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For personal use onlyContents

FOCUS & CONSOLIDATE 
page 2

CHAIRMANS REPORT 
page 11

REVEAL & DELIVER 
page 4

SHARE & SUSTAIN 
page 6

FINANCIAL REPORT 
page 9

CEO REPORT 
page 13

DIRECTORS’ REPORT 
page 16

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
page 34

CORPORATE DIRECTORY 
page 10 

ADDITIONAL ASX INFORMATION 
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ANNUAL REPORT  •  2015For personal use onlyFocus & Consolidate

Atlas is a leading producer of white South Sea Pearls, operating across multiple 
sites in the pristine waters of the Indonesian archipelago for over 20 years. In 
this time, Atlas has developed a particular expertise in seeding superior quality 
hatchery-bred Pinctada Maxima mother of pearl oysters and harvests more 
than 300, 000 South Sea pearls a year.

A  long-term  investment  in  research  and  development  regarding  breeding 
optimisation and pearl quality gives Atlas a comparative advantage, delivering 
harvests that feature the right pearl virtues in a bid to maximise markets of 
opportunity.

With  a  solid  team  of  pearl  experts  accumulating  an  exceptional  set  of 
complimentary skills in the areas of genetics, marine biology and aquaculture, 
Atlas Pearls has built a major competitive advantage over comparable pearling 
operations  that  translates  into  delivering  exceptional  quality  and  superior 
value. This is the focus of the Company.

Atlas involvement in the extraction of bioactive ingredients for the medical 
and cosmetic industries is on going under a partnership format as part of the 
company commitment to uplift the value of its by-products.

The consolidation of group activities toward the core business of pearling will 
see an expansion of farming sites leveraging local knowledge and operational 
expertise to maximise performance and output.

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ANNUAL REPORT  •  2015For personal use onlyReveal & Deliver

Atlas acknowledges the need to deliver superior products, but also the importance to 
manage perceived value and therefore is committed to nurture and develop value add 
skills  in  the  business  with  particular  focus  on  pearl  grading,  matching  and  jewellery 
design, manufacturing and retailing. All of which represent a price premium opportunity 
to the business.

Atlas is highly respected in trade and wholesale markets and continues to see strong 
results through its private auction system. Further refinement and improvements will be 
made to this format to optimise the customer experience and sales outcomes. Alongside 
this, a dynamic new wholesale platform is being developed in Perth that will create new 
channel opportunities for the company, leveraging Atlas’ unique end-to-end ability.

The retail strategy within the business is  undergoing  the  most significant change.  As 
traditional retail markets shift, the group is reviewing its retail footprint whilst expanding 
its online and industrial/eco-tourism activities. Atlas farms provide a unique platform to 
not only sell pearls but impart knowledge as consumer demand evolves and they seek 
“authentic” retail experiences that enhance and personalise the purchase process with 
the aim to not only achieve, but exceed customers‘ expectations.

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ANNUAL REPORT  •  2015For personal use onlyReveal & Deliver

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ANNUAL REPORT  •  2015For personal use onlyShare & Sustain

Atlas Pearls has an unwavering commitment to the environment and the communities 
in which we operate, all represented under the umbrella program 3000 Hands. 

Atlas  employs  over  900  staff  from  10  different  nationalities,  cultures  and  religions  all 
working together towards the same objective of producing the best pearls and aligned 
behind  the  same  values.  3000  Hands  focuses  on  enhancing  the  economic,  social 
wellbeing and environment of the communities Atlas operates in whilst promoting the 
principle of a “blue economy”- respecting nature and doing more with less.

We  operate  on  a  fundamental  understanding  to  harmoniously  work  to  enhance 
the  environment  and  associated  ecosystems  we  live  and  work  in  and  understand 
this is the key to a sustainable future.

Most pearl farms are situated in remote areas and constitute the main, and sometimes 
only,  employment  opportunity.  80  percent  of  our  pearl  farm  staff  are  sourced  from 
surrounding  villages  and  100  percent  of  our  pearl  farm  technicians  are  women. The 
employment opportunities made available to these women has led to a noticeable shift 
in  the  family  dynamic,  allowing  income  to  go  into  education  and  general  wellbeing 
before anything else.

Multiple initiatives are in place to create and build stable economies in remote areas, 
from  local  employment  to  scholarships,  sponsorships  and  community  development 
programs. The transfer and sharing of skills and knowledge is a key component of 3000 
Hands and promotes ongoing employment for whole communities with specific focus 
on women.

Each Atlas pearl delivered to the world is unique and a living symbol of the set of values 
shared throughout the organisation as well as a tangible representation of the quest 
towards sustainable profitability embedded at the very core of the company business 
model.

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ANNUAL REPORT  •  2015For personal use onlyFinancial Report

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For the Financial Year Ended 30 June 2015

Results for announcement to the market

Consolidated Financial Results

Total revenue from ordinary activities

Compared to actual for 
previous 
12 months ending 
30 June 2014

Down 26%

Profit from ordinary activities after tax attributable to the owners of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd

Down 548%

Net Profit attributable to the owners of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd

Down 548%

12 months ending 
30 June 2015
$

12,118,312

(8,134,049)

(8,134,049)

Dividends

Amount per security

Franked Amount 
per security

Dividend per ordinary share in respect of 30 June 2015 financial period

0.0 cents

0.0 cents

Commentary on results for the financial period 
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Consolidated Statement of Change in Equity
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Dividend
It is not proposed to pay dividends

Net tangible assets per security

NTA per ordinary share

Year ended
30 June 2014
$

Year ended
30 June 2015
$

8.7

5.6

Control gained or lost over entities during the financial year:                       
50% of the equity in subsidiary Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd was sold during the year ended 30 June 2015 resulting in its deconsolidation from the group.

Other Information
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Commentary on results for the period
Refer to the Annual Report attached.

Audit
The accounts have been audited and an unqualified opinion has been issued

Attachments
The Annual Report of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Limited for the year ended 30 June 2015 is attached.

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C O R P O R A T E   D I R E C T O R Y

DIRECTORS

AUDITORS

Geoff NEWMAN
B.Ec (Hons), M.B.A, F.C.P.A, F.A.I.C.D.

Timothy James MARTIN
B.Arts, M.B.A, G.A.I.C.D.

Stephen John ARROW

COMPANY SECRETARIES 

Susan HUNTER
BCom, ACA, F Fin, GAICD, AGIA

Danielle BRANDENBURG
BCom/Arts, ACA, A Fin, AGIA

REGISTERED OFFICE

47-49 Bay View Terrace
Claremont, Perth
Western Australia  6010

P.O. Box 1048, Claremont
Western Australia  6910

Telephone: +61(0)8 9284 4249
Facsimile:  +61 (0)8 9284 3031

Website: http://www.atlaspearlsandperfumes.com.au
E-mail: atlas@atlaspearlsandperfumes.com.au
Farm Tours Email: Tours@AtlasPearlsAndPerfumes.com.au

BDO Audit (WA) Pty Ltd
38 Station Street, Subicao
Perth, Western Australia 6008

TAX ADVISERS

RSM Bird Cameron
8 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia 6000

BANKERS

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
150 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia 6000

SHARE REGISTRY 

Computershare (WA) Pty Ltd 
Level 11, 
172 St George’s Terrace
Perth, Western Australia 6000 

HOME EXCHANGE 

Australian Securities Exchange Ltd
Exchange Plaza
2 The Esplanade 
Perth, Western Australia 6000

ASX Trading Code: ATP

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L E T T E R   F R O M   T H E   C H A I R M A N

Dear Shareholder

I am writing to you for the first time as Non-Executive Chairman of Atlas 
Pearls and Perfumes, with a  sense of disappointment with the financial 
results for the year just-gone, but with a great deal of optimism for the 
future of the pearling industry and your company’s position in it.

retail path. Our action in selling half of Essential Oils of Tasmania allows 
that business to expand to its full potential as an industrial tourism 
venture while providing a tied outlet for our pearl protein and powder 
products. 

There is no doubt that the 2014/15 company Normalised EBITDA 
loss of $1.24m and the resulting net loss after tax of $8.1m was 
unacceptable to the board, the management and staff of Atlas Pearls 
and Perfume and its shareholders and other stake-holders. The impact 
of past decisions to seed a greater number of oysters and the resulting 
harvests of smaller pearls which so damaged the year’s performance 
has been well documented and was progressively informed to the 
market as the position was better understood over the course of the year.

The financial impact was magnified by the capital demands of our 
Essential Oils of Tasmania business which coincided with weaker 
earnings from the core pearling operations.

Much has been learnt from this year and there are many positives to 
take forward into 2015/16 and beyond. In particular:

1. 

2. 

3. 

The goal of reducing the company’s exposure to the cyclical pearl 
business by creating new revenue streams from by-products remains 
valid and significant progress has been achieved on this front.

There is great potential for improving the returns from the core 
pearling business through improved processes for managing “shell 
in the water” to lift retention rates and the size of harvested pearls.

By re-focusing the retail effort on the farm-shops and a reduced 
number of well-located outlets, these operations can be quickly 
returned to profitability.

4.  Our key operational people are “world class” in the industry and I 

have absolute confidence in the team we now have in place both 
in Perth and Bali.

The forecast improvement in pearl sizes was evident in the latter 
harvests of 2014/15 and that trend is continuing into 2015/16 and our 
reduced retail footprint is already showing marked improvement in 
trading performance.  

Although we required a capital raising of $3.1m before costs to get 
through the year, the underlying performance against a dramatically 
reduced revenue base has left us with a sustainably lower cost 
structure which will be rigidly maintained to ensure better results as 
sales recover.

In conclusion, I want to acknowledge the dedication of our remarkable 
team of employees at Atlas Pearls and Perfumes. Difficult times call 
for sacrifices, restraint, clear thinking and, often quick, and not always 
pleasant decisions. As well as acknowledging specifically the role 
of your CEO Pierre Fallourd in piloting the company through this 
challenging time, I take the opportunity to thank all of our people for 
their contribution over the most challenging of years.

Finally, my fellow directors Steve Arrow and Tim Martin have given 
great support to both Pierre and myself as we have made the necessary 
changes over the past year, and on behalf of them, I thank all of our 
shareholders for your ongoing support and look forward to returning 
the company to profitability in 2015/16 and capitalising on the many 
growth opportunities ahead of us.

Looking forward, there are many positives which have emerged from 
the difficulties of 2014/15.  We now know that we can achieve our by-
product value adding objectives without going down the full fragrance 

Geoff Newman 
Chairman  
28 August 2015

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30 June 15
$’000

30 June 14
$’000

12,118

(1,235)

(10.2%)

589

(792)

6,697

(496)

-

(656)

149

245

245

(7,215)

(59.5%)

398

521

(8,134)

(2.40)

23,974

30,942

4,085

23,974

17%

425.40

16,283

3,470

21.31%

303

578

(63)

300

(12)

436

-

-

-

1,929

11.8%

471

(355)

1,814

0.61

28,416

40,823

5,155

28,809

18%

326.62

Revenue from continuing operation

Normalised earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Normalised EBITDA)

EBITDA margin

Depreciation & amortisation

Foreign exchange (gains)/losses

Revaluation and write-off of Agriculture Assets (oysters, pearls and crops)

Other non-operating costs/benefits

Inventory write off

Derivative instruments

Impairment of joint venture loans

Fair value (gain)/loss on EOT assets 

(Gain)/Loss on sale of investment

Earnings/(loss) before interest and tax (EBIT)

EBIT margin

Finance/interest net costs/(income)

Tax (benefit)/expense

Net Loss after tax (NPAT)

Basic earnings/(loss) per share (cents)

Net Tangible Assets

Assets

Debt (Current & Non-current)

Shareholder funds

Debt/shareholder funds (%)

Number of shares on issue (million)

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A T L A S   P E A R L S   A N D   P E R F U M E S   L T D   A N D   I T S   S U B S I D I A R I E S

Following a challenging 12 months, the coming year will see the Atlas 
team’s efforts geared towards further strengthening Atlas core business 
by rebuilding its comparative advantage of producing superior quality 
South Sea Pearls and bringing them to market at competitive prices. 
We will approach this with the core values of Focus & Consolidate, 
Reveal & Deliver, and Share & Sustain.

FOCUS & CONSOLIDATE

First and foremost, customers form the epicentre of our business 
model. Atlas is positioning itself to continue capturing current strong 
demand and price uplift from Asia and the re-emerging North 
American market.

Secondly, producing superior quality pearls is the only way to address 
either an upswing or downswing in demand. Only the best shells 
will be presented within the right seeding windows and given the 
appropriate cultivation period. Our strong focus on commercialisation 
and value adding will be reinforced.

Managing efficiently a 4 year value chain – from Hatchery to Harvest- 
requires skills and patience. A dedicated pearl farmer is both inspired 
and technically driven in their quest for the perfect pearl as they need 
to understand nature’s cycles when managing human and mother of 
pearl interactions.

REVEAL & DELIVER

Marketing is all about revealing needs rather than creating them. Atlas’s 
common denominator in its past and future investments and projects 
revolves around its customers’ expectations, both at trading and retail 
level.

We believe that pearl attractiveness is driven by its perceived value and 
its full appreciation is an acquired taste which requires education.

By transforming pearls through matching, jewellery design and 
manufacturing and even extracting active ingredients from its 
mother of pearl shell, Atlas intends to further enhance pearl value and 
transcend its cultural and symbolic significance.

Atlas will pursue its quest towards understanding what makes a perfect 
pearl and isolate this one element that triggers the formation of a pearl 
and turns out to be compatible and beneficial to the rejuvenation of 
human tissues.

The most promising value adding projects in the area of jewellery and 
perfume or cosmetics have been identified and will be pursued under 
the most suitable management and finance format.

SHARE & SUSTAIN

Each oyster that gives birth to a pearl through a modern hatchery pearl 
farming model goes through 3000 hands throughout its productive life.

Maintaining harmony among internal and external stakeholders is both 
a necessity and a key success factor for Atlas. The company successfully 
managed over 10 different nationalities within its ranks and has been 
operating in 5 very diverse cultural and religion environments for the 
past 25 years.

Atlas is committed to a transfer of knowledge mandate towards the 
communities within which it operates in Indonesia through local 
employment and cooperation.

By promoting a hatchery business model and environmental 
protection best practices as well as local community support 
and education the group ensures that natural resources remain 
unadulterated and that the activity is sustainable.

Atlas is first and foremost a team of dedicated and passionate 
individuals committed to deliver superior value to its customers 
through the best products and most efficient route to market. We look 
forward to the years to come.

PEARLING OPERATIONS UPDATE

A new management team was appointed in early 2014 and has been 
on site since June 2014.  They have implemented a series of production 
protocol realignments and controls to ensure that in the current 
more favourable market conditions attention is focused on quality 
and size so that the investments into new pearling sites, research and 
development, as well as human resources, initiated over the past 4 
years bear the expected quality pearls and revenue growth.

Pearl farming is a 4 year business cycle, along which each animal is 
manipulated over 600 times. Each event occurring throughout the life 
of the shell is ultimately recorded in the pearl. Genetically superior host 
shells can provide faster growing/ stronger animals, while donor oysters 
will determine the colour and nacre deposition growth of the pearl. 

It is a subtle combination of the right shell gene pool, amount of 
shell care, appropriate seeding skills and patience that will provide 
the best yield. All of these have to be adjusted to the local and global 
environment as well as local configuration; the former can vary from 
year to year, while the later can take years to fully understand.

Modern pearl farming is made up of production sequences that are 
intimately connected.  It is the agility or the ability to positively react 
to a constantly changing environment that determines the success of 
sustainable pearl ventures. Beyond harvesting, grading and the ability 
to assemble batches of consistent and matching pearls as well as the 
ability to go to market at the right time can also significantly add value.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The Group is pleased to be undertaking the next Arc Linkage Project 
with James Cook University (JCU); “Advanced animal breeding in 
aquaculture: using genome-wide molecular breeding values for rapid 
animal improvement in the silver-lipped pearl oyster”.   This project will 
run for a period of 3 years and commenced in February 2015 and will 
further advance the intellectual property that the Group has developed 
in relation to its oyster breeding program. 

The primary impediment to achieving rapid genetic progress in 
aquaculture is an inability to accurately and rapidly identify 
high-performance animals for selection as parents in animal breeding 
programs. This project aims to develop an innovative genomic selection 
breeding system for the silver-lipped pearl oyster to overcome current 
limitations associated with traditional animal improvement methods. 

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HATCHERY

PEARL FARMING

Spat (juvenile) production for the 2014/15 season was on target.  
Spawning facilities are also being upgraded to improve survival rates.  
Progressive R&D output benefits under the partnership with JCU will 
further enhance the capacity to select the most suitable parent oysters 
for pearling and trigger benefits in cultivation period and pearl quality.

The remaining three farms operate as pearl farms; that is they grow 
seeded oysters.  The farms that operate as a pearl farm exhibit the 
conditions (currents, nutrients in the water etc.) that are required to 
grow healthy pearls.  These conditions are different to those required to 
grow a virgin oyster.

GROW-OUT

HARVESTING

The Group continues to operate five pearl farms: Penyabangan (North 
Bali); Lembata (Flores); Alor (East Nusa Tenggara); Alyui (West Papua), 
and Punggu (Flores).  Of these five farms, two operate as technical hubs 
and growout facilities; Penyabangan (North Bali) and Lembata (Flores). 

The Atlas R&D team have also been undergoing trials at Lembata (2nd 
technical hub) to improve mortality rates by using different growing 
techniques.  These new techniques minimise the need for intervention 
during the stressful stage of spat development and have historically 
resulted in major improvement in survival rates.

The Group has recently secured two new water leases in the village of 
Nuri (south of Larantuka, East Flores) and Kukusan (Punggu, Flores) the 
site offers a diverse environment for spat to pearl cultivation. Test rafts 
were deployed in May 2015 at Nuri and are showing pleasing results.  

One of the core competences of the Group on risk mitigation is to 
efficiently manage the distance between specialised production sites. 
Grow-out sites which are labour intensive are linked to pearl farming 
remote and nutrient rich sites, by a fleet of specialised vessels that 
allow oysters to be moved around in order to maximise the sites shell 
management capacity.

In 2015 we welcomed a new, state of the art purpose built ship, 
designed for oyster transportation; the KM Poernomo.  This new vessel 
will reduce the time between seeding and delivery to less than three 
months.  The vessel was fully operational for the main seeding window.

SEEDING 

Following an internal audit of stock systems, technician performance, 
and operation rooms, new policies are being implemented to improve 
retention rates, pearl size and quality.  

Management has also been trialling the use of seeding rafts which 
enable seeded oysters to be returned to the ocean faster than had they 
been seeded on land.  Health check dives on oysters seeded on the 
rafts already show signs of faster return to the normal feeding process.  
The new ship KM Poernomo has been fitted with a seeding deck to 
further increase efficiencies.

Technicians and operation rooms have also undergone a complete 
review. Technicians will be provided with additional training by an 
independent expert.  Operation rooms will be upgraded to further 
reduce the threat of bacterial infection.

The agreed upon direction is to harvest all pearls from a particular batch 
at the optimal time and proceed with a second operation (second 
seeding with same shell) of the oysters that provide the best pearls.

Sample harvests will take place 3 months prior to the intended harvest 
date, with the objective of fine tuning harvest timing, providing a better 
harvest value indication, and allowing optimum second operation. 

Pearling management has identified opportunities for joint ventures 
with partners-farmers throughout the value chain under the forms of 
subcontracted grow-out and/or pearl farming of respectively juveniles 
or seeded shells. This will ensure Atlas’ internal capacity is maximised 
while the benefit of extra shell availability is not lost. 

TRADING

Atlas has experienced a consistent upward price trend for its South 
Sea pearls over the past 18 months in a market with growing demand 
for pearls of consistent colour and lustre for which Atlas is known. The 
Company held two auctions at the Japan Pearl Centre in Kobe during 
the half-year ended 31 December 2014.  Prices during this period on 
a comparable piece basis have increased by approximately 10% when 
compared to the June 2014 auction result. 

The recent prices achieved for similar pearls are more than 50% higher 
on average than when Atlas held its first auction in May 2012. There 
continues to be a high degree of confidence in the market’s ability 
to absorb strong prices in the long term.  Relative short supply in fine 
quality merchandise is also helping to boost prices

Japanese buyers continue to offer the strongest prices for Atlas 
production, with China undoubtedly being the largest consumer of 
white South Sea pearls. The Company sees increasing opportunities 
in the North American markets as their economy continues to rebound.  

WHOLESALE

Atlas has continued to develop its distribution within the Australian 
market with a network of over one hundred regular wholesale, 
manufacturers and retail customers. This has resulted in an increased 
focus on strand and matched pair production, where greater margins 
may be realised. 

Our Wholesale Jewellery Division continues to expand, with Pearl 
Distribution Manager Tim Jones relocating to the East Coast to further 
bolster sales. These wholesale opportunities add diversity to our 
revenue base and further enhance our valued-added growth strategy.

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The ultimate aim of Atlas and Westwood is to construct and operate 
a state of the art industrial tourism facility at the Brookfield, featuring 
fragrances and flavour extraction processes from raw crops to finished 
products as well as a retail store and entertainment and training area 
dedicated to essential oils and perfumes.

In 2015 Essential Oils of Tasmania launched its first retail product range 
called Wild Islands.  Wild Islands currently comprises of five fragrances 
developed by the renowned French perfumer Michel Roudnitska, using 
uniquely Tasmanian essential oil extracts.  The perfumes have been 
produced and bottled by Essential Oils of Tasmania.  The soft launch of 
the product at various tourism markets in Tasmania has been extremely 
successful and several tourist retail outlets around Hobart are now 
stocking the range.  The Group is exploring avenues by which to further 
expand the product’s route to market.

Essential Oils of Tasmania continues to work on new business lines 
utilising local by-products and exploring projects with unique value 
add propositions including consultancy and R&D projects related to 
Sandalwood, Lavender and various types of berries.

A significant part of the investment into new equipment to expand the 
range of EOT’s product to bio-active ingredients was made possible 
by a $1m Austrade Grant with a matching commitment from the JV 
partners. The grant period was recently extended by 6 months in order 
to allow EOT to complete the project and successfully relocate to its 
new premises as it has outgrown its current location.

Pierre Fallourd 
CEO 
28 August 2015

RETAIL

The Group’s retail brand and positioning has undergone review 
over the past six months to strengthen its retail platform. While the 
Group continues to have an interest in Perfumes through its equity 
investment in Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd its core retail strength 
has now been identified as Industrial Pearl Tourism. 

The decision has been made to consolidate the existing retail offering 
and shift towards industrial tourism.  As part of this realignment the 
Bali urban stores located in Jimbaran Square, the Grand Hyatt Nusa 
Dua and Sanur were closed on the 30th of June 2015.  To date the 
farm stores located in Alyui Bay and North Bali have been identified as 
Atlas’s best performing retail outlets. As luxury tourism continues to 
grow in these pristine remote sites we see an opportunity to further 
build our outlets located in North Bali, Alyui, Punggu and Alor.  The 
recently refurbished Seminyak store will remain as the Group’s urban 
presence in Bali.  The Group will also focus on collaborating further with 
luxury hotel groups to bring Atlas product in house through capsule 
collections and art installations which promote Atlas pearls, jewellery 
and Atlas industrial tourism outlets. 

As part of this review Atlas has also been taking steps towards 
rationalising its finished products inventory by way of selective mark-
down, alternative distribution, jewellery conversion and eventually 
deconstructing obsolete designs in order to efficiently reduce aging 
and/ or irrelevant inventory to make space for faster moving and 
aligned items.

The design and manufacturing approach is now two pronged: produce 
and promote limited edition jewellery capsules to give the opportunity 
to consumers to select and own unique creations and privilege “made 
in Bali” jewellery to further strengthen the skills and expertise set up 
in-house.

This exercise in better articulating Atlas’s core and retail business 
combined with pearl finished products is not only intended to balance 
inventory levels while boosting sales, but also to better convey our 
message to end consumers, and open doors for business opportunities 
along the luxury value chain.

ESSENTIAL OILS OF TASMANIA

Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd sold 50% of its interest in Essential Oils 
of Tasmania Pty Ltd to Westwood Properties Pty Ltd in February 2015.  
Atlas views Westwood Properties as a strategic partner who will jointly 
own the company and grow the business to the next level.

The transaction recognised the following benefits:
• 

It provided the working capital necessary to fund EOT”s crop 
growing and processing as well as necessary capital equipment;
It provides a capable and resourced partner with which to 
progress the EOT business; and
Atlas retains a material investment in EOT and any future success 
that such an investment may bring.

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Your Directors present their report on the consolidated entity (referred 
to hereafter as the Company) consisting of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes 
Ltd (formerly Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited) and the entities it 
controlled at the end of, or during, the period ended 30 June 2015.

1. DIRECTORS

The following persons were directors of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes 
Ltd during all or part of the financial period and up to the date of this 
report except where stated:

GEOFF NEWMAN 
B.Ec (Hons),M.B.A, F.C.P.A ,F.A.I.C.D. (Age – 64) 
INDEPENDENT NON EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN (Chair of Audit and Risk 
Committee, Chair of Remuneration and Nomination Committee)

Mr Newman has over 26 years’ experience in finance, marketing and 
general management roles in organisations either directly involved in 
the resources sector or providing services and products to businesses 
in that sector. In 1995, after managing Bunnings Pulpwood operations 
for a number of years, he joined Coogee Chemicals Pty Ltd as 
Commercial Manager and then was appointed to the Board as Finance 
Director in the following year. Until August 2005 he was Finance 
Director/CFO and Company Secretary of both Coogee Chemicals and 
its oil and gas subsidiary Coogee Resources Ltd before he retired from 
the Coogee group of companies at the end of June 2006. 

Appointed Chairman 16 February 2015 
Director since 15 October 2010 
(Last re-elected as a director – 30 May 2013) 
Directorships of other listed companies held in the last three years: * Nil

STEPHEN PAUL BIRKBECK 
(Age – 55) 
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 
(Remuneration Committee)

Mr Birkbeck was the founder and former CEO of Mt Romance, an 
Australian company that has become one of the largest producers 
of sandalwood oil in the world.  Mr Birkbeck has extensive marketing 
expertise, especially in the luxury goods markets. He has been 
presented with a number of excellence awards in relation to 
the success of Mt Romance and brings this extensive business 
development skill to the Board.

Resigned as Executive Chairman 16 February 2015. 
Resigned as Chief Executive Officer 25 November 2014. 
Appointed Chief Executive Officer 16 January 2012 
Appointed Director on 15 April 2005 
Appointed Chairman of the board on 21 December 2009 
(Last re-elected as a director – 31 May 2011) 
Directorships of other listed companies held in the last three years: * Nil

NELSON ROCHER 
(Age - 30) 
ALTERNATE DIRECTOR TO STEPHEN PAUL BIRKBECK

Mr Rocher has worked for the internationally recognised cosmetic and 
perfume group Yves Rocher, a market leader in France.  He worked in 
the Yves Rocher marketing department as a product development 
manager with his focus and passion being the products, branding and 
marketing areas.  

Appointed Alternate Director 18 July 2014.   
Resigned as alternate director 16 February 2015. 
Directorships of other listed companies held in the last three years: * Nil

TIMOTHY JAMES MARTIN 
B.ARTS, M.B.A, G.A.I.C.D.  (AGE – 43) 
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Remuneration and Nomination 
Committee)

Tim Martin has been an Executive Manager at Coogee Chemicals Pty 
Ltd since 2005, held the position of Managing Director from 2012 – 
2015 and was appointed Executive Chairman in July 2015.

Prior to working at Coogee Tim worked in management roles within 
the packaged food manufacturing sector - supplying to national 
supermarket chains, and has ongoing interests in commercial property 
development. He is also a director on the board of the Australian 
Plastics and Chemicals Industry Association (PACIA). 

Appointed Director on 4 February 2013. 
Elected as Director on 30 May 2013. 
Directorships of other listed companies held in the last three years: * Nil

STEPHEN JOHN ARROW 
(Age - 55) 
INDEPENDENT NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Audit and Risk Committee)

Mr Arrow has been involved in the pearling industry in Western 
Australia and the Northern Territory since 1980 and is Managing 
Director and owner of Arrow Pearl Co Pty Ltd.  Mr Arrow brings to the 
Board extensive pearling experience from many regions of the world as 
well as contacts within the industry.

Mr Arrow previously served on the board of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes 
Ltd from 29 June 1999 until 28 May 2008. 
Appointed 2 January 2014 
Directorships of other listed companies held in the last three years: * Nil

JOSEPH JAMES UEL TAYLOR 
B.Sc. (Biology), Ph.D. (Age – 48) 
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR 
(Audit and Risk Committee, Remuneration Committee)

Dr Taylor is a marine biologist and aqua culturist whose PhD research 
specialised in the husbandry of Pinctada maxima pearl oysters.  Since 
1989, Dr Taylor has been involved in the management of aquaculture 
operations, mainly associated with South Sea pearl farming. He has 
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and has presented many research papers on this subject. Dr Taylor 
commenced employment with the Company in 1996 as the Project 
Manager and has overseen the development of the business to its 
current level of production. 

