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2019 
NEARMAP 
LIMITED 
ANNUAL 
REPORT

ABOUT  
NEARMAP

Nearmap Ltd (ABN 37 038 702 907) and its subsidiaries 
(Nearmap or Company) is an innovative location 
intelligence company capturing a rich data set about the 
real world, providing high value insights to a diverse range of 
business and government organisations.
Using its own patented camera system and processing 
software, Nearmap captures wide-scale urban areas in 
Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America  
and Canada multiple times each year, making fresh  
content instantly available in the cloud via web app or  
API integration.
Every day, Nearmap helps tens of thousands of users 
conduct virtual site visits for deep, data driven insights  
– enabling informed decisions, streamlined operations  
and robust bottom lines.
Founded in Australia in 2007, Nearmap is one of the ten 
largest aerial survey companies in the world by annual data 
collection volume and is publicly listed on the Australian 
Securities Exchange (ASX). 
Nearmap now employs nearly 300 people globally and held  
a total subscription portfolio of $90.2m as at 30 June 2019.

NEARMAP CAPTURES IMAGERY IN FOUR COUNTRIES…

UNITED STATES
71% population  
coverage

CANADA
64% population  
coverage

AUSTRALIA
88% population  
coverage

NEW ZEALAND
75% population  
coverage

AI Derived Data Set  
Date: 22/12/2018 
Perth WA Australia 

CONTENTS

Chairman’s Letter  

CEO’s Report  

Customer Stories 

Sustainability Statement  

Directors’ Report  

Auditor’s Declaration  

Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income  

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position  

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity  

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements  

Directors’ Declaration  

Independent Auditor’s Report  

Shareholder Information  

Corporate Information  

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Captured: 03/04/2019 
Port Headland WA Australia

CONTENTS   5 

CHAIRMAN’S 
LETTER

MR PETER JAMES  
NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

Dear Shareholder,

It is a pleasure to present the Nearmap 2019 Annual Report.

A YEAR OF EXECUTION

FY19 has been a year of execution for Nearmap. Following the successful $70 million equity raising in September 
2018, we are accelerating progress in our North American business and reinforcing our market leading position 
in Australia & New Zealand. Achieving cash flow breakeven for the core business was a key milestone with the 
business well funded to execute on the growth opportunities ahead.

After introducing Panorama and Oblique imagery in FY18, our product offering expanded again with the 
introduction of 3D imagery. Additionally, after several years of research and development, we announced significant 
progress in our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities. Nearmap owns this technology – and 
more importantly the underlying data set – and has already engaged with a number of trial customers to better 
understand the commercial applications and value proposition this technology can deliver.

Even with the best in class technological advancements in the last two years, keeping us at the forefront of the 
location content and intelligence market, we are not standing still. Nearmap will continue to invest in research and 
development from our head office in Australia to evolve our product offering and expand our addressable market.

North America is a key focus given the opportunities in that market. FY19 delivered 76% growth in annualised 
contract value (ACV) and North America now makes up more than a third of the Company’s overall portfolio. 
We are well placed to continue this growth. The 2018 capital raising enabled the Company to step up its North 
American plans, with a second sales office opened in New York earlier this year, as well as funding our expansion 
into Canada. The first full Canadian capture was completed and online in June, increasing our geographic coverage 
to four countries. We will continue to grow our North American footprint in FY20 and the sales as well as marketing 
capability to deliver returns.

The Australian & New Zealand business again delivered strong ACV growth in FY19 of 19%. Continued improvement 
in customer retention has firmly established our market leading position, which the introduction of our new content 
will continue to support. We sold New Zealand content to the first domestic customers this financial year. Sales 
momentum there has been underpinned by the completion of our third capture, the point after which customers 
are most receptive to subscribing to our imagery. 

The equity raising strengthened our balance sheet and the Australian & New Zealand business continues to deliver 
strong levels of cash flow generation. The Company remains debt free and therefore in an excellent financial 
position to continue funding execution of our long-term strategic objectives. 

GOVERNANCE

Subsequent to the signing of the FY19 Appendix 4E and Annual Financial Report, we appointed Ms Tracey 
Horton AO as an Independent Non-executive Director. Tracey brings her significant global strategic skills as well as 
extensive ASX experience to Nearmap and will be of great assistance to the Company. Due to increased executive 
commitments, Non-executive Director Mr Ian Morris advised the Board he will not seek re-election at the 2019 
Annual General Meeting and, on behalf of the Board, I want to thank Ian for his valuable contribution to Nearmap 
over the previous three years.

Nearmap seeks to achieve best practice in Corporate Governance and the Company’s Board, senior executives and 
employees are committed to achieving this goal. The Company has a strong Corporate Governance framework 
across its operations and details of this, together with relevant policies and procedures, can be found at https://
www.nearmap.com/au/en/investors/governance. I note that in February 2019, the ASX Corporate Governance 
Council introduced the 4th Edition of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles, which will apply to Nearmap for its 
financial year commencing 1 July 2020. We will review our Corporate Governance framework against the 4th Edition 
and report against these as part of our annual reporting for FY21.

MANAGEMENT

I am very proud of our executive management at Nearmap; they are a strong, experienced, growth-oriented team. 
To continue to elevate the Nearmap presence in both the Australian and North American markets, we appointed 
Mr Harvey Sanchez as the Company’s Chief Marketing Officer. Harvey brings a vast amount of experience to the 
role. We continue to recruit world class talent across the organisation, with a focus on the skills and diversity to 
capitalise on the global market opportunity which Nearmap is unlocking.

OUTLOOK

Nearmap has had an excellent year and we will continue to execute on our growth initiatives. We have a proven  
and unique business model, an outstanding team, world class technology, and capital to support the execution  
of our strategy.

In conclusion, on behalf of the Board and senior management, I would like to thank all our employees for their 
efforts during the year and our shareholders for their ongoing support. As we move through FY20 we will continue 
to invest in our team, our content, our technology and our sales and marketing capability to deliver another year 
of strong ACV growth, and further grow the business’ global leadership position in the aerial imagery and location 
intelligence market.

I look forward to yet another exciting year ahead.

PETER JAMES 
Chairman 
Sydney 
15 October 2019

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER   6

Captured: 17/03/2019 
Queenstown New Zealand

CEO’S 
REPORT

TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS,

Nearmap was founded twelve years ago, in a small office in the western suburbs of Perth, with one idea in mind: 
when you change the way people view the world, you can profoundly change the way they work. Twelve years, 
15 petabytes (that’s 15 billion megabytes) and more than 6.5 million square kilometres later, Nearmap is firmly 
established as a global leader in aerial imagery and location intelligence technology, as well as a great Australian 
technology success story of which every shareholder can be proud.

FY19 demonstrated execution on a number of strategic objectives. First and foremost, our investment in research 
and technology delivered several significant product milestones throughout the year. Geographically we 
accelerated our capture program, our sales and marketing capacity in North America, and consolidated our market 
leading position in Australia & New Zealand. We continued to invest in our people to allow us to become the world 
leader in aerial imagery and location intelligence.

The Company’s proprietary HyperCamera2 capture system, in commercial operation for two years, enables the 
generation of 3D models at scale. For the first time in FY19, customers have been able to access this 3D imagery 
online through Nearmap MapBrowser, opening up new growth opportunities for a range of use cases across 
different industry sectors. Our investment in Artificial Intelligence, which began two years ago, was demonstrated 
at Nearmap Navig8 events across Australia in June and has subsequently been in beta testing with a number 
of customers. I am encouraged by the customer opportunities this technology can offer and look forward to 
commercialising this technology during FY20. 

The North American market remains the Company’s  biggest opportunity. It is a highly fragmented market with a 
number of smaller players who have not developed a scalable footprint. Nearmap, after only five years, is already 
well established as one of the leading  pure-play aerial imagery companies in the United States. With market 
penetration of 1-2%, the opportunity for our business is significant. We expanded our capture program to Canada, 
committing to two captures per year. Canada is similar to Australia, albeit the market size is slightly larger. The 
population is centred around major metropolitan regions, enabling efficient capture – which is important given the 
seasonal conditions. FY19 delivered exceptionally strong growth across the North American business and I look 
forward to this continuing in FY20.

The Australian & New Zealand business delivered 19% incremental ACV growth and increased our market 
penetration. A key factor for this performance has been our investment in customer success and retention. 
Nearmap now has a dedicated team responsible for delivering a better customer experience, with the overall goal 
of increasing retention of our customer base. Churn, namely those customers who left Nearmap after their contract 
period ended, has fallen from 7.3% in FY18 to 5.6% in FY19, a reflection of an improved product offering and better 
customer experience. These investments in the long-term success of our customers ensure the long-term success 
of Nearmap.

It has been quite a journey for the management team and our employees in the last two years. We moved offices 
in Sydney, opened a new office in New York, and almost doubled our team from 160 employees in FY17 to almost 
300 employees in FY19. Behind every great company are great people, and I would like to take this opportunity to 
thank every one of our employees across the world for their dedication to our Company. I would also like to thank 
my executive team for the leadership and guidance they have again provided this year. We have had a stable team 
in place for some time now and I look forward to working with them to support the ongoing growth of our business 
in the months and years ahead.

Technology companies that stand still and stop investing in their product and their people eventually lose out 
to competitors. At Nearmap, we are very cognisant of the need to continually innovate and develop new and 
better technology for our customers. We will continue to invest in research and development across the business, 
delivering technology to grow our revenue and customer base – which is fundamental to the long-term growth 
plans for the business and our shareholders. Our strong balance sheet and disciplined investment approach puts  
us in a great position to accelerate this growth. I look forward to continuing this journey with you in the years ahead.

Captured: 30/07/17 
New York City NY USA 

EXPANSION  
OF THE  
PRODUCT SUITE

•  Investment in research and technology, 

delivering new products to underpin the 
premium offering to our customers

•  Commercial availability of 3D in 

MapBrowser, fundamentally changing 
how people view and shape cities across 
Australia and North America

•  Development of the next generation 

camera system; allowing a higher, faster  
and more efficient capture program

•  Release of a beta version Artificial 

Intelligence product, technology which  
is transformative for our business and  
our customers 

AI Derived Data Set  
Date: 22/12/2018 
Perth WA Australia

CEO’S REPORT   11

ACCELERATION 
IN NORTH 
AMERICA

•  FY19 delivered 76% growth in ACV -  
North America now comprises 36%  
of the group portfolio

•  Geographic expansion into Canada;  
first capture was completed with 64%  
population coverage and first sale  
of Canadian content

•  Continued investment in sales and 
marketing to take advantage of the 
significant North American market 
opportunity, including a second sales  
office in New York

•  Revenues in the sixth year of operations 
were more than double the revenues 
generated in Australia in the equivalent year

3D Scene  
Date: 26/08/2017 
Boston Massachusetts USA

CEO’S REPORT     13

LEADERSHIP 
REINFORCED IN 
AUSTRALIA & 
NEW ZEALAND

•  Market leadership in Australia and New 

Zealand reinforced with 19% ACV growth  
to $57.9m

•  Customer retention significantly improved 

as a result of increased investment in 
customer experience and engagement

•  New Zealand operations firmly established, 
with content delivered to domestic New 
Zealand customers

•  Continuing growth across all customer 
segments, highlighting the resilience of  
the Company’s portfolio

Captured: 17/05/2019 
Canberra ACT Australia

CEO’S REPORT     15

A TEAM OF 
WORLD CLASS 
TALENT

•  Nearly 300 employees globally, a 40% 

increase on the prior year, with the team 
focused on scaling the business to become 
the global leader in location intelligence

•  Executive and senior management team 

strengthened to enable further growth and 
operational scalability

•  Significant investment across product 

and technology teams, to accelerate the 
delivery of new content and extend our 
technology and leadership position

16     CEO’S REPORT 

Captured: 08/02/2019 
Dallas Texas USA

IN SUMMARY

The 2019 financial year has been the transformational 
year we set out for Nearmap twelve months ago. 
We saw record growth in our subscription portfolio, 
delivered a suite of revolutionary new products, and  
saw increased traction in our North American business. 
We also made strong progress accelerating our 
strategic growth initiatives outlined at the time of last 
year’s capital raise.

The ability to create 3D models and the opportunity to 
apply machine learning to our data not only opens up 
additional, larger components of the global location 
intelligence market, they enable Nearmap to provide 
further insight and solutions to our customers. As 
important as our expanded location content offering 
is to our customers, providing them with rapid insight 
from that data is the natural next step in our evolution.

Looking forward, Nearmap is uniquely positioned  
to be the global leader in the location intelligence 
market derived from aerial imagery. Our scalable 
subscription business model, clear technology 
leadership and world class team have put us in this 
strong position. In FY20 we will continue to invest in  
our team, our product and our sales and marketing  
to increase penetration of our content and further 
expand our overall market opportunity.

ROB NEWMAN
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer 
Sydney
15 October 2019

Captured: 12/06/2018 
 Ontario Canada 

Image supplied by Architectus depicts the 505 George St project set amongst 
neighbouring buildings from a 3D Nearmap dataset, for the purpose of analysis.

DESIGNING SMARTER 
CITIES WITH 3D
CUSTOMER STORY

WHO: Architectus
Architectus is a leading Australian design studio of more than 350 architects, interior 
architects, urban designers and urban planners with studios in Adelaide, Auckland, 
Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. Within Architectus, BIM 
Consulting is a technology subsidiary helping clients save money and time, reduce 
risk, and improve quality through better access to real-time data, coupled with 
more effective communication and collaboration.

THEIR CHALLENGE:
Exploration of development opportunities (and constraints) is a key function of the 
business. “It’s fundamentally important that we not only use info that we get from 
Nearmap to analyse and make better decisions, but that we communicate those 
decisions, and tools like Nearmap are really good at enabling that,” says Steve Fox, 
principal at Architectus and manager of BIM Consulting. 
3D modelling is essential to BIM Consulting’s digitisation workflow. Fox explains, 
“We are virtualising things that exist in the real world, whether to be designed and 
built, or whether we are modelling existing conditions. We use 3D modelling at city 
scale, for example, looking at individual city blocks.” 
The urban design industry is undergoing a period of intense scrutiny. “There are a 
lot of compliance measures, with regulations to observe around height, access to 
solar, and distribution of views,” Fox says. BIM Consulting requires a solution that 
makes this information easily discoverable.

HOW NEARMAP HELPS:
Nearmap 3D gives Architectus an accurate digitised reference dataset for solar 
compliance, view impact analysis, development massing and scale studies, and 
3D site visualisations. “Nearmap datasets offer us many advantages. They are 
geolocated, recently captured, quickly procured from the online platform, and 
flexible in the amount of data to be drawn down,” says Fox. “The idea of being 
able to put a proposal up and see the impact of that proposal - that’s a very clear 
use of 3D geometry from Nearmap,” he says.
Architectus exports data directly from the new 3D in MapBrowser tool to analyse 
localised blocks. “We do shadow analysis over winter, to see the impact of the worst 
scenarios; we analyse access to daylight on residential buildings - this is a highly 
sensitive area where you have to provide a percentage of habitable spaces within 
apartment complexes.”
Accuracy in this type of analysis is paramount. “It’s not just about the old way of 
doing things, looking at a mapping platform and extruding boxes and anticipating 
the heights; it has to be much more rigorous now. Nearmap is an avenue for us to 
take that through,” says Fox.

CUSTOMER STORY     21

GROUNDBREAKING ACCURACY 
AND PRODUCTIVITY IN 
LANDSCAPING 
CUSTOMER STORY

WHO: Elite Grounds L.C.
Elite Grounds L.C., is a Utah based full-service landscaping company, offering landscape maintenance, 
landscape construction, sprinkler services, chemical services, snow and ice control, dormant pruning, holiday 
lights, and many more specialised services. With booming population growth in the Salt Lake City Metro area, 
Elite Grounds’ business is blooming - serving hundreds of clients within a 50 mile (approximately 80km) radius.

THEIR CHALLENGE:
Before using Nearmap, Elite Grounds resorted to using satellite imagery which was often old and blurry  
and made it difficult for the team to produce accurate bids without site visits. It didn’t represent recent  
features like buildings, roads and property details like sprinklers and valve boxes, which were too small to  
notice at that resolution.
The Elite Grounds team had no reliable way of viewing the same property in multiple seasons. If the team  
was referring to imagery captured in warmer months, tree coverage made it difficult to measure the property.

HOW NEARMAP HELPS:
Nearmap high-resolution aerial maps give Elite Grounds access to clear, current imagery - a location tool 
it can trust with its biggest projects. Employees no longer spend a full day in the field manually verifying 
measurements. Instead, the Elite Grounds team uses measurement tools within the Nearmap web app, 
MapBrowser, to prepare bids from the office or anywhere - saving significant amounts of time, resources,  
and money.
“Nearmap saves our staff between six and twelve hours minimum per job. Eliminating time on site and 
preventing change orders has reduced job estimate time by about 75 percent,” says Cameron Ashby,  
System Manager at Elite Grounds.

BENEFITS OF USING NEARMAP IMAGERY

TIMELY AND ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS AND QUOTES - The Elite Grounds team tested Nearmap 2.8” 
GSD imagery against traditional onsite measuring - both sets of measurements were within feet of each other, 
but the site team took four times as long to gather data.

MULTI-SEASONAL CONTEXT - With access to nearly five years of historical imagery, Elite Grounds  
can view spring and fall captures when foliage doesn’t get in the way of measurements.

ACCURATE INVENTORY & RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT - The line tool in MapBrowser helps the Elite Grounds 
team measure rooflines of commercial and residential properties perfectly, traditionally challenging in winter. 
For holiday lighting services, this means they can order the appropriate quantity of light strands and reduce excess.

“With the time and cost savings we’ve achieved through Nearmap, I only wish we had implemented  
the solution sooner. Working with Nearmap is a no-brainer,” says Ashby.

22     CUSTOMER STORY

KEEPING SAFE IN 
TREACHEROUS WATERS
CUSTOMER STORY

WHO: VMR Bribie Island
Volunteer Marine Rescue Bribie Island operates in an area where there are 
approximately 30,000 seafaring vessels, most of which are recreational. Volunteers 
take about 15,000 radio calls, including 250 callouts for assistance, each year.
“Anyone can ask us to help them,” explains Gary Voss, the organisation’s secretary 
and maritime trainer. The service covers about 500 square miles with three rescue 
vessels, supported by a 365-days-a-year, 13-hours-a-day radio room. “Boaters may 
have broken down, run out of fuel, or crashed into something,” says Voss, who 
skippers one of the rescue boats himself.

THEIR CHALLENGE:
With infrequent surveys, the area’s shifting sandbanks quickly make marine charts 
outdated. “We’re in a reasonably treacherous area with shallow sandbars and 
sandbanks. There are a lot of opportunities to get it wrong,” Voss explains. “There 
are big storms, and it shifts every few months.” 
It’s a challenge for everyone on the waterways, even the volunteer rescuers.  
“Our own people don’t want to run aground while heading out to assist someone,” 
Voss explains. “That’s embarrassing.”

HOW NEARMAP HELPS:
Volunteer Marine Rescue Bribie Island uses Nearmap aerial mapping to capture  
the sandbars, rocks and deep channels that can cause boaters to run into trouble. 
With this detail the volunteers are able to produce an accurate, up-to-date guide  
for the waterways.
With Nearmap, there’s sufficient detail to show members “what’s actually there 
within the channels”, says Voss. “The imagery actually sweeps across our entire 
waterway, the Pumicestone Passage. We use a low tide image so we can see the 
sandbanks clearly.” Nearmap imagery allows Voss’ team to discover hazards that 
aren’t necessarily noticeable from either the ground or on water.
The marine guides are distributed in waterproof packs at educational seminars. 
One side features the chart that people have historically relied on, while on the 
other is a current Nearmap image with hazardous areas annotated.
“It does make a terrific difference. There’s such positive feedback from the seminars. 
Members use it as a reference when in transit on their boat. Every time we do a new 
batch, we update the imagery. It’s very current.”

CUSTOMER STORY     25

PROSPECTING AT THE 
SPEED OF LIGHT 
CUSTOMER STORY

WHO: Momentum Solar
Momentum Solar has helped build the solar community in the eastern United  
States since 2009. Initially serving clients throughout New Jersey, Momentum  
Solar is rapidly expanding its business nationwide. To accomplish this, Momentum 
Solar utilises aerial imagery to accelerate the process of assessment and solar panel  
design and installation.

THEIR CHALLENGE:
Previously, Momentum Solar used satellite imagery from multiple sources to assess or 
qualify houses and duplexes for solar panels. In addition, they were using a completely 
different software program to mock up solar designs.
Aside from being frustrated with the inefficiency inherent in switching between multiple 
imagery sources, the Momentum Solar team had no reliable way of viewing the same 
property across seasons. This made it difficult to accurately qualify a house before 
sending a technician for an on-site assessment. For instance, if a satellite image of a 
home was taken in winter, there was no way of knowing whether spring and summer 
leaves would block too much of a roof to make solar a viable option for the customer.

HOW NEARMAP HELPS:
Implementing Nearmap has accelerated and improved Momentum Solar’s operations 
in multiple ways. The accuracy and timeliness of images allows Momentum Solar to 
have faster and more accurate assessments, providing time for more appointments. 
When once it used to take almost two weeks before a technician could get a quote to 
a customer, it now takes just a couple of days.
The advantage of having the ability to see both current and historical images of a 
property boosts the accuracy of assessments. Using Nearmap, Momentum Solar can 
instantly switch between current and previous captures for more precise qualification 
and design.
The all-in-one solution further speeds up the process and allows technicians to show 
customers final results virtually before the first panel is placed. Without the need 
to toggle between software programs to visualise panel placement, Momentum 
Solar can create a panel placement proposal in five to seven minutes - a task that 
previously took 15-20 minutes. Nearmap makes it easy for Momentum Solar to 
show its customers exactly what the final results will look like, and quickly make any 
necessary adjustments. “With Nearmap, all the necessary information is in one easy-
to-use program. We can decide if the property is suitable for solar within two to three 
minutes,” says James Kennedy, Program Manager at Momentum Solar. “The high-
resolution captures reveal roof space, shading, and any obstructions so we can make 
accurate, timely assessments.”

26     CUSTOMER STORY

2019  
SUSTAINABILITY 
STATEMENT

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
Nearmap is providing a window into the Company’s approach to 
sustainability in our inaugural Sustainability Statement. 
This Statement details how we prioritise our people and culture, our 
relationships with suppliers, stakeholders and the broader community, 
and our activities as they relate to the environment. Nearmap has a 
positive story to tell on sustainability and by producing this Statement, 
everyone can understand the significant contribution our Company  
is making.
As populations grow and cities expand, there is an increasing 
impact on our urban environment. Innovation and technology, when 
combined, can help offset this impact and deliver substantial benefits 
to industry and the broader community.
Nearmap is at the forefront of building out the technology which 
enables better planning decisions and improved outcomes for both 
the environment and society. Our content allows customers to save 
time, reduce their carbon emissions and improve occupational health 
and safety outcomes by not physically travelling to a site they need to 
monitor, assess, inspect or visualise.
Assessing our impact and performance when it comes to sustainability 
is a process we will be striving to continuously improve. This Statement 
provides the foundation for our Company to build upon in future years, 
and we look forward to continuing to shape a sustainable business of 
which shareholders, employees and customers can all be proud.

ROB NEWMAN
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Captured: 25/08/2017 
Nirimba WA Australia

SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT     29

NEARMAP CORE VALUES
Nearmap Ltd (Nearmap or Company) 
has a high-performance culture which is 
open, engaged, and diverse, allowing 
employees to grow and succeed. This 
culture is put into action through an 
emphasis on Company policies and 
giving all Nearmap employees the 
necessary resources to succeed in their 
roles. The leadership team lead by 
example, carrying out the core values 
in everything they do, and continuously 
reinforce the Company’s mission, 
vision, and values. Employees get the 
opportunity to live and breathe these 
core values every day. These values 
encourage employees to:

OWN IT
Hold one’s self and others  
accountable for success 

WORK IT
Collaborate and work as a team 

TELL IT 
Be honest and transparent  
in communication

LOVE IT
Be passionate about what people  
do and how it is done

RISK IT 
Be fearless and curious when  
people need to be

The Company’s commitment to an open and 
engaged culture can be seen throughout 
the organisation. At fortnightly all-company 
stand-ups; the CEO addresses all employees 
and provides updates on the good, the 
bad, and the not-so-good, and takes any, 
sometimes difficult questions that may come 
from this. Deep-dives are held each fortnight 
which allow individual teams to dig deeper 
into a project, outlining their ambitions to 
all employees and fostering a transparent 
and inclusive culture within the organisation. 
Additionally, the core values which define 
the Company’s culture are tied to the 
‘People’s Choice Awards’, an avenue where 
every month employees can nominate an 
employee that they feel embodies one 
or more of these values. Award recipients 
are publicly acknowledged by the CEO, 
providing an environment where recognition 
is valued. 

Nearmap has an open-door policy where 
all executives and managers, including the 
CEO, are approachable. This ease of access 
allows all employees to contribute to key 
decisions and elevates every employee’s 
responsibility and impact in the organisation. 
This motivates a higher sense of fulfillment 
for each employee in their role, and fosters 
a culture where employees look forward to 
travelling to their “home away from home” 
every weekday.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Nearmap is committed to providing a 
diverse and inclusive environment, where 
employees are empowered to live the 
Company’s core values and be the best 
they can be. The Company aspires to be an 
employer renowned and respected for its 
diverse and inclusive environment, free from 
any discrimination. The Board is regularly 
updated and is responsible for the oversight 
of progress the Company is making on all 
new initiatives and programs that seek to 
support diversity and inclusion. 

Being able to attract, retain and motivate 
employees from the widest possible pool 
of available talent is critical in contributing 
to the ongoing success of the Company. 
Recruitment and selection practices at all 
levels of the Company, including at a Board 
level, are structured so that a diverse range 
of candidates are considered. The Company 
is committed to guarding against any 
conscious or unconscious biases that might 
discriminate against certain candidates, and 
in FY20 management will undergo formal 
unconscious bias training, with the intention 
of further helping employees and hiring 
partners better understand what can be 
done to ensure any conscious or unconscious 
biases can be overcome.

Returning to work whilst raising a young 
family presents unique challenges and 
Nearmap specifically ensures its policies are 
flexible and encouraging of all employees 
to step back into the workforce if and when 
they wish to do so. Initially, employees have 
access to up to twelve weeks paid parental 
leave for primary carers and two weeks paid 
parental leave for secondary carers. Upon 
returning to work, Nearmap ensures it offers 
all employees a flexible working environment 
to successfully manage this transition. 

Nearmap has targeted a 100% return rate 
every year for all employees and in FY19 
the Company is pleased to disclose that it 
achieved a 100% rate of return for employees 
from maternity and paternity leave. 

Nearmap operates in an industry which 
faces some challenges in recruiting qualified 
women into the workplace. Completions 
of Science, Technology, Engineering & 
Mathematics (STEM) subjects by women 
at a tertiary level are less than 21%, and 
employment across these industries 
represents only 17% of the qualified 
population. At Nearmap the overall gender 
diversity was split between 73% male and 
27% female, and within STEM 80% male and 
20% female. Although female representation 
within STEM is higher than average, the 
Company has put in place strategies to 
further improve female representation in 
STEM roles. Women make up 38% of the 
Company’s global management team,  
which will provide a platform for Nearmap  
to mentor the next generation of women 
within STEM.

Several initiatives have been launched to 
overcome the challenges of recruiting a 
diverse talent pool within STEM. These 
initiatives include, but are not limited to, 
utilising such platforms as:

•  WORK180, the only platform that pre-

screens employers to see how well they 
support women’s careers, considering 
arrangements such as parental leave, 
flexible working arrangements, pay equity, 
and professional development. Nearmap 
now advertises all open positions on 
this platform with a particular focus of 
attracting STEM candidates.

•  Hatch, a specialist recruitment firm 
partnered with nine educational 
institutions which provides access to a 
pool of students seeking part time work 
during study. 55% of Hatch’s student  
pool are women and 25% are from  
STEM backgrounds, providing Nearmap 
with an available pool of female talent to 
source and match with opportunities at 
the Company.

