Financial Accounting Analysis: Fletcher Building Limited Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of financial accounting practices, specifically focusing on Fletcher Building Limited. It begins by defining the concept of a reporting entity and identifying Fletcher Building as a suitable example, examining its financial activities and the presentation of it...Read More

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Advanced Financial Accounting
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Executive Summary
This current report has shed light on the process of financial accounting and faithful
representation of data for Fletcher Building limited. The financial statement of the
company gives the significant data which is additionally able of making the contrasts in
certain sort of choice that are made by the client. It might not be inappropriate to prohibit
the trade together with the complex things for understanding the financial reports in
straightforward terms. Qualitative characteristics is additionally to be improved for way
better results inside the entity for its reporting reason. These have been discussed in
the study along with the reporting entity and faithful representation.

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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................3
Reporting entity – Definition, Description and identification of the selected company......3
Fundamental qualitative characteristics – Understanding of relevance and faithful
representation....................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................6
References.........................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Financial accounting is vital for an association as it consist of summarising,
examining at the side detailing of the financial transaction which are specifically related
to the commerce. This primarily focuses out the planning of the financial statement of
the company which incorporates all of the money related exchanges that are included
within the trade. In this study, Fletcher Building limited has been taken into
consideration which may be a construction company of New Zealand that has been
established within the year 2001 (Fletcherbuilding.com 2019). The study highlights the
announcing substance at the side of its recognizable proof and depiction alongside
fundamental qualitative characteristics. It moreover incorporates the representational
faithfulness and the significance of the company.
Reporting entity – Definition, Description and identification of the selected
company
Reporting entity primarily focuses out the association that locks in with the
identifiable financial exercises and utilizing the financial assets which are basically
recorded within the monetary statement of the company. Individual dealings with the
proprietor are completely distinctive from each other of the substance together with
guaranteeing the bookkeeping condition and cannot be changed subjectively is coined
as detailing substance (Ghani and Muhammad 2016). The above concept incorporates
the viable money related data which are based for indicating out the data around the
shareholders and other individuals of the association. Budgetary detailing focuses out
the common reason of making the decision that would be valuable for indicating out the
choice based that are highlighted within the association. In other words, these are the
trade that anticipates their client to be subordinate on the reason of detailing substance
(Shore and Wright 2015). The administration to the archive is to be displayed for the
dependant clients that highlights the by and large process of financial reporting.
The statement that complies with accounting treatment and the concepts of the
accounting standard. These are the articulation that are arranged in a detailing
substance at the side displaying the monetary data that are related to the trade
exercises (Spraakman et al. 2015). The thought of accounting standard as per the
AASB is to be included inside the reporting entity. It comprises of the controlling
substances which works alongside the budgetary targets that are required to be
included with the reporting entity. The portrayal of reporting entity is to pick up an
understanding the position of the accounts together with their exhibitions within the
substance additionally incorporates the choice that are to be made with other budgetary
data. A non-reporting substance is to be changed with the administration where it does
not comprise of any subordinate clients on the common reason of money related
reporting. It is additionally imperative for charging the administration with the archives
which are to be included with the announcing substance and client subordinate ( Laswad
and Redmayne 2015). The benchmark of the relations focuses out the least required
quality of money related detailing that are to be done inside their substance and the
monetary explanation indicates that the substance is detailing substance or not.
Additionally, the association would layout the model for deciding the qualities and
certain boundaries of reporting purposes.

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The company that has been chosen in this study is Fletcher Building limited
which is a materials and construction multinational company that works in Australia and
in New Zealand. The company has unveiled their annual report which designates out a
few data approximately the company in conjunction with a few sorts of report and
financial statement that are for the most part arranged by the administration of the
company (Müller et al. 2015). The record for characterizing the substance primarily
depends on the GPFR for empowering the substance as reporting entity. It moreover
offer assistance in deciding the financial reporting system which would be required by
the company after a certain period of time. As per the IFRS, the announcing substance
is to report its solidified financial statement that are arranged by the company after a
certain period of time (Hamzeh, Zhong and Xu 2018). The annual report of the company
is one of the archive that is utilized for recognizing the substance is reporting entity or
not.
There is an extraordinary reason for financial report which focuses out the
application of estimation together with acknowledgment of the Australian and New
Zealand accounting standard. Notes on the financial statement by and large focuses out
the accounting standard together with their translation for perceives its resources and
liabilities of the company (Vesty et al. 2018). Fletcher Building Limited has executed a
modern accounting standard which plays a critical part on the effect of the financial
statement that are being arranged by the company inside apportioned period of time.
The backups of the reporting period is to be included with the accounting policies that
are related with the company in conjunction with exchanging the sum of subsidiaries
that are completely solidified in nature (Houqe, Monem and van Zijl 2016). All of the
Australian and New Zealand Accounting Standard is required to be connected at the
time of planning of financial reporting. For instance, Fletcher Building limited focuses out
the assets and liabilities of the articulation of financial position which interpret the
closing rate inside the reporting entity.
The trade contrasts within the interpretation of period inside the comprehensive
income that interpret the closing rate inside the in general reporting entity. The
designated auditor of the company has inspected the budgetary statement of the
company which basically comprises of the statement of the monetary position which
points out certain arrangements at the side statement of the directors (Hill et al. 2016).
The over concept incorporates the compelling financial data which are based for
indicating out the data approximately the shareholders and other individuals of the
association. Accounting standard are to be complied which focuses out the Financials
Market Conducts Act 2013 alongside other proficient prerequisites that would be
valuable for the company in their ordinary course of trade. The benchmark of the
relations focuses out the least required quality of financial reporting that are to be done
inside their entity and the budgetary statement indicates that the substance is detailing
substance or not (Whittaker, Fath and Fiedler 2016). Based on the cover said focuses,
Fletcher Building limited can be pointed as a reporting entity and takes after the rules
and control that a reporting entity takes after.

