Annual Report - Campus Living Villages
Annual Report - Campus Living Villages
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9 2 <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Villages</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 09/10<br />
<strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong> Finance Trust<br />
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2010<br />
A$’000<br />
CLFT<br />
1. Summary of accounting policies<br />
The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation<br />
of the financial statements are set out below. These policies<br />
have been consistently applied for the entire year presented,<br />
unless otherwise stated. The financial statements includes<br />
<strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong> Finance Trust (“CLFT”) and its subsidiaries<br />
(“consolidated entity”) which was established on 25 July 2006.<br />
CLFT is one of four trusts in a stapled group that form<br />
the <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Villages</strong> Fund (“the Fund”), the units<br />
of which can only be purchased or sold in their current<br />
stapled arrangement.<br />
a) Basis of preparation<br />
This general purpose financial report has been prepared in<br />
accordance, with Australian Accounting Standards, other<br />
authoritative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting<br />
Standards Board and the Corporations Act 2001.<br />
Compliance with IFRS<br />
The consolidated financial statements and notes of the<br />
Fund comply with International Financial <strong>Report</strong>ing<br />
Standards (IFRS) as issued by the International Accounting<br />
Standards Board.<br />
Historical cost convention<br />
These financial statements have been prepared under the<br />
historical cost convention, except for, financial assets and<br />
liabilities which are carried at fair value.<br />
Critical accounting estimates<br />
The preparation of financial statements in conformity<br />
with AIFRS requires the use of certain critical accounting<br />
estimates. It also requires management to exercise its<br />
judgement in the process of applying the entity’s accounting<br />
policies. The areas involving a higher degree of judgement<br />
or complexity, or areas where assumptions and estimates<br />
are significant to the financial statements, are set out in the<br />
applicable accounting policy note. Refer to Provisions note 10.<br />
Subsidiaries are fully consolidated from the date on which<br />
control is transferred to the ‘Consolidated entity’. They are<br />
de-consolidated from the date that control ceases.<br />
The acquisition method of accounting is used to account for<br />
the acquisition of subsidiaries by the consolidated entity.<br />
Intercompany transactions, balances and unrealised gains<br />
on transactions between consolidated entity companies are<br />
eliminated. Unrealised losses are also eliminated unless the<br />
transaction provides evidence of the impairment of the asset<br />
transferred. Accounting policies of subsidiaries have been<br />
changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the<br />
policies adopted by the consolidated entity.<br />
c) Foreign currency translation<br />
Functional and presentation currency<br />
Items included in the financial statements of each of the<br />
consolidated entity’s entities are measured using the currency<br />
of the primary economic environment in which the entity<br />
operates (‘the functional currency’). The consolidated financial<br />
statements are presented in Australian dollars, which is the<br />
consolidated entity’s functional and presentation currency.<br />
Transactions and balances<br />
Foreign currency transactions are translated into the functional<br />
currency using the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the<br />
transactions. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from<br />
the settlement of such transactions and from the translation<br />
at year end exchange rates of monetary assets and liabilities<br />
denominated in foreign currencies are recognised in the<br />
income statement.<br />
Translation differences on non-monetary financial assets and<br />
liabilities such as equities held at fair value through profit or<br />
loss are recognised in profit or loss as part of the fair value gain<br />
or loss.<br />
b) Principles of consolidation<br />
Subsidiaries<br />
The consolidated financial statements incorporate the assets<br />
and liabilities of all subsidiaries of CLFT as at 30 June 2010<br />
and the results of all subsidiaries for the year then ended.<br />
CLFT and its subsidiaries together are referred to in this<br />
financial report as the consolidated entity.<br />
Subsidiaries are all those entities (including special purpose<br />
entities) over which the consolidated entity has the power<br />
to govern the financial and operating policies, generally<br />
accompanying a shareholding of more than one-half of the<br />
voting rights. The existence and effect of potential voting<br />
rights that are currently exercisable or convertible are<br />
considered when assessing whether the consolidated entity<br />
controls another entity.<br />
Consolidated entity companies<br />
The results and financial position of all of the subsidiaries<br />
of the consolidated entity that have a functional currency<br />
different from the presentation currency are translated into<br />
the presentation currency as follows:<br />
> > Assets and liabilities for each Balance Sheet presented<br />
are translated at the closing rate at the date of that<br />
balance sheet<br />
> > Income and expenses for each income statement are<br />
translated at average exchange rates (unless this is not a<br />
reasonable approximation of the cumulative effect of the<br />
rates prevailing on the transaction dates, in which case<br />
income and expenses are translated at the dates of the<br />
transactions); and<br />
> > All resulting exchange differences are recognised as a<br />
separate component of equity.