Holmes Institute HA3011: Advanced Financial Accounting Assignment

This assignment solution explores advanced financial accounting principles and their application within the context of Bingo Industries Limited. It delves into key accounting concepts such as going concern, consistency, and accrual accounting, explaining their significance in financial reporting. The document outlines various accounting concepts including revenue recognition, conservatism, cost, economic entity, matching principle, materiality, reliability, and time period concepts. It then examines the conceptual framework and the issue of measurement, specifically addressing the adoption of AASB 9 for financial instruments and its impact. The assignment provides insights into revenue recognition, net finance costs, and trade receivables, along with a discussion on the measurement and recognition of these items. The solution adheres to Australian accounting standards and includes examples to illustrate the practical application of accounting concepts.

Advanced Financial Accounting
T12019

Table of Contents
Structure...................................................................................................................... 2
Introduction.................................................................................................................. 2
Description of Accounting Concepts.............................................................................2
Conceptual Framework and the issue of measurement...............................................4
Fundamental Qualitative Characteristics – Understanding of relevance and
Representational Faithfulness...................................................................................... 6
Conclusion.................................................................................................................... 7
References................................................................................................................... 8
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Structure
This assignment covers the accounting concepts or accounting principles used by management of
Bingo industries limited in preparation of its financial statement. Accounting concepts and
methods used by the company are explained in detail in the later part of this assignment with
suitable examples wherever required. Importance of financial reporting framework in preparation
and presentation of financial statement is explained to the users and stakeholders with relevant
and required information. Various assumptions and estimates are used by the company in
preparation of financial statement by giving proper explanation of basis of such assumptions and
estimates made. Conclusion is made on the basis of company’s usage of concepts or methods of
accounting in preparation of its books of accounts following regulatory framework of accounting.
Introduction
Books of accounts of company are made as per generally accepted accounting principles
(GAAP). Management (Board of directors) are accountable for the preparation of its financial
statements that gives fair view and complied with Australian accounting standards and
Corporation Act, 2011. Its books of accounts are prepared on the basis of accrual concept of
accounting and that method is followed on the regular basis by the company (Alexander, 2016).
Majorly three concepts of accounting like accrual concept, going concern and consistency are
followed regularly by bingo industries ltd. as per reporting framework. Bingo industries ltd
prepares its annual report to ensure that the desired expectations of stakeholders are met.
Generally stakeholders are of two types first is Internal stakeholders and second is External
stakeholders. Internal stakeholders are internally connected with the operations of the company
whereas external stakeholders are not internally connected or they are not involved in the
operations of the company. Internal stakeholders includes managers, employees, board of
directors, investors in the contrary external stakeholders includes financial institution such as
banks, government agencies, customers, suppliers. After the audit gets completed annual report of
the company is circulated to the various stakeholders to inform them regarding the company’s
operations (Bizfluent, 2017).
Description of Accounting
Concepts
There are mainly three concepts of accounting which is mandatory for the company to follow such
concepts and apply those concepts of accounting in the preparation of its books of accounts.
Those concepts are going concern, consistency and accrual. Disclosure of such accounting
concepts are not required in the financial statement of the company if they are regularly applied
by the company but disclosure is must in financial statement of the company if such accounting
concepts are not regularly applied or there is some deviation in accounting concepts adopted by
company (Bumgarner & Vasarhelyi, 2018).
Going concern accounting concept presumes that company will carry on its operations or
business for very long period i.e. an foreseeable future, in other way it can be said that entity will
not be forced to cease its business unless there is no possible option other than its liquidation
where company can’t continue its operations. Thus, in preparation of financial statement it is
assumed that entity has followed the going concern concept and if there is any risk of continuity
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of business then it proper disclosure is essential in the financial statement. It is the accountability
of management to assess whether the entity will run its operations for a very long time following
going concern requirement (Defond & Lennox, 2017). In Bingo Ltd., there is no question on
going concern however, there could be some conditions or events arising in future which may
cause Bingo ltd to rethink on its going concern assumption.
Consistency concept of accounting is based on the idea that accounting method once adopted by
an entity shall be followed or applied in future also consistently. However, method of accounting
could be changed on occurrence of any of the three events like: a.) Accounting method could be
changed or altered if it is required by law or regulation b.) Method of accounting could be
changed due to change in accounting standards c.) Accounting principle or method of accounting
could be changed for better presentation of financial report. In case of Bingo Ltd. this concept of
accounting is regularly followed (Vieira, et al., 2017).