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Fundamental qualitative characteristics – Understanding of relevance and faithful
representation
Fundamental qualitative characteristics are the qualities that are sketched out
with the Conceptual System for Financial Reporting that has been affirmed by the New
Zealand International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS). The conceptual system
primarily highlights the financial data that are valuable and pertinent in a reliable way for
its superior representation (De Villiers and Hsiao 2018). It moreover highlights the
convenience of the financial data which improves the comparability, opportune and
reasonable inside the designated time period. Any kind of pertinence questions
approximately the significant financial data are specifically related to the financial
decision together with its values that are prescient in nature. It too comprise of another
angles that is materiality which is entity particular in nature (Hancock, Marriott and Duff
2019). The relative in nature of materiality is influenced by its size which highlights the
relative data inside the financial statement that has been arranged by the company. The
predictive esteem of the data highlights the corroborative value which for the most part
expects at the end of the result.
Unquestionable status generally helps the client that the included data has been
steadfastly spoken to and backed by the confirmations for checking the general loyalty
of the financial statements. Convenience primarily focuses out the data that are required
to be given to the decision makers and in arrange to able of their choice inside the
assessed period of time (Pack, Tuffin and Lyons 2016). Understand ability focuses out
the financial data which are to be included with the comprehensive financial statement
of the company and sensible information of the trade is to be included with certain
financial exercises. For understanding the trade exercises, the data around the
company is to be displayed in a clear way together with in a brief manner because it
would offer assistance in showing the information in a better procedure. A few of the
quality that are to be upgraded incorporates the comparability, unquestionable status,
opportuneness and understand ability. Comparability basically focuses out the
comparison inside the association and across the association that must be compared
from one accounting period to another accounting (Hopkins et al. 2015). For instance,
Fletcher Building limited is to compare their money related articulation from one year to
another year. Income is to be compared for the year that highlights the year such as
2017, 2018 alongside 2019. It primarily highlights the likenesses and the contrasts
between the explanations that are being arranged by the company.
Besides, the faithful representation speaks to the genuine reason of the report
which really implies that to speak to what has really happened within the trade of the
company. There are certain characteristics through which faithful representation of the
information is performed which are completeness, lack of bias and free from mistakes
(Clayton and van Staden 2015). Completeness basically alludes to the satisfactory or
full revelation of the fundamental data which are to be included within the financial
statement of the company. Any data should not be kept as mystery and each data is to
be uncovered amid the time of reporting. Lack of bias basically alludes to the decency
and opportunity of the data which are totally free from predisposition. Any kind of
distortion is not to be included at the time of recording of financial statements. In
expansion to this, free from mistakes are the quality which are to be included that

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comprise of no mistakes and exclusion of financial data amid the time of recording
(Willis et al. 2017). In addition to this, the overall analysis of the financial statement that
are prepared by the company is to present the data that has already been recorded in
the statement.
Fletcher Building limited has already provided their yearly report that generally
consist of the accounting policies, messages from the directors, report of the auditors
and financial statement. The provided information are faithfully represented for
recording in the annual report without occurring any kind of faults in the overall process
of representation (Cordery, Fowler and Morgan 2016). The assets and liabilities that are
associated with the company has also been disclosed along with highlighting the overall
position of the finances in the market. Incorrect representation of the data also hamper
the company in their normal course of business. For instance, Fletcher Building limited
consist of total assets in the year 2019 for around NZ $ 7710 million and total amount of
liabilities for around NZ $ 3537 million (Fletcherbuilding.com 2019).
Conclusion
The conclusion of the above mentioned study mainly points out the presentation
of the financial information from the financial statement that are being prepared by the
company. It comprise of concept of reporting entity and concept of fundamental
qualitative characteristics of an association. Financial reporting focuses out the common
reason of making the choice that would be valuable for indicating out the choice based
that are highlighted within the association. The yearly report of the company is one of
the archive that is utilized for distinguishing the substance is reporting entity or not. The
auxiliaries of the detailing period is to be included with the bookkeeping approaches that
are related with the company together with exchanging the sum of backups that are
completely solidified in nature. In addition, it comprise of steadfast representation which
has the real reason of the report which really implies that to speak to what has really
occurred to the business. The depiction of reporting entity is to pick up an
understanding the position of the accounts together with their exhibitions within the
substance conjointly incorporates the decision that are to be made with other money
related data.

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