22. Financial instruments

(a) Financial risk management

The Group’s principal financial instruments are bank balances, cash and medium-term loans. The main purpose of these financial instruments is to manage the Group’s funding and liquidity requirements. The Group also has other financial instruments such as trade receivables and trade payables which arise directly from its operations.

The Group is exposed through its operations to the following financial risks:

The Board has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of the Group’s risk management framework. Policy for managing risks is set by the Chief Executive Officer and is implemented by the Group’s finance department. All risks are managed centrally with tight control of all financial matters.

(b) Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due. The Group considers that liquidity risk is effectively managed and mitigated. The Group held unrestricted cash resources of $0.1 million at December 31, 2023 (December 31, 2022: $3.2m). The ratio of current assets to current liabilities at December 31, 2023 is 0.37 (December 31, 2022: 0.63).

The Group maintains near-term cash flow forecasts that enable it to identify its borrowings requirement so that remedial action can be taken if necessary.

(c) Credit risk

The primary risk arises from the Group’s receivables from customers and contract assets. The majority of the Group’s customers are long-standing and have been a customer of the Group for many years. Losses have occurred infrequently. The Group is mainly exposed to credit risks from credit sales, but the Group has no significant concentrations of credit risk and keeps the credit status of customers under review. Credit risks of customers of new customers are reviewed before entering into contracts. The debtor exposure is monitored by Group finance and the local entities review and report their exposure on a monthly basis.

The Group does not consider the exposure to the above risks to be significant and has therefore not presented a sensitivity analysis on the identified risks.

The credit quality of debtors neither past due nor impaired is good. Refer to Note 19 for further analysis on trade receivables.

(d) Foreign currency risk

The Group operates internationally and is exposed to foreign exchange risk as part of its operations.

Cash reserves at half year period ended December 31, 2023 of $0.5 million are unrestricted and are domiciled as follows:

Schedule of cash reserves

The Group’s investments in overseas subsidiaries are not hedged as those currency positions are either USD denominated and/or considered to be long-term in nature.

(e) Interest rate risk

As a result of the related party loan agreement the Group is exposed to interest rate volatility. However, the interest rate is fixed for the medium term, therefore, the risk is largely mitigated for the near future. The Group will continue to monitor the movements in the wider global economy.

30. Financial instruments

Schedule of detailed information about financial instruments

The amounts disclosed in the above table for trade and other receivables and trade and other payables do not agree to the amount reported in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as they exclude prepaid expenses, payroll liabilities and sales tax payable, current tax receivables and contract assets and liabilities which do not meet the definition of financial assets or liabilities.

(a) Financial risk management

The Group’s principal financial instruments are bank balances, cash and medium-term loans. The main purpose of these financial instruments is to manage the Group’s funding and liquidity requirements. The Group also has other financial instruments such as trade receivables and trade payables which arise directly from its operations.

The Group is exposed through its operations to the following financial risks:

The Board has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of the Group’s risk management framework. Policy for managing risks is set by the Chief Executive Officer and is implemented by the Group’s finance department. All risks are managed centrally with tight control of all financial matters.

(b) Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due. The Group considers that liquidity risk is effectively managed and mitigated. The Group held unrestricted cash resources of $0.6 million at June 30, 2023 ( June 30, 2022: $1.3m; June 30, 2021: $8.6m). The ratio of current assets to current liabilities at June 30, 2023 is 0.54 ( June 30, 2022: 0.93; June 30, 2021: 1.82).

Following sale of ex-solar J.A. Martin operations on July 1, 2022, the A$2.1 million J.A. Martin debtor finance facility (drawn down at June 30, 2022: nil; June 30, 2021: nil) was cancelled and a new facility with a limit of A$2.5 million and variable interest rate that is currently 7.75% was established by Kenshaw, as well as a trade finance facility of $0.5 million.

The Group maintains near-term cash flow forecasts that enable it to identify its borrowings requirement so that remedial action can be taken if necessary.

Contractual maturities of financial liabilities, including interest payments, are as follows:

Schedule of detailed information about the maturity of financial liabilities

(c) Credit risk

The primary risk arises from the Group’s receivables from customers and contract assets. The majority of the Group’s customers are long-standing and have been a customer of the Group for many years. Losses have occurred infrequently. The Group is mainly exposed to credit risks from credit sales, but the Group has no significant concentrations of credit risk and keeps the credit status of customers under review. Credit risks of customers of new customers are reviewed before entering into contracts. The debtor exposure is monitored by Group finance and the local entities review and report their exposure on a monthly basis.

The Group does not consider the exposure to the above risks to be significant and has therefore not presented a sensitivity analysis on the identified risks.

The credit quality of debtors neither past due nor impaired is good. Refer to Note 19 for further analysis on trade receivables.

(d) Foreign currency risk

The Group operates internationally and is exposed to foreign exchange risk on sales and purchases that are denominated in currencies other than the respective functional currencies of the Group entities to which they relate, primarily between USD, AUD, EUR and GBP.

The Group’s investments in overseas subsidiaries are not hedged as those currency positions are either USD denominated and/or considered to be long-term in nature.

The Group is exposed to foreign exchange risk on the following balances at June 30, 2023:

Of the total shareholder loan of $28.6 million, $27.1 million is denominated in USD and $1.5 million is denominated in AUD.

(e) Interest rate risk

As a result of the related party loan agreement the Group is exposed to interest rate volatility. However, the interest rate is fixed for the medium term, therefore, the risk is largely mitigated for the near future. The Group will continue to monitor the movements in the wider global economy.