Accrual concepts of accounting is one of the most important accounting concept which explains
that all revenues/income should be recorded in the books as and when the income/revenue is
earned and not at the time when they are actually received in cash in the same way in case of
expenses, expenses should be recorded in books as and when they are incurred not when the
expenses are actually paid. Accrual as an expense which is recognized in the current period for
which bill from vendor is not received or as an income when billing is not made to debtors. Thus,
another affect of accruals in the profit &loss can be either assets or liabilities in the balance sheet.
Accrual concept of accounting is regularly followed by the company Bingo Ltd. thus it doesn’t
disclose this while preparing its financial report (Mubako & O'Donnell, 2018).
Besides three accounting concepts explained above there are other various accounting concepts
also which are equally important for the company to adopt and follow such accounting concepts.
Other accounting concepts are Revenue recognition, Conservatism, Cost, Economic entity
concept, Matching principle, Materiality, Reliability, Time period concept. These are explained
below with example wherever required:
Revenue recognition concept explains that revenue should be recognized in the company’s
books if it is certain that revenues will be realized and earned. Revenues are considered to be
earned only when goods are transferred to the party along with the risk and rewards also gets
transferred or services are rendered without considering the fact that when cash is actually
received by the entity. AASB 15 deals with revenue from contracts (Kachelmeier, et al., 2018).
AASB 15 is based on the principle that company shall recognise revenue related to the transfer of
goods or services only when control of the goods or services gets transfeered to the customer.
Group has reviewed few samples of sales contracts to analyze if there is any potential impact
from application of AASB15.
Conservatism concept says that all expenses and liabilities relating to company shall be
recognized in the books of accounts as early as possible, but income and assets shall be recorded
only if there is certainity or surety that such income or revenue will be received. This concept of
accounting is based on the idea that all the losses should be recognized first. Conservatism
concept is strictly follwed by Bingo ltd (Fukukawa & Mock, 2011).
Reliabilty Concept of accounting is based on the idea that only those transactions to be
recognized in the books of company which can be proved easily. Example, bill from the vendor
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can be considered as a proof that expenses are recognized. Reliabilty concept is very much helpful
for the auditors which helps an auditor to gather some evidences.
Cost Method of accounting explains that assets and liabilites must be recorded on cost not on fair
value or market value. However, in contast to that there are few accounting standards which
requires assets and liabilities to be recorded at fair values. Bingo Ltd. consistently applies this
principle of accounting except in case where accounting standard are required to be follwed then
assets and liabilities are recorded at fair value instead of cost (Kew & Stredwick, 2017).
Full disclosure principle is based on the concept that company shall cover all the relevant and
important information while preparation of financial report as it helps the readers of financial
statements such as investors, financial institutions, vendors etc. gets the clear picture and
understanding of the financial report. Full disclosure is made by Bingo Ltd along with Financial
statement by correctly following the full disclosure concept.
Matching Principle explains that when revenue is recognized in the books of accounts all
expenses related to such revenue or income shall also be recognized at the same point time.
Example when income from sale of goods is recorded, at the same time stock is charged to cost of
goods sold. Those entity uses matching concept who is using accrual concept of accountin instead
following cash method. Entity who follows cash method for the accounting purpose they don’t
follow matching concept. Bingo Ltd uses accrual method for the purpose of accounting thus it
also comply with the matching principle of accounting (Jefferson, 2017).
Monetary unit concept is based on the concept that company shall recognize only that
transactions which can be presented in the form of value or sume unit of currency. For example ,
purchase of fixed assets can be easily recorded or recognized in the books of company since it is
in the form of unit of currency, opposite to that value of controls in the entity can’t be recorded in
the books because that is not in the form of value of currency.
Time period concept says that entity shall show oearations results within a prescribed time line.
This concept is based on the idea that while showing figures of current period in the financial
statement, corresponding figures of previous period should also be shown as comparison to
current period as it helps a lot for making trend analisys. It shows that the company is very
efficient and follow the strict deadlines (Linden & Freeman, 2017).
