SET Announcements
14 May 2007
Clarification of a change in accounting for investment
ACC.006/07
14 May 2007
President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Subject : Clarification of a change in accounting for investment
Notification of the Federation of Accounting Professions (FAP) no. 26/2006
TAS 44, Consolidated Financial Statements and Accounting for Investment in
Subsidiaries, requires companies to change accounting methods for investments
in subsidiaries in subsidiaries and affiliates from the equity method to the
cost method as reported in separate financial statements. Such an adjustment
leads net income and retained earnings in the separate financial statements
to differ from those in the consolidated financial statements. Nonetheless,
this is merely a change in accounting policy, not a change in any
fundamental factors affecting our business.
The Company would like to report on the effect of the change in accounting
for investment in subsidiary as follows:
In the three-month period ended March 31, 2007, the Company changed the
accounting policy regarding investment in subsidiary so that the separate
financial statement, which formerly reported investment using the equity
method, now reports using the cost method. This is to comply with TAS 44.
Thus the Company restated the financial statement by using the historical
cost as the cost of the investment in subsidiary of the separate financial
statement. This adjustment caused the net income on the separate financial
statement to differ from that reported in the consolidated financial
statement. The Company had net income of Baht 1.32 million for the
three-month period ended March 31, 2007, according to the consolidated
financial statement. However, the separate financial statement over the
same period showed a net income of Baht 0.36 million. Therefore, the
Company would like to clarify with the additional information as follows:
1.After restating, net income for the three-month period ended March 31,2007
on the separate financial statement decreased by Baht 0.96 million from net
profit Baht 1.32 million to net profit Baht 0.36 million and the comparable
period ended March 31,2006 decreased by Baht 6.49 million from net profit
Baht 19.73 million to Baht 13.24 million, respectively. (that is, decreased
by Baht 0.01 per share and Baht 0.05 per share, respectively.) This is because
the separate financial statement did not include any share of profits from
investments.
2.The effect from the restating to other items on the separate financial
statement for the quarter ended March 31,2007, such as the unappropriated
retained earnings on the consolidated balance sheets, decreased by Baht 94.73
million from retained earning Baht 140.93 million to retained earnings
Baht 46.20 million. The cumulative effect of the accounting policy has
been presented under the heading of "Cumulative effect of the change in
accounting policy for investments in subsidiaries in the separate financial
statements" in the statement of changes in shareholders' equity.
However, the change of accounting policy affects only the separate
financial statement. It did not have any effect on the consolidated
financial statement or business fundamental.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours sincerely,
(Noppadon Tansalarak)
Director
(Phiched Maneerattanaporn)
Director