Resigned as director 16 February 2015. 
Appointed Director on 13 September 2000 
Managing Director from 31 August 2001 to 1 June 2009 
(Last re-elected as a director – 31 May 2010) 
Directorships of other listed companies held in the last three years: * Nil

2. COMPANY SECRETARY

The role of Company Secretary at the end of the financial period was 
shared by Ms Danielle Brandenburg and Ms Susan Hunter.   

STEPHEN GLEESON 
B.BUS, CPA

Prior to joining Atlas in 2012, Mr Gleeson held the position of CFO/
Company Secretary of statewide recruitment company Skill Hire from 
2008 to 2012. He also has international experience as CFO of Peter 
Lik USA and has previously acted as Company Secretary for the ASX 
listed company Golden Valley Mines NL. He has 26 years’ experience in 
corporate restructuring and business re-engineering, and is a member 
of CPA Australia.  

Resigned 16 February 2015. 
Appointed 24 April 2012.

DANIELLE BRANDENBURG 
BCom/Arts, ACA, A Fin, AGIA

Ms Brandenburg joined Atlas in 2012 as Group Financial Controller 
and was appointed as Chief Financial Officer on 1 July 2015.  Ms 
Brandenburg has over 10 years’ experience in accounting and 
finance.  Prior to her appointment with Atlas, Ms Brandenburg was 
Financial Controller for Wyllie Group Ltd and worked  with BDO in 
their External Audit Division. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and 
Arts, is a Member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, 
an Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and a 
Member of the Governance Institute of Australia. 

Appointed 16 February 2015. Resigning 30 August 2015.

SUSAN HUNTER 
BCom, ACA, F Fin, GAICD, AGIA

Ms Hunter has 20 years’ experience in the corporate finance industry.  
She is founder and Managing Director of consulting firm Hunter 
Corporate which specialises in the provision of corporate governance 
and company secretarial advice to ASX listed companies and has held 
senior executive roles at Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers 
in their Corporate Finance divisions and at Bankwest in their Strategy 
and Ventures division.  She holds a Bachelor of Commerce, is a Member 
of the Australian  Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of 
the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a Graduate Member of 
the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member of the 
Governance Institute of Australia. 

Appointed 19 December 2012.

3. DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The attendance at meetings of the Company’s Directors including meetings of committees of Directors is shown below:

Director

Period

Directors’ Meetings

Audit and Risk Committee 
Meetings

Remuneration Committee 
Meetings

Meetings Held 
Whilst in Office

Attended

Meetings Held 
Whilst 
in Office

Attended

Meetings Held 
Whilst 
in Office

Attended

S.P. 

01/07/14 – 30/06/15

G. Newman1,2

01/07/14 – 30/06/15

J.J.U. 

01/07/14 – 30/06/15

T. Martin2

01/07/14 – 30/06/15

S.J. Arrow1,3

01/07/14 – 30/06/15

4

7

4

7

7

4

7

4

7

6

-

1

1

-

-

-

1

1

-

-

1

1

1

1

-

1

1

1

-

-

Notes
• 

• 

• 
• 

On 29 May 2015, the Company adopted a new Corporate Governance Plan and the Audit Committee was renamed the Audit and Risk Committee.  The current members of the 
Committee are G. Newman (Chair) and S. Arrow Member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
On 29 May 2015, the Company adopted a new Corporate Governance Plan and formed a Remuneration Committee and a Nomination Committee.  Prior to this date, the full Board 
acted as the Nomination Committee.  The current members of these Committees are G. Newman (Chair) and T. Martin.
Attended Remuneration Committee as a guest.
Resigned as director on 16 February 2015.

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REMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED) 

Chief Operations Officer – R Satchell

The directors are pleased to present your Company’s 2015 remuneration 
report which sets out remuneration information for Atlas Pearls and 
Perfumes Ltd’s non-executive directors, executive directors and other 
key management personnel. 

Mr R Satchell was appointed as Chief Operations Officer on 1 January 
2015. Mr R Satchell previously held the title of General Manager Strategy. 
Mr R Satchell’s contract was renegotiated on the 19 August 2015.

Base salary for the 2015/16 financial year of $160,000, reviewed annually. 

Name

Position

Non-executive and executive directors

S. Birkbeck

N. Rocher 

J. Taylor

G. Newman

T. Martin

S. Arrow 

Chairman (until 16 February 2015) & CEO (until 25  
November 2014)

Alternate Director (until 16 February 2015)

Non-Executive Director (until 16 February 2015)

Independent Non-Executive Chairman (Chairman from 
16 February 2015, Director prior to 16 February 2015)

Non-Executive Director

Independent Non-Executive Director

Other key management personnel

S Gleeson 

Managing Director EOT (until 16 April 2015)

J.S Jorgensen

R.Satchell

Chief Operations Officer PT Cendana Indopearl 
(until 23 January 2015)

Chief Operations Officer Pt Cendana Indopearl 
(from 23 January 2015).

• 

• 

D Brandenburg 

Chief Financial Officer (until 30 August 2015)

P Fallourd 

Chief Executive Office 
(Vice President of Pearling until 25 November 2014).

S Mackay-Coghill 

Vice President of Jewellery, Perfumes & Cosmetics 
(until 7 November 2014).

Changes since the end of the reporting period

The following changes have been made to the remuneration of the 
following key management personnel after 30 June 2015;

Chief Financial Officer and Joint Company Secretary –  
D Brandenburg

Ms D Brandenburg announced her resignation as Chief Financial Officer 
effective 30 August 2015.  

Chief Financial Officer – T Harris

Mr T Harris was announced as her replacement and will be officially 
appointed Chief Financial Officer effective 31 August 2015. Mr Harris’s 
contract was negotiated on 30 June 2015, he commenced with the 
company on the 6th of July 2015 to undertake a handover period.

Base salary for the 2015/16 financial year of $175,000 inclusive of 9.5% 
superannuation, reviewed annually.

Bonus of 5% of EBITDA in excess of $1.7m for 2015/16. Bonus capped at 
$30,000 inclusive of tax and superannuation.

Chief Executive Officer – P Fallourd

Mr P Fallourd’s contract was renegotiated on the 11 August 2015. 

Base salary for the 2015/16 financial year of $220,000 plus 9.5% 
superannuation, reviewed annually. 

Bonus of 8% of EBITDA in excess of $1.7m for 2015/16. Bonus capped at 
$48,000 inclusive of tax and superannuation.

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Housing allowance of USD 12,500 per annum.

Bonus of 5% of EBITDA in excess of $1.7m for 2015/16. Bonus capped at 
$30,000 inclusive of tax and superannuation.

4.1   

REMUNERATION GOVERNANCE

4.1.1 

Role of the remuneration and nomination committee

The remuneration and nomination committee is a committee on the 
board. It is primarily responsible for making recommendations to the 
board on:
• 
• 

Non-executive director fees
Remuneration levels of executive directors and other key 
management personnel
The over-archiving executive remuneration framework and 
operation of the incentive plan, and
Key performance indicators and performance hurdles for the 
executive team.

Their objective is to ensure that remuneration policies and structures 
are fair and competitive and aligned with the long-term interest of the 
company.  

4.1.2  

Non-Executive Director Remuneration Policy

Fees and payments to non-executive directors reflect the demands 
which are made on, and the responsibilities of, the directors.  Non-
executive directors’ fees are reviewed annually by the Board.  
Consideration is given to the remuneration of comparable companies 
when setting fee levels.

The Non Executive Directors’ aggregate annual remuneration may not 
exceed $350,000 which is periodically recommended for approval by 
shareholders. This limit was approved by shareholders at the Annual 
General Meeting on 30th May 2007.  In the period ending 30 June 
2015, the total non-executive directors’ fees including retirement 
benefit contributions were $233,596

The following fees have applied:

• 

• 

• 

Base fees for Non-Executive Directors - $50,000 per annum as 
of 1 July 2014.  Non-Executive Directors took a temporary 30% 
reduction in fees from 1 November 2014 for the year ended 30 
June 2015.  The Non-Executive Directors also agreed to salary 
sacrifice fees for shares from 1 November 2014.

Additional fees of $8,000 per annum for the Chairman of the Audit 
and Risk Committee up until 16 February 2015.  The Chairman of 
the Audit and Risk Committee took a temporary 30% reduction in 
fees from 1 November 2014 for the year ended 30 June 2015 and 
also agreed to salary sacrifice fees for shares from 1 November 
2014.

Executive Chairman and CEO’s package was $351,000 per annum 
including superannuation up until 16 February 2015.  

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• 

• 

The Independent Non-Executive Chairman’s fee is $78,000 per 
annum including superannuation from 17 February 2015.
The Technical Director received an additional $750 per day 
for pearl technical and Indonesian entity support up until 26 
November 2014 where the fee was temporarily reduced to $500 
per day for the year ended 30 June 2015.  The Technical Director 
resigned on 16 February 2015.

4.1.3 

Executive remuneration policy and framework

In determining executive remuneration, the board aims to ensure that 
remuneration practices are:
• 

Competitive and reasonable, enabling the company to attract and 
retain key talent
Aligned to the company’s strategic and business objectives and 
the creation of shareholder value 
Transparent, and
Acceptable to shareholders

• 

• 
• 

The executive remuneration framework has three components;
• 
• 
• 

Base pay and benefits, including superannuation
Short-term performance incentives, and
Long-term incentives through participation in the Atlas South Sea 
Pearl Limited Employee Share Plan.

Employment contracts are in place between the Company (or its 
subsidiaries) and all key management personnel.  Under these 
contracts, key management personnel are paid a base salary (which 
may be provided in the form of cash or non-financial benefits) in 
accordance with their skills and experience, as well as entitlements 
including superannuation and accrued annual leave and long service 
leave, in the event of termination.

Executives’ salaries are reviewed annually and are adjusted to take into 
consideration the individuals’ responsibilities and skills compared to 
others within the Company and the industry. There are no guaranteed 
base pay increases in any executives’ contracts.

There were no short or medium term cash incentives provided to any 
executives of the company during the last financial period except 
where noted in section 4.2 of this report.  Short or medium cash 
incentives are incorporated into some executives’ salary packages 
at the time of this report. The framework provides a mix of fixed and 
variable pay with short and medium term incentives. As executives 
gain seniority with the group, the balance of this mix shifts to a higher 
proportion of ‘at risk’ rewards.

An Employee Share Plan (ESP) provides some senior executives with 
incentive over and above their base salary (refer 4.5 below).  The 
allocation of shares under the Employee Share Plan (ESP) is not 
subject to performance conditions of the Company.  The reasons for 
establishing the ESP were:

• 

To align the interests of senior management with shareholders.  
The ESP provides employees with incentive to strive for long term 
profitability which is in line with shareholder objectives; and

To provide an incentive for employees to extend their 
employment terms with the company.  Pearl farming is a 
long term business and the experience of long serving senior 
employees is an important factor in the long term success of the 
Company.

Use of remuneration consultants

During the financial year ended 30 June 2015 the Company did not 
engage any remuneration consultants. 

Voting and comments made that the Company’s 2014 Annual 
General Meeting.

Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd received more than 69% of “yes” votes on 
its remuneration report for the 2014 financial year.  The Company did 
not receive any specific feedback at the AGM or throughout the year 
on its remuneration.

Relationship between Key Management Personnel Remuneration 
and Performance.

Each Key Management Personnel is remunerated on an individual 
basis.  Some Key Management Personnel are entitled to bonuses based 
on a percentage of EBITDA. 

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Details of remuneration

The following tables show details of the remuneration received by the directors and the key management personnel of the Group for the current 
and previous financial period.

Name

Cash salary 
& fees

Short term benefits

Total cash 
salary, fees 
and short 

Post-
employment 
benefits 

Long term
benefits

Share based 
compensation

Total

Salary 
Sacrifice for 
shares

Short term 
incentive 
cash bonus

Non-cash 
monetary 
benefit

Term 
benefits

Super-
annuation 
benefit

Long 
service 
leave

Bonus 
Shares

Options

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

19,334

63,800
86,358

71,960

16,667

50,000

16,667

27,500

168,937

225,000

51,971

18,812

359,934

457,072

173,944

206,422

133,269

165,000

120,000

-

-

59,849

145,494

141,672

117,263

66,278

31,638

66,222

721,608

705,443 

1,081,542

1,162,515

32,233

-

7,393

-

23,333

-

23,333

-

38,095

-

-

-

124,387

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

9,368

-

-

9,795

10,000

-

-

-

4,301

8,547

-

-

-

25,000

14,301

42,915

14,301

42,915

14,247

-

65,385

-

-

89,427

-

213,814

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

33,205

16,208

-

-

19,940

-

-

-

-

-

-

51,567

63,800

93,751

71,960

40,000

50,000

40,000

27,500

207,032

225,000

51,971

18,812

484,321

457,072

173,944

215,790

133,269

198,205

156,003

-

-

79,789

164,042

150,219

182,648

66,278

31,638

91,222

16,208

53,145

16,208

53,145

841,544

801,503

1,325,865

1,258,575

-

-

8,906

4,235

-

-

-

17,833

20,625

4,937

-

31,676

24,860

20,591

21,844

10,423

-

2,192

-

-

-

15,584

13,542

17,352

3,519

3,010

1,354

69,152

40,259

100,828

65,119

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

7,500

-

-

(628)

628

-

-

-

-

(12,559)

12,559

(2,974)

2,974

7,500

(16,161)

-

-

-

-

-

5,000

-

-

-

7,500

-

7,500

-

-

-

20,000

-

27,500

-

16,161

(6,660)

13,160

(1,487)

1,487

9,279

-

-

-

18,559

1,424

17,895

3,686

(1,424)

1,424

36,162

36,464

20,001

37,343

51,567

63,800

102,029

76,823

40,000

50,000

40,000

27,500

212,306

258,184

61,434

21,786

507,336

498,094

187,875

250,794

142,205

199,692

172,474

-

-

79,789

205,685

165,185

225,395

73,483

33,224

94,000

966,858

862,943

1,474,194

1,361,037

Directors(Non-Executive)

G. Newman 5,9

J.J.U. Taylor 1, 9,10,15

T. Martin 6,9

S. Arrow11,9

Directors (Executive)

S.P. Birkbeck 1,2,9,15

N. Rocher 14,15,16

Total

Total

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

Other Key Management Personnel

S Gleeson 4,8,10,15

JS Jorgensen 3,9,15

R Satchell 3,7,9,16

C. Triefus 7

D Brandenburg4,8,9,16

P Fallourd12,9,16

S Mackay-Coghill13,8,15

Total

Total

Grand Total 2015

Grand Total 2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

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2. 

3. 

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4.2.1        Details of remuneration – performance analysis

Dr J Taylor and Mr S Birkbeck are Directors of the Company’s Malaysian subsidiary 
Aspirasi Satria Sdn Bhd.  

Mr S Birkbeck was a key management personnel of the Group with the title of Chief 
Executive Officer. Mr S Birkbeck was appointed Chief Executive Officer as at 16 
January 2012.  Mr S Birkbeck resigned as Chief Executive Officer on 25 November 
2014.  Mr S Birkbeck signed as Executive Chairman on 16 February 2015.

Mr J Jorgensen was a key management personnel of the Group and was appointed 
to the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) in September 2010. Mr J Jorgensen 
is the Chief Operations Officer of the Company’s Indonesian subsidiary, P.T. Cendana 
Indopearls.  Mr J Jorgensen’s contract as Chief Operating Officer terminated on 23 
January 2015.  Mr R Satchell was appointed as Chief Operations Officer on the 23 
January 2015.

Mr S Gleeson was appointed Chief Financial Officer on 1 February 2012. Mr S Gleeson 
resigned as Chief Financial Officer on 1 July 2014. D Brandenburg was appointed 
Chief Financial Officer on 1 July 2014. Mr S Gleeson was appointed as Managing 
Director for Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd on 1 July 2015.  Mr S Gleeson’s contract 
was terminated on 16 April 2015.

i. 

The following table indicates the percentage of remuneration relating 
to options and performance:

Name

N Rocher
S Birkbeck
S Gleeson
J Jorgensen
D Brandenburg
P Fallourd
S Mackay-Coghill
J Taylor
R Satchell1

30 June 2015
% Performance

30 June 2014
% Performance

7.37%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
14.76%
11.27%
0.00%
0.00%
14.08%

14.1%
4.9%
9.0%
0.7%
6.0%
5.0%
28.1%
0.8%
N/A

R Satchell was appointed COO on 23 January 2015 and not 
considered Key Management Personnel during the year 
ended 30 June 2014.

Mr G Newman was appointed 15 October 2010 as Non-Executive Director.  Mr G 
Newman was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman on 16 February 2015.

Mr T Martin was appointed 4 February 2013 as Non-Executive Director.

Mr C Triefus was the Retail Production Manager.  The Retail Production Manager 
manages the retail stores in Bali and co-ordinates all retail stock for the Group. Mr 
Triefus resigned as Retail Production Manager on 31 December 2013.

Bonuses were paid to the KMP Danielle Brandenburg based on the milestones 
achieved during the period.  In 2014 Bonuses were paid to the KMPs, Mr S Gleeson, 
Ms S McKay-Coghill and Ms D Brandenburg Danielle based on the milestones 
achieved during 2014.  

A number of key management took part in the 2015 and 2014 salary sacrifice 
schemes. In 2015, Mr P Fallourd, Ms D Brandenburg, Mr R Satchell all participated in 
the salary sacrifice scheme which finishes on 25 December 2015.  Salary accrued for 
under the plan as at 30 June 2015 for these individuals was; Mr P Fallourd $15,385, Ms 
D Brandenburg $14,247, Mr R Satchell $9,795.  Mr G Newman, Mr T Martin, Mr S Arrow 
and Dr J Taylor salary sacrificed all director fees from the 1st of November until the 30th 
of June 2015.   Fees accrued under the plan as at 30 June 2015 for the directors were; 
G Newman $32,233; Mr T Martin $23,333; Mr S Arrow $23,333 and Dr J Taylor $7,393.  
$50,000 of Stephen Birkbeck’s salary was accrued for under the 2014 ESSP scheme 
and was transferred to him in shares on 18 May 2015.

10.  Non-Monetary benefits of other key management personnel included 

accommodation allowances, school fees and medical expenses, as per individual 
employment contracts.

11.  Mr S Arrow appointed as Non Executive Director on 2 January 2014.

12.  Mr P Fallourd appointed as Vice President of Pearling on 1 May 2014. Mr P Fallourd 

was appointed as Chief Executive Officer on 26 November 2015.

13.  Ms S Mackay-Coghill appointed as Vice President Jewellery, Cosmetics & Perfume 

on 1 May 2014. Ms S Mackay-Coghill resigned as Vice President Jewellery, Cosmetics 
& Perfume on 7 November 2014.  Ms S Mackay-Coghil worked on contract with the 
Company until 31 December 2014 but was not considered to be a Key Management 
Personnel after 7 November 2014.

14.  Mr N Rocher appointed as an alternate director to S Birkbeck on 18 July 2014. Mr N 

Rocher resigned as alternate director on 16 February 2015.

15.  Option benefit related expenses recognised in june 2014 year end have been 
reversed in 2015 for all those employees who have left the employment of the 
company during the year and are no longer eligible for to realise these options.

16. 

Bonus shares were issued to management during 2015 for achievement of 
performance related milestones. 

4.2.2        Relationship between remuneration and Atlas performance

The following table shows performance indicators as prescribed by the 
Corporations Act 2001 over the past 5 reporting periods:

12 
months
2015

12 
months
2014

6 
months
2013

12 
months
2012

12 
months
2011

(8,134,049)

1,813,922 (2,194,645)

1,406,150

593,936

(2.4)

0

(48%)

0.61

0

53%

(0.81)

0

0.68

0

0.43

0

(25%)

(60%)

(38%)

-0.8%

4.4%

0.0%

2.6%

8.8%

Profit/(loss) for the year/
period

Basic earnings per share

Dividend payments

Increase / (decrease) in 
share price

Total KMP incentives 
as a percentage profit/
loss %

4.3 

SERVICE AGREEMENTS 

On appointment to the board, all non-executive directors 
enter into a service agreement with the Company.  

Remuneration and other terms of employment for the 
Chief Executive Office, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations  
Officer and other key management personnel are also  
formalised in service agreements. Details of key management  
personnel contracts are set out below: 

4.3.1 

Mr Stephen Birkbeck (Executive Chairman - resigned 16  
February 2015, CEO – resigned 25 November 2014) 

•  Mr S Birkbeck was appointed as CEO commencing from 16 

January 2012 and resigned as CEO on 25 of November 2014 and 
as Executive Chairman on 16 of February 2015.

• 

• 

Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $351,000 per annum 
inclusive of superannuation, reviewed annually for CEO role of Atlas.

Termination conditions - either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving six months’ notice or a lesser amount as 
mutually agreed.

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4.3.6   Mrs Sonia Mackay-Coghill 

4.   

4.3 

SERVICE AGREEMENTS CONTINUED... 

4.3.2   Mr Pierre Fallourd 

(CEO – appointed 26 November 2014)

• 

• 

Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $200,000 per annum 
inclusive of superannuation, reviewed annually.
Termination conditions - either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving three months’ notice or a lesser amount 
as mutually agreed.

4.3.3   Mr Jan Jorgensen 

(Chief Operating Officer – employment terminated 23  
January 2015)

4.3.7 

• 

• 

• 

• 

Base salary for the 2015 and 2014 financial period of $165,000 
per annum reviewed annually and also subject to various non-
financial allowances relating to living in Indonesia.
Entitled to commission on Pearl Meat sales of 15% of sales 
excluding VAT or GST.
Entitled to commission on Mother of Pearl sales of 5% for annual 
sales in excess of $300,000 excluding VAT or GST.
Termination conditions – either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving two months’ notice or a lesser amount 
as mutually agreed.

4.3.4 

Mr Richard Satchell 
(Chief Operations Officer – appointed 23 January 2015)

•  Mr R Satchell was appointed Chief Operations Officer 23 January 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

2015.  He was previously appointed General Manager Strategy.
Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $160,000 per annum 
reviewed annually and also subject to various non-financial 
allowances relating to living in Indonesia. 
Short-term incentive plan of 5% of Normalised EBITDA for the 
financial year ended 30 June 2015, where Normalised EBITDA 
is greater than $1.7m, this is capped at a maximum bonus of 
$30,000.  The bonus is inclusive of taxes.
Base salary for 2014 financial period of $120,000 per annum 
reviewed annually and also subject to various non-financial 
allowances relating to living in Indonesia. 
2014 commission entitlements included; 15% of Pearl Meat sales 
of 15% excluding VAT or GST and 5% of Mother of Pearl sales for 
annual sales in excess of $300,000 excluding VAT or GST.
Termination conditions – either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving two months’ notice or a lesser amount 
as mutually agreed.

(Vice President of Jewellery, Perfumes & Cosmetics  
resigned 7 November 2014)

• 

• 

• 

Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $200,000 per annum 
inclusive of superannuation, reviewed annually.
Commission payable on 5% of sales in Australia above last year 
(excluding loose pearl sales and Showcase)$25,000 advance on 
bonus paid.
Termination conditions- either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving six months’ notice or a lesser amount as 
mutually agreed.

Mr Stephen Gleeson 
(Managing Director Essential Oils of Tasmania 
(appointed 1 July 2014) & Joint Company Secretary 
(appointed 24 April 2012), made redundant 16 April 2015)

• 

• 

• 

Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $200,000 per annum 
inclusive of superannuation, reviewed annually.
Bonus based on achieving various milestones (STIP) relating to 
essential oil sales, commissioning of the new pearl extraction 
plant, and various other grants. Bonus of 1% growth of 2014/15 
EBITDA paid quarterly. 
Termination conditions- either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving six months’ notice or a lesser amount as 
mutually agreed.

4.3.8 

Mr Nelson Rocher 
(Alternate Director – appointed 18 July 14. Head of  
Perfume Development – appointed 1 June 2014, 
resigned 16 February 2015)

• 

• 

Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $82,125 per annum 
inclusive of superannuation, reviewed annually.
Termination conditions- either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving one months’ notice or a lesser amount 
as mutually agreed.

4.3.9 
• 
• 

• 

Other non - executives (standard contracts)

Contract terminates on retirement.
The Company may terminate the executive’s employment 
agreement by providing 2 months written notice or providing 
payment in lieu of the notice period.
Not entitled to any special termination payments under these 
contracts.

4.4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF THE REMUNERATION REPORT

4.3.5   Mrs Danielle Brandenburg 

4.4.1 

Loans to Directors and Executives

(Chief Financial Officer – appointed 1 July 2014 –  
resigned 30 August 2015)

• 

• 
• 

Base salary for the 2015 financial period of $175,000 per annum 
inclusive of superannuation, reviewed annually.
Bonus on 2% of real EBITDA growth on 13/14 to 14/15. 
Termination conditions- either party may terminate the contract 
of employment by giving six months’ notice or a lesser amount as 
mutually agreed.

Details of loans made to directors of the Company and other key 
management personnel of the Group under the Employee Salary 
Sacrifice Plan, including their personally related parties, are set out below:

Balance at 
the start 
of the 
period

Loans 
provided 
during the 
period

Interest 
paid and 
payable 
for the 
period

Interest 
not 
charged

Balance at 
the end of 
the period

No in 
Group at 
the end of 
the period

Group

$

30 Jun 2015

30 Jun 2014

375,000

375,000

$

-

-

$

-

-

$

$

10,725

14,100

375,000

375,000

2

2

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i. Individuals with loans above $100,000 during the financial year

30 Jun 
2015

Balance at 
the start of 
the period

Loans 
provided 
during the 
period

Interest 
paid and 
payable for 
the period

Interest 
not 
charged

Balance at 
the end of 
the period

Highest 
indebted-
ness 
during the 
period

Name

$

$

$

$

$

$

J. Taylor*

S. Adams*

263,000

112,000

375,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

7,522

3,203

10,725

263,000

112,000

375,000

263,000

112,000

375,000

4.4.1 

Loans to Directors and Executives

30 Jun 
2014

Balance at 
the start 
of the 
year

Loans 
provided 
during 
the year

Interest 
paid and 
payable 
for the 
year

Interest 
not 
charged

Balance at 
the end of 
the year

Highest 
indebted-
ness 
during 
the year

Name
J. Taylor*

$
263,000

S. Adams*

112,000

375,000

$
-

-

-

$
-

-

-

$
9,889

4,211

$
263,000

$
263,000

112,000

112,000

14,100

375,000

375,000

All loans to key management persons are under terms and conditions 
as set out in note 23 relating to the employee share plan.

The amounts shown for interest not charged in the tables above 
represent the difference between the amount paid and payable for the 
period and the amount of interest that would have been charged on 
an arms’ length basis.

$23,333, Stephen Arrow $23,333, Geoff Newman $32,233. During the 
twelve months ended 30 June 2014 none of the directors salary sacrificed 
into the Non - Executive Director Fee Salary Sacrifice Share plan. 

$46,818 of the ESSP accrual above is for shares salary sacrificed 

ii 
by the Other Key Management Personnel during the year ended 30 
June 2015 under the Atlas South Sea Pearl Employee Share Plan; Pierre 
Fallourd $15,385 ($50,000 already issued out of total salary sacrifice of 
$65,385); Danielle Brandenburg $14,247; Joseph Taylor $7,392; Richard 
Satchell $9,795. 30 June 2014 accrual $11,905 for shares salary sacrificed 
by Stephen Birkbeck under the Atlas South Sea Pearl Employee Share Plan.

iii 
were made to some staff and Directors on normal commercial terms.

During the period, sales of individual pearls of small quantities 

During the 12 months ended 30 June 2015, $Nil (2014: 
iv 
$30,000) in research and development fees were charged to Atlas 
Pearls and Perfumes Ltd by Raintree Pearls and Perfumes Pty Ltd. 
Raintree Pearls and Perfumes Pty Ltd is controlled by Stephen Birkbeck.

During the period ended 30 June 2015 Atlas Pearls and 

v 
Perfumes Ltd did not sell any pearls on behalf of Arrow Pearls Pty Ltd. 
During the year ended 30 June 2014 Atlas received on consignment 
approximately $1,750,000 of loose South Sea Pearls from Steve Arrow 
on the 5th of December 2013.  Atlas received a sales commission of 
5.0% based on the gross value of the pearls. Commission earned on the 
sale of loose pearls on behalf of entities controlled by key management 
personnel was $Nil for the year end 30 June 2015 (30 June 2014: 
$113,614).  During the year ended 30 June 2014 Atlas paid the net 
proceeds of pearls sales to Arrow less the commission, in the form 
of 50% cash and 50% in shares until 10 million shares were acquired 
(capped at $650,000). The shares were priced at $0.065 per share. 

*These loans have been provided for in a prior period.

4.5 SHARE BASED PAYMENTS COMPENSATION

There is no allowance for impaired receivables in relation to any 
outstanding balances, and no expense has been recognised in respect 
of impaired receivables due from key management.

ii. 