•  Student Industry Placement Scholarships 
(SIPS), a scheme where Nearmap offers 
the opportunity to a select number of 
university students to join the Company 
on a six-month internship program. The 
program exposes students to the real-
world possibilities of working within STEM 
and Nearmap with the view of improving 
opportunities for women.

•  LinkedIn, the de facto tool of potential 
candidates to network and analyse 
prospective employers. Nearmap has 
invested to promote the array of female 
STEM talent at the Company and is 
highlighting the organisation as being a 
place in which women can successfully 
develop and grow their STEM career.

In February, Nearmap celebrated 
International Women’s Day and Sue Klose, 
a Director of Nearmap and inspiring to 
women as someone who has enjoyed a 
successful career, hosted afternoon tea at 
the Company’s Sydney offices. Sue delivered 
a powerful address which dealt with her 
experiences and challenges as a woman 
throughout her career, and her advice to 
men and women alike on the benefits 
diversity brings to an organisation. Women 
came dressed in blue and men in pink, a 
visual representation of the theme for the 
day #balanceforbetter, highlighting that 
balance is not always a women’s issue, but a 
wider issue that effects many areas of life.

Age diversity amongst Nearmap employees 
is spread across five decades, with 42% of 
staff under 30 or over 45 years of age. As a 
young technology company, the right mix 
of experience and upcoming talent is very 
important in harnessing a successful and 
diverse workforce. Additionally, Nearmap 
is proud of the cultural and ethnic diversity 
cultivated in the organisation. Across a 
workforce of nearly 300 people in Australia 
and the United States, there were at least 
36 different ethnicities represented at the 
end of FY19. Nearmap actively encourages 
diverse cultural events to provide a sense 
of belonging and education on cultural 
differences within the organisation.

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SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENTEMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
People are the engine that drives a 
company to achieve incredible results. 
A highly engaged team offers their 
best to an organisation and plays their 
part in helping a business achieve 
its vision. Nearmap recognises this 
and two years ago joined forces with 
Gallup, a global leader in employee 
engagement, to be able to successfully 
measure engagement across the 
business. All executives work closely 
together to establish clear goals and 
an ambitious five-year plan has been 
set. Metrics have been established to 
measure business success and drive 
business outcomes based on four key 
metrics: People, Product, Finance, 
and Customers. Engagement is now 
embedded within the Company’s  
DNA and drives outcomes and 
objectives across the business. 

Results of engagement surveys are 
disclosed and presented to everyone 
across the organisation. Nearmap ensures 
best practice managers are acknowledged 
publicly in these presentations, as hard 
work is rewarded and acknowledged by the 
management team. Public acknowledgment 
ties into the ‘Tell It’ core value: being 
transparent when managers and teams 
are performing well and are engaged and 
productive in their work. This also provides 
inspiration for other leaders and teams 
who have room for improvement, and 
encourages peer mentoring. 

In FY19, Nearmap was honoured to be 
the recipient of a Gallup Great Workplace 
Award. The award is presented to 
organisations that have proven their ability 
to achieve exceptionally high levels of 
workplace engagement by investing in  
their people. The award reflects the 
degree of management time that has 

been invested in employee engagement 
and understanding of what employees 
are looking for from the Company, the 
leadership team, their managers and 
their colleagues. Everyone within the 
organisation is proud Nearmap is now seen 
as an employer of choice globally, and this 
opens the door to making Nearmap an 
attractive place for talented people to join 
and for existing employees to refer leading 
candidates for any vacancies. More work 
is planned on employee engagement as 
management aims to sustain the Company’s 
ambitious engagement goals.

•  Nearmap Learning Library, a global 

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
Engaged employees are passionate 
and have a sense of profound 
connection to their organisation. Often, 
they are the drivers of innovation and 
influential in moving their organisation 
in the right direction. Gallup has 
outlined career development and 
opportunity as one of the leading 
drivers of engagement between a 
company and its employees. Nearmap 
has invested a significant amount of 
time in developing its learning and 
development program for its workforce.

training library that allows all employees 
to opt into courses which are linked to 
the core capabilities of their positions. 
Employees are given the flexibility to  
focus on the specific skills they want to 
develop, in conjunction with feedback 
from management and with specific  
goals in mind.

•  Nearmap Mentors, a global mentorship 
program which launched in early FY20. 
This program pairs a mentor and mentee 
according to unique or predetermined 
criteria and provides an organisational 
platform for the sharing of knowledge, 
resources, career guidance and 
interpersonal development. This  
is a formal program with regularly 
scheduled sessions.

In addition to these formal initiatives, 
teams engage in ad hoc training programs 
over the course of the financial year, and 
Nearmap has additional budget set aside 
for employees who wish to enrol in an 
external course, including support for 
tertiary education and study leave, which 
meets the personal development goals of 
the individual and the Company. Nearmap 
understands the importance of an ever-
evolving marketplace and the Company  
will continue investing in its people to 
increase employee engagement, retain its 
best talent, and remain competitive in the 
location intelligence industry.

Talent development and retention has 
been identified as a key business objective 
for management across the Company, 
specifically the executive team. It has 
been established as a key performance 
indicator, and investment into establishing 
an appropriate learning and development 
strategy has been a key priority. Across the 
organisation, a number of initiatives are 
now being made available to employees, 
including but not limited to:

•  LinkedIn Learning, available to all 

employees across the organisation. 
LinkedIn Learning is an online tool which 
offers over 13,000 video courses taught by 
industry experts in software, creative, and 
business skills. With the flexibility of being 
available to employees when it suits them, 
it helps develop talent and ensures vital 
business skills remain current. 

•  10,000 hours, an eight-month program 

designed to build out leadership capability 
across the organisation. Nearmap wants 
its future leaders to come from within the 
Company, and this course is specifically 
targeted to equip potential future leaders 
with the capabilities their careers are going 
to need sooner than most.

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Captured: 01/07/2019 
Bondi Beach NSW Australia

SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENTFresh Fruit & Food 

WELLBEING & THE COMMUNITY
The wellbeing of a company’s 
employees determines the wellbeing 
of a company. Nearmap is committed 
to ensuring the physical and mental 
wellbeing of its employees is at its 
utmost and supports all employees 
in order to achieve this outcome. 
Nearmap does this in a variety of  
ways, including but not limited to:

Fighting Illness & Disease 

Nearmap supplies fully stocked kitchens 
filled with nutritious snacks and meals for 
breakfast and lunch. 

Nearmap provides free flu vaccinations, 
an incentive to help smokers quit, and an 
ergonomic work environment which includes 
large computer monitors and sit/stand desks.

Work Life Balance 

Social Activities 

Nearmap recognises the productivity 
benefits and improved business outcomes 
that flexibility and balance deliver to an 
organisation. The Company has put in 
place a specific Work Life Balance Policy, 
which provides all employees with the right 
to achieve a work life balance, such as the 
flexibility of working from home.  

Wellbeing Allowance 

In support of an employee’s healthy lifestyle, 
Nearmap pays a subsidy to employees each 
month to cover part of their sporting or gym 
membership.

Employees have the opportunity to attend a 
large number of social activities throughout 
the course of the year. Such events include 
monthly social events which often celebrate 
different cultures, birthday celebrations 
and divisional off-sites, as well as events to 
coincide with occasions such as Pancake Day, 
Waffle Day, Australia Day, St Patrick’s Day 
and many others. Additionally, at the end 
of every week employees meet to socialise 
and unwind after a week of hard work. These 
events foster a sense of community and 
inclusion amongst employees within  
the Company. 

Employee Helpline 

Loyalty Rewarded 

Employees have confidential access to a 
global 24/7 counselling service to discuss 
any issues they may be experiencing in the 
workplace or personal life.

For every two years an employee has  
worked at Nearmap, the Company shows  
its appreciation by rewarding employees 
with an extra day off.

Safe Workspace 

Massage Therapy 

Nearmap puts new employees through an 
extensive induction process. As part of this 
program all employees are taken through a 
health and safety initiation.

Each fortnight in-house massages are 
provided by a qualified masseur to 
Australian-based employees and contractors.

Nearmap also participates in the AccessEAP 
Ambassador Program, a voluntary program 
and an additional way for organisations to 
both promote and de-stigmatise mental 
health, and encourage employees in 
seeking support. Nearmap has a number 
of ambassadors outside of the Human 
Resources team who are trained to 
understand basic mental health issues and 
their impact in the workplace, the signs and 
symptoms of common mental health issues, 
and how to have a conversation and refer an 
employee in seeking further support.

Tying in with the Company’s focus on 
wellbeing, Nearmap supports Beyond 
Blue, a mental health advocacy group 
established in Australia in October 2000 
with a specific focus on the social impact of 
depression. Nearmap and its employees 
provide financial support to the organisation 
and in FY19 hosted several events where 
employees raised funds which were donated 
to the charity. Nearmap matched all 
donations dollar for dollar.

Nearmap also hosted a representative 
from Beyond Blue to educate employees 
on the challenges associated with mental 
health. This was a great way to raise 
awareness during the week of R U OK?Day 
and provided a forum for employees to 
engage directly with someone who had not 
only personal experience in dealing with 
depression but who could also offer their 
advice to anyone who knew someone going 
through similar challenges. Again, employees 
raised money to coincide with this event.

WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY
Nearmap is committed to ensuring 
that employees and external visitors 
are provided with a safe and healthy 
working environment. This is considered 
to be a clean, hygienic environment 
where workers are free from potential 
physical and psychological harm and 
where safe, ergonomic work practices 
are observed. Nearmap ensures safety 
training is carried out as required for 
employees and management across 
every level of the Company, to ensure 
Nearmap complies with its Workplace 
Health and Safety (WHS) obligations 
within the workplace.

The Executive Management Team, 
Human Resources, and elected WHS 
representatives review all WHS systems at 
various stages throughout the year through 
the use of reporting, annual workplace 
inspections, risk assessment and other 
meetings involving relevant stakeholders. 
WHS representatives are responsible for 
consulting with employees should they have 
any WHS concerns, and when Nearmap is 
implementing new WHS initiatives.

Human Resources provide WHS metrics to 
the Executive Committee and the Board 
on a regular basis. Information and data 
captured in these reports ensures senior 
management have access to all available 

information in order to make effective 
decisions regarding the health and safety 
of Nearmap employees. This information 
includes reports of any incidents, injuries, or 
lost time due to injury. 

In FY19, Nearmap recorded two  
reportable injuries involving employees.  
The Company’s lost time injury frequency 
rate was 4.7. Incidents are reviewed by 
Human Resources and WHS representatives, 
in line with the Company’s WHS Policy,  
and any recommendations are enacted  
to improve health and safety outcomes  
for all employees.

EMPLOYEE SHARE SCHEME
In FY18 Nearmap established an 
Employee Share Matching Scheme  
to give permanent part-time and 
full-time employees the opportunity 
to invest in Nearmap and share in the 
Company’s success. 

The Employee Share Matching Scheme is 
something that can instil a sense of ownership 
in the business, and also contribute toward 
talent retention and an alignment of 
shared values. The scheme is optional but 
very popular with almost half of eligible 
employees choosing to participate in FY19. 

All employees, including those eligible 
to participate, must sign the Staff Trading 
Policy before joining Nearmap and receive 
additional training when they are onboarded 
to ensure they understand the obligations 
of securities trading as it pertains to the 
Company’s Continuous Disclosure Policy.

34     SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT 

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SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENTPRIVACY & DATA SECURITY
Nearmap understands the importance 
of protecting the personal and 
confidential information of customers, 
suppliers and employees. In day-to-day 
operations, Nearmap creates, collects 
and maintains a vast amount of data, 
but has attempted to strike a balance 
between minimising the amount of 
information collected, and still operating 
the business in an efficient and effective 
manner. The type of information 
collected, how that information is 
collected, used, stored and protected, 
and to whom that information may be 
disclosed is outlined in the Company’s 
Privacy Policy, a copy of which is 
available on the Company’s website. 
Nearmap takes privacy very seriously 
and ensures that it complies with this 
Policy, as well as all applicable privacy 
and data security laws.

primary person responsible for data security 
breaches. It is the responsibility of the 
response team to undertake an investigation 
into any suspected breach incident, to 
coordinate service providers and subject 
matter experts as required, and to conduct a 
series of post-event analysis to prevent future 
incidents occurring.

Data security risks are ever evolving, and 
it is vital for businesses to keep abreast of 
any new or emerging trends. Nearmap 
proactively considers data security risks and 
has a cyber working group which meets 
regularly to consider new developments and 
how the Company can continue to improve 
its cyber awareness and security. Several team 
members are also part of the Global Risk 
Assurance Group (GRAG), which is made up 
of senior representatives from every business 
unit across Nearmap globally. The GRAG 
acts as the facilitator of all risk information as 
it pertains to the business, information which 
is cascaded between all employees and the 
Board. GRAG provides regular updates to 
the Audit and Risk Management Committee 
at a Board level, and reports to the Chief 
Financial Officer at a management level.

SUPPORTING STEM
As an Australian leader in technological 
innovation, Nearmap has a responsibility 
to nurture industry talent and promote 
industry diversity. Female representation 
across the STEM sectors remains low, 
with only 17% of the STEM qualified 
population represented by women, and 
completions at the tertiary level little 
better at less than 21%. Despite higher 
than average representation of women 
within STEM at Nearmap of 20%, this 
is a number which is still too low and 
something Nearmap is actively working 
toward improving.

According to the Australian Government’s 
2019 whitepaper, Advancing Women in 
STEM, women are less interested and less 
confident in STEM subjects compared to 
men, particularly in the areas of engineering 
and technology. Nearmap wants to be 
part of a movement which encourages and 
promotes the next generation of men and 
women to succeed in their STEM careers, 

36     SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT 

which can ultimately benefit the Company, 
the industry and build a home-grown talent 
pool which is the envy of the rest of the world.

Nearmap is proud to have partnered with 
and be a gold sponsor of Sydney University 
Mechatronics Society. This partnership 
facilitates engagement between students 
and Nearmap in developing a mutually 
beneficial relationship. Building this 
relationship opens opportunities to a pool of 
upcoming talent in the STEM space. As part 
of this relationship, Nearmap employees 
attend a number of activities including 
quarterly BBQ’s at Sydney University, sponsor 
and attend industry events hosted by the 
society, and has plans for other activities 
such as trivia nights and technology talks to 
increase awareness and education of the 
types of career opportunities which exist 
across the industry. 

Early in FY20, after a rigorous selection 
process, five students joined Nearmap for 
a six-month period as part of the Student 
Industry Placement Scholarship program. 

These students are working in Artificial 
Intelligence Systems, Sensor Systems and 
Survey Systems businesses, in order to give 
students on the job experience and to help 
them complete their university dissertations. 
The scholarship program is another step 
toward nurturing industry talent and as the 
Company’s university partnering strategies 
evolve, Nearmap hopes to use these 
initiatives to promote the Company, the 
industry, and to increase female participation 
across the talent pool of STEM students  
and graduates.

Creating and cultivating these opportunities 
here in Australia, where students can 
apply their learnings in a cutting-edge 
commercial environment, is a passion which 
runs deep within Nearmap and is core to 
the Company’s DNA. Nearmap takes this 
responsibility seriously, and everyone in the 
organisation looks forward to a day in the 
not too distant future when Australia leads 
the world in technological innovation and 
ingenuity, and Nearmap playing its part in 
making that happen.

When any company experiences a data 
security breach it can damage an individual’s 
rights and privacy as it relates to them. To 
mitigate this, Nearmap has implemented a 
Data Breach Response Plan in the unlikely 
event this were to happen. The Plan 
ensures that Nearmap can contain, assess 
and respond to data breaches in a timely 
fashion, mitigating any possible harm to 
affected individuals. As part of the Plan, 
any employee made aware of an actual 
or suspected data breach must notify 
a member of the Company’s response 
team, with each business unit represented 
and the Chief Financial Officer being the 

Nearmap is committed to ensuring it has 
the right policies and procedures in place 
to mitigate cyber security risk and is actively 
implementing new security measures to 
protect against unauthorised access or 
disclosure of confidential or other proprietary 
information. The Company is insured against 
certain cyber risk and security incidents 
but is pleased to say it did not receive any 
complaints regarding data breaches or 
security incidents during the reporting period.

Captured: 18/02/2019 
 Alice Springs NT Australia 

SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENTSUPPLY CHAIN
Nearmap acknowledges the 
importance of building and maintaining 
strong relationships with suppliers in 
order to effectively understand any risks 
which may emerge in the supply chain 
which could impact the Company’s 
operations. The Company’s supply 
chain is expected to conform with, and 
uphold the values of, the Company’s 
Corporate Code of Conduct and its 
Health, Safety and Environment Policies, 
both of which can be found on the 
Company’s website. 

Nearmap contracts aerial operators to survey 
and capture its aerial images using the 
Company’s camera system to effectively and 
efficiently deliver its frequent and wide scale 
capture programs. Aviation is an industry 
with inherent risk, overseen and regulated by 
federal agencies, and Nearmap contractually 
requires all aerial operators to be fully 
compliant and remain compliant with these 
regulatory bodies before it engages with any 
operator. The Company requires compliance 
documentation, including Air Operator’s 
Certificates, and operator documentation 
or information including aircraft details, 
insurance and business continuity plans, and 
can require this without notice from its aerial 
operator suppliers.

Nearmap is committed to ensuring it only 
engages with aerial operators who have 
appropriate registration and regulatory 

compliance procedures in place to ensure 
satisfactory levels of safety management. 
With any organisation which relies on an 
important third-party supplier, Nearmap has 
a duty to be sufficiently knowledgeable in 
its understanding of the aviation regulatory 
and safety environment, and the practices 
of its aerial operators, in order to design 
appropriate safety-aware procedures and 
support ongoing operations. Nearmap 
forms strong partnerships with its operators 
across the regions it operates to support 
transparent communication of any issues, 
particularly safety, as the safety of operators 
is an issue the Company has always taken 
extremely seriously. The systems and 
processes in place have specifically been 
designed to maintain the highest safety 
standards.

In order to provide customers with the full 
back catalogue of historical aerial content, 
Nearmap utilises Amazon Web Services 
(AWS) to host all of the Company’s imagery. 
Any disruption of, or interference with, the 
use of such cloud services could adversely 
impact the Company and its operations. 
Nearmap has ensured that it understands 
and has the appropriate risk management 
processes and systems in the event 
Nearmap is faced with any such form  
of disruption.

AWS contractually guarantees that its 
monthly uptime is at least 99.99%. Service 
credits are provided in the event that they do 

not meet these metrics and AWS provides 
compensation for any losses Nearmap may 
incur due to any outages in breach of its 
agreed service level. Nearmap also plays 
its part in reducing the impact of any AWS 
service disruption by ensuring services and 
content is hosted across a multiple number 
of sites within a number of regions across  
the world.

AWS has a rigorous approach to its risk 
and compliance framework, and the 
company discloses its security and control 
responsibilities to its customers, including 
Nearmap. This disclosure enables Nearmap 
to properly assess the risk associated with 
contracting the Company’s content onto the 
AWS platform. These disclosures include, 
but are not limited to:

•  Industry certifications and independent 

third-party attestations;

•  Information about the AWS security and 
control practices in whitepapers and web 
site content; and

•  Certificates, reports, and other 
documentation as required.

As a key supplier to Nearmap, the Company 
is constantly engaged with, and maintains 
a thorough understanding of, AWS’s risk 
and compliance procedures. Nearmap will 
continue having ongoing dialogue with AWS, 
both to ensure these procedures remain 
well understood and to satisfy its own risk 
assessment of its third-party suppliers.

The provision of impact sourcing is a 
supply chain risk to a number of software 
companies, including Nearmap. With 
increased investment into Artificial 
Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, 
Nearmap has relied on a global impact 
sourcing solution to enable the Company 
to build out its AI capability. Nearmap is 
cognisant of its corporate social responsibility 
to ensure this investment was and continues 
to be allocated in a way in which can benefit 
the Company, and provide for an income 
and valuable workplace and technical skills to 
people who might not otherwise have had 
the opportunity. 

Nearmap has partnered with a member 
company of the Global Impact Sourcing 
Coalition (GISC), an organisation funded 
by The Rockefeller Foundation in New 
York. Members of the GISC commit to 
providing meaningful career opportunities to 
disadvantaged or vulnerable people across 
the world through impact sourcing. Member 
status of the GISC is reviewed yearly to 
ensure continued compliance with the 
Coalition’s objectives, and Nearmap is proud 
of the relationship and outcomes that have 
been achieved in the time both companies 
have been working together.

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Captured: 18/02/2019 
Blackhead Dunedin New Zealand 

SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENTTHE ENVIRONMENT
The Nearmap vision embodies 
both its business purpose as well as 
characterising how the Company’s 
location intelligence has a positive 
impact on the environment: We believe 
if we change the way people view the 
world, they can profoundly change the 
way they work. Access to Nearmap 
content enables customers to reduce 
physical travel to site, allowing them to 
perform a multitude of tasks from their 
desk. Customer feedback demonstrates 
that 80% of Nearmap customers 
reduce physical site visits. This has 
a direct correlation to a reduction in 
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that 
would otherwise have been emitted by 
customers travelling to and from sites.

Based on an understanding of customer 
usage, Nearmap is confident that CO2 
emissions associated with image capture 
in the air are offset many times over by 
the reduction in emissions attributable to 
reduced travel by the Company’s customers 
on the ground.

Data generated by the imagery captured 
in the twelve years since Nearmap 
began operating continues to grow, with 
higher resolution imagery produced by 
the HyperCamera2 system, as well as 
the increased frequency of capture and 
geographic expansion. This data set requires 
substantial storage capacity and Nearmap 
has provisioned AWS to host this data in 
the cloud. Data storage requires energy 
to power these computing platforms and 
Nearmap has considered how this impacts 
its environmental footprint.

In order to provide customers with content, 
Nearmap engages aerial operators to fly 
the Company’s proprietary camera systems. 
These flights will emit CO2, however, the 
impact is limited given a typical plane flying 
these camera systems is light weight and 
carries only the pilot and the camera system. 
Nearmap recognises these emissions and 
continually invests in technology which 
could lead to a reduction in emissions 
per square kilometre. Specifically, the 
Company is researching methods to enable 
its camera systems to be flown faster and 
higher, reducing the time required to 
capture imagery at the same resolution 
and potentially reducing CO2 emissions 
associated with these flights.

Cloud computing substantially reduces 
energy consumption, given on-site server 
utilisation rates typically average between 
10-20% across industry. By contracting AWS 
to host the Company’s data set, Nearmap 
utilises a more energy efficient process than 
if it were to host this data on proprietary 
servers within the Company’s office. 
Nevertheless, the energy required to host 
the Company’s data is still significant and in 
conjunction with the environmental impact 
of flying the Company’s camera systems, 
Nearmap continues to investigate ways to 
improve its environmental impact, which 
includes how AWS can partner with  
Nearmap to reduce its environmental impact.

There are a range of reporting frameworks 
that currently exist for Australian companies 
to disclose their environmental impact. 
However, recent discussion papers from 
the Australian Securities Exchange and 
the Australian Council of Superannuation 
Investors have made reference to the 
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial 
Disclosures (TCFD) initiative, established 
in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board, 
to develop voluntary, consistent climate-
related disclosure. As a newly promoted 
S&P/ASX 200 company, Nearmap is actively 
considering the most appropriate disclosure 
framework which best fits the Company, 
including whether the TCFD would be a 
suitable framework to adopt, or whether 
a different framework would be more 
appropriate. 

For the first time, Nearmap is disclosing 
Scope 1 & 2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) 
emissions as defined under the GHG 
Protocol. Scope 1 & 2 emissions cover 
the Company’s office in Sydney, Australia, 
which employs more than two thirds of the 
global workforce. The Sydney office is part 
of the Barangaroo precinct, one of only 
seventeen precincts globally to be part of 
the C40 Cities-Clinton Climate Initiatives 
Climate Positive Development Program, 
and Australia’s first large scale carbon neutral 
community. Tower One in Barangaroo is 
one of Australia’s most sustainable high-
rise buildings and the Nearmap office has 
been awarded 5.5 stars under the National 
Australian Built Environment Rating System 
(NABERS). The Company is not yet in a 
position to disclose emissions outside of 
Australia, but this is something Nearmap is 
hoping to disclose in FY20.

Nearmap leases its premises in Sydney and 
relies on third party information in making 
these disclosures. GHG emissions have 
been disclosed as combined Scope 1 and 2 
emissions as the Company has not yet been 
able to split out these emissions. 

There is not a prior corresponding period  
as the Company moved premises in FY18, 
but the Company can disclose Scope  
1 & 2 emissions from 1 February 2018 to  
31 January 2019 as 105t CO2e, which has 

been verified by NABERS. For FY20 the 
Company is working toward disclosing this 
on a financial year basis.

In addition to GHG emissions, Nearmap 
is able to provide disclosure on waste 
consumption. For FY19, Nearmap achieved 
a waste to recycling ratio of 46.2% in 
Australia and 44.4% in the United States, 
and in Australia diverted a further 51.9% of 
non-recycled waste from landfill to a waste to 
energy facility (the United States sales offices 
do not yet have this option available). As 
waste is not weighed in the United States but 
instead measured by area, total waste weight 
is not able to be provided, and this data is 
also less reliable in the United States due to 
other building tenants being included in the 
calculations.

Outside of these considerations and in 
addition to such systems as sensor lights and 
intelligent lifts which form part of the head 
office building, Nearmap facilitates an office 
environment which encourages employees 
to minimise the environmental impact of 
their day-to-day activities. This includes 
implementing such measures as:

•  Issuing all new staff with a KEEP Cup and 
water bottle to reduce the use of single 
use plastics; Nearmap does not provide 
employees with any single use plastic for 
daily use.

•  Providing recycling bins for paper, mixed 

recycling, organics and coffee pods.

•  Installing filtered water taps and supplying 
crockery and cutlery in the staff kitchen.

•  Reducing printing requirements by 

instituting software such as DocuSign 
to electronically manage business 
agreements.

•  Utilising Shred-X to provide a closed loop, 
secure documentation destruction and 
recycling service.

Nearmap also provides annual training  
to employees to better understand 
and utilise the measures available in the 
Company’s offices.

Employees frequently utilise application 
software platforms such as Zoom and Slack 
which minimise the need for air travel, 

and improve productivity. Nearmap has 
customers in Australia, New Zealand and 
North America and for a business reliant on 
its sales force, a degree of air travel will be 
required. Additionally, management are in 
the process of executing on the Company’s 
expansion plans in North America and senior 
management are required to spend time 
between Australia and the United States in 
order to effectively manage the business 
and oversee the Company’s expansion. In 
FY19, Scope 3 emissions from Australian 
based employees due to air travel was 588 
tonnes, or 3.75t per employee. Nearmap 
has not been able to calculate Scope 3 air 
travel emissions from non-Australian based 
employees but this is something Nearmap is 
looking to disclose in FY20.

As a technology company, Nearmap will 
from time to time produce electronic 
waste. The Company’s technology team 
is solely based out of the head office in 
Sydney and has arrangements with building 
management for any electronic waste to 
be donated to a not-for-profit or social 
enterprise business if it can be reused, or 
recycled if it cannot.

Customers of Nearmap use its aerial imagery 
to monitor areas impacted by climate change, 
the detection of illegal dumping, changes in  
water runoff, assessing natural disaster risk and 
conservation work such as the monitoring of 
historic sites and preservation of the natural 
environment. Additionally, nine percent of the 
Company’s global customer base is made 
up of solar installation companies, who are 
able to more efficiently assess, and therefore 
price, solar installation for potential customers, 
which increases the supply of renewable 
energy to tens of thousands of households 
and businesses.

Nearmap is proud to have built a 
company which empowers individuals and 
organisations to make an overwhelmingly 
positive impact on the environment, and 
Nearmap is committed to playing its part  
in facilitating a greener and more  
sustainable future.

AWS is the world’s largest cloud computing 
platform and a key supplier to Nearmap. 
In November 2014, AWS announced a 
long-term commitment to achieve 100% 
renewable energy usage for their global 
infrastructure footprint and in 2018 AWS 
exceeded 50% renewable energy usage, a 
significant milestone. Nearmap has been in 
dialogue with AWS to encourage AWS to 
continue making progress toward achieving 
this long-term goal and AWS has committed 
to updating Nearmap on its future progress.

