Corporate Accounting Report: Wesfarmers Cash Flow, Tax, and Financials

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Wesfarmers' financial statements, focusing on its cash flow statement, corporate tax accounting, and other comprehensive income. The report dissects the various components of the cash flow statement, including operating, investing, and financing activities, and provides a comparative analysis of these categories from 2015 to 2017. It also examines the items included in the other comprehensive statement, explaining why these items are not reported in the income statement. Furthermore, the report evaluates Wesfarmers' tax expenses, analyzes the company's tax rate in relation to its accounting income, and assesses the treatment of deferred tax assets and liabilities. The report also clarifies the reporting of current tax assets and income tax payable and the treatment of income tax expenses within the financial statements. Overall, the analysis offers insights into Wesfarmers' financial health and accounting practices.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Cash Flow Statement.......................................................................................................................4
(i) Understanding about the items of cash flow statement........................................................4
(ii) Comparative analysis of Wesfarmers three broad cash flow categories as financing,
operating and investing activities.................................................................................................4
Other Comprehensive Statement.....................................................................................................5
(iii) Reporting and understanding about financial reporting items which are recorded in the
other comprehensive statement....................................................................................................5
(iv) Reason for the items due to which these items have not been reported in income and
profit and loss statement..............................................................................................................5
Accounting for Corporate Tax.........................................................................................................6
(v) Discussion about the Wesfarmers tax expenses................................................................6
(vi) Analysis about the company tax rate for accounting income...........................................6
(vii) Evaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities which is recorded in the balance sheet. .6
(viii) The reporting about the current tax assets or income tax payable....................................6
(ix) Recoding of income tax expenses in the income and cash flow statement.......................6
(x) The finding about the treatment of tax and corporate accounting....................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The main purpose of this presentation is about the assessment of cash flow statement. For this
cash flow analysis, the Wesfarmers business is reported in context of discussion about the items
that are recorded in the cash flow statement. In addition to this, the items which are reported into
the other comprehensive statement are also assessed with the discussion about their
determination of role in the corporate accounting effectiveness. In relation to this, it is also
assessed that why the items of other comprehensive statement are recorded in the income and
profit and loss account. In addition to this, the income tax treatment for the Wesfarmers is also
evaluated in context of the tax expenses of company in the particular time duration. Moreover,
the company tax rate is also discussed with the firm’s accounting income. On the other hand, it is
also addressed that deferred tax assets or liabilities are recorded in the balance sheet of business
for the year end results. The treatment of income tax expense and income tax payable are also
assessed in comparative manner why these are not the same in the financial reporting of
information in different account statement.

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Cash Flow Statement
The cash flow statement is a financial statement that records the transaction which occurred in
the financial year for the company in regulated time duration. In this statement the cash flow
stated as from the source the cash comes and by what the cash goes out. The cash flow statement
measures the different sources for the company and the activities for which the cash is used. The
different items are included in this statement which are disused in context of Wesfarmers limited
Australia as follows
(i) Understanding about the items of cash flow statement
Cash flow from operating activities
Receipts from customers: This is the amount which needs to be due over the customers of
company and the payment will get in that specified time duration (Downs, 2017). The payment is
received from the customer in order to purchasing of goods from the company.
Payment to suppliers and employers
This amount is determined as the liabilities for the company which is due on the company and it
is required to pay to the employees and its material suppliers to the Wesfarmers. This item has
changed from the last three year’s higher payment.
Net movement in finance advances and loans
This type of item that is reported in relation to the loan which is taken and advances payment that
is received from its customers so that the liability of business can be assessed (Reid and
Myddelton, 2017).

