Reserve Bank of Australia Balance Sheet
| $ million | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liabilities and Equity | Movement | Assets | Movement | ||
| Australian notes on issue | 104,494 | 100 | Gold and foreign exchange1 | 106,971 | -535 |
| Exchange Settlement balances | 194,316 | -8,869 | Australian dollar investments2 | 286,157 | 1,942 |
| Deposits (excluding Exchange Settlement balances) | 90,825 | 10,434 | Other assets (including clearing items) | 2,561 | -428 |
| Other liabilities | 11,338 | -118 | |||
| Other reserves and current year earnings3 | -5,324 | -568 | |||
| Capital and Reserve Bank Reserve Fund | 40 | - | |||
| Total | 395,689 | 979 | Total | 395,689 | 979 |
| The Bank's liabilities and assets data are provided on a more disaggregated basis in statistical table A1 – RBA Balance Sheet. | |||||
Footnotes
1
Gold and foreign exchange
Movements in this item reflect:
a. the Bank's transactions in gold and foreign exchange (including under swaps) and foreign securities;
b. earnings and changes in the valuation of gold and foreign currency investments, including changes in the market prices of the Bank's holdings of foreign currency securities.
In the week to 27 August the fall mainly reflects item (b).
2
Australian dollar investments
Movements in this item reflect:
a. the Bank's transactions in securities;
b. earnings and changes in the valuation of the Bank's Australian dollar investments.
In the week to 27 August the rise mainly reflects item (a).
[3]
Other reserves and current year earnings
This item includes unallocated earnings, accounting reserves and accumulated gains or losses
on the Bank's assets from movements in domestic and foreign yields, and exchange rates.
The treatment of earnings at year-end is subject to distribution of profits as determined in section 30
of the Reserve Bank Act.