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ABN 95 009 211 474

A N N U A L   R E P O R T

2021

A B O U T P E R E N T I

OUR OPERATIONS

2021 Current operations and offices

A B O U T T H I S  R E P O R T

This Annual Report is a summary of Perenti and its operations, activities and financial position as at 30 June 2021. 
All dollar figures are expressed in Australian dollars unless otherwise stated.

EMPLOYEES

PROJECTS

COUNTRIES

COMMODITIES

CONTINENTS

7,881

58

12

9

4

COVER PHOTO CREDIT 
Underground photograph  
Nick Letchford - Mine Foreman at Garden Well

This Report is printed 
on paper that is 
manufactured from 
100% recycled 
fibre that is FSC Mix 
Certified. Both paper 
manufacturer and 
printer are certified to 
the ISO 14001 standard.

WHO WE ARE

Perenti is a diversified global mining services company headquartered 
in Australia. Founded in Kalgoorlie in 1987, the Group is today one of the 
world’s largest providers of surface mining, underground mining and mining 
support services at scale through a range of specialist operating businesses.

OUR   
PURPOSE

OUR 
PRINCIPLES

OUR   
ASPIRATION

To create 
enduring value 
and certainty 

No shortcuts

Never wasteful

Walk in their shoes

Smarter together

Enable tomorrow

To become the 
indispensable mining 
services company

OUR OPERATING STRUCTURE

U N D E R G R O U N D

S U R FA C E

I N V E S T M E N T S

17

20

23

CO N T E N T S

Who We Are 
Year in Review 
Chairman’s Report  
Managing Director & CEO’s Report 
Our Purpose and Strategy 

Leadership 
The Perenti Group Executive 

Group performance overview 
People 
Health and Safety 

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2
4
6
10

12

14 
15

Operational overview
Mining 
Underground Operations 
Surface Operations 
Investments 
Perenti’s Technology Driven Future 

Financial review 
FY21 Underlying Results 
Governance and Risk 

Sustainability Report 

Board of Directors 

Corporate Directory 

Financial Report 

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17
20
23
26

28
29
32

36

52

53

54

For further information, references within this document will be highlighted 

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G R O U P  P E R F O R M A N C E  OV E R V I E W

YEAR IN REVIEW

U N D E R LY I N G   R E V E N U E

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A )

U N D E R LY I N G N PAT ( A )

$2.02B

Underlying revenue in line with 
record revenue from FY20 and 
revised guidance 

$171M

$77M

Lower due to the impact of external 
headwinds including COVID-19, 
tight labour market and strong 
Australian dollar

Lower due to the impact of external 
headwinds including COVID-19, 
tight labour market and strong 
Australian dollar

C A S H  CO N V E R S I O N

ROAC E

105%

14.3%

Record EBITDA to cash conversion 
rate of 105 per cent providing 
additional liquidity

Lower ROACE reflects EBIT(A), 
stronger Australian dollar and 
capital investment in major 
projects

F U L L Y E A R D I V I D E N D   
P E R S H A R E

2.0 cents

Unfranked final dividend
Payout ratio of 43 per cent on 
second half underlying NPAT(A)

S P I F R

2.9

E M P L OY E E S

G L O B A L  P RO J E C T S

7,881

58

Serious Potential Injury Frequency 
Rate reduced from 4.1 while Total 
Recordable Injury Frequency Rate 
up to 5.1 from 4.9

Increased employee numbers on the 
back of strong demand for mining 
services and new projects

Increase in projects includes 
new work in North America 
and Botswana

All references, unless specifically provided, relate to underlying figures and a reconciliation to statutory results is on page 28.

S H A R E  P R I C E   P E R F O R M A N C E

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140

120

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60

40

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Jan 21

May 21

Aug 21

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ASX 200 Materials Index

Key announcements or events*

1

2

3

4

5

Perenti announces the completion  
of US$450M Guaranteed Senior 
Notes Offering

Perenti announced 1H21 Financial 
Results

Perenti provided an operational 
update, outlining headwinds

Awarded AMS’s largest ever contract, 
Motheo

Perenti launches its technology 
driven service offering, idoba

 Refer to page 28 in the Financial review for more

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YEAR IN REVIEW - SUSTAINABILITY

Creating value for our communities 

As a global mining services business, Perenti’s 
operations and offices span four continents 
and 12 countries. While we remain focused on 
continued growth, it is part of our DNA to ensure the 
communities we operate in benefit from our presence, 
and that we make a lasting economic and social 
impact. Our focus on developing strong partnerships 
underpins this commitment and we’ve implemented a 
range of programs to deliver value and certainty to our 
communities during the year. 

 Refer to page 50 in the Sustainability report for more

Investing in the next generation of miners 

Attracting, growing and retaining our people to 
ensure we can continue to deliver value and certainty 
to our clients as we grow has been a key focus for 
the business especially in the face of the current skills 
shortage across Australia. Our people are our key 
differentiator in our service offering and in FY21 we 
continued to invest in apprenticeships, traineeships 
and graduate programs to introduce new talent to  
our business.  

 Refer to page 48 in the Sustainability report for more

Focusing on human rights and  
modern slavery

Perenti has developed a three-year program of 
works which sets out specific actions to further 
respond to and manage human rights risks, including 
modern slavery. We also published on our website 
and submitted to the Australian Border Force our 
first public Modern Slavery Statement in accordance 
with the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018. 
The Statement was authorised and approved by the 
Perenti Board on 28 January 2021. 

 Refer to page 41 in the Sustainability report for more

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A ME SSAG E FROM 
THE CHAIRMAN

Perenti is one of the world’s 
leading mining services 
companies, so it is an honour  
to have been appointed 
Chairman of this iconic  
Western Australian business. 

RO B CO L E

C H A I R M A N

We have a reputation for delivering quality and value  
adding services for our clients, led by Mark Norwell and  
his highly experienced management team, backed by a  
deeply committed workforce, combined with the  
application of technology to assist our clients to generate 
value from their operations.

The 2021 Financial Year has been a year of disciplined 
delivery against our 2025 Strategy, set against a challenging 
backdrop of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic 
and other significant external headwinds. The successful 
execution of our strategy will ensure we deliver on our 
Purpose – to create enduring value and certainty.

Our solid operational performance throughout the year, 
underpinned by our ability to ensure our clients can 
continue their operations in the face of the pandemic, was 
a significant achievement and an example of how we create 
enduring value and certainty for our clients, our people, 
our investors and the communities in which we operate.

It is with great sadness that we report the tragic loss of two 
of our people. In July 2021, an incident at our Hemlo Project 
in Canada, resulted in the death of employee Troy Cameron. 
This followed the loss of our Underground Mining Alliance 
colleague Daniel Nuertey-Kwao Quaynortey in May 2021, due 
to a fall of ground incident at the Obuasi Gold Mine in Ghana. 
These are tragic events, and our thoughts are with the families 
of Troy and Daniel as well as their friends and colleagues.

The safety of our people matters deeply to everyone at Perenti. 
We know we work in an industry that has inherent risks, which is 
why we are focused on building a strong safety culture, backed by 
robust safety and management systems and engaging leadership. 

We are acutely aware of the benefits of running a sustainable 
business, and we are strengthening both our actions and the 
reporting of our sustainability performance. Our Sustainability 
Report outlines the focus of our Strategic Sustainability Plan, 
which we will report against in future years. Last year we included 
a range of sustainability commitments in our report and we 
have made solid progress implementing these as we continue 
to integrate sustainability considerations into our business. 

Strengthening our governance has also been a priority 
for the business and in the year we updated our operating 
model to reflect this with the creation of a Chief Legal and 
Risk Officer role on the Group Executive. In line with this 
appointment and our commitment to the highest standards 
of corporate governance we are developing robust integrated 
systems and processes to further support the business. 

We have also recently appointed Sydney-based executive  
Tim Longstaff to the Perenti Board. Tim is highly experienced in 
investment banking, with many years in Managing Director and 
senior executive roles at top-tier global firms. His experience 
will prove invaluable to Perenti as we pursue our strategic 
objectives and I am delighted to welcome Tim to the Board. 

While we believe our response to COVID-19 has been 
extremely positive, the extent and duration of the pandemic 
has still had an impact on our global operations. It has slowed 
the ramp up of key projects, and has required many of our 
people to make extraordinary personal sacrifices as they 
managed extended rosters, significant periods of quarantine, 
and other disruptions to their work and family lives. We are 
truly thankful to them, their families and the wider team for 
their support and commitment during these testing times.

The effect of the pandemic on our operations combined with  
a number of other external headwinds including the tightening 
Australian labour market and strengthening Australian dollar has 
impacted our financial performance in the year. We delivered 
underlying revenue of $2.02 billion, underlying EBIT(A) of  
$171 million and record cash conversion of 105 per cent. 

Throughout the year and despite a global pandemic,  
the team continued to deliver on a range of strategic initiatives.  
A standout has been our focus on selective growth – expanding 
into new markets in tier one jurisdictions that have long life 
mining opportunities, high quality clients, and where we can 
leverage our underground and surface mining expertise.

In North America, Barminco was awarded its second  
contract at Newcrest’s Red Chris Mine, a long-life asset,  
in British Columbia, Canada, while African Mining Services 
(AMS) was awarded the contract for Sandfire Resources’ 
Motheo Project in the Kalahari Copper Belt in Botswana. 
This is an important milestone for AMS following the 
strategic review we finalised earlier in the financial year.

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C H A I R M A N ’ S R E P O R T

I A N  CO C H R A N E

In July 2021, our business and the wider WA business 
community were left deeply saddened by the loss of our 
former chairman and stalwart Ian Cochrane following a 
battle with cancer.  Ian had a long affiliation with our 
business that began in the 1990s and culminated with him 
joining the Board and ultimately becoming chairman in 
2017. Ian’s contribution to Perenti was significant. He was 
instrumental in building the business into a highly 
regarded and respected global mining services company, 
by bringing together Ausdrill and Barminco. He stepped 
down from the Board in May this year due to ill health.  
I am profoundly saddened by his premature passing, 
having first met Ian 35 years ago. He was an outstanding 
lawyer and company director, a man of the highest 
integrity and a good friend. It is hard to accept that he  
is gone.

On behalf of the Perenti Board of Directors, and the 
whole business, Ian will be dearly missed. Our thoughts 
are with Ian’s wife Rosana, his family and friends.

In February, in response to the successful implementation of 
measures to manage the balance sheet implications from the 
disruption caused by COVID-19, we suspended the Dividend 
Reinvestment Plan that was introduced in April 2020. For FY21,  
the directors have determined a final dividend of 2.0 cents per 
share bringing the full year dividend to 5.5 cents per share 
unfranked. The final dividend of 2.0 cents represents a payout 
ratio of 43% for second half underlying NPAT(A), which is in line 
with our 10 year average range of 41%.

On behalf of the Board, I wish to thank our Managing Director  
and CEO Mark Norwell for his leadership of the Company.  
Mark, supported by a highly capable executive team, has 
responded with purpose, discipline and care to the challenges  
of COVID-19, while at the same time driving our operational 
performance and executing our 2025 Strategy. This thanks 
extends to everyone who works for Perenti, which includes  
7,881 people on four continents. As a services business we  
simply don’t exist without our people and their commitment  
to our clients, and to each other. 

Finally, thank you to Perenti’s investors. Your support in 
challenging times is appreciated. We will continue to focus on 
delivering value and certainty for you as we emerge from the 
pandemic and continue delivering against our 2025 Strategy.

RO B CO L E

C H A I R M A N

UNDERLYING EARNINGS PER SHARE

FULL YE AR DIVIDEND PER SHARE

INVESTOR QUESTION

10.95 cents

Based on underlying NPAT(A) of  
$77 million

2.0 cents

Unfranked dividend. Payout ratio of 
43 per cent of second half NPAT(A)

U N D E R LY I N G R E V E N U E

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A )

$2,022M

1,970

2,045

2,022

$171M

217

212

171

Q: The business has been 
impacted by a number of 
headwinds in the last year. Do you 
expect these to continue into the 
next financial year and if so, to 
what extent?

In the last year we have been impacted 
by significant headwinds including 
COVID-19, a stronger Australian dollar 
and a tightening labour market. We do 
see these headwinds extending through 
FY22. The headwinds are largely a result 
of challenges that are external to our 
business and while we cannot control 
them, we are proactively managing our 
business to mitigate the impacts as best 
as we can.

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

2021

 Refer to page 28 in the Financial review for more

 Refer to page 28 in the Financial review for more

2019 figures are proforma underlying figures which include 100 per cent of Barminco and AUMS for a full  
12 months and exclude amortisation and any non-underlying items.

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M ANAG ING  DIREC TOR  AND   
CHIEF  E XECUTIVE OFFICER’ S  RE P ORT
BUILDING MOMENTUM

Perenti delivered solid results, 
despite significant headwinds 
that continue to be proactively 
managed, as we execute our 
2025 Strategy and focus on 
providing enduring value and 
certainty to our clients.

FY21 highlights and achievements

Future objectives

∞  Continued resolve and commitment of our people in 

∞  Continued resolve and commitment of our people in 

navigating a world with COVID-19 to ensure operational 
continuity for our clients  

navigating a world with COVID-19 to ensure operational 
continuity for our clients

∞ 

Further expansion into the key geographical mining markets 
of North America and Botswana 

∞  Stabilisation of AMS with key under performing legacy 

contracts addressed, $88 million of cash realised from West 
Africa and delivering improved operational performance and 
new contracts to support further growth 

∞  Maintain our focus on the safety of our people, delivering 

operational excellence and winning work through extending 
current contracts and securing new projects 

∞  Successful ramp up of the Motheo Project in Botswana and 
further improvement realised from existing AMS contracts. 

∞  Positive progress against our Environmental, Social and 

∞  Continue our sustainability journey and improve our  

Governance (ESG) objectives and continuing to integrate 
sustainability across our business  

ESG performance  

∞  Developed our technology driven services business through 
foundational acquisitions with the formal launch of idoba in 
July 2021 

∞ 

Further develop idoba to enhance our mining business, 
deliver technology services to current and new clients and 
develop a new integrated service offering 

O R D E R  B O O K

$6.6B

P I P E L I N E

Our current work in hand represents +3 years of 
contracted work at current run rates. $2.0B of 
revenue is secured for FY22 and $1.5B for FY23.

$11.0B

We continue to prioritise the conversion of our 
pipeline to work in hand, focusing on top-tier mining 
jurisdictions and top-tier, multi-asset mining clients 
seeking strong financial, sustainability and safety 
performance.

ISG (%)

Country (%)

Commodity (%)

ISG (%)

Country (%)

Commodity (%)

• Underground  70
• Surface 
29
• Investments 

1

• Australia 
• Botswana 
• Ghana 
• Burkina Faso 
• Canada 
• Canada 
• Other 

48

18

14

9

4

3

4

• Gold 
• Copper 
• Nickel 
• Zinc 
• Other 

56

19

15

5

5

• Underground 
• Surface 

77

23

• Australia 
• Canada 
• USA 
• Cote d’Ivoire 
• Ghana 
• Botswana 
• Egypt 
• Other 

39

14

13

3

11

5

4

11

• Gold 
• Copper 
• Manganese 
• Nickel 
• Lithium 
• Diamonds 
• Other 

63

13

5

4

4

4

7

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M A N A G I N G D I R EC TO R A N D C H I E F  E X EC U T I V E  O F F I C E R ’ S  R E P O R T

Perenti continues to develop and 
strengthen our business foundations, 
secure new work, deliver innovative 
approaches for our industry, and 
provide reliable, high quality mining 
services to our clients around the world.

In the 2021 Financial Year, we experienced 
a year of strategic growth in key markets, 
robust operational performance and 
valuable contract wins. We took positive 
steps to improve our environmental, social 
and governance performance and we 
continued to invest in our systems and 
people to support sustainable growth.  
This was achieved in challenging operating 
conditions, directly impacted by COVID-19 
and a highly competitive labour 
environment in Australia, which had a flow 
on effect to our international expatriate 
workforce. Despite the operational 
headwinds and the strengthening 
Australian dollar, our underlying financial 
performance was solid, as we delivered 
more than $2 billion of revenue, excellent 
cash conversion and reduced our net debt. 

Despite these challenges, we maintained 
our discipline and focus on executing 
our 2025 Strategy. A key element of that 
strategy is expansion into stable mining 
jurisdictions, with high quality clients 
and long-term potential. We continued 
our successful entry into North America, 
with the opening of our office in the 
US city of Denver, Colorado, and the 
award of a new contract for Barminco at 
Newcrest’s Red Chris Mine in Canada. 

In May, we consolidated our position in 
Botswana with the award of a contract for 
AMS at Sandfire Resources’ Motheo 
Project. This is a significant achievement 
for the business, not only because the 
contract is the largest surface contract in 
our history and Botswana is a highly 
attractive mining jurisdiction, but it follows 
the completion of a strategic review into 
the AMS business. As part of this review  
we completed an early exit from loss 
making legacy contracts, Boungou and 
Yanfolila, releasing $88 million in cash to 
the business. AMS is now on an improved 
footing, with stronger commercial 
discipline and governance. Motheo 
represents an outstanding growth 
opportunity for a highly capable business 
with a great people, brand and reputation 
in Africa. 

Technology has also been a focus 
for Perenti and during the year we 
accelerated progress on our Technology 
Driven Mining strategic initiative, 
establishing the building blocks for the 
launch of idoba – our technology and 
innovation service business. 

A key part of our strategy is to secure 
profitable projects in quality mining 
jurisdictions and since 1 July 2020 we 
have continued to convert our growth 
pipeline opportunities into contract 
wins, securing more than $2.8 billion of 
contract extensions and new contract 
awards in three continents, and across 
a variety of commodities. We continue 
to extend long-term contracts with 
valued clients, which reflects the strength 
of our client relationships, backed by 
the great capability of our people.

As a business we remain financially 
strong and well positioned to navigate 
challenges that arise from the ongoing 
pandemic and to capitalise on the right 
growth opportunities. In October 2020, 
Perenti concluded the refinancing of its 
primary debt facility, further enhancing 
our already strong liquidity position by 
putting in place a stable, long-term capital 
structure that is underpinned by five-year 
notes held by high quality investors.

P E O P L E A N D S A F E T Y

It is with great sadness that I note two 
tragic incidents took place in May and 
July of 2021. The first was the loss of 
our colleague Daniel Nuertey-Kwao 
Quaynortey in a fall of ground incident 
at the Obuasi Mine in Ghana. Daniel was 
a member of the Underground Mining 
Alliance, a joint venture between AUMS 
and local Ghanaian business Rocksure. 
Secondly in July, an incident at our Hemlo 
underground project in Canada resulted 
in the tragic death of Troy Cameron, a 
long-term employee at the mine. Both 
Troy and Daniel were hard working 
and well-respected by their workmates 
and our thoughts go out to their family 
members, friends and colleagues. 

In addition to supporting everyone 
impacted by these tragic events, 
we are working with our clients to 
investigate the cause of both incidents 
and we will implement the applicable 
findings at each project and if relevant, 
more broadly across the business.

We are constantly searching for 
improvement in our safety performance. 
Through the year we continued the 
implementation of our new Health, 
Safety and Environment Management 
System, which provides us with 
tighter controls over critical risks and 
hazards and enhanced reporting, 
which in turn improved the resolution 
and investigation of HSE issues. 

We saw a positive improvement in our 
Serious Potential Injury Frequency Rate 
(SPIFR) from 4.1 to 2.9, however our 
Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate 
(TRIFR) increased from 4.9 to 5.1. Our 
primary focus is to ensure we have no 
life changing events by continuing to 
verify our critical controls are in place and 
working effectively, looking after ourselves 
and our workmates so every person goes 
home safe and healthy to their families 
and friends. We believe that if we are 
smarter together, we will be safer together.

  Refer to page 14-15 for more on Health and Safety.

O P E R AT I O N A L  E XC E L L E N C E

It is a testament to our people that despite 
the considerable business disruption 
caused by COVID-19 we have delivered 
strong operational performance. The 
resilience and commitment shown by our 
workforce in dealing with the pandemic 
to maintain continuous operations for 
our clients is the result of having an 
amazing team of people. I am hugely 
proud of the way our business continues 
to respond to these challenges and the 
resolve shown throughout our workforce. 

As part of our response to the pandemic 
and to navigate the ever-changing world 
of border closures, flight cancellations, 
quarantine and immigration requirements 
we have established a dedicated 
logistics team of 14 to navigate these 
challenges and support our people. 

Travel restrictions and the lengthy 
quarantine periods associated with 
travel continued to have a significant 
impact on our people throughout 
the year. I would like to thank those 
members of the team who were 
impacted, especially our expatriate 
workforce, our national employees 
and the team who manage our travel 
logistics. Their commitment to Perenti, 
and our clients, cannot be understated 
and has helped us successfully navigate 
these ongoing challenges. They are 
the epitome of our purpose in action, 
creating enduring value and certainty 
for not only our clients, but our people, 
the local communities in which we 
operate, our suppliers and ultimately 
our investors by continuing to operate.

COVID-19 has impacted the ramp up 
of a number of Perenti’s contracts, 
namely Zone 5 in Botswana, and Hemlo 
in Canada. Throughout, Perenti worked 
hand in hand with our clients and our 
people to find solutions to the different 
challenges presented by the pandemic.

We also introduced a Safety Leadership 
Program and trained more than 600 
people in Critical Risk Management with 
well over 11,000 field verifications of 
critical controls having been conducted. 

Strong commodity prices are driving 
continued strong demand in the 
mining industry. The market for 
our services is strong, and this is 
reflected in our growth pipeline. 

  Refer to pages 16-27 for our Operating Overview

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This is creating high demand for skills in 
the industry. Cost pressures are rising, 
and although we are protected, in part, by 
rise and fall provisions in our contracts, 
our ability to deliver is dependent on 
us having access to the right people 
and equipment in the right locations. 
COVID-19 travel restrictions are limiting 
our ability to recruit from a number 
of talent pools, but we are in a strong 
position to recruit locally. In Western 
Australia, we are one of the leading 
employers of trainees and apprentices 
in our industry, and in Botswana, our 
training centre is an example of how 
we build a strong pool of skilled local 
people to transition to our operations.

  Refer to pages 16-27 for our Operating Overview. 

O RG A N I S AT I O N A L H E A LT H

In January, we combined our Surface 
Mining and Underground Mining 
Industry Sector Groups (ISGs) under the 
leadership of our highly experienced 
mining executive, Paul Muller. Bringing 
these businesses together is an 
important strategic development for 
us, as it is driving greater collaboration 
across important areas such as safety, 
tendering and commercial discipline. 
We also appointed Vivienne Powe as 
CEO of our Investments ISG. Vivienne 
has broad experience in mining and is 
a strong and capable leader. Our focus 
on managing risk and strengthening 
compliance was also reinforced with 
the appointment of Raj Ratneser as 
our Chief Legal and Risk Officer.

The attraction and retention of people 
is one of the Group’s key priorities with 
the business implementing a range of 
strategic initiatives to ensure we can 
continue to deliver quality and consistency 
to our clients. I am proud that we are one 
of the largest private sector employers 
of apprentices and trainees in Western 
Australia, with more than 400 apprentices 
and trainees across our subsidiaries 
Ausdrill, Barminco and BTP. Developing 
local people is also a focus for us in many 
of our host countries around the world 
where we have a strong commitment 
on building local capability with 86 
per cent of our workforce represented 
by locals across our Africa operations 
and 93 per cent in North America. 

It is with great sadness that our former 
Chairman, Ian Cochrane, passed away 
in July. Ian was a true gentleman and 
a man of unquestionable integrity 
as well as a great mentor to me and 
many people across the Perth business 
community. He was instrumental in 
bringing the Ausdrill and Barminco 
businesses together and ultimately in the 
formation of one of the world’s leading 
mining services businesses, Perenti. His 
influence has shaped Perenti for the 

better and he will be truly missed by our 
business and the wider WA business 
community. Our thoughts are with his 
wife Rosana, his daughters Kelly and 
Kate, his grandchildren and friends.

Ian stood down as Chairman in May due 
to his health concerns. Our then Deputy 
Chairman, Rob Cole, transitioned into 
the Chairman position. Rob is a highly 
experienced company director and 
executive, with a strong reputation as 
a business leader earned over decades 
in the resources sector. On behalf of 
everyone at Perenti, I welcome Rob to his 
new role and we look forward to working 
with him to deliver on our strategy and 
purpose. I would also like to welcome 
Tim Longstaff who recently joined 
the Board. Tim is highly experienced 
across strategy development, M&A and 
international debt and equity markets and 
we look forward to working with him.

  Refer to page 14-15 for more on Organisational 
Health.

E N H A N C I N G O U R 
E N V I RO N M E N T,  S O C I A L A N D 
G OV E R N A N C E P E R F O R M A N C E

Last year we published our inaugural 
Sustainability Report which outlined a 
number of commitments for the 2021 
financial year. We have made solid 
progress against these commitments 
as well as continuing to integrate 
sustainability across our business. 

Strong performance in this area is not 
only an important way of demonstrating 
our integrity, it is an essential part of 
us achieving our aspiration to be the 
indispensable mining services company 
and to fulfil our purpose of creating 
enduring value and certainty. 

Highlights of our sustainability 
performance in the year include the 
release of our Modern Slavery Statement, 
which binds us to international standards 
on enforced labour; the introduction of a 
Speak Up campaign, where we encourage 
our people to confidentially report issues 
of concern, and the roll out of mandatory 
training modules for all our people that 
reinforce our Code of Conduct and Speak 
Up Program as well as Anti-bribery and 
Anti-corruption training for our leaders.

  Refer to page 38 of our Sustainability Report. 

E N A B L I N G T O M O R ROW 
T H RO U G H A T E C H N O L O GY 
D R I V E N F U T U R E

Two years ago, at the launch of our 2025 
Strategy, we talked about the gathering 
pace of technology in the mining industry, 
and our aspiration to be at the forefront 
of this through a pillar of the strategy 
called Technology Driven Mining. 

We have been working in the background, 
developing our capability through strategic 
acquisitions. This culminated in the launch 
of idoba in July 2021, our technology 
business for the mining industry.

Our industry is at the early stages of digital 
transformation, but it is accelerating. As a 
leader in the industry, with a wide range 
of clients and a variety of operations, we 
are in a unique position to gather data 
and insights that we can apply across the 
industry. idoba will enable us to respond to 
our clients’ evolving needs both today and 
into the future and position us to capitalise 
on this exciting new phase in our industry.

  Refer to page 26 for more on Perenti’s technology 
driven future.

L O O K I N G A H E A D 

As we start FY22, we do so with a great 
deal of confidence. Our business has 
proven its strength and resilience over the 
last 18 months, and our strategy is building 
momentum that will help us to continue 
to grow, while effectively managing risk.

Our priorities for FY22 are to maintain 
our focus on the safety of our people, 
operational excellence, successfully 
ramp up critical projects in North 
America and Botswana and grow our 
new technology business idoba.

Our high quality tender pipeline of  
$11 billion includes opportunities in North 
America, Australia and Botswana, and 
these will create the platform for  
future returns. 

Fundamentally Perenti is a strong business, 
generating reliable cashflow, has a 
fantastic client base, and we have a clear 
strategy to develop into new markets, with 
an edge in technology that we believe 
will give us a competitive advantage.

In closing, I would like to express my 
thanks to our people who proudly work 
for Perenti and our operating businesses. 
This has been an extraordinary year, which 
has placed significant demands on many 
of our people that we could not have 
envisaged 18 months ago. Despite these 
challenges, our people have continued to 
deliver for our clients and our Company 
every day, which speaks volumes for their 
commitment and their desire to succeed. 
This is a great formula for success, and we 
all look forward to the next phase of our 
journey and in becoming the 
indispensable mining services company.

M A R K N O RW E L L

M A N AG I N G D I R EC TO R A N D   
C H I EF E X ECU T I V E O FFI C ER

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INVESTOR QUESTION

Q: In light of skills shortages, how 
do you plan to find the people 
needed to continue your growth?

During the year we directed significant 
additional resources to support recruiting 
people for our business and we have been 
very successful in attracting new talent.  
We recently announced that we have 
secured and mobilised a workforce of  
110 highly skilled underground employees. 
During the year we also focused on our 
future talent pipeline and have a total of 
more than 400 apprentices and trainees 
across our business.

We are confident in our ability to attract 
and develop our employees to ensure we 
can deliver excellence to our current and 
future clients. 

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O U R P U R P O S E A N D  S T R AT EG Y

OUR PURPOSE AND STRATEGY 

PURP OSE 

Our purpose, to create enduring value and certainty, is central to the way we work at Perenti. It means 
that we walk in the shoes of our stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver a service to them that 
exceeds their needs and expectations. By continuing to provide these levels of service to our stakeholders 
over time we also create certainty for them that we will always deliver work to a consistently high standard. 

H OW  W E  C R E AT E E N D U R I N G VA L U E A N D  C E R TA I N T Y F O R O U R S TA K E H O L D E R S

F O R  O U R S H A R E H O L D E R S 

F O R O U R P E O P L E 

F O R O U R C L I E N T S

We provide long-term value to our 
shareholders through our strategy to 
focus on winning new work in more 
stable international mining jurisdictions 
providing certainty of geopolitical 
and operational performance. Our 
focus on ensuring continuity of 
operations at our clients’ sites during 
the pandemic also creates value and 
certainty for our shareholders.

Perenti provides value and certainty 
to its people through development 
and career progression opportunities. 
An example of this is Kwame Mensah 
who joined our subsidiary AMS in 
2002 as an apprentice auto electrician. 
Kwame has worked his way through 
the business to his current position 
of Maintenance Manager, receiving 
the training and support required 
to progress his career. Kwame is 
just one example of how we create 
value and certainty for our people.

Our focus on operational continuity 
during the COVID-19 pandemic is 
an example of how we have created 
enduring value and certainty to 
our clients, especially those with 
operations overseas. As part of our 
response, we mobilised a dedicated 
team of people to manage the logistics 
of our international expatriate crews 
across multiple sites and countries 
given the disruption caused by closed 
borders, travel restrictions, and 
extensive quarantine measures.  

  Refer to page 6 in the CEO’s Report

  Refer to page 14 in the People section

  Refer to the case study on page 11

By delivering high standards of work in 
everything we do, so that we achieve 
our purpose for our stakeholders, we 
will achieve our aspiration to become 
the indispensable mining services 
company. This will ensure we continue 
to extend and win new contracts, 
retain and employ great people, form 
sustainable partnerships that benefit 
the local communities that host us 
and deliver long-term value for our 
shareholders.

F O R  T H E  CO M M U N I T I E S T H AT 
H O S T   U S

Building a state-of-the-art training 
centre in Botswana provides value and 
certainty to our employees, by providing 
them with opportunities for career 
development, while also supporting the 
local economy by building capability 
in the community. In the year, more 
than 200 people completed induction 
training, 376 cultural awareness training 
and 45 people were trained at the centre 
through the engineering school.

F O R O U R  S U P P L I E R S

Perenti uses thousands of suppliers 
globally, many of these are local to our 
operations and support job creation 
and economic growth. Our partnership 
with OMG Engineering is an example 
of this in action, helping them shape 
their continually evolving capabilities 
and reputation as an engineering 
solution provider in the WA drilling 
market. Our collaboration has helped 
build a solid foundation on which OMG 
can grow and diversify its business, 
creating opportunities for them, their 
employees and their supplier partners. 

  Refer to page 50 in the  
Sustainability Report

  Refer to page 39 in the  
Sustainability Report

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S TR ATEGY 

Our 2025 Strategy is based on five strategic 
pillars which each include a number of value 
creating initiatives that aim to optimise our 
business in the short-term while helping grow 
the business in the mid to longer term. The 
strategy guides our business planning process 
and will shape our business in the coming years. 

The 2021 Financial Year has been a year of 
disciplined delivery against our 2025 Strategy, 
set against a challenging backdrop of the 
ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and other 
significant external headwinds. The successful 
execution of our strategy will ensure we deliver 
on our Purpose – to create enduring value and 
certainty for all of our stakeholders. 

O U R  P I L L A R S A N D  K E Y M I L E S T O N E S : 

OPER ATIONAL 
EXCELLENCE

STR ATEGIC 
GROW TH

ORGANISATIONAL 
HE ALTH

TECHNOLOGY 
DRIVEN FUTURE

BUILDING 
FINANCIAL 
CAPACIT Y

Ensuring we focus 
on delivering positive 
performance across 
all safety, production 
and financial metrics 

Building our collective 
brands and growing 
our business beyond 
organic growth

Focused on investment 
in our people and 
business to ensure 
long-term performance 
by establishing a solid 
business foundation 

Adding value to 
our business now 
and positioning for 
the future both in 
current services and 
new services driven 
by technology 

Building and 
maintaining a robust 
balance sheet that 
gives us the flexibility 
to grow and deliver 
returns to shareholders 

  Refer to pages 16-27 of 
our Operating Overview

   Refer to page 21 for  
our Motheo Project 
case study

  Refer to page 15 for 
more on Health and 
Safety

  Refer to page 26 for 
more on Technology

  Refer to pages 28-31 of 
our Financial Review

Business  continuity  
during COVID-19

Expansion into  
Botswana  and Canada

Stabilised AMS   
performance

Established office 
in  Denver USA

ESG priorities  
identified and 
progressed 

Enhanced capabilities 
to secure, develop 
and retain talent

Launched idoba 

Liberated $88 million 
cash from  West Africa 

Investing in  scalable  
operating  systems

Refinance of  
 high yield  bonds

C A S E   S T U D Y   -   C R E A T I N G   E N D U R I N G   V A L U E   A N D   C E R T A I N T Y

Perenti’s response to COVID-19

A fantastic example of our purpose in action is our proactive 
response to COVID-19 and the significant efforts by everyone 
at Perenti to ensure operational continuity for our clients in the 
face of the global pandemic.  

As part of our response, we mobilised a dedicated team of 
people to manage the logistics of our international expatriate 
crews across multiple sites and countries given the disruption 
caused by closed borders, travel restrictions, and extensive 
quarantine measures.  

In all, the team organised more than fifty charter flights to move 
hundreds of our employees. 

This effort not only created value and certainty for our clients 
through the continuity of their operations it also created value 
and certainty for: 

•  Our people both locally and internationally ensuring they 

have ongoing work 

•  Our investors, by ensuring we continue to generate revenue 

and profit from the business 

•  Our suppliers who depend on our operations for their own 

businesses to thrive, and  

•  The communities we operate in through the continued 

economic contributions from local jobs and local businesses. 

This is a great example of delivering on our purpose, living 
our principles and is another step towards us achieving our 
aspiration to become the indispensable mining services 
company. 

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THE PERENTI GROUP EXECUTIVE

FROM THE LEF T 

Paul Muller – Chief Executive Officer, Mining  | Sarah Coleman – Chief Executive Officer, idoba |  
Peter Bryant – Chief Financial Officer | Mark Norwell – Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer  
Ben Davis – Chief People Officer | Vivienne Powe – Chief Executive Officer, Investments |  
Josh Bovell – Chief Information Officer | Raj Ratnesser – Chief Legal and Risk Officer  

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MANAGING DIRECTOR AND  
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

PAU L M U L L E R

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
MINING

V I V I E N N E P OW E

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 
INVESTMENTS

Mark was appointed as the Managing 
Director and CEO of Perenti in September 
2018. Mark has more than 20 years’ 
experience in the mining industry 
throughout Australia, New Zealand,  
Africa and the Americas.

Paul has more than 20 years' experience 
in the mining industry, working for both 
mining services providers and mine 
owners in Australia, Asia and Africa.

Vivienne is a senior executive with a  
strong track record of creating 
shareholder value in global mining and  
oil and gas companies.

S A R A H CO L E M A N

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
IDOBA

P E T E R B RYA N T

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

B E N DAV I S

CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

Sarah is an experienced mining and 
management consulting executive with 
an impressive background spanning 
operations, improvement, innovation, 
technology, and asset management.

Peter is a CFO with more than  
25 years' experience. He has served 
in various executive roles across the 
mining, construction and media sectors.

With experience spanning more than 
20 years, Ben has held a number of 
operational, corporate and executive 
functional roles across Australia, 
Africa and North America.

J O S H  B OV E L L

R A J R AT N E S E R

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

CHIEF LEGAL AND RISK OFFICER

Josh has more than 20 years’ experience 
throughout Australia, Asia and North 
America in the information systems 
and technology industry and has held 
leadership roles in organisations operating 
across a broad range of sectors.

Raj is a senior executive with more than 
20 years’ national and international 
experience across legal, commercial, 
governance, risk and internal audit 
primarily in the resources, engineering  
and construction industries.

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P EO P L E

PEOPLE

WO R K F O RC E

7,881

Our workforce numbers continue to remain 
strong with a global workforce of close to 
7,900 people with more than 3,000 employees 
in Australia and more than 4,000 in Africa. 

L O C A L  E M P L OYM E N T 
I N T E R N AT I O N A L LY

87%

Within our international operations we 
employed 87 per cent of our workforce  
from the local population and an additional  
3.5 per cent from within the region. 

F E M A L E  PA R T I C I PAT I O N

10% 

Across our operations, female participation 
rates increased in FY21 to 10 per cent.  
We have two female Non-Executive-Directors 
on our Board and women occupy more than  
18 per cent of our senior management 
positions.

A P P R E N T I C E S  A N D T R A I N E E S

410

We have a strong commitment to training 
our workforce of tomorrow. Perenti made 
significant progress across a number of 
key people priorities, including, key people 
systems, leadership engagement and people 
development.

E N A B L I N G O U R P E O P L E

I N V E S T I N G I N O U R P E O P L E

FY21 saw an ‘Enable People’ program 
of work commence that aims to 
improve Perenti’s foundational people 
related systems and improve visibility 
of key data and information to better 
connect our global business.

Perenti has invested in new human 
resources (HR) and health, safety 
and environment (HSE) systems that 
provide leaders and employees with 
access to important information. This 
helps us to efficiently and effectively 
transact key people related activities as 
well as report on related metrics. The 
implementation of these systems is 
critical to underpinning the growth and 
future aspiration of the organisation. 

Two dedicated teams were established 
to design and implement the HR and 
HSE systems in FY21 and early FY22. 
The first core module of the HR system 
was successfully implemented in 
June 2021, which will be followed by 
additional modules in FY22. The HSE 
system was also readied in FY21 and was 
implemented in early August 2021.

B U I L D I N G O U R L E A D E R S F O R 
T O M O R ROW 

Engagement with our senior leaders 
across the Group is vitally important 
to ensure delivery of our strategy and 
objectives. To this end an inaugural 
Senior Leaders Forum was held in 
the second half of the financial year. 
This engagement and development 
opportunity brought together the top 70 
leaders from across the Group, to discuss 
and align on strategic plans, business 
direction, leadership development and 
culture. Due to COVID-19 restrictions 
our international colleagues were not 
able to join in person, however using 
technology, they joined remotely and 
also had dedicated sessions with the 
Managing Director and CEO. The forum is 
scheduled to be an annual event with the 
next meeting planned for March 2022. 

