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KWAZULU-NATAL FILM COMMISSION
(Registration number M3/15/32 (834/15)) Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
1.17 Revenue from non-exchange transactions - Government grants (continued)
with the transaction will flow to the entity. An announcement at the beginning of a financial year that grants may be available for qualifying entities in accordance with an agreed programme may not be sufficient evidence of the probability of the flow. Revenue is then only recognised once evidence of the probability of the flow becomes available.
Restrictions on government grants may result in such revenue being recognised on a time proportion basis. Where there is no restriction on the period, such revenue is recognised on receipt or when the Act becomes effective, which-ever is earlier.
When government remit grants on a re-imbursement basis, revenue is recognised when the qualifying expense has been incurred and to the extent that any other restrictions have been complied with.
Other grants and donations
Other grants and donations are recognised as revenue when:
• It is probable that the economic benefits or service potential associated with the transaction will flow to the entity; • The amount of the revenue can be measured reliably; and
• To the extent that there has been compliance with any restrictions associated with the grant.
If goods in-kind are received without conditions attached, revenue is recognised immediately. If conditions are attached, a liability is recognised, which is reduced and revenue recognised as the conditions are satisfied.
1.18 Turnover
Turnover comprises of sales to customers and service rendered to customers. Turnover is stated at the invoice amount and is exclusive of value added taxation.
1.19 Expenditure
Expenditure reported on the entity’s annual financial statements, refers to decreases in economic benefits during the accounting period in the form of outflows or depletions of assets or incurrences of liabilities. Expenditure recorded is on accrual basis, expenses are recorded when they are incurred. The entity recognises an asset if it has prepaid an expense, but does not yet have a present obligation to pay that expenditure.
1.20 Unauthorised expenditure
Unauthorised expenditure means:
• Overspending of a vote or a main division within a vote; and
• Expenditure not in accordance with the purpose of a vote or, in the case of a main division, not in accordance with the
purpose of the main division.
All expenditure relating to unauthorised expenditure is recognised as an expense in the statement of financial performance in the year that the expenditure was incurred. The expenditure is classified in accordance with the nature of the expense, and where recovered, it is subsequently accounted for as revenue in the statement of financial performance.
1.21 Fruitless and wasteful expenditure
Fruitless expenditure means expenditure which was made in vain and would have been avoided had reasonable care been exercised.
All expenditure relating to fruitless and wasteful expenditure is recognised as an expense in the statement of financial performance in the year that the expenditure was incurred. The expenditure is classified in accordance with the nature of the expense, and where recovered, it is subsequently accounted for as revenue in the statement of financial performance.
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