Nearmap considers the welfare of the 
broader community and the environment 
as part of its Health, Safety and Environment 
Policy, a copy of which can be found on the 
Company’s website. As outlined in the policy, 
decision-making at Board and management 
levels must take into account environmental 
issues as a high priority, and the identification 
of potential environmental problems 
requires ongoing review by employees, 
management and the Board. Despite a 
limited environmental footprint, Nearmap 
takes its environmental responsibilities 
seriously and is committed to improving its 
impact where it can.

The Company’s direct environmental 
footprint is reflected in office energy and 
water usage in Australia and the United 
States. As the Company increases its 
investment and expansion plans, it is likely 
that this footprint will increase, and the 
Company is actively considering the  
degree to which it can offset the impact  
of this growth.

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REPORT

NEARMAP BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ABOVE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

MR IAN MORRIS 
MS SUE KLOSE 
MR CLIFF ROSENBERG 
MR PETER JAMES 
MR ROSS NORGARD 
DR ROB NEWMAN

MS TRACEY HORTON  
RIGHT

APPOINTED NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 
FROM 1 SEPTEMBER 2019

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MR PETER JAMES

DR ROB NEWMAN

Your Directors submit their report together 
with the consolidated financial statements 
of the Group, comprising of Nearmap Ltd 
(“Nearmap” or the “Company”) and its 
subsidiaries for the financial year ended 30 
June 2019 and the auditor’s report thereon.
The Directors of the Company at any time 
during, or since the end of, the financial  
year are:

DR ROB NEWMAN,  
B.ENG(1ST HONS), PH.D.

MANAGING DIRECTOR AND 
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Rob has a unique track record as a successful 
Australian high technology entrepreneur 
in Australia and Silicon Valley. He has twice 
founded and built businesses on Australian 
technology, both successfully entering 
overseas markets. 

Rob is a trained engineer and spent his 
career in marketing, business development 
and general management in Information 
Technology focusing on communications. 
Rob also spent ten years as a venture 
capitalist co-founding Stone Ridge Ventures 
and was previously an investment Director 
for Foundation Capital. As a venture 
capitalist, Rob has extensive experience in 
identifying and helping growth companies 
with significant commercial potential, 
especially those addressing overseas markets.

In the 1980s, Rob was the inventor and co-
founder of QPSX Communications Pty Ltd. 
Rob provided the technical leadership and 
product strategy and was instrumental in 
establishing QPSX as a worldwide standard 
for Metropolitan Area Networks.

CURRENT ASX LISTED  
COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS:
•  Nearmap Ltd (since 17 February 2011). 
Appointed CEO & Managing Director  
in October 2015

FORMER ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:
•  Pointerra Limited (ASX: 3DP) (30 June 2016 to  
9 November 2018) - Non-executive Director

MR PETER JAMES, BA, FAICD
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE 
CHAIRMAN 

Peter has extensive experience as Chair, 
Non-executive Director and Chief Executive 
Officer across a range of publicly listed and 
private companies, particularly in emerging 
technologies and e-commerce.
Previously among other roles, Mr James 
was a long term Director of iiNet, chairing 
iiNet’s Strategy and Innovation Committee. 
He is a successful investor in digital media 
and technology businesses in Australia and 
the US and travels extensively in reviewing 
innovation and consumer trends globally.
Peter is an experienced and successful 
business leader with significant strategic 
and operational expertise. He brings a 
strong record of corporate governance and 
stakeholder communication and is a Fellow 
of the Australian Computer Society.
Peter holds a BA degree with majors in 
Business and Computer Science.

SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Member of the Audit and Risk  
Management Committee
Member of the Nomination and  
Remuneration Committee

CURRENT ASX LISTED  
COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS:
•  Nearmap Ltd (since 21 December 2015)  

- Non-executive Chairman

•  Macquarie Telecom Ltd (ASX: MAQ) (since  
2 April 2012) - Non-executive Chairman

•  Droneshield Limited (ASX: DRO) (since  
1 April 2016) - Non-executive Chairman

•  Dreamscape Networks Limited (ASX: DN8) (since 
16 September 2016) - Non-executive Chairman

•  UUV Aquabotix Ltd (ASX:UUV) (since 9 March 

2017) - Non-executive Chairman

•  Keytone Dairy Corporation Limited (ASX: KTD) 
(since 25 September 2018) - Non-executive 
Director

FORMER ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:
•  None

MR IAN MORRIS, MBA 
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE 
DIRECTOR

Ian has enjoyed a successful business career 
in the US technology sector. He is currently 
the CEO of Likewise, Inc., a Gates Ventures 
backed technology company which he co-
founded. Previously he served as President 
and CEO of Market Leader for more than 
a decade, a leading provider of real estate 
SaaS solutions. Under his leadership, Market 
Leader was ranked the 4th fastest growing 
technology company in North America, 
leading to a successful IPO in 2004 and the 
sale of the company to Trulia in 2013 for 
US$380M.

Ian also spent seven years at Microsoft 
leading early online marketing efforts and 
later served as the General Manager of 
Microsoft HomeAdvisor. He has also  
served as a strategic advisor and Board 
member with a number of leading US 
technology companies. 

SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Member of the Nomination and  
Remuneration Committee

CURRENT ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS:
•  Nearmap Ltd (since 28 January 2016)  

- Non-executive Director

FORMER ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:
•  None

MS SUE KLOSE

MR IAN MORRIS

MS SUE KLOSE,  
B.SCI.ECON., MBA

INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE 
DIRECTOR 

Sue is an experienced senior executive and 
board Director, with a diverse background in 
SaaS businesses focussed on digital strategy, 
corporate development, partnerships and 
business growth in Australia and the US. Sue 
was previously the Chief Marketing Officer of 
GraysOnline, where she was responsible for 
brand development, marketing operations 
and digital product strategy.
In prior roles in consulting and global media 
companies, Sue led strategic planning 
and development. As Director of Digital 
Corporate Development for News Ltd, Sue 
screened hundreds of potential investments, 
leading multiple acquisitions, establishing 
the CareerOne and Carsguide joint ventures, 
and held multiple board roles in high-growth 
digital and SaaS businesses. 
Sue is currently a Non-executive Director 
of Pureprofile, a provider of data insights, 
quantitative research and lead generation, 
and a Non-executive Director of Aftercare, 
one of Australia’s largest mental health  
care providers.

SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Chair of the Audit and Risk  
Management Committee 
Member of the Nomination and  
Remuneration Committee

CURRENT ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS:
•  Nearmap Ltd (since 14 August 2017) - Non-

executive Director

•  Pureprofile Ltd (ASX: PPL) (since 17 July 2018) - 

Non-executive Director

FORMER ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:
•  None

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MR ROSS NORGARD, FCA
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

In 1987, Ross became the founding 
Chairman of Nearmap Ltd. He held this 
role until 18 March 2016, at which point he 
moved into a Non-executive role.

Ross is a former managing partner of Arthur 
Andersen and KMG Hungerfords and its 
successor firms in Perth, Western Australia. 
For over 30 years he has worked extensively 
in the fields of raising venture capital and the 
financial reorganisation of businesses. 

He has held numerous positions on industry 
committees including former Chairman 
of the Western Australian Professional 
Standards Committee of the Institute of 
Chartered Accountants, a former member 
of the National Disciplinary Committee, 
former Chairman of the Friends of the Duke 
of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and a former 
member of the University of WA’s Graduate 
School of Management (MBA Program). 
Ross is also Western Australia’s Honorary 
Consul-General to Finland.

MR CLIFF ROSENBERG,  
B.BUS.SCI., M.SC. MANAGEMENT

INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE 
DIRECTOR 

Cliff has a 20 year career in the digital space 
as an entrepreneur and executive. He was 
previously Managing Director for LinkedIn 
South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand 
where he drove awareness and uptake of 
LinkedIn’s products.
Prior to joining LinkedIn, Cliff was the 
Managing Director of Yahoo! Australia and 
New Zealand, responsible for all aspects 
of the local operation for more than three 
years. He was also Non-executive Director of 
Australia’s leading online restaurant booking 
platform, dimmi.com.au, which was sold to 
Tripadvisor in early 2015.
Previously, Cliff was Founder and Managing 
Director of iTouch Australia and New 
Zealand, a leading wireless application 
service provider, head of corporate 
strategy for Vodafone Australasia and also 
a management consultant with Gemini 
Consulting and Bain Consulting.

MR ROSS NORGARD

SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Member of the Nomination and 
Remuneration Committee
Member of the Audit and Risk  
Management Committee

CURRENT ASX LISTED  
COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS:
•  Nearmap Ltd (since 1987)  
- Non-executive Director

•  Brockman Mining Ltd (ASX: BCK) (since  
22 August 2012) - Non-executive Director

FORMER ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:
•  None

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SPECIAL DUTIES:
Chair of the Nomination and  
Remuneration Committee
Member of the Audit and Risk 
Management Committee

CURRENT ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS:
•  Nearmap Ltd (since 3 July 2012) - Non-

executive Director

•  Afterpay Touch Group Ltd (ASX: APT) (since  
23 March 2016) - Non-executive Director

•  Cabcharge Australia Ltd (ASX:CAB) (since  
25 August 2017) - Non-executive Director

•  Technology One Pty Ltd  (ASX: TNE) (since  
27 February 2019) - Non-executive Director

FORMER ASX LISTED COMPANY 
DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:
•  Pureprofile Ltd (ASX: PPL) (12 June 2015 to 28 

February 2019) - Non-executive Director

•  IXUP Ltd (ASX: IXU) (29 September 2017 to  

2 July 2019) - Non-executive Director 

MR CLIFF ROSENBERG

COMPANY SECRETARY 
Ms Shannon Coates LLB was appointed 
to the position of company secretary in 
June 2013. Ms Coates is a qualified lawyer, 
Chartered Secretary and graduate of the 
AICD Company Directors course, with 
over 20 years’ experience in corporate law 
and compliance. She is currently company 
secretary to a number of public listed and 
unlisted companies and has provided 
company secretarial and corporate advisory 
services to boards and various committees 
across a variety of industries, including 
financial services, resources, manufacturing 
and technology.

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DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The numbers of meetings of Directors (including meetings of committees of Directors) held during the financial year and the number of 
meetings attended by each Director are as follows:

P James

R Newman

S Klose

I Morris

R Norgard

C Rosenberg

FULL BOARD MEETINGS

AUDIT AND RISK  
COMMITTEE MEETINGS

NOMINATION AND REMUNERATION 
COMMITTEE MEETINGS

A

7

7

7

7

7

7

B

7

7

7

6

6

7

A

4

-

4

-

4

4

B

4

-

4

-

4

4

A

2

-

2

2

2

2

B

2

-

2

-

2

2

A - Number of meetings held during the time the Director held office and the Director was eligible to attend.
B - Number of meetings attended.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES

The principal activity of the Group during 
the course of the financial year was online 
aerial photomapping via its 100% owned 
subsidiaries, Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd, 
Nearmap US, Inc. and Nearmap Remote 
Sensing US, Inc.

There were no significant changes in the 
nature of the activities of the Group during 
the year.

OPERATING AND FINANCIAL 
REVIEW

Overview of the Group

Nearmap is an innovative location 
intelligence company capturing a rich data 
set about the real world, providing high value 
insights to a diverse range of businesses and 
government organisations.

Using its own patented camera systems and 
processing software, Nearmap captures 
wide-scale urban areas in Australia, New 
Zealand, Canada and the US multiple times 
each year. This fresh content, together with 
a range of analytics and tools, is instantly 
available in the cloud via web app or API 
integration.

The pivotal features underpinning the 
success of the Nearmap business model are:

•  the frequency with which this data is 

captured and updated;

•  the clarity (resolution) of the imagery 

provided; and

•  the availability of previous surveys on the 
same platform, allowing users to track 
changes at locations over time.

The Group is a participant in the large, 
fragmented and growing global location 
intelligence market, holding a global market 

share of less than 1%. The Company’s 
strategy is to effectively monetise its content 
by providing convenient access to the 
content via desktop and mobile platforms, 
through subscription models and value-add 
products supported by e-commerce facilities.

The Group generates revenues in Australia 
and the United States through capturing 
and licensing its content to a broad range of 
customers, including government agencies 
and commercial enterprises of all sizes. 
The Group has also commenced capturing 
and licensing its content to customers in 
New Zealand and Canada. With a diverse 
customer base, the Group does not have 
any dependencies on key customers. 

Review of operations

Review of financial condition

For the year ended 30 June 2019, the 
Company reported total revenue and 
other income of $79.4m, up 47% on 
corresponding prior year revenue and 
other income of $54.1m, underpinned by 
continued customer retention and growth in 
the customer base. The growth in revenue 
reflects the growth in the annualised contract 
value (ACV) of the Group’s subscription 
portfolio, with the Australian and New 
Zealand (ANZ) portfolio growing 19% to 
$57.9m (30 June 2018: $48.8m) and the 
North American (US and Canada) portfolio 
growing 76% to US$22.7m (30 June 2018: 
US$12.9m).

The consolidated entity’s result after provision 
for income tax was a loss of $14.9m (2018: loss 
of $11.0m). This was primarily due to:

•  Targeted US sales and marketing initiatives 

including the launch of the second 
US sales office in New York. Sales and 
marketing costs were 22% higher than 
prior year;

•  Capture program expansion including the 
first capture of Canadian content, covering 
64% of the population. Cash costs of 
capture increased by 22% on prior year; 

•  Product and content expansion including 
the launch of 3D Online and the launch 
of a beta Artificial Intelligence product. 
General and Administration costs (product, 
technology and business operations) 
increased by 30% on prior year; and

•  A change in accounting estimate to 
reduce the amortisation period for 
capitalised capture costs from 5 years to 
2 years to reflect the growing customer 
demand for the most recent imagery. As 
a result, Depreciation and Amortisation 
expenses in the current year increased by 
$13.4m to $26.7m. 

The Company’s balance sheet remains 
strong with no debt and a closing cash 
balance at 30 June 2019 of $75.9m (30 
June 2018: $17.5m). This includes the net 
proceeds of a fully underwritten $70m 
capital placement to institutional investors in 
September 2018.

The Company’s net assets increased 
by $58.7m to $87.7m compared with 
the previous year, which reflects trading 
performance and the net cash proceeds of 
the September 2018 capital raise. 

The Group’s receivables and cash flow 
management continue to support the overall 
working capital of the Group. The increase 
in overall sales during the year has resulted 
in a 44% increase in trade receivables as at 
year end. With a diverse customer base, the 
Company continues to focus on receivables 
management and, as at year end, only $0.5m 
of receivables are in arrears (2018: $0.3m).

Cash receipts from customers for the year 
were $86.9m compared to $64.2m for the 
previous year, an increase of $22.7m (35%).

Significant changes in the state of affairs

In the opinion of the Directors, there were no 
significant changes in the state of affairs of 
Nearmap that occurred during the financial 
year under review.

Dividends

No dividends have been paid or proposed in 
respect of the current year (2018: nil).

Events subsequent to balance date

On 1 July 2019, Nearmap Australia Pty 
Ltd entered into a contract for the lease of 
office premises located at Level 5, Tower 
One, International Towers, 100 Barangaroo 
Avenue, Sydney, NSW 2000 from Lendlease 
IMT (OITST ST) Pty Ltd ACN 605 217 703.

Except for the above, no other matters or 
circumstances have arisen since the end of 
the financial year which significantly affected 
or could significantly affect the operations of 
the Group, the results of those operations 
or the state of affairs of the Group in future 
financial years.

Likely developments

The Group will continue to implement the 
business strategies put in place to ensure 
that the Group continues on its growth 
trajectory in the foreseeable future, subject 
to a stable macro-economic environment. 
The Group will continue to seek new 
opportunities to build scale and to broaden 
its customer base, sales and marketing 
capability, product offering and technological 
advantage.

In reliance on s299A(3) of the Corporations 
Act 2001, we have not disclosed further 
information on business strategies and 
prospects, because disclosure of that 
information is likely to result in unreasonable 
prejudice to the Group.

Environmental regulation

The current activities of the Group are not 
subject to any significant environmental 
regulation. However, the Board believes that 
the Group has adequate systems in place 
to manage its environmental obligations 
and is not aware of any breach of those 
environmental requirements during the 
period covered by this report as they apply 
to the Group.

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Directors’ interests 

The relevant interest of each Director in the 
shares, debentures, interests in registered 
schemes and rights and options over such 
instruments issued by the companies 

within the Group and other related bodies 
corporate, as notified by the Directors to 
the ASX in accordance with S205G(1) of the 
Corporations Act 2001, at the date of this 
report are as follows:

P James 

R Newman

S Klose

I Morris

R Norgard

C Rosenberg

ORDINARY SHARES

OPTIONS OVER ORDINARY SHARES

1,282,000

8,933,333

-

150,000

48,076,295

3,201,000

1,500,000

2,156,584

-

750,000

-

-

Share options

As at 30 June 2019 there were 16,337,184 
unissued ordinary shares under option. Refer 
to Note 5 of the financial statements for 
further details of the Company’s share-based 
payment plan. 

INDEMNIFICATION AND 
INSURANCE OF DIRECTORS  
AND OFFICERS

Indemnification

The Company has agreed to indemnify the 
current Directors of the Company and its 
controlled entities 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 
and its controlled entities, except where the 
liability arises out of conduct involving a lack 

of good faith. The agreement stipulates that 
the Company will meet the full amount of any 
such liabilities, including costs and expenses.

Under the terms of the agreement, the 
Company has agreed to indemnify certain 
senior executives for all liabilities to another 
person (other than the Company or a related 
body corporate) that may arise from their 
position in the Company and its controlled 
entities, except where the liability arises out 
of conduct involving a lack of good faith. The 
agreement stipulates that the Company will 
meet the full amount of any such liabilities, 
including legal fees.

Insurance premiums

Since the end of the previous financial year, 
the Group has paid insurance premiums 
in respect of Directors’ and officers’ liability 
and legal expenses insurance contracts, 

for current and former Directors and 
officers, including senior executives of the 
Company and Directors, senior executives 
and secretaries of its controlled entities. The 
insurance premiums relate to:

•  legal costs and expenses incurred by the 

relevant officers in defending proceedings, 
whether civil or criminal and whatever their 
outcome; and

•  other liabilities that may arise from their 
position, with the exception of conduct 
involving a wilful breach of duty or 
improper use of information or position 
to gain a personal advantage or to cause 
detriment to the Company. 

The insurance policies outlined above do 
not contain details of the premiums paid in 
respect of individual officers of the Company.

NON-AUDIT SERVICES

During the year, KPMG, the Group’s auditor, 
has performed certain other services in 
addition to the audit and review of the 
financial statements.

The Board has considered the non-audit 
services provided during the year by 
the auditor of the Group, KPMG, and in 
accordance with written advice provided by 
resolution of the Audit and Risk Committee, 
is satisfied that the provision of those non-
audit services during the year by the auditor 

IN DOLLARS

is compatible with, and did not compromise, 
the auditor independence requirements of 
the Corporations Act 2001 for the following 
reasons:

•  all non-audit services were subject to 

the corporate governance procedures 
adopted by the Group and have been 
reviewed by the Audit and Risk Committee 
to ensure they do not impact the integrity 
and objectivity of the auditor; and

•  the non-audit services provided do not 

undermine the general principles relating 

to auditor independence as set out in 
APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional 
Accountants, as they did not involve 
reviewing or auditing the auditor’s own 
work, acting in a management or decision-
making capacity for the Group, acting 
as an advocate for the Group or jointly 
sharing risks and rewards.

Details of the amounts paid to KPMG and 
its network firms for audit and non-audit 
services provided during the year are set  
out below. 

SERVICES OTHER THAN AUDIT AND REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Other advisory for the entity and any other entity in the Group

Taxation advisory for the entity and any other entity in the Group

TOTAL SERVICES OTHER THAN STATUTORY AUDIT

AUDIT AND REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

TOTAL PAID/PAYABLE TO KPMG

2019

13,725

-

13,725

150,000

163,725

Lead auditor’s independence declaration

Rounding of amounts

Remuneration report

The lead auditor’s independence declaration 
as required under section 307C of the 
Corporations Act 2001 is set out on page 75 
and forms part of the Directors’ report for the 
financial year ended 30 June 2019. 

The Group is of a kind referred to in ASIC 
Corporations (Rounding in Financial/
Directors’ Reports) Instrument 2016/191 
and in accordance with that instrument, 
amounts in the consolidated financial report 
and Directors’ report have been rounded 
off to the nearest thousand dollars, unless 
otherwise stated.

The remuneration report on pages 53 to  
71 forms part of this Director’s Report.

This report is made in accordance with a 
resolution of the Directors.

On behalf of the Board

Rob Newman 

Managing Director and  
Chief Executive Officer

20 August 2019

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DIRECTORS’ REPORT
REMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED)

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE NOMINATION AND REMUNERATION COMMITTEE

INTRODUCTION

On behalf of the Board I am pleased to present the remuneration report for the financial year ended 30 June 2019 (FY19).

The role of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee (the Committee) is to assist the Board and make recommendations on 
remuneration, related policies and practices. Linking remuneration to the drivers that support the business strategy ensures that remuneration 
outcomes for senior executives are aligned with the creation of a strong, sustainable business that delivers value for shareholders.

In FY19 Nearmap increased the total revenue and other income of the Company by 47% by growing the customer base and through excellent 
customer retention. Ongoing strong performance will allow us to continue our investment in the Australian business, the North American 
market and investments into product and technology.

In continuing to support these growth ambitions and as a reflection of the increased responsibilities of the Company being admitted to the 
S&P/ASX 200 Index, the Nomination and Remuneration Committee has completed a review of our approach to remuneration, taking into 
consideration input from external advisors, shareholders and other stakeholders. 

As a result, in FY20 we will make changes to the remuneration structure to ensure it supports our evolving business and remains adaptable to 
our future needs. The key changes for FY20 are:

•  Extending the long term incentive plan (LTIP) to attract and retain the best talent: Nearmap operates in a highly competitive market for global 
talent and must therefore offer a remuneration package that is attractive to both existing and potential employees. The existing LTIP doesn’t 
offer a regular equity component for the majority of employees below executive level. To remain competitive, the Company will broaden 
the LTIP to include key senior employees, with LTIP Awards representing 10-25% of an employee’s base remuneration vesting over three 
years from the date of the initial grant, subject to the satisfactory and ongoing employment of the individual. The revised scheme has clear 
alignment with long term shareholder value creation and is minimally dilutive.

•  Aligning the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director’s remuneration to Australian peers to reflect the performance of the business: 
reflecting the strong growth of the business over a sustained period, the Committee believes that an increase in the base salary and LTIP 
components of the Chief Executive Officer’s remuneration is appropriate. From 1 July 2019 the base salary will increase by 15.6%, from 
$546,000 to $631,000 per annum, including superannuation, and the LTIP component will increase by 100% from $315,500 to $631,000 per 
annum, including superannuation. This will change the relative proportion of the short term incentive plan (STIP) and LTIP components of the 
CEO’s compensation to 20% and 40% respectively.

•  Aligning Non-Executive Director (NED) remuneration to Australian peers: the Committee engaged external advisers to benchmark NED 
remuneration relative to a peer group of ASX listed growth companies. Following this exercise, the Chairman’s annual fees will increase 
from $135,000 to $175,000 and NED fees will increase from $70,000 to $110,000, including superannuation. Committee Chair fees remain 
unchanged at $10,000 whilst Committee Member fees will be reduced from $5,000 to Nil. All changes are effective 1 July 2019. There will be 
no change in the overall NED fee pool of $850,000.

These changes support the Company’s continuing evolution and align our reward structure with our business strategy and talent objectives to 
deliver sustainable shareholder returns.

The Board will be pleased to receive feedback in relation to this remuneration report and commits to engaging with shareholders and their 
representatives on these matters. We thank you for your continued support and hope that you will find this report useful and informative.

Cliff Rosenberg
Chair – Nomination and Remuneration Committee

This remuneration report outlines the remuneration arrangements in place for Directors and key management personnel of Nearmap and the 
consolidated entity (the Group) for the year ended 30 June 2019.

CONTENTS:

A.   Key Management Personnel (KMP) 

disclosed in this report

B.   Principles used to determine the nature 

and amount of remuneration

C.  Details of remuneration

D.  Employment contracts
E.  Share based compensation
F.  Transactions of KMP
G. Additional information
H.  Shares under option

The information provided in this 
remuneration report has been audited 
as required by section 308(3C) of the 
Corporations Act 2001 and forms part  
of the Directors’ Report.

A. KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL (KMP) DISCLOSED IN THIS REPORT

KMP are the Directors and employees who have authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the Group, 
directly or indirectly, during the financial year. On that basis, the following roles/individuals are addressed in this report:

DIRECTORS

The following persons were Directors of the Company during the financial year:

P James

Non-executive Chairman

R Newman 

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

S Klose

I Morris

Non-executive Director (appointed Interim Chief Marketing Officer from 5 March – 5 July 2018)

Non-executive Director

R Norgard

Non-executive Director

C Rosenberg

Non-executive Director

SENIOR EXECUTIVES CLASSIFIED AS KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

T Agresta 

T Celinski

S Klose

S Preston

P Quigley

L Rankin

H Sanchez

S Steel

A Watt

Vice President of Product and Engineering (appointed 9 July 2018) 1

Vice President, Technology and Engineering

Interim Chief Marketing Officer (until 5 July 2018)

Vice President of Sales – Australia 

Senior Vice President and General Manager – International and Partners

Vice President of Product and Engineering (resigned 9 July 2018)

Chief Marketing Officer (appointed 8 October 2018)

Vice President, People and Culture 

Chief Financial Officer 

1 T Agresta held the position of VP of US Marketing until 8 July 2018.

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B. PRINCIPLES USED TO DETERMINE THE NATURE AND AMOUNT OF REMUNERATION (CONT.)

REMUNERATION PHILOSOPHY

SECURITIES TRADING POLICY

A securities trading policy (“Trading Policy”) 
has been adopted by the Board to provide 
guidance to Directors, employees of the 
Group, and other parties who may have 
access to price sensitive information, who 
may be contemplating dealing in the 
Company’s securities or the securities of 
entities with whom the Company may  
have dealings. 

The Trading Policy is designed to ensure 
that any trading in the Company’s securities 
is in accordance with the law. Any non-
compliance with the Trading Policy will be 
regarded as an act of serious misconduct. 
The Trading Policy is available on the 
Company’s website at www.nearmap.com/
au/en/investors/governance.

REMUNERATION STRUCTURE

In accordance with best practice corporate 
governance, the structure of Non-executive 
Director and key management personnel 
remuneration is separate and distinct.

Non-executive Director remuneration

Objective The Board seeks to set aggregate 
remuneration at a level which provides the 
Company with the ability to attract and retain 
Directors of the highest calibre, while incurring 
a cost which is acceptable to shareholders.

Chairman

Non-executive Director

Committee Chair

Committee Member

US Non-executive Director

US Committee Member

The performance of the Company depends 
upon the quality of its Directors and 
executives. To prosper, the Company must 
attract, motivate and retain highly skilled 
Directors and executives.

To this end, the Company embodies the 
following principles in its remuneration 
framework:

•  Provide competitive rewards to attract 

high calibre executives;

•  Link executive rewards to shareholder 

value; and

•  Establish appropriate, demanding 
performance hurdles in relation to  
variable executive remuneration.

NOMINATION AND 
REMUNERATION COMMITTEE

The Nomination and Remuneration 
Committee of the Board of Directors of the 
Company is responsible for determining 
and reviewing compensation arrangements 
for the Directors, the Chief Executive 
Officer and Managing Director and the 
senior management team and ensuring 
that the Board continues to operate within 
the established guidelines, including when 
necessary, selecting candidates for the 
position of Director.

The Nomination and Remuneration 
Committee assesses the appropriateness of 
the nature and amount of remuneration of 
Directors and key management personnel 
on a periodic basis by reference to relevant 
employment market conditions with the 
overall objective of ensuring maximum 
stakeholder benefit from the retention of a 
high-quality Board and executive team.

