Discuss about the Compliance Of Integrated Reporting.
The business entities having subsidiaries often face complications in preparation of financial statements. This is because of the fact that parent company and its subsidiaries are distinct legal entities and thus have the responsibility of maintaining their individual bookkeeping. In this context, the stand-alone statements developed by a parent company treat each business entity separately and thus provide two ways of analyzing the financial performance of an entity. However, the stand-alone reports are not able to evaluate the integrated financial performance, strategy and potential value creation for stakeholders and thus faced criticism. In this context, the present report critically discusses the role of integrated reporting by identifying the issues faced in traditional financial reporting. Also, the reports analyses the compliance of integrated reporting by the ASX listed entities through selection of a business entity for the purpose.
The IAS 27 standard of IFRS has outlined the accounting policies and products regarding the development of separate financial statements. The stand-alone financial reports are the financial statements developed by a parent company with joint control of its associates or subsidiaries as per the IFRS standards (IAS 27 — Separate Financial Statements, 2011). However, the stand-alone reports have faced the criticism of not adequately meeting the quality of non-financial reporting of business entities. The business entities have the obligations of not only meeting the shareholders needs but also of its overall community. The major drawback of stand-alone reports in this regard is that provide non-integrated information related to the social and environmental performance of a business entity and thus not capable of disclosing all the relevant non-financial information to its stakeholders. As such, the stand-alone reports are not able to adequately depict the business performance, strategy and potential for value creation to all of its stakeholders. The sustainability reports developed through the use of stand-alone methods lacks the qualitative aspects of completeness, accuracy, reliability, relevancy and transparency.
This is due to the fact that social and environment reporting done by the business entities through the use of stand-alone method does not follow the internationally accepted guidelines for non-financial reporting. The stand-alone method of financial reporting discloses the non-financial information in discrete sections thus making it difficult to be understood by the end-users. Thus, it can be said that stand-alone reporting method has largely failed in its purpose of providing useful non-financial information to its stakeholders. In the light of above deficiencies present in the stand-alone reporting system, there exist a high need for the firms to improve their quality of sustainability reporting through adopting an improved method of non-financial reporting (Wild and van Staden, 2013).
The business entities have adopted the method of integrated reporting for disclosing the non-financial information to its different type of stakeholders in the recent years. This was done mainly to overcome from the problem associated with traditional method of stand-alone reporting. As per the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the main objective of integrated reporting is to provide complete and reliable information about the strategy, governance and performance of a business entity. The adoption of integrated reporting framework within the business enterprises was largely emphasizes after the occurrence of global financial crisis for meeting the varied needs and demands of all its stakeholders. The method of integrated reporting overcomes the problems associated with stand-alone reports prepared by businesses for disclosing their non-financial information by making compliance to the social and environmental performance of different business units of a parent company. The integrated reporting has enhanced the quality of non-financial reporting of business entities by disclosing their initiatives and performance in relation to environment and social activities (Bernardi, 2015).
The scope of integrated reporting extends beyond the non-financial reporting and is largely sued by businesses during preparation of their financial reports. The integrated method of reporting has stated the principle of consolidation for preparation of financial statements of a business entity having different business units. The consolidated financial statements developed through the use of integrated reporting framework presents the overall business activities of a company under a single report. Thus, the integrated reporting framework system helps in overcoming the potential problem of traditional method of financial reporting under which the financial performance of an entity is presented in discrete sections (Wild and van Staden, 2013).
Woolworths, a retail giant of Australia listed on ASX, effectively complies with the integrated reporting framework through developing and publishing its integrated reports as per the IFRS standards. The company has maintained that the main objective of developing integrated report is to create value for all its stakeholders by disclosing them all the relevant financial and non-financial information. The integrated report depicts the overall performance of the group by incorporating all the information related to its subsidiaries and associates. As per the IIRC framework, the integrated report of the Woolworths has depicted the method through which the Group creates value through effective use of six capitals that are, financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and natural capital. The integrated report of the Group has illustrated its business model for describing the process adopted by it for creating sustainable value for its stakeholders through optimum utilization of resources available. In addition to this, the integrated report of the Group also presents the consolidated statement of financial position by integrating the financial results of all its subsidiaries into a single economic entity (Woolworths Holdings Limited 2016 Integrated Report, 2016).
Conclusion
Thus, from the overall discussion helps in the report it can be inferred that integrated method of reporting is much better system of presenting financial statements of business entities having different operational units as compared to stand-alone reporting method. The integrated reporting system helps in depicting an interconnection between the financial and non-financial performance drivers of a business entity.
