Corporate Accounting Report: Financial Analysis of Banks in Australia

This report provides an analysis of corporate accounting principles, focusing on the financial statements of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and National Australia Bank. It examines owner's equity, cash flow statements, other comprehensive income statements, and accounting for corporate income tax. The analysis includes a comparison of key financial metrics, such as debt-to-equity ratios, liquidity, and income, to assess the financial health and performance of both banks. The report also details the components of cash flow statements (operating, investing, and financing activities) and comprehensive income statements, highlighting items not realized in the current financial year. Finally, it evaluates tax expenses and deferred tax assets, providing a comprehensive overview of the corporate accounting practices of the selected banks.

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Corporate Accounting

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Executive summary
It is essential for each association to oversee and keep up the records. The bookkeeping includes
the social occasion of information examination, grouping, confirmation, elucidation of monetary
data. The idea of corporate accounting manages the income proclamations, explanations of
benefit and misfortune accounts, asset report and so on. With the assistance of corporate
bookkeeping, the supervisor of an organization can break down the records of National
Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. It additionally decides the situation of
the obligation value proportion, the situation of liquidity, the aggregate sum of income and costs
that takes the choice in a viable way.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Owners Equity.................................................................................................................................5
CASH FLOWS STATEMENT.......................................................................................................6
Other Comprehensive Income Statement........................................................................................9
Accounting For Corporate Income Tax.........................................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................17
References......................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
This exploration report gives the portrayal of corporate bookkeeping; it additionally depicts the
distinctive parts of bookkeeping. This report is divided into four sections that are proprietor
value in which it portrays the speculations of proprietor short the estimation of liabilities. In this,
it investigates the diverse thing of value and their variety in those things. It additionally assesses
the income articulations and gives the dialog with respect to the exercises. The third parts
examine the components of complete salary articulations that delineate the things which are not
understood in the bookkeeping year. The fourth part is identified with the figuring of corporate
salary impose in which the administrator recognizes the assessment rate with the assistance of
wage charge cost. The two associations chose for this report is Commonwealth Bank of Australia
and National Australia Bank. The National Bank is the biggest monetary establishment in
Australia in connection to showcase capitalization, clients and income. It worked in 1590
branches and plays out their capacities over the world. It serves the results of shopper saving
money, Business keeping money, riches administration protection and so on. The
Commonwealth bank gives the budgetary administrations that comprise the retail business and
institutional managing an account, protection, speculations, and broking administrations.

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Owners Equity
I) The Equity can be recorded under the monetary record of money related explanations of
associations. It tends to be distinguished that the National Australia Bank and Commonwealth
bank record the specific things under the value that is:
Share capital: It incorporates every one of the assets that can be brought by the association up in
return for shares that can be either normal or favoured stocks (Commonwealth Bank, 2016). On
the off chance that the association needs to raise the value at that point need to get the approval
to issue the extra offers.
Retained Earnings: Retained Earnings are the benefits that can be landed after the time of
representing the offers and profits that can be paid to partners. On the off chance that there are
more income then it tends to be expressed that the association is monetarily steady
(Commonwealth Bank, 2016).
Reserves: These are the benefits that can be held by organization, banks to meet the future
instalments in time of crisis. The stores can be in type of fluid stores that can either with national
bank or with it divisions.
Non-controlling interest: It is the piece of value proprietorship that can't ascribe to the parent
organization that bears over half of intrigue and solidifies the auxiliary outcomes (Kim and Im,
2017).
Contributed Equity: It can likewise be named as the paid-in capital and it is the money and
resources that can be given by partners in return to stock. The sum can be paid for their stake in
firm.

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From the above depiction, it tends to be assessed that if the association have an alternate
wellspring of value then they have better position and notoriety in the market (Evers, et. al.,
2015).
II) In this inquiry, the supervisor can comprehend the proportion of obligation and value in
connection to association. Value can be characterized as the estimation of advantages less the
estimation of liabilities in regard of benefits. In inverse to value, there is obligation that can be in
type of acquired sum by one gathering to other. It very well may be portrayed as the liabilities
for which association needs to pay.
In connection to the Commonwealth Bank, the measure of $52993 is a piece of the value in the
year 2015, in 2016 it was $60,564 and in 2017 it was $63,716. This circumstance infers that
there is an expansion in the estimation of value which implies the organization has a superior
money related position as they raise the value through numerous sources. On the opposite side,
in the year 2016 the aggregate liabilities is $872,437 and in the year 2017, it was $912,658 which
implies the organization needs to pay obligations as they have taken advances to raise the assets.
The National Australia bank demonstrates the measure of obligation in the year 2015 that is
899,539 and in 2016 it was 726307 and in 2017 it was $737008. It infers that there is change in
the measure of obligation and it is the risk of the bank to pay this sum. The bank has the value of
$51315 in 2016 and in 2017 it was 51317 which mean there is an expansion in the value that
demonstrates the benefit of the bank.
Cash Flows Statement
III) This inquiry comprehends the exercises that are gone along by the association to dissect the
situation of liquidity. With the assistance of income explanations, the organization can without
much of a stretch decide the inflow and outpouring of the money (Dyreng, et. al., 2017). It