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Structure Each Non-executive Director 
receives a fee for being a Director of the 
Company. The Constitution and the ASX 
Listing Rules specify that the aggregate 
remuneration of Non-executive Directors 
shall be determined from time to time by a 
general meeting. An amount not exceeding 
the amount determined is then divided 
between the Directors as agreed. The latest 
determination was at the Annual General 
Meeting (AGM) held on 15 November 2018 
when shareholders approved an aggregate 
remuneration of $850,000 per year. Further 
fees may be paid to Non-executive Directors 
where additional time commitment is 
required such as that required by the 
Chairman of the Company. A grant of Non-
executive Director share options was last 
made during the year ended 30 June 2016. 
No grants were made in the years ended 30 
June 2017, 30 June 2018 or 30 June 2019.

The amount of aggregate remuneration 
sought to be approved by shareholders and 
the manner in which it is apportioned among 
Directors is reviewed annually.

During the year ended 30 June 2018, fees 
were introduced for the sub-committee Chairs 
and members (other than the Board Chair) to 
recognise their additional responsibilities. The 
current and proposed base Non-executive 
Director fees per annum, including statutory 
superannuation, are:

30 JUNE 2019

30 JUNE 2020

$135,000

$70,000

$10,000

$5,000

$175,000

$110,000

$10,000

-

$70,000 USD

$110,000 AUD

$5,000 USD

-

Services from remuneration consultants

Fixed Remuneration

Objective The level of fixed remuneration 
is set so as to provide a base level of 
remuneration which is both appropriate to 
the position and is competitive in the market.

Fixed remuneration is reviewed annually 
by the Nomination and Remuneration 
Committee. The process consists of a review 
of individual performance, comparative 
remuneration in the market and internal 
and, where appropriate, external advice on 
policies and practices. 

During the year ended 30 June 2019, 
performance related adjustments were 
made to the fixed remuneration of the Chief 
Executive Officer & Managing Director, the 
Chief Financial Officer, the Vice 

President of People and Culture, the Vice 
President of Sales – Australia, the Vice 
President of Technology and Engineering, 
and the Senior Vice President and General 
Manager – International and Partners.

Structure Senior executives are given the 
opportunity to receive their fixed (primary) 
remuneration in a variety of forms including 
cash and fringe benefits such as motor 
vehicles and expense payment plans. It is 
intended that the manner of payment chosen 
will be optimal for the recipient without 
creating undue cost for the Company.

The Board periodically reviews the level 
of fees paid to Non-executive Directors, 
including seeking external advice. During the 
year ended 30 June 2019, an independent 
remuneration review was undertaken by 
Godfrey Remuneration to benchmark Non-
executive Director remuneration and the 
proposed design of an equity plan. The  
total costs of this exercise were $13,750 
including GST.

Key management personnel and 
Executive Director remuneration

Objective The Company aims to reward 
executives with a level and mix of 
remuneration commensurate with their 
position and responsibilities within the 
Company so as to:

•  Reward executives and individual 

performance against key performance 
indicators;

•  Align the interests of executives with those 

of shareholders;

•  Link reward with the strategic goals and 

performance of the Group; and

•  Ensure total remuneration is competitive 

by market standards.

Structure Remuneration typically consists of 
the following key elements:

•  Fixed Remuneration

•  Variable Remuneration

- Short Term Incentive (STI), and

- Long Term Incentive (LTI)

The proportion of fixed remuneration and 
variable remuneration (potential STIs and 
LTIs) is established for each KMP by the 
Nomination and Remuneration Committee. 

Variable Remuneration - Short Term 
Incentive (STI)

Objective The objective of the STI program 
is to link the achievement of the Company’s 
operational targets with the remuneration 
received by the employees charged with 
meeting those targets. The total potential 
STI where available is set at a level to 
provide sufficient incentive to employees 
to achieve the operational targets at a cost 
to the Company that is reasonable in the 
circumstances.

Structure Actual STI payments granted to 
each employee depend on the extent to 
which specific operating targets are met. The 
operational targets consist of a number of 
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) covering 
individual and group performance measures 
aligned to the short-term success of the 
business. The performance measures are set 
as follows:

•  Group performance: 60% of the STI 

comprises a Group Revenue target, with 
a minimum EBITDA threshold required to 
trigger payment (FY2019 EBITDA threshold 
> $0). The payout is scaled to the internal 
Group Revenue target with a minimum 
gateway introduced for participating 
employees to provide a strong focus 
on the top line growth required for the 
business to expand (FY2019 Group 
Revenue Target $71.3m). Subject to 
meeting the gateway, outperformance 
results in higher than target payments 
(maximum payout of 150% of the 60%), 
while underperformance results in below 
target payments;

•  Individual performance: 40% of the STI 

comprises personal performance targets, 
typically including employee engagement, 
leadership/team contribution and 
functional specific deliverables.

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Executives responsible for sales have an 
uncapped STI aligned to internal ACV 
growth targets. 

STI payments are made if the relevant targets 
are achieved. If the targets are not achieved, 
then any STI payment is discretionary and 
will only be made if the Board deem that the 
executive has demonstrated exceptional 
performance in meeting other objectives. 
There were no discretionary payments made 
in the year ended 30 June 2019.

The amount of annual STI payments 
available for employees across the Group 
is subject to the approval of the Board, on 
the recommendation of the Nomination 
and Remuneration Committee. Payments 
made are usually delivered as a cash bonus 
paid after the release of the audited financial 
statements. 

Variable Remuneration – Long Term 
Incentive (LTI)

Objective The objective of the LTI plan is 
to reward employees in a manner which 
aligns this element of remuneration with the 
creation of shareholder wealth. 

Structure (i) Options are granted to 
KMPs upon becoming an executive of 
the company. One-off LTI grants to new 
executives are delivered in the form of 
options and the amount is determined 
by the Nomination and Remuneration 
Committee having regard to:

•  the seniority of the relevant Eligible Person 

and the position the Eligible Person 
occupies within the Company;

•  the potential contribution of the Eligible 
Person to the growth of the Group; and

•  any other matters which the Board 

considers relevant.

One-off LTI grants to new executives granted 
subsequent to 1 July 2017 are granted at the 
closing share price on the grant date and 
vest in equal tranches over 3 years. Vesting 
is subject to the executive continuing in 
employment or service. See Section E of the 
remuneration report for further details. 

(ii) Executives are entitled to an annual 
award, set at 25% of total remuneration, and 
subject to a total shareholder return (TSR) 
growth performance vesting condition. 
TSR is a measure of the increase in the 
price of a share (assuming dividends are 
reinvested). The number of options that 
will vest (and become exercisable) at the 
vesting date will be determined by reference 
to the achievement of a percentage of the 
Company’s compound annual growth rate 
(CAGR) in TSR over the period commencing 
on the grant date and ending on the vesting 
date, as follows: 

CAGR % ACHIEVED 

% OF OPTIONS WHICH WILL VEST

15% 

16% 

17% 

18% 

19% 

20% 

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Options are issued with a strike price based 
on the five-day volume weighted average 
price of the Company’s shares as traded on 
the ASX over the five trading days prior to the 
date of the annual general meeting. Options 
vest 36 months from the date of grant and 
expire 48 months after the date of grant.

An employee loan scheme arrangement 
exists should an employee elect to apply 
for a loan on exercise of premium-priced 
options, which may be granted at the 

discretion of the Chief Executive Officer and 
Managing Director. 

Group Performance

The overall level of executive reward takes 
into account the nature of the technology 
commercialisation business and realistic 
timeframes for generating profits. In 
particular, executive rewards recognise the 
commercialisation of the Nearmap business 
and future shareholder wealth contained 

therein and the progress that has been 
made in unlocking value to date. Executive 
performance of the Group has been 
reviewed over the past 5 years taking into 
account future shareholder wealth and  
profit performance. 

In considering the Group’s performance 
and benefits for shareholder wealth, the 
Nomination and Remuneration Committee 
has given regard to the following indices 
over the last 5 financial years:

Total revenue and other income

EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation)1

Change in share price

Dividends paid

2019 
$’000

$79,375

$15,484

$2.64

-

2018 
$’000

2017 
$’000

2016 
$’000

2015 
$’000

$54,140

$41,065

$31,289

$26,124

$4,856

$0.53

-

$6,017

$0.20

-

$632

($0.18)

-

$944

$0.16

-

1 EBITDA also excludes R&D tax rebates, foreign currency differences and impairment adjustments.

The graph below shows the Company’s closing share price since 1 July 2014 and the relative performance against the ASX All Ordinaries.

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P
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a
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S

4.50 

4.00 

3.50 

3.00 

2.50 

2.00 

1.50 

1.00 

0.50 

0.00 

AORD 

NEA 

NEA CAGR: 45% 

1/07/13 

1/07/14 

1/07/15 

1/07/16 

1/07/17 

1/07/18 

1/07/19 

AORD CAGR: 5% 

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FY2019 performance is reflected in the 
outcome of the variable components of the 
remuneration framework:

•  STI payments were made to the CEO 
& Managing Director and other key 
management personnel based on 
attainment of set performance criteria.

•  Group performance: the minimum 

EBITDA threshold was reached to trigger 

the payout mechanism.  Group Revenue 
was delivered to 111.25% of management 
target which, based on the tiered earnings 
schedule, meant that employees were 
paid out at 111.25%.  This equates to a 
payout of 66.75% of the 60% entitlement.

•  Executives with a commission based STI 

were paid in accordance with the terms of 
their commission schemes.

•  STI payout percentages to Directors and 
key management personnel are shown 
below:

•  The Board reviewed delivery against 

functional specific targets and agreed 
payouts accordingly.

GROUP TARGET 
REVENUE

SALES TARGET ACV

INDIVIDUAL TARGET 
FUNCTIONAL SPECIFIC

SUB-TOTAL

TARGET 

ACTUAL 

TARGET 

ACTUAL 

 TARGET 

 ACTUAL 

 TARGET 

 ACTUAL 

DISCRETIONARY 

TOTAL 

DIRECTORS

R Newman

60%

67%

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

T Agresta

T Celinski

S Preston

P Quigley

H Sanchez

S Steel

A Watt

60%

60%

-

-

60%

60%

60%

67%

67%

-

-

67%

67%

67%

-

-

-

-

-

-

100%

60%

98%

132%

-

-

-

-

-

-

40%

40%

100%

107%

40%

40%

-

40%

40%

40%

40%

40%

40%

-

40%

40%

40%

40%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

107%

107%

98%

172%

107%

107%

107%

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

107% 

107%

107%

98%

172%

107%

107%

107%

•  LTI grants were awarded to the Chief 

Executive Officer and Managing Director 
and other KMP as follows:

-  Dr Newman received a grant of 556,009 
market-priced share options vesting 
in three years, as approved at the 
Company AGM on 15 November 2018 
(executive annual award);

-  Mr Agresta, Mr Celinski, Mr Preston, Mr 
Quigley, Mr Sanchez, Ms Steel and Mr 
Watt received grants on 15 November 
2018 of 324,534, 377,324, 346,774, 
493,856, 300,949, 250,032 and 346,774 
market-priced share options respectively, 
vesting in three years (executive annual 
award); 

-  Upon joining the Nearmap Executive 

Team, effective 9 July 2018, Mr Agresta 
received a grant of 300,000 market-
priced share options, vesting in equal 
tranches over three years (one-off LTI 
grant to new executive); and

-  Upon joining the Company during  
the 2019 financial year, Mr Sanchez 
received a grant of 360,000 market-
priced share options, vesting in equal 
tranches over three years (one-off  
LTI grant to new executive). 

C. DETAILS OF REMUNERATION (CONT.)

Statutory remuneration tables 

The following table of KMP remuneration 
has been prepared in accordance with 
accounting standards and the Corporations 
Act 2001 (Cth) requirements.

SHORT-TERM

LONG-TERM

POST-EMPLOYMENT

SALARY & FEES1 CASH BONUS

LONG 
SERVICE
 LEAVE2

SUPER-
ANNUATION

TERMINATION 
BENEFITS

SHARE BASED 
PAYMENT 
OPTIONS3

TOTAL

PERCENTAGE 
PERFORMANCE 
RELATED7

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

P James

P James

S Klose5

S Klose

I Morris4,6

I Morris

R Norgard

R Norgard

C Rosenberg4

C Rosenberg

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2018

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

S Klose5

S Klose

R Newman

R Newman

2019

2018

2019

2018

123,287

101,978

70,776

39,773

104,886

95,787

73,059

70,776

85,000

80,238

9,299

78,462

525,468

500,692

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

291,427

234,203

6,320

2,623

11,712

9,688

6,724

3,778

-

1,345

6,941

6,724

-

1,012

883

6,766

20,531

20,049

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

17,040

152,040

62,431

174,097

-

-

77,499

43,551

14,581

119,466

51,436

148,568

-

-

7,618

80,001

77,500

92,618

30,740

111,990

6,222

-

-

-

-

-

16,404

85,228

456,807

1,300,553

309,024

1,066,591

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

33%

26%

1 Salary includes annual leave. 
2 Relates to long service leave accrued during the year with a negative balance representing an overall reduction in the employee leave provision compared to prior year. 
3  AASB 2 accounting value determined at grant date, recognised over related vesting periods. The amount included as remuneration is not related to or indicative of the 

benefit (if any) that the individual key management personnel may ultimately realise should the equity instruments vest. The notional value of options as at the date of their 
grant has been determined in accordance with the accounting policy in Note 5. 

4  Mr Rosenberg and Mr Morris elected to have their remuneration remitted through management companies during the year. Total fees remitted were inclusive of 

superannuation guarantee contributions. 

5  Ms Klose was appointed as a Non-executive Director on 14 August 2017. She was appointed as interim Chief Marketing Officer on 5 March 2018 and temporarily became 
an executive Director, remaining on the board. Ms Klose completed her role as interim Chief Marketing Officer on 5 July 2018 and returned to her role as Non-executive 
Director on 6 July 2018.

6 Mr Morris resides in the USA. The remuneration disclosures represent the US compensation components translated to AUD at average exchange rates for the year.
7 Performance related remuneration comprises short-term cash bonuses together with share-based payments which are subject to Total Shareholder Return vesting conditions. 

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ASX Listing Rule 10.17 states that 
‘Directors’ fees’ constitutes fees, including 
superannuation, but excluding securities 

issued. The total Directors’ fees paid to  
Non-executive Directors during the year 
ended 30 June 2019, excluding share based 

payments, was $482,384 which is within  
the amount determined at the AGM on  
15 November 2018.

The proportion of fixed remuneration 
and potential variable remuneration is 
established for each KMP by the Nomination 

and Remuneration Committee. The 
proportion of fixed and potential at risk 
components for the KMP as a percentage  

of potential target total annual remuneration 
for the 2019 year is shown below:

SHORT-TERM

LONG-TERM

POST-EMPLOYMENT

SALARY & FEES1 CASH BONUS

LONG 
SERVICE
 LEAVE2

SUPER-
ANNUATION

TERMINATION 
BENEFITS

SHARE BASED 
PAYMENT 
OPTIONS3

TOTAL

PERCENTAGE 
PERFORMANCE 
RELATED8

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL (GROUP)

T Agresta6

T Celinski5

T Celinski

S Preston

S Preston

P Quigley

P Quigley

H Sanchez7

S Steel

S Steel

A Watt

A Watt

2019

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2019

2018

2019

2018

324,041

350,600

127,625

318,100

280,984

491,793

377,115

202,372

225,600

215,552

320,000

289,952

171,614

197,771

59,732

301,897

179,156

602,452

379,768

114,523

131,052

105,692

181,759

139,423

-

186

47

1,411

140

-

-

75

1,142

136

1,577

175

-

20,531

8,806

20,531

20,049

-

-

15,399

20,531

20,049

20,531

20,049

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

98,369

594,023

182,238

751,326

83,679

279,889

112,156

754,095

99,007

579,336

144,630

1,238,874

100,629

857,512

88,931

421,299

82,626

460,952

86,063

427,492

205,289

729,156

285,330

734,929

FORMER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL (GROUP)

L Rankin4

L Rankin

2019

2018

5,537

239,952

-

64,935

-

-

5,133

20,049

128,826

-

139,496

-

115,121

440,057

34%

26%

21%

50%

35%

57%

48%

34%

41%

30%

36%

23%

-

20%

1 Salary includes annual leave.
2 Relates to long service leave accrued during the year, with a negative balance representing an overall reduction in the employee leave provision compared to prior year.
3  AASB 2 accounting value determined at grant date, recognised over related vesting periods. The amount included as remuneration is not related to or indicative of the 

benefit (if any) that the individual key management personnel may ultimately realise should the equity instruments vest. The notional value of options as at the date of their 
grant has been determined in accordance with the accounting policy in Note 5.

4 L Rankin resigned on 9 July 2018. 
5 Mr Celinski was appointed as Executive Vice President - Technology and Engineering on 18 February 2018. 
6 Mr Agresta was appointed as Executive Vice President - Product on 9 July 2018. Mr Agresta held the position of VP of US Marketing until 8 July 2018. 
7 Mr Sanchez was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer on 8 October 2018. 
8  Performance related remuneration comprises short-term cash bonuses together with share-based payments which are subject to Total Shareholder Return vesting conditions.

NON – EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

P James

S Klose

I Morris

R Norgard

C Rosenberg

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

R Newman

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

T Agresta

T Celinski

S Preston

P Quigley

H Sanchez

S Steel

A Watt

FIXED REMUNERATION

SALARIES AND BENEFITS
2019

LTI1
2019

AT RISK – STI
2019

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

50%

50%

50%

42%

45%

50%

50%

50%

-

-

-

-

-

25%

25%

25%

20%

23%

25%

25%

25%

-

-

-

-

-

25%

25%

25%

38%

32%

25%

25%

25%

1 Annual LTI awards have performance related vesting conditions. See Section B for further detail on the remuneration structure of Directors and key management personnel.

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All executive employees and KMP are 
employed under contract. All executives 
have ongoing contracts and as such only 

have commencement dates and no expiry 
dates. Details of KMP contracts as at  
30 June 2019 are:

NAME

R Newman

T Agresta

T Celinski

S Preston

P Quigley

H Sanchez

S Steel

A Watt

NOTICE PERIOD FOR TERMINATION

6 months

4 months

3 months

4 months

4 months

3 months

4 months

4 months

•  On resignation any unvested options 
are forfeited. Limited recourse loans 
(LRL’s) are granted to key management 
personnel in respect to vested options. 
If an employee ceases to be employed 
by the Company (including by way of 
resignation, retirement, dismissal, etc) and 
has an outstanding LRL, the employee 
may elect to have the Company sell the 
loan shares and apply the net proceeds of 
the sale in repayment of the loan or repay 
the outstanding amount on the loan. This 
determination must generally be made 
within one month of the date of ceased 
employment.

•  The Company may terminate an 

•  The Company may terminate an 

employment agreement by providing 
the respective written notice period or 
provide payment in lieu of the notice 
period (based on the fixed component 
of remuneration). On such termination 
by the Company, any LTI options that 
have vested, or will vest during the notice 
period will be required to be exercised 
within 180 days from termination date 
or the options expiry date if earlier. LTI 
options that have not yet vested will  
be forfeited.

employment contract at any time without 
notice if serious misconduct has occurred. 
Where termination with cause occurs, the 
employee is only entitled to that portion of 
remuneration which is fixed, and only up 
to the date of termination. On termination 
with cause any unvested options will 
immediately be forfeited. 

•  There are no formal contracts between  

the Company and Non-executive 
Directors in relation to remuneration 
other than the letter of appointment that 
stipulates the remuneration as at the 
commencement date.

COMPENSATION OPTIONS

Grants made prior to 30 June 2017: Each 
option entitles the holder to subscribe 
for one fully paid ordinary share in the 
Company at an exercise price determined 
at a 43% premium to the market price of the 
shares on the date of grant (Australia) or the 
market price on grant date (US). When an 
individual is granted an LRL to exercise their 
option, the effect is to extend the life of the 
original option. The exercise price includes 
interest accrued.

Grants made after 30 June 2017: Each option 
entitles the holder to subscribe for one fully 
paid ordinary share in the Company at an 
exercise price determined by the market 
price of the shares on the date of grant. 
When an individual is granted an LRL to 
exercise their option, the effect is to extend 
the life of the original option. The exercise 
price includes interest accrued.

Details on options over ordinary shares 
in the Company that were granted as 
compensation to each KMP during the 
reporting period and details on options 
that vested during the reporting period and 
options which remain unvested at the end of 
the reporting period are as follows:

E. SHARE BASED COMPENSATION 

OPTIONS

A share option incentive scheme, the 
Nearmap Employee Share Option Plan, has 
been established whereby Directors and 
certain employees of the Group may be 
issued with options over ordinary shares of 
the Company. 

In Australia, up until 30 June 2017, options 
were issued for nil consideration at an 
exercise price calculated with reference to 
prevailing market prices and a 43% premium 
in accordance with performance guidelines 
established by the Directors of the Company. 
From 1 July 2017, all options issued are for nil 
consideration at an exercise price calculated 
with reference to prevailing market prices.

The grants are either issued for 4 years: 

(i)  with TSR growth performance vesting 

conditions and are exercisable after three 
years; or

(ii)  without any performance vesting 

conditions and are exercisable on various 
dates (usually in two or three equal annual 
tranches when vested).

In the US, options are issued for nil 
consideration at an exercise price equal to 
the prevailing market price. The options are 
issued for terms up to four or five years and 
are exercisable on various dates within four 
or five years from grant date. 

The options only vest under certain 
conditions, principally centred on the 
employee still being employed, or the 
Director still engaged, at the time of vesting 
(that is, once the service has been satisfied), 
or specified performance hurdles being 
achieved to determine vesting. The options 
cannot be transferred without the approval 
of the Company’s Board and are not quoted 
on the ASX. As a result, plan participants 
may not enter into any transaction designed 
to remove the “at risk” aspect of an option 
before it is exercised.

Refer to the tables later in this section for 
details of the options that were issued to 
Directors and KMP during the year ended  
30 June 2019.

LIMITED RECOURSE LOANS 
(LRLS)

Nearmap’s Employee Share Option Plan 
includes an Employee Loan Scheme that 
permits the Company to grant financial 
assistance to employees by way of LRLs to 
enable them to exercise premium priced 
options and acquire shares. Interest on the 
loans is payable by KMP at loan maturity and 
accrues daily. The Company determines the 
rate of interest applicable to LRLs (currently 
the cash rate set by the Reserve Bank of 
Australia plus 20 basis points). Loans are 
repayable four years after the issue date 
subject to the total share value being greater 
than the loan’s principal plus accrued interest. 

The employee does not have a beneficial 
interest in the shares until the loan is repaid 
with any such shares being held in escrow 
until this time. For accounting purposes, 
the granting of the LRL is considered to be 
a modification to the existing option. Any 
increase in the fair value of the option is 
recognised as an expense immediately at 
the date the limited recourse loan is granted.

If the employee fails to repay the loan, 
Nearmap takes security over the option 
shares and can sell some or all of the shares 
to repay the loan. In the event that the shares 
are sold for an amount less than the amount 
of the loan and any interest, the employee 
is only required to repay the loan and any 
interest to the amount of the sale proceeds. 
Nearmap has no other recourse against  
the employee.

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COMPENSATION OPTIONS (CONT.)

BALANCE
AT 1 JULY 
2018

GRANTED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

LAPSED OR 
FORFEITED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

EXERCISED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

BALANCE 
AT  
30 JUNE 
2019

 VESTED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD 

UNVESTED 
AT 
BALANCE 
DATE 

GRANT 
DATE

VALUE PER 
OPTION/
SHARE AT 
GRANT 
DATE1  
$

EXERCISE 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(OPTIONS)/
CURRENT 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(LOANS)  
$

VESTING 
DATE

EXPIRY 
DATE

VALUE 
EXERCISED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD2  
$

E. SHARE BASED COMPENSATION (CONT.)

COMPENSATION OPTIONS (CONT.)

BALANCE
AT 1 JULY
2018

GRANTED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

LAPSED OR 
FORFEITED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

EXERCISED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

BALANCE 
AT  
30 JUNE
2019

 VESTED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD 

UNVESTED 
AT 
BALANCE 
DATE 

GRANT 
DATE

VALUE PER 
OPTION/
SHARE AT 
GRANT 
DATE1  
$

EXERCISE 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(OPTIONS)/
CURRENT 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(LOANS)  
$

VESTING 
DATE

EXPIRY 
DATE

VALUE 
EXERCISED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD2  
$

DIRECTORS

P James

- Options

833,334

R Newman

- Options3 1,000,000

- Options3

666,667

- Options

666,667

- Options

933,908

-

-

-

-

-

- Options

-

556,009

I Morris

- Options

500,000

C Rosenberg

- Options

500,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1,000,000

666,667

-

-

-

-

-

833,334

833,334

- Mar 16

0.0920

0.55 Mar 19 Mar 20

-

-

-

666,667

933,908

556,009

-

-

-

-

-

- Nov 15

0.0970

0.56 Nov 18 Nov 19

1,140,000

- Nov 16

0.1633

1.06

Dec 18 Dec 20

426,667

666,667 Nov 16

0.2191

1.06

Dec 19 Dec 20

933,908 Nov 17

0.2490

0.71 Nov 20 Nov 21

556,009 Nov 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

500,000

500,000

- Mar 16

0.1312

0.40 Mar 19 Mar 20

-

-

-

-

1 AASB 2 accounting value determined at grant date.
2 Value determined based on the share price at exercise date less exercise price.
3 The exercise of these options was funded through the grant of an LRL under the Employee Loan Scheme.

500,000

-

-

- Nov 15

0.0970

0.56 Nov 18 Nov 19

1,045,000

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

T Agresta

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

12,500

- Options

142,112

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

100,000

100,000

100,000

324,534

- Options

- Options

- Options

- Options

A Watt

- Options3

833,333

- Options

833,334

- Options

556,753

-

-

-

- Options

-

346,774

S Preston

- Options3

258,345

- Options

258,345

- Options

538,793

-

-

-

- Options

-

346,774

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

12,500

12,500

12,500

12,500

142,112

100,000

100,000

100,000

324,534

833,333

-

-

-

-

833,334

556,753

346,774

258,345

-

-

-

-

258,345

538,793

346,774

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

12,500

12,500

12,500

12,500

12,500

12,500

12,500

12,500

-

-

-

-

Jul 16

0.2376

0.41

Sep 18

Jun 21

Jul 16

0.2458

0.41

Dec 18

Jun 21

Jul 16

0.2535

0.41 Mar 19

Jun 21

Jul 16

0.2608

0.41

Jun 19

Jun 21

12,500

Jul 16

0.2678

0.41

Sep 19

Jun 21

12,500

Jul 16

0.2744

0.41

Dec 19

Jun 21

12,500

Jul 16

0.2807

0.41 Mar 20

Jun 21

12,500

Jul 16

0.2868

0.41

Jun 20

Jun 21

142,112 Dec 17

0.2490

0.81 Nov 20 Nov 21

100,000

Jul 18

0.2134

100,000

Jul 18

0.3032

100,000

Jul 18

0.3710

1.12

1.12

1.12

Jul 19

Jul 22

Jul 20

Jul 22

Jul 21

Jul 22

324,534 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

- Dec 16

0.1679

0.93

Dec 18 Dec 20

1,258,333

833,334 Dec 16

0.2241

0.93

Dec 19 Dec 20

556,753 Nov 17

0.2490

0.71 Nov 20 Nov 21

346,774 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

-

-

-

- Mar 17

0.1217

0.64 Mar 19 Mar 21

754,367

258,345 Mar 17

0.1614

0.64 Mar 20 Mar 21

538,793 Nov 17

0.2490

0.71 Nov 20 Nov 21

346,774 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

-

-

-

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1 AASB 2 accounting value determined at grant date.
2 Value determined based on the share price at exercise date less exercise price.
3 The exercise of these options was funded through the grant of an LRL under the Employee Loan Scheme. 

DIRECTORS’ REPORTREMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED)DIRECTORS’ REPORTREMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED)E. SHARE BASED COMPENSATION (CONT.)

COMPENSATION OPTIONS (CONT.)

