Financial Sector (Collection of Data) determination No. 101 of 2005 - Reporting Standard ARS 394.0 (2005) - Personal Finance
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Banks, Credit Unions, Cairns Penny Savings & Loans Limited, Building Societies and Specialist Credit Card Institutions (SCCIs) are asked to complete the form in thousands of Australian dollars with no decimal place.
Amounts denominated in foreign currency are to be converted to AUD in accordance with AASB 1012 ‘Foreign Currency Translation’.
The general requirements of AASB 1012 for translation are:
- Foreign currency monetary items outstanding at the reporting date must be translated at the spot rate at the reporting date.
- Other items outstanding at the reporting date must not be retranslated subsequent to initial recognition of the transaction.
Monetary items are defined to mean money held and assets and liabilities that are to be received or paid in fixed or determinable amounts of money.
Monetary items arising under foreign currency derivative contracts at the reporting date must be translated as follows:
- Where the exchange rate is fixed in the contract, at that fixed exchange rate; and
- Where the exchange rate varies, at the spot rate at the reporting date.