Genting Plantation Berhad which is formerly known as Asiatic Development Berhad started business by acquisition of the Rubber Trust Group which owed around 13,700 hectares of plantation land in Peninsular Malaysia on April 1980. Basically, the company is emphasizing on plantation, property, and biotechnology. The company owes thousands hectares of oil palm plantation. In the year 1985, by recognizing the scarcity of land in Peninsular Malaysia, Genting Group started to expand their business into Sabah. At present, Genting plantation owns 6 oil mills, one in Peninsular Malaysia and the others in Sabah. 1 of the oil palm plantations is located in Selangor and Sarawak, 2 plantation locations in Malacca and Indonessia, 3 locations in Kedah, 4 locations in Johor Bharu, and 12 locations in Sabah. While plantation business remains the core activity, Genting Plantations has since ventured into property development with the objectives to unlock the potential of its strategically located land bank and to reduce its dependence on single source income. The first project is the 55-hectare Genting Cheng Perdana in Central Melaka. Genting Permaipura project in late 1994 which involves 284-hectare land, a club house, The Genting Permaipura Golf & Country Club, Genting Indahpura, the development of about 3200 hectares of plantation land in kulai, johor into a self- contained township were some projects that were successfully done by Genting Plantations Berhad. Genting Plantation is actively involved in environmental conservation and committed to sustainable development of oil palm cultivation. Since 1999, Genting Plantations has collaborated with World Wide Fund for Nature in support of its programme to conserve the Kinabatangan floorplains aimed at rehabilitating and restoring riverine and wetland habitats as wildlife sanctuary and preservation of 2
biodiversity. Genting Plantation Berhad has extended its partnership with WWF for another 15 years from 2006 in the programme. (B) Type Of Organization Corpotation. Genting Plantations Berhad is organized under Company Law as a separate legal entity. Genting plantations Berhad with its own legal rights and obligations, separate and distinct from those of its members .The company's property is its own and is not treated as belonging to the company's shareholders and directors. The company itself can enter into contracts, employ people, sue and be sued and can be liable if it commits criminal offences. Genting Plantations Berhad pay taxes in its own name. Advantages: a) Continuity Since Genting Plantations Berhad is a separate legal entity, the company keeps going indefinitely, regardless of who owns or directs it. This can be an advantage where ownership or control is going to change. b) The floating charge Genting Plantations Berhad is allow to create floating charge. A floating charge is a mortgage of (usually) all the company's assets, both present and future, and on terms that the company may deal with the assets in the ordinary course of business. It is a good way, and in practice the only way, of using the assets of a business other than the premises as security for a loan. c) Owner Protection from Legal Liability Genting Plantations Berhad has a limited amount of legal liability for the corporation's business activities and debts. If Genting Plantations Berhad does 3
become insolvent, the people running it can be made personally liable for some or all its debts if they have incurred debts which they knew the company could not pay . Disadvantages: a) Privacy As a registered company, Genting Plantations Berhad has to send information about itself to Companies House, where it is put on public file. Anybody can request a copy of the file and so can look up all the registered details of the company. Information from Companies House is increasingly being made available on-line. The information includes a copy of the annual accounts and details of the company's directors, including share ownerships, other directorships, home addresses. For an example, Some people do not like this amount of information being publicly available. b) Taxation Since Genting Plantations Berhad is a registered company, it subject to a different tax structure (corporation tax) from sole traders or partnerships. The choice of structure can make a substantial difference to the amount of tax paid on the same trading profits. Besides that, the profit earn by Genting Plantations Berhad will be double taxed every single year. (C) Three Accounting Concept Applied By The Company. In the Annual Report 2010, Genting Plantations Berhad applied the money measurement accounting concepts for every financial report. Money measurement is used money as the basic measuring unit for financial reporting. For example, Genting Plantations Berhad used monetary terms in their financial statement. 4
Second, Genting Plantations Berhad also applied accounting period accounting concepts in their financial report. Accounting period is the life of a business is divided into units of equal length for the purpose of preparing financial reports. The concepts can enable comparisons and analysis of the businesss financial position over a period of time. The accounting period of Genting Plantations Berhad used in the Annual Report 2010 is 1 year. Genting Plantations Berhad prepares annual report from 1 January until 31 December every year. The last accounting concept applied by Genting Plantations Berhad in the financial statement is materiality. The concepts that trivial matters are to be disregarded in accounting and all important matters are to be disclosed or show to public. Genting Plantations Berhad record all the amount of their financial statement in annual report every year and show the annual report to shareholder of Genting Plantations Berhad. They only record important matters in annual report such as total revenue, investment and total equity and liabilities.
