Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report – 1993 Financial Statements Bank Premises and Other Durable Assets

Note 6 Bank Premises and Other Durable Assets (Note 1(d))

1991/92
$'000
  1992/93
$'000
  Premises
492,169 Opening balance 311,081
2,462 Net expenditure in year 838
494,631   311,919
(25,316) Accumulated depreciation prior to revaluation (5,896)
469,315 Book valuation prior to revaluation 306,023
(158,234) Net revaluation adjustments (including currency translation) (41,275)
311,081 As at 30 June 264,748

As recorded in Note 1 (d), the triennial revaluation of Bank premises took place in 1991/92; those valuations were updated as at 30 June 1993. Amounts written off Bank premises in terms of section 78 of the Reserve Bank Act (ie depreciation) were $5.896 million ($6.500 million in 1991/92) and are included in the figure of accumulated depreciation prior to revaluation.

  Other durable assets
99,649 Opening balance 103,144
3,495 Net expenditure in year 3,707
103,144   106,851
(61,018 ) Accumulated depreciation (70,396)
42,126 As at 30 June 36,455