Our focus on developing our people 
has continued throughout the year. 
Our Apprenticeship Program saw 
increased applications and uptake with 
148 apprentices across the Group. 
A number of apprentices have been 
able to successfully transition across 
business units, taking up opportunities 
that enable them to expand their skills 
and expose them to the diversity of 
work and operations across the Perenti 
group of companies. In addition to our 
commitment to apprentices we also 
recorded 262 traineeships during the year.

Our Graduate Program increased to  
29 graduates in 2021 with the 
implementation of a structured program 
designed to assist graduates in achieving 
specific objectives across their rotations. 
Despite COVID-19 related travel 
restrictions, our graduates were fortunate 
enough to be able to come together for 
an annual forum, with participants across 
WA, NSW and QLD. This forum supports 
these future leaders in developing 
communication, presentation and conflict 
resolution skills, as well as a focus on 
safety, technology and innovation and 
alignment with the Perenti principles. 

WO R K I N G T O E N S U R E 
O P E R AT I O N A L CO N T I N U I T Y

The labour market has continued 
to tighten across Australia and for 
international roles, exacerbated by 
COVID-19 and the resulting country 
and state based travel restrictions. 
Within Australia, border restrictions 
have impacted the ability for FIFO 
employees to move freely across state 
boundaries. Perenti has implemented 
a number of guidelines to support 
this, including alternate R&R locations, 
relocation support and redeployment of 
people to projects within their “home” 
states. A dedicated team has also been 
established to support FIFO expats in 
their international movements, to ensure 
adequate support for travel management 
and during quarantine periods.

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H E A LT H  A N D S A F E T Y

HEALTH AND SAFETY

H E A LT H A N D S A F E T Y

The health and safety of our people are 
utmost in everything we do, and it is this 
belief that drives the implementation 
of a robust strategy to eliminate life 
changing events from our business. 

During the year, we tragically lost 
an employee of our Underground 
Mining Alliance joint venture at the 
Obuasi Mine in Ghana to a fall of 
ground incident. This terrible event 
galvanises our focus on creating a 
work environment where our people’s 
physical and emotional health and safety 
is at the centre of everything we do.

Our safety improvement is focused 
around three key areas:

1.  Safety leadership and culture
2.  Critical Risk Management
3.  Effective systems 

T R I F R

5.1

up from 4.9 at June 2020

S P I F R

2.9

down from 4.1 at June 2020

CRITICAL FIELD VERIFICATION 
CHECKLISTS CONDUCTED

11,000+

S A F E T Y L E A D E R S H I P A N D 
C U LT U R E

Enhancing the development of our 
leaders’ safety skills and capability is a vital 
component of our Safety Improvement 
Strategy. A Safety Leadership Framework 
was developed during the reporting period 
and forms part of the overall Leadership 
Development Framework for the business. 

The first module of this program has been 
introduced with the aim to improve the 
understanding of effective safety 
management and the role of leaders in 
influencing our safety culture and 
performance. It also explores 
opportunities to better understand and 
enable the safety of work being 
undertaken by all teams. 

During FY22, we will continue to deliver 
this program to leaders, and it will be 
expanded to include a second module. 
This module will benefit leaders by further 
developing an understanding of how to 
positively influence the safety of work 
being undertaken by their teams, and 
empowering leaders to “know, say, and 
do” the things that drive sustainable 
improvement to safety throughout the 
business. 

In support of a consistent safety culture 
throughout the business, a safety tagline 
and awareness campaign was launched 
during FY21. Leveraging our principle of 
Smarter together, the tagline Smarter 
Together, Safer Together was launched. 

What this signifies is our culture 
stemming from a genuine care for one 
another, and where we work together to 
support one another’s safety and health. 

  Refer to page 44 in the Sustainability Report

C A S E   S T U D Y

C R I T I C A L R I S K M A N AG E M E N T

The second core area for our 
Safety Improvement Strategy is the 
implementation of a robust Critical 
Risk Management Program to improve 
the implementation of controls to 
prevent fatal events. This program was 
developed through a rigorous process 
of collaboration with experts and 
stakeholders throughout the business. 
In FY21, we implemented 12 Critical 
Risk Standards and developed and 
implemented supporting verification tools 
for frontline leaders and managers to 
verify critical controls are understood, in 
place and working effectively in the field. 

During FY22, we will expand this by 
implementing tools to enable our 
frontline workforce to verify critical 
controls specific to the task they 
are undertaking and enhance the 
existing verification tools for our 
frontline supervisors and managers. 

E F F E C T I V E S YS T E M S

During the reporting period, we 
implemented a standardised HSE 
Management System throughout the 
entire business. This system details 
the requirements for managing HSE 
and leverages external benchmarking 
and internal leading practices to 
effectively manage HSE risks, and 
also supports ongoing compliance 
to ISO 14001 and 45001.

A project was initiated in FY20 to 
design and implement a single HSE 
information system across the business 
thereby improving accessibility and 
reliability of HSE data and analysis. 
This progressed in FY21 with the new 
system, internally named “HSE Central”, 
being configured and tested, ready for 
implementation at the beginning of FY22.

Leveraging technology for remote underground training 

At several of our operations, training underground loader operators has been 
conducted with both the trainer and trainee in a confined area presenting a risk 
as both can be exposed to potential impact by the loader. To eliminate this risk, a 
remote training solution has been developed, which removes the trainer from the 
immediate area using an integrated system of standalone video cameras linked with 
communication systems or VTS to allow for the training to take place.

The VTS was developed through cross-functional collaboration and was designed to 
provide livestream video and constant voice communication between the operator 
trainee and trainer during the training session. The system, which is easily installed 
onto any loader, with minimal set up time, has been successfully trialled with the 
support of Regis Resources at the Rosemont site. The system is currently being further 
piloted at the Obuasi mine in Ghana, and if proven successful the intent is to deploy the 
system at other sites and investigate expanding to other applications. 

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MINING

M I N I N G

During the 2021 Financial Year, the Mining Industry Sector Group (ISG) delivered solid operational performance across both its 
surface and underground operations, which is a considerable achievement given the significant headwinds experienced by the 
business due primarily to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a tightening labour market. 

Strong demand for our services was underpinned by rising 
commodity prices resulting in nine per cent revenue growth for 
our underground business, with a number of new contract wins 
and extensions, including further expansion in North America 
and our first underground contract in New South Wales. 

The performance of AMS stabilised and showed signs 
of a sustainable operational improvement following our 
strategic review into that business with both Ausdrill and 
AMS delivering a solid operational performance during the 
year. The subsequent award of Sandfire Resources’ Motheo 
contract to AMS in June 2021 marks an inflection point 
for AMS, providing a strong platform for the future.

Our people are central to our success. Their commitment  
and dedication to the business in the face of domestic  
and international disruptions caused by the COVID-19  
pandemic ensured we continued to deliver enduring value  
and certainty to our clients. We are hugely thankful to them 
- many have endured prolonged rosters, frequent and 
unpredictable travel restrictions and significant quarantine  
periods to keep our operations running. A heartfelt thank  
you must also go to their families for their support during  
this period of prolonged uncertainty. 

During the year, we recruited a significant number of 
graduates and apprentices across our businesses and 
have strong numbers of trainees to maintain and grow our 
talent pipeline and build our workforce of tomorrow.

On the safety front, we continue to focus on a robust strategy 
to eliminate life changing events from our business. Our focus 
on critical risks resulted in a 40 per cent improvement in our 
Serious Potential Incident Frequency Rate. We have continued 
to explore how we can use technology to keep our people safe 
in pursuit of our strategic objective, no life changing events. 

We continue to have a strong drive to leverage available mining 
technology to improve the safety, productivity and sustainability of 
our operations. Technology is at the forefront of what we do and 
the establishment of idoba, Perenti’s technology and innovation 
service offering, ensures we are well positioned to capitalise on 
this capability to develop and service the mines of the future.

Internationally, we continue to build the capability of our host 
communities by prioritising local recruitment and procurement. 
In line with this we have developed joint ventures at a number 
of our projects that will see our partners benefit from our 
world leading surface and underground mining expertise. 

During the year, we faced a shortage of skilled labour due to 
a number of factors including a buoyant mining industry and 
an inability to source international and interstate labour due to 
COVID-19 induced travel restrictions. These labour shortages 
particularly impacted Western Australia. To mitigate these impacts, 
significant additional resources were directed to recruitment, 
while our efforts to train and develop our people continued. 

Our training centre in Botswana, that services our 
Zone 5 project and will be used to support our 
Motheo contract, is an example of our commitment 
to train local people to be part of our operations 
while our entry into North America has seen us 
partner with First Nations groups to ensure we 
maximise local participation.

O U R  M I N I N G   B U S I N E S S E S AT A G L A N C E

S U R FAC E

In Australia, Ausdrill is a leading provider of drilling services 
specialising in exploration, drill and blast, grade control and 
geotechnical services. Ausdrill is a leader in technological 
capabilities in the drilling industry and has a reputation 
for delivering value and certainty for its clients. 

Our African business, African Mining Services (AMS), is a 
leading surface mining operator in Africa. With 30 years 
of experience, AMS provides safe and reliable production 
and exploration services. We have a strong track record 
of delivering successful outcomes for our clients in a 
diverse range of mining jurisdictions across Africa. 

UNDERGROUND 

Barminco is a name synonymous with the delivery of high-
quality underground mining services. The business was 
instrumental in the design and implementation of high speed 
decline development which transformed underground mining 
in Australia and is now the preferred mining method for 
most modern underground mines in Australia and Africa. 

AUMS was established in 2007 and combines Barminco’s skills 
and experience in underground mining services with the wider 
Group’s knowledge, experience and client network in Africa. In 
a short time, AUMS has developed a market-leading position in 
Africa and has a track record of exceeding productivity targets. 

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M I N I N G

UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS

FY21 highlights and achievements

Future objectives

∞  Successfully navigating the COVID-19 
pandemic to enable continuity of 
operations for clients

∞   Continue to make our projects even 
safer through the comprehensive 
management of critical safety 
risks, improved safety systems and 
leadership

∞  Significant international growth with 

∞  Deliver excellent operational 

further expansion into North America 
and the opening of our USA office in 
Denver, Colorado 

performance across the project 
portfolio, including the ongoing  
ramp up of growth projects

∞  Creating a robust people pipeline 
through investing in graduates, 
apprentices and traineeships  

∞  Extend existing contracts and win 

profitable new work

∞  Significant organic growth including 

∞  Recruit, engage, train, develop and 

domestic and international 

retain the best people in the industry

∞  Community investment including 

support of Ronald McDonald House, 
the Clontarf Foundation and the 
Dandjoo Darbalung Program

∞  Successfully manage the ongoing 
impact of COVID-19 on the safety, 
health and well-being of our people, 
while ensuring operational continuity 
for our clients

INVESTOR QUESTION

Q: Given the issues that you  
have experienced over the last  
12 months, when will your growth 
projects Zone 5 and Hemlo be at  
full production?

Given the uncertainty around  
COVID-19, we cannot say for certain, 
however, we continue to work closely 
with our clients to identify opportunities 
to realise productivity improvements  
and accelerate ramp-up at these projects.  

At Zone 5 for example, 
we have recently 
optimised our workforce 
scheduling and believe 
that this will deliver 
improved productivity 
throughout FY22.

U N D E R LY I N G  R E V E N U E

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A )

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A ) M A RG I N

$1,476M

$200M

13.6%

1,476

1,300

1,081

196

200

15.3

15.1

13.6

165

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

2021

Up 14 per cent on FY20 as the Underground business 
delivered a third consecutive year of growth despite 
the headwinds

Up 2 per cent on FY20 as Australian Underground 
work in hand increased with the award of new 
projects and scope increases

Down 1.5 per cent points on FY20 as productivity and 
margins were impacted by headwinds

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AT  A   G L A N C E

Contract awards

55%

Underground projects represent 55 per cent 
of the value of contract awards since  
30 June 2020

Tender pipeline

$8.5B

Current projects

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U N D E RG RO U N D AU S T R A L I A 

Barminco has a reputation for high 
quality operational performance and 
we continued to deliver during the 
2021 Financial Year recording strong 
domestic growth with the award of a 
number of new and extended contracts. 

This included our ability to leverage our 
operating standards and strong long-
term relationships delivering organic 
growth in our Western Australian projects, 
including Gold Fields’ Wallaby Operation, 
Regis Resources’ Garden Well Mine 
and Western Areas’ Odysseus Mine. In 
line with Perenti’s focus on geographic 
expansion, Barminco also began its first 
underground project in New South Wales 
at Evolution Mining’s Cowal Operation, 
which, together with Garden Well, 
provides an excellent opportunity for 
further growth as these mines transition 
from development to production.

During the year there was continued 
domestic and international demand 
for our fleet of mobile mini-raiseboring 
machines, also known as Rhinos, both 
throughout our own operations and to 
external clients. The Rhinos offer improved 
mobility and efficiency in uphole slotting 
and in Australia we recorded more than six 
kilometres of raise boring during the year.

The underground business continued to 
invest in next generation equipment to 
support safer and more productive 
operations.

This included deploying the state-of-the-
art Epiroc Mobile Carrier Rig and the GEN 
2 Epiroc Diamec Smart 6M. Both drills 
promote automation and ‘hands off steel’ 
technology, significantly reducing the 
risk of operator injury. Other examples of 
where we are leveraging technology to 
keep our people safe include the ongoing 
development of an underground collision 
avoidance system and the implementation 
of engineered safety stops to protect 
open holes, an initiative in response to 
an industry fatality during the year.  

We invested significantly in our 
apprentices, trainees and well-established 
Graduate Program during the year to 
ensure we have a robust pipeline of talent 
to support our current operations and 
future growth aspirations. This will be 
an ongoing focus for us as restrictions 
and high commodity prices drive further 
tightening of the labour market and 
growing competition for people. 

Our focus on sustainability, following 
Perenti’s inaugural Sustainability Report 
last year, has been on integrating ESG 
across our operations. In Australia, 
Barminco was proud to be an inaugural 
member - and the only mining contractor 
- of the Electric Mine Consortium. 
Working with many of our clients and 
industry participants, our focus is to 
take real steps towards decarbonising 
mining, with the ambition to accelerate 
progress towards fully electrified, zero 
CO2 and zero diesel particulates mines. 

  Refer to page 43 in our Sustainability Report for 
a case study on Electronic Mine Consortium. 

Membership of this consortium was 
complemented by our actions on the 
ground as we continued to work with 
equipment manufacturers to trial a 
variety of electric vehicles, to assess 
their performance and our ability to 
integrate them into our operations.

Finally, we maintained a strong focus  
on community. We continue to support 
the Clontarf Foundation and the Dandjoo 
Darbalung Program to give young people 
associated with these programs an 
understanding of our business and how an 
underground mine operates. Throughout 
the year we continued our support of 
the West Coast Eagles AFLW Program 
while also sponsoring the Up All Night  
challenge in support of Ronald McDonald 
House Charities Western Australia.

  Refer to page 51 in our Sustainability 

Report for more. 

We invested significantly in our 
apprentices, trainees and well-
established Graduate Program 
during the year to ensure we have a 
robust pipeline of talent to support 
our current operations and future 
growth aspirations. 

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U N D E RG RO U N D A F R I C A A N D 
N O R T H  A M E R I C A

Barminco and African Underground 
Mining Services (AUMS) continued 
to deliver high quality and reliable 
underground mining services to clients 
in Africa and our growth market of 
North America, despite the challenging 
operational environment arising from 
COVID-19. This was in no small way 
attributable to the commitment and 
flexibility of our expatriate workforce 
to accommodate extended rosters, 
frequent quarantining, and the associated 
impacts on their families. Our full-
time mobility team worked tirelessly 
to move people safely to and from 
operations while navigating unpredictable 
border closures and lockdowns.

Our main business priority has been to 
keep our people safe and our projects 
operational. This has had the flow-
on effect of keeping local workforces 
employed and local suppliers in business, 
providing value and certainty to our host 
communities. It is a credit to our people 
that despite all these difficulties, the 
international business outperformed its 
targets for the year. Strong development 
and production performances were 
posted at Siou and Yaramoko in Burkina 
Faso, Subika in Ghana, Nyankanga in 
Tanzania and Red Chris in Canada.

At the beginning of the year we expanded 
into Canada for the first time at Barrick 
Gold’s Hemlo mine in Ontario – a 
significant logistical exercise in a critical 
phase of the pandemic. This expansion 
was part of our strategy to target new 
projects in stable mining jurisdictions. 
This expansion continued with the 
award of the Red Chris contract in British 
Columbia for Newcrest, where we 
mobilised our team to site in 10 weeks 
to a province 1,800 kilometres north 
of Vancouver. The establishment of an 
office in Denver, Colorado provides 
us with a foothold in the American 
market and will support further growth 
opportunities in the coming year.

In Africa, AUMS secured a new contract 
at the Geita Hill mine in Tanzania, for 
works starting on a new portal off the 
existing pit. We also signed a two-
year contract extension at Yaramoko 
which will see AUMS operating at the 
mine until the end of 2023 at least. 

Despite many safety improvements across 
our Underground mining business, we 
were devastated by the tragic death of 
Daniel Nuertey-Kwao Quaynortey, a 
member of our Underground Mining 
Alliance joint venture at the Obuasi Mine 
in Ghana. Our thoughts and prayers are 
with the family, friends and workmates 
of Daniel. Following this incident, our 
focus has been on supporting those 
impacted by these tragic events. 

Sharing our world-leading expertise 
in underground mining with the 
communities in which we operate, and 
building their capability, is and will remain 
a priority for the business. During the year 
we embedded our localisation strategy 
in Tanzania with the formation of the BG 
Umoja joint venture with Geofields, a local 
mining supply company. This builds on 
our investment in other countries which 
includes our flagship state-of-the-art 
training centre in Botswana, where we 
have trained more than two hundred 
employees and contractors to be part 
of the Zone 5 project. The centre will 
also be used to develop and train our 
workforce for the Motheo project.

Finally, we continue to make significant 
contributions to the communities in 
which we operate to support their 
response to COVID-19. This includes, 
funding testing equipment for sites 
and local communities, hygiene and 
personal protective equipment as well 
as funding local medical providers 
across many of our operations. 

Sharing our world-leading expertise 
in underground mining with the 
communities in which we operate, and 
building their capability, is and will 
remain a priority for the business. 

C A S E   S T U D Y

Increased Rhino 100 raisebore capability  

The Rhino 100 is a fully mechanised, self-contained, 
electro-hydraulic mobile raise borer designed for slot 
raising and back-reaming in underground mining. The 
drive-in, set-up and drill capability of the Rhino 100R 
makes it the fastest option for clients to drill small diameter 
vertical development. This speed of set-up and drilling 
combined with ease of operation allows flexibility for our 
clients depending on their needs. 

Barminco has significantly increased their small diameter 
raisebore capability through the addition of three new 
Rhino 100 Raiseborers globally. This takes Barminco’s 
current fleet to five machines, with two located in Africa 
and three located in Australia serving a number of our key 
clients. The vertical development team at Barminco drilled 
over 6000 meters domestically and added over $10 million 
of revenue to the underground business. This inhouse 
team of over 15 staff will continue to grow and add value 
to Perenti as more of our clients seek to take advantage of 
this specialised service.  

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SURFACE OPERATIONS

FY21 highlights and achievements

Future objectives

∞  Successfully navigating COVID-19 

pandemic while continuing to deliver 
value for clients

∞  Continue to make our projects even 
safer through the comprehensive 
management of critical safety risks, 
improved safety systems and 
leadership

∞  Ongoing transformation of AMS 

∞  Deliver excellent operational 

including the finalisation of our exit 
from legacy contracts at Boungou 
and Yanfolila

performance across the portfolio, 
including the mobilisation and delivery 
of the Motheo Project in Botswana

∞  Award of our AMS’ largest ever 

∞  Extend existing contracts and win 

AT A G L A N C E

Contract awards

45%

Surface projects represent 45 per cent  
of the value of contract awards since  
30 June 2020

open pit mining contract at Sandfire 
Resources Motheo Project

∞  More than $1.2 billion in contract 
extensions and new work in Africa 
and Australia since 30 June 2020

∞  Ongoing reduction in working 

capital through asset sales and fleet 
optimisation

profitable new work

Current projects

∞  Recruit, engage, train, develop and 

retain the best people in the industry

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∞  Successfully manage the ongoing 
impact of COVID-19 on the safety, 
health and well-being of our people, 
while ensuring operational continuity 
for our clients

U N D E R LY I N G   R E V E N U E

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A )

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A ) M A RG I N

$410M

746M

$12M

602M

56

3.0%

7.6

410M

25

4.2

3.0

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

12
2021

2019

2020

2021

Down 32 per cent on FY20 primarily due to the 
planned contraction of AMS, in-line with the findings 
of the AMS strategic review. 

Subsequent to FY20, Logistics Direct was reclassified 
from the Surface ISG and FY20 Surface revenues 
reduced by $4 million and FY20

Down 52 per cent on FY20. 2H21 AMS earnings more 
than doubled vs 1H21 following fleet optimisation, 
overhead improvements and improved project 
performance. 

Down 1.2 per cent points on FY20. 2H21 margins 
strengthened from 1H21 on stronger EBIT(A).  
Motheo and Iduapriem contract awards expected  
to underpin stronger future AMS performance. 

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M I N I N G

S U R FAC E   A F R I C A

African Mining Services delivered a solid operational 
performance throughout the year, including a strong focus 
on reducing idle equipment, working capital and finalising the 
exit from two underperforming legacy projects. In addition, 
AMS delivered record production at the Sanbrado project in 
Burkina Faso, exceeding our client’s mine plan expectations.

Our new contract for open pit mining services at the 
Motheo Project in Ghanzi, Botswana is a game-changing 
opportunity for AMS, marking a significant inflexion point for 
the business. It is the largest single surface mining contract 
in our history, and we are proud to be in partnership with 
Sandfire Resources to develop Botswana’s next large-
scale, high production, world-class copper mine. 

To ensure the local community in Botswana benefits from 
this project, the contract will be delivered through a joint 
venture and we are currently working to identify a suitable 
partner. This is also the case in Ghana where we formed 
the AMAX joint venture with local company Maxmass as 
part of a new five-year contract at AngloGold Ashanti’s 
Iduapriem mine that will take our tenure on site to 15 years.

Our African exploration business experienced strong demand 
from the gold sector – in Ghana at Newmont’s Akyem and 
Ahafo projects, at Tribune Resources’ Japa mine, and in Mali at 
both B2Gold’s Fekola and Roscan Gold’s Dabia Sud mines.

Across our operations we have continued to support local 
communities throughout the pandemic by donating important 
materials such as PPE, face masks and sanitiser. Other community 
initiatives were delivered throughout the year including 
supporting the reconstruction of a local village following a fire, 
donating a light vehicle to support child education, investment 
in a community doctor and selling excess office furniture to raise 
money for local orphanages and hospitals in Burkina Faso. 

  Refer to page 51 in our Sustainability Report for more. 

INVESTOR QUESTION

Q: What have been the primary 
benefits of the Strategic Review 
of AMS?

Following the implementation of 
the Strategic Review of AMS, during 
the second half of FY21, we have 
seen a sustainable turnaround in the 
performance of the business, with 
earnings more than doubling and 
margins strengthening. With Sanbrado 
as the template for success in AMS, 
we were awarded two new contracts, 
including AMS’ largest ever project, 
Motheo in Botswana and Iduapriem 
in Ghana. We expect that these new 
projects will drive further  
improvements in the business.

C A S E   S T U D Y

Motheo Copper Project 

In FY22, AMS will commence operations at the Motheo 
Project in Ghanzi, Botswana (Sandfire Resources - 
Tshukudu Metals). This seven year full-service contract 
involves site establishment and preparation, mine 
planning, drill and blast, load and haul, crusher feed,  
and ore rehandle. 

Motheo’s 3.2 million tonnes per annum operation is 
underpinned by a robust resource that is expected to 
produce copper for more than 12 years, with significant 
exploration upside and growth potential within the 
Kalahari Copper Belt. 

The project will be Botswana’s next large-scale, highly 
productive copper mine; and provides an opportunity to 
leverage Perenti’s existing in-region operational presence 
at the Zone 5 Project. 

This will include use of Perenti’s recently established 
Maun-based training centre - featuring state-of-the-art 
training and safety resources - that will support economic 
growth and diversification within Botswana.  

Our commitment to creating a lasting and positive legacy 
in Botswana will also see AMS entering a local joint venture 
partnership, which will create a significant number of high-
quality employment and local business opportunities. 

The Motheo Project partnership also brings with it the 
capacity to deploy future-focussed mining technology 
initiatives - delivering productivity and safety benefits, as 
well as achieving sustainability goals. 

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S U R FAC E   AU S T R A L I A

Over the course of the year Ausdrill consolidated its position as a 
leading drilling services business, with strong operational 
performance and delivery for our clients. This performance was 
underpinned by organic growth and leveraging long-term client 
relationships demonstrated through a number of contract 
extensions, most notably in Western Australia.

Our client of nearly two decades, Gold Fields, signed a three-
year contract for exploration drilling services at its St Ives, Granny 
Smith and Gruyere mines. We agreed a three-year contract 
extension with Consolidated Minerals, a customer since 2007, at 
its Woodie Woodie manganese mine. These multi-year extensions 
are testament to the strength of our client relationships and the 
fulfillment of our purpose to deliver enduring value and certainty.

In December, we mobilised people and fleet to Idemitsu’s 
Boggabri Coal Operations in New South Wales to commence 
a three-year contract for production drilling services. As needs 
dictated, we moved to a more localised workforce business 
model during the year, improving our local content performance, 
while reducing risks related to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

During the year we purchased a number of the latest generation 
drilling assets and technology to improve safety, efficiency 
and productivity. With new equipment lead times starting to 
extend, early acquisition of these assets places Ausdrill in a good 
position to capitalise on the strong demand for drilling services.

Ausdrill’s technology focus has also been on the application of 
robotics and virtual reality, teaming up with the University of 
Technology Sydney and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC to 
develop a new system to make rock scaling operations safer. 

This builds on the development of the award-winning Grade 
Control Auto Sampler system that received safety accolades from 
both BHP and ADIA for its safety performance during the year. 

Multi-year contract extensions 
are testament to the strength of 
our client relationships and the 
fulfillment of our purpose to deliver 
enduring value and certainty.

C A S E   S T U D Y

Ausdrill collaboration makes safer rock scaling a virtual reality

The application of robotics and virtual reality technology to 
the mining industry is taking another step forward under a 
research collaboration between Ausdrill, the University of 
Technology Sydney the Innovative Manufacturing CRC. 

The process has traditionally been done by manual means 
– by specialised teams who abseil along a rock surface to 
clear away loose rock. The introduction of robotics will have 
multiple safety benefits.

The three organisations have committed to developing a new 
system to make rock scaling operations safer. Dubbed Project 
HALO (High Access Localised Operations), the robotic system 
with high-level autonomous control will create a safer way to 
conduct rock scaling operations with the use of virtual reality. 

HALO will solve multiple occupational health and safety 
problems and also create a range of technology-based value-
added opportunities, such as addressing the current shortage 
of personnel qualified and certified to perform rock scaling 
activities. 

Rock scaling is the process of “cleaning” a rock surface that has 
been blasted, ahead of mining. The purpose of rock scaling is 
to remove any loose or unstable rocks from a blasted surface 
that could fall and potentially injure people working in the area 
or damage equipment.

Ausdrill aims to develop a new prototype that can be tested 
within the field and produced in its Perth manufacturing 
facility.

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I N V E S T M E N T S

INVESTMENTS

FY21 highlights and achievements

Future objectives

∞ 

Improved final quarter performance 
for BTP delivered improved sales 
and earnings generating positive 
momentum into FY22

∞  Refreshed approach to BTP’s sales 
pipeline has been successful in 
growing sales with existing and new 
clients 

∞  Continuing our focus to grow  

BTP rental income; equipment,  
parts and rebuild sales through 
focused geographic expansion  
and commodity diversification 

∞  Productivity Program to improve 
operational effectiveness and 
margins 

∞ 

Increased revenue in Q4 for 
MinAnalytical resulting in record 
levels of monthly revenue during  
the quarter 

∞  Productivity Program to improve 
operational effectiveness and 
more competitive pricing to ensure 
sustainable margins 

∞  Demonstrated resilience throughout 
Supply Direct in the face of the 
pandemic which resulted in 
increased market share in FY21 

∞ 

100 per cent client retention 
throughout the year for Logistics 
Direct under challenging market 
conditions 

∞  Continuing our expansion of Supply 

Direct’s Mining Systems and Solutions 
business 

∞  Continuing to grow Logistics Direct’s 
mining and non-mining client base 

O U R  I N V E S TM E N T S B U S I N E S S E S AT A G L A N C E

INVESTOR QUESTION

Q: It’s been a tough year for your 
Investments business, what’s your 
outlook for the coming year?

BTP had a challenging year in the face 
of some headwinds, but in response, the 
revitalised leadership team have increased 
its market activities including a more 
targeted sales strategy, which has resulted 
in increased demand for our hire assets 
and utilisation rates have increased by  
5 per cent since December 2021. We have 
also focused on productivity programs 
across BTP and MinAnaytical to improve 
operational efficiencies and margins 
recording improved performance in  
Q4 and positive momentum going  
into FY22.

B TP 

S U PPLY D IREC T 

M IN A N A LY TI C A L 

LO G I S TI C S D IREC T 

Supply Direct provides single 
source, customised mining 
supply services to mine 
operators globally from 
heavy equipment, engines, 
components, and vehicles 
through to everyday parts 
and consumables. 

MinAnalytical is an 
innovative mineral assaying 
laboratory with bases 
in Perth and Kalgoorlie, 
providing a comprehensive 
range of high quality 
analytical techniques for 
most commodities. 

Logistics Direct provides 
ground, air and sea freight 
forwarding services along 
with customs brokering 
services for mining 
companies globally. 

BTP is a leading heavy 
equipment, maintenance 
and refurbishment service 
provider to the mining 
industry. The business sells 
used equipment; rents 
a range of heavy mining 
equipment; refurbishes 
mining equipment, 
components, cylinders and 
engines; and sells parts to 
its clients. 

WE LL CO NTRO L 
SO LU TI O N S 

Well Control Solutions is 
a well control equipment 
supplier providing 
equipment, maintenance 
services and parts to oil and 
gas projects throughout 
Australia. The company is 
a local agent for top global 
OEM brands. 

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I N V E S T M E N T S

Perenti’s Investments Industry Sector 
Group (ISG) is comprised of several 
companies that provide a range 
of support services to the global 
mining, supply and logistics and oil 
and gas industries. These include 
mining equipment and parts supplier 
BTP, assaying services company 
MinAnalytical, mining services and 
solutions providers Supply Direct 
and Logistics Direct, and oil and gas 
equipment supplier Well Control 
Solutions. The Investments ISG employs 
more than 400 people and its network 
of businesses are located across 
Australia and Africa. 

During the year, our Investment’s 
businesses continued to play a crucial 
role in providing valuable services to the 
resources sector in logistics, equipment 
and parts supply, and in assay services. 
The business, under the new leadership 
of Vivienne Powe who was appointed 
to the position in December 2020, 
has rebounded strongly in the fourth 
quarter, after headwinds associated 
with COVID 19, and falling coal prices 
impacted BTP’s east coast operations. 

B T P 

prompting a shift to redeploying BTP 
fleet into new and existing markets, while 
COVID-19 impacts saw a reduction in the 
ability for sales staff in all states to remain 
active in the market. In addition, a lucrative 
contract with a major client on the east 
coast was disrupted mid-year resulting 
in an increase in idle fleet while the 
mine’s operatorship changed hands. This 
adversely impacted revenue for the period. 

The leadership team responded to 
the challenge with a focused effort 
to target new clients to regenerate 
earnings from equipment rentals and 
sales, and revenue from the supply of 
parts. Truck, dozer and grader rebuild 
activity increased in the second half of 
the year as our internal fleet rebuild team 
successfully generated new client work. 

The significant focus on growing our 
sales pipeline has seen the business 
expand opportunities with both 
existing and new clients, particularly in 
Western Australia and we will look to 
continue this momentum in FY22. 

BTP is working to grow rental and sales 
income, through focused geographic 
expansion and commodity diversification, 
and a key focus in FY22 will be undertaking 
a productivity program to improve 
operational effectiveness and margins. 

BTP continued to provide enduring value 
and certainty for its clients during the year, 
delivering responsive, reliable and cost-
competitive equipment, parts and services, 
despite a challenging market environment.  

The east coast equipment rental market 
was dampened due to weaker coal prices, 

Our focused efforts on improving the 
financial performance of the business 
saw a strong final quarter performance, 
with May and June achieving solid 
results, with profitability at levels not 
achieved since late 2019, bringing 
positive momentum into FY22. 

S U P P LY D I R E C T 

Supply Direct achieved an outstanding 
result this year, delivering on budget 
despite the many restrictions and 
challenges presented by COVID-19. 

During the year, we significantly  
increased our market share, diversifying 
and expanding our client base in Africa  
by 30 per cent and attracting a consistent 
stream of business. This is a significant 
achievement given the challenges 
associated with COVID-19 in the African 
market and was a direct result of the 
team’s extra efforts to deliver strong 
results. 

Supply Direct also developed new 
collaborations and supply chain 
agreements with strategic OEMs, 
remanufacturers and master distributors 
in Europe, USA and South East Asia. 

The business is focused on sustainable 
growth plans including the expansion 
of the business line, Mining Systems 
and Solutions - a value-adding 
division of Supply Direct that focuses 
on high-end solution selling and 
client relationship development.  

The business will also remain focused on 
process improvements, enhancing our 
financial discipline and a strong balance 
sheet to ensure future momentum 
to secure our growth potential. 

U N D E R LY I N G   R E V E N U E

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A )

U N D E R LY I N G E B I T ( A ) M A RG I N

$126M

143

142

126

$15M

25

25

12.1%

17.8

17.6

15

12.1

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

2021

Down 11 per cent of FY20 primarily related to lower 
BTP revenue due to softer demand from east coast 
coal rental market

Subsequent to FY20, Logistics Direct was reclassified 
to the Investments ISG and as a result FY20 
Investments revenues increased by $4 million. 

Down 39 per cent on FY20 on softer BTP revenues. 
In FY21, the leadership team was revitalised and BTP 
increased its market activities including implementing 
a more targeted sales strategy seeing improved fleet 
demand and utilisation rates.

Down 5.5 per cent points on FY20 primarily due to 
softer revenue and earnings resulting from the east 
coast coal rental market.

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I N V E S T M E N T S

W E L L CO N T RO L S O L U T I O N S 

Well Control Solutions experienced lower 
revenue this year, due to the effects of 
COVID-19 and the resulting low oil and 
gas prices. This saw onshore drilling slow 
down to its lowest levels in recent history. 

We continued to ramp-up our Blow Out 
Preventer weld repair service. Our partner, 
Berg Engineering, became qualified to 
support recertification and service of 
Blow Out Preventers, and this added a 
new line of businesses to our operation. 

During the year, Well Control Solutions 
relaunched its Introduction to Surface 
Well Control Equipment training course 
in a COVID-safe environment with great 
success. Drilling engineers and operational 
personnel attended from energy operators 
such as Santos, Origin Energy and QGCS 
Shell. We also performed a “shear test” on 
drill pipe for Santos, which was the first 
of its kind performed successfully under 
controlled conditions in our workshop. 

The business is currently focused on 
strategic growth and is looking to expand 
its services regionally. We are also 
developing diversification opportunities 
for rig sub-assembly work with a local 
drilling rig manufacturer to support 
our growth in the Australian market.

M I N A N A LY T I C A L

The hallmark of MinAnalytical’s year 
has been servicing our clients in the 
face of unprecedented demand across 
the industry. The current gold boom 
generated high levels of exploration 
and mining activity, and as a result 
record levels of samples to process. 
Increased activity in general across 
the mining sector in Australia and 
border restrictions in Western Australia 
also placed significant pressure on 
the availability of labour, creating a 
major challenge for the business.  

During the year, we focused on improving 
our productivity and expanding our 
capabilities which has now positioned us 
to be able to process almost three times 
our pre-boom sample volumes. This 
resulted in month-on-month increases 
in revenue – including record months 
in April, May and June. These positive 
results are testament to the hard work of 
our teams in both Perth and Kalgoorlie. 

The last quarter of the year saw our 
sample delivery volumes stabilise, and we 
now have a sharp focus on continuing 
to offer a quality service while reducing 
our sample processing backlogs. 

Perenti has also established a dedicated 
recruitment taskforce for MinAnalytical 
to explore all avenues of employment to 
improve our ability to attract, train and 
retain skilled people in light of the tight 
labour market in Western Australia. 

This year saw the successful installation 
of a new Photon Assay hub in Kalgoorlie 
and completion of construction and fit 
out of a new facility which has enabled 
the reintroduction of sample preparation 
for fire assay, giving the site three streams 
of processing, as well as the Chrysos 
Photon Assay capability on site. 

Our improving operational performance 
is being further enhanced by an ongoing 
productivity program to boost operational 
effectiveness. While costs have increased 
in line with inflationary pressures 
across the sector, we have introduced 
more competitive pricing to ensure 
sustainable margins, which will continue 
into FY22 with the demand for assaying 
services expected to remain strong. 

L O G I S T I C S D I R E C T   

Logistics Direct had an excellent year, 
outperforming targets and delivering 
reliable and focused logistical support 
services to its clients. The business’ ability 
to continue to deliver value and certainty 
to clients during the pandemic has been 
a key differentiator and we will look to 
build on this strong platform in the FY22.  

The business achieved 100 per cent 
client retention during the year as well 
as growing the base of new non-mining 
clients, despite challenging market 
conditions. During the year, the business 
was restructured, reducing overheads 
while our offices were consolidated into 
one to realise operational efficiencies. 

These achievements are particularly 
notable given the reduction of imports 
by some of our key clients, volatile freight 
pricing, freight capacity constraints 
and other logistical challenges, largely 
due to the ongoing pandemic. 

Looking ahead, Logistics Direct will 
continue to leverage the scale of 
Perenti to grow its business and offer 
safer and reliable logistics services. 

We are also committed to growing 
both our mining and non-mining 
client base and maintaining our strong 
organisational health and safety culture. 

C A S E   S T U D Y

Leveraging the Perenti network to create enduring value

A key differentiator for Perenti is its ability to leverage the Group’s diverse  
network of businesses to support our operations globally.

Nowhere is this more prevalent than in Southern Africa where the Barminco team 
working at the Zone 5 Mine in Botswana are supported by the Supply Direct team 
based in South Africa. 

The relationship developed between the teams is a demonstration of Perenti’s 
principles of being Smarter together and to Walk in their shoes with deep 
understanding of each other’s capabilities shared between and throughout the 
two companies.  

Supply Direct provides customised mining supply services to Barminco  
with a focus on manufacturing local content in a more cost effective and  
efficient manner.

A key part of the service provided by Supply Direct includes the supply of essential 
products and equipment needed to operate the mine via a 35 ton super-link truck 
dispatched regularly on the 1,200km journey from Johannesburg, South Africa to 
Maun in Botswana.

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O P E R AT I N G  OV E R V I E W

PERENTI’S TECHNOLOGY  
DRIVEN FUTURE

The future-ready miner will combine 
the physical world with the digital 
world; we need to prepare for this 
now in order to drive our current 
business forward. 

