Submission of F/S and Explanation for Profit Change
28 February 2008
Translation
27 February 2008
Subject : Submission of Financial Statements for the year ended
December 31, 2007
To : Director and Manager
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Enclosed please find the Consolidated and Company Financial Statements
of Siam Makro Public Company Limited for the year ended December 31, 2007
which have been audited by the certified public accountant.
Revenues
During the year of 2007, the Company has been performing several
activities to improve the service quality rendered to our member customers
including effective management and provided value added service to our member
customers such as remodeling bakery section, spice section, installation of
air-condition including review of assortment and re-display the product in
small stores. The Company also improved the non food products to explicitly
access to the target customer group. In addition, the Company has opened 12
new stores to serve the demand of our customers and to provide convenience to
our customers in various provinces. Furthermore, we have provided training to
our staffs to improve service efficiency to our customers. The improvement of
our logistics was for the purpose of enhancing an efficiency in inventory
management to be better. In the early of 2007, we have launched Makro
Retailers Alliance (MRA) Project in order to continuously develop our member
customers to improve their competitiveness. MRA Project Phase I composes of
the model store design contest, the certified training program for retail
business operation owners and their successors and the development to the
retail business operator through an educational column on retailers in Kom
Chad Luek newspaper.
The foregoing activities were attributable to the sales increase of
all product groups, i.e. fresh food, dry food and non food product by 11.8%
growth as compared to last year and resulted to total consolidated revenues of
Baht 63,934 million or 11.4% growth as compared to last year.
Selling and Administrative Expenses
Overall the selling and administrative expenses increased by Baht 694
million to Baht 4,180 million up from Baht 3,486 million, representing 6.5%
of total revenue compared to 6.1% in 2006. This being accounted to the
operating cost and pre opening expenses for 12 new stores which was Baht 463
million. However, the increase in selling and administration expenses was held
at a lower rate as selling and administrative expenses per store were tightly
controlled.
Net Profit
Net profit was Baht 1,292 million, up 5.6% from Baht 1,223 million in
2006. The increase of net profit was due mainly to the increased revenue and
efficient management.
Change in Accounting for Investments
Since 1 January 2007, the Company has changed its accounting policy
for investments in subsidiaries in the Company financial statements from the
equity method to the cost method in compliance with the Federation of
Accounting Professions announcement. The Company applies retrospective
adjustments. Thus the Company restated its financial statements by using the
historical cost as the cost of the investments in subsidiaries of the Company
financial statements. This adjustment caused the net income on the Company
financial statements to differ from that reported in the consolidated
financial statements. The Company had net income of Baht 1,292 million for
the year ended 31 December 2007, according to the consolidated financial
statements. However, the Company financial statements for the year ended 31
December 2007 showed a net income of Baht 1,293 million. Therefore, the
Company would like to clarify with the additional information as follows:
1. After a change in accounting for investments, net income for the
year ended 31 December 2007 and 2006 increased by Baht 1 million for the year
2007 and decreased by Baht 232 million for the year 2006, respectively. (that
is, increased by Baht 0.01 per share for the year 2007 and decreased by Baht
0.97 per share for the year 2006, respectively.) This is because the Company
financial statements did not include any share of profits from investments.
2. The effect from the restating to other items on the Company
financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2006, such as investments
in subsidiaries and the retained earnings on the balance sheets, decreased by
Baht 1,806 million. The cumulative effect of the accounting policy has been
presented under the subject of Cumulative effect of the change in accounting
policy for investments in subsidiaries in the Company financial statements in
the Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity.
However, the change of accounting policy affected only the Company
financial statements. It did not have any effect on the consolidated financial
statements or business fundamentals.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Siam Makro Public Company Limited
Signature
(Mr. Charoen Assawajarukasem)
SET Coordinator Manager