BALANCE
AT 1 JULY
2018

GRANTED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

LAPSED OR 
FORFEITED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

EXERCISED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

BALANCE 
AT  
30 JUNE
2019

 VESTED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD 

UNVESTED 
AT 
BALANCE 
DATE 

GRANT 
DATE

VALUE PER 
OPTION/
SHARE AT 
GRANT 
DATE1  
$

EXERCISE 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(OPTIONS)/
CURRENT 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(LOANS)  
$

VESTING 
DATE

EXPIRY 
DATE

VALUE 
EXERCISED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD2  
$

E. SHARE BASED COMPENSATION (CONT.)

COMPENSATION OPTIONS (CONT.)

BALANCE
AT 1 JULY 
2018

GRANTED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

LAPSED OR 
FORFEITED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

EXERCISED 
DURING  
THE PERIOD

BALANCE 
AT  
30 JUNE 
2019

 VESTED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD 

UNVESTED 
AT 
BALANCE 
DATE 

GRANT 
DATE

VALUE PER 
OPTION/
SHARE AT 
GRANT 
DATE1  
$

EXERCISE 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(OPTIONS)/
CURRENT 
PRICE PER 
SHARE 
(LOANS)  
$

VESTING 
DATE

EXPIRY 
DATE

VALUE 
EXERCISED 
DURING 
THE 
PERIOD2  
$

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL (CONT.)

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL (CONT.)

S Steel

- Options3

232,510

- Options

232,511

- Options

422,055

-

-

-

- Options

-

250,032

P Quigley

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

93,750

- Options

639,507

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

- Options

-

493,856

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

232,510

-

-

-

-

232,511

422,055

250,032

-

-

-

-

- Mar 17

0.1217

0.64 Mar 19 Mar 21

467,345

232,511 Mar 17

0.1614

0.64 Mar 20 Mar 21

422,055 Nov 17

0.2490

0.71 Nov 20 Nov 21

250,032 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

-

-

-

6,250

87,500

87,500

- Feb 16

0.0618

0.39

Aug 18

Jan 21

19,250

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.0704

0.39

Aug 18 Nov 21

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.0790

0.39 Nov 18

Jan 21

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.0868

0.39 Nov 18 Nov 21

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.0939

0.39

Feb 19

Jan 21

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.1004

0.39

Feb 19 Nov 21

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.1065

0.39 May 19

Jan 21

93,750

93,750

- Feb 16

0.1122

0.39 May 19 Nov 21

93,750

93,750

93,750

93,750

93,750

93,750

93,750

93,750

93,750

639,507

493,856

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

93,750 Feb 16

0.1176

0.39

Aug 19

Jan 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1228

0.39

Aug 19 Nov 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1276

0.39 Nov 19

Jan 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1323

0.39 Nov 19 Nov 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1367

0.39

Feb 20

Jan 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1410

0.39

Feb 20 Nov 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1451

0.39 May 20 Nov 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1490

0.39

Aug 20 Nov 21

93,750 Feb 16

0.1528

0.39 Nov 20 Nov 21

639,507 Nov 17

0.2490

0.71 Nov 20 Nov 21

493,856 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1 AASB 2 accounting value determined at grant date.
2 Value determined based on the share price at exercise date less exercise price.
3 The exercise of these options was funded through the grant of an LRL under the Employee Loan Scheme. 

H Sanchez

- Options

- Options

- Options

- Options

T Celinski

-

-

-

-

120,000

120,000

120,000

300,949

- Options

333,000

- Options

333,000

- Options

334,000

-

-

-

- Options

-

377,324

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

L Rankin

- Options

83,334

- Options

333,334

- Options

172,230

- Options

172,230

- Options

466,954

-

-

-

-

-

83,334

333,334

172,230

172,230

466,954

-

-

-

-

120,000

120,000

120,000

300,949

333,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

333,000

334,000

377,324

-

-

-

-

-

1 AASB 2 accounting value determined at grant date.
2 Value determined based on the share price at exercise date less exercise price.

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

120,000 Oct 18

0.2867

1.65

Oct 19 Oct 22

120,000 Oct 18

0.4208

1.65

Oct 20 Oct 22

120,000 Oct 18

0.5218

1.65

Oct 21 Oct 22

300,949 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

-

-

-

-

- Feb 18

0.2512

0.82

Feb 19 Feb 22

1,072,260

333,000 Feb 18

0.3283

0.82

Feb 20 Feb 22

334,000 Feb 18

0.3863

0.82

Feb 21 Feb 22

377,324 Dec 18

0.4910

1.60 Nov 21 Nov 22

- Nov 15

0.0970

0.56 Nov 18 Nov 19

- May 16

0.1372

0.68 May 19 May 20

- Mar 17

0.1217

0.64 Mar 19 Mar 21

- Mar 17

0.1614

0.64 Mar 20 Mar 21

- Nov 17

0.2490

0.71 Nov 20 Nov 21

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

All options expire on the earlier of their 
expiry date or termination of the individual’s 
employment. In addition to a continuing 
employment service condition, vesting 
is conditional on the Group achieving 
certain performance hurdles. Details of the 
performance criteria are included in the long-
term incentives section on page 56.

Modification of Terms of Share-based 
Payment Transactions

A modification to the terms of share-based 
payment transactions occurs when the Board 
accepts a KMP’s loan request to exercise 
fully vested options under the Employee 
Loan Scheme through an LRL in lieu of cash 

payment of the exercise price. Please refer 
to Section F, Financial assistance under the 
Employee Share Option Plan, for details of 
the terms of the loans granted to these KMP. 

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SHARES HELD IN THE COMPANY 

During the year ended 30 June 2019, the 
number of shares held by key management 

personnel changed per the table below. 
This includes the issue of shares following 

the exercise of options previously granted as 
compensation.

DIRECTORS

P James

R Newman

I Morris

R Norgard

C Rosenberg

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

T Agresta

T Celinski

S Preston

P Quigley

S Steel

A Watt

BALANCE AT 
1 JULY 18

EXERCISE OF 
OPTIONS

AMOUNT  
PAID/OPTION

SHARE SOLD

BALANCE AT
 30 JUNE 19

BALANCE HELD 
NOMINALLY

282,000

7,000,000

-

50,076,295

3,301,000

-

-

-

-

232,510

833,333

1,000,000

2,333,333

750,000

-

500,000

100,000

333,000

516,689

850,000

232,510

833,333

$0.55

$0.56-$1.06

$0.40

-

$0.56

$0.41

$0.82

$0.64

$0.39

$0.64

$0.93

-

(400,000)

(600,000)

1,282,000

8,933,333

150,000

1,282,000

8,933,333

150,000

(2,000,000)

48,076,295

48,036,295

(600,000)

3,201,000

3,201,000

(100,000)

(333,000)

-

-

-

-

-

516,689

516,689

(850,000)

-

-

-

465,020

1,666,666

-

465,020

1,666,666

There are no amounts unpaid on the shares as a result of the exercise of the options in the year ended 30 June 2019.

LOAN SHARES HELD IN THE COMPANY

The shares held in the Company include  
loan shares as follows:

30 JUNE 2019

DIRECTORS

R Newman1

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

S Preston

S Steel

A Watt

BALANCE AT 
1 JULY 18

EXERCISE OF 
OPTIONS

NET OTHER 
CHANGE

BALANCE AT
 30 JUNE 19

BALANCE HELD 
NOMINALLY

2,000,000

2,333,333

(400,000)

3,933,333

3,933,333

-

232,510

833,333

516,689

232,510

833,333

-

-

-

516,689

465,020

516,689

465,020

1,666,666

1,666,666

1 During the year ended 30 June 2019, LRLs relating to 400,000 shares were repaid, releasing the shares from holding lock.

F. TRANSACTIONS OF KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL (CONT.)

Financial assistance under the  
Employee Share Option Plan

LRLs advanced to KMP during the year 
ended 30 June 2019 amounted to 
$3,227,820 (2018: $1,483,806). Interest on  
the loans during the period has been 
accrued at a rate of between 1.50% and 
1.70%. The loans are not recognised. 

OPTIONS OVER SHARES HELD  
IN THE COMPANY 

The movement during the reporting period 
by number of options on ordinary shares 
held directly or indirectly by each key 
management person is as follows:

BALANCE AT 
1 JULY 18

GRANTED AS 
COMPENSATION

EXERCISED

LAPSED FOREFEITED BALANCE AT 
30 JUNE 19

VESTED 
DURING  
THE YEAR

VESTED AND 
EXERCISABLE 
AT 30 JUNE 19

DIRECTORS

P James

R Newman

I Morris

C Rosenberg

2,500,000

3,933,908

1,500,000

500,000

-

1,000,000

556,009

2,333,333

-

-

750,000

500,000

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

T Agresta

T Celinski

S Preston

P Quigley

H Sanchez

S Steel

A Watt

L Rankin

342,112

1,000,000

1,313,828

3,639,507

624,534

100,000

377,324

333,000

346,774

516,689

493,856

850,000

-

660,949

-

887,076

2,223,420

2,533,644

250,032

232,510

346,774

833,333

-

1,305,562

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1,500,000

833,334

1,500,000

2,156,584

-

-

750,000

500,000

750,000

-

-

-

866,646

50,000

50,000

1,044,324

1,143,913

-

-

-

-

3,283,363

743,750

1,306,250

660,949

904,598

1,736,861

1,228,082

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

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G. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

MODIFICATION OF TERMS 
OF SHARE BASED PAYMENT 
TRANSACTIONS

AASB2 Share-based Payments requires 
that the grant of LRLs for the settlement 
of share options shall be considered as a 
modification to the valuation of the options. 

The standard also requires that any increase 
in the fair value of the modified option to be 
recognised in the Consolidated Statement 
of Comprehensive Income. During the year 
ended 30 June 2019, the following share-
based payment transactions were modified 
as a result of an LRL:

GRANT  
DATE

NUMBER OF  
OPTIONS GRANTED

EXERCISE PRICE  
AT GRANT DATE

VESTING  
DATE

EXPIRY  
DATE

ORIGINAL FAIR  
VALUE

ORIGINAL VALUATION INPUTS

DIRECTORS

R Newman

R Newman

R Newman

Nov 16

Nov 16

Nov 15

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

S Preston

S Preston

S Steel

A Watt

Mar 17

Mar 17

Mar 17

Dec 16

666,666

666,667

1,000,000

258,345

258,345

232,510

833,333

$1.06

$1.06

$0.56

$0.64

$0.64

$0.64

$0.93

Nov 17

Nov 18

Nov 18

Mar 18

Mar 19

Mar 19

Dec 18

Nov 20

Nov 20

Nov 19

Mar 21

Mar 21

Mar 21

Dec 20

$473,333

$1,035,000

$356,667

$291,929

$754,367

$467,345

$1,391,666

DATE OF 
MODIFICATION

VALUE PER  
SHARE/OPTION  
AT MODIFICATION 
DATE

EXPECTED 
LOAN LIFE 
(YEARS)

MODIFIED 
EXERCISE  
PRICE

LOAN  
INTEREST  
RATE

RISK FREE 
INTEREST 
RATE

EXPECTED 
VOLATILITY

MODIFIED 
FAIR VALUE

INCREMENTAL 
VALUE

VALUATION INPUTS

DIRECTORS

R Newman

R Newman

R Newman

Sep 18

Dec 18

Dec 18

OTHER KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

S Preston

S Preston

S Steel

A Watt

Sep 18

Apr 19

Mar 19

Feb 19

70     DIRECTORS’ REPORT

$1.77

$1.60

$1.60

$1.77

$3.56

$2.65

$2.60

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

$1.10

$1.10

$0.58

$0.66

$0.66

$0.66

$0.96

1.70%

1.70%

1.70%

1.70%

1.70%

1.70%

1.70%

2.14%

2.02%

2.02%

2.14%

1.35%

1.43%

1.67%

54.05%

$577,955

$104,622

51.14% $1,059,868

$24,868

51.14%

$467,620

$110,953

54.05%

$301,711

50.41%

$754,008

51.57%

$468,702

$9,782

($359)

$1,357

52.23% $1,425,686

$34,020

The Company has applied the fair value 
measurement provisions of AASB 2 Share-
based Payment for all options granted to 
Directors and employees. The fair value 
of such grants is being amortised and 
disclosed as part of Director and employee 
remuneration on a straight-line basis over the 

vesting period. The fair value of executive 
option plans at grant date is determined 
using a Black-Scholes, Binomial or Monte 
Carlo option pricing model depending on 
the terms and conditions of each option, 
that takes into account the exercise price, 
the term of the option, the vesting and 

performance criteria, the impact of dilution, 
the non-tradeable nature of the option, 
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. 

H. SHARES UNDER OPTION

All unissued ordinary shares of the Company 
under option (relating to key management 
personnel and other personnel) as at  
30 June 2019:

DATE OPTIONS GRANTED

EXPIRY DATE

EXERCISE PRICE OF OPTIONS

NUMBER UNDER OPTION

30-Nov-15

30-Nov-15

1-Feb-16

1-Feb-16

18-Mar-16

18-Mar-16

20-Jul-16

2-Dec-16

14-Dec-16

30-Jun-17

16-Nov-17

7-Feb-18

16-Feb-18

25-Jul-18

12-Oct-18

4-Dec-18

14-Jan-19

30-Nov-19

30-Nov-20

31-Jan-21

30-Nov-21

18-Mar-20

18-Mar-20

28-Jun-21

2-Dec-20

12-Dec-20

20-Mar-21

16-Nov-21

16-Nov-21

16-Feb-22

9-Jul-22

8-Oct-22

15-Nov-22

2-Jan-23

$0.56

$0.40

$0.39

$0.39

$0.40

$0.55

$0.41

$1.06

$0.93

$0.64

$0.71

$0.71

$0.82

$1.12

$1.65

$1.60

$1.53   

300,000

152,000

650,000

1,500,000

750,000

1,500,000

100,000

666,667

833,334

490,856

4,032,036

106,196

667,000

300,000

360,000

3,679,095

250,000 

16,337,184

This is the end of the audited remuneration report.

DIRECTORS’ REPORT     71

DIRECTORS’ REPORTREMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED)DIRECTORS’ REPORTREMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED)  
LEAD AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION

The lead auditor’s independence declaration is set out on page 75 
and forms part of the Directors’ Report for the financial year ended 
30 June 2019.

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors.

On behalf of the Board

DR R NEWMAN

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

20 August 2019 

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Melbourne VIC Australia

Lead Auditor’s Independence Declaration under
Section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 

To the Directors of Nearmap Limited 

I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, in relation to the audit of Nearmap Limited for the 
financial year ended 30 June 2019 there have been: 

Lead Auditor’s Independence Declaration under
Section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 

no contraventions of the auditor independence requirements as set out in the 
Corporations Act 2001 in relation to the audit; and 

i.

ii.

no contraventions of any applicable code of professional conduct in relation to the audit. 

To the Directors of Nearmap Limited 

I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, in relation to the audit of Nearmap Limited for the 
financial year ended 30 June 2019 there have been: 

KPMG 

i.

ii.

no contraventions of the auditor independence requirements as set out in the 
Corporations Act 2001 in relation to the audit; and 

Caoimhe Toouli 

no contraventions of any applicable code of professional conduct in relation to the audit. 

Partner 

Sydney 

20 August 2019 

KPMG 

Caoimhe Toouli 

Partner 

Sydney 

20 August 2019 

KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG 
network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG 
International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under 
Professional Standards Legislation.

KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG 
network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG 
International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under 
Professional Standards Legislation.

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 CONSOLIDATED

Revenue

Other income

TOTAL REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME

Employee benefits expense

Amortisation and depreciation

Net foreign exchange differences

Other operational expenses

TOTAL EXPENSES

LOSS BEFORE TAX

Income tax expense

LOSS AFTER TAX

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

Items that may be reclassified to profit or loss

Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations

Fair value (loss)/gain on cash flow hedges

Income tax associated with these items

NOTES 

3

3

4

 4 

4

6

2019
$’000

77,642

1,733 

79,375

(36,843)

(26,659)

(191)

(25,519)

(89,212)

(9,837)

(5,097)

(14,934)

194

(26) 

8

2018
$’000

53,553

587 

54,140

(31,005)

(13,257)

(189)

(17,916)

(62,367)

(8,227)

(2,802)

(11,029)

(285)

334 

(100)

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY

(14,758)

(11,080)

LOSS PER SHARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ORDINARY EQUITY HOLDERS OF THE COMPANY

Basic loss per share (cents per share) 

Diluted loss per share (cents per share)

14

14

(3.43)

(3.43)

(2.84)

(2.84)

The above consolidated statement of comprehensive income should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

CURRENT ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade receivables

Other current receivables

Other current assets

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS

NON-CURRENT ASSETS

Plant and equipment

Intangible assets

Deferred tax assets

TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS

TOTAL ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Trade and other payables

Unearned revenue

Employee benefits

Other current liabilities

Current tax liabilities

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES

Deferred tax liabilities

Employee benefits

Other non-current liabilities

TOTAL NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES

TOTAL LIABILITIES

NET ASSETS

EQUITY

Contributed equity

Reserves

Profits reserve

Accumulated losses 

TOTAL EQUITY

78     FINANCIAL REPORT

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

NOTES

13

9

12

11

6

 6

8

2019
$’000 

75,914 

14,535 

3,078 

2,663 

96,190 

16,782 

42,132 

3,086

62,000

2018
$’000 

17,530 

10,116 

1,386 

2,506 

31,538 

11,983 

36,299 

2,667

50,949

158,190

82,487

3,777

42,034

5,701

5,446

2,107

59,065

10,190

280 

1,002 

11,472

1,525

33,911

5,116

2,711

337

43,600

8,554

163 

1,176 

9,893

70,537

53,493

87,653

28,994

124,617 

14,843 

7,078 

(58,885)

87,653

52,995 

12,983 

7,078 

(44,062)

28,994

FINANCIAL REPORT     79

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION   AS AT 30 JUNE 2019 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF 
CHANGES IN EQUITY  
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF 
OF CASH FLOWS   
AS AT 30 JUNE 2019

CONSOLIDATED AT 30 JUNE 2018 

Adjustment on initial application of AASB15

CONSOLIDATED AT 1 JULY 2018

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income: 

Fair value gain/loss on cash flow hedges

Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations 

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR 

Transactions with owners of the Company: 

Share issue 

Share options exercised

Repayment of limited recourse loans

Share-based payment transactions 

Treasury shares acquired 

AT 30 JUNE 2019 

8

8

8

8

NOTES CONTRIBUTED 
EQUITY

ACCUMULATED 
LOSSES

PROFITS 
RESERVE

$’000

52,995

-

52,995

-

-

-

-  

68,228

3,210

381

- 

(197) 

$’000

(44,062)

111

(43,951)

(14,934)

-

-

(14,934)

-

-

-

-

-

$’000

7,078

-

7,078

-

-

-

-  

-

-

-

-

-

SHARE BASED 
PAYMENTS 
RESERVE
$’000

OTHER 
RESERVES

TOTAL
EQUITY

$’000

$’000

13,369

(386)

28,994

-

-

111

13,369

(386)

29,105

-

-

-

-  

-

-

-

1,684

-

-

(14,934)

(18)

194

(18)

194

176

(14,758)

-

-

-

-

-

68,228

3,210

381

1,684

(197)

124,617

(58,885)

7,078

15,053

(210)

87,653

CONSOLIDATED AT 1 JULY 2017

Loss for the year

Other comprehensive income:

Changes in fair value of cash flow hedges

Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR

Transactions with owners of the Company:

Share options exercised

Share-based payment transactions

AT 30 JUNE 2018

NOTES CONTRIBUTED 
EQUITY

ACCUMULATED 
LOSSES

PROFITS 
RESERVE

$’000

51,446

-

-

-

-  

8

1,549 

 - 

$’000

(33,033)

(11,029)

-

-

(11,029)

-

-

$’000

7,078

-

-

-

-  

-

-

SHARE BASED 
PAYMENTS 
RESERVE
$’000

OTHER 
RESERVES

TOTAL
EQUITY

$’000

$’000

12,002

(335)

37,158

-

-

-

-  

-

1,367

-

(11,029)

234

(285)

234

(285)

(51)

(11,080)

-

-

1,549

1,367

52,995

(44,062)

7,078

13,369

(386)

28,994

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

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Receipts from customers

Payments to suppliers and employees1

Interest received

Other receipts

Income taxes paid

NOTES 

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

86,866 

(62,517)

1,404 

21 

(875)

2018
$’000

64,201 

(50,494)

374 

82 

(428)

NET CASH FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

13

24,899 

13,735

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Purchase of plant and equipment

Payments for development costs

Payments for capture costs1

Proceeds from sale of plant and equipment

Proceeds from sale of unlisted investments

NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES

Proceeds from share offer

Proceeds from exercise of share options

Proceeds from exercise of loans share options

Payment of treasury shares

NET CASH FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES

NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

Effect of movement in exchange rates on cash held

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT END OF YEAR

13

(8,238)

(8,926)

(20,133)

14 

150 

(4,121)

(5,670)

(16,467)

291

-

(37,133)

(25,967)

67,146 

3,210 

381 

(197)

70,540   

58,306 

17,530 

78

75,914 

-  

1,549 

-  

-

1,549

(10,683)

28,338

(125) 

17,530 

1  Capture costs in Australia/New Zealand and the US/Canada of $3,877k and $16,256k respectively (2018: $3,001k and $13,466k) were previously included within Net Cash from 

Operating Activities and have been reclassified to Net Cash from Investing Activities to better reflect the nature of the related asset which is capitalised.

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

80     FINANCIAL REPORT

FINANCIAL REPORT     81

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The notes include information which is required to understand the financial statements and is material and relevant to the operations, financial 
position and performance of the Group. The notes are organised into the following sections:

A. BASIS OF 
PREPARATION

B. KEY FINANCIAL 
RESULTS

C. CAPITAL STRUCTURE 
AND FINANCIAL RISK 
MANAGEMENT

D. INVESTING 
ACTIVITIES

E. OTHER

1. Reporting entity

3.  Segment results, revenue 

8. Capital and reserves

11. Intangibles

14. Earnings per share

and other income

2.  Summary of significant 
accounting policies

4. Expenses

9.  Financial instruments – fair 
value and risk management

12. Plant and equipment

15. Expenditure commitments

5.  Share based payment 

plan

6. Income tax

7. Lease incentive

10.  Dividends paid on 
ordinary shares

13.  Cash flow 

reconciliation

16. Parent entity information

17. Group entities

18. Auditor’s remuneration

19. Related parties

20. Contingent liabilities

21. Subsequent events

A. BASIS OF PREPARATION

IN THIS SECTION

This section sets out the basis upon which the Group’s financial statements are prepared as a whole. Specific accounting policies are 
described in their respective notes to the financial statements. This section also shows information on new accounting standards, 
amendments and interpretations, and whether they are effective in 2019 or later years. We explain how these changes are expected to 
impact the financial position and performance of the Group. 

The financial report has been prepared on a going concern basis based on the Group’s cash flows for the current year and estimated 
profits and cash flows for future years.

1. REPORTING ENTITY

Nearmap Ltd (the “Company”) is a company 
domiciled in Australia. These consolidated 
financial statements for the year ended 30 
June 2019 comprise the Company and its 
subsidiaries (together referred to as the 
“Group”).  The principal activity of the Group 
during the course of the financial year was 
online aerial photomapping via its 100% 
owned subsidiaries, Nearmap Australia 
Pty Ltd, Nearmap US, Inc. and Nearmap 
Remote Sensing US, Inc.

2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT 
ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of accounting

The consolidated financial statements 
are general purpose financial statements 
which have been prepared in accordance 
with Australian Accounting Standards 
(AASBs) issued by the Australian Accounting 
Standards Board (AASB) and the 
Corporations Act 2001. The consolidated 
financial statements also comply with 

International Financial Reporting Standards 
(IFRS) as issued by the International 
Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The 
consolidated financial statements have been 
prepared on a historical cost basis, except 
for the revaluation of derivative financial 
instruments and share based payments. 
Cost is based on the fair values of the 
consideration given in exchange for assets. 

All amounts are presented in Australian 
dollars, unless otherwise noted.

FINANCIAL REPORT     83

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019A. BASIS OF PREPARATION (CONT.)

Statement of Compliance

The consolidated financial statements 
have been prepared in accordance with 
International Financial Reporting Standards.

The Group is of a kind referred to in ASIC 
Corporations (Rounding in Financial/
Directors’ Reports) Instrument 2016/191 
and in accordance with that instrument, 
amounts in the consolidated financial report 
and Directors’ report have been rounded 
off to the nearest thousand dollars, unless 
otherwise stated.

The consolidated financial statements for the 
year ended 30 June 2019 were authorised for 
issue in accordance with a resolution of the 
Directors on 20 August 2019.

Going concern

The consolidated financial statements have 
been prepared on a going concern basis 
which assumes that the Group will continue its 
operations and be able to meet its obligations 
as and when they become due and payable. 
This assumption is based on analysis of the 
Group’s ability to meet its future cashflow 
requirements using its projected cash flows 
from operations and existing cash reserves 
held at the balance sheet date.

Basis of consolidation

The financial statements of subsidiaries are 
prepared for the same reporting period 
as the parent company, using consistent 
accounting policies.

In preparing the consolidated financial 
statements, all intercompany balances and 
transactions, income and expenses and 
profit and losses resulting from intra-group 
transactions have been eliminated.

Subsidiaries are entities controlled by the 
Company. The Company controls an entity 
when it is exposed to, or has rights to, variable 
returns from its involvement with the entity 
and has the ability to affect those returns

84     FINANCIAL REPORT

through its power over the entity. The financial 
statements of subsidiaries are included in the 
consolidated financial statements from the 
date that control commences until the date 
that control ceases. 

When the Company ceases to have control, 
joint control or significant influence, any 
retained interest in the entity is remeasured 
to its fair value with the change in carrying 
amount recognised in profit or loss. The fair 
value is the initial carrying amount for the 
purposes of subsequently accounting for 
the retained interest as an associate, jointly 
controlled entity or financial asset. In addition, 
any amounts previously recognised in other 
comprehensive income in respect of that 
entity are accounted for as if the Company 
had directly disposed of the related assets 
or liabilities. This may mean that amounts 
previously recognised in other comprehensive 
income are reclassified to profit or loss. 

Significant accounting judgments, 
estimates and assumptions

In preparing these consolidated financial 
statements, the Company makes 
judgements, estimates and assumptions that 
affect the application of accounting policies 
and the reported amounts of assets and 
liabilities, income and expense. Actual results 
may differ from these estimates. 

The significant judgements made by 
the Company in applying the Group’s 
accounting policies and the key sources 
of estimation uncertainty were the same 
as those that applied to the consolidated 
financial statements for the year ended  
30 June 2018.

The key judgments and estimates which are 
material to the financial report are found in 
the following notes:

•  Note 5: Share based payments

•  Note 6: Income tax

•  Note 11: Intangibles

Foreign currencies

(i) Foreign currency transactions

Both the functional and presentation 
currency of the Company and its Australian 
subsidiaries is Australian dollars (A$). Each 
entity in the Group determines its own 
functional currency and items included in 
the financial statements of each entity are 
measured using that functional currency.

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially 
recorded in the functional currency at the 
exchange rates ruling at the date of the 
transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities 
denominated in foreign currencies are 
translated into the functional currency at the 
exchange rate at the reporting date. 

Non-monetary items measured at fair value 
in a foreign currency are translated using 
the exchange rates at the date when the fair 
value was determined. Non-monetary items 
that are measured in terms of historical cost 
in a foreign currency are translated using the 
exchange rate as at the date of the initial 
transaction.

Foreign currency differences are generally 
recognised in profit or loss. However, 
foreign currency differences arising from the 
translation of qualifying cash flow hedges 
(to the extent that the hedges are effective) 
and foreign currency differences arising 
from monetary items that in substance form 
part of the net investment in the foreign 
operations are recognised in other reserves 
in Other Comprehensive Income (OCI).

(ii) Foreign operations

The assets and liabilities of foreign 
operations are translated into Australian 
dollars at the exchange rates at the reporting 
date. The income and expenses of foreign 
operations are translated into Australian 
dollars at the exchange rates at the dates of 
the transactions. Foreign currency differences 
are recognised in OCI and presented in the 

A. BASIS OF PREPARATION (CONT.)

Foreign Currency Translation Reserve (FCTR) 
included in Other Reserves in Equity. When 
a foreign operation is disposed of, in part 
or in full, the relevant amount in the FCTR is 
transferred to the Income Statement as part 
of the profit or loss on disposal. 