In 2019 Perenti launched its 2025 
Strategy which included five pillars to 
support the delivery of our purpose, 
to create enduring value and certainty. 
Included in these pillars was a pillar 
dedicated to a technology driven future. 

Technology-driven mining is integral 
to the future of the business, with 
potential to generate new streams of 
revenue while future-proofing our 
current services through improved safety 
and productivity and delivering value 
and certainty to our stakeholders. 

At the time of our strategy launch we 
realised that the mining and mining 
services industry was in the early 
stages of a technological and digital 
inspired transformation, which would 
only accelerate in time, and that 
the company need to embrace this 
transformation to remain at the forefront 
of innovation and be future ready. 

The future of mining will be a very different 
landscape – one of increased focus on 
both sustainability and digital technology. 
The future-ready miner will combine 
the physical world with the digital world; 
we need to prepare for this now in order 
to drive our current business forward. 

Over the past 18 months, Perenti 
has taken decisive and meaningful 
steps towards creating an additional, 
profitable service offering that 
complements its existing operations.  

I N T RO D U C I N G O U R N E W 
T E C H N O L O GY- D R I V E N S E RV I C E 
O F F E R I N G 

Perenti’s technology journey has 
followed a careful and deliberate path, 
and we looked at a number of different 
ways to maximise this opportunity. 

Following extensive due diligence,  
Perenti has undertaken three foundational 
acquisitions – Sandpit Innovation, ImpRes 
and Optika Solutions – all established, 
award-winning businesses with deep and 
unique skill sets spanning technology 
and innovation, and with substantial 
current client bases consisting of top 
tier mining and resources companies. 

The culmination of these acquisitions is 
the establishment of idoba – Perenti’s 
new digital transformation service 
business, launched just after year end but 

developed over the past two years to bring 
together multiple technology offerings, 
operational expertise and broader energy 
and resources technical capability. 

Through these acquisitions, idoba’s 
capabilities span relevant business areas 
including management consulting, 
industrial mathematics, product 
development and commercialisation, 
data science and artificial intelligence. 
We expect this capability to incrementally 
expand over the coming years and 
position Perenti at the forefront 
of the technical revolution. 

The services offering is underpinned 
by an idoba team that truly embraces 
diversity and the ability to look at 
and solve a problem differently. 

Drawing on experience from across 
most of the major global mining 
firms, as well as research, digital 
product commercialisation, data 
analytics and sustainability leaders, 
the team is grounded in a variety of 
disciplines including; automation 
and robotics; applied mathematics 
in industrial systems; astrophysics; 
supply chain; systems thinking; 
renewable energy; and sustainability.  

Pronounced “eye-DOH-ba”

D E R I V E D F RO M

Eidos  
meaning “essence”or 
something that is seen 
or intuited

+

ba 
a Japanese concept of 
knowledge-mobilising 
space, a context which 
harbours meaning 

space | connection | meaning | knowledge  

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T EC H N O LO G Y  D R I V E N F U T U R E

So while idoba is a new capability for 
Perenti, the broad reaching industry and 
innovative thinking already assembled, 
shows the business is already well 
established.

The three companies that form idoba have 
a strong history of delivery and innovation 
in the resources sector and will continue 
to service their existing and growing client 
base, operating under strict confidentiality 
protocols between the respective entities.  

idoba will deliver and grow revenue 
through the individual businesses 
continuing to work with their clients and 
the combined capabilities developing 
new services together through the idoba 
ecosystem.

O U R ACQ U I S I T I O N S –   
AT  A  G L A N C E 

Sandpit Innovation is a technology and 
innovation services consulting firm with 
more than 10 years’ experience and a 
diverse range of mining clients across 
top tier miners, contract miners and 
engineering firms. Sandpit boasts a strong 
autonomous mining, remote operations 
and ESG footprint in the market. Its 
market-leading innovation The Spidler® 
is a patented, automated robotic machine 
custom designed to replace faulty 
conveyor idler rollers in a safe and efficient 
manner, eliminating production losses. 

ImpRes is an operational improvement 
services consulting firm which has 
delivered billions of dollars in bottom 
line improvements across mining, oil 
and gas, manufacturing and health care 
over an impressive 11-year history. 

Optika Solutions is an award-winning 
West Australian software, products 
and solutions company specialising in 
data science, artificial intelligence and 
industrial mathematics. Its digital platform, 
Akumen, is a cloud-based decision 
support environment that brings together 
the best technologies of advanced 
analytics and simulation modelling 
within a single platform, allowing clients 
to create meaningful insights from their 
data and provide a pathway to artificial 
intelligence. This platform is a SaaS 
model and forms the basis of a scalable 
digital platform for idoba and Perenti. 

By launching this considered and 
innovative technology-driven mining 
division, we are combining the operational 
intelligence of Perenti with the digital 
intelligence of idoba. In time, this new 
service offering will increase productivity, 
reduce risk, improve sustainability 
and drive performance for Perenti, as 
well as creating new capabilities for 
idoba to offer to the broader resources 
sector. With this foundation, idoba 
co-creates a better future – for Perenti, 
the mining industry and beyond.

We see the future as one of connectivity, 
between human, machine and data. We 
see the miner of the future as a decision 
data scientist who uses technology, 
mining expertise and collaboration to 
make faster, smarter, safer and more 
sustainable decisions. 

OUR PATHWAY TO A 
TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN FUTURE

2 019

Perenti Strategy

E A R LY
2 02 0

Due diligence for M&A 

J U LY
2 02 0

Acquisitions of 
Sandpit and ImpRes 

A P R I L
2 021

Acquisition of Optika 

INVESTING TO CRE ATE VALUE 

C A S E   S T U D Y

i d o b a i n a c t i o n 

idoba is working with a global mining firm on its autonomy 
program – from business case development through to 
implementation and now supporting the optimisation of 
one of the largest autonomous rollouts in Australia. 

We are also working with a global mining giant, supporting 
the development of one of the first net zero carbon 
roadmaps, which has helped set the standard for the 
industry. 

Using operating data from a Perenti project, and an 
algorithm from an adjacent industry, we are now able 
to visualise seemingly “random” data that we would 
otherwise struggle to analyse, to determine patterns or 
changes in performance. This allows us to identify and 
apply corrective measures, make more informed decisions 
faster to optimise performance, and use forecasting 
features to test if corrective measures are having the  
right impact. 

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F I N A N C I A L R E V I E W

FINANCIAL REVIEW

OVERVIEW AND HIGHLIGHTS

Perenti’s results for the 2021 Financial 
Year demonstrate robust underlying 
performance across the business as we 
delivered excellence and continuity 
of service for our clients against a 
backdrop of significant external 
headwinds. 

During the year, Perenti reported 
underlying revenue of $2.02 billion, in line 
with the prior year, and underlying Net 
Profit After Tax (excluding Amortisation) 
of $77 million. This was down 30 per cent, 
due in part to a challenging operating 
environment, including the persistent 
and worsening COVID-19 pandemic and 
a tightening labour market as well as the 
strengthening Australian dollar, which 
increased in value by circa 14 per cent, 
relative to the US dollar. Other factors 
experienced throughout the year which 
impacted our performance include 

the planned contraction of the Surface 
Africa business and a greater investment 
in our people and systems required to 
ensure we can continue our growth 
trajectory. During the year, and in line 
with our significant focus on working 
capital management, the business made 
excellent progress achieving an EBITDA to 
cash conversion rate of 105 per cent. This 
cash conversion provides the business 
with additional liquidity that will support 
our FY22 investment in growth projects, 
to underpin future earnings growth.  

During FY21, Perenti did incur some 
non-underlying items that impacted the 
financial results. These items include 
the non-cash impairment and provision 
for inventory obsolescence of BTP 
and the one-off costs associated with 
the implementation of the findings 
of the AMS strategic review, which 
included the successful transition out 
of two underperforming West African 
projects, Yanfolila and Boungou. 

The impact of these one-off events 
resulted in a $106 million charge to the 
consolidated statement of profit or loss.   

Very pleasingly, during the second half 
Perenti successfully completed the 
transition out of Yanfolila and Boungou 
and finalised the sale of associated assets 
and received settlement of outstanding 
claims, generating $88 million of cash.  

In-line with previous year’s financial 
reporting, the Group has presented 
underlying results for FY21 and FY20 and 
proforma results for FY19, which remove 
the impact of amortisation and one-off 
items and assumes the Group had owned 
Barminco from 1 July 2018 to provide a 
more accurate like-for-like comparison 
of performance. The statutory results 
are audited and prepared in accordance 
with the relevant accounting standards 
and other regulatory requirements.

FY21 RECONCILIATION OF STATUTORY TO UNDERLYING RESULTS

$MILLION

Underlying Results  

Margin  

Less non-recurring items below: 

Transaction and other one-off costs  

Foreign exchange loss/gain  

Redemption premium  

REVENUE

 2,021.8 

(%)  

 -   

 -   

 -   

EBITDA

 380.0 

18.8

 (3.5)

 (7.1)

 -   

EBIT(A)

NPAT(A)

 170.8 

8.4

 (3.5)

 (7.1)

 -   

 77.0 

3.8

 (4.2)

 (7.1)

 (8.1)

Implementation of AMS Strategic Review and other write-downs 

 65.7 

 (93.1)

 (106.1)

 (106.1)

Net tax effect  

Minority profits  

Statutory Results after amortisation add back  

Non-cash amortisation of intangibles  

Statutory Results  

Slight differences in total values may occur due to rounding.

 -   

 -   

 -   

 -   

 2,087.5 

 276.3 

 -   

 -   

 2,087.5 

 276.3 

 -   

 -   

 54.1 

 (39.3)

 14.8 

 32.8 

 2.8 

 (13.0)

 (39.3)

 (52.3)

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FY21 UNDERLYING RESULTS   

In FY21, Perenti generated revenue of 
$2.02 billion, broadly in-line with the 
record revenue achieved in FY20, which 
we consider to be a strong result given 
the challenges faced during the year. 
The result demonstrates the business’ 
continued ability to consistently deliver 
high quality services for our clients.  

Perenti’s strategy is centred around 
the formation of long lasting, life of 
mine relationships with clients who 
operate multiple high-quality mines 
that sit comfortably within the lower 
end of their respective commodity 
cost curve to ensure a long-term 
and sustainable earnings stream.  

We operate 58 surface and underground 
projects across 12 countries and 
multiple commodities. During FY21, we 
continued to diversify into more stable 
jurisdictions, resulting in 56 per cent 
of Group revenue being derived from 
projects in Australia, North America and 
Botswana, up from 49 per cent in FY20. 

The Group’s service offering is largely 
commodity agnostic across surface 
and underground hard rock mining, 
although, given our heritage, we have 
a strong exposure to gold mining. In 
FY21, revenue from gold related projects 
accounted for the largest portion of 
revenue at 67 per cent, followed by nickel 
(10 per cent) and copper (six per cent). 

Although all projects and contracts, 
irrespective of their size, are extremely 
important to Perenti, the Group is 
not reliant on any one project to 
deliver the desired returns to our 
shareholders. In FY21 the single largest 
project in the portfolio contributed 
seven per cent of the Group’s revenue 
and the top 10 projects collectively 
contributed 50 per cent of revenue.  

INVESTOR QUESTION

Q: You have announced a number of 
new projects, do you have capacity 
to fund these projects?

Since 30 June 2020, we announced  
$2.8 billion of new contracts and contract 
extensions, including AMS’s largest ever 
project, Motheo. At 30 June 2021, we 
generated nearly $300 million of operating 
cash flows and available liquidity was 
nearly $570 million. We are very confident 
that together, our operating cash flows 
and available liquidity will be sufficient to 
continue to fund our current and recently 
announced growth projects.

As forecast, FY21 Group earnings were 
softer when compared to FY20, primarily 
because of the headwinds experienced 
throughout the year. FY21 underlying 
EBIT(A) was $171 million, down 19 per 
cent when compared to FY20 underlying 
EBIT(A) of $212 million. In particular, the 
continued impact of COVID-19 hindered 
the ramp up of key international growth 
projects, which when combined with 
a strengthening Australian dollar and a 
tightening labour market, resulted in a 
contraction in Group earnings margins.  

SEGMENT PERFORMANCE 

Our Underground business continued  
to perform strongly, achieving revenue  
of approximately $1.5 billion in FY21 up an 
impressive 14.0 per cent from $1.3 billion 
in FY20. FY21 EBIT(A) of $200 million was 
up two per cent from $196 million in FY20. 
This increased EBIT(A) is a result of 
revenue growth from the ramp up of 
recently awarded work, in particular at the 
Zone 5 Mine in Botswana and the Hemlo 
Mine in Canada, the expansion of works 
awarded during the year as well as an 
increase in our raiseboring activity. Whilst 
our key growth projects Zone 5 and 
Hemlo are progressing, the pace of ramp 
up has been slower than anticipated, 
primarily due to COVID-19 related 
productivity constraints which impacted 
earnings margins. At Zone 5, we have 
optimised the scheduling of our workforce 
which we expect will improve productivity 
rates and drive stronger margins 
throughout FY22. 

The Surface business, comprising AMS in 
Africa and Ausdrill in Australia, generated 
$410 million in revenue and $12 million 
EBIT(A) in FY21. These results reflect 
the planned contraction of the African 
Surface business following the successful 
transition out of two underperforming 
legacy contracts (Yanfolila and Boungou) 
in line with our AMS strategic review. 
During the second half of FY21, the 
AMS business showed a sustainable 
improvement in earnings as a result of 
fleet optimisation initiatives, overhead 
cost rationalisation and improved project 
performance, in particular at the Sanbrado 
Mine in Burkina Faso. Further improvement 
is expected in FY22 and beyond given the 
recent award of more than $1.2 billion 
in new contracts including Motheo in 
Botswana and Iduapriem in Ghana. In 
FY21, the Surface ISG represented 20 per 
cent of Group revenue for the year, with 
45 per cent of its revenue generated from 
Australia and 55 per cent from Africa. 

F I N A N C I A L R E V I E W

G RO U P P E R F O R M A N C E 
U N D E R LY I N G R E S U LT S

REVENUE

By ISG (%)

• Underground 
• Surface 
• Investments 

73

21

6

In FY21 Perenti generated revenue of $2.02 billion, 
broadly in-line with the record revenue achieved in 
FY20.

By country (%)

• Australia 
• Ghana 
• Burkina Faso 
• Tanzania 
• Egypt 
• Botswana 
• Canada 
• Other 

We continued to diversify into more stable 
jurisdictions, resulting in 56 per cent of Group 
revenue being derived from projects in Australia, 
North America and Botswana, up from 49 per cent 
in FY20. 

By commodity (%)

• Gold 
• Nickel 
• Copper 
• Zinc 
• Iron Ore 
• Mixed Coal 
• Other 

49
16
14
5
4
4
3
5

67
10
6
5
2
2
8

In FY21 revenue from gold related projects accounted 
for the largest portion of revenue at 67 per cent, 
followed by nickel at 10 per cent and copper at 
six per cent.

By project (%)

• Top Project 
7
• Top 2 - 10 Projects  43
• Top 11 - 20 Projects  24
• All others 
26

In FY21 the single largest project in the portfolio 
contributed seven per cent of the Group’s revenue 
and the top 10 projects collectively contributed  
50 per cent of revenue.

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F I N A N C I A L R E V I E W

In FY21, the Investments business 
generated revenue of $126 million, down 
11.3 per cent from FY20 as a result of 
softer demand for BTP’s fleet within the 
east coast coal rental market. FY21 EBIT(A) 
was $15 million at an EBIT(A) margin of 
12.1 per cent, down from 17.6 per cent as 
a result of this reduced market demand. 
Additionally, MinAnalytical’s margins 
compressed as a result of industry wide 
resourcing constraints and productivity 
issues from the sample backlog and 
reliability issues with its automated sample 
preparation system. Management has 
been focused on redeploying idle fleet 
into the West Australian gold and iron 
ore markets, resulting in the stabilisation 
of BTP earnings in 2H21. Investments 
contributed six per cent of Perenti 
revenue in FY21, with BTP representing 
65 per cent of Investment’s revenue. 

CASH AND BAL ANCE SHEET 

The services we offer in the Underground, 
Surface and Investment ISGs are capital 
intensive and therefore it is imperative 
that we manage and allocate capital 
efficiently while ensuring we convert 
earnings into cash. We are focused 
and disciplined on efficient capital and 
working capital management to further 
enhance returns to our shareholders 
while providing excellent operational 
performance for our clients.  

The Group’s return on average capital 
employed (ROACE), based on underlying 
EBIT(A), for the year was 14.3 per cent, 
slightly softer when compared to FY20. 

The FY21 ROACE reflects not only a 
softer EBIT(A) result, but also the foreign 
exchange impact of the strengthening 
Australian dollar by 14 per cent in FY21 as 
well as the capital investment in both Zone 
5 and Hemlo. When in full production, 
these projects are expected to generate 
significantly better earnings and margins, 
however during FY21 they remained in 
ramp-up, due primarily to the impacts 
of COVID-19. While projects are in this 
phase, they are not typically expected to 
generate meaningful returns and therefore 
had a negative impact on FY21 ROACE.  

Cash flow conversion, or conversion 
of EBITDA to cash inflow to the Group, 
was 105 per cent for the year, driven 
by a significant improvement in cash 
collection from clients in H2 FY21. The 
strong result reflects management’s 
continued focus on cash-backed earnings 
and working capital management 
under our 2025 Strategy. This involves 
ensuring we get paid on time, inventory 
levels are carefully managed, and 
creditors are paid on appropriate terms. 
Perenti will continue to focus on both 
the management of receivables and 
inventory levels across the Group.  

In FY21, despite the headwinds, Perenti 
strengthened its balance sheet position, 
with net debt (Total debt less cash) 
reducing to $503 million and net leverage 
(Net Debt to EBITDA) at 1.3x, from $556 
million and 1.3x respectively on 30 June 
2020. The improvement in net debt was 
underpinned by the release of more than 
$88 million of cash from the transition 

out of the Boungou and Yanfolila projects 
as well as a favourable foreign exchange 
benefit largely driven by the US bonds. 

This additional liquidity was partially  
offset by the payment of $64 million  
in dividends, or the equivalent of  
10.5 cents per share in dividends in 
FY21 as the Company paid the delayed 
1H20 interim dividend, slightly higher 
growth capital and the payment of a 
redemption premium and borrowing 
costs associated with the successful 
refinance of our high yield bonds. 

Perenti’s business is underpinned by high 
quality tangible assets and at the end of 
FY21 had a total asset position, including 
cash and working capital of $1.4 billion. 
This is down from $1.6 billion in 30 June 
2020. Perenti’s tangible assets include 
dozers, drills, loaders, trucks, excavators 
and other ancillary equipment, which 
throughout FY21 held an average 
utilisation of 79 per cent due to the roll off 
of Iduapriem and GMC contracts in 1H21. 

Capital and liquidity management 
remained a primary focus during FY21, 
Perenti reduced the size of its revolving 
credit facility (RCF) back to pre-COVID-19 
levels. During FY20 and in response to 
the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, 
Perenti took the prudent step to secure 
$130 million of additional RCF capacity, 
however as announced on 24 September 
2021, due to greater certainty around 
the impacts of COVID-19 paired with the 
successful refinance of the US bonds, 
Perenti retired the additional $130 million, 
reducing the RCF back to $400 million. 

Cash flow conversion, or conversion 
of EBITDA to cash inflow to the 
Group, was 105 per cent for the year

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NON-UNDERLYING ADJUSTMENTS  

Net foreign exchange loss 

F I N A N C I A L R E V I E W

FY21 statutory results include the 
impact of several one-off adjustments 
totalling $90 million. The one-off 
adjustments, have been fully disclosed 
in the financial statements and the 
following commentary provides a 
high-level explanation of the rationale 
and drivers for the adjustments. 

Transaction and other one-off costs  

$4.2 million which relates to 
transaction and other one-off 
costs incurred throughout FY21. 

Redemption premium 

$8.1 million which relates to the 
amortisation of the USD bond 
redemption premium. 

Implementation of AMS strategic review 
and asset impairment 

During FY21, the Company has 
normalised for $88 million one-off 
costs primarily incurred in relation 
to the successful transition out of 
the underperforming Boungou 
and Yanfolila projects. 

Additionally, at the end of FY21, 
BTP carrying value was subject to 
a non-cash impairment and an 
inventory obsolescence provision 
for a total of $18 million.

The Company booked a foreign exchange 
loss on the translation of certain balance 
sheet items and have excluded these 
movements to provide a more accurate 
comparison of the underlying financial 
results for the year ending 30 June 2021.

Taxation benefit  

The net tax effect of all the one-
off adjustments noted above. 

C A S H F L OW WAT E R FA L L

Cash flows from business 
operations ($M)

Growth cash flows ($M)

Dividends and financing  
cash flows ($M)

296.3

85.4

233.1

(148.6)

30.8

(130.1)

(8.8)

(63.5)

(57.8)

(25.3)

(52.3)

450

400

350
300

250

200
150

150
50

0
(50)
(100)

Pro cee ds fro m  P P E sales
N et o p eratin g cash

Stay in b usin ess capital

A djuste d cash fl o w s

G ro w th capital
N et id o ba acq uisitio n

N et cash fl o w b efore  
fi nan cin g an d activities

Divid e n ds 
N et d e bt re pay m e nts

R e d e m ptio n pre m iu m  / 
b orro win g c osts

 N et cash fl o w

Generated strong cash flows from business operations, supporting growth projects, additional dividend payment, 
paydown of net debt and additional strategic growth.

N E T D E B T P RO F I L E ($ M)

$503M

ROAC E

14.3%

630

556

540

503

16.9 

16.6

14.3

Dec 19

Jun 19

Dec 20

Jun 21

2019

2020

2021

Perenti continues to focus on capital management, 
reducing the net debt position by 10 per cent since 
FY20 and an impressive 20 per cent since December 
2019.

Perenti’s focus on capital discipline generated a 
Return on Average Capital Employed (ROACE) of  
14.3 per cent while holding sufficient liquidity to 
continue funding current operations as well as its 
recently announced growth projects.

2019 figures are proforma underlying figures which include 100 per cent of Barminco and AUMS for a  
full 12 months and exclude amortisation and any non-underlying items.

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F I N A N C I A L R E V I E W

G OV E R N A N C E A N D R I S K

GOVERNANCE AND RISK

The Board of Directors is committed to achieving the highest 
standards of corporate governance and business conduct, 
fostering a culture of compliance which values integrity, 
ethical behaviour, accountability, transparency and respect. 
We believe that this is essential for the long-term performance 
and sustainability of the business, and to protect and enhance 
the interests of all our stakeholders.

The Company’s Governance Framework plays a critical 
role in helping the business deliver on its strategy and 
objectives. It provides the structure through which business 
objectives are set, performance is monitored, and risks are 
managed. It includes a framework for decision making across 
the business and provides guidance on the standards of 
behaviour expected of our people across our business.

O RG A N I S AT I O N A L  S T RU C T U R E M A P A N D L I N E S O F  R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y A N D ACCO U N TA B I L I T Y

Accountability to stakeholders for organisational oversight

BOARD

AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

BOARD COMMITTEES

PEOPLE & REMUNERATION 
COMMITTEE

MANAGING DIRECTOR & CEO

Integrity, leadership, and transparency

GROUP GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE  
(GRC)

GROUP EXECUTIVES

Internal Audit:

GRC:

Operational:

Functional:

Independent and objective 
assurance and advice on 
all matters related to the 
achievement of objectives.

Framework to create 
and coordinate policies 
and controls to manage 
regulatory and internal 
legal, risk and compliance 
requirements.

Provision of services to 
clients; managing risk.

Expertise, support, 
monitoring, and challenge 
on risk related matters.

Key: 

  Independent reporting line - delegation, direction, resources, oversight 

  Accountability, reporting

  Alignment, communication, coordination, collaboration  

   Independent reporting line 

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Economic, technological, socio-
political, regulatory or environmental 
trends are changing the risk landscape 
for many organisations. This complex 
landscape highlights the importance 
of comprehensive risk management, 
including detection and investigation of 
emerging risks - developing and changing 
risks that are not well understood. 
In order to best manage the level of 
inherent uncertainty posed by emerging 
risks, Perenti proactively analyses the 
impact of these risks to our strategic and 
tactical objectives so we can react and 
respond effectively. Some emerging risk 
themes faced by Perenti are described:

COVID-19 impacts:  
The emergence of new strains with 
increased transmissibility could result 
in changing and ongoing mobility 
restrictions, which may cause increased 
logistical complexity for our operations, 
especially internationally. The direct 
cost of travel management is often 
recoverable from clients, however 
there is the risk of productivity 
impacts as a result of operational 
interruptions and travel constraints. 

Changing ESG expectations: 
There are increased expectations and focus 
on sustainability considerations from major 
stakeholders, including investors, financial 
institutions and wider society. While these 
changing expectations are likely to impact 
the mining industry, there remains 
opportunity for Perenti as we adapt quickly 
to the changing environment. 

Capital allocation and execution 
of growth options: 
In a rapidly changing environment it is 
important to evaluate investments in terms 
of strategy and risk appetite. Effective 
capital allocation needs to allow for the 
impact of digital technologies, a changing 
workplace and evolving business models. 
Effective execution of capital projects is 
becoming more important to manage the 
growing risk and ensure effective return on 
capital. 

Climate change and carbon emissions: 
The regulation of greenhouse gasses is 
increasing globally. As a result, there is 
growing market pressure for companies to 
disclose their measures for identifying and 
managing physical and transitional climate 
related risks. 

Evolving mining services market: 
The rate of technological improvements 
in the mining industry is increasing, as is 
the potential for the introduction of new 
competing technologies by competitors 
or other third parties. The Group’s 
focus is to stay ahead of technological 
advancement in the mining industry to 
remain responsive to the technological 
expectations and needs of clients 
and maintain its competitiveness.

R I S K M A N AG E M E N T A P P ROAC H

The risks identified describe certain factors 
and trends that have the potential to have a 
material adverse impact on our operations. 
The factors are not necessarily listed in 
order of importance and are not intended 
as an exhaustive list. Additional risks and 
uncertainties not presently known to 
management, or that management 
consider to be immaterial or manageable, 
may adversely affect the Group’s business.

The Group has a consistent, proactive 
approach to risk management across 
operations globally aligned with ISO 31000, 
as well as the ASX Principles and 
Recommendations. 

 For further information on the Group’s Risk Management Framework, refer to our Corporate Governance Statement at perentigroup.com.

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B U S I N E S S   R I S K S

Communicable disease outbreaks, including COVID-19

THREATS 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS

A large-scale outbreak in one of our operating jurisdictions 
may lead to interruptions in operations, closures at mine 
sites, inability to source supplies or consumables, higher 
volatility in the global capital and commodity markets, 
adverse impacts on investment sentiment and economies. 
Ongoing restrictions on travel could significantly impair  
the Group’s ability to manage its businesses effectively.

OPPORTUNITIES

Perenti’s proactive and collaborative approach to deal 
with changing COVID-19 protocols means our workforce 
can trust our ability to respond, creating a competitive 
advantage in a tight labour market.

Winning work and market risk

The Group undertakes extensive planning to facilitate 
the mobility of its international and regional expatriate 
workforce as the Company manages international flight 
cancellations and COVID-19 travel restrictions.

The Group’s key priorities on COVID-19 are:

∞  protecting our people with a focus on their wellbeing

∞  to play our role in limiting the spread of the virus 

∞  delivering value for our clients and stakeholders

∞  maintaining the strongest possible financial position

∞  Health and safety of our 

people

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance 

∞  Operational interruptions

T H R E AT S 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

Contracts can be terminated for convenience by the client 
at short notice and without penalty, although this is not a 
common occurrence. In addition it’s important that the 
Group maintains its project pipeline and win rate. 

Disruption due to changing technology landscape and 
mining service market.

OPPORTUNITIES 

Potential to continue winning profitable work and 
maintaining quality projects underpinned by robust 
financial and commercial disciplines to enable organic 
growth objectives.

Strategic investments in technology capability to expand 
and diversify mining services revenue sources.

A focus on building technological capability and work with 
equipment suppliers and innovation specialists to adopt 
and implement new technologies. 

Project delivery and margins

THREATS 

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance

∞  Growth constraints

The Group has historically had a strong record of 
completing contracts to term and securing contract 
extensions.

The Group is selective in the contracts that it enters 
into to allow for options to extend where possible to 
maximise the contract period and the return on capital.

The Group focuses on ensuring execution of work to a 
high standard and improving its operation to increase its 
value proposition to clients.

Application of the Group tender work procurement  
and approval processes maximises the likelihood of 
securing quality work with commensurate returns for 
the risks taken.

The Group maintains a work portfolio diversified by 
geography, market, activity and client to mitigate the 
impact of emerging trends and market volatility.

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

The Group’s activity levels and results are dependent on 
production levels at clients’ mines while revenues are 
linked to the production volumes and not to the short-term 
price of the underlying commodity. 

The Group derives most revenues from mines which are 
already in production. 

The Group has limited its exposure to the exploration 
activities market which has greater volatility.

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance

∞  Growth constraints

Ineffective project execution can put pressure on earnings, 
cashflow and ability to fund growth.

OPPORTUNITIES 

An ability to execute projects safely and productively 
enhances our cash flow and investor confidence and can 
result in higher returns earlier.

The Group focuses on providing services to large 
lower-cost producers which are not subject to the same 
production risk as higher-cost operations.

The Group focuses on ensuring execution of work to a 
high standard and improving its operation to increase its 
value proposition to clients.

Application of the Group tender work procurement 
and approval processes maximises the likelihood of 
achieving margins and earnings.

Sovereign and security risks in some jurisdictions we operate in

THREATS 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

Some of the jurisdictions within which the Group operates 
are subject to sovereign and security risks. 

Changes in regulation in overseas jurisdictions have the 
potential to impact the Group’s performance. 

OPPORTUNITIES 

The Group is able to achieve higher returns through 
effective risk management practices and international 
experience associated with working in some jurisdictions.

Board approval is required to enter a new jurisdiction.

∞  Health and safety of our 

The Company ensures that it has a comprehensive 
understanding of the overseas jurisdiction before 
entering it.

Management monitors the Group’s current and potential 
geographies, industries, activities and competitors on an 
ongoing basis.

people

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance 

∞  Growth constraints 

∞  Operational interruptions

The Company employs internal security expertise to 
manage the Group Security framework. 

There is ongoing communication with the businesses 
and reporting on operations and developments in all 
jurisdictions in which the Group operates.

The Group limits its risks contractually.

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G OV E R N A N C E A N D R I S K

Access to capital and foreign exchange risk

THREATS 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

Inability to raise sufficient capital to fund growth. 

Exposure to fluctuations in the value of the Australian 
dollar against other currencies, as the Group’s consolidated 
financial results are reported in Australian dollars.

The translation of sales or earnings into Australian dollars 
for financial reporting purposes can result in a decrease in 
the amount of those sales or earnings.

OPPORTUNITIES 

Favourable market conditions and strong financial 
discipline could provide a more effective basis by which  
to fund growth.

Labour costs and availability of skilled people

Ensuring compliance with our Treasury Policy and 
Standard, which outlines the key controls that govern 
our financial risk management practices.

Cashflow forecasting, revolving credit facility and a 
capital structure to enable growth. 

The Group uses a natural hedge through its U.S. dollar 
denominated overseas contracts.

The Group ensures that the net exposure is kept to an 
acceptable level by matching foreign denominated 
financial assets with financial liabilities and vice versa.

Contracts generally have adjustment mechanisms for 
rise and fall on critical items.

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance 

∞  Growth constraints 

∞  Liquidity

THREATS 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

The Group is exposed to increased labour costs and 
retention constraints in markets where the demand for 
labour is strong.

The Group’s labour costs are typically protected by 
rise and fall mechanisms within client contracts, which 
mitigate the impact of rising labour costs.

Changes to labour laws and regulations may limit 
productivity and increase costs of labour. If implemented 
and enforced, these types of changes to labour laws and 
regulations could adversely impact revenues and, if costs 
increase or productivity declines, operating margins.

OPPORTUNITIES 

Building resilience through more effective local 
employment and development programs.

In Australia, wage labour costs are typically governed 
by agreed enterprise agreements, which set out agreed 
wage increases within defined periods of time.

The Group has an apprenticeship program and focuses 
on training and development of its employees.

Group wide reward approach including bi-annual salary 
benchmarking.

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance 

∞  Growth constraints 

∞  Sustainability

Health or safety incident

THREATS 

It is possible that the Group may experience accidents, 
including life-changing events.

OPPORTUNITIES 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

The Group has an established HSE management 
systems consistent with international standards to 
manage health and safety risks. Key aspects include:

∞  Provision of appropriate training, supervision and 

resources 

∞  Health and safety of our 

people

∞  Compliance

∞  Group reputation

Exceeding our health and safety commitments.

∞  Critical Risk Standards and verification processes 

provide the framework for managing serious injury 
and fatality risk 

∞  Leadership training and development to support a 

mature culture which includes specific programs in 
relation to safety

∞  Regular review and audit of HSE processes and 

controls 

∞  Monitoring of periodic HSE reporting and Significant 

Potential Incidents (SPI) at Group level

Cyber security and data protection

THREATS 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

The growing volume and complexity of cyber-attacks is 
increasing the risk to Perenti networks.

OPPORTUNITIES 

Effective cyber security and data engagement practices 
give our clients confidence in our service delivery, while 
building organisational resilience.

The Group continues to invest in people, process and 
technology to protect our information systems and 
assets. This includes:

∞  Information and security management system

∞  Segregation and segmentation of networks 

∞  Anti malware / endpoint detection and response 

detection software

∞  Multi-factor Authentication

∞  Security education and awareness materials

∞  Health and safety of our 

people

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance 

∞  Growth constraints 

∞  Operational interruptions

Fraud, bribery and corruption

THREATS 

MANAGEMENT RESPONSE 

POTENTIAL IMPACTS 

Perenti is exposed to fraud, bribery and corruption risk in 
some jurisdictions which could result in fines, reputation 
impacts and the loss of growth opportunities.

OPPORTUNITIES 

By aligning processes for reducing and mitigating the 
impact of integrity risks, the Group can strengthen 
our broader compliance culture and, ultimately, build 
stakeholder confidence in our approach to compliance 
matters.

Our Code of Conduct sets out the standards of 
behaviour expected of our directors, employees, 
consultants, contractors and suppliers and is 
supplemented by the following:

∞  Anti Bribery and Corruption Standard

∞  Risk and Opportunity Management Policy 

∞  Securities Trading Policy 

∞  Speak Up policy and Standard (whistleblowing) 

∞  Periodic Group compliance reporting  

∞  Governance and assurance activities

 Refer online at perentigroup.com for our Policies

∞  Compliance 

∞  Group reputation

∞  Financial performance 

∞  Growth constraints

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S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y   R E P O R T

2021

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

O U R  A P P ROAC H   T O S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y

At Perenti, we believe that considering sustainability 
in everything we do is critical to deliver our purpose 
to create enduring value and certainty for all our 
stakeholders – namely our people, clients, investors, 
suppliers and the communities in which we operate. 

In practice, this means living our five principles, which 
underpin our approach to management including 
environment, social and governance considerations 
and matters. The link between our purpose, principles 
and sustainability issues is summarised in the figure. 

During the past year, the Board endorsed our Strategic 
Sustainability Plan (2022-2025). The plan outlines the 
strategic imperatives, focus areas and key actions to help 
us to deliver our purpose and achieve our aspiration to 
become the indispensable mining services company.

S T RU C T U R E  A N D S CO P E O F T H E R E P O R T

This is our second Sustainability report and is for the 2021 
Financial Year. The Report covers Perenti and its subsidiaries: 

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Surface Mining – African Mining Services (AMS), Ausdrill 

Underground Mining – Barminco, African Underground 
Mining Services (AUMS)

Investments – BTP, MinAnalytical, Supply Direct, 
Logistics Direct, Well Control Solutions (WCS)

idoba – Technology driven service business 

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The report is structured around Perenti’s Sustainability 
Framework, with the associated performance metrics 
aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and 
other recognised industry and international reporting 
standards. The intention is to report against additional 
relevant performance metrics over the coming years, with 
performance data being disclosed on local procurement and 
community donations for the first time in this year’s report. 

Case examples from across our businesses and our 
geographic footprint are used to illustrate our sustainability 
approach in practice. A scorecard outlining the extent of 
completion of FY21 public sustainability commitments 
is also detailed within each section of the report. 

ON THE COVER

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In April this year AMS raised more than 
700,000 CFA francs (nearly AU$2,000) 
by selling excess office furniture and 
equipment to support local orphanages 
and hospitals in Burkina Faso.

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M AT E R I A L  I S S U E S

To inform the development of our Strategic Sustainability Plan, 
Perenti undertook a materiality assessment involving internal 
and external stakeholders. In total, 18 internal and 13 external 
stakeholders completed the materiality survey. Internal 
stakeholders included members of the Board and Group 
Executive as well as employees from across the business. 
External stakeholders comprised of representatives from our 
clients, industry associations, suppliers, investors and financiers. 

Overall, there was a high degree of alignment between the 
internal and external perspective on priority sustainability 
related issues for the business as shown in the figure below.  
Issues rated as most relevant and important to Perenti are 
) and largely fall within the 
denoted with a gold marker (
perforated box. 

Safety remains our most material issue. This was reinforced when 
in May 2021, we tragically lost an employee of our Underground 
Mining Alliance joint venture at the Obuasi Mine in Ghana to a fall 
of ground incident. Further details on our safety performance 
and approach is detailed on page 44 of this report.

External stakeholders did rate Indigenous engagement as 
a notably higher priority than internal stakeholders. This 
difference in rating is likely due to the outfall of recent 
incidents within the industry and the perception that service 
providers perform a greater role in cultural heritage approvals 
and land access agreements than is the reality compared 
to our clients. Regardless, we have prioritised Indigenous 
engagement to reflect the increasing relevance to our 
business, with plans to develop an Indigenous Engagement 
Strategy in FY22. We have also prioritised action for climate 
change and supply chain due diligence in the coming 
year. Existing work plans already exist and are underway 
for the other issues rated as most material for Perenti.

Results of the materiality assessment and the associated 
planned response were discussed at the Board and Group 
Executive levels. 

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S U M M A RY  O F   O U R P E R F O R M A N C E

NO SHORTCUTS

Ethics and Governance

Compliance with Code of Conduct

Compliance with Continuous Disclosure

Safety and Health

Total Fatalities

METRIC

2021

2020

2019

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Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate  

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# incidents per million hrs worked

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0.3 (0.30)

0.3 (0.25)

Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate  

(TRIFR)

# incidents per million hrs worked

All Injury Frequency Rate  

(AIFR)

# incidents per million hrs worked

Serious Potential Injury Frequency Rate  

(SPIFR)

# incidents per million hrs worked

Fines and Prosecutions

NEVER WASTEFUL

Environment

Greenhouse gas emissions – scope 1

Greenhouse gas emissions – scope 2

Energy consumed

Total significant environmental incidents 

Fines and prosecutions

SMARTER TOGETHER

Our People

Total Workforce

Employees by Region:

∞  Australia

∞  Africa

∞  United Kingdom

∞  Asia

∞  North America

Total Voluntary Turnover Rate

Females on the Board1

Females in senior management 

Females in the workforce

Local participation in international workforce2

Australian workforce employed as an Apprentice

WALK IN THEIR SHOES

Local procurement expenditure3

Community investment and donations

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Females on the Board = 2/31 Based on average of days worked in FY21.
Local participation is country Nationals (Locals) only, does not include Third Country Nationals.
Local procurement expenditure = AUD$ 786.5 million = Local procurement refers to the purchasing of  
goods or services from a supplier registered or based within the same country as the operation.