Adjustment Entries in the Books of Roxy |
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Date |
Particulars |
Debit |
Credit |
30-Jun |
Depreciation Expenses |
$ 2,000,000.00 |
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Accumulated Depreciation-Buildings |
$ 2,000,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Depreciation Expenses |
$ 250,000.00 |
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Accumulated Depreciation-Vehicles |
$ 250,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Profit and Loss account |
$ 2,250,000.00 |
|
Depreciation Expenses |
$ 2,250,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Profit and Loss account |
$ 160,000.00 |
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Allowance for doubtful debts |
$ 160,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Salaries: Travellers |
$ 100,000.00 |
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Salaries: Travellers Payable |
$ 100,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Prepaid general expenses |
$ 15,000.00 |
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General Expenses |
$ 15,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Profit and loss account |
$ 3,504,000.00 |
|
Provision for Income Tax |
$ 3,504,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Profit and loss Appropriation account |
$ 1,000,000.00 |
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General Reserve |
$ 1,000,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Land |
$ 800,000.00 |
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Revaluation Surplus |
$ 800,000.00 |
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30-Jun |
Profit and Loss Account |
$ 17,000.00 |
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Provision for expenses for legal suits |
$ 17,000.00 |
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Total |
$ 10,096,000.00 |
$ 10,096,000.00 |
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Income Statement |
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of Roxy Limited |
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for the period ending on 30 June 2017 |
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Amount in AUD $ |
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Particulars |
Amount |
Amount |
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Sales revenue |
$ 24,000,000.00 |
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Less: Cost of Sales |
$ 11,000,000.00 |
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Gross Profit |
$ 13,000,000.00 |
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Add: Other Incomes |
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Interest on investments |
$ 1,000,000.00 |
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Rent revenue |
$ 750,000.00 |
$ 1,750,000.00 |
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Profit Before operating expenses |
$ 14,750,000.00 |
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Less: Operating Expenses |
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Selling Commission expense |
$ 100,000.00 |
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Delivery expense |
$ 200,000.00 |
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Salaries: Travellers |
$ 550,000.00 |
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Salaries: Administration |
$ 2,000,000.00 |
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Directors fees |
$ 200,000.00 |
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Depreciation |
$ 2,250,000.00 |
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Allowance for doubtful debts |
$ 160,000.00 |
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Audit fees |
$ 90,000.00 |
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Interest on mortgage |
$ 1,000,000.00 |
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Provision for expenses for legal suits |
$ 17,000.00 |
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Provision for Income tax |
$ 3,504,000.00 |
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Damage due to fire |
$ 150,000.00 |
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General expenses |
$ 1,450,000.00 |
$ 11,671,000.00 |
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Net Profit |
$ 3,079,000.00 |
Statement of Change in Equity |
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of Roxy Limited |
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for the period ending on 30 June 2017 |
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Amount in AUD $ |
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Share Capital |
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Opening Balance |
$ 67,000,000.00 |
Add: Any issue |
$ – |
Closing Balance |
$ 67,000,000.00 |
Retained Earnings |
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Opening Balance |
$ 6,600,000.00 |
Less: Final Dividend Previous year |
$ -2,500,000.00 |
Less: Interim Dividend |
$ -1,500,000.00 |
Add: Profit of the year |
$ 3,079,000.00 |
Less: Transfer to general reserve |
$ -1,000,000.00 |
Closing Balance |
$ 4,679,000.00 |
Statement of Financial Position |
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of Roxy Limited |
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as at 30 June 2017 |
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Amount in AUD $ |
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Particulars |
Amount |
Amount |
Assets |
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Current Assets |
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Cash at Bank |
$ 1,000,000.00 |
|
Accounts receivables |
$ 4,495,000.00 |
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Less: Allowance to Doubtful Debt |
$ -160,000.00 |
|
Prepaid general expenses |
$ 15,000.00 |
|
Inventory |
$ 21,500,000.00 |
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Total Current Assets |
$ 26,850,000.00 |
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Non Current assets |
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Land |
$ 11,000,000.00 |
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Buildings |
$ 40,000,000.00 |
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Less: Accumulated depreciation- buildings |
$ -6,000,000.00 |
|
Vehicle |
$ 2,500,000.00 |
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Less: Accumulated depreciation- vehicles |
$ -750,000.00 |
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Investments |
$ 35,000,000.00 |
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Total Non Current Assets |
$ 81,750,000.00 |
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Total Assets |
$ 108,600,000.00 |
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Liabilities |
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Current Liabilities |
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Bank overdraft |
$ 7,500,000.00 |
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Salaries: Travellers Payable |
$ 100,000.00 |
|
Provision for Income Tax |
$ 1,529,100.00 |
|
Provision for expenses for legal suits |
$ 17,000.00 |
|
Accounts payable |
$ 2,000,000.00 |
|
Income tax payable |
$ 1,974,900.00 |
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Total Current Liabilities |
$ 13,121,000.00 |
|
Non Current Liabilities |
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Mortgage payable on land and buildings |
$ 20,000,000.00 |
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Shareholder’s Fund |
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Share capital |
$ 67,000,000.00 |
|
Calls in advance |
$ 2,000,000.00 |
|
Retained earnings (incl. Net Income) |
$ 4,679,000.00 |
|
General Reserve |
$ 1,000,000.00 |
|
Revaluation Surplus |
$ 800,000.00 |
|
Total Shareholder’s Fund |
$ 75,479,000.00 |
|
Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s fund |
$ 108,600,000.00 |
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