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(D)Analyze the company performance Statement Of Comprehensive Income As At 31 December 2010.
The statement of comprehensive income for company Genting Plantation Berhad in year 2010 is better than year 2009 compare between year 2010 and year 2009 from the group of the Genting Plantation Berhad. According from the latest annual report, the comprehensive income for Genting Plantation Berhad in year 2010 is RM371,334 and in year 2009, the comprehensive income is RM257,514. From year 2009 to year 2010, the comprehensive income for this company is increases by RM 113,820. This is causing by some reason. First reason is the available-for-sale financial assets, the available-for-sale financial assets increases because year 2009 no anymore for the available-for-sale financial assets compare with year 2010, 2010 have RM40,679.For other reason is the Foreign currency translation differences, because the Foreign currency translation differences are decreases with RM2,683.It is decreases from RM19,544 to RM 16861.Third reason for why the other comprehensive income for 6
the financial year, net of tax will increase percentage for Genting Plantation Berhad. It is increase almost 141.13% from the year 2009(RM19,544) to the year 2010(RM47,127). Statement Of Financial Position For The Year Ended 31 DECEMBER 2010.
The assets for company Genting Plantation Berhad is increases from RM 1,690,687 to RM2,413,135. The assets are increases by RM722,448(42.73%). For the non-current assets, the assets are increases because year 2010 no anymore for investment assets compare with year 2009, year 2009 have RM32,118. For the current assets, the first reason is the trade and receivables because the assets from year 2009, 99,719 increases until RM129,601 in year 2010. The next reason is the cash and cash equivalents are increases. They are increases almost from RM532,493 to RM755,692 from the 2009 to year 2010.In liabilities, deferred tax liabilities is increase from RM36,972 to RM47,640.Trade and other payables also are one of the other reason. It is increases from RM103,942 to RM178,683.And the other reason is Taxation . It is increases from RM728 to RM 21,506. 7
(E) Conclusion In our group opinion, were interested to invest in Genting Plantation Berhad due to several reason. Genting Plantation Berhad also is one of the Bursa Malaysias largest companies and which is highly potential to get the profit that will able to attract more invester including us. First and formost, Genting Plantation Berhad has started business by acquisition of the Robber Trust Group . Were interested to invest in because their company owns thousands hectares of oil palm plantation , they expand their business to other places for example Sabah , Sarawak , Melaka and Indonesia that can improve this company to have more money more profit and income from other places. Moreover, their company consists of one advantages which is Owner Protection from Legal Liability. Genting Plantations Berhad has a limited amount of legal liability for the corporations business activities and debts . If Genting Plantation Berhad does become insolvent , the people running it can be made personally liable for some or all its debts if they have incurred debts which they know the company could not pay. Furthermore , with the statement of comprehensive income that stated on 31 December 2010, we can know that the profit for the financial year is increase about US 86,237 and the interests also increase . The company have a condition to expand or continues their business more better in the future . Lastly , statement of financial position for the year ended 31 December 2010 ,the report is recorded that the asset is increase and the total equity and liabilities also increase . This report makes me more confident to this company which is a very good organization and the system is transparent . 8
In a nutshell , Genting Plantation Berhad is a company that has planned and good management to their company. Several reason that has shown above are making us to confident in investing.