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT Each individual commitment, their completion status and 
other details are covered within the relevant section of this 
report. Commitments for FY22 are also outlined within 
each section.

COMPLETION STATUS 

50%

75%

100%

F Y21  S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y CO M M I TM E N T S

To progress our management of sustainability related 
issues, 23 public commitments were outlined within 
our FY21 Sustainability Report. In total, 61 per cent 
of commitments (14 of 23 commitments) were 
completed during FY21 with the remainder being 
either half (six commitments) or three quarters (three 
commitments) completed. Plans are in place to close 
out the outstanding commitments in FY22.

  NO SHORTCUTS 

ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

Perenti made the following FY21 commitments:

Commitment

Status Reference

Code of conduct, page 40

Launch a revised training module covering the Code of Conduct for all employees  
with expectations that refresher training is completed every two years at a minimum 

Customise the Speak Up Policy and Speak Up Standard across all overseas jurisdictions 
in which Perenti operates 

Supporting a culture of ‘Speak Up’, 
page 40

Deliver tailored anti-corruption and anti-bribery training to high-risk roles across  
the Group 

Anti-bribery and anti-corruption, 
page 40

Cyber and information security: 

∞ 

Finalise an Information Management Security Framework and a  
three-year Cybersecurity Plan

∞  Develop and roll-out a Data Protection Standard for the Group 
∞  Undertake a cybersecurity incident training response exercise

Human rights:

Identify significant human rights related risks across the business

∞ 
∞  Ensure human rights related provisions within contracts and service agreements 

are applied consistently across the Group

Publicly disclose our policy commitment to human rights including 
publishing our Modern Slavery Statement online

Further strengthen the security, emergency, and crisis management 
capability for the Group through the development and review of 
Emergency Management Plans and the roll out of associated training

Board structure

The composition of the Perenti Board 
brings skill, diversity and experience 
to ensure ethical and responsible 
delivery of value to shareholders.

As at 30 June, the Board comprised 
five Directors, four of whom are Non-
Executive Directors. Details of each 
Board member, including their skills, 
experience and term of office are set 
out in Perenti’s 2021 Annual Report and 
are also available on Perenti’s website. 

The Board Charter requires a majority 
of Directors to be independent, with an 
assessment of the independence of each 
Non-Executive Director being undertaken 
in August 2021 in accordance with ASX 
Recommendations and Principles. 

The Board currently has two committees 
to assist in carrying out the role of guiding 
the Company’s strategic direction – the 
Audit & Risk Committee and the People & 
Remuneration Committee. The Charters 
for these committees are available on 
Perenti’s website. The members of the 
committees are all Independent Directors. 

Sustainability related issues are discussed 
collectively by the Board. During FY21, the 
issues discussed by the Board included 
sustainability materiality assessment, 
climate change, modern slavery and 
Perenti’s sustainability strategy. 

Cyber and information security, 
page 40

Human rights, page 41

Human rights, page 41

Security, page 41

In FY22 we will:

  Review the coverage of 

sustainability matters within the 
Board structure and meeting 
program. Further, the Board will 
undergo climate change training 
to ensure their understanding of 
climate related developments is 
current. 

Risk and internal audit

Perenti faces a broad array of risks, 
including operational, economic, 
technological, socio-political, regulatory, 
environmental and reputational risks – 
see page 32 of the Annual Report for 
further information. Our consistent and 
proactive approach to risk management 
is aligned with ISO 31000:2018 and the 
ASX Principles and Recommendations. 

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The approach also utilises an enterprise-
wide process to identify and assess 
material risks to the Group and seeks to 
apply appropriate controls. As part of our 
Risk Framework, we conduct an annual 
risk review with the Group Executive 
and Board to review and update risks 
periodically during the year, including 
detection and investigation of emerging 
risks.

The Internal Audit function was 
established in August 2020 and is a critical 
part of the Perenti Assurance Framework. 
The purpose, role and authority of Internal 
Audit is governed by a Charter approved 
by the Audit and Risk Committee. In 
November 2020, the Audit and Risk 
Committee, approved the rolling three-
year Internal Audit Plan, including the FY21 
program of work. 

Six internal audits were completed 
during the year. The immediate 
priority for Internal Audit is to protect 
shareholder value by supporting business 
improvement through strengthening the 
Governance, Risk and Control Framework.
In FY22, the Internal Audit Program has 
been prioritised to focus on safety, and 
key financial and business processes.

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct sets out the 
standards of behaviour expected of 
our directors, employees, consultants, 
contractors and suppliers. It embodies 
a commitment to good corporate 
governance and responsible business 
practice and reflects the expectations 
of all the Company’s stakeholders. In 
FY21 we rolled out a revised mandatory 
learning module for the Code of Conduct, 
with all employees required to complete 
refresher training at least every two years.

Supporting a culture to Speak Up

Perenti and its businesses are committed 
to achieving and demonstrating 
the highest standards of corporate 
governance. The Company has a range 
of policies and standards that provide 
guidance to directors, executives and 
employees in the management and 
running of the Company’s operations.  
In FY21, Perenti launched a Speak Up 
campaign across the business. The Speak 
Up Program gives employees, and other 
stakeholders, a range of options to report 
misconduct while providing anonymity 
and protection to the person reporting 
the misconduct. It is supported by a 
Speak Up Policy and Standards specific 
to the countries in which we operate. 

A Code of Conduct breach update is 
provided to the Board on a monthly 
basis. There have been four disclosures 
made since the inception of the Speak 
Up Program. Two of these relate to 
alleged breaches of the Code of Conduct, 
the remainder are employee relations 
matters. Following investigation by either 
a member of the Legal team or an external 
investigator, neither of the alleged Code 
of Conduct breaches were substantiated. 

Timely and consistent disclosure

Our Market Disclosure and 
Communications Policy outlines 
Perenti’s commitment to providing 
our shareholders and the market with 
full and timely information about 
our activities. In the last financial 
year, we made 86 announcements 
and disclosures via the ASX with no 
breaches of continuous disclosure. 

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If you witness or learn 
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improper, corrupt or 
unlawful behaviour you 
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Anti-bribery and anti-corruption

The Company has an Anti-bribery and 
Anti-corruption (ABAC) Policy which sets 
out the Company’s zero tolerance for 
any bribery or corruption in its business 
dealings and operations anywhere in the 
world. The Company also has a related 
ABAC Standard which sets out the specific 
requirements of Group personnel and 
agents related to the policy. Consistent 
with this standard, no political donations 
or facilitation payments were made 
during FY21. Any material breaches of 
the ABAC Policy are reported to the 
Board and Audit & Risk Committee.

In FY21, we launched the online training 
module for ABAC for all new employees 
as part of their induction as well as a 
tailored module for employees working 
in ‘high-risk’ roles. These roles include 
all supervisor positions and above, as 
well as those involved in commercial 
interactions such as procurement. 

In accordance with ABAC Policy and 
Standard, all businesses have a Gift 
and Hospitality Register in place, 
maintained by nominated personnel 
within each business and reported and 
consolidated at a Group level quarterly.

Cyber and information security

During the last financial year, 
significant progress was made in 
the implementation of our Group 
Cybersecurity Program. This progress has 
included the development and roll out 
of an Information Security Management 
Framework and accompanying standards 
in line with the guidance described 
by the International Organisation for 
Standardisation (ISO) and their family 
of Standards for Information Security. 
A number of critical incident response 
exercises relating to cyber threats 
were also undertaken in recognition 
of the importance of preparedness 
through real-life incident simulation. 

A Data Protection Standard for the Group, 
originally scheduled for launch in FY21, 
is currently being finalised for roll-out in 
FY22. To date, the program has delivered 
extensive capability to better protect our 
employees globally by enabling new and 
more secure ways to authenticate to 
our systems in support of a proliferating 
external work environment. Importantly, a 
Security Awareness Program is underway 
to help address human risk factors, 
developing and distributing supporting 
materials to uplift our collective 
understanding of contemporary cyber 
threats and how to combat them. 

Industry association memberships

Perenti, or its operating businesses, 
are members of peak bodies 
and organisations including:

∞  Australia-Africa Minerals and Energy 

Group (AAMEG)

∞  Association of Mining and Exploration 

Companies (AMEC)

∞  Australian Resources and Energy 

Group (AMMA) 

∞  Austmine

∞  Chamber of Minerals and Energy 
Western Australia (CMEWA)

∞  Ghana Chamber of Mines

∞  Gold Industry Group

Our participation in these organisations 
provides Perenti with a means to share 
and learn with our peers as well as to 
influence sustainability related policies 
and practices of the industry. Engagement 
with these organisations is consistent 
with the Perenti Code of Conduct. 

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTHuman rights and modern slavery

Respect for human rights is a fundamental 
responsibility for all businesses. We 
are committed to respecting human 
rights, cultures and customs of 
employees, communities and suppliers 
by implementing practices consistent 
with recognised international standards 
including the Voluntary Principles 
on Security and Human Rights. This 
commitment is included within our 
Code of Conduct and associated 
training module for employees, which 
sets out employee expectations, and 
is referenced within our Sustainability 
Policy published in October 2020. 

In FY21, Perenti conducted a robust 
high-level risk assessment of its business 
to understand where human rights risks, 
including modern slavery risks, may 
exist. A key part of this assessment was 
understanding the existing controls in 
place and identifying any potential gaps. 
The assessment was undertaken by an 
expert independent group and was guided 
by the United Nations Guiding Principles 
on Business and Human Rights. The 
assessment involved key personnel from 
across the Company to ensure a cross-
functional understanding and perspective 
of potential risks.  

The functions involved included - Legal, 
Supply/Procurement, Human Resources, 
Security, Safety, Environment, Risk and 
Sustainability. The assessment found 
that the risks were largely dependent 
on location, with higher risks linked to 
complex operating environments, where 
there are greater safety and security 
issues, political unrest, and corruption.

Following the assessment, Perenti has 
developed a three-year program of 
works which sets out specific actions 
to further respond to and manage 
human rights risks, including modern 
slavery risks. We also published on our 
website and submitted to the Australian 
Border Force our first public Modern 
Slavery Statement in accordance 
with the Commonwealth Modern 
Slavery Act 2018. The Statement 
was authorised and approved by 
the Board on 28 January 2021.

Our FY21 commitment to ensure 
human rights related provisions within 
contracts and service agreements are 
applied consistently across the Group 
commenced during FY21, with the 
intention to complete this commitment 
during FY22.

Security

Perenti is committed to ensuring we 
maintain a state of security, emergency 
and crisis preparedness to enable us 
to prevent, respond and recover from 
security and other events which may 
impact our people, the environment, 
assets, business operations or reputation. 

The Group has adopted a holistic 
approach to the management of security, 
emergency and crisis related risks which 
is supported by a suite of standards and 
associated plans and guidelines. During 
the reporting period, the combined 
Mining Emergency Management Plan, 
along with associated guidelines and 
tools were finalised. To enable emergency 
management employees to be proficient 
in their respective roles, an online 
Emergency Management Team Training 
Package was developed and is scheduled 
to be rolled out this year. Concurrent 
to this has been the development 
and facilitation of several crisis and 
emergency management exercises. 

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS U S TA I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T

  NEVER WASTEFUL

ENVIRONMENT

Perenti made the following FY21 commitments:

Commitment

Develop an overarching Group wide plan for the environment that identifies priority 
actions to continuously improve our environmental performance

Status Reference

Environment, page 42

Climate change:

Climate change, page 42

∞ 

∞ 

Include climate change as an agenda item for discussion in senior executive 
leadership meetings and workshops

Identify options to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas 
emissions within the business

∞  Assess climate change related risks and opportunities over different time horizons

Water:

Water, page 43

∞  Undertake an assessment of water risk across all Perenti operations to identify 

areas of high-water risk

∞ 

For high-water risk sites identify opportunities for water savings

We are committed to minimising the 
environmental impact of our operations 
and offices through the education of 
our employees, utilising best practice 
procedures, complying with legislative 
requirements and conforming to any 
specific environmental requirements 
of individual sites and clients.

During the reporting period, a strong 
focus was placed on the development 
of a baseline understanding of current 
performance, education and awareness. 
This focus culminated in the development 
of a three-year Environmental Business 
Plan, which was approved by the Group 
Executive and outlines priority actions to 
be undertaken to continuously improve 
our environmental performance.

Environment Management System

Our environmental management 
practices are directed by our Health, 
Safety and Environment Policy and 
our Sustainability Policy. The Health, 
Safety and Environment Management 
System described in the health 
and safety section of this report is 
consistent with the requirements of 
ISO 14001 and forms the framework 
for how environmental management 
is planned, executed and governed. 

Site environmental reviews were 
conducted at our workshops and 
warehouses in Hazelmere and Kambalda, 
Western Australia, during the reporting 
period resulting in improvement 
action plans. During FY22 work will be 
undertaken to review and update site 
environmental risk registers into the 
new HSE system. Further, second line 
environmental compliance audits will 
be conducted across our businesses. 

Climate change

Perenti remains committed to playing a 
key role in industry efforts to support the 
transition to a low carbon economy. This 
is the second year of publicly reporting 
scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas 
emissions and energy usage. A detailed 
review of our reporting boundaries has 
resulted in reduction in scope 1 emissions 
reported from FY20, as emissions not 
under our operational control (associated 
with diesel use from exploration 
activities) have been omitted. Diesel 
use remains the primary contributor of 
our scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions, 
whilst purchased electricity is the main 
source of our scope 2 emissions. 

Key climate change related actions 
undertaken during FY21 include:

∞  Climate change being discussed 

during senior leadership meetings and 
forums including at the Board level.

∞  Delivering climate change awareness 
training to 17 senior leaders with 
further sessions scheduled for FY22.

∞  Completed a climate change risk 
assessment of the business using 
bowtie methodology. The risks 
identified as part of the assessment 
related to physical impacts, financial 
planning and decision-making, 
climate regulation, climate disclosure 
and decarbonisation. The risk 
assessment, including the control 
actions identified, will be an input 
to the Climate Change Position 
Statement and Plan to be developed 
in FY22. Risks associated over different 
time horizons and market scenarios 
are also to be investigated. 

∞ 

Formalised our approach to capturing 
and reporting on greenhouse gas 
emissions and energy usage through 
the development of an associated 
manual for the Group.

∞  Active member of the Electric Mine 
Consortium – One of our operating 
businesses (Barminco) is leading 
the battery electric light vehicle and 
auxiliary vehicle stream. We are also 
very active in the heavy vehicle stream.

∞ 

Initiated a number of other carbon 
reduction initiatives (see case study  
on page 43).

In FY22 we will:

  Publish a Climate Change Position 

Statement consistent with the 
Taskforce on Climate Related 
Financial Disclosure Framework.

  Further formalise and progress 
our decarbonisation efforts.

  Deliver climate change 
training to the Board.

  Establish an internal water 

and energy efficiency initiative 
platform to record, track and 
improve collaboration on 
water and energy initiatives 
throughout the business.

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTC A S E   S T U D Y

Electric Mine Consortium and Electric Vehicles

Water

As the only mining contractor involved 
in the Electric Mine Consortium 
Perenti subsidiary Barminco is 
aiming to lead a path towards zero 
emissions mining. Leading Miners, 
OEMs, technology providers and 
Barminco are taking real steps 
towards the decarbonisation of the 
underground mining process. 

These companies have joined forces 
and are sharing resources to create 
the Electric Mine Consortium with 
the ambition to accelerate progress 
towards the fully electrified zero 
CO2 and zero particulates mine.

As part of this consortium each major 
member is championing a key working 
group, with Barminco leading the Light 
and Auxiliary Battery Electric Vehicles 
group. Within this group Barminco 
is undertaking multiple trials across 
different sites, such as the recently 
completed Normet Electric Charmec 
Trial and at the Nova Mine site. 

This group and these trials are 
aiming to accelerate the adoption 
of electric vehicles by integrating 
light and auxiliary battery 
electric fleet onto its sites. 

Barminco is also involved in the trial 
of a BEV L120 Integrated Tool Carrier, 
the first of its kind underground, at 
the Agnew Mine in Western Australia. 
The Battery Electric Volvo L120 will 
operate on a daily basis performing 
a range of duties including:

∞  General mine servicing required 

from the man basket

∞  Vent installation and maintenance

∞  Air/water services installation and 

maintenance

∞   Electrical services installation and 

maintenance

Perenti recognises that water is a shared 
natural resource that has environmental, 
social, cultural and economic value. 
Access to and monitoring of water use 
is typically provided by Perenti’s clients. 
Nonetheless, in recognition of water being 
a shared and precious resource, in FY21 
we undertook a water risk assessment 
of Perenti’s operations using World 
Resource Institute’s Aqueduct tool. 

Overall, five sites (four underground and 
one surface) were located in regions 
classified with extremely high-water risk, 
with 15 sites being in regions rated as 
experiencing high water risk. The results 
are in the process of being validated 
with relevant local representatives. 
Plans to identify opportunities for 
water saving at high-risk sites during 
FY21 are now scheduled for FY22. 

∞  Use of basket for paste pipe 

Environmental Incidents

installation.

Environmental incidents are classified  
on a scale of one to five with four and  
five resulting in serious impact to the 
environment and regulatory action.  
Over the past three years we have not  
had any level four or five incidents. 

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS U S TA I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T

  SMARTER TOGETHER

SAFETY & HEALTH

Perenti made the following FY21 commitments:

Commitment

Status Reference

Establish and commence the implementation of an Assurance Framework

Develop a safety leadership program structured to support the culture and 
behaviours critical to achieving our safety related goals

Improve the tools for frontline and senior leaders as well as operator and 
maintenance personnel to verify the presence and effectiveness of critical 
controls

Health, Safety, Environment 
Management System, page 44

Safety Leadership, page 45

Critical Risk Management, page 45 

Establish targets for All Injury Frequency Rates

Safety Performance, page 45

Develop appropriate lead indicators to measure across the business

Safety Performance, page 46

HSE Information System – HSE Central

Smarter together, Safer together

As a result of bringing together two large 
businesses, Perenti has been using two 
different HSE information systems for the 
collection, analysis, and reporting of HSE 
related data. The use of multiple systems 
added inefficiencies and complexity to the 
collation and interpretation of our HSE 
information. During FY20, a project was 
initiated to design and implement a single 
HSE information system across Perenti. 
The new system, branded internally as 
HSE Central, was developed and tested 
during FY21 and rolled out across the 
Group in early FY22. The new system will 
enable enhanced understanding and 
reporting of HSE data and performance 
and provide subject experts and line 
leaders easier access to information that 
enables informed decision making around 
the management of HSE risks.

To ensure safety remains a priority focus 
of all of our employees regardless of 
where they operate, we launched a safety 
tagline and awareness campaign during 
the year. The Smarter together Safer 
together tagline was developed following 
extensive consultation across the Group 
and links directly to our principle of 
Smarter together. The tagline will be used 
to visualise and communicate our 
approach and dedication to improving our 
safety performance. More specifically, for 
our people in the field, Smarter together 
Safer together signifies that:

∞  We look out for our workmates and 
show we care by speaking up when 
something doesn’t look or feel right

∞  No one person has the best solution. 
Together we can identify better ways 
to make it easy for people to work 
safely

∞  Ultimately, we can only ever achieve 
our objective of nil life-changing 
events by working together

At Perenti, the health and safety of our 
people is central to everything we do. We 
believe that every person should be able 
to work and go home safe and healthy, 
and that no one should be harmed in any 
way while undertaking work for the Group. 
Our five year strategic plan for health and 
safety further defines the areas of focus 
including: management system 
implementation and assurance; critical risk 
management; developing a leader-led 
culture for safety; health and wellness, 
and; health, safety and environment data 
systems and reporting

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) 
Management System

During FY21, there was significant focus 
on implementing the Group wide HSE 
Management System that was launched 
the previous year. The HSE System aligns 
with recognised national and international 
standards and supports our business’ 
existing certification to ISO4801, ISO 
14001 and ISO 45001 standards. 
Comprised of 14 elements, the 
management system outlines a consistent 
approach for the management of HSE 
across all Perenti locations and operations.  

In FY21, a self-assessment of compliance 
against the requirements of the new 
management system was conducted 
across the business. Findings of the 
self-assessment were used to standardise 
the leading risk management practices for 
common activities across the Group and 
simplify a number of operational 
processes to make it easier for our 
workforce to work safely. 

In FY22 we will:

  Undertake an independent audit 
of a selection of our operations 
to assess compliance with our 
system and HSE standards and 
capture and share good practice.

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTCritical Risk Management

Launched in FY20, our Critical Risk 
Management (CRM) Program is aimed at 
ensuring controls that are most critical to 
prevent fatal and catastrophic events are 
understood, in place and working 
effectively. The CRM Program has three 
tiers: 

Level 1 - Critical Control Operator 
Verifications: these verifications are 
designed to assist frontline operator 
and maintenance personnel to verify 
that critical controls for high-risk tasks 
are in place and working effectively 
prior to them beginning the task. The 
development of these verifications 
began in Q4 of the reporting period with 
implementation originally scheduled 
for FY21 to now occur during FY22.

Level 2 - Critical Control Field 
Verifications: developed in collaboration 
with operational leaders and implemented 
during the reporting period, these 
verifications are conducted by frontline 
supervisor roles and above. A total of 
597 people were trained in conducting 
Critical Control Field Verifications during 
the reporting period, with more than 
2,000 verifications being completed 
each month across the Group.

Level 3 - Critical Control System 
Verifications: these verifications are to be 
completed by managers and above and 
are designed to verify that the systems for 
specifying and maintaining critical controls 
are established and healthy. Verification 
checklists will be developed this year and 
implemented in FY23.

Safety leadership

A key focus of our Safety Strategy is the 
development of the safety leadership 
capability of our operational leaders. 
During the year, Perenti’s Safety 
Leadership Framework was developed, 
with the initial phase of the program 
consisting of a one-day workshop being 
rolled out to leaders across the business. 
Further initial phase training will be 
completed in FY22. The second phase of 
the program will also be finalised and 
commence in FY22, which will include a 
coaching element to further develop 
leader capability.

Our safety leadership and critical risk 
management programs are vital to 
improving how we manage safety and 
achieve our objective of nil life changing 
events. Positive changes are already being 
seen throughout the business where 
leaders are engaging with the workforce in 
different ways, spending time being 
curious about how people are working, 
questioning to understand the safety of 
work, and collaborating on better ways to 
do the job safely. With the high calibre of 
people we have throughout Perenti and 

our operations, harnessing the collective 
experience and knowledge of people who 
do the work is vital for us to achieve 
successful outcomes. 

Assurance of ground condition controls

Analysis in FY21 identified an increase in 
incidents relating to the control of ground 
conditions. As a result, a program of 
auditing was developed to provide 
assurance of controls for the prevention of 
fall of ground and slope stability. In close 
collaboration with our clients, 
independent audits were conducted 
across four projects; the Sukari 
underground mine in Egypt, the Mako 
open pit mine in Senegal, Dugald River 
underground mine in Queensland and the 
Mungari open pit mine in Western 
Australia. Outcomes of these audits have 
informed a number of improvements both 
locally at site and at the systems level 
across the organisation, including how we 
partner with our clients to ensure robust 
quality assurance and quality control 
processes are in place and effective. This 
auditing process will continue and form 
part of our ongoing Assurance Program. 

In FY22 we will:

  Continue to embed the 

Management System and improve 
downstream HSE processes, 
further standardising good 
practice across the Group

  Complete a third line audit 
against the requirements of 
the Management System

  Complete the rollout of phase 

1 of the Safety Leadership 
Program to all senior leaders and 
initiate the implementation of 
the phase two of the program

  Complete the development 
of and implement Critical 
Control Operator Verifications, 
as well as develop Critical 
Control System Verifications. 

Safety performance

Despite the progress we have achieved in 
implementing our Safety Strategy and 
CRM Program, FY21 has proven to be a 
challenging year in terms of safety 
performance. 

During the year, we tragically lost an 
employee of our Underground Mining 
Alliance joint venture at the Obuasi Mine in 
Ghana to a fall of ground incident. We are 
still working with our clients to investigate 
the nature of this tragic event, and we will 
ensure these findings inform our strategy 
and ongoing focus on preventing 

life-changing events, including our critical 
risk management and safety leadership 
and culture programs. 

Over the past 12 months a focus on 
implementing our Critical Risk Controls 
has seen a decline in our Serious Potential 
Injury Frequency Rate (SPIFR) from 4.1 to 
2.9 while there has been a rise in the Total 
Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) 
and All Injury Frequency Rate (AIFR). The 
TRIFR was 5.1, up from 4.9 in June 2020, 
and the AIFR was 26.5 against a target of 
23.5. These numbers are aggregated at 
the Perenti level. Historically, Surface 
mining has had lower frequency rates 
across LTIFR, TRIFR and AIFR which has 
contributed to lower overall aggregate 
frequency rates across Perenti. During 
FY21, due to strategic transformation 
decisions, Surface has seen a number of 
projects reduced, particularly in AMS, 
which has seen numbers increase slightly 
on FY20, whilst the Underground Mining 
business frequency rates have decreased. 
Our continued focus on eliminating life 
changing events has seen a move away 
from AIFR targets in FY22.

Whilst almost all of these injuries are not 
life-changing, such as slips, trips, strains 
and short-term injuries to hands and 
fingers, we have implemented a number 
of programs aimed at minimising these 
impacts on our people. 

As well as focused campaigns to 
reduce the risk of injuries to hands and 
fingers through increased awareness, 
tool selection and availability and 
improvements to PPE, we partnered 
with an external party to develop 
a comprehensive and customised 
program to transition people into the 
physically demanding work in the 
diamond drill division. This is achieved 
through individual conditioning and 
strengthening programs, to physically 
prepare people for the roles they are 
in training for. This musculoskeletal 
support program will initially be trialled 
with a selection of Underground roles 
and pending results will be tailored and 
extended to Surface exploration roles.

Encouragingly, the Serious Potential 
Incident Frequency Rate (SPIFR) has 
reduced from 4.1 to 2.9. This improvement 
has been influenced by a number of 
factors, including the implementation of 
improved Critical Risk Controls and field 
leadership. Breaking down the Serious 
Potential Incidents (SPIs) by critical risk 
category shows that almost a quarter  
(24 per cent) of SPIs relate to mobile 
equipment operation and interaction.  
This is followed closely with 21 per cent  
of SPIs relating to the control of ground 
conditions and 15 per cent of incidents 
involving the risk of falls and dropped 
objects. 

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTAnalysis of these incidents continues to 
inform our improvement initiatives, in 
particular our ongoing focus to 
dramatically reduce the risk to people of 
an interaction with mobile equipment or a 
fall of ground, as is detailed in this report. 

Looking forward, we have developed a 
number of safety related lead indicators and 
associated targets to assess performance 
across the business. These indicators 
relate to the completion of Critical Control 
Field Verifications for leadership roles and 
in reference to the hierarchy of control, 
engineering controls or better for SPIs.

Furthermore, our Group target for 
reducing Total Recordable Injury 
Frequency Rate for FY22 is 4.56.

HEALTH

Mental health and wellbeing

Mental health and wellbeing is a  
significant issue for the mining industry 
and the broader community. Perenti has 
provided peer support programs, with 
specially trained employees playing a 
pivotal role in supporting their colleagues 
at the local level. 

During FY21, the business began 
completion of mental health risk 
assessments, with the outcomes of this 
informing ongoing improvement plans as 
part of our Mental Health Framework to 
better support the wellbeing of our 
employees. 

We built on our existing mental health 
and wellbeing resources to ensure our 
people were able to access the tools 
and support to help them cope with the 
increased stress and uncertainty brought 
about by the pandemic. We developed 
employee support programs to assist with 
mental health management. In particular, 
the COVID-19 pandemic saw additional 
focus being placed on our expatriate 
workforce given the long duration of 
rosters and the repeated periods of 
mandatory quarantine. A quarantine 
support program was developed to 
provide additional psychological as well 
as physical support to employees and 
their families during these periods. 

In addition, working with our mental 
health provider, Perenti provided free 
counselling by mental health professionals 
for all employees in Perenti, both online 
and over the phone. This service provided 
easily accessible information and advice 
around coping with COVID-19, isolation 
and connection, workplace and financial 
hardship, and how best to support the 
mental health of loved ones, workmates 
and friends.

Over the past two years, we have 
extended mental health training for 
leaders and employees, including raising 
awareness about psychosocial hazards to 
improve proactive discussions prior to the 
onset of serious illness. In the lead up to 
RUOK Day in September 2020, anxiety 
awareness programs were developed with 
participation of our frontline employees. 
These programs were rolled out 
throughout the Underground and Surface 
businesses. 

COVID-19

As with every organisation operating in the 
mining sector, the impact of COVID-19 on 
the way we operate remains a significant 
and ongoing challenge. We have taken 
numerous steps to ensure the ongoing 
safety and health of our workforce, 
families, clients and communities are 
protected and any impact is minimised. 

As a result of dedicated teamwork and 
careful planning, throughout the 
pandemic we have successfully 
maintained a highly effective Australian 
and International workforce, including the 
ongoing movement of essential expatriate 
employees between Australia, Africa and 
Canada and other countries.

Our COVID-19 Management Plan outlines 
the mechanisms through which we keep our 
people and communities safe and healthy 
whilst undertaking normal operations.

C A S E   S T U D Y

Underground acoustics study

During an investigation into some incidents which 
occurred at underground projects around the world 
involving reversing vehicles, it was noted that some 
workers did not appear to realise how close a vehicle was 
to them despite an audible alarm and the machine noise. 

Owing to a lack of data relating to the audible effectiveness 
of warning alarms in underground mines, a specific study 
was commissioned – a first in an underground mining 
environment. 

Measurements recorded during the study identified a 
marked difference in how noise travels in an underground 
environment. Whereas in a “normal” surface environment 
there exists a 6dB change in noise by doubling the distance 
from the noise source, in an underground mine the study 
found only a 3dB change occurred. The importance of this 
is better understood when considering that a 3dB change 
will not be perceived by the human ear, as such in an 
underground mine a person may not hear that equipment 
is approaching until it is twice as close as it would be on 
the surface.

Further investigation is now being undertaken to 
determine what additional measures may be required to 
increase the efficacy of warning systems for reversing 
machinery underground.

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTfunctions which helped identify potential 
occupational hygiene risks and groups 
of employees with similar general 
exposure to these risks. A comprehensive 
monitoring program was then initiated 
to build a baseline understanding of 
employees occupational health risks 
and identify opportunities to improve 
associated controls. In total, 79 
assessments were undertaken involving 
53 people during the past year. This 
work has provided valuable information 
for improving engineering controls and 
improved education and awareness 
of the workforce. The monitoring 
program will now continue as a feature 
of our health program, with further 
improvements in FY22 to address areas 
with insufficient data or where the task 
may present a higher risk to employees. 

Control measures that have been 
implemented to minimise the various 
health risks, including the direct and 
indirect impacts on mental health and 
wellbeing include:

∞ 

Implementing support programs 
for expatriate employees and their 
families during extended international 
rosters and during the multiple rounds 
of quarantine required

∞  Establishing hardship programs for 
affected employees (as detailed in 
the section on Mental health and 
Wellbeing on page 46)

∞  Establishing a redeployment and 
retraining program for displaced 
employees

The progression of vaccination programs 
globally is one that Perenti is fully 
supportive of and we actively encourage 
all our workforce to participate in.  
A position statement on COVID-19 
vaccinations was developed, and 
additional support has been provided, 
particularly for our travelling expatriate 
workforce, to receive their vaccinations. 

We maintain an active dialogue and  
strong participation with industry and 
multilateral working groups to support the 
advancement of vaccination throughout 
our workforce and the broader community. 

As the pandemic and rollout of vaccination 
programs has progressed in Australia, 
Perenti maintains an active participation in 
industry COVID-19 working groups. We 
recognise that protection against infection 
through vaccination is vital to the 
performance of the business, the broader 
industry, safety of our communities and 
especially our employees and their 
families. For these reasons Perenti has 
developed a promotional campaign in 
support of the Australian Government’s 
vaccination campaign. 

Hygiene monitoring

In FY21, Perenti initiated an occupational 
hygiene monitoring program with 
our workforce at sites where Perenti 
has overall operational control and 
responsibility. An initial risk assessment 
was conducted involving employees 
from all relevant areas and operational 

OUR PEOPLE

Perenti made the following FY21 commitments:

Commitment

Status Reference

Publish and support the implementation of a Paid Parental Leave Policy

Inclusion and Diversity, page 47

Roll out a Flexible Work Practice Standard across the Group

Inclusion and Diversity, page 47

Roll out a bespoke Leadership Development Program across the Group

Launch the Leader’s Essential Portal which is a technology enabled platform that gives 
our global leadership team access to both industry leading and Perenti specific 
leadership tools, frameworks, and support

Expand our leadership pipeline assessment process to focus on identification of high 
potential employees and their unique development opportunities 

Introduce a People Management System for the group to improve collection and 
collation of people related information and data

Leadership and capability 
development, page 48

Leadership and capability 
development, page 48

Leadership and capability 
development, page 48

Human Resources System,  
page 49

Inclusion and diversity

Perenti recognises the value of an  
inclusive and diverse workforce. Our local 
participation in the international workforce 
remains high at 86.8 per cent despite 
representing a slight decrease from FY20. 
Further, our percentage of females in 
senior management (18.2 per cent) has 
increased by 7.1 per cent since 2019. 
Female employees in the workforce have 
also increased over this same period from  
7.4 per cent in FY19 to 10 per cent in FY21. 

During FY21, we had two female Board 
members .As part of our commitment to 
inclusion and diversity a Culture and 

Inclusion Steering Group was established 
during FY21. This steering group, chaired 
by the Chief People Officer, with 
representatives from across the business, 
is tasked with providing strategic direction, 
input, and guidance across the areas of 
inclusion, diversity and cultural 
development. 

In FY21, a number of other measures were 
taken to support an inclusive and diverse 
workforce including:

∞  Development of an Inclusion and 

Diversity Strategy

∞  Published and supported the 

implementation of Paid Parental  
Leave Policy

∞  Rolled out a flexible work standard 

across the Group

In FY22 we will:

  In FY22 we plan to conduct 
self-assessment of a sample 
of our sites to identify 
opportunities to make them 
more amenable to all genders. 

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C A S E   S T U D Y

Investing in our future generation of miners

Attracting, growing and retaining our people to ensure we 
can continue to deliver value and certainty to our clients 
remains critical to the business especially in light of the 
current skills shortage across Australia.

Last year, Perenti was one of the largest private sector 
employers of apprentices and trainees in Western Australia 
totalling more than 400 across our Ausdrill, Barminco 
and BTP businesses. Our apprenticeships include: heavy 
diesel mechanic, light vehicle mechanic, auto electrician, 
boilermaker, fabrication, plant technology and mechanical 
technology while traineeships span various levels of 
drilling operations, underground metalliferous mining 
and warehousing operations. A key part of our offering 
includes two specialised underground training facilities 
in Perth and Botswana that recreate what it’s like to work 
underground. This supports training people before they 
are on site, which leads to better safety outcomes and 
helps ensure those people are well prepared for work in an 
underground environment. 

Recruiting and developing graduates was also a key focus 
for our underground operations during the year as we look 
to invest and train our future leaders.

Leadership and capability development

In FY21, we finalised the core design 
of the Leading@Perenti Program. The 
intention of this program is to enhance 
the capability of our most senior leaders 
across the business. The program 
aligns to the behavioural expectations 
articulated in the Perenti principles, as 
well as the key competencies in the 
Leadership Competency Framework. 
Originally planned for FY21, the roll out of 
Leading@Perenti will commence in FY22. 

Content for the Leaders Essentials 
Portal has been reviewed and enhanced 
throughout FY21. Launched in FY21 
to specifically assist with managing 
through the COVID-19 pandemic, the 
site will be refreshed during FY22 to 
complement and supplement other 
leadership development activities. 

Our inaugural Senior Leaders Forum 
was also held in FY21. This involved 
70 of our most senior leaders and 
high potential employees to align, 
amongst other items, around business 
strategy, strategic direction, culture 
and leadership expectations.

Cultural Engagement

In FY21, the Group Executive held 
several workshops dedicated to better 
understanding and defining the cultural 
aspirations of the organisation. In addition 
to this, a comprehensive assessment 
of our culture was undertaken by an 
independent expert partner.  

This assessment included one to one 
interviews with more than 60 employees, 
focus groups with more than 80 
participants and a survey completed 
by 550 employees. The feedback from 
this culture assessment has provided 
important insight into the areas of 
focus for culture development. 

In FY22 we will:

  Define the key cultural priorities 

to action and commence 
embedding these as needed 
across the business.

Remuneration

In FY21, Perenti’s People and 
Remuneration Committee completed a 
review of the company’s Remuneration 
Framework. The focus of this review 
was to ensure we continue to align 
to our Remuneration Framework to 
attract, motivate, and retain talented 
and high performing individuals with 
market competitive remuneration that 
enables the delivery of the company’s 
strategy. The outcomes of this review 
will be implemented throughout FY22. 

As a consequence of the ongoing 
COVID-19 pandemic, Perenti experienced 
challenges to attract and retain employees 
in a tightening labour market. Whilst we 
continued to support a sustainable  
“pay for performance” philosophy,  

Perenti undertook a comprehensive 
review of various mechanisms to ensure 
we attracted and retained core talent. 

Moving into FY22, we expect that 
similar labour pressures will remain 
therefore we will continue to monitor 
and respond accordingly to ensure 
seamless project delivery for our clients. 

In addition, the health, wellbeing and 
retention of our expatriates who work 
internationally was a significant priority 
in FY21 due to the ongoing challenges 
with the pandemic. Our expatriates 
experienced extended rosters and 
multiple stays in quarantine throughout 
this year, and as such compensation 
was provided for the disruption to their 
lives to retain these essential workers. 

In FY22 we will:

  As part of the annual 

remuneration cycle review, 
implement leader training for the 
annual gender pay gap review 
and provide detailed reporting to 
monitor progress from the newly 
implemented HR system. Perenti 
remains committed to removing 
any gender pay gap issues. 

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In FY21, we successfully deployed a 
companywide HR information system.  
The core HR module was implemented 
which resulted in aligned HR 
processes and reporting on people 
related data across the business. 

Labor Relations and Management 

Perenti is committed to ensuring 
all employees and contractors are 
treated in a fair, equitable and ethical 
manner. Across our varied employment 
jurisdictions, we work closely with 
the relevant governments, union 
representatives and employee groups 
to ensure adherence and compliance 
to the required labour laws, HR 
regulations and labour rights policies. 