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comprises of the distinctive exercises, for example, working, contributing and financing and that
are talked about underneath:
Operating activities Investing activities Financing activities
In this, the association handles
the assembling and creation
exercises that can emerge from
the purchasing and offering of
items. It comprises of the
money produced from tasks,
premium paid, Interest got, pay
assess paid and so forth.
It decides the total changes in
the situation of money that is
the consequence of the sum
spent on the interests in type of
building, arrive, hardware and
so forth. On the off chance that
the movement portrays the
negative equalization then it
demonstrates that organization
has poor execution. It
comprises of procurement and
offering of advantages, sum got
on various substances, profits
got and so forth.
This action demonstrates the
measure of fund that can be
raised through partners. It
comprises of the issue of
advance capital, continues from
issue of offers, reclamation of
issued obligation securities,
intrigue paid, profits paid to
partners, commitment from
non-controlling interests
(Sheets, 2018).
From the above table, it very well may be gotten to that if there is the associations get money
then it suggests that there is inflow and that speaks to the better position of organization while on
the opposite side if there is outpouring then it delineates the organization is having poor
execution.
IV) The income articulations decide the three exercises through that association can decide the
inflow and outpouring of money. By watching the beneath table, it tends to be understood that
there is variance in the estimation of various exercises and that are talked about underneath:
National Australia Bank:
Particulars 2015 2016 2017 Change
2015-2016
Change
2016-
2017
Change
2015-2017
Cash flow
from
13090 16195 13217 31090 2978 127

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operating
activity
Cash flow
from
investing
activity
(1830) (9970) (313) 8140 9657 1517
Cash flow
from
financing
activity
1326 7761 (331) 6435 7430 997
Commonwealth Bank
Particulars 2015 2016 2017 Change
2015-2016
Change
2016-2017
Change
2015-2017
Cash flow
from
operating
activity
7183 (4561) (807) (2622) (3754) 6376
Cash flow
from
investing
activity
(1215) (20132) (677) (18917) (19455) 538
Cash flow
from
financing
activity
7875 1620 10,472 6255 8852 2597
V) By analyzing the above table, it tends to be resolved that an association can direct their
business by playing out the three exercises. It can likewise be noticed that there is variety in
these exercises because of their exchange.
In Commonwealth bank there is a diminishing in the working exercises which implies they didn't
collect the assets or cash and there is no such improvement, Apart from this, there is a lessening

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in the contributing action which implies they put less in debentures and offers. They back more
number of offers in the present year as contrast with existing years.
In National Australia Bank, it very well may be investigations that there is a decline in the
working exercises which suggests that they are not raising the more back and reserves and that
prompts low tasks. It can likewise be noticed that there is a diminishing in the contributing
exercises which implies they didn't put more exercises in the bank.
Other Comprehensive Income Statement
VI) The other comprehensive income statements are the measure of aggregate pay/income that
can be passed by the salary proclamations as they are not understood in the current money
related year. The announcements of thorough salary portray certain things, for example,
reasonable esteem developments on accessible available to be purchased ventures that can be
conveyed in accounting report and if there is any adjustment in the value of investors then that
can be recorded under various heads. Reasonable esteem development of income supports can be
planned to adjust for the progressions in existing resources or obligation. Remote cash
interpretation save net of assessment is the strategy for changing over the money related
explanations of a substance's and that can be accounted for under the present records of the
budgetary year.
VII) The income statement demonstrates the total of consumptions and incomes that happened
inside the associations. Through this, the organization can break down the money related
execution over the particular time of bookkeeping the execution can be gotten to base on
working and non-working exercises. While then again, the complete wage proclamations record
those things which are not understood in the current budgetary year (Edwards, 2017). It
comprises of the things, for example, misfortunes or gains on the income supporting, revaluation

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of properties net of expense. Conceded assess resources are recorded in resources side on the
estimation of advantages which are recorded under the accounting report.
VIII) Comparison of items of comprehensive income statements
Commonwealth Bank
National Australia Bank :

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From the above examinations, it tends to be resolved that there is variety in the diverse things of
the exhaustive pay articulations that are separated into two classes that are renamed to
benefit/misfortune account (Commonwealth Bank, 2016). A few things are not ordered into
benefit and misfortune account.
IX) It very well may be assessed that execution of an association can be dictated by the general
execution of money related proclamations. They can't access based on supervisor execution as it
is just a single wellspring of pay that reflects in the announcements. With the assistance of
extensive salary proclamations, the supervisor can decide the benefit and misfortune from the
things that are hidden in the present year. The far reaching pay explanations discard the
adjustments in resources because of progress in possession, value property or different variables.

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Accounting For Corporate Income Tax
X) Evaluation of tax expenses shown in the latest financial statements of the two companies
Tax Expense is the income before charge that can be duplicated by the proper assessment rate. It
is as per the sound accounting standards (GAAP). It tends to be noticed that salary impose cost
can be paid in future and that can be recorded under the risk side of the accounting report.
By watching the money related explanations of records, it tends to be noticed that
Commonwealth bank has acquired the obligation of (3976) in the year 2017 and in the year 2016
it was ($3071) which demonstrates that organization needs to pay less in the current budgetary
year.
The National Australia Bank, there is a lessening by $73 million or it tends to be expressed that
there is 209% reduction in the benefit before assess. By watching the Income proclamations, it
tends to be inferred that there is a diminishing in the pay impose cost and that implies they need
to cover less regulatory expense to government (National Australia Bank, 2017).
XI) Calculation of the effective tax rate for both companies
The tax is imposed on both the individuals as well as the corporations. The various methods are
used so that that the taxes can be determined and effectiveness of it can be evaluated. The
different types are statutory, marginal and average methods.
Effective tax rate National Australia Bank
Particulars Amount $ Million
Income tax expense 2480
EBT 8661
Effective tax rate 28.63%