Other loans to Key Management Personnel

The loan advance of $25,000 to S Mackay-Coghill during year end 
30 June 2014 was in advance of anticipated bonuses. Ms S Mackay-
Coghill resigned on 7 November 2014, a consultancy arrangement 
was subsequently undertaken between 7 November 2014 and 31 
December 2014 to repay the outstanding loan balance.  As at 30 June 
2015 the loan balance owing from Ms S Mackay-Coghill is nil.

4.4.2 

Options

Performance options were issued to directors and key management 
personnel during the financial period end 30 June 2015 and 30 
June 2014. The options were issued at nil cost to employees and will 
respectively expire on 31 December 2018 and 31 December 2016. The 
options are exercisable based on the completion of KPI’s specific to 
each individual. See table at 4.5.10 for details.

4.4.3 

Other Key Management Personnel transactions

$78,900 of the ESSP accrual above is for shares salary 

i. 
sacrificed by the Directors during the year ended 30 June 2015 under 
the Atlas South Sea Pearl Non-Executive Director Share Plan; Tim Martin 

In 2006 and 2007 ordinary shares were issued to key management 
personnel of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd under an Employee Share 
Plan (ESP) that was approved by shareholders at the company’s annual 
general meeting in May 2006.  These shares have been issued to 
employees under the following terms:

In 2007 shares were issued at a price of 40 cents each, 

4.5.1 
900,000 were issued on 17th April and 200,000 were issued on 10th 
May 2007 when the market price was 41 cents and 48 cents per share 
respectively.  In 2006, 2,150,000 shares were issued at a price of 29 
cents each on 30th May when the market price was 31 cents per share.  

Entitlement to 50% of the beneficial interest on the shares 

4.5.2 
vested to employees after they have completed two (2) years of 
employment with the company from the date of issue of the shares, 
and entitlement to the remaining 50% of the beneficial interest in the 
shares vested to employees after they have completed three (3) years 
of employment with the company from the date of issue of the shares;

4.5.3 
Shares issued under the ESP have been paid for by 
employees who have been provided with an interest free, non-recourse 
loan by the Company.  This loan is to be repaid from the proceeds of 
dividends paid in relation to these shares.

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4.5.4 

The details relating to the allocation of shares to directors and key management personnel under the ESP are as follows: 

Name

Date of Issue

No. of Shares 
Issued (3)

Shares Vested 
to end of 
2010

Shares 
Forfeited in 
the year

Financial 
Year in which 
shares vested

Joseph Taylor 
(resigned 16 February 2015)

10/5/07

200,000

100%

30/5/06

1,000,000

100%

0%

0%

2009 – 50%
2010 – 50%

2008 – 50%
2009 – 50%

Nature of 
shares

Ordinary 
Shares

Ordinary 
Shares

Minimum 
value of grant 
yet to be 
vested (1)

Maximum 
value of grant 
yet to be 
vested (2)

$-

$-

$-

$-

Notes – 
1. 
2. 
3. 

The minimum benefit is based on the fact that the vesting criteria for the shares on issue have not yet been met.
The maximum value is based on the value that is calculated at the time that the shares were issued.
The above named individuals are only entitled to these shares when the recourse loan is repaid. As at 30 June 2015, none of these loans have been repaid. Hence, these shares remain 
as treasury shares in the employee share trust. 

In 2012 key management personnel were invited to participate in the Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Non-Executive Director Fee Sacrifice 

4.5.5 
Share Plan and Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan that was approved by shareholders at the Company’s Annual General Meeting on 30 May 
2012. These shares have been issued to employees under the terms outlined in note 4.5.6.

The existing Employee Share Loan Plan was replaced by a new Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan and Non-Executive Director Plan at the AGM 
on the 30 May 2012.

4.5.6 

The Atlas Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan

Please refer to Note 23 in the financial statements for details.

The details relating to the allocation of shares to directors and key management personnel under the Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan are as 
follows for year end 30 June 2015 and year ended 30 June 2014:

Name

Date of 
Entrance

Entitlement 
No. of 
Shares

No. of 
Shares to 
be Issued

Date of 
Issue

Shares 
Vested to 
June 2015

Shares 
Forfeited in 
the year

Financial 
Year in 
which 
shares 
vested

Nature of 
shares

Share issue 
price

Total Value 
Salary 
Sacrificed

Pierre Fallourd

17/11/14

555,556

-

-

100%

0%

2015 –100%

Pierre Fallourd

17/11/14

625,000

625,000

26/9/14

100%

0%

2015 –100%

Danielle 
Brandenburg

17/11/14

555,556

Richard Satchell

15/12/14

266,667

-

-

-

-

100%

100%

0%

2015 –100%

0%

2015 –100%

Stephen Birkbeck

07/03/14

586,077

769,231

18/05/15

100%

0%

2015 –100%

Ordinary 
Shares

Ordinary 
Shares

Ordinary 
Shares

Ordinary 
Shares

Ordinary 
Shares

$0.045

15,385

$0.080

50,000

$0.045

14,247

$0.045

9,795

$0.065

38,095

Name

Date of 
Entrance

Entitlement 
No. of 
Shares

No. of 
Shares to 
be Issued

Date of 
Issue

Shares 
Vested to 
June 2014

Shares 
Forfeited in 
the year

Financial 
Year in 
which 
shares vest

Nature of 
shares

Share issue 
price

Total Value 
Salary 
Sacrificed

Stephen Birkbeck

07/03/14

183,154

-

-

   100%

0%

2014 – 
100%

Ordinary 
Shares

$0.065

$11,905

4.5.7 

The Atlas Non-Executive Director Fee Sacrifice Share Plan

Please refer to Note 23 in the financial statements for details.

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4.5.8 

The details relating to the allocation of shares to directors and key management personnel under the Non-Executive Director Fee Salary  
Sacrifice Share Plan are as follows:

Name

Date of 
Entrance

Entitlement 
No. of Shares

No. of Shares 
Issued

Date of 
Issue

Shares 
Vested to end 
of 2015

Shares 
Forfeited in 
the year

Financial 
Year in 
which shares 
vested

Nature of 
shares

Share issue 
price

Total Value 
Salary 
Sacrificed

Joseph Taylor

Geoff Newman

Tim Martin

Stephen Arrow

1/11/14

1/11/14

1/11/14

1/11/14

164,289

718,267

518,512

518,512

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

100%

100%

100%

100%

0%

0%

0%

0%

2016 – 100% Ordinary Shares

2016 – 100% Ordinary Shares

2016 – 100% Ordinary Shares

2016 – 100% Ordinary Shares

$0.045

$0.045

$0.045

$0.045

7,393

32,322

23,333

23,333

Notes - These shares were issued under the NED plan described above directly to the NEDs, for past services rendered.

4.5.9 

The details relating to the allocation of performance options to directors and key management personnel under the Atlas Pearls and  
Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan are as follows:

Name

Stephen Birkbeck1

Joseph Taylor1

Stephen Gleeson2

Stephen Gleeson1

Pierre Fallourd2

Pierre Fallourd1

Pierre Fallourd3

Nelson Rocher2

Jan Jorgensen2

Danielle Brandenburg1

Sonia McKay-Coghill1

Richard Satchell1

Richard Satchell3

Date of 
Grant

13/05/14

13/05/14

24/02/14

02/06/14

24/02/14

02/06/14

30/6/15

24/02/14

24/02/14

02/06/14

02/06/14

02/06/14

30/6/15

Entitlement 
No. of 
Options

Vesting 
Date

Expiry 
Date

Shares 
Forfeited 
in the 
year

Financial 
Year in 
which 
shares vest

Nature of shares

Value Per 
Options at 30 
June 15

Value Per 
Options at 30 
June 14

Option 
Exercise Price

10,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

500,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

2,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

1,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

1,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

1,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

2,000,000

30/6/18

31/12/18

1,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

500,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

2,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

100%

100%

100%

100%

0%

0%

0%

100%

100%

0%

2,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

100%

1,000,000

30/6/16

31/12/16

1,000,000

30/6/18

31/12/18

0%

0%

2016

2016

2016

2016

2016

2016

2018

2016

2016

2016

2016

2016

2018

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

Ordinary Shares

$nil

$nil

$nil

$nil

$8,616

$9,279

$nil

$nil

$nil

$18,558

$nil

$9,279

$nil

$12,559

$628

$5,948

$712

$2,974

$712

-

$2,974

$1,487

$1,424

$1,424

$712

-

$0.0858

$0.0858

$0.0858

$0.095

$0.0858

$0.095

$0.059

$0.0858

$0.0858

$0.095

$0.095

$0.095

$0.059

Notes –
1. 
2. 
3. 

These unlisted options were approved by the shareholders at the EGM held on 13 May 2014
These unlisted options were approved by the Board of Directors on 24 February 2014
These unlisted options were approved by the Board of Directors on 29 May 2015

4.5.10 

The details relating to the equity instruments held by key management personnel are as follows:

a.  

Equity instrument disclosures relating to key management personnel

1. 

2.   

Options and rights granted as compensation 
There were 3,000,000 options issued to key management personnel as remuneration during the period ended 
30 June 2015 (30 June 2014 – 21,000,000). 

Option holdings 
There were 8,000,000 options on issue to key management personnel during the period ended 30 June 2015 
(30 June 2014  - 21,000,000). 

b.  

Shareholdings 
The number of shares in the company held during the financial period by each director of the company and the other key management 
personnel of the Group, including their personally related parties, are set out below.

Details of shares that were granted as compensation during the reporting period are provided at note 23 and in the Remuneration 
Report contained at section 4 of the Directors’ Report.

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Balance 01/07/14

Granted as 
Compensation

Options Exercised

Other Changes (1)

Balance 30/06/15

Parent Entity Directors 

Mr S.P. Birkbeck(2)

Mr J.J.U. Taylor(2)

Mr G. Newman 

Mr T. Martin 

Mr S. Arrow 

Mr N. Rocher(2)

Other Key Management 
Personnel    

Mr J. Jorgensen(2)

Mr S. Gleeson(2)

Mr C. Triefus(2)

Mr P. Fallourd

Ms S. Mackay - Coghill(2)

Ms D. Brandenburg

Mr R. Satchell(3)

Notes –

43,127,199

1,400,000

1,539,295

19,156,745

11,508,089

6,612,185

624,400

3,649,072

-

2,586,206

-

100,000

-

90,303,191

-

-

-

-

-

100,000

-

-

-

100,000

-

100,000

-

300,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

769,231

-

307,859

56,028,922

2,301,618

-

(500,000)

-

-

625,000

-

-

111,111

59,643,741

43,896,430

1,400,000

1,847,154

75,185,667

13,809,707

6,712,185

124,400

3,649,072

-

3,311,206

-

200,000

111,111

150,246,932

1. Other changes refer to shares purchased or sold during the financial period. Removal of balance on resignation of Director/KMP or balance held at appointment of Director/KMP
2. Director/KMP retired or resigned in the financial period 
3. Director/KMP appointed in the period

The details relating to the equity instruments held by key management personnel are as follows:

c.  

Option holding 
The number of options over ordinary shares in the parent entity held during the twelve months ended 30 June 2015 by each director  
and other members of key management personnel of the consolidated entity, including their personally related parties, is set out below:

Balance 01/07/14

Granted

Exercised

Expired/ forfeited/other

Balance 30/06/15

Parent Entity  Directors

Mr S.P. Birkbeck

Mr J.J.U. Taylor

Mr G. Newman 

Mr T. Martin 

Mr S. Arrow (1)

Mr N. Rocher

Other Key Management

Mr J. Jorgensen

Mr S. Gleeson

Mr C. Triefus

Mr P. Fallourd

Ms S. Mackay-Coghill

Ms D. Brandenburg

Mr R. Satchell

10,000,000

500,000

-

-

-

1,000,000

500,000

3,000,000

-

2,000,000 

2,000,000

2,000,000

1,000,000

22,000,000 

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

2,000,000

-

-

1,000,000

3,000,000

This is the end of the Audited Remuneration Report.

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

10,000,000

500,000

-

-

-

1,000,000

500,000

3,000,000

-

-

2,000,000

-

-

17,000,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

4,000,000 

-

2,000,000

2,000,000

8,000,000 

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5.1 

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES AND REVIEW OF OPERATIONS

Principal Activities

The Company is a producer of pearls and has an interest in perfumes (and cosmetics) through its investments in Essential Oils of Tasmania and 
World Senses.  The Company has pearl farms in Indonesia with administrative and retail centres in Bali and Perth.  

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5.2 

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES AND REVIEW OF OPERATIONS 
(CONTINUED...)

REVIEW OF OPERATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT CHANGES  
IN THE STATE OF AFFAIRS

5.2.1 

Significant changes in the state of affairs

Significant changes in the state of affairs of the Group during the 
financial year were as follows:

On the 16th January 2015, a $300,000 5 year term loan was received by 
Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd. Security is charged over specific plant 
and equipment owned by Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd to the 
value of the loan. Interest of 3.6% per annum is payable.

On the 11th February 2015, the number of Directors on the Board 
reduced from 5 members to 3. Mr Steven Birkbeck resigned as 
Executive Chairman and Dr Joseph Taylor resigned as a Non-Executive 
Director. Nelson Rocher, Mr Birkbeck’s Alternate Director, has also 
resigned and remained actively involved in Atlas’ daily operations until 
April 2015. Current Non-executive Director Mr Geoff Newman assumed 
the role of Chairman. 

Also on 11th February 2015, Joint Company Secretary, Mr Stephen 
Gleeson, resigned from his position as Joint Company Secretary. He 
retained his role as Managing Director Essential Oil of Tasmania until 16 
April 2015. Chief Financial Officer Ms Danielle Brandenburg has been 
appointed Joint Company Secretary.

On the 20th of April 2015, 50% of Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd 
(“EOT”) was sold to Westwood Properties Pty Ltd.  Westwood’s investment 
was valued at A$1.4m, comprising of $280,000 for the shares purchased 
and the A$1.12m in loans provided to EOT by Westwood.  $720,000 of 
the loan is to be used to repay existing loans previously provided by Atlas 
to EOT, $400,000 will remain in EOT for a maximum period of 18 months 
as working capital. EOT has now been deconsolidated from the Group 
and is accounted for as an equity investment.

On the 24th of April 2015, Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd closed 
its 1 for 5 non-renounceable pro rata entitlement offer.  The offer 
which opened on the 25th of March 2015 was fully underwritten at 
an offer price of $0.045 per New Share to raise up to $3.1m (before 
costs). 16,074,730 new shares were issued at $0.045 per share raising 
$723,362.85, the resultant shortfall being 53,048,882 shares. The offer 
was underwritten by entities and persons related to the family of 
current director Mr. Timothy Martin.

On the 17th of February 2015 a $500,000 bridging loan was secured 
from Jingie Investments Pty Ltd. On the 13th of April 2015 a further 
$1,000,000 loan was secured from Jingie Investments Pty Ltd.  The loans 
were unsecured and attracted an interest rate of 7%. Jingie Investments 
is a related party of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd director Tim Martin. 
The loans were repaid with funds raised under the non-renounceable 
pro rata entitlement offer.

On the 30th of June 2015 the company issued options under the Atlas 
Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan to the following key 
Management Persons; Pierre Fallourd 2,000,000 options and Richard 
Satchell 1,000,000 options.  The options have an exercise price of 5.9 
cents each, an expiry date of 31 December 2018 and vest on 30 June 
2018 where the following conditions have been met; achieving a 
minimum A$2.75m average normalised EBITDA for the 3 years ending 
30 June 2018 and that the individual remains directly engaged as an 
employee of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd until 30 June 2018.

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5.2.2 

Shareholder Returns

12 Months 
Ending

12 Months 
Ending

6 Months 
Ending

30 June 
2015 
$’000

(8,134)

(2.40)

Nil

Nil

30 June 
2014 
$’000

1,814

0.61

Nil

Nil

30 June 
2013 
$’000

(2,195)

(0.81)

Nil

Nil

Net profit/(loss) after tax

Basic EPS (cents)

Dividends paid

Dividends (per share) (cents)

The adjustments from NPAT to arrive at reported Normalised EBITDA for 
these periods are shown below:

12 Months 
Ending

12 Months 
Ending

6 Months 
Ending

30 June 
2015 
$’000

(8,134)

521

398

589

(792)

6,697

(497)

-

(656)

149

245

245

30 June 
2014 
$’000

1,814

(355)

471

303

578

(63)

300

(12)

436

-

-

-

30 June 
2013 
$’000

(2,195)

(1,472)

222

136

(1,091)

2,908

242

-

-

-

-

Net profit/(loss) after tax

Tax expense/( benefit)

Finance/Interest net costs

Depreciation & amortisation

Foreign Exchange (gain)/loss

Agriculture Standard revaluation 
(gain)/loss/ pearl adjustments

Other Non-Operating (income)/
expense

Inventory write off

Derivative Instrument 
(gain)/loss

Impairment of JV loan

Fair value (gain)/loss 
on EOT assets

(Gain)/Loss on sale of investment

Normalised EBITDA

(1,235)

3,470

(1,250)

5.2.3 

Financial Position

30 June 
2015
$’000

30 June 
2014
$’000

Total Assets

Debt (Current & Non-current)

Other Liabilities

Shareholder funds

Debt / Shareholder funds

Number of shares on issue (million)

Net tangible assets per share (cents)

Share price at reporting date (cents)

30,942

(4,085)

(2,883)

23,974

17%

425.4

5.6

4.4

40,823

(5,155)

(6,859)

28,809

18%

326.62

8.7

8.5

30 June 
2013 
$’000

35,676

(5,274)

(4,605)

25,797

20%

287.039

9.0

4.1

There has been a decrease in the net assets of the group of $4.8M in the 
year ended 30 June 2015 (30 June 2014 - $5.1M increase).  Movements in 
the net worth of the economic entity are summarised below:

• 

• 

Cash reserves increased to $2.6M (30 June 2014 - $1.7M) at 30 
June 2015.  During the period ended 30 June 2015 core debt was 
decreased by $134,909 (30 June 2014 - $119K).

Trade receivables decreased to $0.5M (30 June 2014 - $3M) 
principally due to the timing of the June auction, funds from the 
auction held on the  11th and 12th of June 2015 were primarily  
receipted before 30 June 2015. The 30 June 2014 loose pearl 
auction was held on the 29th of June 2014.

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• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

REVIEW OF OPERATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT CHANGES  
IN THE STATE OF AFFAIRS  (CONTINUED...)

The valuation of oyster assets at 30 June 2015 was impacted 
by the harvest of smaller than average pearls during the 12 
months ended 30 June 2015. Whilst it is anticipated that the 
majority of these smaller pearls were harvested by 30 June 2015, 
management has elected to be conservative in their approach 
and use of assumptions in the fair valuation of oysters which has 
resulted in a total asset value of $14.5m at 30 June 2015 compared 
to $19.3m at 30 June 2014. At 30 June 2015 the main drivers 
behind the decrease in value include a reduction in the average 
weight (momme per piece) and the sellable percent.  The average 
weight decreased from 0.60 at 30 June 2014 to 0.55 at 30 June 
2015. The average sellable percent decreased from 62% at 30 June 
2015 to 52% at 30 June 2014. The number of oysters decreased 5% 
from 2,787,914 oysters at 30 June 2014 to 2,623,870 oysters at 30 
June 2015. The number of pearls due to be harvested within six 
months of the year end reduced from 247,868 at 30 June 2014 to 
132,777 at 30 June 2015. Pearls due for harvest within six months 
of the valuation date hold a higher value. The reduction in weight, 
sellable percent and quantity on hand was partially offset by an 
increase in the average sellable price, or ¥/momme increased on 
the back of a strengthening market from ¥11,000 at 30 June 2014 
to ¥12,000 at 30 June 2015.  

Pearls on hand increased from 52,436 at 30 June 2014 to 94,046 
at 30 June 2015; the net realisable value decreased from $1.07M 
at 30 June 2014 to $0.9M at 30 June 2015. 50,000 of the pieces on 
hand at 30 June 2015 were considered reject grade, these were 
sold in July 2015. A write-off of $0.2M was recognised in relation 
to adjusting the fair value of loose pearls and jewellery costs 
for the period as inventory is required to be valued at either fair 
value (for biological harvested assets) or the lower of cost and net 
realisable value (30 June 2014 - $1.2M). Pearl inventory on hand 
at 30 June 2015 and 30 June 2014 was lower grade after the large 
June auctions.

Jewellery inventory was $1.8M as at 30 June 2015, down from 
$2.9M as at 30 June 2014. A provision for inventory obsolescence 
for $0.8M was booked during the year ended 30 June 2015 to 
provide for slower moving inventory lines.   

Borrowings were $4M at 30 June 2015, $1M lower than 30 June 
2014 ($5.1M) due to the maturity of convertible notes on issue 
during the year ended 30 June 2015. As at 30 June 2015 there 
were no convertible notes outstanding.  

Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd was deconsolidated from the 
Group during the year ended 30 June 2015. As at 30 June 2015 
essential oil finished product made up $Nil of the inventory balance 
at 30 June 2015 (30 June 2014: $1.35M). During the year ended 30 
June 2015 the group recorded write-ups of Lavender and Boronia 
crops of $0.16M (year ended 30 June 2014: $0.3M write-up).  

5.2.4 

Operating Results

Atlas recorded a net loss after tax for the period ended 30 June 2015 of 
$8.1M, a decrease of $9.9M (30 June 2014 – net profit after tax $1.8M).

The operating revenue for the year ended 30 June 2015 was $12.1M, 
compared to the year ended 30 June 2014 - $16.3M. Pearl sales revenue 
was $8.7M (30 June 2014 - $11.9M), with retail and wholesale sales 
revenue of $1.4M (30 June 2014 - $1.45M). Essential oil sales recognised 
up until the 20 April 2015 (point of deconsolidation) were $1.6M (12 
months ended 30 June 2014 - $2.02M). The number of jewellery retail 
outlets in Indonesia reduced to four by the 30 June 2015, with the 
closure of outlets in Sanur, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua (2014 total number 
of stores – seven).  

Gross Profit percentage overall reduced to 50% in 2015 from 62% in 
2014 due to the lower than average size and quality of loose pearls 
available for sale during the year ended 30 June 2015, the liquidation 
of slow moving jewellery inventory lines and the recognition of a 
provision for jewellery inventory obsolescence.

5.2.5 

Review of Operations

5.2.5.1 

Pearling 

Demand and price for Atlas South Sea Pearls remains strong and Atlas 
is still considered the market leader in 9-13mm specialty pearl size of 
fine quality white and silver South Sea Pearls. Atlas remains committed 
to its current private auction sales strategy which has consistently 
resulted in strengthening prices. Atlas continues to sell pearls to 50 of 
the world’s largest pearl traders, previously 70-80% of the Atlas harvest 
was sold to just four different customers. 

Auction results steadily improved throughout the year reflective of an 
improvement in average size and quality of Atlas product and solid 
market demand. The June 2015 auction finished the year strongly with 
a result 10% above internal forecasts.   

Management and the Board are committed to investing in the 
continued improvement of pearl quality and size and are not prepared 
to accept average results. Attention to detail and the careful allocation 
of resources amongst the pearling division will deliver these results.  

The management team has performed a complete review of the 
pearl stock systems as well as shell checks and harvest sampling and 
is satisfied that the majority of the concerned shells and pearls were 
harvested by 30 June 2015, and that the average size and weight is 
expected to return to long-term historical averages during the financial 
year ended 30 June 2016. New controls and procedures are being 
implemented to improve retention rates and quality which will result in 
a greater return on investment over the next 5 year cycle. The Company 
continues to pioneer new research and development in collaboration 
with James Cook University which will further improve on the quality 
of Pinctada maxima mother of pearl shells. The objective being to 
produce consistently stronger, faster growing shells, which produce 
increasingly higher quality larger, white South Sea Pearls. 

5.2.5.2 

Pearling Value Added

The Company is committed to maximising the value of its pearl harvest 
by identifying product most suitable for each of the following markets; 
international wholesale trade; domestic wholesale, international retail, 
domestic retail. 

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REVIEW OF OPERATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT CHANGES  
IN THE STATE OF AFFAIRS  (CONTINUED...)

Atlas continues to refine its jewellery retail strategy and offering which 
has seen several large changes over the past 12 months.  

During the year ended 30 June 2015, Atlas’s Indonesian farm retail outlets 
continued to outperform its urban stores located in Bali. A subsequent 
reallocation of resources has been undertaken which resulted in the 
closure of Bali Urban stores located in Sanur, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua. 
Atlas’s renovated flagship store located in Seminyak has benefited in the 
recent months from this reallocation.  

The strategy behind Jewellery production has undergone a dramatic 
change over the past 18 months with productions and designs being 
restricted to limited release capsule collections designed specifically for 
the uniquity of South Sea Pearls.

In an effort to further support this new strategy, old slower moving 
inventory lines are being heavily discounted and promoted.

The Company continues to view a strong successful retail platform as 
an important tool in sheltering the Company from the impact of any 
unforeseen shifts in the international loose pearl market. 

5.2.5.3 

Pearl By-Product Commercialisation

Atlas maintains an active interest in its investments in Essential Oils of 
Tasmania and World Senses as part of the Group’s value-added strategy.  
The Company remains committed to the commercialisation of its 
Mother of Pearl By-Products through the innovative technology and 
processes being delivered by Essential Oils of Tasmania. Through World 
Senses Atlas continues to work with its joint venture partner Nomad 
Two Worlds to deliver these by-products to the international market 
with a particular focus on the North American cosmeceutical market. 

Our ability to deliver Mother of Pearl powder and protein in a format 
suitable to the cosmetic industry has been significantly aided by 
the Commercialisation Australia Grant received by Essential Oils of 
Tasmania in 2014. This project and the Grant supporting it was due to 
be completed by 31 October 2015. Commercialisation Australia has 
approved a six month extension to the project which will provide Atlas 
and Essential Oils of Tasmania with more time to successfully execute 
the Commercialisation of the MOP powder and protein and the CO2 
extraction technology behind these products.

business and provide it with the necessary working capital required to 
fund EOT’s crop growing and processing as well as necessary capital 
expenditure.

Westwood Properties Pty Ltd is also committed to constructing a 
development on land owned by Westwood Properties overlooking 
the ocean on the outskirts of Hobart to accommodate all of EOT’s 
newly acquired and assembled production lines for bio-actives, CO2 
extraction units and perfume extraction/bottling lines.  The ultimate 
aim of Westwood Properties and Atlas continues to be the construction 
and operation of a state of the art Industrial Tourism facility at the 
aforementioned development site, featuring fragrances and flavour 
extraction processes from raw crops to finished products as well as a 
retail store and entertainment and training area dedicated to essential 
oils and perfume.   

5.2.5.5  Corporate Social Responsibility

We remain committed to being a global force in luxury Corporate 
Social Responsibility and intend to pioneer a cradle to cradle approach 
to the pearl and perfume supply chains by respecting the regional 
communities and environment we work in. Our approach to pearl by-
products is central to this approach and is also opening new revenue 
streams and giving Atlas invaluable exposure to large multi-national 
purchasers of luxury ingredients.  Core to our belief is optimising every 
aspect of our production, ensuring there is minimal wastage and that 
all the richness of the oyster and the pearl is realised in meaningful 
ways.

Atlas farming operations, whether they are land or sea-based, strive to 
consistently create and build stable economies in remote areas. 

Atlas recognises that education and skill development represent 
empowerment and the betterment of the families and communities 
that make our business a success.

In particular, Atlas is proud to be a Company that actively facilitates 
women’s empowerment in the remote areas of Indonesia.  One 
hundred percent of Atlas’s pearl technicians are women.

The employment opportunities made available to women has led to 
a noticeable shift from the dominant patriarchal family structure that 
prevails in many parts of Indonesia, to a family dynamic where income 
goes into education and family well-being.

5.2.5.4  Natural Extracts

5.2.5.6  Audit Opinion

Essential Oils of Tasmania continues to develop its core business as an 
exporter of food flavours and fragrances. The CO2 critical extraction 
plant made possible by the Commercialisation Australia Grant continues 
to open new doors for the Company through the ability to develop 
new ground breaking products. During the year ended 30 June 2015 
the Company secured a 12 months consultancy contract for the 
processing of sandalwood for the fragrance industry. The successful 
commercialisation of Mother of Pearl powder and protein remains a high 
priority for the Company. And the Company successfully commercialised 
the Wild Islands range of perfumes, including the essence of the pearl, 
created by world-renowned master perfumer Michel Rouditnska.

With the support of our new business partner, 50% owner of Essential 
Oils of Tasmania, Westwood Properties Pty Ltd, EOT will have a capable 
and resourced Tasmanian based partner with which to progress the 

The financial report has been audited independently and received an 
unmodified opinion with an emphasis of matter on going concern. 
Refer to Note 1.33 in the Notes to the Financial Statements for further 
detail on going concern. Refer to page 67 for the Independent Auditors 
Report and Opinion.

5.2.5.7 

Personnel

Staff numbers at the end of the year were as follows:

Expatriates – Indonesia

Indonesian nationals – permanent

Indonesian nationals – part time

Australia

Total Personnel

2015

2014

2013

18

430

435

22

905

21

536

341

43

941

15

613

149

30

807

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DIVIDENDS

No dividends were declared and paid by the Company during period 
ended 30 June 2015 (2014 – nil).

7. 

