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Department of Health
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended on 30 June 2023
6.2
Receivables
Contents
Current
Trade receivables (a)
Allowance for impairment of trade receivables (b)
Accrued revenue
GST receivable (c)
Total current receivables
a) Trade receivables included $0.2 million receivables from hotel-quarantined persons in 2022-23 ($16.1 million in 2021-22).
b) No allowance was provided for impairment of trade receivables that relates to hotel-quarantined persons ($9.2 million in 2021-22).
c) Accounting procedure for Goods and Services Tax
2023
2022
$'000
$'000
1,465
17,599
(761)
(9,722)
28,635
34,901
43,063
56,940
72,402
99,718
Rights to collect amounts receivable from the Australian Taxation Office and responsibilities to make payments for GST have been assigned to the department. This
accounting procedure was a result of application of the grouping provisions of "A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999" whereby the department
became the Nominated Group Representative (NGR) for the GST Group as from 1 July 2012. The entities in the GST group include the department of Health, Child and
Adolescent Health Service, East Metropolitan Health Service, North Metropolitan Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service, Health
Support Services, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Trust, Quadriplegic Centre, Mental Health Commission, and Health and
Disability Services Complaints Office.
GST receivables on accrued expenses are recognised by the Health Entity. Upon the receipt of tax invoices, GST receivables for the GST group are recorded in the
accounts of the department of Health. Additionally, the department recognises GST receivables on its own accrued expenses.
Trade receivables are initially recognised at their transaction price or, for those receivables that contain a significant financing component, at fair value. The department
holds the receivables with the objective to collect the contractual cash flows and therefore subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method,
less an allowance for impairment.
The department recognises a loss allowance for expected credit losses (ECLs) on a receivable not held at fair value through profit or loss. The ECLs are based on the
difference between the contractual cash flows and the cash flows that the entity expects to receive, discounted at the original effective interest rate. Individual receivables
are written off when the department has no reasonable expectations of recovering the contractual cash flows.
For trade receivables, the department recognises an allowance for ECLs measured at the lifetime expected credit losses at each reporting date. The department has
established a provision matrix that is based on its historical credit loss experience, adjusted for forward-looking factors specific to the debtors and the economic
environment. Please refer to note 3.5 for the amount of ECLS expensed in this financial year.
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