Conceptual Framework and the
issue of measurement
Financial statements of Bingo Limited has been prepared in accordance with the Corporation Act,
2001, Interpretations and accounting standards and in compliance with relevant laws and
regulations. Financial statements includes Consolidated financial statement of the group. Bingo ltd
is a profit entity for the purpose of preparation of consolidated financial statement. Basis of
consolidated financial statement is historical cost . All figures in the financial statement are in
Australian dollars.Items of financial statement is correctly measured in accordance with
Australian accounting standards.
Measurement of Financial Instruments :Earlier AASB 139 was used for recognition and
measurement of financial instruments for group’s consolidated financial instrument. Now AASB
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139 is replaced by AASB 9 which covers a new measurement and classification approach for
financial assets (Lavassani & Movahedi, 2017). There are three categories for classification of
financial assets : a.) Amortized cost measurement b.)Fair value through OCI c.)Fair value through
P &L. Earlier as per AASB 139 there was different classification category for financial assets.
Following impacts can be expected from the group on adoption of AASB 9:
a.) No significant impact on measuremant and classification of its financial instruments.
b.) It was decided that impairment losses including trade receivables are measured using
expected credit loss model rather than incurred credit losses.
Revenue recognition and measurement : Measurement of revenue is made at fair value of the
consideration whether received or receivabl. If there are any returns from the customers, rebates
or other similar allowances then it is reduced from the revenue of the group. Revenues are
recognized by Bingo Ltd. when the bins are taken from the customers and waste is received at the
various recycling centres. In case of bins which are manufactured, revenue arising from sale of
manufactured bins is recognized in the books only when the significant risk and reward of goods
is passed on to the buyer (Meroño-Cerdán, et al., 2017).
Table showing measurement and recognition of revenue and other income:
Recognition of Net Finance costs: Finance costs are those costs which are incurred for arranging
new borrowing facilities. Such costs includes Interest, fess and amortization cost. Costs that are
incurred for arranging borrowing facilities are capitalized and amortized over the life of
borrowings.
Table showing measurement and recognition of Net fiance costs :
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Recognition of Trade and other receivables: These includes money receivable for GST.
Receivables which are expected to be received within 12 months from the end of reporting year
are categorized as current assets. Remaining receivables are categorized as non-current assets.
Recognition of trade and other receivables is made at amortized cost reduced by any provision for
impairment. Generally trade receivables gets settled in 30 days. Group recognize an allowance for
doubtful debts on receivables if there is no probability of collect of amount (Gay & Simnett,
2015).
Treatment of trade and other receivables in the financial statement:
Fundamental Qualitative
Characteristics – Understanding of
relevance and Representational
Faithfulness
The board of directors are held responsible for the long term performance of Bingo Ltd. and also
for the implementation of corporate governance with respect to state of affairs of the group. Board
of directors delegates the responsibility to the chief executive officer (CEO) for the day to day
management of Bingo Ltd. But overall responsibilty lies with board for strategy making, giving
direction and handling risk. Bingo ltd has adopted “Formal Board Charter” which explains the
role ,accountability, responsibilty and authority of the board. This charter is also available on the
website of Bingo Ltd for the reference.
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Financial information of the company is very much important to various stakeholder such as
shareholders who are the owners of the company who on the basis of relevance of financial
position of the company considers for investment (Sonu, et al., 2017).
Company meets its disclosure requirement by making proper and appropriate disclosures in the
financial report wherever required. For example, Bingo ltd has appropriately disclosed director’s
qualifications, relevance experience and responsibilities. Although it is a mandatory requirement
as per law, it shows the relevance of information.
Table showing Director’s qualification, experience and responsibilities:
Bingo ltd. appropriately comply with various accounting principles, methods and policies which
depicts the faithfulness and relevance of its financial information to various stakeholders mainly
the shareholders who are ultimately the owners of the company. Bingo ltd correctly discloses all
the financial information on the basis of which well informed decisions can be taken by
stakeholders.
Conclusion
After analysing annual report and considering various facts and data it can be concluded that
Bingo ltd.’s board or management has appropriately discharged its responsibilty, accountability
and authority including preparation and presentation of financial statement as per the regulatory
framework. Bingo ltd has also complied with various accounting standards which are applicable
on it. Entity has also explained regarding the various estimates and assumptions made wherever
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required with proper justification of the assumption made. Deloitte has successfully completed the
audit of financial report of Bingo industries limited and its subsidiaries by forming an unqualified
opinion on state of affairs of the company. Auditor has also appropriately disclosed the basis of
opinion formed.
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