EVENTS SINCE THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR

On the 1st of July 2015, Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd announced 
the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer, Ms Danielle Brandenburg 
effective as of 30 August 2015 and the appointment of Mr Trevor Harris 
as Chief Financial Officer effective 31 August 2015.

8. 

LIKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPECTED RESULTS 
OF OPERATIONS

New leases have been secured to potentially add 500,000 oysters at 
Punggu (Labuan Bajo) for a 30 year term. This is significant because of 
its geographical convenience and the high quality product emerging 
from the area. Additional suitability testing is being conducted at 
Punggu for a lease with a capacity of another 300,000 shells. There is a 
test running a Nuri in West Flores which looks promising however we 
are awaiting final test results for confirmation. Further to this we are in 
negotiations to deploy test rafts at Gili Banta (to the west of Komodo 
Island). There are several other sites that have been identified and 
additional more thorough test will be undertaken in the next 6 months.

At the moment our hatcheries deliver a lower survival rate that what 
is traditionally seen in the Australian industry, consequently this will 
be a primary area of focus for improvement in the coming 12 months. 
Success has been achieved in the optimal utilisation of survivors with 
routinely 80%+ seeding results with some basic improvements. We 
are several years away from optimal operating conditions (selective 
breeding program, saibo selection, on site seeding theatres, effective 
first ops cycling through to second and third ops). This is aside from the 
basic management improvements that better convey the status of the 
operation, creating more dependable forecasts, high quality budgets 
and effective deployment of resources to optimise revenue generation 
in a cost effective manner.

The KM Poernomo, our second pearl oyster transport vessel has been 
commissioned and is helping greatly to move oysters in a timely fashion 
optimising growth and nacre production. It is an essential tool for Atlas to 
maintain the managerial agility to optimise oyster performance.

The commissioning of the dedicated stud breeding facility will have 
an impact on the efficiency of the commercial farming programme 
by removing the need to maintain detailed comprehensive records 
of every pearl oyster family in the system. With family pedigree family 
lines now numbering in the hundreds, isolating the monitoring 
and selection programme to a dedicated team and facility frees the 
large-scale farms to rationalise stock and improving efficiency on the 
commercial scale and reduce husbandry costs. Furthermore, financial 
modelling analysis demonstrates that the stud farm is expected to be a 
profit centre within three years and is expected to produce the Best of 
Breed pearls creating a unique marketing position for a small premium 
grade crop. The availability of three hatcheries within the Atlas farm 
model is creating major risk mitigation and extending our production 
season by exploiting the environmental variation found in our different 
regional centres. A major spawning in August 2014 resulted in larvae 
being shared by the three hatcheries.

We are working tirelessly to ensure that this latest research and 
development project is not only a success from a scientific standpoint 
but that it is absolutely measured by its ability to generate commercial 
gains. Our research team is working tirelessly to ensure the integrity 
of the system and with benefits will collaborate with our improved 
operational systems in about 4 years to create additional boost to the 
company’s performance moving forward.

9. 

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

The relevant interest of each current Director in the share capital of the 
Company, as notified by the Directors to the Australian Stock Exchange 
in accordance with S205G (1) of the Corporations Act 2001, at the date 
of this report is as follows: 

Ordinary Shares

Unlisted Options

G. Newman

S. Arrow

T. Martin(1)

Direct

-

-

4,256,545

Indirect

1,847,154

13,809,707

70,929,122

Direct

Indirect

-

-

-

-

-

-

1. 

14,900,200 indirect ordinary shares held by Mr T Martin are held by a private 
entity which Mr T Martin is 1 of 4 directors. This entity is classified as a related party.

10. 

OPTIONS

The Company had 32,582,005 options granted over unissued shares at 
the 30 June 2013. As part of the rights issue on 18 January 2013 a total 
of 30,240,735 unlisted options expiring 29 January 2014 exercisable at 
$0.05 each were issued pursuant to the Company’s non-renounceable 
entitlements Prospectus dated 16 November 2012. An additional 
2,452,979 options were issued when the shortfall was taken up in 
March and April 2013. These options expired on 29 January 2014. 
Options exercised during the twelve months ended 30 June 2014 
totalled 29,577,674. No listed options were on issue during the twelve 
months ended 30 June 2015.

During the year end 30 June 2015 7,500,000 in unlisted options were 
issued to certain employees and consultants of Atlas Pearls and 
Perfumes Ltd, pursuant to the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee 
Option Plan. 2,000,000 of the unquoted options are exercisable at 
$0.0858 on or before 31 December 2016 subject to vesting conditions 
specific to the consultant. 5,500,000 are exercisable at $0.059, on or 
before 31 December 2018, subject to the following vesting conditions; 
achieving a minimum A$2.75m average normalised EBITDA for 3 years 
ended 30 June 2018, and that the employee remains directly engaged 
as an employee of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd until 30 June 2018. 

During the year end 30 June 2014 26,500,000 in unlisted options 
were issued to certain employees and consultants of Atlas Pearls and 
Perfumes Ltd, pursuant to the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee 
Option Plan. The unquoted options are exercisable at $0.0858 
(18,000,000) and $0.095 (8,500,000) respectively, on or before 31 
December 2016, subject to certain vesting conditions specific to each 
employee/consultant. 

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INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE OF DIRECTORS 
AND OFFICERS

11.1 

Indemnification

The Company has agreed to indemnify the following current directors 
of the Company; Mr S Arrow, Mr G Newman and Mr T Martin and the 
following former directors; Mr S Birkbeck, Dr J Taylor, Mr S Adams, Mr 
RP Poernomo , Mr G Snow, Mr R Wright and Mr I Murchison, against 
all liabilities to another person (other than the Company or a related 
body corporate) that may arise from their position as directors of 
the Company, except where the liability arises out of conduct which 
involves negligence, default, breach of duty or a lack of good faith.  The 
agreement stipulates that the Company will meet the full amount of 
any such liabilities, including costs and expenses.

11.2.  

Insurance Premiums

Since the end of the previous financial year the Company has paid 
insurance premiums of $16,440 (2014 - $15,670) in respect of directors’ 
and officers’ liability and legal expenses insurance contracts, for current 
and former Directors and Officers.

12.  

NON-AUDIT SERVICES

The company may decide to employ the auditor on assignments 
additional to their statutory audit duties where the auditor’s expertise 
and experience with the Company and/or the Group are important.

Details of the amounts paid or payable to the auditor (BDO) for audit 
and non-audit services provided during the period are set out below.

The Board of Directors, in accordance with advice from the Audit and 
Risk Committee, is satisfied that the provision of non-audit services 
during the period is compatible with general standards of independence 
for auditors imposed by the Corporations Act 2001. The Directors are 
satisfied that the services disclosed below did not compromise the 
external auditor independence requirements of the Corporations Act 
2001. The nature of the service provided do not compromise the general 
principles relating to auditor independence because they relate to tax 
advice in relation to compliance issues and review of the tax provisions 
prepared by the Company. None of the services undermine the general 
principles relating to auditor independence as set out in APES 110 Code 
of Ethics for Professional Accountants. 

The following fees were paid or payable for services provided by the 
auditor of the parent entity, its related practices and non-related audit 
firms during the period ended 30 June:

AUDIT SERVICES

BDO Australian Firm:

Audit and review of financial reports

Related practices of BDO Australian Firm

Total remuneration for audit services

TAXATION SERVICES

BDO Australian Firm:

Tax compliance services and advice

Related practices of BDO Australian Firm 

Total remuneration for taxation services

Total remuneration for non-audit and 
taxation services

30 June 
2015

30 June
2014

$

$

102,379

111,966

-

-

102,379

111,966

37,919

51,962

-

-

37,919

51,962

37,919

51,962

13.  

PROCEEDINGS ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY

No person has applied under section 237 of the Corporations Act 2001 
for leave of court to bring proceedings on behalf of the Company or 
to intervene in any proceedings to which the Company is a party for 
the purpose of taking responsibility on behalf of the Company for all or 
part of those proceedings. The Company has not been a party to any 
proceedings during the period.

14.  

AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION

A copy of the auditor’s independence declaration as required under 
section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 is set out on page 40.

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors.

Geoffrey Newman 
Chairman 
28 August 2015

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C O N S O L I D A T E D   S T A T E M E N T   O F   P R O F I T   O R   L O S S 

AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

Revenue from continuing operations

Cost of goods sold

Gross profit

Other income

Marketing expenses

Administration expenses

Finance costs

Change in fair value less husbandry costs of oysters

Write-off of pearl and jewellery costs

Other expenses 

Loss on sale of investment

Share of equity accounted investment

Profit/(Loss) before income tax 

Income tax benefit

Profit/(Loss) after income tax for the period from continuing operations

Other comprehensive (losses)

Items that will be reclassified as profit or loss:

Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations

Other comprehensive (losses) for the period, net of tax

Total comprehensive income/(losses) for the period

Profit/(loss) is attributable to:

Owners of the Company

Total comprehensive income/(losses) is attributable to:
Owners of the Company

Overall operations :

Earnings per share for profit/(loss) from continuing operations attributable to the ordinary equity holders of the Company

Basic earnings/(loss) per share (cents)

Diluted earnings/(loss) per share (cents)

Note

2

2

3

3

3

33

30

4

5

5

2015

$

12,118,312

(5,891,435)

6,226,877

3,824,188

(454,199)

2014

$

16,283,183

(6,230,257)

10,052,926

1,091,279

(360,364)

(7,407,977)

(6,814,921)

(473,131)

(5,489,228)

(1,386,517)

(2,220,528)

(245,234)

12,940

(7,612,809)

(521,240)

(8,134,049)

(513,496)

1,971,116

(2,229,675)

(1,438,252)

-

(299,971)

1,458,642

355,280

1,813,922

(1,073,521)

(1,073,521)

(9,207,570)

(792,775)

(792,775)

1,021,147

(8,134,049)

1,813,922

(9,207,570)

1,021,147

(2.40)

-

0.61

0.57

The above Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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C O N S O L I D A T E D   S T A T E M E N T   O F   F I N A N C I A L   P O S I T I O N 

AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

AS AT 30 JUNE 2015

A T L A S   P E A R L S   A N D   P E R F U M E S   L T D   A N D   I T S   S U B S I D I A R I E S

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables

Derivative financial instruments

Inventories

Biological assets

Total current assets

Non-current assets

Intangibles

Loans joint venture entities

Investments accounted for using Equity Method

Inventories

Biological assets

Property, plant and equipment

Deferred tax assets

Total non-current assets

Total assets

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables

Borrowings

Derivative financial instruments

Current tax liabilities

Short-term provisions

Total current liabilities

Non-current liabilities

Borrowings

Deferred tax liabilities

Total non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Equity

Contributed equity

Reserves

(Accumulated losses)/ Retained profits

Total equity

The above consolidated statement of financial position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

2015
$

2014
$

Note

6

7

8

9

10

25

29

9

10

11

14

12

13

8

14

15

13

14

16

17

18

2,632,311

562,021

14,245

3,030,227

3,565,680

9,804,484

276,854

1,597,015

292,940

173,510

1,665,207

3,020,985

-

6,114,013

8,414,231

19,214,436

392,875

67,896

3,025

132,093

10,988,645

12,011,412

4,473,286

3,335,614

21,137,864

30,942,348

1,685,124

3,954,527

-

225,528

-

4,401,274

4,599,784

21,608,359

40,822,795

3,141,549

5,014,791

852,323

(94,060)

57,298

5,865,179

8,971,901

130,208

972,780

1,102,988

6,968,167

140,168

2,901,397

3,041,565

12,013,466

23,974,181

28,809,329

36,465,656

(9,049,958)

(3,441,517)

23,974,181

32,153,001

(8,036,205)

4,692,533

28,809,329

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C O N S O L I D A T E D   S T A T E M E N T   O F   C H A N G E S   I N   E Q U I T Y

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

Attributable to owners of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd

Contributed 
equity

Note

$

Share 
based 
payment 
reserve

$

Foreign 
currency 
translation 
reserve

$

Retained 
earnings/ 
(Accumulated 
loss)

Total equity

$

$

18
17

16
17

18
17

16
17

30,203,033
-
-
-

1,949,968
-

1,949,968

581,029
-
-
-

-
41,545

41,545

(7,866,003)
-
(792,775)
(792,775)

-
-

-

32,153,001

622,574

(8,658,778)

2,878,610
1,813,922
-
1,813,922

-
-

25,796,669
1,813,922
(792,775)
1,021,147

1,949,968
41,545

- 
4,692,532

          1,991,513 

28,809,329

32,153,001
-
-
-

4,312,655
-
36,465,656

622,574
-
-
-

(8,658,778)
-
(1,073,521)
(1,073,521)

4,692,532
(8,134,049)
-
(8,134,049)

59,767
682,341

-
(9,732,299)

-
(3,441,517)

28,809,329
(8,134,049)
(1,073,521)
(9,207,570)

4,312,655
59,767
23,974,181

Balance at 1 July 2013
(Loss) for the period
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations
Total comprehensive income / (loss) for the period
Transactions with owners in their capacity as owners
Contributions of equity, net of transaction costs
Employee share scheme

Balance at 30 June 2014

Balances at 1 July 2014
Profit for the year
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations
Total comprehensive income / (loss) for the period
Transactions with owners in their capacity as owners
Contributions of equity, net of transaction costs
Employee share scheme
Balance at 30 June 2015

The above consolidated statement of changes in equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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AS AT 30 JUNE 2015

A T L A S   P E A R L S   A N D   P E R F U M E S   L T D   A N D   I T S   S U B S I D I A R I E S

Cash flows from operating activities

Proceeds from pearl, jewellery and oyster sales

Proceeds from essential oil sales

Proceeds from other operating activities

Interest paid

Interest received

Payments to suppliers and employees

Income tax (paid)/received

Net cash used in operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities

Cash on sale of EOT investment

Payments for property, plant and equipment

Joint venture partnership contributions (paid)

Net cash used in investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities

Repayment of borrowings

Proceeds from issue of shares

Share transaction costs

Net cash used in financing activities

Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the financial period

Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the financial year

The above consolidated statement of cash flows should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

Note

2015

$

2014

$

12,916,087

11,858,342

1,544,324

441,896

(406,295)

8,867

1,738,829

443,514

(204,364)

9,329

(13,904,890)

(13,743,885)

(98,545)

(359,059)

24.2

501,444

(257,294)

280,000

(2,081,934)

(537,041)

-

(1,234,528)

(53,971)

(2,338,975)

(1,288,499)

(75,707)

3,160,563

(263,066)

2,821,790

984,259

1,665,207

(17,155)

2,632,311

(329,224)

1,808,715

(30,321)

1,449,171

(96,623)

1,767,156

(5,326)

1,665,207

6

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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

1. 

1.1 

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparation

These general purpose financial statements have been prepared in 
accordance with Australian Accounting Standards, other authoritative 
pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board and 
the Corporations Act 2001. Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd is a for-profit 
entity for the purpose of preparing the financial statements.

The financial statements cover the consolidated entity of Atlas Pearls 
and Perfumes Ltd and its subsidiaries. Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd is a 
listed public company, incorporated and domiciled in Australia.

A description of the nature of the consolidated entity’s operations and its 
principal activities is included in the review of operations and activities in 
the directors report which is not part of these financial statements.

The financial statements were authorised for issue by the directors on 
28 August 2015. The directors have the power to amend and reissue 
the financial statements.

The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of these 
consolidated financial statements are set out below. The accounting 
policies have been consistently applied to all the periods presented, 
unless otherwise stated.

1.2 

Compliance with IFRS

The consolidated financial statements of the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes 
Ltd group also comply with International Financial Reporting Standards 
(IFRS) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

1.3 

New and amended standards adopted by the group

None of the new standards and amendments to standards that are 
mandatory for the first time for the financial period beginning 1 July 
2014 affected any of the amounts recognised in the current period or 
any prior period and are not likely to affect future periods. 

1.4 

Historical Cost Convention

These financial statements have been prepared under the historical 
cost basis, as modified by the revaluation of available for sale financial 
assets, financial assets and liabilities (including derivative instruments) 
at fair value through profit or loss and biological assets at fair value less 
cost to sell.

1.5 

Critical Accounting Estimates

The preparation of financial statements requires the use of certain 
critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise 
its judgement in the process of applying the Group’s accounting 
policies. The areas involving a higher degree of judgement or 
complexity, or areas where assumptions and estimates are significant 
to the financial statements are disclosed in note 1.32.

1.6 

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements incorporate the assets and 
liabilities of all subsidiaries of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd (“Company” 
or “parent entity”) as at 30 June 2015 and the results of its subsidiaries 
for the period then ended. Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd and its 
subsidiaries together are referred to in this financial statement as the 
consolidated entity.  

Subsidiaries are all entities (including structured entities) over which 
the group has control. The group controls an entity when the group is 
exposed to, or has rights to, variable returns from its involvement with 
the entity and has the ability to affect those returns through its power 
to direct the activities of the entity. Subsidiaries are fully consolidated 
from the date on which control is transferred to the group. They are 
deconsolidated from the date that control ceases.

The acquisition method of accounting is used to account for the 
acquisition of business combinations by the Group. Intercompany 
transactions, balances and unrealised gains on transactions between 
Group companies are eliminated. Unrealised losses are also eliminated 
unless the transaction provides evidence of the impairment of the asset 
transferred. Accounting policies of subsidiaries have been changed 
where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies adopted by 
the Group.

Non-controlling interests in the results and equity of subsidiaries 
are shown separately in the statement of profit or loss and other 
comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity and statement 
of financial position respectively.

(i) 

Employee Share Trust

The Group has formed a trust to administer the Group’s employee share 
scheme. The trust is consolidated, as the substance of the relationship 
is that the trust is controlled by the Group. Shares held by Atlas South 
Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust are disclosed as treasury shares 
and deducted from contributed equity.

(ii) 

Joint Ventures

Joint venture entities

The interest in a joint venture entity is accounted for using the equity 
method after initially being recognised at cost in the consolidated 
statement of financial position. Under the equity method of 
accounting, the investments are initially recognised at cost and 
adjusted thereafter to recognise the group’s share of the post-
acquisition profits or losses of the investee in profit or loss, and the 
group’s share of movements in other comprehensive income of the 
investee in other comprehensive income. Details relating to the entity 
are set out in note 30.

When the group’s share of losses in an equity-accounted investment 
equals or exceeds its interest in the entity, including any other 
unsecured long-term receivables, the group does not recognise further 
losses, unless it has incurred obligations or made payments on behalf 
of the other entity.

Unrealised gains on transactions between the group and its associates 
and joint ventures are eliminated to the extent of the group’s 
interest in these entities. Unrealised losses are also eliminated unless 
the transaction provides evidence of an impairment of the asset 
transferred. Accounting policies of equity accounted investees have 
been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies 
adopted by the group.

The group treats transactions with non-controlling interests that do 
not result in a loss of control as transactions with equity owners of 
the group. A change in ownership interest results in an adjustment 
between the carrying amounts of the controlling and non-controlling 
interests to reflect their relative interests in the subsidiary. Any 
difference between the amount of the adjustment to non-controlling 
interests and any consideration paid or received is recognised in a 
separate reserve within equity attributable to the owners.  

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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

1. 

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES    
(CONTINUED...)

1.7 

Income tax

The income tax expense or revenue for the period is the tax payable on 
the current period’s taxable income based on the applicable tax rate for 
each jurisdiction adjusted by changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities 
attributable to temporary differences and to unused tax losses.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of the tax laws 
enacted or substantively enacted at the end of the reporting period in 
the countries where the company’s subsidiaries operate and generate 
taxable income. It establishes provisions where appropriate on the 
basis of amounts expected to be paid to the tax authorities.

Deferred income tax is provided in full, using the liability method, on 
temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and 
liabilities and their carrying amounts in the consolidated financial 
statements. However, the deferred income tax is not accounted for if 
it arises from initial recognition of an asset or liability in a transaction 
other than a business combination that at the time of the transaction 
affects neither accounting nor taxable profit or loss. Deferred income 
tax is determined using tax rates (and laws) that have been enacted or 
substantially enacted by the reporting date and are expected to apply 
when the related deferred income tax asset is realised or the deferred 
income tax liability is settled.

Deferred tax is credited in the consolidated statement of profit or loss 
and other comprehensive income except where it relates to items that 
may be credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is 
adjusted directly against equity.

Deferred tax assets are recognised for deductible temporary differences 
and unused tax losses only to the extent that it is probable that future 
taxable amounts will be available to utilise those temporary differences 
and losses.

Deferred tax liabilities and assets are offset when there is a legally 
enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and when 
the deferred tax balances relate to the same taxation authority. 
Current tax assets and liabilities are offset where the entity has a legally 
enforceable right to offset and intends either to settle on a net basis, or 
to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

1.9 

Biological Assets

Oysters are measured at their fair value less estimated husbandry costs. 
The fair value of these biological assets is determined by using the 
present value of expected net cash flows from the oysters, discounted 
using a pre-tax market determined rate.

Changes in fair value less estimated husbandry costs of these assets are 
recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss and other 
comprehensive income in the period they arise.

The details of the Biological assets that are held by the economic entity 
as at 30 June 2015 are provided at Note 10.

1.10 

Property, Plant & Equipment

Each class of property, plant & equipment is stated at historical cost less, 
where applicable, any accumulated depreciation and impairment losses.

Property

Freehold land and buildings are shown at their cost, less subsequent 
depreciation for buildings.

Leasehold property is shown at cost and amortised over the shorter of 
the term of the unexpired lease on the property or the estimated useful 
life of the improvements on the property.

Plant and Equipment

Plant and equipment are measured on the cost basis less depreciation 
and impairment losses.

The carrying value of plant and equipment and their useful lives are 
reviewed annually by Directors to ensure it is not in excess of the 
recoverable amount of these assets which is assessed on the basis 
of the expected net cash flows that will be received from the assets 
employed and subsequent disposal.

The cost of fixed assets constructed within the economic entity 
includes the cost of materials and direct labour.  Repairs and 
maintenance carried out on the assets are expensed unless there is 
a future economic benefit that will flow to the Group which can be 
reliably measured, in which case the value of the asset is increased.

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing proceeds 
with carrying amount. These are included in the consolidated 
statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income.

1.8 

(a) 

(b) 

(c) 

(d) 

(e) 

Inventories

Depreciation

Pearls – The cost of pearls grown by the Group is the fair 
value less husbandry costs at the time the pearls are 
harvested. At each reporting date they are valued at the 
lower of cost and net realisable value.

Nuclei - quantities on hand at the period end are valued at    
the lower of cost and net realisable value.

Oysters – refer note 1.9.

Depreciation on property, plant and equipment is calculated on a 
straight line basis so as to write off the cost or valuation of property, 
plant and equipment over their estimated useful lives commencing 
from the time the asset is held ready for use.

The depreciation rates used for each class of depreciable assets are:

Class of fixed asset

Depreciation rate

Essential Oils - quantities on hand at the period end are  
valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

Freehold land

Leasehold land & buildings & improvements 

Other inventories – including jewellery, fuel, mechanical  
parts and farm spares at the period end are valued at the  
lower of cost and net realisable value.

Vessels

Plant & equipment

Net realisable value is the estimated selling price in the ordinary course 
of business less the estimated costs necessary to make the sale.

2015

5-10%

5-10%

10%

2014

5-10%

5-10%

10%

10-50%

10-50%

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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

1. 

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES    
(CONTINUED...)

Loans and receivables and held-to-maturity investments are carried at 
amortised cost using the effective interest rate method.

1.11 

Investments and Other Financial Assets

The Group classifies its investments in the following categories: 
financial assets at fair value through profit or loss, loans and receivables, 
held-to-maturity investments, and available-for-sale financial assets. The 
classification depends on the purpose for which the investments were 
acquired. Management determines the classification of its investments 
at initial recognition and re-evaluates this designation at each reporting 
date.

(a) 

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss are financial assets 
held for trading. A financial asset is classified in this category if acquired 
principally for the purpose of selling in the short term. Derivatives are 
classified as held for trading unless they are designated as hedges.  
Assets in this category are classified as current assets. Realised and 
unrealised gains and losses arising from changes in the fair value of 
these assets are included in the consolidated statement of profit or loss 
and other comprehensive income in the period in which they arise.

(b) 

Loans and receivables

Loans and receivables are non derivative financial assets with fixed or 
determinable payments that are not quoted in an active market. They 
are included in current assets, except for those with maturities greater 
than 12 months after the reporting date which are classified as non-
current assets.  Loans and receivables are included in receivables in the 
statement of financial position.

(c) 

Available-for-sale financial assets

Available-for-sale financial assets, comprising principally marketable 
equity securities, are non-derivatives that are either designated in 
this category or not classified in any of the other categories. They are 
included in non-current assets unless management intends to dispose 
of the investment within 12 months of the reporting date. Unrealised 
gains and losses arising from changes in fair value are taken directly 
to equity. Investments are designated as available-for-sale if they do 
not have fixed maturities and fixed or determinable payments and 
management intends to hold them for the medium to long term.

(d) 

Recognition and derecognition

Regular purchases and sales of financial assets are recognised on trade-
date, the date on which the Group commits to purchase or sell the 
asset. Investments are initially recognised at fair value plus transaction 
costs for all financial assets not carried at fair value through profit 
or loss. Financial assets carried at fair value through profit or loss are 
initially recognised at fair value and transaction costs are expensed in 
the consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive 
income. Financial assets are derecognised when the rights to receive 
cash flows from the financial assets have expired or have been 
transferred and the economic entity has transferred substantially all the 
risks and rewards of ownership.

(e) 

Measurement

At initial recognition, the group measures a financial asset at its fair 
value plus, in the case of a financial asset not at fair value through profit 
or loss, transaction costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition 
of the financial asset. Transaction costs of financial assets carried at fair 
value through profit or loss are expensed in the profit or loss.

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Available-for-sale financial assets and financial assets at fair value 
through profit and loss are subsequently carried at fair value. Gains or 
losses arising from changes in the fair value of the financial assets at fair 
value through profit or loss category are presented in the consolidated 
statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income within 
other income or other expenses in the period in which they arise.

(f) 

Impairment

The Group assesses at each reporting date whether there is objective 
evidence that a financial asset or group of financial assets is impaired. In 
the case of equity securities classified as available-for –sale, a significant 
or prolonged decline in the fair value of a security below its cost is 
considered as an indicator that the securities are impaired. A financial 
asset or a group of financial assets is impaired and impairment losses 
are incurred only if there is objective evidence of impairment as a result 
of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the 
asset (a ‘loss’ event) and that loss event (or events) has an impact on the 
estimated future cash flows of the financial asset or group of financial 
assets that can be reliably estimated.

If there is evidence of impairment for any of the Group’s financial 
assets carried at amortised cost, the loss is measured as the difference 
between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of 
estimated future cash flows. The cash flows are discounted at the 
financial asset’s original effective interest rate. The loss is recognised in 
the consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive 
income. If, in a subsequent period, the amount of the impairment 
loss decreases and the decrease can be related objectively to an 
event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the reversal 
of the previously recognised impairment loss is recognised in the 
consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive 
income.

1.12 

Derivative instruments

Derivative instruments are initially measured at fair value on the date 
a derivative contract is entered into and are subsequently remeasured 
to their fair value at each reporting date. Gains and losses arising from 
changes in fair value are taken to the consolidated statement of profit 
or loss and other comprehensive income.

1.13 

Impairment of assets

Other assets are tested for impairment whenever events or changes 
in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be 
recoverable. An impairment loss is recognised for the amount by 
which the assets carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount. The 
recoverable amount is the higher of an asset’s fair value less costs to sell 
and value in use. Non financial assets other than goodwill that suffered 
impairment are reviewed for possible reversal of the impairment at 
each reporting date.

1.14 

Foreign Currency Translation

(a) 

Functional and presentation currency

Items included in the financial statements of each of the subsidiaries 
within the Group’s entities are measured using the currency of the 
primary economic environment in which the entity operates (“the 
functional currency”).  The consolidated financial statements are 1.15 

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(CONTINUED...)

1.14 

Foreign Currency Translation (Cont.)

presented in Australian dollars, which is Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd’s 
functional and presentation currency.

(b) 

Transactions and balances

Foreign currency transactions are translated into the functional currency 
using the exchange rates prevailing at the date of the transactions. 
Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from the settlement of such 
transactions and from the translation at period end exchange rates of 
monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are 
recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss and other 
comprehensive income, except when they are deferred in equity as 
qualifying cash flow hedges and qualifying net investment hedges or are 
attributable to part of the net investment in a foreign operation.

Translation differences on assets and liabilities carried at fair value are 
reported as part of the fair value gain or loss. Translation differences on 
non-monetary assets and liabilities such as equities held at fair value 
through profit or loss are recognised in profit or loss as part of the fair 
value gain or loss. Translation differences on non-monetary assets such 
as equities classified as available for sale financial assets are included in 
the fair value reserve in equity.

All foreign exchange gains and losses are presented in the Statement of 
Profit of Loss and Other Comprehensive Income within other income 
or other expenses unless they relate to financial instruments.

