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Interview Report On The Segment Reporting

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Executive Summary
This report will provide an overview as to what Segment Reporting is and how is it reported in the annual reports. This report will also touch basis on issues involved in allowing the management to measure the different operating segments. A brief discussion on how entity wide disclosures need to be made for major customers under AASB 8. To get a better understanding on segment reporting, we have compared the annual reports of Telstra Group and BHP Billiton, to view the different approaches or similarities in reporting segment information.
In the end we have demonstrated the benefits of segment reporting to the users of General Purpose Financial Statements (GPFS).

Introduction: Segment Reporting
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The different requirements for an operating segment to be reportable under Paragraph 13 of AASB 8 are,
1) Quantitative Thresholds Tests:
A) Revenue test, wherein the reported revenue including sales to any external customers as well as inter-segment sales and transfers if 10% or higher of the total operating revenue will be reportable revenue.
B) Profit or Loss test, wherein the reported profit or loss will be totaled in their respective absolute amount, if 10% or more of such absolute amount of profit or loss in each activity will be reportable.
C) Asset test, wherein the assets in the operating segments that is 10% or more of the total of all combine assets under the operating segments will be reportable (Deegan, 2012).
2) If the total external revenue of all reportable segments is below 75% of the total of all reportable revenue of the different reportable segments more segments need to be reported until such revenue is 75% or more unless such condition has already been satisfied (Deegan, 2012).

These tests will define the different reportable operating segments that need to be reported by the organization in their financial report. The standards under AASB 8, even provides an approach, where segments that were not reportable and did not qualify the above tests to be reportable separately. This approach is referred to as the management approach, even any such information analyzed by the chief operating officer

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