Changes in accounting policies and  
new standards and interpretations not  
yet adopted

AASB 16 Leases

The new standard replaces AASB 117 Leases 
and is mandatory for the Group’s 30 June 
2020 financial statements. It introduces a 
single lessee accounting model and requires 
a lessee to recognise assets and liabilities 
for all assets with a term of more than 12 
months, unless the underlying asset is of 
low value. Under the standard, a right of 
use asset is recognised, representing the 
lessee’s right to use the underlying leased 
asset. A corresponding liability is recognised, 
representing the obligation to make lease 
payments.

Under the new standard, Nearmap 
recognises building leases as a right of use 
asset and lease liability. At lease inception, the 
lease liability is measured at the present value 
of the remaining lease payments, discounted 
at Nearmap’s incremental borrowing rate. 
The unwind of the discount applied on 
recognition of a lease liability is recognised 
as interest expense in the Income Statement 
using the effective interest method.

Right of use assets are measured at inception 
comprising the following:

•  The amount of initial measurement of 

lease liability;

•  Any lease payments made at or before 

the commencement date, less any lease 
incentives received; and

The Group expects to transition to the new 
standard adopting a modified retrospective 
approach and therefore comparative 
information will not be re-stated. 

As at the end of the reporting period, the 
Group had non-cancellable, undiscounted 
operating lease commitments of $8,306k 
(2018: $10,648k) as disclosed in Note 15.

Based on the Group’s assessment, as at 1 
July 2019, there will be a material increase in 
lease assets and lease liabilities recognised in 
the statement of financial position. Amounts 
are approximated as:

-  Recognition of new lease liabilities of 

$6.2 million to $6.5 million; and

-  Recognition of Right of Use (ROU) assets 

of $5.8 million to $6.3 million.

The difference will be adjusted against 
opening Retained Earnings resulting in a 
reduction in Equity of $0.2m to $0.6m. 

The adoption of AASB 16 is also expected 
to result in a reclassification in the Statement 
of Cash Flows as operating cash outflows 
will be lower and financing cash outflows 
will be higher as principal repayments on all 
lease liabilities will be included in financing 
activities rather than operating activities.

Amendments to the accounting 
standards and new interpretations that 
are mandatorily effective for the current 
reporting period

AASB 9 Financial Instruments

AASB 9 ‘Financial Instruments’ replaces 
AASB 139 ’Financial Instruments: 
Recognition and Measurement’. The new 
standard includes three areas of change:

1.  Classification and measurement of 

financial instruments

2.  A single forward looking ‘expected loss’ 

•  Any initial direct costs and restoration costs.

impairment model

3. A new approach to hedge accounting

Classification and measurement
AASB 9 largely retains the existing 
requirements in AASB 139 for the classification 
and measurement of financial liabilities. 
However, it eliminates the previous AASB 
139 categories for financial assets of held to 
maturity, loans and receivables, and available 
for sale. Under AASB 9, on initial recognition, 
a financial asset is classified as measured 
at amortised cost, fair value through other 
comprehensive income – debt investment, 
fair value through other comprehensive 
income – equity investment, or fair value 
through profit or loss. Nearmap does not hold 
any loans, therefore AASB 9 only applies to 
the measurement of the trade receivables and 
this will continue to be recognised under the 
amortised cost model. The adoption of the 
new categories has no significant impact on 
the Group’s financial statements.

New impairment model
For financial assets, AASB 9 replaces the 
‘incurred loss’ model in AASB 139 with 
an ‘expected credit loss’ (ECL) model. 
Additional information on the recognition 
of impairment losses under AASB 9 is 
included in Note 9. The adoption of the ECL 
requirements of AASB 9 had no significant 
impact to the impairment allowances of 
Nearmap Ltd’s trade receivables.

Hedge accounting
The Group applied the changes to hedge 
accounting under AASB 9 prospectively. At 
the date of the initial application, all of the 
Group’s existing hedge relationships were 
eligible to be treated as continuing hedge 
relationships. Consistent with prior periods, 
the Group has continued to designate the 
change in fair value of foreign exchange 
hedge derivative assets and liabilities in the 
Group’s cash flow hedge relationships. As 
such, the adoption of the hedge accounting 
requirements of AASB 9 has no significant 
impact on the Group’s financial statements.

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A. BASIS OF PREPARATION (CONT.)

AASB 15 Revenue from Contracts  
with Customers

AASB 15 ‘Revenue from Contracts with 
Customers’ establishes a comprehensive 
framework for the recognition of revenue 
from contracts with customers based on 
the principle that an entity should recognise 
revenue representing the transfer of 
promised goods or services as an amount 
that reflects the consideration the entity 
expects to be entitled to in exchange for 
those goods or services.

Revenue recognition and measurement

The Company derives its revenue primarily 
from the subscription fees for its online 
location intelligence services and, to a lesser 
extent, on-demand and royalty services. 
Revenue is reported net of applicable GST. 
Revenue is recognised when control of these 
services is transferred to the Company’s 
customers, in an amount that reflects the 
consideration the Company expects to be 
entitled to in an exchange for those services.

The Company determines revenue 
recognition through the following five steps:

•  Identification of the contract, or contracts, 

with a customer

•  Identification of the performance 

obligations in the contract

•  Determination of the transaction price

•  Allocation of the transaction price to the 
performance obligations in the contract

•  Recognition of revenue when, or as, 
performance obligations are satisfied

The Company accounts for a contract when 
it has approval and commitment from both 
parties, the rights of the parties are identified, 
payment terms are identified, the contract 
has commercial substance and collectability 
of consideration is probable.

The following specific revenue recognition 
criteria must also be met before revenue is 
recognised:

•  Revenue from the Company’s subscription 

services is recognised over time on a 
rateable basis over the contract term 
beginning on the date that the Company’s 
service is made available to the customer. 
Subscription periods are typically annual 
or multi-year in duration, are billed in 
advance and are non-refundable.

 Revenue from the Company’s subscription 
services represents a single promise to 
provide continuous access to its digital 
aerial imagery. As each day of providing 
access to the software is substantially the 
same and the customer simultaneously 
receives and consumes the benefit as 
access is provided, the Company has 
determined that its subscriptions  
services arrangement include a single 
performance obligation comprised of a 
series of distinct services.

 The majority of the Group’s customers 
access images online through an annual 
subscription. Revenue recognition for 
these products remained unchanged 
as a result of the adoption by the Group 
of AASB 15. AASB 15 principally affects 
the timing of revenue recognition for 
the Group’s multi-year payment ramp 
contracts. Prior to the adoption of AASB 
15, the revenue for these contracts 
mirrored the billing cycle and was 
recognised over the duration of the 
contract. Applying AASB 15, revenue 
continues to be recognised over time and 
is calculated as the total contract value 
amortised over the contract period. 

•  On-demand revenue: is recognised in 
accordance to when the performance 
obligation of the delivery of the 

predetermined content to the customer is 
met. Control of the product is when access 
to the content is given and continues until 
subscription end date/delete or destroy 
date specified in the contract. 

•  Royalty income: is earned through third 
parties who sell Nearmap imagery on 
behalf of the Group. It is recognised when 
the performance obligation to which the 
royalty relates has been satisfied.

•  Grant income: is the New South Wales 

payroll grant of $21k received from Office 
of State Revenue. It is recognised when 
incremental headcounts are hired for new 
jobs created.

•  Interest income: is recognised as interest 

accrues using the effective interest method. 

•  Unearned revenue: prepaid amounts 

received from customers in advance are 
deferred to the relevant future subscription 
agreement periods. Unearned revenue 
comprises aerial imagery subscription 
license service fees charged, the revenue 
for which is primarily recognised in the 
profit or loss over the subscription period. 
Unearned revenue at 30 June 2019 was 
$42,034k (30 June 2018: $33,911k). 

Impact of adoption

The Group has adopted AASB 15 effective 
1 July 2018 using the modified retrospective 
approach. Using this approach, on initial 
application, the Group has recognised an 
adjustment to opening retained earnings. 
Accordingly, the information presented 
for the year ended 30 June 2018 has not 
been restated and has been presented as 
previously reported under AASB 118 and 
related interpretations.

86     FINANCIAL REPORT

A. BASIS OF PREPARATION (CONT.)

The following table summarises the impact 
of transition to AASB 15 on unearned income 
and accumulated losses as at 1 July 2018:

Unearned income

TOTAL LIABILITIES IMPACT

Accumulated losses

TOTAL EQUITY IMPACT

AS REPORTED  
30 JUNE 2018 
$’000

AASB 15 TRANSITION  
ADJUSTMENTS 
$’000

ADJUSTED OPENING 
BALANCE 1 JULY 2018
$’000

33,911 

33,911 

(44,062)

(44,062)

(111)

(111)

111 

111 

33,800 

33,800 

(43,951)

(43,951)

The adoption of AASB15 did not affect the 
Company’s reported total amounts of cash 
flows from operating, investing or financial 
activities in its consolidated statement of 
cash flows.

Disaggregation of revenue

The Company disaggregates revenue from 
contracts with customers by geography and 
by industry grouping, as it believes it best 

depicts how the nature, amount, timing and 
uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are 
affected by economic factors. The Company’s 
revenue by geography (based on customer 
billing address) and industry is as follows:

TYPES OF REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME

Subscription revenue

On-demand revenue

Royalty income

Interest income

Gain on sale of unlisted investments

Grant income

Gain on disposal of assets 

2019
$’000

76,991

134 

517 

77,642 

1,553 

150

21 

9 

2018
$’000

53,412 

38

103

53,553 

369 

-

82 

136 

TOTAL REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME 

79,375 

54,140 

PRIMARY GEOGRAPHICAL MARKETS

ANZ

North America

Unallocated

TOTAL REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME 

 53,173 

 24,469 

 1,733 

 79,375 

42,955 

10,598 

587 

54,140 

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A. BASIS OF PREPARATION (CONT.)

SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE BY INDUSTRY

Architecture, Construction & Engineering

Commercial/Other

Government 

Utilities

Insurance & Property

Solar

TOTAL SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE 

2019
$’000

20,536

17,517

11,158

9,913

 10,934

 6,933

76,991

2018
$’000

17,065

9,852

8,052

7,703

5,491

5,250

53,412

Contract balances

Contract assets

Contract assets primarily relate to unbilled 
amounts typically resulting from sales 
contracts where revenue recognised 
exceeds the amount billed to the customer, 
and the right to payment is not just subject 
to the passage of time. The contract asset is 
transferred to trade receivable when the right 

becomes unconditional. The Company has 
$1,489k contract assets as at 30 June 2019 
which are recognised within trade receivable. 

Contract liabilities (unearned revenue)

Unearned revenue primarily consists of billings 
and payments received in advance of revenue 
recognition. The Company primarily bills and 
collects payments form customers for services 
in advance on an annual basis. The Company 

initially records subscriptions fees as unearned 
revenue and then recognises revenue as 
performance obligations are satisfied over 
the subscription period. 

Typically, subscriptions automatically renew 
at the end of the subscription period unless 
the customer specifically terminates it prior 
to the end of the period. 

Significant changes in contract balances for 
the year ending 30 June 2019 are as follows:

Balance as at 1 July 2018

Invoices issued during the year

Decrease due to revenue recognised in the period 

BALANCE AS AT 30 JUNE 2019

TOTAL
$’000

33,911

85,654

(77,531)

42,034

Backlog revenue

Total backlog consists of unearned revenue 
and unbilled backlog. Unbilled backlog is 
an operational measure representing future 
unearned revenue amounts believed to be 
firm that are to be invoiced under existing 
multi-year agreements and are not  

included in the unearned revenue on the 
consolidated balance sheet.

As of 30 June 2019, total backlog was 
$86,015k. Of this total backlog, 75% is 
expected to be recognised as revenue in the 
12 months following 30 June 2019, with the 
balance to be recognised thereafter.

Total backlog is expected to fluctuate due 
to a number of factors including the timing, 
duration and size of customer contracts, the 
product mix offerings and foreign exchange 
rate fluctuations.

B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS

IN THIS SECTION

This section explains the results and performance of the Company and provides additional information about those individual line items 
in the financial statements that the Directors consider most relevant in the context of the operations of the entity, including:

a) Accounting policies that are relevant for understanding the items recognised in the financial statements.

b)  Analysis of the Group’s result for the year by reference to key areas, including: segment results and revenue, operational expenses, 

personnel costs including share-based payments and income tax.  

3. SEGMENT RESULTS, REVENUE 
AND OTHER INCOME

This note provides results by operating 
segment for the year ended 30 June 2019. 
Operating segments are reported in a 
manner that is consistent with the internal 
reporting provided to the Chief Operating 

Decision Maker. The Chief Operating 
Decision Maker has been identified as the 
Nearmap Executive Team which ultimately 
makes strategic decisions. This note 
also provides additional information on 
revenue, including types of revenue and the 
respective recognition criteria. 

(i) Segment reporting

An overview of the operating segments is provided below:

SEGMENT

ANZ

INFORMATION

Responsible for all sales and marketing efforts in Australia and New Zealand (2018: Australia)

North America (NA)

Responsible for all sales and marketing efforts in the United States and Canada (2018: United States) 

Costs of revenue are all costs directly 
attributable to the ongoing delivery of the 
subscription product, including amortisation 
of capitalised capture costs.

Sales and marketing costs include direct 
in-country costs.

A portion of general and administration 
costs, representing general operating 
expenses, remain unallocated in determining 
the segment contribution presented to the 
Chief Operating Decision Maker.

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B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

The assets and liabilities of the Group 
are reported and reviewed by the Chief 
Operating Decision Maker in total and 

are not allocated by operating segment. 
Operating segment assets and liabilities are 
therefore not disclosed.

YEAR ENDED  
30 JUNE 2019

Revenue

TOTAL REVENUE

Capture cost amortisation

Storage, administration & other

TOTAL COST OF REVENUE

GROSS PROFIT

GROSS MARGIN %

Direct sales & marketing

Indirect sales & marketing

TOTAL SALES & MARKETING

General & administration

Overhead depreciation

Other income

Interest expense

TOTAL GENERAL & ADMINISTRATION

SEGMENT CONTRIBUTION

Amortisation & depreciation of unallocated assets

FX gain/(loss)

Income tax expense

PROFIT/(LOSS) AFTER TAX

ANZ 
$’000

53,173 

53,173 

(3,860)

(1,039)

(4,899)

48,274 

91%

(8,531)

(2,864)

(11,395)

(8,786)

(224)

- 

- 

(9,010)

27,869 

NA 
$’000

24,469 

24,469 

(14,146)

(3,158)

(17,304)

7,165 

29%

(13,009)

(3,970)

(16,979)

(8,552)

(468)

- 

- 

(9,020)

(18,834)

UNALLOCATED 
$’000

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(12,429)

(98)

1,733 

(24)

(10,818)

(10,818)

TOTAL 
$’000

77,642 

77,642 

(18,006)

(4,197)

(22,203)

55,439 

71%

(21,540)

(6,834)

(28,374)

(29,767)

(790)

1,733 

(24)

(28,848)

(1,783)

(7,863)

(191)

(5,097)

(14,934)

YEAR ENDED  
30 JUNE 2018

Revenue

TOTAL REVENUE

Capture cost amortisation

Storage, administration & other

TOTAL COST OF REVENUE

GROSS PROFIT

GROSS MARGIN %

Direct sales & marketing

Indirect sales & marketing

TOTAL SALES & MARKETING

General & administration

Overhead depreciation

Other income

Interest expense

TOTAL GENERAL & ADMINISTRATION

SEGMENT CONTRIBUTION

Amortisation & depreciation of unallocated assets

FX gain/(loss)

Income tax expense

PROFIT/(LOSS) AFTER TAX

ANZ 
$’000

42,955 

42,955 

(1,668)

(995)

(2,663)

40,292 

94%

(7,471)

(2,726)

(10,197)

(6,924)

(229)

- 

- 

(7,153)

22,942 

NA 
$’000

10,598 

10,598 

(4,773)

(2,964)

(7,737)

2,861 

27%

(8,986)

(4,002)

(12,988)

(6,653)

(415)

- 

- 

(7,068)

(17,195)

UNALLOCATED 
$’000

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(8,194)

(29)

587 

(6)

(7,642)

(7,642)

Accounting policies relating to revenue are referred to in Note 2A.

(ii) Total revenue and other income

Subscription revenue

On-demand revenue

Royalty income

REVENUE

Interest income

Gain on sale of unlisted investments

Gain on disposal of assets

Grant income

OTHER INCOME 

TOTAL REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

76,991

134 

517 

77,642 

1,553 

150 

9 

21 

1,733 

79,375

TOTAL 
$’000

53,553 

53,553 

(6,441)

(3,959)

(10,400)

43,153 

81%

(16,457)

(6,728)

(23,185)

(21,771)

(673)

587 

(6)

(21,863)

(1,895)

(6,143)

(189)

(2,802)

(11,029)

2018
$’000

53,412

38 

103 

53,553

369

-

136

82

587

54,140

90     FINANCIAL REPORT

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B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

4. EXPENSES

(i) Employee benefits expense

Salaries, wages and other employee expense

Share based payment expense

Defined contribution plan expense

TOTAL EMPLOYEE BENEFITS EXPENSE

(ii) Amortisation and depreciation expenses

AMORTISATION AND DEPRECIATION

Development costs

Capture costs

Capture costs – accelerated amortisation

Plant and Equipment

Other

TOTAL AMORTISATION AND DEPRECIATION

During the year, the Group reviewed 
the appropriateness of the amortisation 
period and methodology for capture 
costs and determined that the period be 
reduced from 5 years to 2 years, reflecting 
growing demand for more recent imagery. 
Amortisation of the intangible capture asset 

was accelerated from January 2019 with 
an additional $7,980k booked through the 
Income Statement in the period to 30 June 
2019. No change was made to the straight-
line amortisation method.

Development costs are amortised on a 
straight-line basis over 5 years (2018: 5 years).

CONSOLIDATED

CONSOLIDATED

2018
$’000

27,982

1,367 

1,656 

31,005

2018
$’000

3,841 

6,441 

-

2,595 

380 

13,257 

2019
$’000

33,286

1,684 

1,873 

36,843 

2019
$’000

5,010 

10,026 

7,980

3,432 

211 

26,659 

B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

(iii) Other operational expenses

Servicing and storage costs

Operating lease expenses

Travel and office costs

Audit, consulting and legal fees

Insurance costs

Marketing costs

Subscription costs

All other operating expenses

TOTAL OTHER OPERATIONAL EXPENSES

5. SHARE BASED PAYMENT PLAN

An Employee Share Option Plan has been 
established whereby Directors and certain 
employees of the consolidated entity may 
be issued with options over the ordinary 
shares of the Company. The options, which 
are usually issued for nil consideration at 
an exercise price calculated with reference 
to prevailing market prices, are issued in 
accordance with terms established by the 
Directors of the Company. The options 
cannot be transferred without the approval 
of the Company’s board and are not quoted 
on the ASX. 

The grants are issued for 4 years either:

(i)  with Total Shareholder Return (TSR) 

growth performance vesting conditions, 
exercisable after three years; or

(ii)  without any performance vesting 

conditions, exercisable on various dates 
(usually in two or three equal annual 
tranches when vested). 

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

4,547 

2,208 

4,906 

3,117 

680 

5,255 

3,095 

1,711 

2018
$’000

4,082 

1,662 

3,179 

1,482 

426 

3,312 

1,995 

1,778 

25,519 

17,916 

KEY ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS

The Group estimates the fair value of equity-
settled transactions (share options and LRLs) 
at the date at which they are granted. The 
TSR performance condition is incorporated 
into the fair value of options granted using 
the Monte Carlo option pricing model. 
The fair value of all other options granted 
is determined using the Black-Scholes 
option pricing model. The fair values include 
assumptions in the following areas: risk free 
rate, volatility, estimated service periods and 
expected achievement of TSR performance 
hurdles. The expected life of the options 
is based on historical data and is not 
necessarily indicative of exercise patterns that 
may occur. The expected volatility reflects 
the assumption that the historical volatility 
is indicative of future trends, which may also 
not necessarily reflect the actual outcome. 
No other features of options granted were 
incorporated into the measurement of fair 
value. There are no voting or dividend rights 
attached to the options. 

Nearmap’s Employee Share Option Plan 
also includes an Employee Loan Scheme 
that permits the Company to grant financial 
assistance to employees by way of limited 
recourse loans (LRLs) to enable them to 
exercise options and acquire shares. The 
employee does not have a beneficial  
interest in the shares until the loan is repaid 
with any such shares being held in escrow 
until this time. 

The Company introduced an Employee 
Matching Share Rights Plan during the year. 
Employees have the opportunity to purchase 
shares in Nearmap using up to 5% of their 
annual base salary. For every three acquired 
shares, the employee will be awarded a right 
to receive one additional share in Nearmap 
under the conditions outlined in the 
Employee Matching Share Rights Plan.

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B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

ACCOUNTING POLICY - RECOGNITION 
AND MEASUREMENT OF SHARE-BASED 
PAYMENTS

In valuing equity-settled transactions, 
no account is taken of any performance 
conditions, other than conditions linked 
to the price of the shares of the Company 
(‘market conditions’) if applicable. 

The fair value of equity-settled transactions is 
recognised, together with the corresponding 
increase in equity, over the period in which 
the performance conditions are fulfilled, 
ending on the date on which the relevant 
employees become fully entitled to the 
award (‘vesting period’). 

The cumulative expense recognised for 
equity-settled transactions at each reporting 

date until vesting date reflects (i) the extent 
to which the vesting period has expired and 
(ii) the Group’s best estimate of the number 
of equity instruments that will ultimately vest. 

The profit or loss charge or credit for 
a period represents the movement in 
cumulative expense recognised at the 
beginning and end of that period. 

No expense is recognised for awards that do 
not ultimately vest, except for awards where 
vesting is only conditional upon a market 
condition. 

If an equity-settled award is cancelled, it is 
treated as if it had vested on the date of 
cancellation. However, if a new award is 
substituted for the cancelled award and 
designated as a replacement award on the 

date that it is granted, the cancelled and 
new award are treated as if they were a 
modification of the original award.

The dilutive effect, if any, of outstanding 
options is reflected as additional share 
dilution in the computation of earnings  
per share.

The granting of the limited recourse loan 
is considered to be a modification to the 
existing option. Any increase in the fair value 
of the option is recognised as an expense 
immediately at the date the limited recourse 
loan is granted. The LRLs are not recognised 
in the accounts. 

Movement in shares options and LRL - share based payments

Number of options outstanding at the beginning of the year

Options lapsed

Options exercised – loans granted

Options exercised – cash payments

Options granted

2019

23,668,600

(1,409,750)

(4,615,867)

(5,894,894)

4,589,095

2018

34,300,921

(9,904,167)

(3,295,841)

(3,037,499)

5,605,186

TOTAL NUMBER OF OPTIONS OUTSTANDING AT THE END OF THE YEAR

16,337,184

23,668,600

B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

Reconciliation of options issued under Employee Share Option Plan 

BALANCE AT  
1 JULY 2018

GRANTED

LAPSED/
FORFEITED

EXERCISED

BALANCE AT  
30 JUNE 2019 

VESTED & 
EXERCISABLE

30 JUNE 2019

Total number of options

23,668,600

4,589,095

(1,409,750)

(10,510,761)

16,337,184

4,033,250

Weighted average price $

0.66

1.35

0.68

0.68

0.84

0.46

30 JUNE 2018

Total number of options

34,300,921

5,605,186

(9,904,167)

(6,333,340)

23,668,600

8,107,647

Weighted average price $

0.68

0.73

0.78

0.67

0.66

0.60

As at 30 June 2019, there were 16,337,184 
options outstanding at exercise prices 
ranging from $0.39 to $1.65 and a weighted 
average remaining contractual life of  
2.26 years.

Expenses arising from share-based payment 
transactions during the year was $1,684,000 
which includes $86k relating to the Employee 
share scheme (2018: $1,367,000).

The following table lists the options and LRLs 
granted and the inputs to the model used to 
measure their fair value for the years ended 
30 June 2019 and 30 June 2018 to KMP:

GRANT  
DATE

EXPIRY  
DATE

EXERCISE 
PRICE $

NUMBER OF 
OPTIONS 
GRANTED

FAIR VALUE 
AT GRANT 
DATE $

EXPECTED 
PRICE 
VOLATILTY %

EXPECTED 
DIVIDEND 
YIELD %

RISK FREE 
INTEREST 
RATE %

EXPECTED 
LIFE (YEARS)

30 JUNE 2018

16 Nov 171

16 Feb 18

30 JUNE 2019

25 Jul 18

8 Oct 18

4 Dec 181

16 Nov 21

16 Feb 22

0.71 

0.82 

3,557,970 

1,000,000 

0.2490 

0.4110 

9 Jul 22

8 Oct 22

15 Nov 22

1.12 

1.65 

1.60 

300,000 

360,000 

2,996,252 

0.4001 

0.5651 

0.4910 

57

53

46

48

57

-  

-  

-  

-  

-  

2.0

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

3.5 

3.5 

3.5 

3.5 

3.5 

1  The fair value of options granted on 16 November 2017 and 4 December 2018 have been determined using the Monte Carlo option pricing model as they contain TSR  

(Total Shareholder Return) performance hurdles. All other options granted have been determined using the using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.

The grant of limited recourse loans for the 
settlement of share options is considered 
as a modification to the valuation of the 
options. Any increase in the fair value 
of the modified option is recognised as 
expensed in the Consolidated Statement 

of Comprehensive Income. During the year 
ended 30 June 2019, the issue of limited 
recourse loans resulted in an incremental 
expense of $285k relating to KMPs and $50k 
for other employees. 

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B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

6. INCOME TAX 

KEY ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS

Deferred tax

Pursuant to AASB 112 Income Taxes, the 
Company has assessed its best estimate of 
the probability that future taxable profits will 
be available against which the Group can 
utilise its unused tax losses and deductible 
temporary differences in future periods.

ACCOUNTING POLICY - RECOGNITION 
AND MEASUREMENT OF INCOME TAX

Research and Development tax incentive

The Group accounts for any non-refundable 
research and development tax credits as an 
income tax benefit, which are recognised 
when there is reasonable assurance that  
the Group will comply with the conditions 
that attach to the incentive and that it will  
be received.

Income tax

Current tax assets and liabilities for the 
current and prior periods are measured  
at the amount expected to be recovered 
from or paid to the taxation authorities.  
The tax rates and tax laws used to compute 
the amount are those that are enacted or 
substantively enacted at the reporting date.

Deferred income tax is provided on all 
temporary differences at the reporting date 
between the tax bases of assets and liabilities 
and their carrying amounts for financial 
reporting purposes.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are not 
offset where they do not relate to an entity in 
the same tax jurisdiction. 

Deferred income tax liabilities are recognised 
for all taxable temporary differences:

•  except where the deferred income tax 

liability arises from the initial recognition 
of goodwill or of an asset or liability 

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in a transaction that is not a business 
combination and, at the time of the 
transaction, affects neither the accounting 
profit nor taxable profit or loss; and

•  in respect of taxable temporary 

differences associated with investments 
in subsidiaries, associates and interests in 
joint ventures, except where the timing of 
the reversal of the temporary differences 
can be controlled and it is probable that 
the temporary differences will not reverse 
in the foreseeable future.

Deferred income tax assets are recognised 
for all deductible temporary differences, 
carry-forward of unused tax assets and 
unused tax losses, to the extent that it is 
probable that taxable profit will be available 
against which the deductible temporary 
differences, and the carry-forward of  
unused tax assets and unused tax losses  
can be utilised:

•  except where the deferred income 
tax asset relating to the deductible 
temporary difference arising from the 
initial recognition of an asset or liability 
in a transaction that is not a business 
combination and, at the time of the 
transaction, affects neither the accounting 
profit nor taxable profit or loss; and

•  in respect of deductible temporary 

differences associated with investments 
in subsidiaries, associates and interests in 
joint ventures, deferred tax assets are only 
recognised to the extent that it is probable 
that the temporary differences will reverse 
in the foreseeable future and taxable 
profit will be available against which the 
temporary differences can be utilised.