(c) 

Group Companies

The results and financial position of all group entities (none of which 
has the currency of a hyperinflation economy) that have a functional 
currency different from the presentation currency are translated into 
the presentation currency as follows:

1.  Assets and liabilities for each statement of financial position  

presented are translated at the closing rate at the date of that 
statement of financial position;

2. 

3. 

Income and expenses for each statement of profit or loss and other 
comprehensive income are translated at average exchange rates;

and all resulting exchange differences are recognised as a separate 
component of equity.

On consolidation, exchange differences arising from the translation 
of any net investment in foreign entities, and of borrowings and other 
currency instruments designated as hedges of such investments, 
are taken to shareholders’ equity.  When a foreign operation is sold 
or borrowings are repaid, a proportional share of such exchange 
differences are recognised in the statement of profit or loss and other 
comprehensive income as part of the gain or loss on sale.

1.15 

Employee Benefits

Short Term Obligation

Liabilities for wages and salaries, including non-monetary benefits and 
accumulating sick leave that are expected to be settled wholly within 
12 months after the end of the period in which the employees render 
the related service are recognised in respect of employees’ services up 
to the end of the reporting period and are measured at the amounts 
expected to be paid when the liabilities are settled. 

The liability for accumulating sick leave is recognised in the provision 
for employee benefits. All other short-term employee benefit 
obligations are presented as payables.

Wages and salaries, annual leave, sick leave and long service leave

Contributions are made by the Group to employee superannuation 
funds and are charged as expenses when incurred.

Share-based payments

Share-based compensation benefits are provided to employees via 
the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Share Plan. Information 
relating to this scheme is set out in note 23.

The fair value of shares granted under the Employee Share Plan is 
recognised as an employee expense with a corresponding increase 
in equity. The fair value is measured at the date that the employee 
enters into the plan and is recognised over the period during which the 
employee becomes unconditionally entitled to the shares.

1.16 

Provisions

Provisions for legal claims, service warranties and make good 
obligations are recognised when the group has a present legal or 
constructive obligation as a result of a past event; it is more likely 
than not that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the 
obligation; and the amount has been reliably estimated.

1.17 

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents includes cash on hand, deposits held at call 
with financial institutions, other short-term, high liquid investments 
with original maturity or three months or less that are readily 
convertible to known amounts of cash and which are subject to an 
insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.

1.18 

Revenue recognition

Revenue is measured at the fair value of the consideration received 
or receivable. Amounts disclosed as revenue are net of returns, trade 
allowances, rebates and amounts collected on behalf of third parties.

Revenue is recognised to the extent that it is probable that the 
economic benefits will flow to the entity and the revenue can be 
reliably measured. The following specific recognition criteria must also 
be met before revenue is recognised:

(a) 

Sales Revenue comprises of revenue earned from the sale of  
products or services to entities outside the economic entity. Sales  
revenue is recognised when the goods are provided or when the  
fee in respect of services provided is receivable.

(b) 

Interest Income is recognised as it accrues.

1.19 

Leases

Lease payments for operating leases, where substantially all the risk and 
benefits remain with the lessor, are charged as expenses in the period 
in which they are incurred.

1.20 

 Trade receivables

Trade receivables are recognised initially at fair value and subsequently 
measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less 
provision for impairment. All trade receivables are generally due for 
settlement within 30 days.

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES    
(CONTINUED...)

Any transaction costs arising on the issue of ordinary shares are recognised 
directly in equity as a reduction of the share proceeds received.

1.20 

 Trade receivables (continued...)

1.25 

Dividends

Collectability of trade receivables is reviewed on an ongoing basis. 
Debts which are known to be uncollectible are written off by reducing 
the carrying amount directly. An allowance account – provision for 
impairment of trade receivables, is used when there is objective 
evidence that the Group will not be able to collect all amounts due 
according to the original terms of the receivables. 

Significant financial difficulties of the debtor, financial reorganisation, and 
default and delinquency in payments, more than 30 days overdue, are 
considered indicators that the trade receivable is impaired. The Group 
also considers the long term history of the debtor. The amount of the 
impairment allowance is the difference between the assets carrying 
amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows, discounted 
at the effective interest rate. Cash flows relating to short term receivables 
are not discounted if the effect of discounting is immaterial.

The amount of the impairment loss is recognised in the statement of 
profit or loss and other comprehensive income within other expenses. 
When a trade receivable for which an impairment allowance had been 
recognised becomes uncollectible in a subsequent period, it is written 
off against the allowance account. Subsequent recoveries of amounts 
previously written off are credited against other expenses in the 
statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income.

1.21 

Trade and other payables

These amounts represent liabilities for goods and services provided 
to the group prior to the end of financial period which are unpaid. 
The amounts are unsecured and are usually paid within 30 days of 
recognition.

1.22 

Borrowings

Borrowings are initially recognised at fair value, net of transaction costs 
incurred. Borrowings are subsequently measured at amortised cost. 
Any difference between the proceeds and the redemption amount is 
recognised in the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive 
income over the period of the borrowings using the effective interest 
rate method. Fees paid on the establishment of loan facilities, which 
are not an incremental cost relating to the actual draw down of the 
facility, are recognised in the statement of profit or loss and other 
comprehensive income.

Borrowings are removed from the statement of financial position when 
the obligation specified in the contract is discharged, cancelled or 
expired.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the Group has an 
unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least 12 
months after the reporting date.

1.23 

Borrowing costs

Borrowing costs incurred for the construction of any qualifying asset 
are capitalised during the period of time that is required to complete 
and prepare the asset for its intended use or sale. Other borrowing 
costs are expensed.

1.24 

Contributed Equity

Ordinary share capital is recognised at the fair value of the 
consideration received by the Company and recognised in equity.

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Provision is made for the amount of any dividend declared, being 
appropriately authorised and no longer at the discretion of the entity, 
on or before the end of the period but not distributed at reporting date.

1.26 

Goods and Service Tax (GST)

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of 
GST except where the GST incurred on a purchase of goods & services 
is not recoverable from the taxation authority, in which case the GST 
is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of 
the expense item as applicable; and where receivables and payables 
are stated with the amount of GST included.

The net amount of GST recoverable from, or payable to, the taxation 
authority is included as part of receivables in the statement of financial 
position.

Cash flows are included in the statement of cashflows on a gross 
basis and the GST component of cash flows arising from investing 
and financing activities, which is recoverable from, or payable to, the 
taxation authority are classified as operating cash flows.

Commitments and contingencies are disclosed net of the amount of 
GST recoverable from, or payable to, the taxation authority.

1.27 

Earnings Per Share

(a) 

Basic earnings per share

Basic earnings per share is determined by dividing net profit after 
income tax attributable to members of the Company, excluding any 
costs of servicing equity other than ordinary shares, by the weighted 
average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the financial 
period, adjusted for bonus elements in ordinary shares issued during 
the period. The weighted average number of shares used for the basic 
earnings per share calculation is 339,521,538.

(b) 

Diluted earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share adjusts the figure used in determination 
of basic earnings per share to take into account the after income tax 
effect of interest and other financial costs associated with dilutive 
potential ordinary shares and the weighted average number of shares 
assumed to have been issued for no consideration in relation to dilutive 
potential ordinary shares. The weighted average number of shares used 
for the basic earnings per share calculation is 339,521,538.

1.28 

Segment Reporting

The Group has identified its operating segments based on internal 
reports that are reviewed and used by the board of Directors and 
management team (the chief operating decision makers) in assessing 
performance and in determining the allocation of resources.

The operating segments are identified by management based on 
the manner in which the product is sold, whether retail or wholesale. 
Management also considers the business from a geographical 
perspective and has identified four reportable segments. Discrete 
financial information about each of these operating businesses is 
reported to the board of Directors and management team on at least a 
monthly basis.

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1. 

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES    
(CONTINUED...)

1.28 

Segment Reporting (continued...)

The wholesale business is a producer and supplier of pearls within the 
wholesale market. The retail business is the manufacture and sale of 
pearl jewellery and related products within the retail market.

The accounting policies used by the Group in reporting segments are 
the same as those contained in note 1 to the accounts and in the prior 
period except as detailed below:

Inter-entity sales 
Inter-entity sales are recognised based on an internally set transfer 
price. These transactions are eliminated within the internal reports. The 
revenue from external parties reported to the chief operating decision 
maker is measured in a manner consistent with that in the statement of 
profit or loss and other comprehensive income.

Biological assets and pearl inventories 
These are recognised at cost within the internal reports. 

It is the Group’s policy that if items of revenue and expense are 
not allocated to operating segments then any associated assets 
and liabilities are also not allocated to segments. This is to avoid 
asymmetrical allocations within segments which management believe 
would be inconsistent. 

1.29 

Comparative Figures

When required by Accounting Standards, comparative figures have 
been adjusted to conform to changes in presentation for the current 
financial period.

1.30 

Business combinations

The acquisition method of accounting is used to account for all 
business combinations, regardless of whether equity instruments 
or other assets are acquired. The consideration transferred for the 
acquisition of a subsidiary comprises the fair values of the assets 
transferred, the liabilities incurred and the equity interests issued by the 
group. The consideration transferred also includes the fair value of any 
asset or liability resulting from a contingent consideration arrangement 
and the fair value of any pre-existing equity interest in the subsidiary. 
Acquisition related costs are expensed as incurred. Identifiable assets 
acquired and liabilities and contingent liabilities assumed in a business 
combination are, with limited exceptions, measured initially at their fair 
values at the acquisition date. On an acquisition by acquisition basis, 
the group recognises any non – controlling interest in the acquiree 
either at fair value or at the non-controlling interest’s proportionate 
share of the acquiree’s net identifiable assets.

The excess of the consideration transferred the amount of any non-
controlling interest in the acquiree and the acquisition date fair value 
of any previous equity interest in the acquiree over the fair value of 
the group’s share of the net identifiable assets acquired is recorded 
as goodwill. If those amounts are less than the fair value of the net 
identifiable assets of the subsidiary acquired and the measurements of 
all amounts have been reviewed, the difference is recognised directly in 
profit and loss as a bargain purchase.

Where settlement of any part of cash contribution is deferred, the 
amounts payable in the future are discounted to their present value as 
at the date of exchange. The discount rate used is the entity’s 

incremental borrowing rate, being the rate at which a similar borrowing 
could be obtained from an independent financier under comparable 
terms and conditions.

Contingent consideration is classified as equity or a financial liability.  
Amounts classified as a financial liability are subsequently remeasured 
to fair value with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss.

1.31 

Parent entity financial information

The financial information for the parent entity, Atlas Pearls and 
Perfumes Ltd, disclosed in note 32 has been prepared on the same 
basis as the consolidated financial statements, except as set out below:

(i) 

Investments in subsidiaries

Investments in subsidiaries are accounted for at cost in the financial 
statements of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd.

(ii) 

Share-based payments

The grant by the company of ordinary shares to the employees of 
subsidiary undertakings in the group is treated as a capital contribution 
to that subsidiary undertaking. The fair value of employee services 
received, measured by reference to the grant date fair value, is 
recognised over the vesting period as an increase to investment in 
subsidiary undertakings, with a  corresponding credit to equity.

1.32 

Critical accounting estimates and judgments

The resulting accounting estimates will, by definition, seldom equal 
the related actual results. The estimates and assumptions that have 
a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying 
amounts of assets and liabilities within the next financial year are 
discussed below. The directors evaluate estimates and judgements 
incorporated into the financial report based on historical knowledge 
and best available current information. Estimates assume a reasonable 
expectation of future events and are based on current trends and 
economic data, obtained both externally and within the Group.

Key estimates – Impairment

The group assesses impairment at each reporting date by evaluating 
conditions specific to the group that may lead to impairment of assets.  
Where an impairment trigger exists, the recoverable amount of the 
asset is determined.  Value-in-use calculations performed in assessing 
recoverable amounts incorporate a number of key estimates.

Critical judgements in applying the entity’s accounting policies

– Doubtful debts provision

No provision has been recognised in respect of receivables owed to the 
group for the period ended 30 30 June 2015 or 30 June 2014.

– Impairment of jewellery

A provision for jewellery obsolesce of $823,434 has been recognised 
in respect of the jewellery inventory holdings held by the group at 30 
June 15.  Judgement has been made in determining the amount of the 
provision based on the sales profile and recoverable value of jewellery. 

– Write-off of pearl inventories and jewellery

There was a write-off of $1,386,517 as at 30 June 2015 (30 June 2014 – 
$2,229,674). 

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED...)

1.32 

Critical accounting estimates and judgments    
(continued...)

– Determination of net market value of inventories and biological assets

Agricultural assets include pearl oysters, both seeded and unseeded 
and pearls that have been harvested from the oysters which remain 
unsold.  Seeded oysters are measured at their fair value using the 

net present value of expected future net cash flows attributed to 
this inventory less the estimated husbandry costs.  The fair value of 
unseeded oysters is determined by reference to market prices for 
this type of asset in Indonesia.  Pearls are measured at their fair value 
husbandry costs by reference to anticipated market prices for pearls 
upon harvest. Carrying amount of inventories and biological assets are 
disclosed in note 10.

Key assumptions that have been used to determine the fair market 
value of the oysters at 30 June 2015 are as follows:

30 June 2015

30 June 2014

Average selling price for pearls1

¥12,000 per momme

¥11,000 per momme

¥ exchange rate

Average pearl size

¥93.96:AUD1.00

¥95.52:AUD1.00

0.55 momme

0.60 momme

Proportion of market grade pearls

Discount rate applied to cash flow

52%

20%

62%

20%

Mortality & Rejection rates

Historical comparison

Historical comparison

Average unseeded oyster value

$1.47

$1.32

Sellable Actual Results for the year ended 30 June 2015

Total Weight Sold (Momme)

33,704

28,468

01/07/14 – 
31/12/14

01/01/15-
30/06/15

Total

62,172

Average ¥/Momme

¥10,229 per 
momme

¥12,907 per 
momme

¥11,455 per 
momme

Total No. of Pearls sold

73,424

50,758

124,182

1. 

Average pearl prices are based on management’s best  
judgement of the quality of pearls in the water at year end.    
Atlas expects the percentage of F-ops harvested to increase   
over the next two years, resulting in the harvest of heavier, 
rounder pearls.  Management takes into consideration 
historical averages discounted for potential market volatility 
when calculating the average selling prices for pearls.

Biological assets are valued using estimated future yen rates. Biological 
assets recognised as current assets on the Statement of Financial Position 
represent the estimated value of the pearls to be harvested within the 
next 12 months. The yen rate used is based on the estimated yen rates 
for the next 18 months from Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

1.33 

 Going Concern

The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern 
basis, which contemplates continuity of normal business activities and 
the realisation of assets and the settlement of liabilities in the ordinary 
course of the business.

The net loss after tax for the Group for the year ended 30 June 2015 
amounted to a loss of $8.1m (year ended 30 June 2014 $1.8m profit).  

At 30 June 2015 the Group had a working capital balance of $3.9m 
(2014: $10.2m); $3.5m (2014: $8.4m) of this balance comprised of 
unharvested oysters due for harvest during the next 12 months. 

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As at the 30 June 2015 the Group had a net asset position of $24m 
(2014: $29m); $14.6m (2014: $19.3m) of this balance comprised of 
unharvested oysters.  

Results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2015 were impacted by the 
harvest of smaller than average pearls, which has resulted in a total 
asset value of $14.6m at 30 June 2015 compared to $19.3m at 30 June 
2014. As disclosed in note 10 management do anticipate the average 
weight and sellable percent of seeded oysters to return to long term 
averages over the next 12 months.  

In response to this matter all operations and overheads have been 
reviewed to identify cost savings aligned with a refocus on the core 
pearling business whilst preserving the most prospective of the value-
adding projects.

In accordance with the covenants of the existing facility agreement, 
Atlas was required to achieve an Annual Normalised EBITDA greater 
than $1.5m for the year ended 30 June 2015. The Group has not met 
this requirement. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (“CBA”) has 
agreed in principle to a waiver of this covenant for the year ended 30 
June 2015 and is now in the process of formalising the continuation 
of the existing debt facilities up until the 30 June 2016 subject to the 
following terms and conditions:

-       Atlas will seek to refinance the facility with a new lender on 
or before 30 June 2016 and provide CBA with an update on their 
refinancing progress on a quarterly basis. The current facility limit is 
$5,000,000. As at the reporting date the Company had drawn down 
$3,816,805 (2014: $3,951,715) and had undrawn facilities available of 
$1,183,195 (2014: $1,048,285). The loans can be drawn at any time.
-    Continuation of the existing covenants;

•  Annual Normalised EBITDA greater than $1.5m.
•  Minimum net worth of AUD $18m
•  Ratio of net-worth equal to or greater than 60%

-   Quarterly reporting of the Atlas Group to be provided within 35  
days from the end of each period, including commentary for  
variances to budget +/- 10%.

-   Atlas to notify the CBA of the loose pearl auction results  

-  

within 7 days including relevant commentary.
Principle repayment plan of $1m during the FY15/16 with the  
schedule of repayments as follows:

Date of Repayment

30 September 2015

31 December 2015

31 March 2015

30 June 2015

Total

• 

Repayment Amount

$150,000

$100,000

$250,000

$500,000

$1,000,000

A new agreement is expected to formalised and signed off with 
CBA in September 2015

However, without:
- 

- 

- 
- 

the renegotiation of existing credit and debt facilities of the Group  
by the 30 June 2016;
the international market for wholesale loose white south sea  
pearls maintaining existing demand levels and pricing;
the Group meeting its auction forecasts;
the Group generating profitable operations with positive cash 
flows;  the realisation of assets at amounts greater than their 
carrying values, and/or
the raising of debt or equity 

- 
there is a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt over the 
groups’ ability to continue as a going concern and therefore it may be

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1. 

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES    
(CONTINUED...)

Going Concern (continued...)

1.33 
required to realise its assets and extinguish its liabilities other than in 
the ordinary course of business, and at amounts that different from 
those in the financial statements.
On this basis and considering the options available to the Group, the 
directors declared on page 66 that there are reasonable grounds to 
believe that the Group can pay its debts, as and when they fall due.
These financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to 
the recovery and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts 
or classification of liabilities and appropriate disclosure that may be 
necessary should the Group be unable to continue as a going concern.

2.  

REVENUE FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS

4. INCOME TAX EXPENSE

(a) The components of tax expense/(benefit) comprise:

          Current tax

          Deferred tax

          Prior period under/(over) provision

1,155,519

(634,279)

-

(240,946)

(114,334)

-

521,240

(355,280)

(b) Deferred income tax (revenue) expense included in income tax expense comprises:

          Decrease(increase) in deferred tax assets 
          (excluding tax losses) (note 14)

1,294,338

(1,398,565)

          (Decrease)increase in deferred tax liabilities 
          (note 14)

(1,928,617)

1,284,231

(634,279)

(114,334)

Sales Revenue
      Sale of goods

Other Revenue
      Interest income
      Other revenues
Revenue

Other Income
      Foreign exchange (losses)/gains realised
      Foreign exchange (losses)/gains unrealised
      Foreign exchange gains - financial instrument
      Gain on conversion of convertible note
      Gain on sale of assets
      Grant funds
      Insurance refund
      Write back of dividend provision
      Research and development tax offset
      EOT Crop Revaluation
Other Income

Consolidated

2015
$

2014
$

(c)   Numerical reconciliation of income tax expense to prima facie tax payable:

           Profit/(loss) before income tax expense

 (7,612,809)

    1,458,642

           Tax at the Australian tax rate of 30%

 (2,283,843)

      437,593

11,774,319

15,933,177

           Tax effect of amounts which are not 
           deductible in calculating taxable income:

9,411
334,582
12,118,312

13,333
336,673
16,283,183

591,556
1,119,368
14,245
656,440
1,663
521,768
-
-
752,044
167,104
3,824,188

405,990
-
-
-
-
336,600
16,922
9,768
-
321,999
1,091,279

           Loss of tax benefits on deconsolidation of 
           subsidiary

      202,036

-

           Non-deductible expenses

           Tax losses not brought to account 

           Sundry items

           Permanent Differences (Indonesia)

      374,174

               -

(352,908)
           (528)

           Foreign timing difference no longe recognised

    2,038,871

           Difference in overseas tax rates

           Research and development tax offset  

           Income tax expense/(benefit)

        17,007

526,431

521,240

26,224

(8,923)

(667,992)

(142,182)

-

-

-

(355,280)

           Weighted average effective tax rates

(7%)

(24%)

(d)  Deferred income tax at 30 June relates to the following: 

     Deferred tax liabilities

           Other

(2,147)

-

3.  

PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAX INCLUDES THE  
FOLLOWING SPECIFIC ITEMS

           Fair value adjustment on biological assets and 
           agricultural produce

(1,880,258)

1,312,530

Administration expenses from ordinary activities
Salaries and wages
Depreciation property, plant and equipment
Operating lease rental costs
Compliance and finance
Other

Other expenses 
      Loss on foreign exchange realised
      Loss on foreign exchange unrealised
      Loss on financial instruments unrealised
      Loss on derivative financial instruments
      Provision for employee entitlements 
      Write-off of crops
      Write off of property, plan and equipment
      Write-down on investments 
      Impairment of Joint venture loan
      Share option expense
      Other  

Finance costs

      Interest and finance charges payable

4,442,619
588,557
673,159
821,506
882,136
7,407,977

363,456
569,438
-
-
203,241
-
259,537
245,234
364,067
59,768
155,787
2,220,528

4,226,756
302,686
707,575
571,833
1,006,071
6,814,921

-
971,954
11,964
435,732
(6,290)
(11,982)
-
-
-
-
36,874
1,438,252

473,131
473,131

513,496
513,496

Net loss/(profit) on foreign currency derivatives not 
qualifying as hedges

(14,245)

11,964

           Prepayments

           Convertible notes

           Investment in subsidiary

(696)

128,382

87,999

665

-

-

           Unrealised foreign exchange gain

(261,898)

43,634

     Deferred tax assets

           Difference in accounting and tax depreciation

33,805

-

           Stock

           Accruals

           Provisions

           Unrealised foreign exchange losses

           Unrealised foreign exchange gains

           Other

           Tax losses

           Investment

           Intangible Asset

(1,809,069)

(1,116,863)

21,983

363,499

(117,059)

-

(111,490)

-

(105,977)

(180,228)

-

4,503

30,169

(264,590)

289,172

34,821

-

-

     Deferred tax (income)

(3,192,787)

(306,326)

For details of the franking account, refer to Note 19.

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5.      EARNINGS /(LOSS) PER SHARE

Basic earnings/(loss) per share (cents per share)

Diluted earnings per share (cents per share)

2015 
$

2014 
$

(2.40)

-

0.61

0.57

Earnings reconciliation

Net profit/(loss) used for basic earnings

(8,134,049)

1,813,922

Up to one month

2-3 months

3 months and above

2015
$

2014
$

164,917

163,797

11,205

35,464

43,466

82,062

211,586

     289,325

After tax effect of dilutive securities

Diluted earnings/(loss)

(8,134,049)

1,813,922

-

The other classes within trade and other receivables do not contain 
impaired assets other than those disclosed and are not past due. 

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding 
during the period used for calculation of basic earnings per 
share

339,521,538 297,634,113

Adjustments for calculation of diluted earnings per share: 
convertible notes

-     22,000,000

(c) Other receivables

These amounts generally arise from transactions outside the normal 
operating activities of the Group. Collateral is not normally obtained. 

(d) Foreign exchange and interest rate risk

Weighted average number of potential ordinary shares 
outstanding during the period used for calculation of diluted 
earnings per share

339,521,538 319,634,113

The Group’s exposure to interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk in 
relation to trade and other receivables is disclosed in note 32.

Diluted earnings per share is calculated after taking into consideration all 
options and any other securities that were on issue that remain unconverted at 
30 June 2015 as potential ordinary shares which may have a dilutive effect on 
the profit of the Consolidated Group.

Ordinary shares issued to employees under the Employee Share Plan are 
considered to be potential ordinary shares and have been included in the 
determination of diluted earnings per share to the extent that they are dilutive.

6.  

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

(e) Fair value and credit risk

Due to the short term nature of these receivables, their carrying 
amount is assumed to approximate their fair value. 

The maximum exposure to credit risk at the reporting date is the 
carrying amount of each class of receivables mentioned above. Refer 
to note 32 for more information on the risk management policy of the 
Group and the credit quality of the entity’s trade receivables.

Cash at bank

Interest rate risk exposure

2015
$

2014
$

2,632,311

1,665,207

2,632,311

1,665,207

8.  

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Derivative financial assets

    Forward foreign exchange contracts 

14,245

-

2015
$

2014
$

The Group’s exposure to interest rate risk is disclosed in note 32. The 
maximum exposure to credit risk at the reporting date is the carrying 
amount of each class of cash and cash equivalents mentioned above.

Derivative financial liabilities

    Forward foreign exchange contracts

    Convertible notes

Cash not available for use

(a) Instruments used by the Group

-

-

-

26,443

825,880

852,323

The Group has cash held as a guarantee as part of their obligations 
under their lease agreement totalling $100,000 (2014: $112,153).

7.  

TRADE & OTHER RECEIVABLES

The Group is party to derivative financial instruments in the normal 
course of business in order to hedge a proportion of the exposure to 
fluctuations in foreign exchange rates in accordance with the Groups 
financial risk policies (refer note 32).

CURRENT

Trade receivables

Sundry debtors & prepayments

(a) Impaired  trade receivables

2015

$

2014

$

236,146

2,339,893

325,875

681,092

562,021

3,020,985

Derivative financial assets and liabilities comprise forward exchange 
contracts and an embedded derivative in the convertible note 
agreements (refer to note 16 for convertible note terms). Gains and losses 
arising from changes in fair value of foreign exchange hedging contracts 
and convertible notes are recognised in the statement of profit or loss 
and other comprehensive income in the period in which they arise.  

There were no impaired trade receivables for the group during the 
period ended 30 June 2015 or 30 June 2014.

(b) Past due but not impaired

As at 30 June 2015, trade receivables of $211,586 (2014: $289,325) were 
past due but not impaired in the Group. Within the Group these relate 
to a small number of independent customers for whom there is no 
recent history of default. Given the past history with this customer no 
impairment has been recognised in the financial period. The ageing 
analysis of these trade receivables is as follows:

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The Groups operating expenses mainly consist of materials and services 
purchased in Indonesian Rupiah. During the period ended 30 June 
2015 the Group did not enter into any forward exchange contracts 
to purchase Indonesian Rupiah. The sale of pearls is denominated in 
Japanese Yen and so the Group has entered into forward exchange 
contracts and options to sell Japanese Yen and receive Australian Dollars.

See note 1.12 for details of accounting policy in relation to derivatives.

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8.  

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (CONTINUED...)

(b) Risk exposures

During the period ended 30 June 2015, the Group harvested 296,040 
(2014: 272,479) pearls.  A reconciliation of the movement in the fair 
market value of the oysters during the period is reflected as follows:

Information about the Group’s exposure to credit risk, foreign exchange 
risk and interest rate risk is provided in note 32.

Oysters

Carrying amount at beginning of the period

2015
$
19,344,256

2014
$

17,022,380

9.  

INVENTORIES

CURRENT

Pearls – at fair value

2015
$

2014
$

904,501

1,067,815

Value of new juvenile oysters recognised into stock

853,897

3,198,017

Increase in value of stock from change in pearl oyster 
development

10,066,990

13,808,040

Decrease in value through mortality

(5,005,697)

(5,182,524)

Decrease in value of Agriculture asset from harvest of pearls

(7,274,985)

(8,329,108)

Essential oil finished products – at cost

-

1,350,428

Gain/(Loss) from changes to fair value less estimated 
husbandry costs

2,616,673

2,935,950

Exchange adjustment

-

Carrying amount at end of the period

(5,489,228)

1,971,114

2,059,092

(3,143,663)

14,554,325

19,344,256

Other – at cost

Jewellery

Jewellery Obsolescence provision

Pearl Meat

Mother of  Pearl

Farm Consumables & Fuel

Cosmetics

NON CURRENT

Nuclei – at cost

TOTAL INVENTORY

(823,434)

3,172

30,302

255,652

43,361

15,658

332,693

263,560

147,910

2,125,726

3,695,770

3,030,227

6,114,013

173,510

132,093

3,203,737

6,246,106

Inventories write-off expense of $1,386,517 (2014: $2,229,675) is included 
on the face of the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive 
income.  Write-off of pearls occurred when reviewing net realisable value 
versus cost.

10.  

BIOLOGICAL ASSETS

CURRENT

Oysters – at fair value

Crops – at fair value

NON CURRENT

Oysters – at fair value

Crops – at fair value

2015 
$

2014 
$

3,565,680

8,414,231

-

-

3,565,680

8,414,231

10,988,645

10,930,028

-

1,081,385

10,988,645

12,011,412

Total Biological Assets

14,554,325

20,425,643

During the period ended 30 June 2015 no significant events occurred 
which impacted on oyster mortalities.  

