Securities and Exchange Commission
November 13, 2019
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The Registrants advise the Staff that the entities that comprise the Utilities Operations of the Partnership are BUUK Infrastructure Holdings Limited (“BUUK”) and NTS. In addition, certain corporate activities are present within the Utilities Operations of the Partnership such as certain centralized treasury functions and the incurrence of a management fee expense for purposes of managing the underlying assets. Consequently, the Registrants considered whether BUUK, NTS and “Corporate” are operating segments in accordance with IFRS 8, Operating Segments (“IFRS 8”).
IFRS 8, paragraph 5 defines an operating segment as follows:
An operating segment is a component of an entity:
| a. | that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same entity), |
| b. | whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the entity’s chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and |
| c. | for which discrete financial information is available. |
The Registrants determined that BUUK and NTS satisfy paragraph 5(a) as they are stand-alone operating entities that both earn revenues and incur expenses.
Further, the Registrants determined that BUUK and NTS satisfy the criteria within paragraph 5(c), as they are stand-alone operating entities that prepare financial statements.
However, the Registrants determined that the condition in paragraph 5(b) is not satisfied for BUUK or NTS. In order to evaluate this criterion, the Registrants need to determine the identity of the chief operating decision marker (“CODM”). To determine the CODM, the Registrants considered the requirements of paragraph 7 of IFRS 8 as follows:
The term ‘chief operating decision maker’ identifies a function, not necessarily a manager with a specific title. That function is to allocate resources to and assess the performance of the operating segments of an entity. Often the chief operating decision maker of an entity is its chief executive officer or chief operating officer but, for example, it may be a group of executive directors or others.
The term CODM identifies a function, and that function is to perform the following:
| • | Allocate resources to the operating segments of the entity. |
| • | Assess the performance of the operating segments of an entity. |
The CODM of the Utilities Operations of the Partnership is the entity’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). As the final arbiter of key decisions, the CEO is responsible for the formulation and execution of the overall investment and operating strategy for the entity as a whole. The CEO also has the ultimate say in how to allocate resources to achieve desired objectives and has full oversight and final decision making over the review of all proposed investment or divestment decisions. The CEO regularly assesses the performance of the entity as a whole using the following performance measures: