Firstly, the user is required to determine whether control is a result of shareholdings in the investee, in which case certain paragraphs of IFRS 10 are applied first.
If the conclusion is that control is not evident or not a direct consequence of shareholdings, alternate paragraphs dealing with ‘structured entities’ must be applied. This is elaborated. For example, the indicators in paragraph B18 are considered only in circumstances where it is ‘difficult to determine whether an investor’s rights are sufficient to give it power over an investee’ (IASB, 2011a, para B18). Similarly, the guidance in paragraph B19 and B20 is to be applied sequentially only after paragraph B18 is considered.