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Full Annual Report 2006 - Singapore Technologies Engineering

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THE WINNING SPIRIT ST <strong>Engineering</strong> AR <strong>2006</strong> 120<br />

Notes to the Financial Statements 31 DECEMBER <strong>2006</strong><br />

(Currency – <strong>Singapore</strong> dollars unless otherwise stated)<br />

2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)<br />

(q) Income recognition<br />

Income is recognised using the following methods:<br />

(i) Income from sale of goods and services rendered is recognised upon delivery of goods/services and acceptance by<br />

customers.<br />

(ii) Income from long-term contracts is recognised by reference to stage of completion which is measured by either:<br />

(a) the percentage of costs incurred to estimated total costs to complete the contracts; or<br />

(b) when goods and services, representing part of a contract, are delivered; or<br />

(c) upon completion of designated phases of a contract.<br />

Provision for foreseeable losses on uncompleted contracts is made as soon as such losses are determinable.<br />

(iii) Dividend income is recognised when the shareholder’s rights to receive payment is established.<br />

(iv) Management fee income is recognised on an accrual basis upon which management services are rendered.<br />

(v) For certain subsidiaries, the first 15 percent of the total commission receivable for each contract is treated as<br />

downpayment and is deferred and taken up in the statement of profit and loss only upon the discharge of specified<br />

contractual obligations. Commission income in respect of each contract in excess of the first 15 percent of the total<br />

amount receivable is taken up in the statement of profit and loss as and when it is billed. For certain back to back<br />

contracts, commission income is recognised upon delivery of goods and services.<br />

(vi) Any surplus arising from amounts under fund management can only be determined at the end of the relevant fund<br />

management period. Such surplus, if any, will be recognised as income then.<br />

(vii) Finance charges from hire purchase financing is recognised based on the sum of digits method over the finance<br />

period.<br />

(viii) Interest income is recognised on an accrual basis.<br />

(r) Foreign currency transactions/translation<br />

(i) Foreign currency transactions<br />

Transactions in foreign currencies are measured in the respective functional currencies of the Company and<br />

its subsidiary companies and are recorded on initial recognition in the functional currencies at exchange rates<br />

approximating those ruling at the transaction dates. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies<br />

are translated at the closing rate of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Non-monetary items that are measured<br />

in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are translated using the exchange rates as at the dates of the initial<br />

transactions. Non-monetary items measured at fair value in a foreign currency are translated using the exchange rates<br />

at the date when the fair value was determined.<br />

Exchange differences arising on the settlement of monetary items or on translating monetary items at the balance<br />

sheet date are recognised in the statement of profit and loss except for exchange differences arising on monetary<br />

items that form part of the Group’s net investment in foreign subsidiary companies, which are recognised initially<br />

in a separate component of equity as foreign currency translation reserve in the consolidated balance sheet and<br />

recognised in the consolidated statement of profit and loss on disposal of the subsidiary. In the Company’s separate<br />

financial statements, such exchange differences are recognised in the statement of profit and loss.<br />

Differences on foreign currency borrowings that provide a hedge against a net investment in a foreign operation are<br />

also taken directly to the foreign currency translation reserve until the disposal of the net investment, at which time<br />

they are recognised in the statement of profit and loss. Tax charges and credits attributable to exchange differences<br />

on those borrowings are also dealt with in the foreign currency translation reserve.

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