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Interest received
This item is recorded in context of recording the amount in cash flow which is received by the
company from its interest from operating activities. This item is also increased from the year
2016 to 2017.
Borrowing cost
This item is reported in the cash flow statement which is concerned about the cost amount that is
incurred in relation to the borrowing for the business operations (Stice, Stice and Stice, 2017).
Income tax paid
The income tax paid is that item which is reported in context of liability for the company which
is paid in order to credit taken. This cash flow statement has also increased from the last year
with the largest value deviation.
Cash flows from investing activities
Payment for the property, equipments and plants
This is also recorded in the cash flow statement for which the payment is made by the company
in order to purchasing of plant and property (Bienias, Lehman and Gentene, 2013).
Proceeds from sales of property
This item is termed as the income for the company when the company sold out its plants and
equipments.
Acquisition of subsidiaries
About this item, it is known that if the company take over a business in order to strengthen the
capability of company itself than the company needs to pay for this (Stevanović, Belopavlović
and Lazarević-Moravčević, 2017).
Net redemption of loans

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The loan amount is redeemed by the loan provider to assessing the creditworthiness of business.
So this is treated as the income for business.
Cash flow from financial activities
Proceeds from borrowings
The company gets this amount when it sold out the material or cash when it was taken by the
company.
Repayment of borrowings
This is the item which is recorded by the company in order to making the payment to its
borrowers in significant time duration (Easton, Vassallo and Weisbrod, 2017). The borrowing
from the external parties has also increased in significant number.
Equity dividend paid
This is the part of profit which is paid by the company to its equity shareholders and it is the
responsibility of company to pay the relative part of profit to its partners.
(ii) Comparative analysis of Wesfarmers three broad cash flow categories as
financing, operating and investing activities
As per the analysis of cash flow statement of business, it is determined that the cash and cash
equilant for the Wesfarmers has increased from the year 2015 to 2017 as it was in negative
amount as US$152 million and in year 2016 it is recorded as US$ (100) million. On the other
hand, it is recorded as YS$402 million increase in one year of time span (Wesfarmers, 2017).
From the review of cash flow statement for Wesfarmers, it can be stated that the cash flow from
operating activities is generate as US$3365 million in the financial year 2016 and it is recorded
as US$ 4226 million in the year 2017. On the other hand, it can be determined that the operating

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activities have been surged in last two years. Along with this, it is also assessed that the cash
flow from the investing activities is also generated in the strong amount as it is reported in the
year 2016 as (US$2132M) but at the same time, it is also calculated in the year 2017 by
US$(53m). Furthermore, it is also discussed that the cash flow from financing is also increased
due to the changes in the operational activities of Wesfarmers. The cash generated from the
financing activities as (US$1331m) in the year 2016 but on the other hand, it is surged from the
amount to (US$3771m) (Hewitt, Hodge and Pratt, 2017). Overall, it can be stated that the
operating performance of business is increasing and company is growing with the rapid force.
Other Comprehensive Statement
The other comprehensive statement items are those items which are excluded from the income
statement as per the regulations of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. There are many
items which are included in the other comprehensive income of Wesfarmers business operational
transactions occurred
(iii) Reporting and understanding about financial reporting items which are
recorded in the other comprehensive statement
The Wesfarmers business has generated the income about US$18 million and it was the negative
performance in the year 2016 by US$ (78) million. The main other comprehensive income items
are as follows
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations

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In relation to this item it can be stated that the difference is found out from the exchange of
foreign currency with the different currency for the two differ nation’s capital (Khansalar and
Namazi, 2017).
Unrealised losses on cash flow hedges
This item is recorded in the other comprehensive statement which is about to the unrealized loss
or gains from the transactions of business operations.
Realised losses transferred to net profit
This type of item is also not included in the comprehensive income statement due to its
application on accounting regulations. This amount is transferred to the net profit of business and
it is deducted from the profit part.
Realised losses/(gains) transferred to non-financial assets
The non-financial losses or gains are also recorded under the other comprehensive statement as
the financial items are recorded under the income statement but this non-financial is not shown
(Al-Attar and Maali, 2017).
Share of associates and joint venture reserves
In context to this, the share’ losses and gains are determined with related to the joint venture
company.
Tax effect
It is also other comprehensive item that is shown towards the impact of taxation on the
comprehensive income.