The carrying amount of deferred income 
tax assets is reviewed at each reporting date 
and reduced to the extent that it is no longer 
probable that sufficient taxable profit will be 
available to allow all or part of the deferred 
income tax asset to be utilised. Unrecognised 

deferred income tax assets are reassessed at 
each reporting date and are recognised to 
the extent that it has become probable that 
future taxable profit will allow the deferred tax 
asset to be recovered.

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are 
measured at the tax rates that are expected 
to apply to the year when the asset is realised 
or the liability is settled, based on tax rates 
(and tax laws) that have been enacted or 
substantively enacted at the reporting date.

Deferred tax assets and deferred tax 
liabilities are offset only if a legally 
enforceable right exists to set off current tax 
assets against current tax liabilities and the 
deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to  
the same taxable entity and the same 
taxation authority.

Income taxes relating to items recognised 
directly in equity are recognised in equity 
and not in the profit and loss.

Tax consolidation

The Company and its wholly-owned 
Australian controlled entities have 
implemented the tax consolidation 
legislation. The head entity, Nearmap 
Ltd, and the controlled entities in the tax 
consolidated Group account for their own 
current and deferred tax amounts. These 
tax amounts are measured as if each entity 
in the tax consolidated Group continues to 
be a standalone taxpayer in its own right. 
In addition to its own current and deferred 
tax amounts, the Company also recognises 
the current tax liabilities (or assets) and the 
deferred tax assets arising from unused  
tax losses and unused tax credits assumed 
from controlled entities in the tax 
consolidated Group. 

INCOME TAX EXPENSE

Current tax expense

Deferred tax expense

NUMERICAL RECONCILIATION OF INCOME TAX EXPENSE TO PRIMA FACIE TAX PAYABLE

Loss before income tax

Tax at the Australian tax rate of 30% (2018: 30%) 

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

R&D grant 

Effect of lower tax rate in the US

Effect of tax rate change in the US

Share based payments expense

Entertainment expenses

Recognition of previously unrecognised deductible temporary differences

Current year losses for which no deferred tax asset is recognised

(Under)/over provision in the prior year

The Group has an unrecognised deferred tax asset of $18,288k in respect of US tax losses as at 30 June 2019.

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

(2,646)

(2,451)

(5,097)

(9,837)

2,951 

181 

(2,416)

-

(505)

(88)

743 

(5,819)

(144)

(5,097)

2018
$’000

(441)

(2,361)

(2,802)

(8,227)

2,468

125 

(384)

(1,004)

(410)

(57)

1,163

(5,439)

736

(2,802)

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DEFERRED TAX  
BALANCES 2019

BALANCE AT  
1 JULY 2018

R&D credits carry forward

Unearned revenue

Provisions and other accruals

Plant and equipment 

Intangible assets

Other

Derivative instruments

Unrealised Foreign Exchange Loss

$’000

874 

2,177 

1,253 

69 

(10,348)

11 

(42)

119 

RECOGNISED IN  
THE STATEMENT OF 
PROFIT OR LOSS
$’000

RECOGNISED 
DIRECTLY IN 
EQUITY
$’000

(874)

391 

267 

(181)

(1,740)

256 

-

(58)

- 

114 

26 

1 

-

1,081

11 

-

BALANCE AT 
30 JUNE 2019

$’000

-

2,682 

1,546 

(111)

(12,088)

837 

(31)

61 

DEFERRED
TAX ASSETS/ 
(LIABILITIES)1
$’000

DEFERRED
TAX ASSETS/ 
(LIABILITIES)2  
$’000

 -

2,682 

379 

25 

(1)

-

-

-

- 

-

1,167 

(136)

(12,087)

837 

(31)

61 

NET TAX ASSETS/(LIABILITIES)

(5,887)

(2,451)

1,235 

(7,105)

3,086 

(10,190)

DEFERRED TAX  
BALANCES 2018

BALANCE AT  
1 JULY 2017 

R&D credits carry forward

Unearned revenue

Provisions and other accruals

Plant and equipment 

Intangible assets

Other

Derivative instruments

Unrealised Foreign Exchange Loss

$’000

674 

1,699 

636 

54 

(6,722)

27 

58 

40 

RECOGNISED IN  
THE STATEMENT OF 
PROFIT OR LOSS
$’000

RECOGNISED 
DIRECTLY IN 
EQUITY
$’000

200

390

598

14 

(3,626)

(16)

-

79 

BALANCE AT 
30 JUNE 2018

$’000

874

2,177

1,253 

69 

(10,348)

11 

(42)

119 

DEFERRED
TAX ASSETS/ 
(LIABILITIES)
$’000

DEFERRED
TAX ASSETS/ 
(LIABILITIES) 
$’000

 -

2,177

481 

14 

(5)

- 

- 

- 

874 

-

772 

55 

(10,343)

11 

(42)

119 

(5,887)

2,667

(8,554)

- 

88 

19 

1 

-

-

(100)

-

8 

NET TAX ASSETS/(LIABILITIES) 

(3,534)

(2,361)

1 Net deferred tax asset balance relates to US entities.
2 Net deferred tax liability balance relates to Australian entities.

B. KEY FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT.)

7. LEASE INCENTIVE

Included within the Statement of Financial Position are the following balances relating to lease incentives:

OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

Lease incentive asset

OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

Lease incentive liability (current)

OTHER NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES

Lease incentive liability (non-current)

The balances represent the operating lease 
incentive received for the commercial office 
premises at Barangaroo, NSW. The lease 
incentive asset related to the remaining  
rent-free cash incentive to be taken against 

rent payable. The lease incentive liabilities 
are allocated to profit or loss in such a 
manner that the rent expense is recognised 
on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

-

2018
$’000

449

(231)

(231)

(1,002)

(1,176)

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C. CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

C. CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (CONT.)

IN THIS SECTION

This section outlines how the Company manages its capital structure and discusses the Group’s exposure to various financial risks and 
how the Group manages these risks.

Capital Risk Management

The Group’s objective in managing capital is to safeguard its ability to continue as a going concern, so it can continue to commercialise 
intellectual property with the ultimate objective of providing returns to shareholders whilst maintaining an optimal capital structure to 
reduce the cost of capital.  In order to maintain or adjust the capital structure the Company may issue new shares, sell assets, consider 
joint ventures and may return capital in some form to shareholders.

8. CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. 
Incremental costs directly attributable to the 

issue of new shares or options are shown in 
equity as a deduction, net of tax, from the 
proceeds. Details in relation to share option 

movements and share incentive schemes  
are contained in Note 5.

MOVEMENT IN SHARES ON ISSUE 

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Issue of shares during the year, net of tax1

Shares issued on exercise of share options 

Shares issued on exercise of share options subject to LRL 

Treasury shares acquired2

Repayment of LRLs3

2019

2018

NUMBER OF  
SHARES 

394,019,855 

43,750,000  

5,894,894 

4,615,867 

-

-  

$’000

52,995 

68,228  

3,210 

-  

(197)

381  

NUMBER OF  
SHARES 

387,686,515 

-  

3,037,499 

3,295,841 

-

-  

$’000

51,446 

-  

1,549 

-  

-

-  

BALANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR 

448,280,616 

124,617 

394,019,855 

52,995 

1  On 7 September 2018, the Company completed a $70,000k capital raise (before costs), through a fully underwritten institutional placement of 43,750,000 new fully paid 

ordinary shares at the offer price of $1.60. The Company incurred a total of $2,854k in transaction costs, which included $856k representing the deferred tax impact.

2  The Company introduced an employee matching share rights plan during the year. The balance of $197k as at 30 June 2019 relates to shares purchased under the plan which 

have been issued to participants and will convert to ordinary shares at the end of the vesting period. These shares are considered and disclosed as treasury shares.

3 During the year, total loans of $372k and accruing interest of $9k was repaid to the Company, thereby releasing 613,333 shares previously under holding lock.

Terms and conditions of contributed equity

Ordinary shares have the right to receive 
dividends as declared and in the event of 
winding up of the Company, to participate 
in the proceeds from the sale of all surplus 
assets in proportion to the number of and 
amounts paid up on the shares held.

The profit reserve comprises profits 
appropriated by the parent company.

The share-based payment reserve comprises 
the cumulative expense relating to the fair 
value of options, rights and equity plans on 
issue to key management personnel, senior 
executives and employees of the Group.

Other reserves comprise of the translation 
reserve and cashflow hedge reserve. 

The translation reserve comprises of all 
foreign currency differences arising from 
the translation of the financial statements as 
described in Note 2A. The cash flow hedge 
reserve is used to record gains or losses on 
a hedging instrument in a cash flow hedge 
that are recognised in other comprehensive 
income, as described in Note 9.

Currency risk

The Group’s functional currency is the 
Australian dollar (AUD) and it is exposed to 
currency risk on payments denominated 
in the United States dollar (USD). The 
Group uses forward exchange contracts to 
hedge its currency risk, all of which have a 
maturity of less than six months from the 
reporting date. The currency risk relating to 
payments denominated in USD have been 
fully hedged, with the forward exchange 
contracts maturing on the same dates that 
the forecast payments are expected to occur. 
These contracts are designated as cash  
flow hedges. 

In respect of other monetary assets and 
liabilities denominated in foreign currencies, 
the Group’s policy is to ensure the net 
exposure is kept to an acceptable level by 
buying or selling foreign currencies at spot 
rates when necessary. 

9. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS 
– FAIR VALUE AND RISK 
MANAGEMENT

ACCOUNTING POLICY - FINANCIAL 
INSTRUMENTS CARRIED AT FAIR VALUE

The fair value of financial assets and financial 
liabilities must be estimated for recognition 
and measurement or for disclosure 
purposes. The fair value of these instruments 
is categorised into different levels of the fair 
value hierarchy based on the inputs used in 
the valuation techniques as follows:

•  Level 1: quoted prices (unadjusted) in 
active markets for identical assets or 
liabilities that the Group can assess at the 
measurement date;

•  Level 2: inputs other than quoted prices 

included within Level 1 that are observable 
for the asset or liability, either directly (as 
prices) or indirectly (derived from prices); 
and

•  Level 3: inputs for the asset or liability that 
are not based on observable market data 
(unobservable inputs). 

The Group recognises transfers between 
levels of the fair value hierarchy as of the  
end of the reporting period which the 
transfer has occurred. 

ACCOUNTING POLICY – DERIVATIVE 
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGE 
ACCOUNTING

The Group holds derivative financial 
instruments to hedge its foreign currency 
risk exposures. These derivative instruments 
are designated as cash flow hedging 
instruments. The effective portion of 
changes in the fair value of the derivative is 
recognised in OCI and accumulated in the 
hedging reserve. Any ineffective portion of 
changes in the fair value of the derivatives is 
immediately recognised in profit or loss. The 
amount accumulated in equity is retained in 

OCI and reclassified to profit or loss in the 
same period or periods during which the 
hedged item affects profit or loss. 

The Group’s principal financial instruments 
comprise cash, short-term deposits and 
derivatives. The Group is primarily exposed 
to the following risks arising from financial 
instruments:

•  Market risk, particularly in relation to 
foreign currencies (see 9(b)); and

•  Credit risk (see 9(c)). 

This note provides information about the 
Group’s exposure to the above risks and 
its objectives, policies and processes for 
measuring and managing those risks.

(a) Risk management framework

The Company’s board of Directors 
have an overall responsibility for the 
establishment and oversight of the Group’s 
risk management framework. The board of 
Directors have established the Audit and 
Risk Management Committee which is 
responsible for developing and monitoring 
the Group’s risk management policies. 

The Group’s risk management policies are 
established to identify and analyse the risks 
faced by the Group, to set appropriate 
risk limits and controls and to monitor risks 
and adherence to limits. Risk management 
policies are reviewed regularly to reflect 
changes in the market and the Group’s 
activities.

(b) Market risk

Market risk is the risk that changes in market 
prices – such as foreign exchange rates and 
interest rates – will affect the Group’s income 
or the value of its holdings of financial 
instruments. The Group uses derivatives 
to manage market risk related to foreign 
currencies. All such transactions are carried 
out within the guidelines of the Group’s risk 
management policies. 

100     FINANCIAL REPORT

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C. CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (CONT.)

Exposure to foreign currency risk

The summary quantitative data about the  
Group’s exposure to foreign currency risk  
is as follows:

Cash and cash equivalents

Receivables and other assets

Payables and other liabilities

GROSS EXPOSURE

The following significant exchange rates  
applied during the year

USD

Sensitivity analysis 

A 10 percent strengthening or weakening 
of the Australian to US dollar exchange rate 
would have increased/(decreased) the net 
assets denominated in foreign currencies by 
the following amounts: 

+10%

-10%

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

948 

3,429 

2,132

6,509 

2018
$’000

551 

2,418 

1,942 

4,911 

AVERAGE RATE

YEAR END SPOT RATE

2019

0.7153

2018

0.7753

2019

0.7013

2018

0.7391

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

(294)

360 

2018
$’000

(126)

154 

Interest rate risk

(c) Credit risk

Trade and other receivables

The Group is exposed to changes in interest 
rates as it relates to the Company’s short-
term deposits. The Company monitors 
changes in interest rates regularly to ensure 
the best possible return on deposits. 
Changes to interest rates in this context are 
not considered a significant financial risk. The 
average interest rate received on deposits 
during the year was 2.45%.

Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to 
the Group if a customer or counterparty 
to a financial instrument fails to meet its 
contractual obligations and arises principally 
from the Group’s receivables from customers 
and forward exchange contracts. The 
Group trades primarily with recognised, 
creditworthy third parties.

The Group’s exposure to credit risk 
is influenced mainly by the individual 
characteristics of each customer. Receivable 
balances are monitored on an ongoing basis, 
with the result that the Group’s exposure to 
bad debts is not significant.

102     FINANCIAL REPORT

ACCOUNTING POLICY – TRADE AND 
OTHER RECEIVABLES

Trade receivables are recognised initially at 
fair value and subsequently measured at 
amortised cost using the effective interest 
method, less provision for impairment. Trade 
receivables are generally due for settlement 
within 7 – 60 days. The Group has no reliance 
on any major customers. 

In accordance with AASB 9, the Group 
recognises impairment losses using the 
Expected Credit Loss (ECL) model. ECL’s 
are based on the difference between the 
contractual cash flows due in accordance 

with the contract and the cash flows that 
the Group expects to receive. The shortfall 
is discounted at an approximation to the 
asset’s original effective interest rate. Under 
the ECL model, impairment losses may 
be measured as either the 12-month ECL, 
which is the portion of the lifetime ECLs that 
result from default events that are possible 
within 12 months after the reporting date, 
or the lifetime ECL, which is the expected 
credit loss resulting from all possible default 
events over the expected life of the financial 
instrument. The Group has elected to use 
the lifetime ECL model to calculate the 
impairment for trade receivables.

A two-year historical default rate is applied 
to the current period trade receivable 
balance to calculate any impairment. The 
carrying amount of the asset is reduced 
through the use of a provision account and 
the amount of the loss is recognised in 
the income statement. When a receivable 
is uncollectible, it is written off against 
the provision account for receivables. 
Subsequent recoveries of amounts 
previously written off are credited to the 
income statement. 

Current

31 to 60 days overdue

Over 61 days overdue

Over 90 days overdue

Impairment loss

AGEING PROFILE OF TRADE RECEIVABLES

Contract Assets1

TOTAL TRADE RECEIVABLES

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

12,739 

230 

183 

135 

(240)

13,046 

1,489

14,535

2018
$’000

9,989 

128 

102 

70 

(173)

10,116 

-

10,116

1  Contract assets primarily relate to unbilled amounts typically resulting from sales contracts when revenue recognised exceeds the amount billed to the customer, and right to 

payment is not just subject to the passage of time (Refer to section 2A).

Expected credit loss (ECL)

The movement in the allowance for 
impairment in respect of trade receivables 
during the year was as follows:

Balance as at 1 July

Impairment loss recognised in the income statement

Provision used during the year

BALANCE AS AT 30 JUNE

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

173

(76)

143

240 

2018
$’000

132

(97)

138

173 

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D. INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Cash and cash equivalents

Derivatives

The Group held cash and cash equivalents 
with bank and financial institution 
counterparties which are rated BBB or above 
based on Standards & Poors ratings. 

The forward exchange and options contracts 
are entered into with bank institutions which 
are rated BBB or above based on Standards 
& Poors ratings and are authorised in 
accordance with our Foreign Exchange Risk 
Management Policy. 

The carrying amount of the Group’s financial 
assets represents maximum credit exposure 
as follows:

Cash and cash equivalents

Total trade receivables

Prepayments and other receivables

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

75,914

14,536 

5,741 

2018
$’000

17,530 

10,116 

3,892 

Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group 
will encounter difficulty in meeting the 
obligations associated with its financial 
liabilities that are settled by delivering cash 
or another financial asset. The Group’s 

objective is to maintain a balance between 
continuity of funding and flexibility through 
the use of its cash and funding requirements.  
The Group continually monitors forecast and 
actual cash flows and the maturity profiles of 
assets and liabilities to manage its liquidity risk.

(d) Fair values 

The fair values of other financial assets and 
financial liabilities, together with the carrying 
amounts in the consolidated statement of 
financial position, at 30 June 2019 and  
30 June 2018 detailed below.

2019 $’000

2018 $’000

CARRYING
AMOUNT

FAIR  
VALUE

CARRYING
AMOUNT

FAIR  
VALUE

FINANCIAL ASSETS/(LIABILITIES)

Forward exchange and option contracts used for hedging1

103

103

141

141

1  The forward exchange and option contracts and options are not quoted in active markets as they are not traded on a recognised exchange. Instead, the Group uses 

valuation techniques (present value techniques) which use both observable and unobservable market inputs. As these financial instruments use valuation techniques with 
unobservable inputs that are not significant to the overall valuation, these instruments are included in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. There were no transfers between 
levels of the fair value hierarchy during the year-ended 30 June 2019. The Group has not disclosed the fair values for financial instruments such as short-term trade receivables 
and payables because their carrying amounts are a reasonable approximation of fair values.

10. DIVIDENDS PAID ON 
ORDINARY SHARES

No dividends were paid or proposed for the 
year ending 30 June 2019 (2018: nil). 

Franking credits available for the year ending 
30 June 2019 was nil (2018: nil).

104     FINANCIAL REPORT

IN THIS SECTION

This section outlines the Group’s investment in intangible assets and property, plant and equipment as well as a broader discussion  
on the entity’s cash flows.

11. INTANGIBLES

KEY ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS

Capture costs

Pursuant to AASB 138 Intangible Assets, the 
Company has assessed its best estimate 
of the probability that the expected future 
economic benefits attributable to the 
Group’s digital imagery will flow to the entity. 
As a result, capture costs directly attributable 
and necessary to create and upload digital 
imagery online have been recognised as an 
intangible asset. 

During the year, the Group reviewed the 
appropriateness of the amortisation period 
and methodology for capture costs and 
determined that the period be reduced 
from 5 years to 2 years, effective 1 January 
2019, reflecting growing demand for 
more recent imagery based on customer 
map tile requests. The change resulted 
in an accelerated amortisation charge of 
$7,980,000 in the year ended 30 June 2019. 
No change was made to the straight-line 
amortisation method.

Amortisation of capture costs has been 
included within ‘depreciation and 
amortisation expenses’ in the statement  
of comprehensive income. 

Impairment of assets

The Group assesses impairment at each 
reporting date by evaluation of 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 and 

fair value less cost of disposal (FVLCD) 
calculations performed in assessing 
recoverable amounts incorporate a number 
of key estimates, including forecasting of 
profits, cash flows and discount rates. 

ACCOUNTING POLICY – IMPAIRMENT 
OF ASSETS 

The Group assesses at each reporting 
period whether there is an indication that 
an asset (other than goodwill or intangibles 
with indefinite useful life) may be impaired. 
If any such indication exists, or when annual 
impairment testing for an asset is required, 
the Group makes an estimate of the asset’s 
recoverable amount. An asset’s recoverable 
amount is the higher of its FVLCD and 
its value in use, and is determined for an 
individual asset, unless the asset does 
not generate cash inflows that are largely 
independent of those from other assets or 
groups of assets. In such cases the asset is 
tested for impairment as part of the cash 
generating unit (CGU) to which it belongs. 
When the carrying amount of an asset or 
CGU exceeds its recoverable amount, the 
asset or CGU is considered impaired and is 
written down to its recoverable amount. 

Impairment losses relating to continuing 
operations are recognised in those expense 
categories consistent with the function of the 
impaired asset.

An assessment is also made at each 
reporting date as to whether there is any 
indication that previously recognised 
impairment losses may no longer exist or 
may have decreased. If such indication 
exists, the recoverable amount is estimated. 

A previously recognised impairment 
loss is reversed only if there has been a 
change in estimate used to determine 
the asset’s recoverable amount since the 
last impairment loss was recognised. If 
that is the case, the carrying amount of 
the asset is increased to its recoverable 
amount. That increased amount cannot 
exceed the carrying amount that would 
have been determined, net of depreciation, 
had no impairment loss been recognised 
in the asset in prior years. Such reversal is 
recognised in profit or loss.

KEY ASSUMPTIONS USED FOR 
IMPAIRMENT TESTING

The Group’s CGUs have been identified 
according to the business segments. 

The recoverable amount is the higher of 
an asset’s FVLCD and its value in use (VIU). 
For the purposes of assessing impairment, 
assets are grouped at the lowest levels 
for which there are separately identifiable 
cash flows. In determining the recoverable 
amount of assets, in the absence of quoted 
market prices, estimates are made regarding 
the present value of future post tax cash 
flows. These estimates require significant 
management judgement and are subject 
to risk and uncertainty that may be beyond 
the control of the Group; hence there is a 
possibility that changes in circumstances 
will materially alter projections, which may 
impact the recoverable amount of assets at 
each reporting date. 

The recoverable amount of the ANZ CGU 
has been determined based on value in  
use calculations. 

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In the current period, FVLCD has derived 
a higher value for the North American 
business CGU. FVLCD is an estimate of the 
amount that a market participant would pay 
for an asset or CGU, less cost of disposal. 
The fair value has been determined using 
assumptions to calculate the present value 
of the estimated future post tax cash flows 
expected to arise from the continued use of 
the asset including the anticipated cash flow 
effects to develop the asset or CGU from 
its current early stage of operation into its 
intended mature operating state. Cash flows 
have been discounted using an appropriate 

post tax market discount rate to arrive at 
a net present value of the CGU, less an 
estimate of disposal costs for the business, 
which is then compared against the CGU’s 
carrying value. The FVLCD calculations are 
based primarily on Level 3 inputs as defined 
in Note 9 “Financial Instruments - Fair Value 
and Risk Management”.

Key assumptions used in calculating the 
recoverable amount under both the FVLCD 
and VIU approaches relate to the discount 
rate, medium term and long-term growth 
rates applied to projected cash flows. 
The projected cash flows are based on 

2019 actual results, 2020 financial budgets 
approved by management and the Board, 
and 2021 to 2024 financial projections 
approved by the Board. Projected cash flows 
beyond the five-year forecast period are 
based on management’s best estimate of 
long-range growth rates. 

Revenue growth in the North American CGU 
has been based on historical growth rates 
achieved by the Australian business during 
a similar expansion phase and takes into 
account external information sources of the 
available target market.

DISCOUNT RATE (ANZ)

The discount rate of 16.9% represents the pre-tax discount rate applied to the cash flow projections, based on 
a market-determined, risk adjusted, post-tax discount rate of 14.0% (2018:14.0%).

DISCOUNT RATE (NORTH AMERICA)

The discount rate of 24.9% represents the pre-tax discount rate applied to the cash flow projections, based on 
a market-determined, risk adjusted, post-tax discount rate of 20.0% (2018:20.0%).

TERMINAL GROWTH RATE

The terminal growth rate of 3.0% (2018:3.0%) represents the growth rate applied to extrapolate cash flows 
beyond the five-year forecast period. The growth rate is based on management’s expectations of the CGUs’ 
long-term performance.

The recoverable amount for the ANZ CGU 
continues to exceed the carrying value.

The recoverable amount of the North 
American business exceeds its carrying 
amount by $33,352k. Reasonably possible 
changes in circumstances may affect 
significant assumptions and the estimated 
fair value. Isolated changes in these 
significant assumptions could result in an 
impairment charge being recognised. 
Management have identified that a 
reasonably possible reduction in the cash 
received from customers assumption of 
6% over the 5-year forecast period would 
be required for the estimated recoverable 
amount to be equal to the carrying amount, 
assuming all other variables remain constant. 

Typically changes in any significant 
assumption related to operating 

performance would be accompanied by 
change in another assumption which may 
have an offsetting impact. 

ACCOUNTING POLICY – RECOGNITION 
AND MEASUREMENT OF INTANGIBLES

Research and development costs

Intangible assets acquired separately are 
capitalised at cost and those arising from a 
business combination are capitalised at fair 
value as at the date of acquisition. Following 
initial recognition, the cost model is applied 
to intangible assets.

The amortisation period and method for 
intangible assets is reviewed at least annually 
to determine if the useful lives remain 
appropriate. Where there is an expectation 
that the amortisation period or method does 

not match the consumption of the economic 
benefits embedded within the asset, the 
useful life of the asset will be adjusted to 
reflect this change.

Intangible assets are tested for impairment 
where an indicator of impairment exists. 
Intangibles under development are tested at 
the cash-generating unit level for impairment 
annually or at each reporting period where 
an indicator of impairment exists.

Gains or losses arising from derecognition 
of an intangible asset are measured as the 
difference between the disposal proceeds 
received and the carrying amount of the 
asset and are recognised in the profit or loss 
when the asset is derecognised.

D. INVESTING ACTIVITIES (CONT.)

Costs that are directly associated with the 
development of software are recognised as 
intangible assets where the following criteria 
are met:

-  Adequate technical , financial and other 
resource to complete the development 
and to use or sell the software product 
are available;

-  It is technically feasible to complete 

-  The expenditure attributable to the 

the software product so that it will be 
available for use;

software during it’s development can  
be reliably measured

-  Management intends to complete the 

software product and use or sell it;

-  There is an ability to use or sell the 

software product;

-  It can be demonstrated how the  

software will generate probable future 
economic benefits;

Software development costs that meet 
the above criteria are capitalised. Other 
development expenditure that does not 
meet the above criteria and research costs 
are recognised as an expense as incurred. 
Development costs previously recognised as 
expenses are not recognised as assets in a 

subsequent period. Software development 
costs recognised as assets are amortised 
over their useful lives.

The carrying value of an intangible asset 
arising from development expenditure is 
tested for impairment annually when the 
asset is not yet available for use or more 
frequently when an indication of impairment 
rises during the reporting period.

Amortisation is recognised in the income 
statement on a straight-line basis over the 
estimated useful life of the intangible asset, 
from the date it is available for use.

The estimated useful lives are as follows:

Capitalised capital costs1

Development costs

2 years

3-5 years

Patents, domains and trademark costs2

Indefinite

1  Refer to key estimates. The useful life for capture costs was revised to 2 years from 5 years during 2019.
2  The patents have been granted or are expected to be granted for a minimum of 20 years by the relevant government agency with the option of renewal without significant 

cost at the end of this period provided that the Group meets certain predetermined targets. Accordingly, the patents have been determined to have finite useful lives.

Impairment testing: Annually as at 30 June 
for assets not yet available for use and  
more frequently when an indication of 
impairment exists.

106     FINANCIAL REPORT

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D. INVESTING ACTIVITIES (CONT.)

D. INVESTING ACTIVITIES (CONT.)

GOODWILL

Goodwill acquired in a business combination 
is initially measured at cost being the excess 
of the cost of the business combination over 
the Group’s interest in the net fair value of the 

acquiree’s identifiable assets, liabilities and 
contingent liabilities. Goodwill is reviewed 
for impairment annually or more frequently if 
events or changes in circumstances indicate 
the carrying value may be impaired. 

All goodwill acquired through business 
combinations has been allocated to the ANZ 
CGU. The recoverable amount of the ANZ 
CGU has been determined based on a value-
in-use calculations as described in the key 
assumptions used for impairment testing. 