In addition to maintaining the required 
minimum labour regulations across 
the Group, we hold ourselves to a high 
standard of business policies related 
to Code of Conduct, Anti-bribery and 
Anti-Corruption and Speak Up. These 
policies ensure all employees and 
contractors are aware of and adhere to 
practices that are ethical, fair and create 
an environment free from harassment, 
discrimination or victimisation. 

Perenti is proud of its reputation and 
processes on workplace relations 
matters, evidenced by the lack of 
industrial disputes across the varied 
employment jurisdictions. Should 
any company be subject to labour 
controversy, based on the nature of the 
interaction and/or union agreement, 
these are managed by our experienced 
Operations Manager, supported by the 
local Human Resources team, who are 
well versed in the relevant laws and 
regulations of the host country, and where 
necessary our internal legal advisors.

  WALK IN THEIR SHOES

Perenti made the following FY21 commitments:

Commitment

Status Reference

Disclose our:
∞  Local spend (goods & services) 

∞  Community donations and investments.

Our local communities, 
page 49.

Our local communities

Perenti is committed to establishing 
open and trusting relationships with the 
communities across the 12 countries and 
four continents we operate within. Further, 
we strive to purchase local goods and 
services, support local businesses and 
employ and train local people. 

In line with this commitment, in FY21 we 
have developed joint ventures partnerships 
at a number of our projects in Africa that 
will see the local communities we operate 
in benefit from our world leading surface 
and underground mining expertise. This 
includes AMAX, a joint venture between 
AMS and local Ghanaian mining services 
company Maxmass at the Iduapriem Mine 
in Ghana and BG Umoja, a joint venture 
between Barminco and local Tanzanian 
contractor Geofields at the Geita Hill Mine 
in Tanzania. These joint ventures will see 
us build capability and capacity in the local 
community while ensuring we maximise 
the use of local suppliers where possible. 

Our state-of-the-art training centre in 
Botswana, that services our Zone 5 project 
and will be used to support training and 
development of our people for our 
Motheo contract, is an example of our 
commitment to train local people to be 
part of our operations. Our entry into 
North America has seen us partner with 
First Nations groups to ensure we 
maximise local participation. 

Other examples of our commitment 
to our local communities during FY21 
include:

∞  87 per cent of our workforce outside 
of Australia being comprised of local 
employees

∞  Perenti’s Community Investment 

program provided a total investment 
of $244,500 to local, regional and 
national programs supporting social 
outcomes

∞  $786.5 million of goods and services 

being procured locally.

∞  Opening of the Botswana Training 

centre located in Maun in September 
2020. The state-of-the-art facility is 
purpose built to train employees in all 
the core competencies required in the 
mining induction process. Some key 
achievements to date include:

∞  376 employees completed the 
cultural awareness training

∞ 

188 employees completed 
induction training 

∞  25 contractors have been 

inducted 

∞ 

trained 45 trades people through 
the Engineering School

∞  Development of AMAX and BG Umoja 
joint ventures to services African 
contracts

∞  Support of local communities during 
the pandemic with the provision 
of important medical and PPE 
supplies including COVID-19 testing 
equipment and ventilators.

In recognition of the fact that mining 
often takes place on Indigenous land, 
in FY21 we plan to develop a group-
wide Indigenous Engagement Strategy. 
This strategy will further help guide 
our approach to creating genuine, 
respectful and productive relationships 
with local groups. 

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Creating value for our communities 

As a global mining services business, 
Perenti’s operations and offices span 
four continents and 12 countries. While 
we remain focused on continued 
growth, it is part of our DNA to ensure 
the communities we operate in benefit 
from our presence and we make a 
lasting economic and social impact 
through developing local people and 
businesses. As a leader in surface and 
underground mining we export our 
Australian mining expertise helping 
build local capability and create 
enduring value and certainty for those 
communities. 

An important part of our localisation 
strategy has been the development 
of joint venture partnerships at a 
number of our projects in Africa that 
will see these local communities benefit 
from our world leading expertise. This 
year we have entered into a number 
of new partnerships including AMAX, 
a joint venture between AMS and local 
Ghanaian mining services company 
Maxmass at the Iduapriem Mine in 

Ghana, and BG Umoja, a joint venture 
between Barminco and local Tanzanian 
contractor Geofields at the Geita Hill 
Mine in Tanzania. These joint ventures 
will see us build capability and capacity 
in the local community while ensuring 
we maximise the use of local suppliers 
where possible. 

In FY21, we recorded an 87 per cent 
local participation rate in our national 
workforce, demonstrating our solid 
commitment to employing local people 
to our operations. In many instances, we 
forged strong partnerships to achieve 
these goals. In British Columbia at Red 
Chris Project our subsidiary Barminco 
provides mining services in partnership 
with the Tahltan Nation Development 
Corporation while we also look to work 
with local Tahltan-operated businesses 
to provide local employment, education, 
training and development initiatives. 
This partnership is not limited to this 
operation and we hope that through 
its initial success there will be scope to 
grow in the future. 

Another example of delivering value to 
the communities we operate in is the 
state-of-the-art training centre we built 
in Botswana, that services our Zone 
5 Project, and will be used to support 
training and development of our people 
for our Motheo contract. To date we 
have trained more than 200 people 
through the centre, helping members 
of the local community become part 
of our operations, providing value and 
certainty to our employees and their 
families while also supporting the local 
economy. 

Perenti’s ongoing success will be based 
upon its ability to deliver safe, reliable 
and highly efficient development and 
production mining services. It will be 
critical for the company to continue to 
build long and lasting relationships with 
a variety of different stakeholders to 
ensure we can deliver on our purpose of 
creating enduring value and certainty.

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Supporting Ronald McDonald House Up All 
Night Walk and Home For Dinner events 

Barminco has been a proud event sponsor of the Ronald 
McDonald House Charities WA Up All Night Walk since 
2019. Barminco employees have relished the volunteering 
and philanthropic opportunities associated with the 
partnership, with key highlights including:

∞ 

15 employees completing the Up All Night 42km 
charity walk, raising funds $43,500 over the past 
two years for the House to support the families with 
seriously ill children.

∞  30 employees volunteering their time at the Barminco 

pit stop, providing food, hydration and encouragement 
to the walkers. 

∞  32 employees participating in the Home for Dinner 

events at Ronald McDonald House, Nedlands, cooking 
meals for families and touring the facility.

C A S E   S T U D Y

Kambalda Amateur Swimming Club – 
Goldfields, Western Australia 

Ausdrill were proud to sponsor the Kambalda Amateur 
Swimming Club to attend the 2021 Country Pennants 
Swimming tournament. The impacts of COVID-19 heavily 
affected the fundraising required to underwrite the travel 
costs associated with attending the tournament, however 
the financial contribution made by Ausdrill allowed all  
12 swimmers and coaches to attend the two-day event  
in Mount Barker. 

A further donation made to the Swimming Club will be 
used to upgrade the shed at the swimming pool, used to 
store the newly acquired diving blocks, marquees and 
swimming equipment.

C A S E   S T U D Y

AMS supports child education in Ghana

AMS donated a Toyota Hilux double cabin pickup to the 
Save The Girl Child Foundation to support female child 
education in Ghana. The charity organisation is committed 
to supporting and promoting vulnerable girls and 
childrens’ rights to education in rural communities.  
The donation was to help the foundation to facilitate its 
daily activities. 

AMS has also trained more than 95 young Ghanaians 
through its sponsorship of apprentice programs for the 
sector.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RO B E R T  CO L E
C H A I R M A N

M A R K N O RW E L L

M A N A G I N G  D I R EC TO R  A N D  C H I E F  E X EC U T I V E  O F F I C E R

A L E X A N D R A  AT K I N S

N O N - E X EC U T I V E D I R EC TO R

A N D R E A H A L L

N O N - E X EC U T I V E  D I R EC TO R

M A R K  H I N E

N O N - E X EC U T I V E D I R EC TO R

T H E L AT E I A N CO C H R A N E
C H A I R M A N

Timothy Longstaff commenced as a Non-Executive Director on 
16 August 2021.

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CORPORATE DIRECTORY

D I R E C T O R S

Robert Cole
Chairman

Mark Norwell
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer 

Alexandra Atkins 

Mark Hine 

Andrea Hall 

Timothy Longstaff

S E C R E TA R I E S

Justine Passaportis

Raj Ratneser

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

Peter Bryant

P R I N C I PA L  R E G I S T E R E D O F F I C E I N AU S T R A L I A

Level 2, 202 Pier Street
Perth Western Australia 6000

S H A R E  R E G I S T E R

Link Market Services Limited
Level 12, QV1 Building, 250 St Georges Terrace
Perth Western Australia 6000 

AU D I T O R

PwC
Level 15, 125 St Georges Terrace
Perth Western Australia 6000 

S O L I C I T O R S

Johnson Winter & Slattery
Level 4, 167 St Georges Terrace
Perth Western Australia 6000 

S T O C K  E XC H A N G E L I S T I N G S

Perenti Global Limited shares are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. 
ASX CODE: PRN 
Perenti Global Limited’s subsidiary USD notes are listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX).

W E B S I T E
perentigroup.com

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F I N A N C I A L   R E P O R T

30 JUNE 2021

C O N T E N T S

Directors’ Report 

Auditor’s Independence Declaration 

Corporate governance statement 

Financial statements
Consolidated statement of profit or loss 
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 to the members 

Shareholder information 

Financials table 

Key dates 

Glossary of terms 

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85
86
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167

169

170

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ABOUT THIS REPORT

These financial statements are consolidated financial 
statements for the Group consisting of Perenti Global Limited 
and its subsidiaries. A list of major subsidiaries is included in 
note 14.
•  The financial statements are presented in Australian currency, 

Australian Dollars.

•  Perenti Global Limited is a company limited by shares, 

incorporated and domiciled in Australia. Its registered office 
and principal place of business is Level 2, 202 Pier Street, 
Perth, Western Australia, 6000.

•  The financial statements were authorised for issue by the 

directors on 24 August 2021. The directors have the power  
to amend and reissue the financial statements.

•  All press releases, financial reports and other information  

are available on our website: perentigroup.com

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FINANCIAL REPORTDIRECTORS’ REPORT

Your directors present their report on the consolidated entity (the “Group”) consisting of Perenti Global Limited (the “Company”) and 
the entities it controlled at the end of, or during, the year ended 30 June 2021.

D I R E C T O R S  A N D CO M PA N Y S E C R E TA RY

The following persons were directors of the Company during the financial year and up to the date of this report (unless indicated 
otherwise):

•  Robert James Cole (Chairman, appointed 8 May 2021)

• 

Ian Howard Cochrane (Chairman, resigned 8 May 2021)

•  Mark Alexander John Norwell (Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer)

•  Terrence John Strapp (resigned 31 December 2020)

•  Mark Andrew Hine

•  Alexandra Clare Atkins

•  Andrea Hall

•  Timothy Longstaff (appointed 16 August 2021)

The Company Secretary Efstratios Gregoriadis resigned as Company Secretary on 4 December 2020 and Justine Passaportis  
was appointed as Company Secretary on 4 December 2020. Raj Ratneser was appointed as the Chief Legal & Risk Officer and  
Joint Company Secretary on 7 April 2021.

Mr Ratneser BCom, LLB, was appointed as the Chief Legal & Risk Officer and Joint Company Secretary in April 2021. Mr Ratneser 
is a senior executive and qualified lawyer with more than 20 years’ national and international experience across legal, commercial, 
governance, risk and internal audit primarily in the resources, engineering and construction industries. Mr Ratneser has served in  
a number of senior leadership and executive roles for a variety of businesses and his experience spans Australia, Africa, UK and  
North America.

Ms Passaportis BCom, LLB, joined the Company in January 2020 as a Senior Legal Counsel and was appointed as the  
Company Secretary in December 2020. Prior to joining the Company Ms Passaportis was a Senior Associate at the global law firm, 
Clifford Chance, and prior to that at Clayton Utz. Ms Passaportis has held various other positions as an in-house legal counsel.

D I V I D E N D S  -  P E R E N T I G L O B A L L I M I T E D

The following table outlines dividends paid/payable to members during the financial year. On 24 August 2021, the directors determined 
a final ordinary dividend of 2.0 cents per share for the year ended 30 June 2021 (2020: 3.5 cents).

Final ordinary unfranked dividend for the year ended 30 June 2020 of 3.5 cents (2019: 3.5) per fully paid 
ordinary share paid on 3 November 2020 (23 October 2019).

Interim ordinary unfranked dividend for the year ended 30 June 2021 of 3.5 cents (2020: 3.5 cents)  
per fully paid share paid on 7 April 2021 (25 March 2020).

21

$’000

20

$’000

24,563

 24,019 

24,707

49,270

 24,024 

 48,043 

*  The Company’s Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) was suspended with effect from, 16 March 2021 until further notice. While the DRP was suspended, participants in the 
DRP received cash dividends including the dividend paid on 7 April 2021. Please refer to ASX announcement dated 22 February 2021 for further details. A copy of the DRP 
rules was attached to Perenti’s ASX announcement released on 6 April 2020.

P R I N C I PA L AC T I V I T I E S A N D R E V I E W O F O P E R AT I O N S

The principal activities for the Group during the year were the provision of surface and underground mining and mining support 
services. Additional information on the principal activities, operations and financial position of the Group and its business strategies and 
prospects is set out in the operating and financial review on pages 2 to 34 of this annual report.

S I G N I F I C A N T   C H A N G E S I N T H E S TAT E O F A F FA I R S

There were no significant changes in the state of affairs of the consolidated entity during the financial year ended 30 June 2021.

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E V E N T S S I N C E T H E E N D O F T H E F I N A N C I A L Y E A R

On 7 July 2021, the Group announced that Sandfire Resources had received its mining licence for the Motheo project in Botswana. 
The licence is one of the two primary conditions required for the finalisation of the Motheo Project. This contract was announced by 
the Group on 9 June 2021 with an estimated contract value of $648 million (at 100% basis) over a 7 year and 3-month term which 
will likely be structured through a joint venture. The Group continues to work collaboratively toward the finalisation of the contract 
with Sandfire which is expected in the near term.

On 9 July 2021, the Group announced the finalisation of its contract with Panoramic Resources Limited for development and 
production works at their Savannah Nickel Project in Western Australia. The finalised contract represents a value of approximately 
$280 million over a four-year contract term which was initially announced on 6 April 2021.

On 19 July 2021, the Group announced the award of a five year contract to its AMS JV AMAX Ltd at AngloGold Ashanti’s Iduapriem 
gold mine in the Western Region of Ghana. The contract value was $470 million (100% share) and is structured through a 60/40 joint 
venture with MAXMASS Limited.

On 23 July 2021, the Group announced the appointment of experienced Sydney-based executive, Mr Timothy Longstaff, as  
Non-Executive Director. Mr Longstaff joined the Board with effect from 16 August 2021.

On 26 July 2021, the Group launched idoba, a new capital light technology-driven service offering available to the mining and 
resources industry. Perenti acquired Sandpit Innovation, Improvement Resources and Optika Solutions to form idoba in accordance 
with its 2025 Strategy.

On 24 August 2021, the directors determined the payment of a final ordinary dividend of 2.0 cents (unfranked) per fully paid share to 
be paid on 20 October 2021 out of retained earnings at 30 June 2021. The financial effect of this transaction has not been brought to 
account at 30 June 2021.

There are no other matters or circumstances that have arisen since the end of the financial year which significantly affected or may 
significantly affect the operations of the Consolidated entity, the results of those operations, or the state of affairs of the Consolidated 
entity in subsequent financial years.

L I K E LY D E V E L O PM E N T S A N D E X P E C T E D R E S U LT S  O F O P E R AT I O N S

Additional comments on expected results of certain operations of the Group are included in this annual report in the operating and 
financial review on pages 2 to 34.

E N V I RO N M E N TA L R E G U L AT I O N

The Group is subject to environmental regulations at its owned and operated facilities (for example our workshops and laboratories). 
Our clients have obligations under environmental regulations and the Group complies with its contractual obligations in this regard. 
The Group is committed to reducing the impact of its operations on the environment and meeting its environmental regulation 
obligations.

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I N F O R M AT I O N   O N  D I R E C T O R S

The following information is current as at the date of this report.

Mr Robert James Cole 
BSc, LLB (Hons)

Non-executive Chairman.  
Age 59

Experience and expertise

Mr Robert Cole was appointed as a non-executive director on 14 July 2018 and was recently 
appointed as Chairman on 8 May 2021.

Mr Cole has over 35 years experience in the energy and resources industry. He was a 
former executive director on the board of Woodside Petroleum Limited and a former 
managing director of Beach Energy Limited. He was also a former Chairman of the Australian 
Petroleum Production and Exploration Association. Prior to joining the oil and gas industry, 
Rob was a partner in the law firm now known as King & Wood Mallesons.

Mr Cole is currently Chairman of Synergy and Chairman of the Western Australian Land 
Information Authority (Landgate).

Mr Cole holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the Australian 
National University in Canberra and is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School 
Advanced Management Program.

Other current directorships

Non-executive director of Iluka Resources Ltd since March 2018.

Former directorships in last 3 years

None.

Special responsibilities

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee since 25 October 2018.
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee since 31 May 2019.
Deputy Chair of the Board from 17 June 2020 to 8 May 2021.
Chairman of the Board since 8 May 2021.

Interests in shares and options

99,831 ordinary shares.

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Mr Ian Howard Cochrane  
BCom, LLB. 

Non-executive director.  
Age 67

Experience and expertise

Mr Ian Howard Cochrane was appointed as a non-executive director and Deputy Chair on 
23 November 2015. Subsequently, on 5 December 2017, Mr Cochrane was appointed as 
Chair of the Board. Mr Cochrane retired from his position as Chairman and non-executive 
director of the Company on 8 May 2021.

Mr Cochrane held degrees in Commerce and Law. He was educated in South Africa and 
immigrated to Australia in 1986. He practised law, specialising in Mergers and Acquisitions, 
in national law firms Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Mallesons Stephen Jaques until 2006 
when he established (with Mr Michael Lishman) the boutique law firm, Cochrane Lishman, 
which was eventually acquired by the global law firm Clifford Chance in early 2011.

Mr Cochrane had a long association with Perenti having provided legal services when the 
Company first floated in 1994. He was regularly voted by his peers as being one of the 
leading M&A lawyers in Australia and retired from the practise of law in December 2013. 
He did not provide legal services to Perenti or any other entities since then.

In July 2021, our business and the wider WA business community were left deeply 
saddened by the loss of our former chairman and stalwart Ian Cochrane following a battle 
with cancer.

Other current directorships

None.

Former directorships in last 3 years

Non-executive director of Dacian Gold Limited from 2016 to May 2021.

Special responsibilities

Chairman of the Board - until 8 May 2021.

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee.

Interests in shares and options

1,086,203 ordinary shares.

Mr Mark Alexander John Norwell 
BE(Hons), MBA, MAICD

Experience and expertise

Mr Norwell was appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on  
17 September 2018.

Managing Director and  
Chief Executive Officer.  
Age 45

Mr Norwell is a highly experienced mining services executive. Prior to joining Perenti, he 
was the Executive General Manager, Strategy & Growth at Thiess Pty Ltd, and a member of 
Thiess’ executive leadership team. Over a 20-year career in the mining services sector he 
has held senior roles with Leighton Contractors, HWE Mining and Macmahon Holdings.

Mr Norwell holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons) degree from the University of 
Western Australia and an Executive MBA from the University of New South Wales.  
He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Other current directorships

Australia-Africa Minerals & Energy Group

Former directorships in last 3 years

None.

Special responsibilities

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Interests in shares and options

262,058 ordinary shares.

2,068,496 LTI rights over ordinary shares, issued.

68,566 STI rights over ordinary shares issued.

Up to a maximum of 271,246 STI rights over ordinary shares granted, not yet issued at  
30 June 2021. 

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Mr Terrence John Strapp 
CPA, SF Fin., MAICD. 

Experience and expertise

Mr Terry Strapp was appointed as a non-executive director on 21 July 2005. Mr Strapp retired 
from his position as non-executive director of the Company on 31 December 2020.

Mr Strapp has extensive experience in banking, finance and corporate risk management and 
has been actively involved in the mining industry for over 30 years. He is a Certified Practising 
Accountant (CPA), a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a 
member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Non-executive director.  
Age 77

Other current directorships

None.

Former directorships in last 3 years

Non-executive director of GR Engineering Limited from 2011 to November 2018.

Special responsibilities

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Interests in shares and options

579,375 ordinary shares.

Mr Mark Andrew Hine  
MAICD, MAusIMM. 

Experience and expertise

Mr Mark Hine was appointed as a non-executive director on 24 February 2015.

Mr Hine is a mining engineer. He graduated from the Western Australia School of Mines and 
is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute 
of Mining and Metallurgy. He has extensive mining experience with over 25 years of senior 
management roles in both surface and underground mining operations.

Mr Hine previously held senior positions in the mining industry as Chief Operating Officer at 
Griffin Mining Ltd, Chief Operating Officer at Focus Minerals Ltd, Chief Operating Officer at 
Golden West Resources Ltd, Executive General Manager Mining at Macmahon Contractors 
Pty Ltd, Chief Executive Officer at Queensland Industrial Minerals Ltd, General Manager at 
Consolidated Rutile Ltd and General Manager Pasminco, Broken Hill / Elura Mines.

Non-executive director.  
Age 63

Other current directorships

None.

Former directorships in last 3 years

None.

Special responsibilities

Chairman of the People and Remuneration Committee.

Interests in shares and options

121,771 ordinary shares.

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I N F O R M AT I O N O N D I R E C T O R S (CO N T I N U E D)

Ms Alexandra Clare Atkins 
BE (Mineral Exploration & Mining 
Geology) Hon BE(Mining)  
MBA (Finance) FIEAust CPEng 
EngExec NER APEC Engineer 
IntPE(Aus) FAusIMM(CP) GAICD 

Non-executive director.  
Age 53

Experience and expertise

Ms Alex Atkins was appointed as a non-executive director on 14 July 2018.

Ms Atkins is also a non-executive director of International Women in Mining (based in 
London), Strandline Resources Limited, Aquirian Limited and a former director of The 
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Alex has over 25 years’ multi-disciplinary, 
multi-commodity experience through the full mining value chain across Australia and PNG  
in roles that find, design and run mines, regulate mines and in the Big Four professional 
services networks.

Ms Atkins’s mine operations roles include: Geologist for Australian Consolidated Minerals 
(Wirralie and Pajingo); Mining Engineer for Mt Isa Mines Ltd (Newlands); Underground Miner/
Airleg Miner for Plutonic Resources (Mt Morgans); Underground Miner, Mining Engineer/ 
Deputy Mine Manager and Geotechnical Engineer for Placer Dome Asia Pacific (Porgera JV, 
Kidston and Osborne); and Mining Engineer for Murchison United (Renison). Alex’s career 
then pivoted to professional services and regulation, including: Senior Mining Engineer for 
AMC Consultants; District Inspector of Mines for the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum; 
Principal Mining Consultant for Optiro and Alternate Futures; Chief Advisor at Sustainability; 
Risk Manager at Deloitte; COO at PETRA Data Science; and MD and Principal at Alex Atkins 
and Associates, which is focused on conformance (board assurance of technical and 
operational risk, mine approvals and compliance) and performance (digital transformation of 
mining).

Ms Atkins holds two Bachelor of Engineering Degrees, from the University of Queensland 
and WA School of Mines, qualifying her as a Mining Engineer, Geotechnical Engineer and 
Geologist. She holds First Class Mine Manager’s Certificates for Western Australia and 
Queensland and has an MBA (Finance) from the Australian Institute of Business. Alex is a 
Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chartered Professional 
Fellow of The AusIMM and Engineers Australia. She was one of 2018’s 100 Global Inspirational 
Women In Mining (WIMUK) and was inducted into the Western Australia Women’s Hall of 
Fame in 2019.

Other current directorships

Non-executive director of Strandline Resources Limited since May 2021.

Non-executive director of Aquirian Limited since April 2021.

Former directorships in last 3 years

None.

Special responsibilities

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee.

Interests in shares and options

40,774 ordinary shares.

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Ms Andrea Hall 
FCA, GAICD, BCom 

Experience and expertise

Ms Andrea Hall was appointed as a non-executive director on 15 December 2019.

Non-executive director.  
Age 54

Ms Hall is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in the financial services 
industry in roles involved in internal audit, risk management, corporate and operational 
governance, external audit, financial management and strategic planning. Ms Hall commenced 
her career at KPMG in 1987, before retiring from the firm in 2012 as a Risk Consulting Partner 
where she serviced industries including mining, mining services, transport, healthcare, 
insurance, property and government.

Ms Hall currently serves as a non-executive director on the boards of several listed and non-
listed entities, including Evolution Mining, the AFL Fremantle Dockers, Pioneer Credit, and the 
Insurance Commission of Western Australia.

Ms Hall holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and is 
also a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand. She served on the WA Council 
for Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand for seven years until 2011, the last year as the 
Chair. Ms Hall has also completed a Masters in Applied Finance (Corporate Finance).

Other current directorships

Non-executive director of Evolution Mining Limited since October 2017.

Non-executive director of Pioneer Credit Limited since November 2016.

Former directorships in last 3 years

Non-executive director of Automotive Holdings Group Limited from May 2018 to  
September 2019.

Non-executive director of Tap Oil Limited from October 2016 to February 2018.

Special responsibilities

Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee since 17 June 2020.

Interests in ordinary shares

90,000 ordinary shares.

Mr Timothy Longstaff  
BEc, FCA, MAICD, F FIN. 

Experience and expertise

Mr Timothy Longstaff was appointed as a non-executive director with effect from  
16 August 2021.

Non-executive Director 
Age 51

Mr Longstaff started his career in the audit division of PriceWaterhouse  
(now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He holds a Bachelor of Economics, is a Fellow of the Institute 
of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand, a Member of the Australian Institute of 
Company Directors, and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

Mr Longstaff had a 25-year career in investment banking, with many years in Managing 
Director and senior executive roles at top-tier global firms. He has been a strategic partner and 
advisor to Boards and CEOs of leading Australian and international companies on numerous 
transformational transactions.

Through his career in Australia and overseas, Mr Longstaff brings a depth of experience in 
strategy formulation, acquisitions and divestments, debt and equity capital markets, and 
investor engagement to asset-intensive industrial companies.

More recently, Mr Longstaff has served as Senior Advisor to the Federal Minister for Finance 
and Leader of the Government in the Senate, and the Federal Minister for Trade, Tourism 
and Investment. Through this experience Mr Longstaff brings valuable global geo-political 
perspectives and insights into the workings of Government.

Other current directorships

None.

Former directorships in last 3 years

None.

Special responsibilities

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee since 16 August 2021.

Interests in ordinary shares

Nil.

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M E E T I N G S  O F D I R E C T O R S
The numbers of meetings of the Company’s board of directors and of each board committee held during the year ended 30 June 2021 
and the numbers of meetings attended by each director were:

FULL MEETINGS
OF DIRECTORS

MEETINGS OF COMMIT TEES

AUDIT & RISK

REMUNERATION

Robert James Cole - Chairman

Ian Howard Cochrane

Mark Andrew Hine

Terrence John Strapp

Alexandra Clare Atkins

Mark Alexander Norwell

Andrea Hall

A B

16 16

13 13

16 16

8 9

16 16

16 16

16 16

A B

4 4

3 3 

* *

2 2

* *

* *

4 4

A B

4 4

3 3

4 4

* *

4 4

* *

* *

A = Number of meetings attended
B = Number of meetings held during the time the director held office or was a member of the committee during the year
* = Not a member of the relevant committee

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RE MUNE RATION REPORT

Dear Shareholders,

On behalf of the Board, I am pleased to present Perenti Global Limited’s (Perenti or Group) Remuneration Report for the financial year 
to 30 June 2021.

The report details our Remuneration Framework for key management personnel (KMP), including how this framework is linked to our 
business strategy and the remuneration outcomes that were provided to KMP during the 2021 financial year.

FY21 performance 

The company continued to perform solidly through significant external headwinds in FY21, which included the COVID-19 global 
pandemic where we continued to operate internationally with challenges and impost on our people, immigration restrictions, a 
tightening labour market due to increased commodity prices and foreign exchange impacts. The Board and Management are grateful 
for the efforts of our employees who have had to spend multiple periods in quarantine in accordance with government requirements. 
Like FY20, the company did not access Job Keeper support although some businesses within the Group would have been eligible. 

Despite these significant external headwinds Management have continued to position the company for long term value. This is 
evidenced by our financial performance remaining solid and continued execution of the 2025 Strategy, including addressing legacy 
loss making contracts and winning and mobilising new work in quality mining jurisdictions. Some strong outcomes in FY21 include:

•  Tender pipeline remains very healthy including continued expansion in North America and our recent announcement of Motheo  

in Botswana.  

• 

Successfully exited the Yanfolila project and, combined with exiting the Boungou project, delivered $88 million in cash back to the 
business. 

•  Positive progress on critical risk management which includes the next level of critical control verifications aimed at supporting 

frontline workers in managing critical controls at the task level.

•  Operating model alignment to a consolidated mining organisation plus reduction in the size of the Group Executive team by  

two FTE.

However, the Board recognises the following:

• 

• 

the shareholder experience has been negatively impacted by the combined operational challenges due to COVID-19,  
tight labour market and strengthening Australian dollar, particularly in the second half of FY21; and

tragically, a fall of ground incident at the Obuasi Mine in Ghana on the 18 of May resulted in the tragic loss of life of  
Daniel Nuertey-Kwao Quaynortey who was employed through our joint venture, Underground Mining Alliance Limited. 

FY21 remuneration outcomes overview

The Board continues to be very proud of the capacity and resilience of the Executive Team to weather significant events which are 
exacerbated by our global complexity. The Board is aware of the significant demand in the resource industry with high commodity 
prices driving new external opportunities at all levels. As such the Board has taken a decisive approach in applying the Remuneration 
Framework to remunerate, retain and engage our executives to deliver on Perenti’s strategic vision and plan, while being cognisant of 
FY21 business performance. 

Executive KMP fixed remuneration outcomes 

When the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (Managing Director) commenced in September 2018 his remuneration 
was set at the size and complexity of the Ausdrill business, with an agreement that if he grew into the role and met expectations, his 
remuneration would be adjusted to be commensurate with the complexity of the business and peers in the mining services industry. 
The changes in complexity have included the acquisition of Barminco which included the consolidation of the AUMS joint venture and 
the portfolio expansion into Botswana and North America. Following an extensive review of the Managing Director’s remuneration 
utilising external and peer market data, including an independent remuneration consultants review, the Board has approved an  
increase in Mark Norwell’s fixed remuneration to $1,110,000 effective from 1 October 2020. 

The Board viewed this level of increase to be necessary to ensure the Managing Director’s remuneration remained competitive, 
reviewing the benchmarking of remuneration packages of organisations that have similar size and complexity to Perenti. The Board 
recognises that the high degree of complexity of Perenti operating 58 projects in 12 countries across four continents with a workforce 
of 7,881, is unique compared to peer mining services and owner operator companies, many who only focus on Australian based 
projects. Additionally, whilst the Board considered market capitalisation and revenue when determining peers for benchmarking 
purposes, it is appropriate to consider a broader potential peer group, including other mining services companies and senior executives 
of major global mining companies who could compete with Perenti for the services of its Managing Director. Therefore, the Board 
considers it has appropriately used its judgement to remunerate the Managing Director.

In addition, following the combination of the CEO Surface and CEO Underground roles during the financial year, and reviewing 
external and peer market data, the CEO Mining’s fixed remuneration was increased to $962,800 to similarly compensate for the 
expanded size and complexity of the CEO Mining role (an overall saving of $577,400 based on the fixed remuneration of the previous 
two roles combined).

It is not anticipated that the Managing Director’s fixed remuneration or incentive opportunity will be amended until a reasonable and 
sustained improvement in share price performance is experienced. 

To confirm, there were no adjustments for the Executive KMP’s FY21 incentive opportunities. 

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Short term incentive (STI) remuneration outcomes 

The FY21 STI scorecard was reviewed by the Board and, following that review, a separation of the business and individual outcomes 
was approved. The implication of this is that the individual performance of each Executive KMP, as assessed by the Board in line with 
Perenti’s Remuneration Strategy and principles ensuring a link between pay and performance and shareholder alignment, will now 
act as a modifier to the business outcomes. This separation has provided the Board with an improved ability to consider the Executive 
KMP’s individual performance and is in step with market leading companies approach to STI outcomes. 

The Board has reviewed the FY21 scorecard outcomes in line with the Remuneration Framework principles and aligned remuneration 
outcomes to business performance and stakeholder experience. 

More detail on the outcomes applicable to the FY21 STI are outlined below:

•  Due to the tragic fatality of our Underground Mining Alliance (UMA), employee the work-related fatality gateway for the safety 

metrics were not met for the Underground scorecard. 

•  The overall Group Financial EBIT(A) metric, which was introduced in FY21 over NPAT to ensure that there was a focus on the 
matters that management can control that lead to long term success for Perenti, did not meet the threshold performance 
requirements set at the beginning of the financial year. This removed the business outcome opportunity of 40 per cent for the 
Managing Director and CFO, and 20 per cent for the CEO Mining. 

At a high level, recognising the shareholder experience over FY21, the Board has taken three clear and decisive actions with respect to 
STI outcomes:

1. 

2. 

The fatality resulted in the safety gateway for the Underground scorecards not being met.  However, the Board has used its 
discretion to apply the safety gateway across the Group. This resulted in a 20 per cent reduction in STI opportunity. 

The Board considered the overall STI outcomes for Executive KMP in the context of company performance and shareholder 
experience and has decided to apply an additional 10 per cent downward discretion to the final calculated STI award 
outcome. The Board believes the downward discretion represents a fair and balanced approach. 

3.  As a one-off response and to strengthen shareholder alignment, the Board has required Executive KMP to accept half of the 
STI award as Rights in FY21, compared to the usual practice of STI awards delivered 1/3 as STI Rights. STI Rights will continue 
to be deferred for 12 months.

The application of the Boards actions led to a final outcome for the Managing Director of 33 per cent of maximum STI opportunity,  
31 per cent for the Chief Financial Officer and 52 per cent for the CEO Mining. From a maximum opportunity perspective, the Executive 
KMP’s have forfeited on average 61 per cent of their STI award.  

The changes made and FY21 STI outcomes are provided in detail in the accompanying report.

Long term incentive (LTI) remuneration outcomes 

There was no LTI due to vest in FY21. The first Perenti LTI award will be tested for performance for the period to 30 June 2021. 

Board remuneration outcomes 

Fee levels for the Board roles were not adjusted for FY21 and will not be adjusted for FY22.

Looking forward

The Board understands the need to continue maturing the Remuneration Framework to ensure we attract, retain and appropriately 
reward our executives. As such, it has engaged an external remuneration consultancy to support the review of the current STI and LTI 
plans to ensure alignment with current market practice and shareholder expectations. This review will delay the Executive KMP FY22 
LTI invitation process, and as such there is no resolution at the AGM for the Managing Director’s  FY22 Performance Rights.  
The Managing Director’s FY21 STI Rights will be awarded as per current process.

The Board has engaged extensively to understand the feedback provided with respect to the 17.59 per cent vote ‘against’ the 
Remuneration Report at the FY20 Annual General Meeting. The actions taken in FY21 have been in response to that feedback  
as well as ensuring a balanced approach to remuneration that seeks to protect long term shareholder value

We thank you for your support and we look forward to welcoming you to our AGM.

Mark Hine
Chairperson, People and Remuneration Committee

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1.  Introduction

The Directors present the Perenti FY21 Remuneration Report, outlining key aspects of our remuneration principles, framework, and 
remuneration awarded this year. 

The Remuneration Report is structured as follows:

1. 

Introduction

2.  KMP for FY21

3.  Remuneration Strategy and Principles

4.  Remuneration Framework

5.  FY21 Executive KMP Remuneration Framework 

6.  Outcomes in FY21

7.  Remuneration Governance

8.  Contractual Arrangements with Executive KMP

9.  Non-executive Director Remuneration 

10.  Additional Statutory Information

2.  KMP for FY21

The tables below confirm all the KMP covered by the FY21 Remuneration Report:

Non-executive Directors (NEDs)

Robert Cole

Mark Hine

Alexandra Atkins

Andrea Hall

Non-executive Director
Chairperson
Deputy Chair of the Board
Audit and Risk Committee – Member
People and Remuneration Committee – Member

Non-executive Director
People and Remuneration Committee – Chair

Non-executive Director 
People and Remuneration Committee – Member

Non-executive Director 
Audit and Risk Committee – Chair

Executive Key Management Personnel (KMP)

Mark Norwell

Managing Director (MD)

Peter Bryant

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Paul Muller

Chief Executive Officer – Underground ISG
Acting Chief Executive Officer – Surface ISG

Chief Executive Officer – Mining ISG

Former KMP

Ian Cochrane

Chairperson
Audit and Risk Committee – Member 
People and Remuneration Committee – Member

Terence Strapp

Non-executive Director
Audit and Risk Committee – Member

Scott Winter

Chief Executive Officer – Surface ISG

Term

Full year
Part year (appointed on 8 May 2021)
Part year (until 8 May 2021)
Full year
Full year

Full year

Full year

Full year

Term

Full year

Full year

Part year (until 26 November 2020)
Part year (from 21 September 2020 to  
26 November 2020)
Part year (from 26 November 2020)

Term

Part year (retired on 8 May 2021)

Part year (retired on 31 December 2020)

Part year (ceased to be considered a KMP 
from 21 September 2020)

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3.  Remuneration Strategy and Principles

Outlined below is Perenti’s Remuneration approach.

Perenti’s remuneration strategy aims to enable the achievement of the Company’s business objectives, and reward Executive KMP where its company 
strategy is achieved. To achieve the Company’s business objectives, the framework is guided by the following principles in the table below.

Remuneration Strategy 

Remuneration Principles 

Attract and  
Retain 

Shareholder 
Alignment

Pay-For-
Performance

Market Competitive

Simple and 
Transparent 

Enable Perenti to 
attract, motivate and 
retain talented and high 
performing employees 
that can execute and 
deliver its business 
objectives.

Align remuneration 
with the shareholder 
experience and long-
term value generation.

Linking remuneration 
to the performance of 
the Company and the 
individual.

Provide remuneration, 
which is competitive, 
relative to the market it 
is operating within.

Can be easily explained 
and understood by 
internal and external 
stakeholders.

EXECUTIVE KMP REMUNERATION FRAMEWORK

Element

Total Fixed 
Remuneration 
(TFR)

Short-term Incentive 
(STI)

Long-term Incentive 
(LTI)

How is it delivered

Cash

Cash and equity

Equity

How it works

Provided as cash and statutory 
superannuation contributions

For FY21, Award payment is 
provided as one half in cash and 
one half as STI Rights deferred for 
12 months 

Award outcome is calculated as 
business outcomes x individual 
STI modifier

STI Rights are subject to malus 
and clawback

Provided as Performance 
Rights subject to a three-year 
performance period

Measured against two equally 
weighted performance measures

Subject to malus and clawback

How is it positioned

Positioned at the 50th percentile 
of comparative benchmarking 
data

Target Total Reward including TFR, STI and LTI at target outcomes is 
positioned at the 62.5th percentile of comparative market data

What it achieves

Allows us to attract and retain 
key talent to deliver on business 
objectives

Incentivises strong performance 
to deliver on the key business 
priorities through variable,  
at-risk payments

Align reward with the shareholder 
experience and long-term value 
generation

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4.  Remuneration Framework 

With a continuing maturity of the application of the Remuneration Framework and in response to the organisational changes 
during the year, the following updates to the remuneration approach were made as they related to FY21 outcomes.

