Whatever that means?22 Jan 2019 17:36
Ahead of final results due on 5 February, chief financial officer Duncan Tatton-Brown gave a presentation to explain the impact of the FTSE 100 company's decision to employ the IFRS15 accounting changes from its full year ended November 2018.
He explained that the inflow of cash to Ocado from the five international deals it has signed, including for Kroger in the US and Casino in France, will not be impacted by the IFRS changes but that revenue that the company had initially said would be recognised in the two years before the warehouses become operational will now not be recognised until the go-live date.
Peel Hunt's James Lockyer, one of those in attendance, explained the impact of this: "Hence, where previously the company had described these deals as being earnings neutral, they no longer will be. The costs associated with setting them up will still be recognised when occurred but the revenue that would have been recognised to offset these costs won't be."