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Property, equipment and software
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Property Equipment And Software [Line Items]  
Disclosure of property, equipment and software [text block]
Note 12
 
Property, equipment and software
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At historical cost less accumulated depreciation
USD m
Owned
properties and
equipment
1
Leased
properties and
equipment
2
Software
Projects in
progress
2023
3
2022
3
Historical cost
Balance at the beginning of the year
11,587
4,459
9,944
1,136
27,127
27,113
Balance recognized upon the acquisition of the Credit Suisse
 
Group
4
2,975
1,941
949
190
6,055
Additions
212
100
92
1,393
1,796
2,057
Disposals / write-offs
5
(428)
(67)
(1,295)
0
(1,791)
(501)
Reclassifications
1,392
6
1,728
(1,923)
1,203
(1,223)
Foreign currency translation
972
174
309
68
1,523
(319)
Balance at the end of the year
16,710
6,613
11,726
863
35,913
27,127
Accumulated depreciation
Balance at the beginning of the year
7,425
1,714
5,699
14,839
14,225
Depreciation
830
722
1,469
3,022
2,033
Impairment
6
189
125
279
593
3
Disposals / write-offs
5
(420)
(66)
(1,296)
(1,783)
(497)
Reclassifications
673
5
9
686
(761)
Foreign currency translation
510
45
152
708
(164)
Balance at the end of the year
9,207
2,545
6,312
18,064
14,839
Net book value
 
Net book value at the beginning of the year
4,162
2,746
4,245
1,136
12,288
12,888
Net book value at the end of the year
7,503
4,068
5,414
863
7
17,849
12,288
of which: Credit Suisse
4
3,060
1,647
805
120
5,631
1 Includes leasehold
 
improvements and IT
 
hardware.
 
2 Represents right-of-use
 
assets recognized by UBS
 
as lessee. UBS
 
predominantly enters into
 
lease contracts, or
 
contracts that include
 
lease components,
 
in
relation to real estate, including offices, retail branches and sales offices. The total cash outflow for leases during 2023 was USD
878
m (2022: USD
614
m). Interest expense on lease liabilities is included within Interest
expense from financial instruments
 
measured at amortized cost
 
and Lease liabilities are
 
included within Other financial
 
liabilities measured at
 
amortized cost. Refer to
 
Notes 4 and 19a,
 
respectively. There
 
were no
material gains or losses arising from sale-and-leaseback transactions in 2023
 
and in 2022.
 
3 The total reclassification amount for the respective periods
 
represents net reclassifications from / to Other non-financial
assets.
 
4
 
Refer to Note 2 for more information about the acquisition of the Credit Suisse Group.
 
5
 
Includes write-offs of fully depreciated assets.
 
6 Impairment charges recorded in 2023 generally relate to assets
that are no longer used, for which the recoverable amount based on a
 
value-in-use approach was determined to be zero of which USD
26
m for Global Wealth Management, USD
8
m for Personal & Corporate Banking,
USD
6
m for Asset Management, USD
246
m for Group Items and USD
307
m for Non-core and Legacy.
 
7 Consists of USD
542
m related to software and USD
322
m related to Owned properties and equipment.