FY20 APPROACH

CHANGE IN FY21

ALIGNMENT TO REMUNERATION PRINCIPLES AND 
RATIONALE

ADJUSTMENTS WITHIN 
THE REMUNERATION 
FRAMEWORK 

FY21 TOTAL FIXED 
REMUNERATION

2019 Remuneration 
Review adjustments as 
reported in the 2020 
annual report

2020 Remuneration Review adjustments 
to Executive KMP were made effective 1 
October 2020. 

The adjustment to the MD’s TFR was as 
follows:

•  MD TFR increased from $925,000 to 

$1,110,000.

Adjustments to other Executive KMP 
included:

•  CFO TFR increased from $550,000 

to $560,000; and

•  CEO Underground TFR increased 
from $810,000 to $850,200.

The following TFR increase was provided 
to the CEO Underground on promotion  
to the CEO Mining role effective  
26 November 2020:

• 

TFR increased from $850,200 to 
$962,800.

There was no change to the incentive 
opportunities as a percentage of TFR for 
the Executive KMP.

The FY21 STI scorecard has been updated 
to include a separate business outcome 
scorecard which is then modified by 
individual performance.

STI SCORECARD 

The STI was measured 
against a balanced 
scorecard made up of 
business and individual 
KPIs

SAFET Y MEASURES

No second leading 
safety metric

Introduction of a critical control 
verification completion KPI as a second 
leading safety metric.

FINANCIAL MEASURES

NPAT

EBIT(A)

AT TRACT AND RETAIN, MARKET COMPETITIVE

Further to the Chairperson’s letter, external 
benchmarking was undertaken to determine the 
MD’s TFR adjustment, reviewing the median of a 
comparator group comprised of organisations that 
have similar size and complexity to Perenti and 
Mining Services peers. The TFR adjustment gives 
regard to the size, geographic reach (over 50% of 
Perenti’s revenue comes from international sources) 
and complexity of the Company, as well as the need 
to keep the MD’s remuneration competitive for 
retention purposes.

It is not expected that the MD’s TFR will be increased 
in FY22 unless there is a sustained improvement in 
share price and stakeholder experience.

Following Scott Winter stepping down as CEO 
Surface, this role was combined with the CEO 
Underground role to form one CEO Mining role. 
The TFR adjustment gives regard to the increased 
size and complexity of the combined role. As 
mentioned in the People and Remuneration 
Committee Chairperson’s letter, this resulted in an 
overall reduction of $577,400 based on the fixed 
remuneration of the previous two roles combined.

PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE, SIMPLE AND TRANSPARENT, 
MARKET COMPETITIVE

The update provides the Board with an improved 
ability to consider the Executive KMP’s individual 
performance regarding ‘what’ the individual achieved 
through their Individual KPI’s and ‘how’ the individual 
achieved in regard to their behaviours as aligned to 
the Perenti Principles.

PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE

The safety metric update relates to the continued 
focus on our 2025 objectives of nil life changing 
events, which is supported by the introduction and 
considerable focus on managing critical risks.

PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE, SHAREHOLDER ALIGNMENT, 
SIMPLE AND TRANSPARENT, MARKET COMPETITIVE

EBIT(A) measures our core financial performance as 
delivered by management irrespective of tax policy 
and enterprise capital structure.

The use of EBIT(A) is the most appropriate measure 
of financial performance for all Executive KMP as it 
ensures focus only on what they are responsible for 
and in control of delivering.

Further, as a business with an inorganic growth 
strategy, the removal of amortisation is important to 
encourage delivering on that growth strategy.

We continue to use EBIT(A) as a measure 
of organisational success in our investor 
communications and it is appropriate that our STI 
plan is aligned with that.

 See section 5 for more detail. 

Perenti has engaged an external remuneration consultancy group to provide an all-encompassing review on the design and 
implementation of the Remuneration Framework’s variable remuneration plans (STI and LTI) with reference to current practices of 
the Company and practices evident in the market. 

The review will seek to improve the current variable Remuneration Framework regarding attracting and retaining key Executives 
and Senior Managers. Any outcomes from the review will have full details disclosed in next year’s remuneration report.

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5.  FY21 Executive KMP Remuneration Framework 

The remuneration packages of Executive KMP are comprised of fixed remuneration and variable ‘at-risk’ remuneration in the form of  
short-term incentive (STI) and long-term incentive (LTI) as presented in the remuneration strategy and principles section of this report.

a.  Remuneration mix

The remuneration mix for Perenti’s Executive KMP at target opportunity levels as at the end of FY21 is represented below: 

MANAGING DIRECTOR

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MINING

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

FY21 Target Remuneration

$966,000 
42% AT RISK

$2,331 ,000 
52% AT RISK

$1 ,805,250 
47% AT RISK

$

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

Fixed remuneration

STI (Cash)

STI (STI rights)

LTI (50% of face value)

b.  Executive KMP remuneration components 

Total Fixed Remuneration (TFR)

DESCRIPTION 

APPROACH

A competitive level of TFR is offered to attract and retain high quality and experienced Executive KMP. TFR comprises 
of all fixed remuneration including statutory superannuation contributions. 

TFR is reviewed annually and on promotion to ensure that it is competitive. The Company targets the median of the 
relevant market. The relevant market peer group will take into consideration one or more of the following:

Peer mining services companies; and/or

• 
•  Companies with market capitalisation and/or annual revenue in a range comparable to Perenti. 

FY21 Short-term Incentive (STI)

DESCRIPTION 

Executive KMPs are eligible to participate in the annual STI plan, which comprises a portion of their variable 
remuneration and is subject to performance measures. The STI performance outcome is based on a business 
outcome scorecard, which includes a mix of safety, financial and growth measures, that is multiplied by an 
individual modifier. 

STI AWARD 
OPERATION

The Executive KMPs business outcomes scorecard comprise of a mix of financial and non-financial measures. 
All measures have a threshold, target and stretch level of achievement. The weighting of each business outcome 
metric is then applied to its performance, with the total equalling the business outcome.

The business outcome is then multiplied by an individual modifier (with a range from zero to 1.5 times but not 
exceeding maximum STI opportunity) which reflects what the individual achieved through their Individual KPI’s  
and how the individual achieved these KPI’s in terms of their behaviours as aligned to the Perenti Principles. 

The operation of the STI award is demonstrated through the below graphic:

BUSINESS OUTCOME

INDIVIDUAL MODIFIER

STI AWARD

0% - 200%

Target 100%

0 to x 1.5 impact

Up to maximum  

STI opportunity

The Board retains absolute discretion with respect to the targets and outcomes assessed under the STI plan.

Should a workplace related fatality occur the relevant safety portion of the scorecard is foregone by the relevant 
scorecard. It will be at Board discretion if applied to other scorecards.

Financial year

MD: 100% of TFR
CFO: 70% of TFR
CEO Mining: 100% of TFR 

GATEWAYS

PERFORMANCE 
PERIOD 

MA XIMUM STI 
OPPORTUNIT Y 

STI AWARD  
DELIVERY

For FY21, one half is delivered in cash and one half is delivered in STI Rights at the end of the performance period. The STI 
Rights vest 12 months after their grant date. 

Any STI Rights that are provided to the Managing Director are subject to shareholder approval as per ASX Listing Rule 10.14

ALLOCATION 
METHODOLOGY  
(STI RIGHTS ONLY)

The deferred STI Rights will be allocated on a face value basis. This is calculated as the STI Rights opportunity ($) 
divided by the 10-day volume weighted average price (VWAP) of the Company’s shares up to and including the end 
of the performance period, which is the 30th June 2021.

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b.   Executive KMP remuneration components (continued) 

CESSATION OF 
EMPLOYMENT

Typically, if employment ceases before the end of the performance period, the Executive KMP foregoes any STI award for 
the current performance period which they would have otherwise been entitled. 

STI Rights that have been awarded will become unrestricted in the usual course unless the participant is deemed to be a 
bad leaver as defined by the Plan Rules. 

Notwithstanding the above, the Board retains absolute discretion to treat STI awards and vesting as it sees fit on cessation 
of employment.

MALUS/CL AWBACK

In circumstances of fraud, dishonesty or gross misconduct by the participant, or breach of duties or obligations by the 
participant, the Board has the ability to:

• 
• 

lapse all unvested STI awards (malus); and
require the individual to repay a portion of any STI awards which have vested (clawback). 

c.  FY21 Long-term Incentive (LTI)

DESCRIPTION 

The Company continue the Performance Rights plan that was introduced in FY19. Under this scheme annual grants 
will be made to eligible employees (including all Executive KMP) as part of their variable remuneration and are 
subject to performance measures. 

As discussed, Perenti has engaged an external remuneration consultancy group to review the LTI plan for FY22. 
The ROACE performance measure is under review at this time. Any additional outcomes from the review will be 
disclosed in next year’s remuneration report.

PERFORMANCE   
PERIOD

MA XIMUM LTI 
OPPORTUNIT Y 

Three (3) years, commencing on 1 July 2020.

MD: 120% of TFR
CFO: 75% of TFR 
CEO Mining: 75% of TFR

LTI DELIVERY 

The LTI will be wholly delivered in Performance Rights. 

Any Performance Rights that are provided to the Managing Director are subject to shareholder approval as per  
ASX Listing Rule 10.14

The LTI will be granted on a face value basis. This is calculated as the LTI opportunity ($) divided by the 10 day 
volume weighted average price (VWAP) of the company’s shares prior to the commencement date of the 
performance period.

The performance measures are aligned to shareholder returns and the 2025 business strategy. 

ALLOCATION 
METHODOLOGY

PERFORMANCE 
MEASURES 

Relative Total Shareholder Return (TSR) (50%) 

The vesting metrics are as follows:

TSR GROWTH AS AGAINST THE TSR BENCHMARK
Below Median 

% OF PERFORMANCE RIGHTS THAT WILL VEST
0%

Median 

50%

Median to 75th percentile 

Straight-line vesting between 50% and 100%

75th percentile and above

100%

The peer group for the relative TSR measure includes AJ Lucas Group Limited; Austin Engineering Limited, Boart 
Longyear Limited, CIMIC Group Limited, Decmil Group Limited, Downer EDI Limited, Emeco Holdings Limited, GR 
Engineering Services Limited, Imdex Limited, Lycopodium Limited, MACA Limited, Macmahon Holdings Limited, 
Monadelphous Group Limited, NRW Holdings Limited, SRG Global Limited and Swick Mining Services Limited.

Return on average capital employed (ROACE) (50%) 

The vesting metrics are as follows (noting that EBIT will be normalised to exclude non-recurring items):

ROACE PERFORMANCE OVER PERFORMANCE PERIOD
Less than 14.5% ROACE over  
Performance Period

14.5% ROACE over Performance Period.

Between 14.5% and 19% ROACE over 
Performance Period

Greater than 19% ROACE over  
Performance Period

% OF PERFORMANCE RIGHTS THAT WILL VEST
0%

30%

Straight-line vesting between  
30% and 100%

100%

The Board retains absolute discretion with respect to the targets and outcomes assessed under the LTI plan.

CESSATION OF 
EMPLOYMENT

Typically, if employment ceases before the end of any LTI performance periods, the KMP foregoes any 
Performance Rights for the performance periods which they would have otherwise been entitled. 

Notwithstanding the above, the Board retains absolute discretion to treat LTI awards and vesting as it sees fit on 
cessation of employment.

MALUS/CL AWBACK

In circumstances of fraud, dishonesty or gross misconduct by the participant, or breach of duties or obligations by 
the participant, the Board has the ability to:

• 
• 

lapse all unvested LTI awards (malus); and 
require the individual to repay a portion of any LTI awards which have vested (clawback). This may occur via a 
sale of shares allocated under the LTI plan. 

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6.  Outcomes in FY21

a.  Company performance

The Company is conscious of the need to link remuneration to performance. The table below sets out a summary of 
information which provides details of performance measures used for the Executive KMP which are all measures used in the 
STI or LTI plan. 

Table 1 – Company Performance FY17 – FY21

Sales revenue

Underlying EBIT (A) ^

Operating profit before income tax *

(Loss)/Profit after tax attributable to equity holders

(Loss)/Profit after tax

Share price at start of year ($ per share)

Share price at end of year ($ per share)

Dividends paid / payable

Basic (loss)/earnings (cents per share) from continuing operations

Diluted (loss)/earnings (cents per share) from continuing operations

Total recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR)

^ Non IFRS Measure  | * Does not include impairment expense

21

$000

20

$000

19

$000

18

$000

17

$000

2,087,542

2,046,058 1,638,392

866,281

762,566

170,787

211,708

180,707

22,369

107,146

268,554

(55,140)

(52,303)

1.16

0.67

23,837

181,326

27,555

182,281

1.83

1.16

1.84

1.83

86,823

74,079

61,050

61,050

1.84

1.84

68,872

44,622

31,201

31,201

0.72

1.84

49,270

48,043

42,602

19,855

6,246

(7.8)

(7.8)

5.1

3.5

3.5

4.9

30.0

29.8

4.5

16.9

16.6

3.5

10.1

9.8

6.0

b.  FY21 STI business outcomes

The STI award incentivises Executive and Senior Leaders performance to deliver on the key business priorities to ensure 
success in the current financial year and future years. These business outcomes are a balance of financial and non-financial 
performance measures that are within the control of the Executive KMP. Table 2 summarises the performance versus target 
for the FY21 STI scorecard business outcomes for the Executive KMP, with additional details on the performance measures 
described below.

Table 2 – FY21 STI business outcomes for the Executive KMP

CATEGORY

PERFORMANCE   
MEASURE

WEIGHTING -
MD AND CFO

WEIGHTING 
CEO MINING THRESHOLD TARGET

STRETCH

FURTHER DETAIL

SAFET Y

FINANCIAL 
PERFORMANCE

TRIFR

% of ‘above the line’ 
actions from SPI 
investigations

Group Critical 
Control Verification 
completion

5%

5%

5% 

5%

10%

10%

Underlying Group 
EBIT(A)

40%

20%

Underlying 
Underground ISG 
EBIT(A)

0%

20%

FINANCIAL   
STABILIT Y

Group EBITDA Cash 
Conversion

20%

20%

GROWTH

Group work in  
hand ratio

20%

20%

 FY21 Outcome

Fatality gateway was not met
TRIFR was performing under threshold 
performance

Fatality gateway was not met 
Metric did perform at stretch 
performance

Fatality gateway was not met.
Completion rate was at target 
performance.

Did not met threshold. 
Underlying EBIT(A) $166.3M based on 
Perenti’s net interest in subsidiaries 
achieved against a $188.6M target.

Above target to stretch performance. 
Underlying EBIT(A) $196.9M based on 
Perenti’s net interest in subsidiaries 
achieved against a $173.7M target.

Achieved 105%  providing above 
stretch performance.

Achieved above threshold 
performance with a 2.09 ratio against 
a 2.16 target.

The measures used for the STI differ between the Managing Director and CFO and the CEO Mining in respect to the 
operational focus of the CEO Mining. The CEO Mining was assessed on his role as CEO Underground for FY21. This is to 
appropriately align the performance of each participant in their role with the overall success of the Company.

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b.   FY21 STI outcomes (continued) 

 Additional Descriptions of FY21 STI business outcome measures

MEASURE

WEIGHTING

FURTHER DETAIL

TOTAL RECORDABLE 
INJURY FREQUENCY RATE 
(TRIFR)*

GROUP % OF ‘ABOVE THE 
LINE’ ACTIONS FROM 
SERIOUS POTENTIAL 
INCIDENT (SPI) 
INVESTIGATIONS*

GROUP CRITICAL 
CONTROL VERIFICATION 
COMPLETION*

UNDERLYING GROUP 
EARNINGS BEFORE 
INTEREST AND 
DEPRECIATION, BUT AFTER 
AMORTISATION (EBIT(A)) *

EBITDA CASH CONVERSION

WORK IN HAND RATIO 
OF SECURED REVENUE AT 
THE END OF FY21 TO FY21 
BUDGET REVENUE

5%

5%

10%

40%

20%

20%

A TRIFR metric ensures a strong safety culture is enforced. This measure aims to ensure there 
is a substantial improvement in safety outcomes, compared to the prior year.
In addition, this component is subject to a ‘fatality’ gateway. Where a work-related fatality 
occurs during the performance period, no payment will be made under this component. 

This is a leading safety metric, to reinforce the importance of learning and implementing 
robust controls to prevent recurrence of incidents and improve safety.  
An above the line action refers to engineering, substitution, isolation or elimination control 
actions under the hierarchy of control. 
In addition, this component is subject to a ‘fatality’ gateway. Where a work-related fatality 
occurs during the performance period, no payment will be made under this component.

A metric to ensure a strong program and culture of managing critical risks is developed and 
embedded. This measure aims to ensure that operational leaders are actively verifying critical 
controls in the field with workgroups whilst they are undertaking critical risk activities. 
In addition, this component is subject to a ‘fatality’ gateway. Where a work-related fatality 
occurs during the performance period, no payment will be made under this component.

The use of EBIT(A) ensures that the majority of the individual’s STI is aligned to the Company’s 
financial performance that is within the control of the executive.
It aims to build a pay-for-performance culture and ensure executive accountability for the 
Company’s performance. 

The percentage of EBITDA converted to cash. 
This metric evaluates the efficiency of the company’s operations and management.

This component measures the portion contractually remaining on executed contracts against 
revenue to ensure a strong and robust growth pipeline. 
A qualitative assessment will be made on the quality of the contract terms as well as the 
quantitative assessment. 

*   For the CEO Mining, this is based on the performance of Underground against the certain metric rather than Group outcomes. For the EBIT(A) measure,  

half of the 40% of the EBIT(A) measure is based on Group outcomes and half is based on Underground outcomes.

c.  FY21 individual modifier outcome for Executive KMP

In addition to the business outcome scorecard, Executive KMP have their individual performance assessed by the Board based on:

• 

Individual performance measures for their area of responsibility that are set at the start of the year and reviewed on a 
regular basis, including the outcomes discussed in the People and Remuneration Committee Chairperson’s letter. 
•  How they delivered against their performance measures, which takes into consideration demonstrated leadership 

attributes and behaviours as aligned with our principles and 2025 business strategy. 

This approach ensures that safeguards are in place to protect against the risk of unintended and unjustified STI award 
outcomes.

The FY21 individual outcomes for Executive KMP ranged from 125% to 135% as per Table 3.

As discussed in the Chairperson’s letter, the Board has applied a further 10% downward discretion to the calculated FY21 STI 
outcomes.

d.  FY21 overall FY21 STI outcomes 

The overall FY21 STI outcome as determined through the Board’s assessment of the business outcomes and application of the 
individual modifier is represented in Table 3.

Table 3 – overall FY21 STI award outcomes for the Executive KMP

EXECUTIVE KMP

MA XIMUM STI 
OPPORTUNIT Y 

BUSINESS 
OUTCOME
(A)

INDIVIDUAL 
MODIFIER  
(B)

OVERALL STI  
OUTCOME   
OF TARGET
(A X B) (1)

CALCUL ATED 
STI  
AWARDED

FINAL STI 
AWARD 
AFTER BOARD 
DISCRETION

STI  
CASH 
PORTION

DEFERRED 
STI RIGHTS 
PORTION  
(2)

PERCENT OF 
MA XIMUM STI 
AWARDED

PERCENT OF 
MA XIMUM STI 
FORFEITED

$

Mark Norwell (MD) 1,110,000

Peter Bryant (CFO)

392,000 

%

54.4

54.4

Paul Muller (CEO 
Mining)

962,800

89.5

(1) Target is 50% of maximum opportunity.

%

135

125

130

%

$

$

$

$

73.4

407,592

366,833

183,416

183,416

68.0

133,280

119,952

59,976

59,976

116.4

560,109

504,098

252,049

252,049

%

33

31

52

%

67

69

48

(2) For FY21, one half of the STI award is deferred into STI Rights that will be granted around October 2021 and will be eligible to vest into Perenti shares 12 months 

later subject to Board approval.

e.  FY21 LTI outcomes

No LTI was due to vest in FY21. The Performance Rights issued for the FY19 LTIP are eligible to vest following their associated 
Performance Period ending 30 June 2021.

f.  Statutory disclosure of FY21 Executive KMP remuneration 

The table has been prepared in accordance with relevant accounting standards reflecting the remuneration for each  
Executive KMP that relates to their services in FY21. Where applicable, remuneration for Executive KMP has been pro-rated  
for the period they served as a KMP.

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7.  Remuneration Governance

Board

Approves the overall Executive KMP remuneration framework, Executive KMP 
remuneration levels and Non-executive Director remuneration, having regard to the 
People and Remuneration Committee’s recommendations.

People and Remuneration Committee 

The Committee reviews and determines our Remuneration Framework annually to 
ensure it remains aligned to business needs and meets our remuneration principles.

Management

Provides the People and Remuneration Committee with the required information to 
assist with remuneration decisions and recommendations. Communicates with external 
remuneration consultants to ensure the People and Remuneration Committee has all 
the necessary information. 

External Stakeholder Engagement

Consultation with proxy advisors and 
institutional investors to ensure external 
feedback is received.

External Remuneration Consultants

From time to time, the People and 
Remuneration Committee may engage 
external remuneration consultants to 
inform its views. 

SW Corporate and Godfrey Remuneration Group were engaged by the People and Remuneration Committee as external 
remuneration advisors. However, neither were required to provide any remuneration recommendations during FY21.

8.  Contractual Arrangements with Executive KMP

Remuneration and other terms of employment for Executive KMP are formalised in service agreements. A summary of the terms of 
employment as of the end of FY21 are presented below. 

Table 5 – Employment contracts 

NAME

Mark Norwell (MD)

Peter Bryant (CFO)

Paul Muller (CEO Mining)

NOTICE PERIOD

TFR

DURATION OF SERVICE 
AGREEMENT

BY EXECUTIVE

BY COMPANY

SEVERANCE PAYMENT   
ENTITLEMENT

$1,110,000

$560,000

$962,800

Ongoing

6 months

6 months

No entitlement

Ongoing

3 months

3 months

No entitlement

Ongoing

3 months

3 months

No entitlement

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9.  Non-executive Director Remuneration 

a.  Non-executive Director fees

Non-executive Directors’ fees are set at a level which enables the attraction and retention of experienced and skilled Board 
members to ensure an effective oversight role over the Company’s operations. Fee levels aim to reflect the demands which are 
made on, and the responsibilities of, the Directors.

Non-executive Directors’ fees are reviewed annually by the Board to ensure fee levels are appropriate and in-line with the 
market. The Board fees were increased effective from 1 January 2020 and no further review was provided for FY21. The current 
Perenti Board fees are as follow:

POSITION

Board Chair **

Board Members

Committee Chair

Committee Members

FY21 FEES*

FY20 FEES*

$225,000

$225,000

$114,975

$20,000

$11,000

$114,975

$20,000

$11,000

*   All fees are inclusive of superannuation with any legislated increases in superannuation leading to a reduction in base salary if required. An individual Non-

executive Director may seek Australian Tax Office approval to be exempt from Superannuation payment as per relevant legislation.

**  The Board Chair’s fee is inclusive of all Board and Committee responsibilities.

b.  Statutory disclosure of FY21 Non-executive Director remuneration 

Table 6 – FY21 Non-executive Director remuneration 

BASE FEE

AUDIT AND RISK 
COMMIT TEE

PEOPLE AND 
REMUNERATION 
COMMIT TEE

OTHER

SUPERANNUATION

TOTAL

R COLE CHAIR [1]

M A HINE

A C ATKINS

A HALL [2]

I H COCHRANE   
FORMER CHAIR [3]

T J STRAPP FORMER NED [4]

YEAR

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

K D GORDON FORMER NED [5] 2021

119,862

105,000

105,000

105,000

105,000

105,000

105,311

56,875

175,310

182,740

52,459

105,000

-

2020

17,904

TOTAL  
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS 2021

2020

662,942 

677,519 

Notes 

15,512

11,632

-

-

-

-

18,265

5,420

-

-

5,064

10,023

-

-

38,841 

27,075 

8,531

5,023

18,265

16,632

10,046

5,023

-

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-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

9,670

-

-

-

13,671

11,557

11,710

11,555

10,929

10,452

11,740

5,918

16,654

17,360

5,465

10,927

-

1,701

157,576

133,212

134,975

133,187

125,975

120,475

135,316

68,213

191,964

200,100

72,658

125,950

-

19,605

36,842 

26,678 

9,670 

-

70,169 

69,471 

818,464 

800,743 

[1]  Mr Cole was appointed as Chair of the Board on 8 May 2021 and prior to this as Deputy Chair of the Board continued to receive Committee fees for the  

Audit and Risk and People and Remuneration Committees 

[2]  Ms Hall served as the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for the full year following her appointment on 17 June 2020.  

Ms Hall was appointed as director in the prior year on 15 December 2019. 

[3]  Mr Cochrane served as Chairman of the Board until he resigned on 8 May 2021. 

[4]  Mr Strapp retired from the Board on 31 December 2020. Prior to this he was a member of the Audit and Risk Committee until his retirement, and was  
Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee in FY20 from 01 July 2019 to 31 October 2019. Mr Strapp received a gift on retirement (other) and was paid as a 
contractor with the above fees recorded exclusive of GST.

[5]  Pursuant to Barminco acquisition in October 2018, Mr Gordon was appointed as a representative of certain Barminco vendors and was therefore not considered 

to be an independent director. Mr Gordon resigned from the office of director on 01 September 2020.

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10. Additional Statutory Information

This section provides details of any additional statutory disclosures that have not been included in the previous sections of the 
Remuneration Report. There have been no alterations to the terms and conditions of the prior year Rights grants during the 
financial year.

a.  Executive KMP equity awards

Reconciliation of rights held by KMP

The table below shows a reconciliation of rights held by each KMP from the beginning to the end of 30 June 2021. 

Table 7 – KMP Rights holdings

NAME & GRANT DATES

INSTRUMENT

M Norwell

HOLDING 
AT 01 JULY 
2020

RIGHTS 
ISSUED IN 
FY21

NUMBER

%

NUMBER

%

VESTED

FORFEITED

HOLDING 
AT 30 JUNE 
2021

ANTICIPATED 
VESTING DATE 

FAIR VALUE 
PER RIGHT 
AT GRANT 
DATE

28 February 2019

Performance Right - TSR

324,543

28 February 2019

Performance Right - ROACE

324,544

28 November 2019 Performance Right - TSR

284,091

28 November 2019 Performance Right - ROACE

284,091

24 October 2019

Short Term Incentive Rights

112,058

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

112,058 100

10 November 2020 Short Term Incentive Rights

28 May 2021

Performance Right - TSR

28 May 2021

Performance Right - ROACE

 -   

 -   

 -   

68,566 

425,614 

425,613 

P Bryant

28 February 2019

Performance Right - TSR

134,888

28 February 2019

Performance Right - ROACE

134,889

28 November 2019 Performance Right - TSR

118,075

28 November 2019 Performance Right - ROACE

118,076

24 October 2019

Short Term Incentive Rights

61,530

-

-

-

-

-

10 November 2020 Short Term Incentive Rights

28 May 2021

Performance Right - TSR

28 May 2021

Performance Right - ROACE

 - 

 -   

 -   

35,675 

158,167 

158,167 

P Muller

28 February 2019

Performance Right - TSR

196,501

28 February 2019

Performance Right - ROACE

196,501

28 February 2019

Retention Right 

28 November 2019 Performance Right - TSR

524,003

172,008

28 November 2019 Performance Right - ROACE

172,008

-

-

-

-

-

10 November 2020 Short Term Incentive Rights

28 May 2021

Performance Right - TSR

28 May 2021

Performance Right - ROACE

 - 

 -   

 -   

60,042 

232,937 

232,937 

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

61,530 100

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

524,003 100

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 324,543  August 2021

 324,544  August 2021

 284,091  August 2022

 284,091  August 2022

 - 

 -

 68,566  October 2021

 425,614  August 2023

$1.22 

$1.60 

$1.33 

$1.78 

$1.77 

$1.06 

$0.21 

 425,613  August 2023

$0.54 

 134,888  August 2021

 134,889  August 2021

 118,075  August 2022

 118,076  August 2022

 -   

 -

 35,675  October 2021

 158,167  August 2023

$1.22 

$1.60 

$1.33 

$1.78 

$1.77 

$1.06 

$0.21 

 158,167  August 2023

$0.54 

 196,501  August 2021

 196,501  August 2021

 -   

 -

 172,008  August 2022

 172,008  August 2022

 60,042  October 2021

 232,937  August 2023

$1.22 

$1.60 

$1.64 

$1.33 

$1.78 

$1.06 

$0.21 

 232,937  August 2023

$0.54 

732,685 STI Rights to be granted to current KMP’s post 30 June 2021 have not been included in the above table. 

Details of rights over ordinary shares in the Company provided as remuneration to key management personnel of the Group 
are set out above. On vesting, each right is convertible into one ordinary share of Perenti Global Limited. Further information 
on the rights is set out in note 19 to the financial statements.

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b.  Shareholdings of KMP

The number of ordinary shares in Perenti held directly, indirectly or beneficially by each individual (including shares held in the 
name of the spouse, superannuation fund, nominee and/or other controlled entities) as at 30 June 2021 are shown in Table 8 
below.

Table 8 – Shareholdings of KMP

BAL ANCE AT 
START OF YEAR

RECEIVED DURING THE 
YEAR ON EXERCISE OF 
OPTIONS

RECEIVED ON VESTING 
OF RIGHTS

PURCHASE OF 
SHARES

DRP SHARES

BAL ANCE AT END 
OF YEAR

OTHER CHANGES  DURING THE YEAR

NAME

Non-Executive Directors

IC Cochrane

1,086,203 

TJ Strapp

MA Hine

RJ Cole

AC Atkins

A Hall

Executive KMP

MA Norwell

P Bryant *

P Muller 

S Winter

* Shares held in name of:

579,375 

121,771 

60,000 

32,300 

52,000 

50,000 

149,650 

147,120 

6,500 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 -

 -

 -

 39,831

 8,474

 38,000

 112,058 

 100,000

 61,530 

 69,930

 524,003 

 - 

 -

 -

 61,530

 69,930

A Bryant

P & A Bryant

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

 1,086,203

 579,375

 121,771

 99,831

 40,774

 90,000

 262,058

 281,110

 671,123

 6,500

None of the shares above are held nominally by the directors or any of the other key management personnel.

c.  Prohibition on hedging of Perenti shares and unvested equity awards

The Company’s Securities Trading Policy imposes trading restrictions on all employees of the Company and its related 
companies with “inside information” or with respect to derivative products and on trading securities during trading  
prohibition periods.

d.  Loans to KMP

Loans to key management personnel were made on normal terms and conditions. The loans on acquisition of the Barminco 
group are repayable by 22 October 2022. Interest was payable at the rate of 4.80% and 4.52% on loans advanced. Outstanding 
balances are unsecured and are repayable in cash.

Loans to key management personnel

Beginning of the period

Loans on acquisition of Barminco

Loan repayments made

Interest charged

Interest received

End of period

21 

$

20 

$

187,512

 190,409 

 -  

 -  

8,964

 -   

(2,327) 

 9,867 

(10,437)

(10,437) 

 186,039 

 187,512 

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e.  Other transactions with entities associated with  KMP

A director, Mr Robert Cole, is currently the Chairman of Synergy. A number of Australian Perenti Global Limited subsidiaries 
have been provided with electricity services from Synergy. All contracts and services are based on normal commercial terms 
and conditions and Mr Cole is not party to any contract negotiations for either party.

A director, Ms Andrea Hall, is a non-executive director of Evolution Mining Limited. Evolution Mining has been provided with 
mining services and mineral analysis services by a Perenti Global Limited subsidiary. All contracts and services are based on 
normal commercial terms and conditions and Ms Hall is not party to any contract negotiations for either party 

A previous director, Mr Ian Cochrane, was a non-executive director of Dacian Gold Limited up to 10 May 2021. Dacian Gold has 
been provided with mining services by Perenti Global Limited. These services have been provided on arm’s length commercial 
terms and conditions. Mr Cochrane was not party to any contract negotiations for either party.

Aggregate amounts of each of the above types of other transactions with entities associated with key management personnel 
of Perenti Global Limited:

(i) Amounts recognised as revenue

Drilling and mining services*

(ii) Amounts recognised as expense

Electricity services*

(iii) Amounts recognised as assets and liabilities

At the end of the reporting period, the following aggregate amounts were recognised in relation to 
the above transactions:

Receivables

Payables

21 

$

20 

$

15,697,482

 3,233,476

296,700

 261,381

497,775

5,218

 6,792

 18,785

*   The current year balance includes amounts up to the date Mr Cochrane resigned as a director on 8 May 2021. The prior year balance includes amounts from the 

date Ms Hall was appointed director on 15 December 2019.

This Remuneration Report was approved by the Board on 24 August 2021 and has been signed in accordance with a resolution 
of the Directors made pursuant to section 298(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

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SHARE  RIGHTS

Unissued share rights over ordinary shares of Perenti Global Limited at the date of this report are:

DATE RIGHTS GRANTED

28 February 2019

28 February 2019

10 June 2019

10 June 2019

10 November 2020

28 November 2019

28 November 2019

9 April 2021

9 April 2021

28 May 2021

28 May 2021

EXPIRY DATE

FAIR VALUE PER RIGHT ($)

30 June 2021

30 June 2021

30 June 2021

30 June 2021

30 June 2022

30 June 2022

30 June 2022

30 June 2023

30 June 2023

30 June 2023

30 June 2023

1.60

1.22

1.23

0.82

1.06

1.78

1.33

0.62

0.99

0.21

0.54

NUMBER

865,871

865,874

1,063,623

1,063,638

284,641

1,650,750

1,650,738

1,701,723

1,701,701

1,101,802

1,101,801

13,052,162

SHARE S  ISSUED  ON THE EXERCISE OF OPTIONS

The following ordinary shares of Perenti Global Limited were issued during the year ended 30 June 2021 on the exercise of  
options granted under the Employee Option Plan. No further shares have been issued since that date. No amounts are unpaid on  
any of the shares.

DATE SHARES ISSUED

21 September 2020

22 October 2020

16 November 2020

16 November 2020

17 November 2020

20 November 2020

25 November 2020

ISSUE PRICE OF SHARES ($)

NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUED

1.28

1.14

1.25

1.25

1.31

1.32

1.37

333,334

133,334

28,616

85,847

57,412

28,786

28,940

696,269

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I NDEMNI FICAT ION

Under the Company’s constitution and subject to section 199A of the Corporations Act 2001, the Company indemnifies each of the 
directors, the company secretary and every other person who is an officer of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries against:

• 

any liability incurred as an officer of the Company (as the case may be) by that person to any person other than the Company or a 
related body corporate of the Company, unless that liability arises out of conduct involving a lack of good faith or is a liability for a 
pecuniary penalty order under certain provisions of the Corporations Act 2001; and

• 

costs and expenses incurred in defending civil or criminal proceedings subject to certain conditions.

The above indemnity is a continuing indemnity and applies in respect of all acts done by a person while an officer of the Company or 
its wholly-owned subsidiaries even though the person is not an officer at the time the claim is made.

The Company has entered into a Deed of Indemnity, Access and Insurance (“Deed”) with each current and former officer of the 
Company and its subsidiaries, including each director and company secretary and persons who previously held those roles. Under 
each Deed, to the extent permitted by law and to the extent and in the amount that the officer is not indemnified under any other 
indemnity, including an indemnity contained in any insurance policy, the Company indemnifies the relevant officer against all liabilities 
of any kind (including liabilities for legal expenses) incurred by the officer arising out of:

• 

• 

the discharge of his or her duties as an officer of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company, or as an officer of any corporation 
in which the Company holds securities (“Related Corporation”) where the officer is representing the interests of the Company in 
relation to the Related Corporation; and

the conduct of the business of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company, or a Related Corporation where the officer is 
representing the interests of the Company in relation to that Related Corporation.

No amount has been paid under any of these indemnities during the financial year under review.

IN SURANCE  OF OFFICERS

During the financial year, the Company has paid a premium in respect of insuring the directors and officers of the Company and the 
Group. The insurance contract prohibits disclosure of the premium or the nature of liabilities insured against under the policy.

NO N-AUDIT  SERVICES

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

Details of the amounts paid or payable to the auditor (PwC) for audit and non-audit services provided during the year are set out in 
note 20 to the financial statements.

The Board of directors have considered the position and, in accordance with advice received from the Audit and Risk Committee, is 
satisfied that the provision of the non-audit services is compatible with the general standard of independence for auditors imposed by 
the Corporations Act 2001. The directors are satisfied that the provision of non-audit services by the auditor did not compromise the 
auditor independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 for the following reasons:

• 

all non-audit services have been reviewed by the Audit and Risk Committee to ensure they do not impact the impartiality and 
objectivity of the auditor; and

•  none of the services undermine the general principles relating to auditor independence as set out in APES 110 Code of Ethics for 

Professional Accountants.

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NON-AUDIT  SERVICES (CON TINUED)

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

Other assurance services

PricewaterhouseCoopers firm:

Advisory and accounting consulting services

Non PricewaterhouseCoopers firms:

Advisory and accounting consulting services

Total remuneration for other assurance services

Taxation services

PricewaterhouseCoopers firm:

Taxation services

Non PricewaterhouseCoopers firms:

Taxation services

Total remuneration for taxation services

Other services
Total remuneration for non-audit services

21

$

20

$

587,452

1,257,748

636,235

677,134

1,223,687

1,934,882

734,843

964,726

165,963

350,513

900,806

1,315,239

2,124,493

3,250,121

AUDITO R’S  INDEPEND ENCE DECL ARATION

The auditor’s independence declaration as required under section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 is set out on page 82.

RO UNDING   OF AMOUNTS

The Company is of a kind referred to in ASIC Legislative Instrument 2016/191, relating to the ‘rounding off’ of amounts in the directors’ 
report. Amounts in the directors’ report have been rounded off in accordance with the instrument to the nearest thousand dollars, or in 
certain cases, to the nearest dollar.

This report is made in accordance with a resolution of directors.

Mark Alexander John Norwell
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Perth 
24 August 2021

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FINANCIAL REPORTCORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT

Perenti and the Board are committed to achieving the highest standards of corporate governance and business conduct.  
The Company has reviewed its Corporate Governance Framework and practices against the Corporate Governance Principles  
and Recommendations (4th edition) published by the ASX Corporate Governance Council. 

The 2021 Corporate Governance Statement is dated 24 August 2021 and has been approved by the Board. The 2021 Corporate 
Governance Statement sets out the key aspects of the Company’s Corporate Governance Framework and main governance practices 
for the year ended 30 June 2021. The 2021 Corporate Governance Statement can be viewed at perentigroup.com. 

