 years
Production plant and machinery 7-15 years
Operating fixtures, tools and vehicles 3-7 years
Land is not depreciated
The carrying amount of property, plant and equipment is
reviewed on an annual basis to determine whether there is
any indication of impairment other than that expressed by
fair-value or depreciation. If so, an impairment test is carried
out to determine whether the recoverable amount is lower
than the carrying amount and the asset is written down to
its lower recoverable amount.
Biological assets
Agricultural activity is defined as an activity in which
biological transformation of biological assets for sale into
agricultural produce or another biological asset takes place.
Agricultural produce is defined as a harvested product of
the Group’s biological assets, and a biological asset is
defined as living animals or crops.
The Group has assessed that its biological assets consists
of breeding herds of gilts, sows and boars, commercial
heard of slaughter pigs and unharvested crops.
On initial recognition and at subsequent reporting dates,
biological assets are measured at fair value less estimated
costs to sell unless fair value cannot be reliably measured
on initial recognition.
Gains or losses on initial recognition of a biological asset
measured at fair value less estimated costs to sell, and
subsequent changes in the fair value less estimated costs
to sell relating to the biological asset, are recognized in the
income statement in the item “Gains/losses on changes in
the fair value of biological assets” in the period in which the
gain or loss arises.