The details of the Biological Assets that are held by the Group as at 
period end are as follows:

Sensitivity analysis - Oysters

The mark to market estimation of the value of the biological assets 
(Oysters) is determined using the net present value of expected 
future net cash flows attributed to this inventory less the estimated 
husbandry costs. The primary assumptions used for this estimate are 
shown in Note 1.32. The following table summarises the potential 
impact of changes in the key non-production related variables:

Selling Price (¥/momme)

-10%

No Change

+10%

¥10,909 
(Sellable Grade)
¥1,273 
(Commercial Grade)

¥12,000 
(Sellable Grade)
¥1,400 
(Commercial Grade)

¥13,200 
(Sellable Grade)
¥1,540 
(Commercial Grade)

Discount rate

Profit $

Profit $

Profit $

22%

20%

18.18%

($1,934,416)

($1,774,589)

($1,624,443)

($188,921)

              -

$177,526

$1,716,910

$1,937,596

$2,145,016

Selling Price (¥/momme)

-10%

No Change

+10%

¥10,909 
(Sellable Grade)
¥1,273 
(Commercial Grade)

¥12,000 
(Sellable Grade)
¥1,400 
(Commercial Grade)

¥13,200 
(Sellable Grade)
¥1,540 
(Commercial Grade)

FX rate

 ¥103.36

 ¥93.96

¥85.42

Profit $

Profit $

Profit $

($3,335,195)

($1,761,270)

($37,338)

($1,731,299)

              -

$1,896,306

$33,167

$1,937,596

$4,023,532

Marketable Grade

-10%

No Change

+10%

48% 
(Sellable Grade)
52% 
(Commercial Grade)

52% 
(Sellable Grade)
48%  
(Commercial Grade)

58% 
(Sellable Grade)
42% 
(Commercial Grade)

Nature: Oysters (Pinctada maxima)

2015

No.

2014

No.

Av. Weight

Profit $

Profit $

Profit $

0.60

0.55

0.50

$416,512

($1,376,036)

($3,005,625)

$1,937,596

              -

($1,761,451)

$3,610,789

$1,513,640

($392,859)

Quantity held within the Group operations:-

Juvenile and mature oysters which are not seeded

1,872,916

2,060,121

Nucleated oysters

750,954

727,793

2,623,870

2,787,914

The Group is exposed to financial risk in respect of its involvement 
in primary production which consists of the breeding and rearing of 
oysters for the purpose of producing pearls.  The primary financial risk 
associated with this activity occurs due to the length of time between 
the expenditure of cash in relation to the operation of the farm and the 

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10.  

BIOLOGICAL ASSETS  (CONTINUED...)

harvesting of the pearls and realisation of cash receipts from the sales 
to third parties. The Group ensures that it maintains sufficient working 
capital to ensure that it can sustain its operation through any delays in 
cash flow that may be reasonably foreseen.

Included in Pearling project land (leasehold and freehold) and 
buildings is $317,680 (2014 - $311,560) which represents construction 
of buildings in progress at cost.

Reconciliations of the carrying amount for each class of property, plant 
and equipment are set out below:

Level 3 analysis:

The finance and operations departments undertake the valuation of the 
oysters. The calculations are considered to be level 3 fair values. The data 
is taken from internal management reporting and work completed by 
the executive within the respective field teams to determine the material 
inputs to the model. The inputs below are confirmed with the relevant 
executives and agreed with the Board of Directors every six months.

The main level 3 inputs used by the group for oysters are derived and 
evaluated as follows:

Input

2015

2014

Commentary

Average selling price

¥12,000 per 
momme

¥11,000 per 
momme

Yen Exchange rate

¥93.96: AUD 1

¥95.52: AUD 1

Obtain by analysing sales 
prices achieved and the trend 
analysis of the past 12 months 
of average sales prices.

Based on forward Yen price per 
a financial institution.

Average Pearl size

0.55 per 
momme

0.60 per 
momme

Based on technical assessment 
of expected harvest output. 

Marketable grade

52%

62%

Discount rate

20%

20%

Mortality

Historical

Historical

Costs to complete

$0.80

$0.63

Based on historical data for 
pearl size over the last 12 
months

Based on analysis of 
comparable primary producers.

Based on historical harvest 
mortality rates

Based on historical averages 
of costs to complete and sell 
pearls per momme.

 11.  

PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 

2015
$

2014
$

2,740,519
(1,404,238)
(752,005)
584,276

2,262,932
(1,142,376)
-
1,120,555

1,314,614
(660,424)
(41,905)
612,285
1,196,561

1,037,198
(301,141)
-
736,057
1,856,613

1,394,817
(287,195)
1,107,622

1,135,047
(198,265)
936,782

5,630,093
(3,460,990)
2,169,103
3,276,725
4,473,286

4,261,299
(2,653,420)
1,607,879
2,544,662
4,401,274

(a)  Non-Pearling Assets
      Plant and equipment
      - at cost
      - accumulated depreciation
      - EOT asset delist upon deconsolidation

     Leasehold improvements
     - at cost
     - accumulated depreciation
     - EOT asset delist upon deconsolidation

     Total non-pearling assets

(b) Pearling project
     Land (leasehold and freehold) and buildings
     - at cost
     - accumulated depreciation

     Plant and equipment, vessels, vehicles
     - at cost
     - accumulated depreciation

     Total pearling project
Total property, plant and equipment

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(a)  Non-Pearling Assets

      Plant and equipment

      Carrying amount at beginning of the year

      Additions

      Reclassifications /Disposals

      Foreign exchange movement

      Depreciation

      Carrying amount at end of the year

      Leasehold Improvements

      Carrying amount at beginning of the year

      Additions

      Foreign exchange movement

      Reclassifications/Disposals

      Depreciation

      Carrying amount at end of the year

(b) Pearling project

      Leasehold land and buildings

      Carrying amount at beginning of the year

      Additions

      Acquisition of pearling operation

      Disposals/reclassifications

      Depreciation

      Foreign exchange movement

      Carrying amount at end of the year

      Plant and equipment, vessels, vehicles

      Carrying amount at beginning of the year

      Additions

      Acquisition of pearling operation

      Disposals / reclassifications

      Depreciation

      Foreign exchange movement

      Carrying amount at end of the year

Total Carrying amount

2015
$

2014
$

1,120,555

557,871

(771,007)

919,611

482,805

-

(9,478)

27,814

(313,665)

(309,676)

584,276

1,120,555

736,058

331,293

(157,298)

(204,066)

692,240

128,111

25,457

-

(93,699)

(109,750)

612,288

736,058

2015
$

2014
$

936,782

412,238

925,544

236,292

-

-

-

-

(341,113)

(39,282)

99,715

(185,771)

1,107,622

936,782

1,607,879

1,976,059

915,911

387,319

-

-

-

-

(525,128)

(391,558)

170,438

(363,942)

2,169,100

1,607,879

4,473,286

4,401,275

Reconciliation of depreciation to the Statement of Profit of Loss and 
Other Comprehensive Income:

      Depreciation charge (Note 11)

      Capitalised depreciation charge

      Depreciation charge (Note 3)

      Balance

2015
$

2014
$

(1,273,605)

(850,266)

685,048

547,580

(588,557)

(302,686)

(588,557)

(302,686)

-

-

Refer note 32 for information on non-current assets pledged as security 
by the Group.

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TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES

14.  

TAX

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

CURRENT

Trade payables

ESSP accrual 

Other payables and accrued expenses

2015
$

2014
$

(a) Liabilities

304,744

1,652,259

264,300

17,135

1,116,080

1,472,154

CURRENT

Income tax payable

1,685,124

3,141,549

NON-CURRENT

2015

$

2014

$

225,528

94,060

(a) Amounts not expected to be settled within the next 12 months

Other payables include accruals for annual leave of $1,024,240 and 
$827,853 in the consolidated entity for 30 June 2015 and 30 June 2014 
respectively. The entire obligation is presented as current, since the 
Group does not have an unconditional right to defer settlement.  All 
amounts are expected to be settled wholly within the next 12 months.

(b) Risk Exposure

Deferred tax liabilities comprises temporary differences attributable to -

     Agricultural and biological assets at fair value

756,345

2,636,603

     Prepayments

     Investment in subsidiary

     Convertible notes

     Other

     Unrealised foreign exchange gains

     Total deferred tax liabilities

(b) Assets

54

87,999

128,382

749

-

-

-

-

2,147

261,898

972,780

2,901,397

Information about the Groups exposure to foreign exchange risk is 
provided in note 32.

Deferred tax assets comprises temporary differences attributable to -

     Tax allowances relating to property, plant & equipment

34,864

1,059

13.  

BORROWINGS

CURRENT

Secured

Bank loan

Other bank loan

Lease liabilities

Total secured current borrowings

Unsecured

Other

Convertible notes

Total current borrowings

NON CURRENT

Secured

Other bank loan

Lease liabilities

Total secured non current borrowings

Unsecured

Convertible notes

Total non current borrowings

     Agricultural and biological assets at fair value

2015
$

2014
$

     Accruals

     Provisions

     Intangible asset

     Investment

3,816,805

3,951,715

     Other

     Unrealised foreign exchange losses

122,204

15,518

2,800

61,651

3,954,527

4,016,165

-

-

4,108

994,518

3,954,527

5,014,791

     Tax losses recognised

     Total deferred tax assets

The Company believes that the deferred tax asset relating to tax 
losses recognised is available to be carried forward based upon the 
Company’s projections of future taxable amounts.

(c) Reconciliations

125,036

5,172

89,665

50,503

130,208

140,168

The overall movement in deferred tax account is as follows:

Opening balance

(Charge)/credit to statement of profit or 
loss and other comprehensive income

-

-

Other movements

130,208

140,168

Closing balance

496,135

2,305,204

21,983

-

572,948

209,449

34,821

289,172

145,758

93,287

-

-

262,817

204,777

1,688,968

2,983,306

1,646,647

1,616,478

3,335,615

4,599,784

1,698,387

(1,392,059)

3,192,787

306,326

(2,528,790)

2,784,120

2,362,384

1,698,387

2015

$

2014

$

-

-

905

57,298

57,298

941

15.  

PROVISIONS

CURRENT

Employee benefits

Total current provisions

Number of employees 

Employee benefits provisions have been recognised in relation 
to long service leave for Australian and expatriate employees. The 
current provision for long service leave includes all unconditional 
entitlements where employees have completed the required period 
of service and also those where employees are entitled to pro-rata 
payments in certain circumstances. The amount presented as non-
current represents amounts where an agreement is in place to pay the 
entitlements over a period of time longer than the next 12 months.

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(a) Security and fair value disclosure

 Information about the security relating to secured liabilities and the fair 
value is provided in note 32.

(b) Risk Exposure

Information about the Group’s exposure to risks arising from 
borrowings is provided in note 32.

(c) Convertible Notes

During the year all convertible notes were redeemed for ordinary 
shares. The shares were issued at the lower of 5 cents or 90% of 
the 10 day volume weighted average in line with the convertible 
note agreement. A derivative liability of $825,880 (Note 8) had been 
recognised on 30 June 2014. On redemption of the convertible notes 
for ordinary shares during the year, the derivative liability was fair 
valued. A gain of $656,440 has been recognised at 30 June 2015 on the 
unwinding of derivative liability post valuation of the convertible note 
at time of issue. Refer to Note 16.

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15.  

PROVISIONS (CONTINUED...)

Reconciliation of provisions:

Balance at beginning of period

2015
$

2014
$

57,298

92,037

Provisions released due to de-consolidation of subsidiary entity

(57,298)

Provisions released

Closing balance

-

-

-

(34,739)

57,298

16.  

CONTRIBUTED EQUITY

2015
No. of 
Shares

2014
No. of 
Shares

2015

$

2014

$

Issued and fully paid-up capital 

414,327,191 319,485,425 36,465,656

32,315,473

Ordinary Shares

Balance at beginning of period

319,485,425 281,737,162 32,153,001

30,203,033

Shares issued (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)

94,841,766

37,748,263

4,704,603

2,080,093

Share transaction costs

-

-

(391,948)

(130,125)

Balance at end of period

414,327,191 319,485,425 36,465,656

32,153,001

Treasury Shares

Balance at beginning of period

7,131,027

5,301,616

Acquisition of shares by Trust 
under Plan

Shares released

7,000,000

6,291,051

(3,059,618)

(4,461,640)

Balance at end of period

11,071,409

7,131,027

Treasury shares are shares in Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd that are held 
by the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Executive Share Plan Trust for the 
purpose of issuing shares under the Atlas South Sea Pearl Employee 
share plan.

(1) 
On 10 September 2014, 2,000,000 shares were issued at an 
issue price of $0.05 to a convertible note noteholder, who elected to 
exercise its conversion right and redeem all of its convertible notes to 
ordinary shares. The shares were issued at the lower of 5 cents or 90% 
of the 10 day volume weighted average in line with the convertible 
note agreement.

On 2 March 2015, 7,000,000 shares were issued at an issue 

(2) 
price of $0.05 to a convertible note noteholder, who elected to exercise 
its conversion right and redeem all of its convertible notes to ordinary 
shares. The shares were issued at the lower of 5 cents or 90% of the 
10 day volume weighted average in line with the convertible note 
agreement.

(3) 
On 10 March 2015, 10,000,000 shares were issued at an issue 
price of $0.05 to a convertible note noteholder, who elected to exercise 
its conversion right and redeem all of its convertible notes to ordinary 
shares. The shares were issued at the lower of 5 cents or 90% of the 
10 day volume weighted average in line with the convertible note 
agreement.

On 1 May 2015, 69,123,612 shares were issued at an issue 

(4) 
price of $0.045. 16,074,730 shares were issued to multiple shareholders 
under the fully underwritten 1 for 5 non-renounceable pro rata 
entitlement offer of fully paid ordinary shares. A further 53,048,882 were 
issued to the underwriter of the entitlement offer.

(5) 
On 26 May 2015, 7,000,000 shares were issued at an issue 
price of $0.045 into the Atlas South Sea Pearl Employee share plan. 
3,059,618 treasury shares were issued during the year. Only when 
shares are issued are they recognised in the ordinary shares balance. 

On 30 June 2015, 3,658,536 shares were issued at an issue 

(6)  
price of $0.041 to a convertible note noteholder, who elected to 
exercise its conversion right and redeem all of its convertible notes to 
ordinary shares. The shares were issued at the lower of 5 cents or 90% 
of the 10 day volume weighted average in line with the convertible 
note agreement.

Total shares issued during the year ended June 2015 is 

(7)  
94,841,766 (2,000,000 in September 15, 17,000,000 in March 15, 
69,123,612 in May 15, 3,658,536 in June 15, with 3,059,618 Treasury 
shares issued over the course of the year). 

(i) Rights

Holders of ordinary shares are entitled to receive dividends as 
declared from time to time and are entitled to one vote per share at 
shareholders’ meetings.  In the event of winding up of the Company, 
ordinary shareholders rank after all other shareholders (where 
applicable) and creditors and are fully entitled to any proceeds of 
liquidation in proportion to the number of shares held.

Treasury shares are shares in Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd that are held 
by the Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Executive Share Plan Trust for the 
purpose of issuing shares under the Atlas South Sea Pearl Employee 
Share Plan.

(ii) Options 

Information relating to the Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee 
Option Plan, including details of options issued, exercised and lapsed 
during the financial year and the options outstanding at the end of the 
reporting period, is set out in note 23. See summary detail below:

1.   On 27 February 2014, 7,500,000 unlisted options were issued to 
certain employees and consultants of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd, 
pursuant to the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan, as 
approved by the Board on 24 February 2014. The unquoted options are 
exercisable at $0.0858 each on or before 31 December 2016, subject to 
certain vesting conditions specific to each employee/consultant.

2.    On  4  June  2014,  8,500,000  unlisted  options  were  issued  to  certain 
employees and consultants of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd, pursuant to 
the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan, as approved by 
shareholders on 13 May 2014. The unquoted options are exercisable at 
$0.095 each on or before 31 December 2016, subject to certain vesting 
conditions specific to each employee/consultant.

3.    On  4  June  2014,  10,000,000  unlisted  options  were  issued  to  former 
Director Stephen Birkbeck and 500,000 unlisted options to former Director 
Joseph Taylor,  pursuant  to  the  Atlas  Pearls  and  Perfumes  Ltd  Employee 
Option Plan, as approved by shareholders on 13 May 2014. The unquoted 
options are exercisable at $0.0858 each on or before 31 December 2016, 
subject to certain vesting conditions specific to each director.

4.  On 15 August 2014, 2,000,000 unlisted options were issued to certain 
consultants of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd, pursuant to the Atlas Pearls 
and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan, as approved by shareholders 
on 13 May 2014. The unquoted options are exercisable at $0.0858 each 
on or before 31 December 2016, subject to certain vesting conditions 
specific to each employee/consultant.

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16.  

CONTRIBUTED EQUITY (CONTINUED...)

5.  On 30 June 2015, 5,500,000 unlisted options were issued to certain 
employees of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd, pursuant to the Atlas Pearls 
and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan, as approved by shareholders 
on 13 May 2014. The unquoted options are exercisable at $0.059 each 
on or before 31 December 2018, subject to certain vesting conditions 
specific to each employee/consultant.

(iii) Capital Risk Management

The  Group’s  objectives  when  managing  capital  are  to  safeguard  their 
ability  to  continue  as  a  going  concern,  so  that  they  can  continue  to 
provide returns to shareholders and benefits for other stakeholders and 
to maintain an optimal capital structure to reduce the cost of capital.

In  order  to  maintain  or  adjust  the  capital  structure,  the  Group  may 
adjust the amount of dividends paid to shareholders, return capital to 
shareholders, issue new shares or sell assets to reduce debt. 

The Group has no external requirements imposed upon it in relation to 
capital structure except those noted in note 32 as part of the covenants 
relating to the financing arrangements with Commonwealth Bank.

The above amounts represent the balance of the franking account as at 
the end of the financial period adjusted for:

(i)   Franking credits that will arise from the payment of the amount of   

the provision for income tax;

(ii)   Franking debits that will arise from the payment of dividends  

recognised as a liability at the reporting date; and

(iii)  Franking credits that will arise from the receipt of dividends  

recognised as receivables at the reporting date.

20.  

OPTIONS

The Company had 34,000,000 options granted over unissued shares at 
the 30 June 2015 (30 June 2014 – 26,500,000). The 34,000,000 options 
granted over unissued shares at 30 June 2015 were issued under the 
Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan. Information 
pertaining to the plan including details of options issued, exercised and 
lapsed during the financial year and options outstanding at the end of 
the reporting period, is set out in note 23.

21. 

COMMITMENTS

17.  

RESERVES

2015
$

2014
$

Commitments for minimum lease payments in relation to 
non-cancellable operating leases are payable as follows:

Foreign Currency Translation Reserve

(9,732,299)

(8,658,779)

Within one year

Employee Share Reserve

Total Reserves

682,341

622,574

Later than one year, but not later than five years

(9,049,958)

(8,036,205)

Later than five years

Movements : Foreign Currency Translation Reserve -

2015
$

2014
$

432,468

419,247

1,900,161

1,881,569

-

362,367

2,332,629

2,663,183

     Balance at beginning of year

(8,658,778)

(7,866,003)

     Currency translation differences arising during the Year

(1,073,521)

(792,775)

     Balance at end of year

(9,732,299)

(8,658,778)

Non - cancellable operating leases 
The Group leases premises under non-cancellable operating leases 
expiring in 6 years. On renewal the terms of the leases are renegotiated. 

The foreign currency translation reserve records exchange differences arising on translation 
of foreign controlled subsidiaries to the reporting currency.

Employee Share Reserve -

     Balance at beginning of period

     Movement in Employee Share Reserve

     Balance at end of year

622,574

59,767

682,341

581,029

41,545

622,574

The employee share reserve records the value of equity portion of remuneration paid to 
employees in the form of shares or other equity instruments.

18.           (ACCUMULATED LOSSES)/ RETAINED PROFITS 

Reconciliation of retained earnings/(Accumulated losses):

Balance at beginning of year

Net profit/(loss) for the year

Movement in equity distribution account

Dividends paid

Balance at end of year

19.  

DIVIDENDS

2015
$

2014
$

4,692,532

2,878,610

(8,134,049)

1,813,922

-

-

-

-

(3,441,517)

4,692,532

No dividends have been paid or declared in respect of the 2015 
financial year or the period ended 30 June 2014.

Dividend Franking Account

Franking credits available to shareholders of the Company for 
subsequent financial years based on a tax rate of 30%.

1,278,704

1,278,704

2015
$

2014
$

There are no capital commitments in place in relation to the acquisition 
of property, plant and equipment. Fixed assets are replaced in the 
normal course of business operations and the company does not 
anticipate any material capital outlay for such replacement costs in the 
coming year.

22. CONTINGENCIES 

The 2008 tax audit for PT Cendana Indopearls was completed during 
the prior year reporting period and a liability in the order of IDR 
3,504,206,185 or AUD $350,000 has been assessed by the Indonesian 
Tax Office. PT Cendana Indopearls are in agreement with an amount 
in the order of AUD $50,000 and have appealed the balance of AUD 
$300,000 via the appeal process. A number of attendances at the Tax 
Trial Court Surabaya, Indonesia, have taken place. The final judgement 
from the tax court is now expected, and is due to be received before 
December 2015. 

In relation to the 2007 tax case, an outstanding receivable of IDR 
1,722,574,935 or AUD $170,000 was refunded to PT. Cendana Indopearls 
in May 2015. This was related to interest deductions made from the 2007 
Income Tax Refund which PT. Cendana Indopearls disputed.

The 2012 tax audit of PT Cendana Indopearls is being carried out. The 
review process is still under way with no findings having as yet been 
provided by the tax auditors.

Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd has a bank guarantee with the 
Commonwealth Bank of Australia for AUD$100,000 at 30 June 2015 (30 
June 2014: $112,153).  This guarantee has been taken out to secure the 
rental of the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes corporate offices in Claremont, 
Western Australia.

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23. SHARE BASED PAYMENTS

The Atlas Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan

In May 2006, an employee share plan was established which entitles 
the Board of Directors to offer shares to key management personnel 
within the Group. A total of 1,100,000 shares were issued during 2007 
to six (6) employees including the managing director at a price of 40 
cents per share which was a one (1) cent and eight (8) cent discount to 
the market at the dates of issue being 17th April 2007 and 10th May 2007 
respectively. An interest free, non-recourse loan was provided to the key 
management staff to pay for these shares. This loan will be repaid by the 
employees from the proceeds of dividends that they are entitled to from 
the ownership of the shares. 50% of the shares vested to the employees 
after two (2) years employment from the time of issuing the shares and 
the remaining 50% vested to the employees after they have completed 
three (3) years of employment from the time of issuing the shares. 
Employees are only entitled to the shares if the loan is repaid in full.

1,900,000 shares remain on issue as at 30 June 2015 with debt of 
$375,000 outstanding by employees from the initial loan of $1,063,500 
that was made when the shares were allocated to employees.  Refer 
Remuneration Report (page 22) for details of equity held and loans 
outstanding to Key Management Personnel.

Shares issued to the employees are acquired and held in trust for the 
employees. Shares held by the trust and not yet issued to employees 
at the end of the reporting period are shown as treasury shares in the 
financial statements.

The fair value of shares issued under the scheme is independently 
determined using a Black-Scholes pricing model that takes into 
account the exercise price, the term of the share, the impact of dilution, 
the share price at grant date and expected price volatility of the 
underlying share, the expected dividend yield and the risk free interest 
rate for the term of the share.

The shares rank equally with other fully paid ordinary shares.

Where shares are issued to employees of subsidiaries of the Group, the 
transactions are treated in accordance with the accounting policy at 
note 1.16.

At the company’s annual general meeting in May 2007, shareholders 
approved the allocation of a maximum of 4,000,000 shares to senior 
executives under the employee share plan within three years of the 
approval of the plan. No shares were issued in the current year under 
this allocation.

There were no shares issued under the plan in 2011.  In 2012 the plan 
was replaced with a new Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan and Non-
Executive Director Fee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan. At the AGM on the 
30 May 2012 it was resolved to cease issuing Shares under this existing 
Employee Share Loan Plan that was approved by Shareholders at the 
Company’s annual general meeting in May 2006. 

This existing Employee Share Loan Plan was replaced by a new 
Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan and Non-Executive Director Plan 
at the AGM on the 30 May 2012.

On 30 May 2012, the Atlas Employee Salary Sacrifice Share Plan was 
established. On the 29th of June 2012 506,000 shares were issued into the 
Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust at $0.055 per share. 
Also, on the 4th of September 2012 5,814,000 shares were issued into the 
Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust at $0.05 per share.  

On 15 March 2013 a further 2,931,616 shares were issued into the 
Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust at $0.05 per 
share. During the period ended 30 June 2013, 5,594,000 shares were 
issued out of the Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust 
to employees. Of the 5,594,000 shares issued out of the trust during 
the six months ended 30 June 2013, 300,000 shares were issued to 
employees who did not salary sacrifice shares but were instead issued 
shares out of the trust in lieu of cash bonuses. The total value of the 
bonuses issued was $15,000.

During the period ended 30 June 2014 an additional 6,291,051 shares 
were acquired on market and issued into the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes 
Limited Employee Share Trust and issued out 4,461,640 shares to 
employees and contractors. Of the 4,461,640 shares issued out of 
the trust during the period ended 30 June 2014, 361,298 shares were 
issued to employees who did not salary sacrifice shares but were 
instead issued shares out of the trust in lieu of cash bonuses. The total 
value of the bonuses issued was $23,484.37. A further 1,798,077 were 
issued to contractors who were issued shares in lieu of cash payment.  
The total value settled totalled $98,950.

During the period ended 30 June 2015 an additional 7,000,000 shares 
were issued into the Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Limited Employee 
Share Trust, whilst 3,059,618 shares were issued out to employees and 
contractors. Of the 3,059,618 shares issued out of the trust during the 
period ended 30 June 2015, 461,111 shares were issued to employees 
who did not salary sacrifice shares but were instead issued shares out 
of the trust in lieu of cash bonuses. The total value of the bonuses 
issued was $32,500. A further 1,171,968 were issued to contractors 
who were issued shares in lieu of cash payment. The total value settled 
totalled $76,746.

To participate in the Salary Sacrifice Plan, Eligible Employees are 
required to salary sacrifice a minimum of 10% of their annual base 
salary into Shares. There is no maximum percentage or value cap to the 
amount that each Eligible Employee can sacrifice. 

The issue price for Shares under the Salary Sacrifice Plan will be 
determined from time to time by the Board of Directors (in their 
discretion). For the participants who entered into conditional salary 
sacrifice arrangements before the AGM on the 30 of May 2012, the 
issue price per Share is 5 cents.

The Employee Share Plan is open to Eligible Participants being any 
Eligible Employee; or conditional upon the company obtaining any 
necessary ASIC relief to extend the operation of ASIC Class Order 
03/184 (or similar class order) to them:

i. 
ii. 

any Eligible Contractor; or
Eligible Casual Employee, 

Who is declared by the Board to be an Eligible Participant for the 
purposes of the Plan.  

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23. SHARE BASED PAYMENTS (CONTINUED...)

An Eligible Employee means: a full time or part time employee 
(including an executive director) of a Group Company. 

An Eligible Contractor means:

(a)  An individual that has:

i. 

ii. 

Performed work for a Group Company, for more than 12  
months; and
Received 80% of more of their income in the preceding year  
from a Group Company; or

(b)  A company where each of the following are satisfied in relation to   

the company:
i. 

Throughout the previous 12 months the company has had a  
contract in place with a Group Company, for the provision  
of the services of an individual (contracting individual) to a    
Group Company;
The contracting individual has performed work for a Group    
Company, for more than 12 months;
The contracting individual has been the only member for the  
company for more than 12 months; and;

ii. 

iii. 

iv.  More than 80% of the aggregate income of the company  
and the contracting individual from all sources (other than  
from each other) in the preceding 12 months was received 
form a Group Company.

The Board may determine the terms and conditions of the Salary 
Sacrifice arrangement for which Shares are offered in lieu of that 
Remuneration.

The number of Shares to be issues, transferred or allocated to the 
Trustee to be held on behalf of a Participant will be the dollar amount 
of the Salary Sacrifice divided by the issue price per Share outlined in 
the Invitation. In the case of fractional entitlements, the number of 
Shares to be issue, transferred or allocated to the Trustee to be held on 
behalf of a Participant will be rounded up to the nearest whole Share, 
unless otherwise determined by the Board from time to time.

Shares to be acquired by Eligible Participants under the Salary Sacrifice 
plan are held in the trust until such time that the Shares are fully paid 
for. Shares held by the trust and not yet issued to employees at the end 
of the reporting period are shown as treasury shares in the financial 
statements. As at 30 June 2015 3,059,618 of the shares issued to the 
Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust had been issued to 
Eligible Participants (30 June 2014: 4,461,640 shares).

The shares rank equally with other fully paid ordinary shares.

Where shares are issued to employees of subsidiaries of the Group, the 
transactions are treated in accordance with the accounting policy at 
note 1.16.

The Atlas Non-Executive Director Fee Sacrifice Share Plan

On the 26 June 2012 828,000 shares were issued into the Atlas South 
Sea Pearl Limited Non-Executive Director Trust at $0.05 per share. A 
further 250,000 shares were issued on the 4 September 2012 into the 
Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Non-Executive Director Trust at $0.05 per 
share. All shares have been issued to recipients from the Atlas South 
Sea Pearl Limited Non-Executive Director Trust.

