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Notes To The
Financial Statements
As at 31 March 2019
2.
Significant accounting policies (cont’d.)
2.3 Summary of significant accounting policies (cont’d.)
(s) Foreign currencies
(i) Functional and presentation currency
The individual financial statements of each entity in the Group are measured using the currency
of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates (“the functional currency”).
The consolidated financial statements are presented in RM, which is also the Company’s
functional currency.
(ii) Foreign currency transactions
Transactions in foreign currencies other than the Company’s functional currency (foreign
currencies) are recorded in the functional currencies at exchange rates approximating those
ruling at the transaction dates. At each reporting date, monetary items denominated in foreign
currencies are translated at the rates prevailing on the reporting date. Non-monetary items
carried at fair value that are denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the rates
prevailing on the date when the fair value was determined. Non-monetary items that are
measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not translated.
Exchange differences arising on the settlement of monetary items, and on the translation of
monetary items, are included in profit or loss for the period except for exchange differences
arising on monetary items that form part of the Group’s net investment in foreign operation.
These are initially taken directly to the foreign currency translation reserve within equity until the
disposal of the foreign operations, at which time they are recognised in profit or loss. Exchange
differences arising on monetary items that form part of the Company’s net investment in foreign
operation are recognised in profit or loss in the Company’s separate financial statements or the
individual financial statements of the foreign operation, as appropriate.
Exchange differences arising on the translation of non-monetary items carried at fair value are
included in profit or loss for the period except for the differences arising on the translation of non-
monetary items in respect of which gains and losses are recognised directly in equity. Exchange
differences arising from such non-monetary items are also recognised directly in equity.
(iii) Foreign operations
The results and financial position of foreign operations that have a functional currency different
from the presentation currency, RM, of the consolidated financial statements are translated into
RM as follows:
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Assets and liabilities for each statement of financial position presented are translated at the
closing rate prevailing at the reporting date;
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Income and expenses for each profit or loss are translated at average exchange rates for the
year, which approximates the exchange rates at the dates of the transactions; and
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All resulting exchange differences are taken to the foreign currency translation reservewithin equity.
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