SET Announcements
14 August 2007
Clarification of the effect from changing Accounting Policy
(Translation)
Ref. SS. / 3148 / 2007
14 August 2007
Subject : Clarification of the effect from Changing Accounting
Policy for investments.
To : President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Sansiri Public Company Limited ("the Company") would like to report
on the effect of the change in accounting for investment in subsidiary
companies as follows:
In the six-month period ended 30 June 2007, the Company changed its
accounting policy regarding investment in subsidiary companies so
that 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 its financial statement
by using the historical cost as the cost of the investment in subsidiary
companies 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 87.29 million for the six-month period ended 30 June 2007,
according to the consolidated financial statement. However, the separate
financial statement over the same period showed anet income of Baht 76.83
million. Furthermore, the Company would like to clarify with the additional
information as follows:
1. After restating, net income for the six-month period ended 30 June
2007 and the comparable period in 2006 decreased by Baht 10.46 million
(Baht 0.01 per share) and Baht 52.47 million (baht 0.04 per share),
respectively, This is because the separate financial statement did not
include any share of profits or losses from investments.
2. The restating on the separate financial statement for the quarter
ended 30 June 2007 affected to investment in subsidiary companies and
the shareholders equity on the balance sheets, decreased by Baht 89.11
million. The cumulative effect of the accounting policy has been
presented under the heading of Changes in accounting policy in the
separate financial statement 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 statements or business fundamentals.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours sincerely,
(Mr. Wanchak Buranasiri)
Senior Executive Vice President