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Please see below contact details for all our member firms or for more information about your local MGI firm click on the relevant website links to get further details.

For all enquiries relating to MGI Australasia, please contact our Regional Director, Caterina Sullivan.

Our Offices

MGI Adelaide

212 Greenhill Road,
Eastwood SA 5063

PH: +61 8 8299 8888

Fax:

http://www.mgiadelaide.com

MGI +MORE

Level 3
27 Bath Street,
Parnell, Auckland 1052

PH: +64 800 946 4626

Fax:

http://www.mgiplusmore.co.nz/

MGI Cairns

225 Sheridan Street,
Cairns North

PH: +61 7 4047 4000

Fax:

http://www.mgicairns.com.au

MGI Joyce|Dickson

Level 1
65 Canberra Avenue,
Griffith ACT 2603

PH: +61 2 6162 2600

Fax:

http://www.mgijd.com.au

MGI Gold Coast

Ground Floor,
64 Marine Parade,
Southport, QLD 4215,
Australia

PH: +61 7 5591 1661

Fax:

http://www.mgisq.com.au

MGI Parkinson

Level 1,
322 Hay Street,
Subiaco, WA 6008

PH: +61 8 9388 9744

Fax:

http://www.mgiparkinson.com.au

MGI South Queensland

Level 1,
200 Mary Street,
Brisbane, QLD 4000,
Australia

PH: +61 7 3002 4800

Fax:

http://www.mgisq.com.au

MGI Sydney

Level 14
20 Martin Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000

PH: +61 2 9230 9200

Fax:

www.mgisyd.com.au

MGI Dobbyn Carafa

Level 15,
412 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004

PH: +61 3 9069 7700

Fax:

www.mgidc.com.au

Enquiries

Written by Jayson Palomaria:

The financial reporting requirement for large proprietary companies to lodge their annual audited financial reports was introduced back in 1995 aimed at regulating the reporting of financial activities of proprietary companies which have a significant economic influence. The proprietary company reporting threshold contained in section 45A of the Corporations Act 2001, however, have not been changed since 2007.

Following the Public consultation in late 2018, the Federal Government recently amended the statutory financial reporting thresholds through the Corporations Amendment (Proprietary Company Thresholds) Regulations 2019. The thresholds were increased in order to account for nominal economic growth (as measured by changes in nominal gross domestic product (GDP)) since the thresholds were last adjusted in 2007. Further, the changes were designed to ensure that financial reporting obligations are targeted at economically significant companies, while reducing costs for smaller sized companies.

Under the new threshold, a company is considered large proprietary company for a financial year if it satisfies at least two of the following:

  • the consolidated revenue for the financial year of the company and any entities it controls is $50 million or more (up from $25m);
  • the value of the consolidated gross assets at the end of the financial year of the company and the entities it controls is $25 million or more (up from $12.5m); and
  • the company and any entities it controls have 100 or more employees at the end of the financial year (up from 50 employees).

The increases to the proprietary company thresholds apply in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 July 2019. Proprietary companies should now be looking at their forecasts for FY 2020 and consider if they will be classified as ‘large’. If so, it will be required to prepare and lodge an audited financial report, a director’s report and an auditor’s report with ASIC each financial year. It is expected that around one third of previously large proprietary companies will now be considered to be small under the new definitions.

Please contact one of our offices if you have any questions, or would like any information on what these changes mean to your organisation’s financial reporting obligations.