04 Intangible Assets

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€ million

 

Intangible assets

 

Land, buildings and similar rights

 

Technical equipment and machinery*

 

Other equipment, factory and office equipment

 

Assets under construction

 

Property, plant and equipment

 

*Of which assets from finance leases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance as of Jan. 1, 2016

 

179.9

 

2,059.0

 

8,886.6

 

677.4

 

1,322.6

 

12,945.6

 

98.1

Additions

 

3.5

 

20.3

 

116.3

 

25.2

 

262.3

 

424.1

 

2.2

Disposals

 

-11.9

 

-0.4

 

-44.5

 

-21.4

 

 

-66.3

 

Transfers

 

15.1

 

138.5

 

1,230.5

 

3.0

 

-1,387.1

 

-15.1

 

Changes in the scope of consolidation

 

18.0

 

8.3

 

21.6

 

6.1

 

 

36.0

 

0.2

Other changes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exchange-rate differences

 

0.7

 

40.0

 

126.0

 

1.2

 

-23.8

 

143.4

 

0.7

Gross carrying amount as of Dec. 31, 2016

 

205.3

 

2,265.7

 

10,336.5

 

691.5

 

174.0

 

13,467.7

 

101.2

Cumulative depreciation and impairments

 

-154.9

 

-1,166.2

 

-7,122.1

 

-584.3

 

-0.2

 

-8,872.8

 

-67.3

Of which from changes in the scope of consolidation

 

 

-3.6

 

-8.0

 

-5.1

 

 

-16.7

 

Carrying amount as of Dec. 31, 2016

 

50.4

 

1,099.5

 

3,214.4

 

107.2

 

173.8

 

4,594.9

 

33.9

Depreciation and impairments / write-ups in fiscal year

 

-14.6

 

-78.5

 

-603.3

 

-38.8

 

 

-720.6

 

-7.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance as of Jan. 1, 2015

 

166.4

 

1,691.3

 

7,828.5

 

642.7

 

1,670.0

 

11,832.5

 

79.1

Additions

 

3.4

 

6.6

 

106.7

 

20.7

 

696.6

 

830.6

 

21.8

Disposals

 

-0.4

 

-6.9

 

-57.4

 

-15.6

 

-0.9

 

-80.8

 

– 2.8

Transfers

 

7.9

 

310.3

 

878.4

 

25.6

 

-1,219.3

 

-5.0

 

Exchange-rate differences

 

2.6

 

57.7

 

130.4

 

4.0

 

176.2

 

368.3

 

Gross carrying amount as of Dec. 31, 2015

 

179.9

 

2,059.0

 

8,886.6

 

677.4

 

1,322.6

 

12,945.6

 

98.1

Cumulative depreciation and impairments

 

-147.8

 

-1,066.2

 

-6,520.2

 

-560.0

 

-0.1

 

-8,146.5

 

-60.0

Carrying amount as of Dec. 31, 2015

 

32.1

 

992.8

 

2,366.4

 

117.4

 

1,322.5

 

4,799.1

 

38.1

Depreciation and impairments / write-ups in fiscal year

 

-13.2

 

-63.2

 

-459.2

 

-39.6

 

 

-562.0

 

-6.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intangible assets include industrial property rights, similar rights, software and other assets acquired against payment. Business acquisitions result in technologies, customer bases and order backlogs acquired against payment, which are amortized over a period of 3 to 9 years.

The acquisition costs of fixed assets were reduced by investment grants totaling €482.2 million, compared with €481.4 million in the previous year.

In the reporting year, borrowing costs of €1.2 million (versus €18.6 million in the prior year) were capitalized as part of the acquisition and production costs of qualifying assets. The average financing cost rate was 2.6 percent, compared with 3.0 percent in the previous year. Property, plant and equipment also includes technical machinery and other equipment of €33.9 million (€38.1 million in the prior year) on the basis of an embedded finance lease. Due to the structure of the underlying contracts, economic ownership is attributable to WACKER.