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(iv) Reason for the items due to which these items have not been reported in
income and profit and loss statement
The other comprehensive items are not included in the profit and loss account and it is also
determine that these items are also not included in the income statement. The main reason behind
that the IFRS is not permitted to the treatment of these items in the income statement. The total
comprehensive statement is the reporting for changes in the equity so the other items might
influence the rules and regulations in effective manner (Jury, 2012). On the other hand, these are
not included in the P/L account because of confusing in relation to the entering or reporting and
might also affect the entire statement to develop.
Accounting for Corporate Tax
(v) Discussion about the Wesfarmers tax expenses
From the review of financial statement of Wesfarmers for the year 2017, it is assessed the tax
expenses for the company has occurred by the amount of US$127 which is just double for the
previous year 2016 (Ramachandran and Ram, 2014).
(vi) Analysis about the company tax rate for accounting income
As per the analysis of financial statement of Wesfarmers, it is determined that the company tax
rate is not the same in context to the firm’s accounting income. From the review of accounting
income for the year 2017, it is reported as the US$2873 (Klammer, 2018). On the other hand, the
accounting income for the year 2016 is gained as US$ 407 million.

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(vii) Evaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities which is recorded in the
balance sheet
The deferred tax assets are considered as the non- current assets which is also the major part of
the financial statement. The recording of deferred tax assets is done in the balance sheet. From
the analysis, the main reason behind the reporting of deferred tax assets in the balance sheet is
that taxable income for the corporation can be reduced which is helpful for business to gain the
higher revenue from its operations (Tracy and Tracy, 2011). In relation to the deferred liability, it
is communally depreciation and when the company needs to pay higher rate depreciation as per
the different from the company act as it supports to minimize the amount of tax.
(viii) The reporting about the current tax assets or income tax payable
Yes, the company has recorded the current tax assets or income tax payable in the financial
statement of business to treat. The income tax payable is recorded as AUS$ 292milion. In
relation to this, the income tax assists and income tax payable are not the same because the tax
assets is the amount which is basically recovered from the income tax authorities but at the same
time, the income tax expenses is recorded in the balance sheet liability which is required to be
paid by the business so these items are not same (Accountingtools, 2017).
(ix) Recoding of income tax expenses in the income and cash flow statement
The income tax expenses and the income tax paid is not the same amount which is treated in the
income statement and the cash flow statement. For the review of annual report of Wesfarmers for
year 2017 the income tax paid is recorded as US$951 million but the income tax expenses is

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detained as the US$1265 million (Bellandi, 2012). The main reason behind this reporting of
different as income tax paid and the income tax expenses that the income tax paid is the expenses
which is treated as the liability for business but the expenses is depicted as the spending for the
business so the both of the items are reported in different accounting aspect.
(x) The finding about the treatment of tax and corporate accounting
The corporate accounting assessment was valuable to understand the cash flow statement’s items
and the reporting of different activities under the categories of cash flow category. The above
assessed information was useful to understand the other comprehensive items and it was
confusing that there was not a judgemental reason for the recording of these in other
comprehensive statement. On the other hand, it was also difficult to understand the differed tax
assets and liability in the accounting treatment. Moreover, the income tax and income expenses
were also typical to understand through the corporate accounting rules and regulations. In
accordance to this, the tax treatment for the Wesfarmers was also complicated to report the
expense and tax paid in the accounting statement. But at the same time, the corporate accounting
assessment was interesting to gain the good knowledge about the performance of company under
the different accounting parameters.

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Conclusion
From the analysis of these corporate accounting aspects for the Wesfarmers business, it can be
concluded that the cash flow statement was one of the major statement that is supportive to
enhance the viability of business operations. In addition to this, the other income comprehensive
statement was also crucial to understand about the treatment of concerned items. On the other
hand, it can also be concluded that the income tax is also valuable for the business to treat in
effective manner.