Board Members

Non-Executive Chairman
Robert Cole

Managing Director and CEO
Mark Norwell

Non-Executive Director
Andrea Hall 

Non-Executive Director
Mark Hine

Non-Executive Director
Alexandra Atkins

Non-Executive Director
Timothy Longstaff

Board Committees

Audit & Risk Committee

People & Remuneration Committee

Charters

Board Charter

Audit & Risk Committee Charter

People & Remuneration Committee Charter

Corporate Governance Policies

Market Disclosure and 
Communication Policy

Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption 
Policy and Standard

Securities Trading Policy

Code of Conduct Policy and 
Booklet

Sustainability Policy

Risk and Opportunity 
Management Policy

Inclusion and Diversity Policy

Speak-Up Policy (Global) and 
Speak-Up Standard (Australia)

Health, Safety and Environment 
Policy

Privacy Policy

Quality Policy

VOLUNTARY  TAX TR ANSPARENCY CODE 

The Company has chosen to provide additional disclosure of tax information as recommended by the Board of Taxation’s Voluntary 
Tax Transparency Code (“TTC”). The Company is currently classified as a ‘large business’ for the purposes of the TTC  
(i.e. The Company’s aggregated Australian turnover exceeds A$500 million) and has chosen to disclose the following tax information  
in this Annual Report:

PART  A 

•  A reconciliation of accounting profit to tax expense. This information is disclosed in note 5(b) to the Consolidated Financial 

Statements in this Annual Report; 

• 

Identification of material temporary and permanent differences. This information is disclosed in notes 5(b), 5(c), 5(d) and 7(f)  
to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report; and 

•  Accounting effective company tax rates for Australian and global operations. This information is disclosed in note 5(e) to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report. 

PART  B 

•  Part B will be disclosed in a taxes paid report.

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FINANCIAL REPORTCONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS

For the year ended 30 June 2021

Revenue from continuing operations

Other income

Materials expense

Labour costs

Rental and hire expense

Depreciation expense

Amortisation expense

Finance costs

Finance income

Other expenses from ordinary activities

Impairment of assets

(Loss)/Profit before income tax

Income tax expense

(Loss)/Profit for the year

(Loss)/Profit is attributable to:

Equity holders of Perenti Global Limited

Non-controlling interests

(Loss)/Profit for the year

Notes

2

4(a)

4(b)

4(b)

4(b)

4(b)

4(b)

4(b)

5

21

$’000

20

$’000

2,087,542

 2,046,058 

9,091

 12,125 

(628,091)

(651,013)

(875,850)

(759,570)

(18,177)

(19,114)

(222,230)

(232,141)

(39,303)

(63,452)

495

(38,564)

(53,605)

 1,471 

(227,656)

(198,501)

(70,563)

(48,194)

(4,109)

(52,303)

(55,140)

2,837

(52,303)

(59,608)

 47,538 

(19,983)

 27,555 

 23,837 

 3,718 

 27,555 

(Loss)/earnings per share for profit attributable to the ordinary equity holders of the Company:

Basic (loss)/earnings per share

Diluted (loss)/earnings per share

21

21

(7.8)

(7.8)

3.5

3.5

The above consolidated statement of profit or loss should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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FINANCIAL REPORTCONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

For the year ended 30 June 2021

(Loss)/Profit for the year

Other comprehensive loss

Items that may be reclassified to profit or loss

Exchange losses on translation of foreign operations

Exchange losses on translation of foreign operations - non-controlling interest

Items that will not be reclassified to profit or loss

(Loss)/gain on revaluation of land and buildings, net of tax

Gain on revaluation of FVOCI financial assets, net of tax

Other comprehensive loss for the year, net of tax

Total comprehensive (loss)/income for the year

Total comprehensive (loss)/income for the year is attributable to:

Equity holders of Perenti Global Limited

Non-controlling interests

Total comprehensive (loss)/income for the year

Notes

8(b)

8(b)

8(b)

21

$’000

20

$’000

(52,303)

 27,555 

(680)

(508)

(11,240)

(64)

(175)

1,333

(30)

 229 

 6,542 

(4,533)

(52,333)

 23,022 

(54,662)

2,329

(52,333)

 19,368 

 3,654 

 23,022 

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

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FINANCIAL REPORTCONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

As at 30 June 2021

ASSETS

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables

Inventories

Current tax receivables

Assets classified as held for sale

Total current assets

Non-current assets

Receivables

Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income

Property, plant and equipment

Right-of-use assets

Intangible assets

Deferred tax assets

Total non-current assets

Total assets

LIABILITIES

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables

Borrowings

Lease liabilities

Current tax liabilities

Employee benefit obligations

Total current liabilities

Non-current liabilities

Borrowings

Lease liabilities

Deferred tax liabilities

Employee benefit obligations

Total non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

EQUITY

Contributed equity

Other reserves

Retained earnings

Capital and reserves attributable to owners of Perenti Global Limited

Non-controlling interests

Total equity

Notes

21

$’000

20

$’000

6(a)

6(b)

7(a)

7(b)

6(b)

6(c)

7(c)

7(d)

7(e)

7(f)

6(d)

6(e)

7(d)

7(g)

6(e)

7(d)

7(f)

7(g)

8(a)

8(b)

8(c)

264,741

325,893

214,411

10,545

28,894

 327,491 

 369,309 

 250,379 

 6,190 

-

844,484

 953,369 

4,889

25,536

721,310

74,691

678,814

147,741

 830 

 23,632 

 818,096 

 110,739 

 705,156 

 131,072 

1,652,981

 1,789,525 

2,497,465

 2,742,894 

260,311

 261,095 

3,268

24,537

14,659

70,719

 7,148 

 29,482 

 14,351 

 71,902 

373,494

 383,978 

690,923

49,272

78,135

2,935

 775,091 

 72,136 

 110,131 

 1,804 

821,265

 959,162 

1,194,759

 1,343,140 

1,302,706

 1,399,754 

1,137,783

 1,135,323 

(10,594)

(11,104)

165,629

 270,039 

1,292,818

 1,394,258 

9,888

 5,496 

1,302,706

 1,399,754 

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

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FINANCIAL REPORTCONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

For the year ended 30 June 2021

AT TRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF PERENTI GLOBAL LIMITED

Notes

CONTRIBUTED 
EQUIT Y 
$’000

OTHER RESERVES 
$’000

RETAINED 
EARNINGS 
$’000

NON- 
CONTROLLING 
INTERESTS 
$’000

TOTAL 
$’000

TOTAL 
EQUIT Y 
$’000

Balance at 1 July 2019

 1,126,769 

(10,835)

 293,836 

 1,409,770 

 1,842 

 1,411,612 

Profit for the year

Other comprehensive loss

Total comprehensive (loss)/income  
for the year

Transactions with owners in their 
capacity as owners:

Transfer from financial assets at FVOCI 
reserve to retained earnings

Issue of ordinary shares as part of 
dividend reinvestment plan, net of 
transaction costs and tax

Shares issued on conversion of 
employee share options

Deferred tax movement on capital 
raising costs

Dividends paid/payable

12(b)

Employee share options/rights - value 
of employee services

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 23,837 

 23,837 

(4,469)

 - 

(4,469)

 3,718 

(64)

 27,555 

(4,533)

(4,469)

 23,837 

 19,368 

 3,654 

 23,022 

 - 

(409)

 409 

 - 

 8,849 

 285 

(580)

 - 

 - 

 8,554 

 - 

(98)

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 8,849 

 187 

(580)

(48,043)

(48,043)

 4,707 

 4,200 

 - 

 4,707 

(47,634)

(34,880)

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 8,849 

 187 

(580)

(48,043)

 4,707 

(34,880)

Balance at 30 June 2020

 1,135,323 

(11,104)

 270,039 

 1,394,258 

 5,496 

 1,399,754 

Balance at 1 July 2020

(Loss)/profit for the year

Other comprehensive income/(loss)

Total comprehensive income/(loss)  
for the year

Transactions with owners in their 
capacity as owners:

Issue of ordinary shares as part of 
dividend reinvestment plan, net of 
transaction costs and tax

Shares issued on conversion of 
employee share options/rights

Capital contribution from  
non-controlling interests

Dividends paid/payable

Deferred tax movement on  
capital raising costs

Employee share options/rights -  
value of employee services 

 1,135,323 

(11,104)

 270,039 

 1,394,258 

 5,496 

 1,399,754 

-

-

-

-

478

(55,140)

(55,140)

-

478

2,837

(508)

(52,303)

(30)

478

(55,140)

(54,662)

2,329

(52,333)

962

-

8(a), 8(b)

2,082

(2,001)

12(b)

8(a)

8(b)

-

-

(584)

-

2,460

-

-

-

2,033

32

-

-

-

962

81

-

(49,270)

(49,270)

-

-

(584)

2,033

-

-

2,063

-

-

-

962

81

2,063

(49,270)

(584)

2,033

(49,270)

(46,778)

2,063

(44,715)

Balance at 30 June 2021

1,137,783

(10,594)

165,629

1,292,818

9,888

1,302,706

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

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FINANCIAL REPORTCONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

For the year ended 30 June 2021

Cash flows from operating activities

Receipts from customers (inclusive of goods and services tax)

Payments to suppliers and employees (inclusive of goods and services tax)

Interest received

Insurance recovery

Interest and other costs of finance paid

Income taxes paid

Net cash inflow from operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities

Payments for property, plant and equipment

Payments for intangibles

Payments for purchase of subsidiaries

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

Proceeds from sale of assets at FVOCI

Proceeds from sale of assets held for sale

Cash acquired on acquisition of subsidiary

Loan to non-controlling interest

Net cash outflow from investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities

Proceeds from borrowings

Repayment of borrowings

Redemption premium on 2022 High Yield Bonds

Repayment of lease liabilities

Dividends paid to Company’s shareholders

Payments for borrowing costs

Capital contribution by non-controlling interest

Proceeds from issues of shares, net of transaction costs

Net cash outflow from financing activities

Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the financial year

Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

Non-cash investing and financing activities (refer note 9(b))

Notes

21

$’000

20

$’000

2,214,811

 2,178,904 

(1,818,019)

(1,752,117)

396,792

 426,787 

495

2,124

(46,701)

(56,447)

 1,471 

-

(53,605)

(68,114)

9(a)

296,263

 306,539 

13

12(b)

(278,619)

(235,704)

-

(10,570)

85,400

-

-

1,785

(2,079)

(150)

-

 45,619 

 3,268 

 16,000 

 - 

-

(204,083)

(170,967)

675,752

293,716

(703,064)

(261,128)

(8,143)

(30,458)

(63,482)

(17,199)

2,063

81

-

(33,809)

(24,019)

-

-

-

(144,450)

(25,240)

(52,270)

 110,332 

327,491

 223,524 

(10,480)

(6,365)

6(a)

264,741

 327,491 

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

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FINANCIAL REPORTNOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

How numbers are calculated

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Risk

10

11

12

Segment information

Revenue 

Individually significant items

Other income and expense items

Income tax expense/(benefit)

Financial assets and financial liabilities

Non-financial assets and liabilities

Equity

Cash flow information

Critical accounting estimates and judgements

Financial risk management

Capital management

Group structure

13

14

Business combination

Interests in other entities

Unrecognised items

15

16

17

Contingencies

Commitments

Events since the end of the financial year

Other disclosure

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

Related party transactions

Share-based payments

Remuneration of auditors

Earnings per share

Assets pledged as security

Deed of cross guarantee

Parent entity financial information

Summary of significant accounting policies

91

96

97

99

100

102

109

120

123

126

126

131

133

134

136

136

136

138

140

142

143

144

144

147

149

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FINANCIAL REPORTNOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

H OW N UM B E RS A RE C A LCU L ATE D

This section 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 an understanding of the items recognised in the financial statements. These cover 

situations where the accounting standards either allow a choice or do not deal with a particular type of transaction;

(b)  analysis and subtotals, including segment information;

(c)  information about estimates and judgements made in relation to particular items.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Segment information

Revenue

Individually significant items

Other income and expense items

Income tax expense/(benefit)

Financial assets and financial liabilities

Non-financial assets and liabilities

Equity

Cash flow information

91

96

97

99

100

102

109

120

123

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FINANCIAL REPORTNOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1  S E G M E N T I N F O R M AT I O N

a.  Description of segments

The operating segments are based on the internal reports reviewed by the Managing Director to assess the performance and 
facilitate strategic decision-making including the allocation of resources. Financial performance is measured on the basis of 
Revenue and EBIT(A) and considers the business from a geographic perspective, service offerings and the nature of risks and 
returns associated with each business. 

The reportable segments are:

Surface Mining:

Drilling and blasting, in-pit grade control, exploration drilling and earthmoving in Australia and Africa.

Underground Mining:

Underground mining services in Australia, Africa and North America.

Investments:

Mining support services including products and services including equipment hire, equipment parts and sales, mineral analysis, 
supply of equipment and logistics services.

Group Functions and Other:

This segment includes Group central functions including treasury, accounting, human resources, information technology, 
technology, procurement, strategy and the company’s technology service offerings.

Intersegment Eliminations:

Represents transactions which are eliminated on consolidation.

Interest income and expenditure are not allocated to segments, as this type of activity is driven by the central treasury function, 
which manages the cash position of the group.

EBIT (A)

EBIT (A) is defined as earnings before finance costs, finance income, income tax expense or benefit and amortisation of 
intangible assets.

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FINANCIAL REPORT 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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1 .  S E G M E N T   I N F O R M AT I O N (CO N T I N U E D)

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CONSOLIDATED ENTIT Y

30 JUNE 2021

30 JUNE 2020

TOTAL SEGMENT 
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-

(4,750)

(17,033)

(3,186)

181,735

127,651

152,951

66,179

73,947

1,384

602,743

250,630

213,773

99,439

84,831

25,964

3,227

19,189

122,506

18,917

992

9,684

(713)

8,971

-

-

-

Surface Mining

Australia

Ghana

Mali

Burkina Faso

Senegal

Other foreign countries

Underground Mining

Australia

Ghana

Burkina Faso

Tanzania

Egypt

Botswana

Canada

India

Investments

Australia

Africa

Other foreign countries

Group Functions

Australia

Total segment revenue

2,103,937

(16,395)

2,087,542

2,073,203

(27,145)

2,046,058

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1 .  S E G M E N T   I N F O R M AT I O N (CO N T I N U E D)

d.  Segment assets

Segment assets are measured in the same way as in the financial statements. These assets are allocated based on the 
operations of the segment and the physical location of the asset.

The total of non-current assets other than deferred tax assets, broken down by location of the assets, is shown in the  
table below.

Surface Mining

Australia

Ghana

Burkina Faso

Senegal

Mali

Underground Mining

Australia

Ghana

Burkina Faso

Mali

Tanzania

Egypt

Botswana

Canada

Investments

Australia

Africa

Other foreign countries

Group Functions

Australia

Other foreign countries

21

20

NON-CURRENT 
SEGMENT ASSETS

NON-CURRENT 
SEGMENT ASSETS

$’000

$’000

113,422

105,210

95,048

38,209

52,451

2,783

368,675

221,827

242,060

27,028

93,616

12,720

51,971

3,871

 135,590 

 78,764 

 60,090 

 64,937 

335,199

239,738

255,406

29,873

112,700

17,591

40,576

-

105,874

 115,940 

421

73

74,963

228

612

 16 

65,729

 482 

Total non-current segment assets

1,505,240

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2 .   R E V E N U E 

The Group derives the following types of revenue:

Sales revenue

Contract mining services

Equipment rental

Sale of goods

Consulting services

a.  Revenue recognition

Notes

2(a)(i)

2(a)(ii)

2(a)(iii)

2(a)(iv)

21

$’000

20

$’000

1,992,925

 1,940,936 

43,268

42,413

8,936

 60,595 

 44,527 

-

2,087,542

 2,046,058 

Revenue is recognised for the major business activities using the methods outlined below.

(i) Contract mining services

Contract mining services include contract mining (both underground and surface mining), drill and blast, in-pit grade control, 
exploration drilling, earthmoving and mineral assays and analysis. The performance obligation is fulfilled over time as the Group 
enhances mining assets which the customer controls and for which the Group has a right to payment for performance to date 
and as such revenue is recognised over time. Revenue is recognised monthly based on units of production at agreed contract 
rates that is aligned with the stand-alone selling prices for each performance obligation. Majority of the Group’s revenue is 
paid one month in arrears and therefore gives rise to an accrued revenue. The total transaction price for contract services may 
include variable consideration.

(ii) Equipment rental

Rental income is recognised on either a straight-line or machine hours basis over the term of the operating lease.

(iii) Mining supplies and manufactured goods

Revenue is recorded at a point in time when control has been transferred to the customer, generally being when the goods 
have been despatched or delivered to a customer pursuant to the sales order.

(iv) Consulting services

The Group provides operational improvement and technology consulting services to clients in the mining sector. Delivery of 
these services represent performance obligations. Upon completion of each performance obligation, which is satisfied over 
time, the Group is entitled to payment for the services performed.

b. 

 Revenue recognised in relation to contract liabilities 

The Group recognised revenue from the amortisation of deferred revenue liabilities related to mining services contracts  
as follows:

Revenue recognised in relation to contract liabilities

21

$’000

1,751

20

$’000

3,600

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3 .  I N D I V I D UA L LY S I G N I F I C A N T I T E M S

The Group has identified a number of items which are material due to the significance of their nature and/or amount. These are 
listed separately here to provide a better understanding of the financial performance of the Group.

Impairment of property, plant and equipment

Impairment of inventory

a.   Impairment of assets

Notes

21

$’000

(59,903)

(10,660)

(70,563)

20

$’000

(40,597)

(19,011)

(59,608)

For the year ended 30 June 2021, the Group assessed whether there were any indicators of impairment. The Company’s 
market capitalisation at 30 June 2021 was below its net assets and management considered this factor amongst other 
impairment indicators at 30 June 2021.

Indicators of impairment can exist at an individual asset level due to factors such as technical obsolescence, declining market 
value, physical condition or saleability within a reasonable time frame. Other indicators of impairment can exist where there is a 
deterioration of financial performance of Cash Generating Units (CGUs) against their respective budgets and forecasts. Where 
indicators of impairment exist, the recoverable amount was determined by calculating the higher of Fair Value less Cost of 
Disposal (FVLCD) and Value in Use (VIU).

At 30 June 2021 indicators of impairment existed for Surface Mining Australia, Surface Mining Africa, BTP Group and 
MinAnalytical CGUs. Estimates of recoverable amounts for these CGUs/non-current assets within the CGUs were prepared 
using the FVLCD method to assess whether impairments or reversal of previous impairments were required. The Company 
sourced an independent valuation to support the FVLCD estimates used for non-current assets within the mining and BTP 
CGUs and prepared a fair valuation based on a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology for the MinAnalytical CGU.

At 30 June 2021, an impairment of $8.1 million was recorded against property, plant and equipment for the BTP CGU. This was 
in addition to the $62.5 million of impairments recorded against the surface mining business’s plant, equipment and inventory 
in Africa that was reported at 31 December 2020. This half year impairment consisted of $37.1 million of impairments in the 
Surface Mining - Africa CGU of which $27.4 million related to property, plant and equipment and inventory located in Mali and 
$9.7 million on property, plant and equipment in Burkina Faso. The impairment in Mali mainly reflects the estimated recoverable 
value based on the sale of the inventory and property, plant and equipment deployed at the Yanfolila mine site to the incoming 
contractor. The impairment of Boungou inventory and property, plant and equipment reflect the estimated recoverable value 
from the sale of these assets. In addition, a CGU assessment was also performed for the Surface Mining - Africa CGU at  
31 December 2020 using a FVLCD methodology and this resulted in a $25.4m impairment being recorded.

Summary of the impairment taken, and method used to assess the impairment

The following tables summarises the outcomes from impairment testing conducted across the Company’s material CGUs.

CGU

BTP Group (BTP)

Surface Mining Africa

Surface Mining Australia

MinAnalytical

Underground Mining (Australasia / Africa and 
North America)

TRIGGER FOR IMPAIRMENT 
TESTING

VALUATION METHOD   
USED

IMPAIRMENT EXPENSE/
(REVERSAL) OF PPE  
AND INVENTORY

21

20

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

N

N

21

FVLCD

FVLCD

FVLCD

FVLCD

-

20

VIU

21

$8.1M

FVLCD

$62.5M

20

$25.3M

$34.3M

VIU

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

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3 .  I N D I V I D UA L LY S I G N I F I C A N T I T E M S (CO N T I N U E D)

a.  Impairment of assets (continued)

Key assumptions used for Fair Value less Costs of Disposal

At 30 June 2021, a FVLCD methodology was adopted for the BTP Group, Surface Mining Africa, Surface Mining Australia and 
MinAnalytical, combining Level 1, Level 2, and predominately Level 3 inputs in the fair value determination. 

BTP Group

The BTP CGU is included in the Investments operating segment presented in Note 1. At 30 June 2021 an impairment expense 
of $8.1 million was recorded against the BTP CGU’s plant and equipment based on an independent valuation.

For the year ending 30 June 2020, a VIU methodology was adopted and an impairment expense of $25.3 million was recorded 
against property, plant and equipment and inventory.

Surface Mining - Africa

This CGU is included in the Surface Mining operating segment presented in Note 1. At 31 December 2020 an impairment 
expense of $62.5 million was recorded against the Surface Mining Africa CGU’s property, plant and equipment and inventory. 
The impairment review performed at 30 June 2021, based on an independent valuation of the non-current assets in the CGU, 
highlighted that no additional impairment or reversal of impairment was required.

At 30 June 2020 FVLCD methodology was adopted and an impairment expense of $34.3 million was recorded against 
property, plant and equipment, and inventory.

Surface Mining - Australia

This CGU is included in the Surface Mining operating segment presented in Note 1. The impairment review performed at 
30 June 2021, based on an independent valuation of the non-current assets in the CGU, highlighted that no impairment or 
reversal of impairment was required.

MinAnalytical

This CGU is included in the Investments operating segment. A discounted cashflow model was used that included additional 
assumptions to derive a FVLCD valuation. The calculations used cash flow projections based on the forecast for the 2022 to 
2026 financial years which included EBITDA margins, growth rates and discount rates. The EBITDA margins have not been 
disclosed as they are commercially sensitive in nature. The terminal value was calculated after 5 years incorporating a perpetual 
growth rate of 2.5%. The weighted average cost of capital post-tax discount rate of 10% was used in discounting the projected 
cashflows. The discounted cashflow model was most sensitive to these assumptions.

Based on the testing performed no impairment expense was recognised at the CGU level at 30 June 2021. At 30 June 2020 a 
VIU methodology was adopted and no impairment expense was recorded against property, plant and equipment.

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4  O T H E R I N CO M E A N D E X P E N S E I T E M S

This note provides a breakdown of the items included in “other income” and an analysis of expenses by nature.

a.  Other income

Insurance proceeds

Gain on disposal of non-current assets

Profit on disposal of assets held for sale

Other

Total other income

b.  Breakdown of expenses by nature

Depreciation expense

Plant and equipment depreciation

Right-of-use asset depreciation

Buildings depreciation

Total depreciation expense

Amortisation expense

Customer relationships intangibles amortisation

Software amortisation

Total amortisation expense

Rental and hire expenses

Rental expense for equipment

Rental expense for properties

Total rental and hire expenses

Finance costs

Interest expense

Redemption premium on 2022 High Yield Bonds

Lease contracts interest

Amortisation of borrowing cost

Other finance costs

Total finance costs

Other expenses from ordinary activities

Staffing, safety and training

Consultants

Travel and accommodation

Freight

IT and communications

Insurance

Trade receivable provisions and bad debts

Duties and taxes

Property related expenses

Foreign exchange loss (net)

All other expenses

Total other expenses from ordinary activities

Impairment of assets

Impairment of property, plant and equipment

Impairment of inventory

Total impairment of assets

Notes

Notes

21

$’000

2,516

473

-

6,102

9,091

21

$’000

185,857

34,287

2,086

222,230

38,102

1,201

39,303

16,022

2,155

18,177

45,644

8,143

5,294

3,558

813

20

$’000

 - 

 6,096 

 2,374 

 3,655 

 12,125 

20

$’000

195,271

 34,869 

2,001

 232,141

 38,103 

 461 

 38,564 

 17,083 

 2,031

 19,114 

46,413

 -

6,238

 943 

 11 

63,452

 53,605 

32,839

20,316

43,262

28,994

18,033

18,175

11,328

9,920

9,392

7,152

28,245

227,656

59,903

10,660

70,563

 31,941 

 13,837 

 30,768 

 32,552 

 16,304 

 16,600 

269

 10,434 

 10,192 

 3,316 

 32,288 

 198,501 

 40,597 

 19,011 

 59,608 

3

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5 .  I N CO M E  TA X  E X P E N S E /(B E N E F I T )

This note provides an analysis of the Group’s income tax expense/(benefit), shows what tax amounts are recognised directly in 
equity and how the tax expense/(benefit) is affected by non-assessable and non-deductible items. It also explains significant 
estimates made in relation to the Group’s tax position.

a.  Income tax expense/(benefit)

Current tax on profits for the year

Deferred tax

Reduction in the tax carrying value of depreciating assets upon acquisition of  
Barminco group

Adjustments for current tax of prior periods

Income tax expense/(benefit) is attributable to:

(Loss)/profit from continuing operations

Deferred income tax expense/(benefit) included in income tax expense comprises:

Increase in deferred tax assets

Decrease in deferred tax liabilities

b.  Numerical reconciliation of accounting profit to income tax expense/(benefit)

(Loss)/profit from continuing operations before income tax expense

Tax at the Australian tax rate of 30% (Jun 2020 - 30%)

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

Share-based payments

Other foreign permanent differences

Withholding tax

Other assessable/non-deductible items

Difference in overseas tax rates

Under provision in prior years

Tax losses recognised/(not recognised)

Effect of currency translation on tax base

Deferred tax (realised)/recognised on undistributed profits for foreign subsidiaries and  
joint ventures

Uplift in the tax carrying value of depreciating assets upon acquisition of Barminco group

Movement in uncertain tax positions

Income tax expense

Notes

21

$’000

55,881

(51,753)

-

(19)

20

$’000

 63,425 

(48,206)

 4,433

 331 

4,109

 19,983 

4,109

 19,983 

7(f)(i)

7(f)(ii)

(34,255)

(17,498)

(51,753)

(24,494)

(23,712)

(48,206)

Notes

7(f)(ii)

21

$’000

(48,194)

(14,458)

610

(386)

11,236

18,738

(5,818)

(19)

(6,159)

5,584

(6,317)

-

1,098

4,109

20

$’000

 47,538 

 14,261 

1,412

 140 

 9,371 

 10,953 

(4,649)

 331 

2,153

(2,533)

(7,880)

 4,433 

(8,009)

 19,983 

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5 .  I N CO M E  TA X E X P E N S E /(B E N E F I T )  (CO N T I N U E D)

c.  Amounts recognised directly in equity

21

$’000

20

$’000

Notes

Aggregate current and deferred tax arising in the reporting period and not recognised in net 
profit or loss or other comprehensive income but directly debited or credited to equity:

Deferred tax - debited directly to equity 

7(f)(i)

3,086

 709

d.  Unused tax losses and unrecognised temporary differences

(i) Tax losses for which deferred tax assets have not been recognised:

Unused tax losses for which no deferred tax asset has been recognised

Unrecognised deferred tax assets relating to the above unused tax losses

21

$’000

172,241

51,139

20

$’000

205,541

61,662

(ii) Temporary differences relating to investments in subsidiaries for which deferred tax liabilities have not been recognised:

Undistributed earnings

Unrecognised deferred tax liabilities relating to the above undistributed earnings

21

$’000

244,543

22,054

20

$’000

204,776

20,775

Perenti Global Limited has undistributed earnings of $244,543,000 (2020: $204,776,000) in some of its African subsidiaries 
which, if paid out as dividends, would attract dividend withholding tax in Africa. An assessable temporary difference exists, 
but no deferred tax liability has been recognised as the parent entity is able to control the timing of distributions from the 
subsidiary.

e.  Effective tax rates for the year ended 30 June 2021 for Australian and Group operations in terms of the Board of 

Taxation’s Voluntary Tax Transparency Code:

(i) Australian operations

The accounting effective company tax rate for the year ended 30 June 2021 is 38.7% (30 June 2020: 23.9%). A tax credit was 
recorded in the period against a loss before tax and this was higher than the prima facie tax credit due to several tax effect 
adjustments with the largest impact being the recognition of previously unrecognised tax losses. Other tax adjustments include 
the impact of functional currencies, items of income/expenditure which are not assessable/deductible and transfer pricing 
adjustments. The effective tax rate excluding the impact of these items is 30.0% (30 June 2020: 30.0%).

(ii) Group operations

The accounting effective company tax rate for the year ended 30 June 2021 is (8.5%) (30 June 2020: 42.0%). The prima facie 
tax on the statutory loss was a tax credit. However, several tax effect adjustments have amended the statutory tax position from 
a credit to a tax expense. These adjustments include several items of which the primary drivers are items of expenditure which 
are not assessable/deductible for tax, dividend withholding tax incurred, transfer pricing adjustments, unrecognised tax assets 
relating to current year losses of some of Perenti’s overseas subsidiaries and recognition of previously unrecognised Australian 
tax losses. The effective tax rate excluding the impact of these items is 30.0% (30 June 2020: 30.0%).

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6 .  F I N A N C I A L  A S S E T S A N D F I N A N C I A L L I A B I L I T I E S

This note provides information about the Group’s financial instruments, including:

• 

• 

• 

• 

an overview of all financial instruments held by the Group;

specific information about each type of financial instrument;

accounting policies;

information about determining the fair value of the instruments, including judgements and estimation uncertainty involved.

The Group holds the following financial instruments:

Financial assets  
2021

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables*

Financial assets FVOCI

2020

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables*

Financial assets FVOCI

* Excluding prepayments

Financial liabilities  
2021

Trade and other payables

Borrowings*

Lease liabilities

2020

Trade and other payables

Borrowings*

Lease liabilities

Notes

ASSETS AT 
FVOCI 

$’000

FINANCIAL ASSETS 
AT AMORTISED 
COST 
$’000

TOTAL 

$’000

6(a)

6(b)

6(c)

6(a)

6(b)

6(c)

Notes

6(d)

6(e)

6(d)

6(e)

-

-

25,536

25,536

264,741

310,897

-

575,638

264,741

310,897

25,536

601,174

 - 

 - 

 327,491 

 327,491 

 351,325 

 351,325 

 23,632 

 23,632 

 - 

 23,632 

 678,816 

 702,448 

LIABILITIES AT 
AMORTISED COST 
$’000

TOTAL 

$’000

260,311

709,677

73,809

260,311

709,677

73,809

1,043,797

1,043,797

 261,095 

 261,095 

784,711

101,618

784,711

101,618

1,147,424

1,147,424

* Excluding capitalised borrowing costs

The Group’s exposure to various risks associated with financial instruments is discussed in note 11. The maximum exposure to 
credit risk at the end of the reporting period is the carrying amount of each class of financial assets mentioned above.

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6  F I N A N C I A L A S S E T S  A N D F I N A N C I A L L I A B I L I T I E S (CO N T I N U E D)

a.  Cash and cash equivalents

Current assets

Cash at bank and in hand

b.  Trade and other receivables

Trade receivables (i)

Accrued revenue

Provision for impairment and 
expected credit losses (see note 
11(b))

Net GST / VAT receivables

Other receivables (ii)

Prepayments

21

$’000

20

$’000

264,741 

 327,491 

CURRENT 
$’000

NON-CURRENT 
$’000

21

TOTAL 
$’000

CURRENT 
$’000

NON-CURRENT 
$’000

125,660

157,753

(13,097)

270,316

29,680

6,681

19,216

325,893

-

-

-

-

-

4,220

669

4,889

125,660

157,753

 174,232 

 157,441 

(13,097)

(11,172)

270,316

320,501

29,680

10,901

19,885

 19,091 

 11,733 

 17,984 

330,782

 369,309 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 830 

 830 

20

TOTAL 
$’000

 174,232 

 157,441 

(11,172)

320,501

 19,091 

 11,733 

 18,814 

 370,139 

(i) Classification as trade and other receivables

Trade receivables are amounts due from customers for goods sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business. 
If collection of the amounts is expected in one year or less they are classified as current assets. If not, they are presented as 
non-current assets. Trade receivables are generally due for settlement not more than 90 days from the date of recognition and 
therefore are all classified as current. The Group’s impairment loss allowance and other accounting policies for trade and other 
receivables are outlined in notes 11(b) and 25(l) respectively.

(ii) Other receivables

This amount includes operating expense rebates and other receivables. If collection of other receivables is expected in one 
year or less they are classified as current assets.

(iii) Foreign exchange and interest rate risk

Information about the Group’s exposure to foreign currency risk and interest rate risk in relation to trade and other receivables 
is provided in note 11.

(iv) Fair value

Due to the short-term nature of these receivables, their carrying amount is assumed to be the same as their fair value. For the 
non-current receivables, the fair values are also not significantly different to their carrying amounts.

(v) Impairment and risk exposure

Information about the impairment of trade and other receivables, their credit quality and the Group’s exposure to credit risk, 
foreign currency risk and interest rate risk can be found in note 11(a) and 11(b).

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6 .  F I N A N C I A L  A S S E T S A N D F I N A N C I A L L I A B I L I T I E S (CO N T I N U E D)

c.  Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income

Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income include the following classes of financial assets:

Non-current assets

Listed securities

Equity securities

Unlisted securities 

Equity securities

21

$’000

20

$’000

7,386

 5,157

18,150

25,536

 18,475

 23,632

Refer note 25(o)(ii) for the accounting policy.

(i) Classification of financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income

Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI) comprise:

Equity securities which are not held for trading, and which the group has irrevocably elected at initial recognition to recognise 
in this category. These are strategic investments and the group considers this classification to be more relevant.

On disposal of these equity investments, any related balance within the fair value reserve will be transferred to retained 
earnings.

(ii) Amounts recognised in other comprehensive income

During the year, the following gains were recognised in other comprehensive income.

Gains recognised in other comprehensive income

d.  Trade and other payables

Notes

8(b)

Current liabilities

Trade payables

Accrued expenses

Payroll accruals

Net GST / VAT payables

Contract liabilities

Accrued bond interest

Dividends payable

Other creditors and accruals

21

$’000

1,904

21

$’000

20

$’000

9,170

20

$’000

110,816

 126,812 

89,175

33,384

9,589

1,986

9,100

-

6,261

82,019

 26,774 

 2,949 

 2,182 

4,864

 15,174 

321

260,311

261,095

The carrying amounts of trade and other payables are considered to be the same as their fair values, due to their short-term 
nature.

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6  F I N A N C I A L A S S E T S  A N D F I N A N C I A L L I A B I L I T I E S (CO N T I N U E D)

d.  Trade and other payables (continued)

(i) Contract liabilities

Movements in contract liabilities for liabilities relating to revenue contracts are as follows:

Opening balance

Deferred revenue recognised

Revenue recognised

Exchange differences

Closing balance

e. 

 Borrowings

Secured

USD notes

Bank loans

Capitalised borrowing costs

Other loans

Total secured borrowings

Unsecured

USD notes

Loan from non-controlling 
interest

Capitalised borrowing costs

Total unsecured borrowings

CURRENT 
$’000

NON-CURRENT 
$’000

21

TOTAL 
$’000

-

92,500

(2,413)

15,883

-

92,500

(2,413)

9,551

99,638

105,970

600,004

600,004

1,290

1,290

-

-

-

6,332

6,332

-

-

(3,064)

(3,064)

(10,009)

(13,073)

591,285

588,221

21

$’000

2,182

1,619

(1,751)

(64)

1,986

CURRENT 
$’000

NON-CURRENT 
$’000

20

$’000

 5,115 

622

(3,600)

45

2,182

20

TOTAL 
$’000

 - 

 - 

 - 

 7,148 

 7,148 

 -

 - 

 - 

 - 

 506,297 

 506,297 

 251,981 

 251,981 

(2,472)

 16,580 

(2,472)

 23,728 

 772,386 

 779,534 

 -

 -

 2,705 

 2,705 

 - 

 - 

 2,705 

 2,705 

Total borrowings

3,268

690,923

694,191

 7,148 

 775,091 

 782,239 

At 30 June 2021, the Group had the following facilities that were not drawn at balance date:

Total unutilised facilities

Bank loans

21

$’000

20

$’000

329,580

344,853

In April 2019, Perenti Global Limited refinanced its A$300 million revolving credit facilities. This was subsequently increased by 
A$100 million in December 2019. The facilities are dual currency, revolving, mature on 1 July 2023 and have been provided by 
a number of leading lending institutions in the Australian banking market. During June 2020, a A$130 million syndicated facility 
agreement was entered by the Group as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, the Group’s total facility 
limit of A$530 million was reduced to A$400 million. As at 30 June 2021, 24% of these facilities were drawn down.

Other loans

Other loans include asset financing arrangements with various financiers which are secured by the specific assets financed.

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e.  Borrowings (continued)

USD notes

On 7 October 2020 Perenti issued 6.50% Guaranteed Senior Notes due for repayment 7 October 2025 with a US$450 million 
principal amount. The notes were issued by Perenti Finance Pty Ltd, are unsecured and have been guaranteed by Perenti 
Global Limited and its subsidiaries. The interest on the notes is payable semi-annually on 7 April and 7 October. The notes are 
quoted on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

The proceeds of the notes were applied towards the early redemption of the US$350 million 6.625% Senior Secured Notes,  
due May 2022 and the partial repayment of Perenti’s drawings against its revolving credit facilities.

Loan from non-controlling interest

The loan is from the joint venture partner to Underground Mining Alliance Limited.

Covenants on financing facilities

The Group’s financing facilities contain undertakings including an obligation to comply with certain financial covenants.  
All banking covenants have been complied with at reporting date and the Group has significant headroom available under  
all covenants.

Refinancing requirements

When existing facilities approach maturity, the Group will seek to renegotiate with existing and new financiers to replace or 
extend the maturity date of those facilities. The Group’s earnings profile, credit rating, state of the economy, conditions in 
financial markets and other factors may influence the outcome of those negotiations.

Credit ratings

The Group currently has a credit rating of Ba2 (Outlook Stable) from Moody’s and a credit rating of BB (Outlook Stable) from 
Standard & Poor’s. In addition, Fitch assigned a credit rating of BB (Outlook Positive) to the Group during September 2020. 
Where a credit rating is reduced or placed on negative watch, customers and suppliers may be less willing to contract with the 
Group. Banks and other lending institutions may demand more stringent terms (including increased pricing) on debt facilities  
to reflect the higher credit risk profile.

Fair value

For the majority of the borrowings, the fair values are not materially different to their carrying amounts, since the interest 
payable on those borrowings is either close to current market rates or the borrowings are of a short-term nature.  
Material differences are identified only for the following borrowings:

21

FAIR VALUE 

$’000

CARRYING 
AMOUNT 
$’000

20

FAIR VALUE 

$’000

CARRYING 
AMOUNT 
$’000

On-balance sheet 

Traded financial liabilities

USD notes - secured US$350 million

-

-

 506,297

 503,858

USD notes - unsecured US$450 million

600,004

631,864

-

-

The fair values of non-current borrowings are based on market price (Level 1) at the balance sheet date. The 30 June 2020  
fair values of non-current borrowings were based on discounted cash flows using a discount rate of 6.98%.