The Non-Executive Director Salary Sacrifice Share Plan is open to 
Eligible Participants, being any Non-Executive Director who is declared 
by the Board to be an Eligible Participant for the purpose of the Plan.

The Company’s Non-Executive Directors will receive a portion of their 
Director’s fee in the form of Shares.

The Company agrees to issue or procure the transfer of Shares to 
eligible Non-Executive Directors, in lieu of the amount of Directors’ fees 
that each eligible Non-Executive Director has agreed to sacrifice from 
their monthly Directors’ fees each financial year.

The issue price for Shares under the Salary Sacrifice Plan will be 
determined from time to time by the Board of Directors (in their 
discretion). For the participants who entered into conditional salary 
sacrifice arrangements before the AGM on the 30 May 2012, the issue 
price per Share is 5 cents.

Refer to Note 16 for movement in share plan, under treasury shares

Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan

At the EGM on 13 May 2014 it was resolved to approve the Atlas Pearls 
and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option Plan. On 24 February 2014, the 
Board adopted the Atlas pearls and Perfumes Ltd Employee Option 
Plan (Plan) under which eligible participants may be granted Options 
to acquire Shares in the Company. 

The intention of the Plan is to reward and to provide ongoing 
incentives to Directors, executives, employees, consultants and 
contractors of the Company.

The Directors, executives, employees and contractors of the Company 
have been, and will continue to be, instrumental in the growth of 
the Company. The Directors consider that the plan is an appropriate 
method to:
(a)  Reward Directors, executives, employees, consultants and  

contractors for their past performance;

(b)  Provide long term incentives for participation in the Company’s  

future growth;

(c)  Motivate Directors, executives, employees, consultants and  

contractors and general loyalty; and

(d)  Assist to retain the services of valuation Directors, executives,  

employees, consultants and contractors.

The Plan will be used as part of the remuneration planning for 
Directors, executives, employees and contractors. Under the plan, 
participants are granted options which only vest if certain performance 
standards are met. Participation in the plan is at the board’s discretion 
and no individual has a contractual right to participate in the plan or to 
receive any guaranteed benefits. 

The Corporate Governance Council Guidelines recommend that 
remuneration packages involve a balance between fixed and incentive 
pay reflecting short and long-term performance objectives appropriate 
to the Company’s circumstances and goals. The Board considers that 
the Plan will assist the Company in structuring the remuneration 
packages of its executives in accordance with the Guidelines.

The amount of options that will vest depends on the individual’s Key 
Performance Indicators. An option which has vested but has not been 
exercised will immediately lapse upon the first to occur of:
(i)   Close of business on the Expiry Date;
(ii)   The transfer or supported transfer of the Option in breach of Clause  

7(a) of the plan;

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(iii)  Termination of the Participant’s employment or engagement with  
the Company or an Associate Body Corporate on the basis that the 
Participant acted fraudulently, dishonestly, in breach of the 
Participant’s obligations or otherwise for cause; and

(iv) The day which is six months after an event which gives rise to a  

vesting under clauses 4(a) to 4(d) of the plan.

Options are granted under the plan for no consideration. Options 
granted under the plan carry no dividend or voting rights.  When 
exercisable, each option is convertible into one ordinary. The options 
expire on the 31 December 2016 and 31 December 2018. 

The exercise price of options is based on 143% (June 2014: 143%) of 
the volume weighted average share price at which the company’s 
shares are traded on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) during the 
week up to and including the date of the grant. 

2015 
Average 
exercise 
price per 
share 
option

Number 
of options

2014 
Average 
exercise 
price per 
share 
option

Number 
of options

As at 1 July 2014

-

-

0.089

26,500,000

Granted during the year

0.066

7,500,000

Exercised during the year*

Forfeited during the year

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

As at 30 June

0.066

7,500,000

0.089

26,500,000

Vested and exercisable at 30 
June 2015

-

-

-

-

• 

The weighted average exercise price per share option during the 
year ended 30 June 2015 was $0.066 (2014: $0.089).

Expiry Date

Exercise 
Price

24 February 2014

31 December 2016

13 May 2014

2 June 2014

31 December 2016

31 December 2016

15 August 2014

31 December 2016

30 June 2015

31 December 2018

Total 

0.0858

0.0858

0.0950

0.0858

0.0590

Share 
Options 
30 June 
2015

7,500,000

Share 
Options  
30 June 
2014
7,500,000

10,500,000

10,500,000

8,500,000

8,500,000

2,000,000

5,500,000

-

-

34,000,000

26,500,000

Weighted average remaining contractual life of options 
outstanding at end of period

1.83 years

2.51 years

Fair value of options granted

The assessed fair value at grant date of options granted during the 
year ended 30 June 2015 was $0.16 (5,500,000 options) and $0.51 
(2,000,000) (2014: $0.20). The fair value at grant date is independently 
determined using a Black-Scholes option pricing model that takes 
into account the exercise price, the term of the option, the impact of 
dilution, the share price at grant date and expected price volatility of 
the underlying share, the expected dividend yield and the risk free 
interest rate for the term of the option.

The model inputs for options granted during the year ended 30 June 
2015 and 30 June 2014 are detailed below.

On the 24th of February 2014 7,500,000 options exercisable at $0.0858 
each on or before 31 December 2016 were issued to employees and 
contractors of the Company on the terms and conditions set out in 
the Explanatory Memorandum ratified at the Extraordinary General 
Meeting held on the 13th of May 2014. The options issued on the 24th of 

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February have a fair value of $0.020. This valuation imputes a total value 
of approximately $151,720 for the proposed Options. The value may go 
up or down as it will depend in part on the future price of a Share.

The Black & Scholes methodology has been used, together with the 
following assumptions:
(i)  Options are granted for no consideration and vest based on the 
individual’s Key Performance Indicators. Vested options are 
exercisable for a period of six months after vesting or the earlier of 
31 December 2016. 
(ii)  Exercise price - $0.086;
(iii)  Grant date - 24 February 2014;
(iv)  Share price at grant date: $0.063
(v)  Expected price volatility of the company’s shares: 60%;
(vi)  Expected dividend yield: 0%;
(vii) Risk-free interest rate: 3.06% 

On the 13th of May 2014 10,000,000 options exercisable at $0.0858 each 
on or before 31 December 2016 were issued to Stephen Birkbeck on the 
terms and conditions set out in the Explanatory Memorandum ratified at 
the Extraordinary General Meeting held on the 13th of May 2014.  

On the 13th of May 2014 500,000 options exercisable at $0.0858 each on 
or before 31 December 2016 were issued to Joseph Taylor on the terms 
and conditions set out in the Explanatory Memorandum ratified at the 
Extraordinary General Meeting held on the 13th of May 2014. 

The options issued on the 13th of May 2014 have a fair value of $0.020. 
This valuation imputes a total value of approximately $214,020 
(respectively $203,829 for Mr Birkbeck and $10,191 for Dr Taylor) for the 
proposed Options. The value may go up or down as it will depend in 
part on the future price of a Share.

The Black & Scholes methodology has been used, together with the 
following assumptions:
(i)  Options are granted for no consideration and vest based on the 
individual’s Key Performance Indicators.  Vested options are 
exercisable for a period of six months after vesting or the earlier of 
31 December 2016. 
(ii)  Exercise price - $0.086;
(iii)  Grant date – 13 May 2014;
(iv)  Share price at grant date: $0.065
(v)  Expected price volatility of the company’s shares: 60%;
(vi)  Expected dividend yield: 0%;
(vii) Risk-free interest rate: 3.06% 

On the 2nd of June 2014 8,500,000 options exercisable at $0.095 each on 
or before 31 December 2016 were issued to employees and contractors 
of the Company on the terms and conditions set out in the Explanatory 
Memorandum ratified at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on the 
13th of May 2014. The options issued on the 2nd of June 2014 have a fair 
value of $0.019. This valuation imputes a total value of approximately 
$164,017 for the proposed Options. The value may go up or down as it 
will depend in part on the future price of a Share.

The Black & Scholes methodology has been used, together with the 
following assumptions:

(i)  Options are granted for no consideration and vest based on the 
individual’s Key Performance Indicators.  Vested options are 
exercisable for a period of six months after vesting or the earlier of 
31 December 2016. 

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23.  SHARE BASED PAYMENTS (CONTINUED...)

Other Share Based Payments

(ii)  Exercise price - $0.095;
(iii)  Grant date – 2 June 2014;
(iv)  Share price at grant date: $0.067
(v)  Expected price volatility of the company’s shares: 60%;
(vi)  Expected dividend yield: 0%;
(vii) Risk-free interest rate: 3.06% 

On the 15th of August 2014 2,000,000 options exercisable at $0.0858 
each on or before 31 December 2016 were issued to a contractor of 
the Company on the terms and conditions set out in the Explanatory 
Memorandum ratified at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 
the 13th of May 2014. The options issued on the 15th August 2014 have a 
fair value of $0.51. This valuation imputes a total value of approximately 
$101,609 for the proposed Options. The value may go up or down as it 
will depend in part on the future price of a Share.

The Black & Scholes methodology has been used, together with the 
following assumptions:
(i)  Options are granted for no consideration and vest based on the 
individual’s Key Performance Indicators.  Vested options are 
exercisable for a period of six months after vesting or the earlier of 
31 December 2016. 
(ii)  Exercise price - $0.0858;
(iii)  Grant date – 15 August 2014;
(iv)  Share price at grant date: $0.11
(v)  Expected price volatility of the company’s shares: 60%;
(vi)  Expected dividend yield: 0%;
(vii) Risk-free interest rate: 3.06% 

On the 30th of June 2015 5,500,000 options exercisable at $0.059 
each on or before 31 December 2018 were issued to employees of 
the Company on the terms and conditions set out in the Explanatory 
Memorandum ratified at the Extraordinary General Meeting held 
on the 13th of May 2014. The options issued on the 30th June 2015 
have a fair value of $0.016. This valuation imputes a total value of 
approximately $90,215 for the proposed Options. The value may go up 
or down as it will depend in part on the future price of a Share.

The Black & Scholes methodology has been used, together with the 
following assumptions:

(i)  Options are granted for no consideration and vest based on the 
individual’s Key Performance Indicators.  Vested options are 
exercisable for a period of six months after vesting or the earlier 
of 31 December 2018. 
(ii)  Exercise price - $0.0590;
(iii)  Grant date – 30 June 2015;
(iv)  Share price at grant date: $0.044
(v)  Expected price volatility of the company’s shares: 60%;
(vi)  Expected dividend yield: 0%;
(vii) Risk-free interest rate: 3.06% 

The expected price volatility is based on the historic volatility (based on 
the remaining life of the options), adjusted for any expected changes to 
future volatility due to publicly available information.

Where options are issued to employees of subsidiaries within the 
group, the subsidiaries compensate Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd for 
the amount recognised as expense in relation to these options.

On the 17 December 2013, 5,251,969 shares were issued at an issue 
price of $0.065 each to Arrow Pearl Co Pty Ltd. Arrow Pearl Co Pty Ltd 
is an entity controlled by Stephen Arrow. The purpose of the issue was 
the reimbursement for the sale of Arrow Pearl Co Pty Ltd pearls at the 
December 2013 auction in accordance with an arrangement to remit 
the proceeds in Atlas Shares at $0.065 each.

At the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 13 May 2014, the issue 
of 4,748,031 shares to Arrow Pearl Co Pty Ltd was ratified. The purpose 
of the issue was the reimbursement for the sale of Arrow Pearl Co 
Pty Ltd pearls at the February 2014 auction in accordance with an 
arrangement to remit the proceeds in Atlas Shares at $0.065 each.

Expenses arising from share-based payment transactions

Total expenses arising from share-based payment transactions and 
option related valuation expenses recognised during the period as part 
of employee benefit expense were as follows:

Shares issued under the employee share plan 

Option expense

2015
$

27,500

59,768

87,268

2014
$

25,016

41,545

66,561

The share based payment expenses arising from the salary sacrifice 
share plan is nil as the plan does not give additional benefit to the 
employees as shares are issued in lieu of cash salary and cash bonus.  
The value of the shares originally issued to the trust is at the value 
sacrificed by the employee under the plan.

24. 

NOTES TO THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT

24.1  

Reconciliation of cash

For the purposes of the statement of cashflows, cash includes cash on 
hand and in banks, and investments in money market instruments, net 
of outstanding bank overdrafts. Cash at the end of the financial period 
as shown in the statement of cashflows is reconciled to the related 
items in the Statement of Financial Performance as follows:

Cash at bank (Note 6)
Balances per statement of cashflows

2015 
$

2014
$

2,632,311
2,632,311

1,665,207
1,665,207

24.2  

Reconciliation of profit/(loss) after income tax to net  
cash inflow from operating activities

Profit/(loss) after income tax
Depreciation and amortisation
(Gains)/Losses on Equity Investments
Share based payments
Foreign exchange (losses) unrealised
Inventory revaluations (losses)
Impairment of JV loan
Derivative instrument gains/(losses) unrealised
Agricultural asset fair value (losses) and inventory write-offs
Decrease/(increase) in trade and other debtors
Decrease/(increase) in inventories
(Decrease)/Increase in trade and other creditors
Increase/(Decrease) in Provision
Increase in taxes

2015
$
(8,134,049)
588,557
202,036
59,767
547,021
-
149,091
(656,440)
6,697,385
2,373,152
454,190
(1,595,637)
139,091
(322,720)

2014
$

1,813,922
302,686
299,971
66,561
971,954
(11,982)
-
435,732
(63,439)
(1,861,060)
(2,275,043)
918,473
(140,834)
(714,236)

Net cash obtained/(used in) operating activities

501,444

(257,294)

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24. 

24.2  

NOTES TO THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT  (CONTINUED...)

Reconciliation of profit/(loss) after income tax to net  
cash inflow from operating activities (Continued...)

As at the date of this report the Company has not entered into any 
non-cash financing or investing activities except as follows:

During the period ended 30 June 2014 Atlas Pearls and Perfumes 
Ltd sold pearls on behalf of Arrow Pearls Pty Ltd. Atlas received on 
consignment approximately $1,750,000 of loose South Sea Pearls 
from Steve Arrow on the 5th of December 2013.  Atlas received a sales 
commission of 5.0% based on the gross value of the pearls.  Atlas paid 
the net proceeds of pearls sales to Arrow less the commission, in the 
form of 50% cash and 50% in shares until 10 million shares were acquired 
(capped at $650,000).  The shares were priced at $0.065 per share.  

Also, during the period ended 30 June 2015, 3,059,618 shares were 
issued out of the Atlas South Sea Pearl Limited Employee Share Trust to 
employees and contractors (30 June 2014: 4,461,640). Of the 3,059,618 
shares issued out of the trust, 461,111 (2014: 361,298) shares were 
issued to employees who did not salary sacrifice shares, but were 
instead issued shares out of the trust in lieu of cash bonuses. The total 
value of the bonuses issued was $32,500 (2014: $23,484). A further 
1,171,968 (2014:1,798,077) were issued to contractors who were issued 
shares in lieu of cash payment.  The total value settled totalled $76,746 
(2014:$98,950). 

During the year ended 30 June 2014, the Company entered into 
a finance agreement with Microsoft to finance a new accounting 
software package for the group Microsoft Navision.  At 30 June 2015 
the balance of the loan was $247,240 (30 June 2014: $92,465). There 
were no other new loans to acquire property, plant and equipment 
entered into during the year ended 30 June 2015.  During the year 
ended 30 June 2015, the Company did not issue any ordinary shares to 
acquire any new investments.

Also, during the year ended 30 June 2015, all convertible notes were 
redeemed for ordinary shares. The shares were issued at the lower of 5 
cents or 90% of the 10 day volume weighted average in line with the 
convertible note agreement. The convertible notes were fair valued on 
maturity and a derivative instrument fair value gain of $656,440 realised 
(30 June 2014: loss of $435,732). 

24.3  

Credit facilities 

As at 30 June 2015, the Company had in place a loan facility with 
the Commonwealth Bank with a limit of $5,000,000 (30 June 2014 
- $5,000,000). This facility has been partially utilised, see note 33 for 
further disclosure. Information about the security relating to secured 
liabilities and the fair value is provided in note 32.

25. 

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

a. 
Interests in subsidiaries are set out in note 28.

Subsidiaries 

b. 

Joint venture

World Senses Pty Ltd was formed on the 29th November 2012 as a joint 
venture between Nomad Two Worlds Global Trading Pte Ltd and Atlas 
Pearls and Perfumes Ltd. 

At 30 June 2015, there is loan balance of $456,015 owing from World 
Senses to Atlas (30 June 2014 - $140,857). This balance consists of salary 
and administration recharges and accounting charges, offset by pearl 
cosmetic products and pearl protein extraction assets transferred to 
Atlas.  At 30 June 2015, there is loan balance of $72,961 (30 June 2014: 
$72,961) owing to World Senses from Perl’Eco. This balance consists 
of pearl jewellery sold to Perl’ Eco by World Senses. An impairment 
of $383,054 has been booked against the loan due to the net liability 
position on the World Senses Pty Ltd accounts. 

Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd acquired in January 2013 as a 100% 
subsidiary. On 20th April 2015 50% of the investment in the entity 
was sold to Westwood Properties Pty Ltd. Post this sale Essential Oils 
of Tasmania has been deemed a joint venture and has been equity 
accounted for.

As at 30 June 2015, there is a loan balance of $1,596,815 owing from 
Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd to Atlas. This balance consists of 
admin and expense recharges, and funding advances. 

The parent entity has a 50% interest in Brookfield Tasmania Pty Ltd.  
At 30 June 2015, there is loan balance of $200 (30 June 2014: $nil) 
owing from Brookfield Tasmania Pty Ltd. This balance relates to money 
advanced to Brookfield Tasmania Pty Ltd to cover bank fees. 

Due from World Senses 

Due to World Senses

Impairment of World Senses

Due from Essential Oils of Tasmania

Due from Brookfield Tasmania Pty Ltd

2015
$

456,015

(72,961)

(383,054)

1,596,815

200

2014
$

140,857

(72,961)

-

-

-

1,597,015

67,896

c. 

Key management personnel compensation - 

Short-term employment benefits

Post-employment benefits

Long Term benefits

Share based compensation

2015
$

2014
$

1,325,865

1,258,575

100,828

20,001

27,500

65,119

37,343

1,474,194

1,361,037

Detailed remuneration disclosures are provided in section 4.2 of the 
remuneration report. 

d.  

Transactions with other related parties

The following balances are outstanding at the end of the reporting period in transactions 
with related parties:

Current payables (reimbursement of travel)

Director fees payable

Current receivables (wholesale purchase of jewellery)

e. 

Loans to/from related parties

Loans to key management personnel
Beginning of the year 

Loans advanced 

Loans repaid

End of year

2015
$

2014
$

-

78,900

35,000

31,058

9,000

-

113,900

40,058

2015
$

2014
$

400,000

-

(25,000)

375,000

375,000

25,000

-

400,000

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REMUNERATION OF AUDITORS

During the period, the following fees were paid or payable for services provided by the auditor of the parent entity, its related practices and  
non-related audit firms:

a. BDO Australia

Audit and other assurance services

Audit and review of financial reports 

Total remuneration for audit and other assurance  services 

Taxation Services

Tax compliance services and advise

Total remuneration for taxation services

2015
$

2014
$

102,379

102,379

111,966

111,966

37,919

37,919

51,962

51,962

Total remuneration of BDO Australia

140,298

163,928

b. Related practices of BDO Australia

Audit and other assurance services

Audit and review of financial reports 

Total remuneration for audit and other assurance  services 

Taxation Services

Tax compliance services and advise

Total remuneration for taxation services

Total remuneration of related practices of BDO Australia

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Total remuneration of BDO Australia and related practices

140,298

163,928

27.  

SEGMENT REPORTING

Segment information provided to the Board of Directors and management team

(i) The segment information provided to the Board of Directors and management team for the reportable segments for the period ended 30 June 2015 is as follows:

30 June 2015

Wholesale Loose Pearl

Jewellery

Essential Oils

All other 
segments

Total

Australia

Indonesia

Australia

Indonesia

Australia

Total segment revenue

Inter-segment revenue

Revenue from external customers

Normalised EBITDA

Adjusted net operating profit/(loss) before 
income tax

Depreciation and amortisation

Revaluation of Biological Assets

Totals segment assets

Total assets includes:

Additions to non – current assets (other than 
financial assets or deferred tax)

$

8,697,181

-

8,738,163

(1,715,598)

(2,675,153)

267,311

-

$

9,132,094

(8,875,225)

298,484

770,330

805,565

177,137

6,864,489

$

555,144

-

555,144

(290,162)

46,289

-

4,672,176

18,945,577

1,541,652

$

$

$

592,988

1,589,540

-

592,988

(197,745)

41,807

-

850,314

-

1,589,540

198,507

135,881

56,013

(167,104)

-

(340,106)

(446,009)

232,354

2,075,193

4,379

338,289

314,142

Total segment liabilities

(685,300)

(968,320)

(23,147)

(8,357)

-

$

20,566,947

(8,875,225)

11,774,319

(1,234,668)

(2,519,822)

588,557

6,697,385

26,009,719

2,964,357

(1,685,124)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Included within the net operating profit for wholesale loose pearls in Indonesia is an impairment charge of $nil in relation to the impairment of 
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27.  

SEGMENT REPORTING (CONTINUED...)

(ii) The segment information provided to the Board of Directors and management team for the reportable segments for the year ended 30 June 2014 is as follows:

30 June 2014

Wholesale Loose Pearl

Jewellery

Essential Oils 

All other 
segments

Total

Australia

Indonesia

Australia

Indonesia

Australia

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

Total segment revenue

Inter-segment revenue

Revenue from external customers

Normalised EBITDA

Adjusted net operating profit/(loss) before income tax

Depreciation and amortisation

Revaluation of Biological Assets

Totals segment assets

Total assets includes:

Additions to non – current assets 
(other than financial assets or deferred tax)

12,040,978

7,944,875

555,755

896,076

2,023,581

(17,541)

(7,510,548)

12,023,437

185,168

(374,017)

109,293

434,327

3,074,888

2,892,311

43,167

-

1,971,114

-

555,755

(185,226)

(235,238)

43,123

-

-

896,076

(27,060)

(93,835)

51,967

-

-

2,023,581

422,542

368,088

55,136

321,999

13,181,788

17,966,654

1,192,564

956,946

4,084,381

128,458

563,131

40,034

105,070

397,835

Total segment liabilities

(2,030,664)

(784,221)

(23,001)

(181,392)

(1,027,094)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

23,461,265

(7,528,089)

15,933,176

3,470,312

2,557,308

302,686

2,293,113

37,382,333

1,234,528

(4,046,371)

Included within the net operating profit for wholesale loose pearls in Indonesia is an impairment charge of $11,982 in relation to the impairment of oysters.

Other segment information

(i) Segment revenue - Segment revenue reconciles to total revenue from continuing 
operations in the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income as follows:

Total segment revenue

Intersegment eliminations

Interest income

Other revenues

2015
$

2014
$

20,649,544

23,461,265

(8,875,225)

(7,528,089)

9,411

334,582

13,333

336,674

Total revenue from continuing operations (note 2)

12,118,312

16,283,183

Major customers

A Japanese wholesaler accounted for 12% of external revenue in 
the period ended 30 June 2015 (2014 - 11%).  These revenues are 
attributable to the Australian wholesale loose pearl segment.

The entity is domiciled in Australia.  The result of its revenue from third 
party customers in Australia is $627,605 (2014: $907,756) in relation 
to wholesale loose pearl sales. Revenue for wholesale loose pearls 
from third party customers based in other countries during the period 
ended 30 June 2015 was $8,034,402 (2014: $10,981,121).  83% of the 
total loose pearl sales revenue during the period ended 30 June 2015 
(2014: 84%) was to Japanese based customers.

In relation to retail jewellery sales the above segment reporting is 
based on the location of the sale, whether in Australia or Indonesia as 
the nature of the retail business relies on one off sales transactions with 
customers from a variety of locations.

(ii) Adjusted net operating profit

Segment net operating profit/(loss) before income tax reconciliation to 
the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income.

The Board of Directors and the management team review on a monthly 
basis the performance of each segment by analysing the segment’s 
net operating profit before tax. A segment’s net operating profit before 
tax excludes non-operating income and expense such as interest paid 
and received, foreign exchange gains and losses whether realised or 
unrealised, fair value gains and losses and impairment charges.

A reconciliation of adjusted net operating profit/(loss) before income 
tax is provided as follows:

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(2,519,822)

2,557,308

2015 
$

2014
$

Intersegment eliminations

-

Changes in fair value of biological and agricultural assets

(6,697,385)

-

63,439

11,982

(149,091)

1,325,765

216,375

(533,490)

(794,303)

961,214

(596,160)

Impairment expense

Foreign exchange gains

Foreign exchange losses

Other

Profit/(loss) before income tax from continuing operations

(7,612,809)

1,458,641

(iii) 

Segment assets

Assets are allocated based on the operations of the segment and the 
physical location of the asset.

Reportable segments’ assets are reconciled to total assets as follows:

Segment assets

Intersegment eliminations

Unallocated:

Other

Investments

Joint Venture Loans

Deferred tax assets

2015
$

2014
$

26,009,719

37,382,333

-

-

-

1,597,015

533,159

534

3,025

67,896

3,335,614

4,599,784

Fair value adjustments on biological and agricultural assets

-

(1,763,936)

Total assets as per the statement of financial position

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SEGMENT REPORTING (CONTINUED...)

The total of non-current assets other than financial instruments and 
deferred tax assets located in Australia is $1,253,739 (2014: $2,674,188). 
The total located in Indonesia is $14,658,559 (2014: $14,134,400).

(iv) 

Segment liabilities

Liabilities are allocated based on the operations of the segment and 
the physical location of the asset.

Reportable segments’ liabilities are reconciled to total liabilities as follows:

Segment liabilities

Intersegment eliminations

Unallocated:

Other

Current tax liabilities

Borrowings

Deferred tax liabilities

Derivative financial instruments

2015 
$

2014
$

1,685,124

4,046,371

-

-

-

-

-

4,800

225,529

(94,060)

4,084,734

5,154,959

972,780

2,901,397

Total liabilities as per the statement of financial position

6,968,167

12,013,467

(v) 

Normalised EBITDA reconciliation

Net profit/(loss) before tax

Finance/Interest (rec)/paid

Depreciation/Amortisation

FX (gain)/loss

Agriculture standard revaluation

Inventory write-off

Other non-operating (income)/expense

Gain on derivative instruments

Normalised EBITDA

28. SUBSIDIARIES

2015 
$

2014
$

(7,612,809)

1,458,642

397,426

588,557

(792,275)

6,697,385

149,091

(5,603)

(656,440)

470,755

302,686

577,928

(63,439)

(11,982)

299,971

435,732

(1,234,668)

3,470,313

The consolidated financial statements incorporate the assets, liabilities 
and results of the following subsidiaries in accordance with the 
accounting policy described in note 1.6.

Name of entity

Class of 
shares

Percentage 
owned

Percentage 
owned

30 June 
2015

30 June 
2014

Place of 
incorporation

Perl’Eco Pty Ltd(1)

Tansim Pty Ltd 

P.T. Cendana Indopearls

Aspirasi Satria Sdn Bhd

Essential Oils of Tasmania (2)

Ord

Ord

Ord

Ord

Ord

100%

100%

100%

100%

-

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

Australia

Australia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Australia

(1) 

Previously named Sharcon Pty Ltd 

Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd was acquired on 15 January 2013. 
On 20 April 2015 50% of Essential Oils of Tasmania Ltd was sold to 
Westwood Properties Ltd. Hence, it is no longer consolidation due to to 
the relinquishment of control of the entity. The investment in Essential 
Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd is now equity accounted for as a joint venture.

The ultimate parent entity, Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd, is 
incorporated in Australia.

29.  

NON-CURRENT ASSETS – INVESTMENTS ACCOUNTED  
FOR USING THE EQUITY METHOD

Share in World Senses joint venture partnership (note 30)

Share in Brookfield Tasmania joint venture partnership

Share in Essential Oils of Tasmania joint venture partnership

2015
$

2014
$

-

-

292,940

292,940

-

3,025

-

3,025

30. 

INTERESTS IN JOINT VENTURES

Joint venture  

(a) 
The parent entity has a 50% interest in World Senses Pty Ltd, which 
is a resident in Australia and the principal activity of which is the 
commercialisation of Atlas and Essential Oils of Tasmania’s R&D, 
products and export markets.  

The parent entity has a 50% interest in Brookfield Tasmania Pty Ltd, 
which is a resident in Australia and the principal activity of which is to 
develop a manufacturing and tourism facility.

The parent entity has a 50% interest in Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd, 
which is a resident in Australia and the principal activity of which is to 
grow and produce essential oils. 

The interest in World Senses Pty Ltd and Essential Oils of Tasmania 
Pty Ltd is accounted for in the financial statements using the equity 
method of accounting (refer to note 29). The joint venture is unlisted 
hence no quoted fair value is disclosed. Information regarding to the 
joint venture is set out below. 