RECONCILIATION OF CARRYING AMOUNT AS AT 30 JUNE 2019

Balance at the beginning of the year

Additions

Amortisation

Accelerated amortisation1 

FX adjustment

GOODWILL
$’000

DEVELOPMENT COSTS
$’000

CAPTURE COSTS
$’000

OTHER
$’000

TOTAL
$’000

135 

-

-

-

-

8,029 

8,621 

(5,010)

-

2

27,904 

20,133 

(10,026)

(7,980)

(1)

231 

305 

(211)

-

-

36,299 

29,059 

(15,247)

(7,980)

1

CLOSING BALANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR

135 

11,642 

30,030 

325 

42,132 

AT 30 JUNE 2019

Cost

Accumulated amortisation

CLOSING NET BOOK AMOUNT

RECONCILIATION OF CARRYING AMOUNT AS AT 30 JUNE 2018

Balance at the beginning of the year

Additions

Amortisation

CLOSING BALANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR

AT 30 JUNE 2018

Cost

Accumulated amortisation

CLOSING NET BOOK AMOUNT

135 

-

135 

31,587 

(19,945)

11,642 

60,759 

1,955 

94,436 

(30,729)

(1,630)

(52,304)

30,030 

325 

42,132 

GOODWILL
$’000

DEVELOPMENT COSTS
$’000

CAPTURE COSTS
$’000

OTHER
$’000

TOTAL
$’000

135

-

-

135

135 

-

135 

6,219

5,651

(3,841)

8,029

22,961 

(14,932)

8,029 

17,878

16,467

(6,441)

27,904

592

19

(380)

231

24,824

22,137

(10,662)

36,299

40,627 

1,650 

65,373 

(12,723)

(1,419)

(29,074)

27,904 

231 

36,299 

1  During the year, the Group reviewed the appropriateness of the amortisation period and methodology for capture costs and determined that the period be reduced from 
5 years to 2 years, reflecting growing demand for more recent imagery. Amortisation of the intangible capture asset was accelerated from January 2019 with an additional 
$7,980k booked through the Income Statement in the period to 30 June 2019. 

12. PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

ACCOUNTING POLICY – PLANT AND 
EQUIPMENT

Plant and equipment is stated at cost 
less accumulated depreciation and any 
accumulated impairment losses. Such cost 
includes the cost of replacing parts that are 
eligible for capitalisation when the cost of 
replacing the parts is incurred. 

Depreciation is calculated over the estimated 
useful life of the assets, which is between 2 
and 10 years, on a straight-line basis. 

The assets’ residual values, useful lives and 
depreciation methods are reviewed at each 
financial year end and adjusted if appropriate.

Derecognition and disposal

An item of plant and equipment is 
derecognised upon disposal or when  

no future economic benefits are expected to 
be obtained from its use. 

Gains or losses arising from the 
derecognition of an asset (calculated as the 
difference between the proceeds received 
and the carrying amount of the asset) is 
included in profit or loss in the year the asset 
is derecognised.

RECONCILIATION OF CARRYING AMOUNT AS AT 30 JUNE 2019

Balance at the beginning of the year

Additions

Disposals

Depreciation

FX adjustment

CLOSING BALANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR

AT 30 JUNE 2019

Cost

Accumulated depreciation

CLOSING NET BOOK AMOUNT

RECONCILIATION OF CARRYING AMOUNT AS AT 30 JUNE 2019

Balance at the beginning of the year

Additions

Disposals

Depreciation

CLOSING BALANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR

AT 30 JUNE 2018

Cost

Accumulated depreciation

CLOSING NET BOOK AMOUNT

OFFICE EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE 
$’000

CAMERA SYSTEMS
$’000

1,143 

1,742 

-

(720)

(1)

2,164 

4,718 

(2,554)

2,164 

10,840 

6,496 

(6)

(2,712)

-

14,618 

26,397 

(11,779)

14,618 

OFFICE EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE 
$’000

CAMERA SYSTEMS
$’000

719 

784 

-

(360)

1,143 

3,016 

(1,873)

1,143 

9,891 

3,337 

(153)

(2,235)

10,840 

20,045 

(9,205)

10,840 

TOTAL
$’000

11,983 

8,238 

(6)

(3,432)

(1)

16,782 

31,115 

(14,333)

16,782 

TOTAL
$’000

10,610 

4,121 

(153)

(2,595)

11,983 

23,061 

(11,078)

11,983 

108     FINANCIAL REPORT

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019D. INVESTING ACTIVITIES (CONT.)

13. CASH FLOW 
RECONCILIATION

Cash and short-term deposits in the 
Statement of Financial Position comprise 
cash at bank and on hand and short-term 
deposits with a maturity of three months 
or less. For the purposes of the Statement 

of Cash Flows, cash and cash equivalents 
consist of cash and cash equivalents as 
defined above, net of outstanding bank 
overdrafts. Cash at bank and short-term 
deposits earn interest at floating rates based 
on daily bank deposit rates.

The Group had no financing facilities as at  
30 June 2019 (2018: nil). 

RECONCILIATION OF NET LOSS TO NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATIONS 

Loss after tax

(14,934)

(11,029)

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

2018
$’000

ADJUSTMENT FOR NON-CASH ITEMS

Amortisation and depreciation

Foreign exchange differences

Movement on Hedge Reserve

Deferred tax effect on capital issue cost

Share based payment expense

Gain on sale of unlisted investments

Gain on disposal of non-current assets

CHANGES IN ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

Payables and other current liabilities

Receivables

Provision for employee benefits

Other non-current liabilities

Income tax and deferred tax

NET CASH FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

RECONCILIATION OF CASH

Cash and cash equivalents comprises:

Cash at bank and on hand

Short term deposits at call

26,659 

13,257

191

18

1,082

1,684 

(150)

(9)

13,109

(6,267)

702 

(174)

2,988

24,899

4,649 

71,265 

75,914 

71

-

-

1,367

-

(136)

9,330

(5,426)

2,733

1,176

2,392

13,735

6,792 

10,738 

17,530 

E. OTHER 

IN THIS SECTION

This section provides information on items which require disclosure to comply with Australian Accounting Standards and other 
regulatory pronouncements however are not considered critical in understanding the financial performance or position of the Group.

14. EARNINGS PER SHARE

Basic earnings per share is calculated as 
net profit/loss attributable to shareholders, 
adjusted to exclude costs of servicing 
equity (other than dividends), divided by 
the weighted average number of ordinary 
shares, adjusted for any bonus element.

Diluted earnings per share is calculated 
as net profit attributable to shareholders, 
adjusted for:

•  costs of servicing equity (other  

than dividends);

•  the after-tax effect of dividends and 

interest associated with dilutive potential 
ordinary shares that have been recognised 
as expenses; and

•  other non-discretionary changes in 

revenues or expenses during the period 
that would result from the dilution of 
potential ordinary shares, divided by the 
weighted average number of ordinary 
shares and dilutive potential ordinary 
shares, adjusted for any bonus element.

Net loss attributable to ordinary equity holders

Net loss used in calculating diluted earnings per share

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$’000

(14,934)

(14,934)

2018
$’000

(11,029)

(11,029)

Weighted average number of ordinary shares on issue used in the calculation of basic profit per share

Weighted average number of ordinary shares on issue used in the calculation of diluted profit per share

NUMBER OF SHARES

NUMBER OF SHARES

434,891,500

434,891,500

387,911,289

387,911,289

EARNINGS PER SHARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ORDINARY EQUITY SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY:

Basic loss per share (cents per share)

Diluted loss per share (cents per share)

(3.43)

(3.43)

(2.84)

(2.84)

The options granted to employees are 
considered to be ordinary shares and are 
included in the determination of diluted 
earnings per share to the extent to which 
they are dilutive.

There have been no other conversions to, 
calls of, or subscriptions for ordinary shares or 
issues of potential ordinary shares since the 
reporting date and before the completion of 
these financial statements.

110     FINANCIAL REPORT

FINANCIAL REPORT     111

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E. OTHER (CONT.)

15. EXPENDITURE COMMITMENTS

ACCOUNTING POLICY – LEASES

fulfilment of the arrangement is dependent 
on the use of a specific asset or assets and the 
arrangement conveys a right to use the asset. 

The determination of whether an 
arrangement is or contains a lease is based 
on the substance of the arrangement and 
requires an assessment of whether the 

Operating lease payments are recognised 
as an expense in the profit or loss on a 
straight-line basis over the lease term. Lease 
incentives are recognised in the income 

statement as an integral part of the total 
lease expense.

EXPENDITURE COMMITMENTS

There are no capital expenditure 
commitments or hire purchase commitments 
contracted at 30 June 2019 (2018: nil).

OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS

Minimum lease payments

- Not later than one year

- Later than one year and not later than five years

AGGREGATE LEASE EXPENDITURE CONTRACTED FOR AT REPORTING DATE

Operating lease commitments relate 
primarily to commercial office premises and 
IT related leases. These leases have varying 

terms, escalation clauses and renewal rights. 
On renewal, the terms of the leases are 
renegotiated.

16. PARENT ENTITY INFORMATION

FINANCIAL POSITION INFORMATION RELATING TO THE COMPANY

Current assets

Total assets

Current liabilities

Total liabilities

NET ASSETS

Contributed equity

Reserves

Accumulated losses

TOTAL SHAREHOLDER EQUITY

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE PROFIT/(LOSS) OF THE PARENT ENTITY

112     FINANCIAL REPORT

2019
$’000

2,307

5,999

8,306

2019
$’000

71,555 

124,555 

(2,057)

(16,023)

108,532

124,302 

15,125 

(30,895)

108,532 

1,270

2018
$’000

2,348

8,300

10,648

2018
$’000

10,855 

38,451

(32)

(4,153)

34,298

52,995 

13,468 

(32,165)

34,298

(5,740)

INFORMATION RELATING TO  
THE COMPANY

The parent entity entered into a Deed of 
Cross Guarantee (the Deed) dated 31 May 
2017 with its subsidiaries. Under the Deed 
each company guarantees the debts of 
the others. By entering into the Deed, the 
wholly owned entities have been relieved 
from the requirement to prepare a financial 
report and Directors’ report under Class 

Order 98/1418 (as amended) issued by 
the Australian Securities and Investments 
Commission. Please refer to Note 17 for 
listing of subsidiaries. 

Details of the contingent liabilities of the 
Group are contained in Note 20. There are 
no contingent liabilities of the parent entity.

Details of the contractual commitments of the 
Group are contained in Note 15. There are no 
contractual commitments of the parent entity.

17. GROUP ENTITIES

The consolidated financial statements 
incorporate the assets, liabilities and equity 
of the following subsidiaries in accordance 
with the accounting policy described in  
Note 2:

NAME OF ENTITY

Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd

Ipernica Ventures Pty Ltd

Nearmap Holdings Pty Ltd

Nearmap USA Pty Ltd

Nearmap Aerospace Inc.

Nearmap US, Inc.

Nearmap Remote Sensing US, Inc.

EQUITY HOLDING

COUNTRY OF 
INCORPORATION

Australia

Australia

Australia

Australia

United States

United States

United States

2019
%

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

2018
%

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

18. AUDITOR’S REMUNERATION 

During the year, the following fees were paid or payable for services provided by the auditor of the Company and its related practices:

AUDIT SERVICES PAID TO KPMG

Remuneration paid to KPMG for audit or review of the financial statements of the entity

150,000

115,140

CONSOLIDATED

2019
$

2018
$

NON-AUDIT SERVICES PAID TO KPMG

- Taxation advisory for the entity and any other entity in the Group

- Other advisory for the entity and any other entity in the Group

TOTAL SERVICES OTHER THAN STATUTORY AUDIT

TOTAL PAID/PAYABLE TO KPMG

-

13,725

13,725

163,725

24,750

69,950

94,700

209,840

FINANCIAL REPORT     113

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019E. OTHER (CONT.)

19. RELATED PARTIES 

(a) Compensation of key management personnel 

Employee benefits

Post-employment benefits

Termination benefits

Share-based payments

Financial assistance under the  
Employee Share Option Plan

Nearmap’s Employee Share Option Plan 
includes an Employee Loan Scheme that 

permits the Company to grant financial 
assistance to employees by way of a loan  
to enable them to exercise options and 
acquire shares.

2019
$’000

5,233

149

135

1,410

6,927

2018
$’000

3,665

138

-

1,223

5,026

DIRECTORS’ DECLARATION

In accordance with a resolution of the Directors of the Company, I state that:

In the opinion of the Directors:

(a) the financial statements and notes of the consolidated entity are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including:

(i) giving a true and fair view of the consolidated entity’s financial position as at 30 June 2019 and of its performance for the year ended on that 

date; and

(ii) complying with Accounting Standards and Corporations Regulations 2001 and other mandatory professional reporting standards; and

(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)  there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and payable; and

(d)  the remuneration disclosures set out in the Directors’ report (as part of audited remuneration report) for the year ended 30 June 2019, comply 

with section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001.

This declaration has been made after receiving the declarations required to be made to the Directors in accordance with sections 295A of the 
Corporations Act 2001 for the financial period ending 30 June 2019.

(b) Transactions with key management personnel

On behalf of the Board

Loans to key management personnel

2019
$

2018
$

3,227,820

1,483,806

Interest on the loans during the period has 
been accrued at a rate of between 1.50% 
and 1.70%. The loans are not recognised. 

(c) Other related party transactions 

Other than the loans granted to key 
management personnel under the 
employee loan scheme, there have been no 
sales, purchases or other transactions with 
related parties during the year ended 30 
June 2019 (2018: nil).

20. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES 

As at 30 June 2019, except for bank 
guarantees of $2,356k, the Directors are not 
aware of any contingent liabilities in relation 
to the Company or the Group.

21. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

On 1 July 2019, Nearmap Australia Pty 
Ltd entered into a contract for the lease of 
office premises located at Level 5, Tower 

One, International Towers, 100 Barangaroo 
Avenue, Sydney, NSW 2000 from Lendlease 
IMT (OITST ST) Pty Ltd ACN 605 217 703.

Except for the above, no other matters or 
circumstances have arisen since the end of 
the financial year which significantly affected 
or could significantly affect the operations of 
the Company, the results of those operations 
or the state of affairs of the Company in 
future financial years.

Rob Newman
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

20 August 2019

114     FINANCIAL REPORT

DIRECTORS’ DECLARATION     115

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019 
 
Independent Auditor’s Report 

Independent Auditor’s Report 

To the shareholders of Nearmap Limited 

Report on the audit of the Financial Report 

To the shareholders of Nearmap Limited 

Opinion 
Report on the audit of the Financial Report 
We have audited the Financial Report of 
Nearmap Limited (the Company). 

In our opinion, the accompanying 
Opinion 
Financial Report of the Company is in 
accordance with the Corporations Act 
We have audited the Financial Report of 
2001, including: 
Nearmap Limited (the Company). 

In our opinion, the accompanying 
•
giving a true and fair view of the 
Financial Report of the Company is in 
Group's financial position as at 30 
accordance with the Corporations Act 
June 2019 and of its financial 
2001, including: 
performance for the year ended on 
that date; and 
giving a true and fair view of the 
Group's financial position as at 30 
complying with Australian Accounting 
June 2019 and of its financial 
Standards and the Corporations 
performance for the year ended on 
Regulations 2001. 
that date; and 

•
•

•

Basis for opinion 

complying with Australian Accounting 
Standards and the Corporations 
Regulations 2001. 

The Financial Report comprises: 

•

Consolidated statement of financial position as at 30 
June 2019 

•
The Financial Report comprises: 

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income, 
Consolidated statement of changes in equity, and 
Consolidated statement of financial position as at 30 
Consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then 
June 2019 
ended 

•

•
Consolidated statement of comprehensive income, 
• Notes including a summary of significant accounting 
Consolidated statement of changes in equity, and 
policies  
Consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then 
ended 

• Directors' Declaration. 

The Group consists of the Company and the entities it 
• Notes including a summary of significant accounting 
controlled at the year-end or from time to time during the 
financial year. 
• Directors' Declaration. 

policies  

The Group consists of the Company and the entities it 
controlled at the year-end or from time to time during the 
financial year. 

We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. We believe that the audit 
evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. 

Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the 
Basis for opinion 
audit of the Financial Report section of our report. 
We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. We believe that the audit 
We are independent of the Group in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001 and the ethical 
evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. 
requirements of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for 
Professional Accountants (the Code) that are relevant to our audit of the Financial Report in Australia. We 
Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the 
have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Code. 
audit of the Financial Report section of our report. 

We are independent of the Group in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001 and the ethical 
requirements of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for 
Professional Accountants (the Code) that are relevant to our audit of the Financial Report in Australia. We 
have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Code. 

KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG 
network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG 
International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under 
Professional Standards Legislation.

KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG 
network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG 
International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under 
Professional Standards Legislation.

116   INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT 

Key Audit Matters 

The Key Audit Matters we identified 
are: 

•

Carrying value of intangible assets of 
the US business 

• Useful life of capture costs 

Key Audit Matters are those matters that, in our professional 
judgement, were of most significance in our audit of the 
Financial Report of the current period. 

These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of 
the Financial Report as a whole, and in forming our opinion 
thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these 
matters. 

Carrying value of intangible assets of the US business  

Refer to Note 11 to the Financial Report 

The key audit matter 

How the matter was addressed in our audit 

Our procedures included: 

• We evaluated the methodology applied by the Group in 
allocating corporate assets and costs across CGU's for 
consistency with our understanding of the business and 
the criteria in the accounting standards; 

• We assessed the methodology in the model for 

consistency with the basis required by Australian 
Accounting Standards; 

• We challenged the forecasts, assumptions, and the 
objectivity of sources on which the assumptions are 
based. We compared the cash flow projections for FY 
2020 to 2024 in the model to those in the latest Board 
approved budgets and evaluated their consistency with 
the Group's intentions as outlined in Directors' minutes 
and strategy documents. We also used our knowledge 
of the business and considered external sources 
including analysts' expectations and industry trends. The 
forecast growth was also assessed against the actual 
growth rate achieved in the establishment of the 
Australian business as well as market research reports; 

• We assessed the historical accuracy of forecasts by 

comparing to actual results, to use in our evaluation of 
projections included in the model. 

The group has $42,132,000 of intangible 
assets comprising primarily capture costs. 
The intangible assets attributed to the US 
business total $31,028,000. These assets 
are assessed for impairment at the US 
business cash generating unit (CGU) level, 
using a Fair Value Less Cost of Disposal 
model (“FVLCD” or “the model”).  

The assessment of impairment was a key 
audit matter because it involved 
significant judgement in evaluating the 
assumptions used by the Group in their 
FVLCD model.  

The key judgements we focused on 
included: 

-

-

Complex modelling, particularly those 
containing judgemental allocations of 
corporate assets and costs to CGUs, 
using forward-looking assumptions 
tend to be prone to greater risk for 
potential bias, error and inconsistent 
application. These conditions 
necessitate additional scrutiny by us, 
in particular to address the objectivity 
of sources used for assumptions, and 
their consistent application. 

Future cash flow projections for 
FY2020 to 2024 - The US business is 
still in the early stage of maturity 
which increases the risk of inaccurate 
forecasts. 

Captured: 30/06/2019 
Newark New Jersey USA

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Useful life of capture costs 

Refer to Note 11 to the Financial Report 

The key audit matter 

How the matter was addressed in our audit 

Our procedures included: 

• We developed an understanding of the accounting 

policies and useful lives used by the Group in the 
amortisation of capture costs; 

• We evaluated the Group's assessment of the useful life 
of capture costs by comparing the estimated useful life 
to the historical map tile requests and the period over 
which those map tiles were used;  

• We evaluated the Group's historical map tile requests 

data by testing a sample of requests to actual usage 
dates;  

• We tested the amortisation expense for capture costs 
for consistency with the Group's accounting policy and 
stated amortisation rates. 

The assessment of the useful life of 
capture costs was a key audit matter due 
to the judgement involved in us assessing 
the future period the capture costs 
directly attributable and necessary to 
create and upload digital imagery online 
will generate future cash flows. The 
relatively short history of the Group and 
the potential impact on the Group's profit 
resulting from amortisation expense 
increases the estimation uncertainty and 
therefore the complexity to the audit.  

On at least an annual basis, the Group 
assesses its portfolio of capture costs and 
uses judgement to determine the useful 
life. The useful life of capture costs is 
estimated by the Group through analysis 
of the historical frequency of map tile 
requests. These key inputs were 
therefore the focus of our work. 

Other Information 

Other Information is financial and non-financial information in Nearmap Limited’s annual reporting which is 
provided in addition to the Financial Report and the Auditor’s Report. The Directors are responsible for the 
Other Information.  

The Other Information we obtained prior to the date of this Auditor’s Report was the Remuneration 
Report. The Chairman's letter, CEO's Report, Shareholder Information and Corporate Information are 
expected to be made available to us after the date of the Auditor's Report. 

Our opinion on the Financial Report does not cover the Other Information and, accordingly, we do not 
express an audit opinion or any form of assurance conclusion thereon, with the exception of the 
Remuneration Report and our related assurance opinion. 

In connection with our audit of the Financial Report, our responsibility is to read the Other Information. In 
doing so, we consider whether the Other Information is materially inconsistent with the Financial Report or 
our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. 

We are required to report if we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this Other Information, 
and based on the work we have performed on the Other Information that we obtained prior to the date of 
this Auditor’s Report we have nothing to report. 

Responsibilities of the Directors for the Financial Report 

The Directors are responsible for: 

•

•

•

preparing the Financial Report that gives a true and fair view in accordance with Australian Accounting 
Standards and the Corporations Act 2001; 

implementing necessary internal control to enable the preparation of a Financial Report that gives a 
true and fair view and is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; and 

assessing the Group and Company's ability to continue as a going concern and whether the use of the 
going concern basis of accounting is appropriate. This includes disclosing, as applicable, matters 
related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to 
liquidate the Group and Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. 

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Report 

Our objective is:  

•

•

to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Financial Report as a whole is free from material 
misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; and  

to issue an Auditor’s Report that includes our opinion.  

Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in 
accordance with Australian Auditing Standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. 

Misstatements can arise from fraud or error. They are considered material if, individually or in the 
aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the 
basis of the Financial Report. 

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Report is located at the Auditing 
and Assurance Standards Board website at: http://www.auasb.gov.au/auditors_responsibilities/ar1.pdf. 
This description forms part of our Auditor’s Report. 

118   INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT 

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Cardross VIC Australia

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Report on the Remuneration Report 

Opinion 

Directors’ responsibilities 

In our opinion, the Remuneration 
Report of Nearmap Limited for the year 
ended 30 June 2019, complies with 
Section 300A of the Corporations Act 
2001. 

The Directors of the Company are responsible for the 
preparation and presentation of the Remuneration Report in 
accordance with Section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001.  

Our responsibilities 

We have audited the Remuneration Report included in pages 12 
53
to 32 of the Directors’ report for the year ended 30 June 2019.  

71

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Remuneration 
Report, based on our audit conducted in accordance with 
Australian Auditing Standards. 

KPMG 

Caoimhe Toouli 

Partner 

Sydney 

20 August 2019 

120     INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT

Captured: 02/03/2019 
Vancouver Canada

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION

SHAREHOLER INFORMATION

Additional information required by the Australian Securities Exchange and not shown elsewhere in this report is as follows. The information is 
current as at 2 September 2019.

(C) TWENTY LARGEST SHAREHOLDERS
The names of the twenty largest registered holders of quoted ordinary shares are:

(A) DISTRIBUTION OF ORDINARY SHARES

The number of shareholders, by size of holding, are:

RANGE

1–1,000 

1,001–5,000 

5,001–10,000 

10,001–100,000 

100,001 and over 

TOTAL 

NO OF HOLDERS

NO OF SHARES

5,722

7,817

2,970

3,129

277

3,147,053

21,113,774

22,930,378

85,397,579

317,366,832

19,915

449,955,616

The number of shareholders holding less than a marketable parcel of ordinary shares is: 792

(B) DISTRIBUTION OF UNQUOTED OPTIONS

ESOP options exercisable at a range of prices between $0.39 and $1.65 expiring on various dates between 30 November 2019 and 2 January 2023.

RANGE

1–1,000 

1,001–5,000 

5,001–10,000 

10,001–100,000 

100,001 and over 

TOTAL 

NO OF HOLDERS

NO OF SHARES

-

 1

-

5

18

24

 -   

 2,000 

 -   

 383,310 

 14,276,874 

14,662,184

NAME 

1   HSBC CUSTODY NOMINEES (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED

2   CITICORP NOMINEES PTY LIMITED

3   LONGFELLOW NOMINEES PTY LTD 

4   J P MORGAN NOMINEES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED

5   NATIONAL NOMINEES LIMITED

6   LONGFELLOW NOMINEES PTY LTD

7   CS THIRD NOMINEES PTY LIMITED 

8   VENTURE SKILLS PTY LTD 

9   BNP PARIBAS NOMINEES PTY LTD 

10  NETWEALTH INVESTMENTS LIMITED 

11 MUTUAL TRUST PTY LTD

12 MR JASON MAK

13 MR ANDREW JOHN MALONEY

14 BNP PARIBAS NOMS PTY LTD 

15 BNP PARIBAS NOMINEES PTY LTD 

16 CITICORP NOMINEES PTY LIMITED 

17 MRS ALISON FARRELLY

18 ROAN INDUSTRIES PTY LTD 

19 AUSTRALIAN EXECUTOR TRUSTEES LIMITED 

20 MR ROSS STEWART NORGARD

TOTAL 

(D) SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS

NO OF SHARES

% OF SHARES

50,328,852

40,419,356

34,155,167

27,322,489

19,010,943

11,921,128

7,088,605

7,078,333

5,336,819

4,962,200

4,436,165

3,972,941

3,391,447

2,665,389

2,422,807

2,374,454

2,184,874

2,050,060

2,041,539

2,000,000

11.19

8.98

7.59

6.07

4.23

2.65

1.58

1.57

1.19

1.10

0.99

0.88

0.75

0.59

0.54

0.53

0.49

0.46

0.45

0.44

    235,163,568

52.27

The substantial shareholders who have notified the Company in accordance with section 671B of the Corporations Act 2001 are:

NAME 

Ross Norgard

(E) VOTING RIGHTS

All ordinary shares carry one vote per share 
without restriction. No voting rights are 
attached to options.

(F) ON-MARKET PURCHASES

During the 2019 financial year, 96,637 ordinary 
shares at average price of $2.17 per share 

NO OF SHARES

% OF SHARES

48,076,295            

10.68

were purchased on market under the 
Company’s Matching Share Rights Plan.

(H) CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
STATEMENT

(G) SECURITIES EXCHANGE QUOTATION

The Company’s ordinary shares are listed on 
the Australian Securities Exchange (Code: 
NEA). The Home Exchange is Sydney.

The Company’s 2019 Corporate Governance 
Statement can be accessed at: https://www.
nearmap.com/au/en/investors/governance.

122     FINANCIAL REPORT

FINANCIAL REPORT     123

CORPORATE 
INFORMATION

NEARMAP LTD
ABN 37 083 702 907

DIRECTORS
Peter James (Non- executive Chairman) 
Rob Newman (CEO & Managing Director) 
Tracey Horton (Non-executive Director) 
Sue Klose (Non-executive Director) 
Ian Morris (Non-executive Director) 
Ross Norgard (Non-executive Director) 
Cliff Rosenberg (Non-executive Director)

COMPANY SECRETARY
Shannon Coates

REGISTERED OFFICE
Level 4, Tower One 
International Towers Sydney  
100 Barangaroo Avenue  
Sydney NSW 2000

WEBSITE
www.nearmap.com

SOLICITORS
DLA Piper

BANKERS
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 
Wells Fargo

SHARE REGISTRY
Computershare Investor Services Pty Ltd 
Level 3, 60 Carrington Street 
Sydney NSW 2000 
(Within Australia) 1300 850 505 
(Outside Australia) +61 3 9415 4000 
www.computershare.com.au

AUDITORS
KPMG Australia 
Tower Three 
International Towers Sydney  
300 Barangaroo Avenue  
Sydney NSW 2000

124   CORPORATE INFORMATION 

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