Part This instruction guide is provides gener - Financial Sector (Collection of Data) determination No. 27 of 2005 - This instruction guide is provides general directions for completion of GRF 430.0 Claims Development Tables. | Zoe
This instruction guide is provides general directions for completion of GRF 430.0 Claims Development Tables.
Insurers writing direct insurance business must complete this form based on accident years.
Insurers writing reinsurance business must complete this form based on underwriting years.
Audit requirements
The information provided under the form is not required to be audited and has been exempted from the definition of ‘yearly statutory accounts’.
Reporting entities
Forms are to be completed for the following reporting entities where appropriate:
Branch operations of a foreign parent insurer (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the branch, excluding the parent operations);
Authorised insurance entities, including mutual entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity);
Authorised reinsurance entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity); and
Consolidated insurance groups.
Note: the form for the consolidated insurance group is only required to complete the information requirements on the form. No risk change is applied to the consolidated insurance group at this stage.
For the purposes of APRA prudential reporting, the consolidated insurance group is interpreted as the accounts incorporating the highest parent entity in a group structure, that is an Australian authorised general insurance entity (for the purposes of the Insurance Act 1973), and includes all subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures (registered both in Australia and overseas) of that parent entity.
For the purposes of this form, the highest parent entity in the corporate group does not include a company (e.g. non-operating holding company) that is not an authorised general insurance entity.
Definition of subsidiaries should be consistent with the requirements of Australian accounting standards AASB 1024 ‘Consolidated Accounts’ and definition of associates should be consistent with AASB 1016 ‘Accounting for Investments in Associates’.
Exemptions from the Consolidated Insurance Group requirements
Australian authorised insurers which do not have any subsidiaries are not required to complete the forms for this reporting unit.
Australian authorised insurers which have subsidiaries, but the financial position of the consolidated insurance group is not materially different from that of the licensed insurance entity, are not required to complete the forms for this reporting unit (i.e. the subsidiaries do not have any material dealings/balances).
Unit of measurement
This form is to be presented in Australian currency, rounded to thousands of dollars, with no decimal place. As a general rule, amounts denominated in foreign currency are to be converted to AUD in accordance with the requirements of the Australian accounting standards, notably 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; and
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 (e.g. claims payments, reinsurance recoveries).
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.
The general requirements of AASB 1012 for accounting treatment of exchange differences arising on translation are:
Exchange differences must be recognised as either revenues or expenses in the calculation of net profit or loss on GRF 310.3 Investment and Other Operating Income and Expense, in the reporting period in which the exchange rates change;
Exchange differences arise in respect of foreign currency monetary items which is directly attributable to the acquisition, construction or production of an asset that takes a long period of time to get ready for its intended use or sale, must be capitalised (net of any effects of a hedge) as part of the cost of that asset; and
Translation of financial reports of foreign operations.
(A foreign operation is defined in AASB 1012 as meaning an entity for which financial reports are prepared in a foreign currency, and includes branches, associates and subsidiaries).
Exchange differences relating to foreign currency monetary items that form part of the net investment of an entity in a self-sustaining foreign operation, must be recognised as revenues or expenses in the calculation of net profit or loss on GRF 310.3 Investment and Other Operating Income and Expense, in the reporting period in which the exchange rates change.
However on incorporation of that foreign operation into the entity’s financial report (i.e. the preparation of consolidated group accounts), the translation of the financial reports of a self sustaining foreign operation as at the reporting date must be done using the current rate method (see below). Any exchange differences, together with any income tax expense (income tax revenue) must be taken directly to the foreign currency translation reserve within equity.
A self-sustaining foreign operation is defined in AASB 1012 as meaning a foreign operation that is financially and operational independent of the entity and whose operations do not normally expose the entity to foreign exchange gains and or losses.
Translation of financial reports of an integrated foreign operation must be translated as at the reporting date using the temporal method (see below) and any exchange differences must be recognised as revenues or expenses in the calculation of net profit and loss.
An integrated foreign operation is defined in AASB 1012 as a foreign operation that is financially and operationally interdependent, either directly or indirectly with the entity, and whose day to day operations normally expose the entity to foreign exchange gains or losses.
Current Rate Method of Translation
(a) Assets and liabilities are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date;
(b) Equity at the date of investment, including in the case of a corporation, share capital at acquisition and pre-acquisition reserves, is translated at the exchange rate current at that date;
(c) Post-acquisition movements in equity, other than retained profits (surplus) or accumulated losses (deficiency), are translated at the exchange rates current at the dates of those movements, except that where a movement represents a transfer between items within equity or a return of equity, the movement is translated at the exchange rate current at the date that the amount transferred or returned was first included in equity;
(d) Distributions from retained profits (that is, dividends paid or proposed, or their equivalent) are translated at the exchange rates current at the dates when the distributions were first recognised; and
(e) Revenue and expense items are translated at the exchange rates current at the applicable transaction dates except that revenues and expenses that have been restated in accordance with paragraph 7.11 of AASB 1012 are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date.[1]
Temporal Method of Translation
Means a method of translating the financial report of a foreign operation whereby:
(a) (i) monetary items are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date; and
(ii) non-monetary items are translated at exchange rates current at the transaction dates or, where a non-monetary item has been revalued or written-down or the write-down has been reversed, at the exchange rate current at the date of revaluation, write-down or reversal;
(b) equity at the date of investment, including in the case of a corporation, share capital at acquisition and pre-acquisition reserves, is translated at the exchange rate current at that date;
(c) post-acquisition movements in equity, other than retained profits (surplus) or accumulated losses (deficiency), are translated at the exchange rates current at the dates of those movements, except that where a movement represents a transfer between items within equity or a return of equity, the movement is translated at the exchange rate current at the date that the amount transferred or returned was first included in equity;
(d) distributions from retained profits (that is, dividends paid or proposed, or their equivalent) are translated at the exchange rates current at the dates when the distributions were first recognised; and
(e) revenue and expense items are translated at the exchange rates current at the applicable transaction dates, except that:
(i) revenues and expenses (including depreciation) that relate to non-monetary items are translated at the rates used to translate those non-monetary items; and
(ii) revenues and expenses that have been restated in accordance with paragraph 7.11 are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date.[2]
Spot rate means the exchange rate for immediate delivery of currencies to be exchanged.
Reporting period
Insurers are required to report the information in the reporting form on an annual basis.
The annual information is to be completed in respect of the financial year of the insurer.
The financial information requested in this form is to be reported as at the last day of the reporting period on a financial year to date basis of the insurer. See the Reporting Requirements table for details.