World Senses

Joint Ventures’ assets and liabilities
Current assets
Non-current assets
Total assets

Current liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Total liabilities

Net assets

Joint Venture’s revenues, expenses and results
Revenues
Expenses
Loss before income tax

Reconciliation to carrying value
Opening net asset 1 July 
Profit/(loss) for the period
Closing net assets

Group’s share in %
Group share in $ 
Carrying value

2015
$

2014
$

294,262
441,333
735,595

40,490
1,145,134
1,185,624

294,366
257,118
551,484

41,754
529,808
571,562

(450,029)

(20,078)

-
(613,999)
(613,999)

113,098
  (970,158)
(857,060)

(20,078)
(429,951)
(450,029)

50%
(214,975)
-

580,183
(600,261)
(20,078)

50%
(300,131)
-

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30. 

INTERESTS IN JOINT VENTURES (CONTINUED...)

(b) Contingent liabilities

2015
$

2014
$

The parent entity did not have any contingent liabilities as at 30 June 
2015 or 30 June 2014.

Essential Oils of Tasmania

Joint Ventures’ assets and liabilities
Current assets
Non-current assets
Total assets

Current liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Total liabilities

Net assets

Joint Venture’s revenues, expenses and results
Revenues
Expenses
Profit before income tax

Reconciliation to carrying value
Opening net asset 1 July 
Profit/(loss) for the period
Closing net assets

Group’s share in %
Group share in $ 
Carrying value

Share of equity accounted investment
Profit before income tax
Income tax
Profit after tax

Profit for the period to 20 April 2015
Profit post sale of interest

2,903,227
1,843,737
4,746,964

1,106,322
3,054,762
4,161,084

585,880

2,142,671
(1,789,035)
353,636

-
585,878
585,878

50%
292,940
292,940

353,636
32,380
386,016

360,137
25,879

12,940

Group share of Profit 
(b) 

Contingent liabilities relating to joint ventures

Each of the partners in World Senses Pty Ltd are jointly and severally 
liable for the debts of the joint venture. The assets of the joint venture 
do not exceed its’ debts.

Each of the partners in Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd are jointly and 
severally liable for the debts of the joint venture. The assets of the joint 
venture do not exceed its’ debts.

There have been no legal claims lodged against the joint ventures. The 
joint ventures do not have any contingent liabilities in respect of a legal 
claim lodged against the joint venture.

31. 

PARENT ENTITY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

(a) Summary financial information

The individual financial statements for the parent entity show the 
following aggregate amounts:

Statement of financial position
Current assets
Total assets
Current liabilities
Total liabilities

Shareholders equity
Issued capital
Reserves
Share-based payment reserve
 (Accumulated losses)

2015
$

2014
$

3,484,479
27,541,788
7,482,837
5,367,163

36,465,658
-
682,341
(12,158,169)
24,989,830

4,419,122
24,800,754
7,159,650
5,044,219

32,153,002
-
622,574
(9,714,552)
23,061,024

(Loss ) for the period

(2,815,205)

(3,304,489)

Total comprehensive (loss)

(2,815,205)

(3,304,489)

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The parent entity did not provide financial guarantees during the 
period (2014: Nil).

32.  

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

The Group’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: market 
risk (including currency risk, interest rate risk and price risk), credit 
risk and liquidity risk. The Group’s overall risk management program 
focuses on the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to 
minimise potential adverse effects on the financial performance of the 
Group. The Group uses derivative financial instruments such as foreign 
exchange contracts and options to hedge certain risk exposures. 
Derivatives are exclusively used for hedging purposes, ie not as trading 
or speculative instruments. The Group uses different methods to 
measure different types of risk to which it is exposed. The Group uses 
sensitivity analysis in the case of interest rate and foreign exchange risks 
and aging analysis for credit risk.

Risk management is carried out by the Board of Directors.

The Group holds the following financial instruments:

-
-
-

-
-
-

-

-
  -
-

-
-
-

N/A
-
-

Financial Assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables

Derivative financial instruments

Financial Liabilities

Trade and other payables

Borrowings

Derivative financial instruments

Market Risk

(i) 

Foreign exchange risk

2015
$

2014
$

2,632,311

1,665,207

354,845

2,773,752

14,245

-

3,001,401

4,438,959

759,971

2,313,695

4,084,734

5,154,959

-

852,323

4,844,705

8,320,977

The Group operates internationally and are exposed to foreign 
exchange risk arising from various currency exposures, primarily with 
respect to the Japanese Yen, Indonesian Rupiah, US Dollar and Euro.

Foreign exchange risk arises from future commercial transactions 
and recognised assets and liabilities denominated in a currency that 
is not the entity’s functional currency and net investments in foreign 
operations. The risk is measured using sensitivity analysis and cash flow 
forecasting.

Management manages their foreign exchange risk against their 
functional currency. Group companies are required to hedge a 
proportion of their foreign exchange risk exposure arising from future 
commercial transactions and recognised assets and liabilities using 
forward exchange contracts and options under the guidance of the 
Board of Directors.

The majority of the Group’s cash reserves are held in Australian banks 
with AAA ratings. 

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32.  

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED...)

The Groups exposure to foreign currency risk at the reporting date expressed in Australian dollars, was as follows:

30 June 2015

30 June 2014

JPY
$

USD
$

EUR
$

JPY
$

1,210,196

71,281

651

639,550

71,546

(3,261)

(709,238)

14,245

-

(4,058)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1,782,738

565,957

2,706,030

-

(26,443)

USD
$

163,445

256,058

119,872

-

-

-

EUR
$

21,561

-

1,483

-

-

-

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables

Trade and other payables

Borrowings

Forward exchange contracts – buy foreign currency

Forward exchange contracts – sell foreign currency

Group Sensitivity Analysis

Sensitivity analysis is based on exchange rates in US Dollars, Japanese Yen and Euro increasing or decreasing by 10% and the affect on profit and equity.

Foreign Exchange Risk

30 June 2015

30 June 2014

-10%

10%

-10%

10%

Profit

Equity

Profit

Equity

Profit

Equity

Profit

Equity

Statement of Financial 
Position Amount
AUD

2015

2014

Financial Assets

Cash

2,632,311

1,665,207

142,459

Trade and other receivables

354,845

2,773,752

7,950

Derivatives

14,245

-

1,583

Financial Liabilities

Trade and other payables

759,971

2,313,695

(813)

Borrowings

Derivatives

4,084,734

5,154,959

(78,804)

-

852,323

-

Total Increase/(Decrease)

72,373

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(116,557)

(6,504)

(1,295)

665

64,476

-

59,215

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

91,617

226,533

-

(76,368)

(300,670)

(2,938)

(61,826)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(74,960)

(185,345)

-

62,483

246,003

2,404

50,585

-

-

-

-

-

-

Majority of the exposure above relates to the borrowings held in Yen.

Not shown in the table above, is the exposure to exchange movements on the intercompany loan denominated in Australian dollars made to the 
Indonesian subsidiaries. At the period end this loan stood at AUD$6,291,336. The intercompany loans are eliminated on consolidation. 

Cash flow and fair value interest rate risk 

(ii) 
The Group’s main interest rate risk arises from its borrowings. Given that borrowings are all due within 12 months and  are at fixed interest rates the 
Group considers that any fair value interest rate risk or cash flow risk will be immaterial.

Price risk 

(iii) 
The Group is exposed to fluctuations in pearl prices. This product is not traded as a commodity on an open market and as such the price risk 
cannot be hedged.

Credit risk

Credit risk is managed on a group basis. Credit risk arises from cash and cash equivalents, derivative financial instruments, as well as credit 
exposures to wholesale and retail customers, including outstanding receivables. The Group considers the credit quality of the customer, taking into 
account its financial position, past experience and other factors. Sales to retail customers are required to be settled in cash or using major credit 
cards, thus mitigating credit risk.

The maximum exposure to credit risk at the reporting date is the carrying amount of the financial assets as summarised on page 59. For retail 
customers without credit rating the Group generally retains title over the goods sold until payment is received in full.

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32.  

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED...)

All cash balances held at banks are held at internationally recognised 
institutions. The Australian Government has guaranteed all deposits 
held with Australian banks, cash held in Indonesia is not covered by 
this guarantee. The majority of other receivables held are with related 
parties and within the Group. Given this the credit quality of financial 
assets that are neither past due or impaired can be assessed by 
reference to historical information about default rates.

The credit quality of trade receivables that are neither past due nor 
impaired can be assessed by reference to historical information about 
counterparty default rates.

Trade receivables

Retail customers – no credit history

Wholesale customers –  
existing customers with no defaults in the past

Total trade receivables 

Derivative financial assets

Liquidity risk

2015
$

2014
$

-

-

202,050

1,928,369

202,050

1,928,369

-

-

Prudent liquidity risk management implies maintaining sufficient cash, 
the availability of funding through an adequate amount of committed 
credit facilities and the ability to close out market positions. The Group 
manages liquidity risk by continuously monitoring forecast and actual 
cash flows and matching the maturity profiles of financial assets 
and liabilities. Group management aims at maintaining flexibility in 
funding by keeping committed credit lines available. Surplus funds are 
generally only invested in instruments such as term deposits that are 
highly liquid.

Management monitors rolling forecasts of the Group’s liquidity reserve 
(comprising the undrawn borrowing facilities below) and cash and 
cash equivalents (note 6) on the basis of expected cash flows. This is 
generally carried out by the Board of Directors on a Group basis. In 
addition, the Group’s liquidity management policy involves projecting 
cash flows in major currencies and considering the level of liquid assets 
necessary to meet these and monitoring debt financing plans.

Financing arrangements

The Group had access to the following borrowing facilities at the 
reporting date.

Fixed rate

2015 
$

2014 
$

Expiring within one year – Foreign currency loan trade

5,000,000

5,000,000

5,000,000

5,000,000

The bank loan with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (“CBA”) has 
been renegotiated in principle and the facility is due to be extended 
until the 30 June 2016. The new facility agreement is currently being 
finalised with sign off by all parties expected in September 2015. 

The current bank loan is secured by a registered company charge by 
CBA over the whole of the assets and undertaking including uncalled 
capital of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd and its related entities except 
for the shares and assets of Essential Oils of Tasmania Pty Ltd and World 
Senses Pty Ltd. 

The bank loan provided under a Japanese Yen Domestic Foreign 
Currency Advance facility has a facility limit equivalent to 
AUD$1,875,000. As at 30 June 2015 the Company had drawn down 
$698,532. This facility is subject to a fixed interest rate plus the Japanese 
BBSY.  As at 30 June 2015 this fixed interest rate was 3.55%. Under 
the new facility agreement the fixed interest rate is 6.08%. This facility 
expires on 30 June 2016.

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The bank loan provided under an Australian Dollar Bills Discount facility 
has a facility limit of AUD $3,125,000. As at 30 June 2015 the company 
had drawn down $3,120,000.  This facility is subject to a fixed interest 
rate plus LIBOR.  As at 30 June 2014 this fixed interest rate was 5.3%.  
Under the new facility agreement the fixed interest rate is 6.08%.

The facility is also subject to a monthly line fee of 0.05% calculated on 
the facility limit, A$5,000,000. The new facility will also attract a once of 
establishment fee of $23,104 and an ongoing monthly management 
fee of A$4,825.

As at the reporting date the Company had drawn down $3,816,805 
(2014: $3,951,715) and had undrawn facilities available of $1,183,195 
(2014: $1,048,285). The loans can be drawn at any time.

The Company has agreed to the following principal repayments of its 
debt facility with CBA:

Date of Repayment

30 September 2015

31 December 2015

31 March 2015

30 June 2015

Total

Repayment Amount

$150,000

$100,000

$250,000

$500,000

$1,000,000

The Company will be required to meet three financial undertakings to 
comply with the lending conditions imposed by the bank as follows: 
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and 
• 
exceptional items (Normalised EBITDA) will be greater than and at 
least equal to;
$1,500,000 for the 12 months 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016
• 
•  Minimum net worth of the borrower (Atlas) will at all times be 

• 

greater than $18,000,000; and
The ratio of net worth of the borrower to total tangible assets of 
the borrower will at all times be equal to or greater than 60%. 

For the year ended 30 June 2015 the Company has agreed in principal 
with CBA for a waiver for a breach of its 30 June 2015 Normalised 
EBITDA covenant.  Normalised EBITDA for the 12 months ended 30 
June 2015 was a loss of $1.2m, the covenant for this period was a profit 
of $1.5m. 

A new other bank loan (unsecured) provided by Microsoft Finance 
was provided during the year ended 30 June 2014 to acquire the 
accounting software Microsoft Navision.  Further loans have been 
drawn down during the year ended 30 June 2015 in relation to 
Microsoft Navision expenditure.  The liability at 30 June 2015 was 
$247,240 (2014: $92,465).

Lease liabilities provided by St George Bank were effectively secured by 
the rights to the leased assets, recognised in the financial statements, 
which revert to the lessor in the event of default.  The value of the loans 
relating to Lease liabilities as at the reporting date was $20,689 (30 June 
2014: $112,064).

During the year ended 30 June 2015 all convertible notes issued during 
the six month period ended 30 June 2013 matured.  During the period 
ended 30 June 2013 Atlas issued Convertible Notes for a total value of 
$1,100,000. The Convertible Notes had a maturity date of 2 years after 
issue, attracted an interest rate of 6% payable six monthly in arrears and 
were redeemable for ordinary shares in Atlas at any time during the 
10 Business Days prior to the first anniversary of the Issue Date for the 
Convertible Notes; or the Maturity Date of the Convertibles Notes, or 
such other period as agreed in writing between the Company and the 
Noteholder. If the Noteholder exercised its conversion right. 

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32.  

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED...)

the Company had to comply by redeeming all of the convertibles notes referred to in the Conversion Notice at their Face Value; and applying the 
Conversion Amount as subscription funds for the Conversion Shares which are to be issued to the Noteholder at a price per Conversion Share 
equal to the lower of: 5 cents or 90% of the 10 day volume weighted average.  If the Noteholder did not exercise its conversion right the face value 
was redeemable in cash at the date of expiry.

The fair value of bank loans equals their carrying amount, as the impact of discounting is not significant. The fair value of convertible notes is 
reviewed half-yearly to determine the fair value of the derivative liability component.

Maturities of financial liabilities

The table below analyses the Group’s financial liabilities, net and gross settled derivative financial instruments into relevant maturity groupings 
based on their remaining period at the reporting date to the contractual maturity date. The amounts disclosed in the table are the contractual 
undiscounted cashflows. 

Balances due within 12 months equal their carrying balances as the impact of discounting is not significant.

30 June 2015

30 June 2014

CONSOLIDATED ENTITY

Less than 
6 Months

6-12 
months

Between 1 
& 2 years

Between 2 
& 5 years

Total 
contractual 
cash flows

Carrying 
amount 
(asset)/
Liabilities

Less than 6 
Months

6-12 
months

Between 1 
& 2 years

Between 2 
& 5 years

Total 
contractual 
cash flows

Carrying 
amount 
(asset)/
Liabilities

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

Non-Derivatives

Trade payables

Borrowings

759,971

-

-

67,883

3,886,644

130,208

Total non-derivatives

827,854

3,886,644

130,208

Derivatives

Net settled 
( Non deliverable forwards)

Gross settled

-(inflow)

-outflow

33,443

(19,198)

4,200,000

600,000

(4,166,557)

(619,198)

Total Derivatives

33,443

(19,198)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

759,971

759,971

2,313,694

-

4,084,735

4,084,735

4,047,184

1,142,848

4,844,706

4,844,706

6,360,878

1,142,848

-

56,955

56,955

-

2,313,694

2,313,694

55,668

5,302,655

5,154,959

55,668

7,616,349

7,468,653

14,245

14,245

4,546

21,793

4,800,000

4,800,000

1,400,000

2,100,000

(4,785,755)

(4,785,755)

(1,395,454)

(2,078,207)

14,245

14,245

4,546

21,793

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

26,339

26,339

3,500,000

3,500,000

(3,473,661)

(3,473,661)

26,339

26,339

Borrowings, includes the loan to the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), and is classified as an amount due between 6-12 months.  This loan is drawn as a 
bank bill facility which has a maturity date of 30 June 2016.  

(a) Fair value hierarchy

AASB 13 requires disclosure of fair value measurements by level of the following fair value measurement hierarchy:
(a) quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1)
(b) inputs other than quoted prices included within level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly (level 2), and
(c) inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs) (level 3).

The following table presents the group’s financial assets and financial liabilities measured and recognised at fair value at 30 June 2015 and 30 June 
2014 on a recurring basis: 

30 June 2015

LEVEL 1

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 3

TOTAL

$

$

$

$

Liabilities

Derivative financial instruments

Forward foreign exchange contracts

Total Liabilities

-

-

-

-

14,245

14,245

-

-

-

-

30 June 2014

LEVEL 1

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 3

TOTAL

Liabilities

Derivative financial instruments

Forward foreign exchange contracts

Total Liabilities

$

-

-

-

$

-

26,339

$

825,985

-

26,339

825,985

$

-

-

-

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(a) Details of the sale consideration, the net assets disposed of and 
gain/ (loss) on sale are as follows:

Consideration received or receivable:

     Cash 

Fair value of contingent consideration

Total disposal consideration

Fair value of net assets sold 

$

         280,000

-

280,000

(525,234)

Loss on sale before income tax and reclassification of foreign currency 
translation reserve

(245,234)

Reclassification of foreign currency reserve 

Income tax expense on gain

Loss on sale after income tax

-

-

(245,234)

As a result of the sale of 50% of equity in EOT, it is deemed that Atlas 
Pearls and Perfumes Ltd and Westwood Properties Pty Ltd jointly 
control the entity, and as noted by AASB 11, the entity must thus be 
equity accounted for as a Joint Venture in Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd 
group accounts.

The carrying amount of the assets and liabilities as at the date of sale at 
20 April 2015 were:

32.  

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED...)

(b) Valuation techniques used to derive level 2 and level 3 fair 
values

The fair value of financial instruments that are not traded in an active 
market (for example, over–the– counter derivatives) is determined using 
valuation techniques. These valuation techniques maximise the use of 
observable market data where it is available and rely as little as possible 
on entity specific estimates. If all significant inputs required to fair value 
an instrument are observable, the instrument is included in level 2.

If one or more of the significant inputs is not based on observable 
market data, the instrument is included in level 3. This is the case for 
unlisted equity securities. As at 30 June 2015 there are no level 3 related 
instruments in place.

(i) Transfers between levels 2 and 3 and changes in valuation 
techniques

There were no transfers between the levels of the fair value hierarchy in 
the period ended 30 June 2015. There were also no changes made to 
any of the valuation techniques applied as of 30 June 2014.

(c) Fair values of other financial instruments

The group also has a number of financial instruments which are not 
measured at fair value in the statement of financial position. These had 
the following fair values as at 30 June 2015:

2015
$

2015
$

2014
$

2014
$

Non-current borrowings

Bank Loan

Other bank loan

Convertible note

Lease liabilities

-

-

-

-

125,036

125,036

89,665

89,665

-

-

-

-

994,518

1,142,214

1,863

1,863

125,036

125,036

1,086,046

1,233,742

Due to their short-term nature, the carrying amounts of the current 
receivables, current payables and current borrowings are assumed to 
approximate their fair value. 

Carrying 
amount 

Fair value

Carrying 
amount 

Fair value

Biological assets

Cash

Trade receivables

Other current assets

Income tax receivable

Inventories

Plant and equipment

Joint venture

Trade payables

Intercompany loans

Borrowings

Deferred tax liability

Other liabilities

Net Assets

50% of Net Assets

Fair value

$

 195,876

518,214

56,032

85,527

1,472,242

1,509,435

794,619

56,299

(513,085)

(1,672,643)

(866,321)

(303,323)

(282,404)

1,050,468

525,234

33. 

DISPOSAL OF A BUSINESS

Sale of 50% of Essential Oils of Tasmania during year ended 30 June 2015

(b) Financial performance 

On 20 April 2015 the parent entity sold 50% of the issued share capital 
of Essential Oils of Tasmania Ltd (EOT) to Westwood Properties PTY 
LTD (Westwood), a Tasmanian based private entity. Westwood have 
purchased 50% of the shareholding for $280,000. In addition Westwood 
has committed to providing loan funding to EOT of $1.12m to repay 
Atlas intercompany loan balances. $720,000 of funding has been 
utilised to repay existing loans previously provided by Atlas Pearls and 
Perfumes Ltd to EOT, whilst $400,000 will remain in EOT as working 
capital, for a maximum period of 18 months. 

The sale transaction has been undertaken to provide (a) the working 
capital necessary to fund EOT’s crop growing and processing as well 
as necessary capital expenditure, (b) a capable and resourced partner 
with which to progress the EOT business; and (c) allows Atlas remains a 
material investment in EOT and any future success that the investment 
will realise.

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The financial performance presented is related to the period 1 July 
2014 to 20 April 2015 when Essential Oils of Tasmania was a 100% 
consolidated entity of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd:

Revenue

Expenses

Profit before Income tax

Income tax expense

Profit after Income tax

Loss on sale of investment (see (a) above)

Profit from operation

$

1,589,540

1,272,874

316,666

43,471

360,137

(245,234)

114,903

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N O T E S   T O   A N D   F O R M I N G   PA R T   O F   T H E   C O N S O L I D AT E D   F I N A N C I A L   S T AT E M E N T S

A T L A S   P E A R L S   A N D   P E R F U M E S   L T D   A N D   I T S   S U B S I D I A R I E S

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015

34. NEW STANDARDS AND INTERPRETATIONS NOT YET ADOPTED

Australian Accounting Standards and Interpretations that have recently been issued or amended but are not yet effective have not been adopted 
by the Group for the annual reporting period ending 30 June 2015 unless disclosed in Note 1. The Group’s and the parent entity’s assessment of 
the impact of these new standards and interpretations is set out below. The initial application of the following Standards and Interpretations is not 
expected to have any material impact on the financial report of the consolidated entity and the company.

AASB Amendment

Affected Standard(s)

Nature of Change to Accounting Policy

Application Date 
of Standard*

Application 
Date for Group

AASB 9 

Financial Instruments

Changes to classification and measurement requirements of financial 
instruments.

1 Jan 18

1 July 18

AASB 15

Revenue from Contracts with 
Customers

Revenue will be recognised when control of the goods or services is transferred, 
rather than on transfer of risks and rewards as is currently the case under IAS 18 
Revenue. 

1 Jan 17

1 July 17

Any other amendments are not applicable to the Group and therefore have no impact.

35. EVENTS OCCURRING AFTER THE REPORTING PERIOD

On the 1st of July 2015, Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Ltd announced the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer, Ms Danielle Brandenburg effective 
as of 30 August 2015 and the appointment of Mr Trevor Harris as Chief Financial Officer effective 31 August 2015.

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D I R E C T O R S ’   D E C L A R A T I O N

The Directors of the Company declare that:

(a) the financial statements comprising the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, statement of financial position, statement 
of cash flows, statement of changes in equity and accompanying notes are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001 and :

(i) give a true and fair view of the consolidated entity’s financial position as at 30 June 2015 and of the performance for the period ended on that 
date; and

(ii) comply with Accounting Standards, and the Corporations Regulations 2001 and other mandatory professional reporting requirements.

(b) the Company has included in the notes to the financial statements an explicit and unreserved statement of compliance with International 
Financial Reporting Standards.

(c) the Directors have been given the declarations by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer required by section 295A.

(d) in the Directors opinion  there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due 
and payable.

(e) the remuneration disclosures included in the Directors’ Report (as part of audited remuneration report) for the period ended 30 June 2015 
comply with section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001.

This declaration is made in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors and is signed for and on behalf of the Directors by:

Geoffrey Newman - Chairman 
Perth, Western Australia 
28 August 2015

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A D D I T I O N A L   A S X   I N F O R M A T I O N

ADDITIONAL ASX INFORMATION

The following additional information is required by the Australian Securities Exchange.  The information is current as at 21 September 2015.

(a) Distribution schedule and number of holders of equity securities as at 21 September 2015

1 – 1,000

1,001 – 5,000

5,001 – 10,000

Fully Paid Ordinary Shares (ATP)

128

428

334

Unlisted Options – 8.58c 31/12/16

Unlisted Options – 9.5c 31/12/16

Unlisted Options – 5.9c 31/12/18

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

10,001 – 
100,000

883

-

-

-

100,001 – and 
over

377

11

7

4

Total

2,150

11

7

4

The number of holders holding less than a marketable parcel of fully paid ordinary shares as at 21 September 2015 is 1,019.

(b)  20 Largest holders of quoted equity securities as at 21 September 2015

The names of the twenty largest holders of fully paid ordinary shares (ASX code: ATP) as at 21 September 2015 are:

Rank

Name

Shares

% of Total Shares

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

Boneyard Investments Pty Ltd

Chemco Superannuation Fund Pty Ltd 

Raintree Pearls & Perfumes Pty Ltd

SP & K Birkbeck Holdings Pty Ltd 

Jingie Investments Pty Ltd

Abermac Pty Ltd 

Arrow Pearl Co Pty Ltd

Westwood Properties Pty Ltd

Atlas Pearl Employee Share Plan Pty Ltd 

Farjoy Pty Ltd

Mr Nelson Michel Pierre Rocher

Five Talents Limited

Forsyth Barr Custodians Ltd 

Mr Chris Carr + Mrs Betsy Carr

Coakley Pastoral Co Pty Ltd 

Byron Bay Celebrant Pty Ltd 

Mr Paul Michael Butcher

Miss Kristie Birkbeck

Queensridge Investments Pty Ltd 

Ms Jennifer Michelle Roughan

TOTAL

53,048,882

32,400,000

23,367,228

20,529,202

17,880,240

17,833,333

13,809,707

8,000,000

7,154,976

7,099,412

6,712,185

5,620,000

5,141,636

5,000,000

4,744,717

4,129,589

4,118,992

3,818,536

3,649,072

3,360,000

12.47

5.27

5.49

4.83

4.20

4.19

3.25

1.88

1.68

1.67

1.58

1.32

1.21

1.18

1.12

0.97

0.97

0.90

0.86

0.79

247,417,707

55.83

Stock Exchange Listing – Listing has been granted for 425,398,600 ordinary fully paid shares of the Company on issue on the Australian Securities 
Exchange.  

The unquoted securities on issue as at 21 September 2015 are detailed below in part (d).

(c) 

 Substantial shareholders 

Substantial shareholders in Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Limited and the number of equity securities over which the substantial shareholder has a 
relevant interest as disclosed in substantial holding notices provided to the Company are listed below:

Name

Boneyard Investments Pty Ltd & Associates *

Raintree Pearls & Perfumes Pty Ltd & Associates **

Shares

112,345,667

43,896,430

* 

** 

Includes shares held by Boneyard Investments Pty Ltd, Chemco Superannuation Fund Pty Ltd, Jingie Investments Pty Ltd, T. Martin, T. & W. 
Martin, J. Martin and J & B Martin.
Includes shares held by Raintree Pearls & Perfumes Pty Ltd and SP & K Birkbeck Holdings Pty Ltd .

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(d) Unquoted Securities 
The number of unquoted securities on issue as at 21 September 2015:

Security

Unlisted options exercisable at 8.58 cents, on or before 31 December 2016.

Unlisted options exercisable at 9.5 cents, on or before 31 December 2016.

Unlisted options exercisable at 5.9 cents, on or before 31 December 2018.

Number on issue

20,000,000

8,500,000

5,500,000

(e)  Holder Details of Unquoted Securities 
All unquoted securities were issued under an employee incentive scheme.  Therefore, no disclosure is required in relation to people that hold 
more than 20% of a given class of unquoted securities as at 21 September 2015.

(f)  Restricted Securities as at 21 September 2015 
There were no restricted securities on issue as at 21 September 2015.

(g)  Voting Rights 
All fully paid ordinary shares carry one vote per ordinary share without restriction. 
Unquoted options have no voting rights.

(h) Company Secretary 
The Company Secretary is Ms Susan Hunter.

(i) Registered Office 
The Company’s Registered Office is 47 - 49 Bay View Terrace, Claremont, Western Australia 6010. 
Telephone: +61 8 9284 4249 Facsimile: +61  8 9284 3031

(j) Share Registry 
The Company’s Share Registry is as follows –  
Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited 
Level 11 
172 St Georges Terrace 
Perth WA 6000  
Enquiries (within Australia) 1300 850 505 (outside Australia) +61 3 9415 4000

(k) On-Market Buy-back 
The Company is not currently performing an on-market buy-back.

(l) Corporate Governance 
The Board of Atlas Pearls and Perfumes Limited is committed to achieving and demonstrating the highest standards of Corporate Governance. 
The Board is responsible to its Shareholders for the performance of the Company and seeks to communicate extensively with Shareholders. 
The Board believes that sound Corporate Governance practices will assist in the creation of Shareholder wealth and provide accountability. In 
accordance with ASX Listing Rule 4.10.3, the Company has elected to disclose its Corporate Governance policies and its compliance with them 
on its website, rather than in the Annual Report. Accordingly information about the Company’s Corporate Governance practices is set out on the 
Company’s website at www.atlaspearlsandperfumes.com.au.

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