Full Annual Report 2006 - Singapore Technologies Engineering
Full Annual Report 2006 - Singapore Technologies Engineering
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.