Risk exposures

Information about the Group’s exposure to interest rate and foreign currency changes is provided in note 11.

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f.  Recognised fair value measurements

(i) Fair value hierarchy

This section explains the judgements and estimates made in determining the fair values of the financial instruments that are 
recognised and measured at fair value in the financial statements. To provide an indication about the reliability of the inputs 
used in determining fair value, the Group has classified its financial instruments into the three levels prescribed under the 
accounting standards. An explanation of each level follows below:

AT 30 JUNE 2021

Financial assets

Financial assets FVOCI

Australian listed equity securities

Australian unlisted equity securities

CAD listed equity securities

GBP listed equity securities

Total financial assets

AT 30 JUNE 2020

Financial assets

Financial assets FVOCI

Australian listed equity securities

Australian unlisted equity securities

CAD listed equity securities

GBP listed equity securities

Total financial assets

LEVEL 1 
$’000

LEVEL 2 
$’000

LEVEL 3 
$’000

TOTAL 
$’000

6,118

-

704

564

7,386

-

-

-

-

-

-

18,150

-

-

6,118

18,150

704

564

18,150

25,536

LEVEL 1 
$’000

LEVEL 2 
$’000

LEVEL 3 
$’000

TOTAL 
$’000

 4,365 

 - 

 533 

 259 

 5,157 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 18,475 

 - 

 - 

 4,365 

 18,475 

 533 

 259 

 18,475 

 23,632 

There were no transfers between levels 1 and 2 for recurring fair value measurements during the year. For transfers into and out 
of level 3 measurements see (iii) below.

The Group’s policy is to recognise transfers into and transfers out of fair value hierarchy levels as at the end of the reporting 
period.

Level 1: The fair value of financial instruments traded in active markets (such as publicly traded derivatives and equity securities) 
is based on quoted market prices at the end of the reporting period. The quoted market price used for financial assets held by 
the Group is the current bid price. These instruments are included in level 1.

Level 2: The fair value of financial instruments that are not traded in an active market (for example, over-the-counter 
derivatives) is determined using valuation techniques which maximise the use of observable market data and rely as little as 
possible on entity-specific estimates. If all significant inputs required to fair value an instrument are observable, the instrument 
is included in level 2.

Level 3: If one or more of the significant inputs is not based on observable market data, the instrument is included in level 3. 
This is the case for unlisted equity securities.

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f.  Recognised fair value measurements (continued)

(ii) Valuation techniques used to determine fair values (level 1)

Specific valuation techniques used to value financial instruments include:

•  the use of quoted market prices or dealer quotes for similar instruments.

(iii) Fair value measurements using significant unobservable inputs (level 3)

The following table presents the changes in level 3 items for the period ended 30 June 2021:

Opening balance 1 July 2019

Gains recognised in other comprehensive income

Transfers between levels

Closing balance 30 June 2020

Opening balance 1 July 2020

Transfers between levels

Gains recognised in other comprehensive income

Closing balance 30 June 2021

UNLISTED EQUIT Y 
SECURITIES 
$’000

11,610

7,125

(260)

TOTAL 

$’000

11,610

7,125

(260)

18,475

18,475

UNLISTED EQUIT Y 
SECURITIES 
$’000

TOTAL 

$’000

18,475

 18,475 

(325)

-

(325)

-

18,150 

18,150 

During the year ended 30 June 2021 one of our unlisted equity investments became listed and was reclassified from Level 3 to 
Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy. Other than the transfer of equity securities from level 3 to level 1 explained above, there were 
no transfers between the levels of the fair value hierarchy. There were also no changes made to any of the valuation techniques 
applied as of 30 June 2021.

(iv) Valuation inputs and relationships to fair value

Changes in the fair value of unlisted equity securities are analysed at least each reporting period by discussion with the  
Chief Financial Officer. As part of this discussion the team presents a report that explains the reason for any fair value 
movements based on recent transactions of the unlisted equity securities, considering the financial information and 
performance of the unlisted equity securities.

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This note provides information about the Group’s non-financial assets and liabilities, including:

• 

specific information about each type of non-financial asset and non-financial liability

- inventories (note 7(a))

- assets classified as held for sale (note 7(b))

- property, plant and equipment (note 7(c))

- leases (note 7(d))

- intangible assets (note 7(e))

- deferred tax balances (note 7(f))

- employee benefit obligations (note 7(g))

accounting policies 

information about determining the fair value of the assets and liabilities, including judgements and estimation uncertainty 
involved. 

• 

• 

a.  Inventories

Work in progress

Finished goods

Consumables and store items

(i) Assigning costs to inventories

21

$’000

34,029

19,870

160,512

214,411

20

$’000

19,575

 18,007

212,797

 250,379 

The costs of individual items of inventory are determined using weighted average costs. See note 25(m) for the Group’s other 
accounting policies for inventories.

(ii) Amounts recognised in profit or loss

Write-downs of inventories to net realisable value amounted to $20,883,000 (2020: $19,271,000). Impairment of $10,660,000 
(2020:$19,011,000) was recorded against inventory balances (refer to note 3) and inventory provision of $10,223,000 
(2020:$260,000) was also recorded and charged against materials expense through the normal course of business in the 
consolidated statement of profit or loss.

b.  Assets classified as held for sale

Current assets

Property, plant and equipment

21

$’000

28,894

28,894

20

$’000

-

-

On 24 June 2021 the Group accepted an offer to sell its Canning Vale premises (land and buildings) for consideration of $32.1 
million. Due diligence was completed and the sale is expected to be finalised by the end of 2021.

The asset is presented within total assets of the Group Functions segment in note 1.

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c.  Property, plant and equipment

Non-current

At 1 July 2019

Cost or fair value

Accumulated depreciation

Net book amount

Year ended 30 June 2020

Opening net book amount

Adjustment for change in accounting policy

Restated opening net book amount

Year ended 30 June 2020

Restated opening net book amount

Exchange differences

Additions

Disposals

Depreciation charge

Impairment loss

Transfers between classes

Transfer from leased assets

Closing net book amount

At 30 June 2020

Cost or fair value

Accumulated depreciation

Net book amount

Year ended 30 June 2021

Opening net book amount

Exchange differences

Additions

Disposals

Depreciation charge

Impairment loss

Transfers between classes

Transfer from leased assets

Transfer from/(to) inventory

Acquisition of subsidiary

Revaluation of land and buildings

Assets classified as held for sale and other disposals

Closing net book amount

At 30 June 2021

Cost or fair value

Accumulated depreciation and impairment

Net book amount

L AND AND 
BUILDINGS 

PL ANT AND 
EQUIPMENT 

$’000

$’000

PL ANT AND 
EQUIPMENT  
UNDER FINANCE 
$’000

TOTAL 

$’000

60,378

(2,034)

58,344

1,707,063

(918,995)

788,068

 58,344 

 788,068 

 - 

 - 

 58,344 

 788,068 

 58,344 

 788,068 

304

 588 

 - 

(2,101)

 - 

(107)

 - 

5,128

 234,492 

(38,309)

(195,271)

(40,597)

107

 7,450 

 57,028 

 761,068 

66,396

(9,368)

57,028

57,028

(1,753)

201

-

(2,086)

-

940

-

-

-

(346)

(28,894)

25,090

1,704,693

(943,625)

761,068

761,068

(16,126)

276,948

(84,927)

(185,857)

(54,054)

(2,684)

5,688

(3,854)

18

-

-

696,220

28,038

(2,948)

25,090

1,657,301

(961,081)

696,220

86,102

(44,848)

41,254

 41,254 

(41,254)

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

-

 - 

 - 

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1,853,543

(965,877)

887,666

 887,666 

(41,254)

 846,412 

 846,412 

5,432

 235,080 

(38,309)

(197,372)

(40,597)

-

 7,450 

 818,096 

1,771,089

(952,993)

818,096

818,096

(17,879)

277,149

(84,927)

(187,943)

(54,054)

(1,744)

5,688

(3,854)

18

(346)

(28,894)

721,310

1,685,339

(964,029)

721,310

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c.  Property, plant and equipment (continued)

(i) Non-current assets pledged as security

Refer to note 22 for information on non-current assets pledged as security by the Group.

(ii) Carrying amounts that would have been recognised if land and buildings were stated at cost

If freehold land and buildings were stated on the historical cost basis, the amounts would be as follows:

Buildings

Cost

Accumulated depreciation

Net book amount

21

$’000

39,837

(18,900)

20,937

20

$’000

 41,003 

(17,897)

23,106

(iii) Depreciation methods and useful lives

Land is not depreciated. Depreciation on major plant and equipment and components is calculated on machine hours worked 
over their estimated useful life. Depreciation on other assets is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate their cost 
or revalued amounts, net of their residual values, over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

•  Buildings  
•  Plant and equipment  

5 - 25 years
2 - 15 years

See note 25(p) for the other accounting policies relevant to property, plant and equipment.

d.  Leases

(i) Amounts recognised in the balance sheet

The balance sheet shows the following amounts relating to leases:

Right-of-use assets

Properties

Equipment

Motor Vehicles

Lease liabilities

Current

Non-current

21

$’000

19,012

55,341

338

20

$’000

 26,067 

 84,640 

 32 

74,691

 110,739 

24,537

49,272

73,809

 29,482 

 72,136 

 101,618 

Additions to the right-of-use assets during the 2021 financial year were $2,878,000 (2020: $62,773,000).

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d.  Leases (continued)

(ii) Amounts recognised in the statement of profit or loss

The statement of profit or loss shows the following amounts relating to leases:

Depreciation charge of right-of-use assets

Properties

Equipment

Motor Vehicles

Interest expense (included in finance cost)

Expense relating to short-term leases (included in rental and hire expenses)

Expense relating to leases of low-value assets that are not shown above as  
short-term leases (included in rental and hire expenses)

Expense relating to variable lease payments not included in lease liabilities  
(included in rental and hire expenses)

Notes

4(b)

21

$’000

8,291

25,738

258

34,287

5,294

16,440

225

445

20

$’000

 7,899 

 26,752 

 218 

 34,869 

 6,238 

17,890

202

246

*  The prior year comparatives have been updated to include all short term leases including not only those under formal short term lease agreements but also one-

off rental hire and casual monthly rolling agreements.

The total cash outflow for leases (including interest) in 2021 was $35,577,000 (2020: $38,861,000).

(iii) The Group’s leasing activities and accounting treatment

The group leases various offices, warehouses, equipment and vehicles across various countries. Rental contracts are made  
for fixed periods of up to 25 years, but may have extension options as described in (v), below.

Contracts may contain both lease and non-lease components. The Group allocates the consideration in the contract to the 
lease and non-lease components based on their relative stand-alone prices.

Lease terms are negotiated on an individual basis and contain a wide range of different terms and conditions. The lease 
agreements do not impose any covenants other than the security interests in the leased assets that are held by the lessor. 
Leased assets may not be used as security for borrowing purposes.

Assets and liabilities arising from a lease are initially measured on a present value basis. Lease liabilities include the net present 
value of the following lease payments:

• 

• 

• 

• 

fixed payments (including in-substance fixed payments), less any lease incentives receivable

variable lease payments that are based on an index or a rate, initially measured using the index or rate as at the 
commencement date

amounts expected to be payable by the Group under residual value guarantees

the exercise price of a purchase option if the Group is reasonably certain to exercise that option, and

•  payments of penalties for terminating the lease, if the lease term reflects the Group exercising that option.

The Group is exposed to potential future increases in variable lease payments based on an index or rate, which are not 
included in the lease liability until they take effect. When adjustments to lease payments based on an index or rate take effect, 
the lease liability is reassessed and adjusted against the right-of-use asset. Lease payments to be made under reasonably 
certain extension options are also included in the measurement of the liability.

The lease payments are discounted using the interest rate implicit in the lease. If that rate cannot be readily determined, which 
is generally the case for leases in the Group, the lessee’s incremental borrowing rate is used, being the rate that the individual 
lessee would have to pay to borrow the funds necessary to obtain an asset of similar value to the right-of-use asset in a similar 
economic environment with similar terms, security and conditions.

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d. 

 Leases (continued)

(iii) The Group’s leasing activities and how these are accounted for (continued)

To determine the incremental borrowing rate, the Group:

•  where possible, uses recent third-party financing received by the individual lessee as a starting point, adjusted to reflect 

changes in financing conditions since third party financing was received;

•  uses a build-up approach that starts with a risk-free interest rate adjusted for credit risk for leases held by Perenti Global 

Limited, which does not have recent third party financing, and

•  makes adjustments specific to the lease, eg term, country, currency and security.

Lease payments are allocated between principal and finance cost. The finance cost is charged to profit or loss over the lease 
period so as to produce a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability for each period.

Right-of-use assets are measured at cost comprising the following:

• 

• 

• 

• 

the amount of the initial measurement of lease liability;

any lease payments made at or before the commencement date less any lease incentives received;

any initial direct costs, and

restoration costs.

Right-of-use assets are generally depreciated over the shorter of the asset’s useful life and the lease term on a straight-line 
basis. If the Group is reasonably certain to exercise a purchase option, the right-of-use asset is depreciated over the underlying 
asset’s useful life. While the Group revalues its land and buildings that are presented within property, plant and equipment, it 
has chosen not to do so for the right-of-use buildings held by the Group.

Payments associated with short-term leases of equipment and vehicles and all leases of low-value assets are recognised on a 
straight-line basis as an expense in profit or loss. Short-term leases are leases with a lease term of 12 months or less. Low-value 
leases are leases with a total lease payments less than $7,500 (US$5,000).

(iv) Variable lease payments

Some equipment leases contain variable payment terms that are linked to units of use of the particular asset. Often these will 
include a minimum usage charge each month which is considered the fixed element, and then items over and above the 
minimum is considered the variable element. Variable lease payments that depend on units of use are recognised in profit or 
loss in the period in which the condition that triggers those payments occurs.

(v) Extension and termination options

Extension and termination options are included in a number of property and equipment leases across the Group. These 
are used to maximise operational flexibility in terms of managing the assets used in the Group’s operations. The majority of 
extension and termination options held are exercisable only by the Group and not by the respective lessor.

Critical judgements in determining the lease term

In determining the lease term, management considers all facts and circumstances that create an economic incentive to 
exercise an extension option, or not exercise a termination option. Extension options (or periods after termination options) are 
only included in the lease term if the lease is reasonably certain to be extended (or not terminated).

For leases of warehouses, offices and equipment, the following factors are normally the most relevant:

• 

• 

If there are significant penalties to terminate (or not extend), the Group is typically reasonably certain to extend (or not 
terminate).

If any leasehold improvements are expected to have a significant remaining value, the Group is typically reasonably certain 
to extend (or not terminate).

•  Otherwise, the Group considers other factors including historical lease durations and the costs and business disruption 

required to replace the leased asset.

As at 30 June 2021, potential future cash outflows of $27,273,000 (undiscounted) (2020: $12,690,000) have not been included 
in the lease liability because it is not reasonably certain that the leases will be extended (or not terminated).

The lease term is reassessed if an option is actually exercised (or not exercised) or the Group becomes obliged to exercise 
(or not exercise) it. The assessment of reasonable certainty is only revised if a significant event or a significant change in 
circumstances occurs, which affects this assessment, and that is within the control of the lessee. During the current financial 
year, the financial effect of revising lease terms to reflect the effect of exercising extension and termination options was an 
increase in recognised lease liabilities and right-of-use assets was $nil.

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e.  Intangible assets

Year ended 30 June 2020

Opening net book amount

Additions

Amortisation charge

Closing net book amount

At 30 June 2020

Cost

Accumulated amortisation and impairment

Net book amount

Year ended 30 June 2021

Opening net book amount

Acquisition of subsidiary

Transfer

Amortisation charge

Closing net book amount

At 30 June 2021

Cost

Accumulated amortisation and impairment 

Net book amount

(i) Amortisation methods and useful lives

GOODWILL 

SOFTWARE 

$’000

$’000

CUSTOMER 
REL ATED 
INTANGIBLES 
$’000

TOTAL 

$’000

 449,769 

 - 

 - 

 449,769 

 449,769 

 - 

 449,769 

 1,112 

 151 

(461)

 802 

 2,638 

(1,836)

 802 

GOODWILL 

SOFTWARE 

$’000

$’000

449,769

5,000

-

-

454,769

454,769

-

454,769

802

6,217

1,744

(1,201)

7,562

15,171

(7,609)

7,562

 292,688 

 743,569 

 - 

(38,103)

 254,585 

 321,458 

(66,873)

 254,585 

CUSTOMER 
REL ATED 
INTANGIBLES 
$’000

254,585

-

-

(38,102)

216,483

321,458

(104,975)

216,483

 151 

(38,564)

 705,156 

 773,865 

(68,709)

 705,156 

TOTAL 

$’000

705,156

11,217

1,744

(39,303)

678,814

791,398

(112,584)

678,814

The Group amortises intangible assets with a limited useful life using the straight-line method over the following periods:

Software 

5-8 years
• 
•  Customer related intangibles  2-12 years

See note 25(r) for the other accounting policies relevant to intangible assets, and note 25(j) for the Group’s policy regarding 
impairments.

(ii) Customer related intangibles

The customer related intangibles were acquired as part of the Barminco acquisition in 2019. They were recognised at their fair 
value at the date of acquisition and are subsequently amortised on a straight-line based on the timing of projected cash flows 
from the contracts over their estimated useful lives.

(iii) Impairment considerations for goodwill

The Group tested whether goodwill has impairment at 30 June 2021 and no impairment was recorded. Goodwill is recognised 
for the Underground segment following the Barminco acquisition in 2019 and on the newly acquired technology companies 
(idoba) as disclosed in note 13.

On 1 July 2020 the Group acquired three new technology companies (idoba) and recognised $5.0 million of Goodwill.  
At 30 June 2021, the recoverable amount of the assets acquired have been determined based upon fair value less cost of 
disposal, with reference to the recent purchase price of the acquired interest. There are no indicators to suggest that the fair 
value of the idoba entities has significantly changed.

The recoverable amount of the cash generating units (CGUs) for the Underground segment was determined based on value-
in-use calculations which require the use of assumptions.

(iv) Key assumptions used for value-in-use calculations

In determining the CGU’s recoverable amount, estimates are made regarding the present value of future cash flows. These 
estimates are calculated using management judgement, contain elements of risk and uncertainty, can be impacted by changes 
in economic conditions, and changes to the discount rates used to calculate the present value of future cash flows.

The basis of the estimates used to determine recoverable amounts at 30 June 2021 are set out below:

•  Cashflow projections were based upon individual committed and uncommitted project forecasts for the prospective five 

year period.

•  Cashflow projections beyond the five-year period were extrapolated using a growth rate of 2.5%.

• 

EBITDA margins were based upon historical averages adjusted for prevailing economic conditions. These have not been 
disclosed as they are considered to be commercially sensitive.

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e.  Intangible assets (continued) 

(iv) Key assumptions used for value-in-use calculations (continued)

•  The weighted average cost of capital post-tax discount rates were in the range of 9.6% and 14.4% and varied depending on 
the country risk assigned to the region in which a project was domiciled. The present value of cash flows is sensitive to the 
growth and discount rates used noting a higher discount rate will result in a lower recoverable value.

•  A foreign exchange rate of $0.75 USD:AUD spot rate was used to translate the US Dollar denominated CGU’s into Australian 

Dollars.

Significant estimate: Impact of possible changes in key assumptions 

Management have considered various reasonably possible value-in-use sensitivities for the Underground Mining CGU at  
30 June 2021, when testing goodwill for impairment. The table below shows the impairment impact of adjusting these 
sensitivity assumptions.

ASSUMPTION

Growth rate in terminal year

(decrease reduces value)

Discount rate

(decrease increases value)

Foreign exchange rate

(decrease increases value)

EBITDA margin - average

(decrease reduces value)

% CHANGE

+1.0%

-1.0%

-1.0%

+1.0%

-5cents

+5cents

+1.0%

-1.0%

UNDERGROUND MINING 
IMPAIRMENT (A$)

No impact

No impact

No impact

No impact

No impact

No impact

No impact

No impact

The above sensitivities have been performed holding all other assumptions in the model constant.

f.  Deferred tax balances

(i) Deferred tax assets

The balance comprises temporary differences attributable to:

Employee benefits

Accruals

Provision for obsolete stock

Doubtful debts

Depreciation

Lease liabilities

Other

Inventory

Borrowing and business expenses

Unrealised foreign exchange

Current/prior year tax losses recognised

R&D tax offset recognised

Notes

21

$’000

20

$’000

24,999

 22,660 

5,500

1,828

2,444

10,819

14,683

60,273

2,262

5,052

-

151,710

4,999

164,023

 3,308 

 1,166 

 2,613 

 12,484 

16,981

59,212

 2,239 

 7,843 

 8,860 

 109,528 

 4,999 

 133,469 

Total deferred tax assets

224,296

192,681

Set off deferred tax liabilities pursuant to set-off provisions

7(f)(ii)

Net deferred tax assets

Deferred tax assets expected to be recovered within 12 months

Deferred tax assets expected to be recovered after more than 12 months

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(76,555)

147,741

64,023

160,273

224,296

(61,609)

 131,072 

69,961

122,720

192,681

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f.  Deferred tax balances (continued)

(i) Deferred tax assets (continued)

EMPLOYEE 
BENEFITS 
$’000

At 1 July 2019

19,810

16,526

DEPRECIATION 

ACCRUALS 

$’000

DOUBTFUL 
DEBTS 
$’000

LEASE 
LIABILITIES 
$’000

TA X LOSSES 
/OFFSETS 
$’000

OTHER 

TOTAL 

$’000

$’000

2,656

-

93,727

15,146

151,920

$’000

4,055

Credited/(charged) to 
profit or loss

 2,850 

(4,042)

(747)

(43)

16,981

 20,800 

5,671

41,470

Charged directly to equity

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

(709)

(709)

At 30 June 2020

 22,660 

 12,484 

 3,308 

 2,613 

16,981

 114,527 

20,108

192,681

Credited/(charged) to 
profit or loss

2,339

(1,665)

2,192

(169)

(2,298)

42,182

(8,326)

34,255

Charged directly to equity

-

-

-

-

-

-

(2,640)

(2,640)

At 30 June 2021

24,999

10,819

5,500

2,444

14,683

156,709

9,142

224,296

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each balance sheet 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 tax asset to be utilised.

(ii) Deferred tax liabilities

The balance comprises temporary differences attributable to:

Notes

Foreign entities distributable profits

Depreciation

Intangibles - customer relationships

Revaluation of land and buildings

Right-of-use assets

Other

Receivables

Unrealised foreign exchange

Prepayments

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Uncertain tax positions in Africa

Total deferred tax liabilities

Adjustment of deferred tax liabilities pursuant to set-off provisions

7(f)(i)

Net deferred tax liabilities

Deferred tax liabilities expected to be settled within 12 months

Deferred tax liabilities expected to be settled after more than 12 months

21

$’000

-

24,122

64,944

7,963

13,692

110,721

10

9,855

245

2,926

30,933

43,969

154,690

(76,555)

78,135

25,937

128,753

154,690

20

$’000

 6,317 

26,456

 76,375 

 9,207 

16,493

134,848

23

-

 297 

 2,288 

 34,284 

36,892

171,740

(61,609)

 110,131 

35,580

136,160

171,740

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f.  Deferred tax balances (continued)

(ii) Deferred tax liabilities (continued)

FOREIGN 
ENTITIES 
DISTRIBUTABLE 
PROFITS 
$’000

At 1 July 2019

14,199

-

88,164

$’000

$’000

RIGHT-OF-USE 
ASSETS 

INTANGIBLES 
CUSTOMER 
REL ATIONSHIP 

REVALUATION 
OF L AND & 
BUILDINGS 

DEPRECIATION 

UNCERTAIN TA X 
POSITIONS 

OTHER 

TOTAL 

$’000

9,174

33

9,207

$’000

23,712

2,744

26,456

$’000

$’000

$’000

42,293

930

178,472

(8,009)

1,678

(6,732)

34,284

2,608

171,740

(7,882)

6,317

16,493

16,493

(11,789)

76,375

(6,317)

(2,801)

(11,431)

(1,692)

(2,334)

(3,351)

10,428

(17,498)

-

-

-

-

-

448

-

-

448

13,692

64,944

7,515

24,570

30,933

13,036

154,690

Charged/(credited) 
to profit or loss

At 30 June 2020

Charged/(credited) 
to profit or loss

Credited directly to 
equity

At 30 June 2021

Uncertain tax positions

The Group is subject to income taxes across a number of global jurisdictions and therefore significant judgement is required 
when determining the provision for income taxes on a worldwide basis. There are some transactions and calculations 
undertaken during the ordinary course of business for which the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. The Company 
recognises liabilities for anticipated tax audit issues based on estimates of whether additional taxes will be due. Where the  
final tax outcome of these matters is different from amounts provided, such differences will impact the current and deferred 
tax provisions in the period in which such outcome is obtained. In addition, the Company regularly assesses the recognition 
and recoverability of deferred tax assets. This requires judgements about the application of income tax legislation in 
jurisdictions in which Perenti operates. Changes in circumstances may alter expectations and affect the carrying amount  
of deferred tax assets.

Offsetting within tax consolidated group

Perenti Global Limited and its wholly-owned Australian subsidiaries have applied the tax consolidation legislation which means 
that these entities are taxed as a single entity. As a consequence, the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities of these 
entities have been offset in the consolidated financial statements.

g.  Employee benefit obligations

Leave obligations

(i) Leave obligations

NON- 
CURRENT 
$’000

21

TOTAL 
$’000

2,935

73,654

NON- 
CURRENT 
$’000

20

TOTAL 
$’000

 1,804 

 73,706 

CURRENT 
$’000

 71,902 

CURRENT 
$’000

70,719

Leave obligations cover the Group’s liabilities for long service leave and annual leave, refer to note 25(w).

The current leave obligations include all of the accrued annual leave, the unconditional entitlements to long service leave 
where employees have completed the required period of service and employee entitlements to pro-rata payments where 
applicable. The total amount of the current provision of $70,719,000 (2020: $71,902,000) is presented as current, since 
the Group does not have an unconditional right to defer settlement for any of these obligations. However, based on past 
experience, the Group does not expect all employees to take the full amount of accrued leave or require payment within the 
next 12 months.

The following amounts reflect leave that is not expected to be taken or paid within the next 12 months.

Current leave obligations expected to be settled after 12 months

21

$’000

20

$’000

25,522

38,386

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h.  Recognised fair value measurements

(i) Fair value hierarchy

This note explains the judgements and estimates made in determining the fair values of the non-financial assets that are 
recognised and measured at fair value in the financial statements. To provide an indication about the reliability of the inputs 
used in determining fair value, the Group has classified its non-financial assets into the three levels prescribed under the 
accounting standards. An explanation of each level is provided in note 6(f) and 7(h)(ii)-(v).

At 30 June 2021

Assets

Land and buildings

Office buildings 

Industrial sites

Assets classified as held for sale

Total non-financial assets

At 30 June 2020

Assets

Land and buildings

Office buildings 

Industrial sites

Total non-financial assets

LEVEL 1 
$’000

LEVEL 2 
$’000

LEVEL 3 
$’000

TOTAL 
$’000

-

-

-

-

 - 

 - 

 - 

-

-

-

-

 - 

 - 

 - 

3,839

21,251

28,894

53,984

3,839

21,251

28,894

53,984

 5,674 

51,463

57,137

 5,674 

51,463

57,137

There were no transfers between any levels for recurring fair value measurements during the current or prior period.

(ii) Valuation techniques used to determine level 3 fair values

The Group obtains independent valuations for its freehold land and buildings (classified within property, plant and equipment) 
at least every three years, see note 7(h)(v) for details. At the end of each reporting period, the directors update their assessment 
of the fair value of each property, taking into account the most recent independent valuations. The directors determine a 
property’s value within a range of reasonable fair value estimates.

The best evidence of fair value is current prices in an active market for similar properties. Where such information is not 
available, the directors consider information from a variety of sources including:

• 

• 

capitalised income projections based on a property’s estimated net market income, and a capitalisation rate derived from 
an analysis of market evidence.

current prices in an active market for properties of a different nature or recent prices of similar properties in less active 
markets, adjusted to reflect those differences.

(iii) Fair value measurements using significant unobservable inputs (level 3)

The following table presents the changes in level 3 items for the periods ended 30 June 2020 and 30 June 2021 for recurring 
fair value measurements:

Consolidated entity

Opening balance 1 July 2019

Acquisitions

Depreciation and impairment

(Losses)/gains recognised in other comprehensive income

Closing balance 30 June 2020

Acquisitions

Depreciation and impairment

Revaluation

Transfers between classes

Losses recognised in other comprehensive income

Closing balance 30 June 2021

OFFICE  
BUILDINGS 
$’000

INDUSTRIAL  
SITES 
$’000

7,512

-

(800)

(1,038)

5,674

-

(776)

(1,962)

995

(92)

3,839

50,832

588

(1,343)

1,386

51,463

201

(1,524)

1,616

(55)

(1,556)

50,145

TOTAL 

$’000

58,344

588

(2,143)

348

57,137

201

(2,300)

(346)

940

(1,648)

53,984

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h.  Recognised fair value measurements (continued)

(iv) Valuation inputs and relationships to fair value

The following table summarises the quantitative information about the significant unobservable inputs used in level 3 fair value 
measurements.

DESCRIPTION

FAIR VALUE AT

VALUATION 
TECHNIQUE

UNOBSERVABLE 
INPUTS*

RANGE OF INPUTS (PROBABILIT Y-
WEIGHTED AVERAGE)

REL ATIONSHIP OF 
UNOBSERVABLE INPUTS TO 
FAIR VALUE

30 JUNE  
2021 
$’000

30 JUNE 
 2020 
 $’000

41,401

37,716

Industrial Sites 
-Australia 
and Assets 
classified as 
held for sale

Direct 
comparison

Selection of 
industrial sites 
with similar 
approximate utility

Income 
capitalisation

Capitalisation  
rate

Industrial Sites 
- Ghana

8,744

13,747

Direct 
comparison

Office 
Buildings - 
Ghana

3,839

5,674

Direct 
comparison

Market rental 
value per (m2)

Selection of 
industrial sites 
with similar 
approximate utility

Selection of 
industrial sites 
with similar 
approximate utility

2021

$5-$632  
per m2  
($340)

2020

-

The higher the rate per 
square metre, the higher 
the fair value

-

- 

7.25-11.75% 
(7.77%)

The higher the 
capitalisation rate, the 
lower the fair value

$18-104  
per m2  
($48)

The higher the market 
rate, the higher the fair 
value

$213-$653  
per m2  
($395)

$24-1,284  
per m2  
($335)

The higher the rate per 
square metre, the higher 
the fair value

$857 per m2 
($857)

$1,850  
per m2  
($1,850)

The higher the rate per 
square metre, the higher 
the fair value

*  There were no significant inter-relationships between unobservable inputs that materially affect fair values.

(v) Valuation processes

The Group engages external, independent and qualified valuers to determine the fair value of the Group’s land and buildings 
every three years. The fair values of the industrial sites properties have been determined by members of the Australian Property 
Institute and the Ghana Institute of Surveyors for the year ended 30 June 2021.

The main level 3 inputs used by the Group are derived and evaluated as follows:

• 

Industrial sites - discount rates, terminal yields, expected vacancy rates and values per square metre are estimated by 
members of the Australian Property Institute, and the Ghana Institute of Surveyors based on comparable transactions and 
industry data;

•  Historical cost for recently completed buildings.

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8   E Q U I T Y

a.   Contributed equity

Fully paid ordinary shares

704,295,221

 701,528,401

1,137,783

 1,135,323

21

SHARES

20

SHARES

21

$’000

20

$’000

(i) Movements in ordinary share capital:

Details

Opening balance 1 July 2020

Dividend reinvestment plan issues

Employee share schemes issue (options and rights)

Contribution of equity, net of transaction costs and tax

Balance 30 June 2021

(ii) Ordinary shares

NUMBER OF 
SHARES

TOTAL 

$’000

 701,528,401 

 1,135,323 

8(a)(iii)

846,199

1,920,621

-

962

2,082

(584)

704,295,221 

1,137,783 

Ordinary shares entitle the holder to participate in dividends and the proceeds on winding up of the Company in proportion to 
the number of and amounts paid on the shares held.

On a show of hands every holder of ordinary shares present at a meeting in person or by proxy, is entitled to one vote, and on a 
poll each share is entitled to one vote.

Ordinary shares have no par value and the Company does not have a limited amount of authorised capital.

(iii) Dividend reinvestment plan

The Company’s Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) was suspended with effect from, 16 March 2021 until further notice. While 
the DRP was suspended, participants in the DRP received cash dividends including the dividend paid on 7 April 2021. Please 
refer to ASX announcement dated 22 February 2021 for further details. A copy of the DRP rules was attached to Perenti’s ASX 
announcement released on 6 April 2020.

(iv) Options

Information relating to the Ausdrill Limited Employee Option Plan, including details of options issued, exercised and forfeited 
during the financial year and options outstanding at the end of the financial year, is set out in note 19.

(v) Rights

Information relating to the Perenti Global Limited Incentive Rights Plan, including details of rights issued, vested and forfeited 
during the financial year and rights outstanding at the end of the financial year, is set out in note 19.

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b.  Other reserves

The following table shows a breakdown of the balance sheet line item ‘other reserves’ and the movements in these reserves 
during the year. A description of the nature and purpose of each reserve is provided below:

REVALUATION 
SURPLUS 

FINANCIAL 
ASSETS AT  
FVOCI 

SHARE- BASED 
PAYMENTS 

TRANSACTIONS 
WITH NCI 

FOREIGN 
CURRENCY 
TRANSL ATION 

TOTAL 

Notes

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

Balance at 1 July 2019

24,451

246

8,455

(2,664)

(41,323)

(10,835)

Transfer from financial assets at FVOCI 
reserve to retained earnings

Net amount transferred

Revaluation - gross

6(c)

Deferred tax

Currency translation differences

Other comprehensive income

Transactions with owners in their 
capacity as owners

Share-based payments expense

19(c)

Shares issued on conversion of 
employee share options

-

-

-

-

229

229

-

-

(409)

(409)

9,170

(2,628)

-

6,542

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

4,707

(98)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

2,499

(13,739)

(11,240)

(409)

(409)

9,170

(129)

(13,510)

(4,469)

-

-

4,707

(98)

At 30 June 2020

24,680

6,379

13,064

(2,664)

(52,563)

(11,104)

Notes

6(c)

Balance at 1 July 2020

Revaluation - gross

Deferred tax

Currency translation differences

Other comprehensive income

Transactions with owners in their 
capacity as owners

Share-based payments expense

19(c)

Shares issued on conversion of 
employee share options

REVALUATION 
SURPLUS 

FINANCIAL 
ASSETS AT  
FVOCI 

SHARE- BASED 
PAYMENTS 

TRANSACTIONS 
WITH NCI 

FOREIGN 
CURRENCY 
TRANSL ATION 

TOTAL 

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

24,680

646

(448)

(373)

(175)

-

-

6,379

1,904

(571)

-

1,333

-

-

13,064

(2,664)

(52,563)

(11,104)

-

-

-

-

2,033

(2,001)

13,096

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(1,483)

803

(680)

-

-

2,550

(2,502)

430

478

2,033

(2,001)

(2,664)

(53,243)

(10,594)

At 30 June 2021

24,505

7,712

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b.  Other reserves (continued)

(i) Nature and purpose of other reserves

Revaluation surplus - property, plant and equipment

The property, plant and equipment revaluation surplus is used to record increments and decrements from the revaluation of 
non-current assets. In the event of a sale of an asset, any balance in the reserve related to the asset is transferred to retained 
earnings. See accounting policy note 25(p) for details.

Financial assets at FVOCI

The Group has elected to recognise changes to the fair value of certain equity security investments in OCI, as explained in  
note 6(c). These changes are accumulated within the FVOCI reserve. The group transfers amounts from this reserve to retained 
earnings when the relevant equity securities are derecognised.

Share-based payments reserve

The share-based payments reserve is used to recognise the fair value of options and rights issued to employees that are 
expensed in the statement of comprehensive income each year and conversion of options/rights.

Transactions with non-controlling interests (NCI)

This reserve is used to record the differences described in note 25(b)(iv) which may arise as a result of transactions with  
non-controlling interests that do not result in a loss of control.

Foreign currency translation

Exchange differences arising on translation of the foreign controlled entities are recognised in other comprehensive income 
and accumulated in a separate reserve within equity. The cumulative amount is reclassified to profit or loss when the net 
investment is disposed of.

The Group’s share of exchange differences arising on translation of foreign joint ventures are recognised in other 
comprehensive income and are accumulated in this reserve.

c.  Retained earnings

Movements in retained profits were as follows:

Balance 1 July

Reclassification of gain on disposal of equity instruments at fair value through  
other comprehensive income, net of tax

Dividends paid /payable

Net (loss)/profit for the year

Balance 30 June

Notes

12(b)

21

$’000

20

$’000

270,039

 293,836 

-

(49,270)

(55,140)

 409 

(48,043)

 23,837 

165,629

 270,039 

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a.  Reconciliation of profit after income tax to net cash inflow from operating activities

(Loss)/profit for the year

Depreciation expense

Amortisation expense

Impairment of assets

Impairment of inventory

Loss on revaluation of land and buildings

Gain on disposal of assets held for sale

Transfer from property, plant and equipment to inventory

Net exchange differences

Trade receivable provisions and bad debts

Non-cash employee benefits expense - share-based payments

Amortisation of borrowing costs and other non-cash finance costs

Other non cash items - restructuring

Gain on sale of non-current assets

Redemption premium on 2022 High Yield Bonds

Change in operating assets and liabilities:

(Increase)/decrease in trade debtors

(Increase)/decrease in inventories

(Increase)/decrease in deferred tax assets

(Increase)/decrease in other operating assets

(Decrease)/increase in trade creditors

(Decrease)/increase in provision for income taxes payable

(Decrease)/increase in deferred tax liabilities

(Decrease)/increase in other provisions

Net cash inflow from operating activities

b.  Non-cash investing and financing activities

Recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities

Issue of shares under Dividend Reinvestment Plan

21

$’000

20

$’000

(52,303)

 27,555 

222,230

 232,141 

39,303

59,903

10,660

992

-

(3,854)

(140)

11,328

1,293

4,272

2,452

(473)

8,143

22,651

15,587

(16,910)

(5,108)

15,365

(4,058)

(32,247)

(2,823)

 38,564 

 40,597 

 19,011 

-

(2,762)

-

(207)

 269 

 4,707 

 943 

-

(6,096)

-

 31,090 

(9,918)

(13,413)

(4,597)

(24,896)

(304)

(31,635)

 5,490 

296,263

 306,539 

2,878

(962)

1,916

105,065

(8,849)

96,216

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c.  Net debt reconciliation

This section sets out an analysis of net debt and the movements in net debt.

Net debt

Cash and cash equivalents

Borrowings/Lease liability - repayable within one year

Borrowings/Lease liability - repayable after one year

Net debt

Cash and cash equivalents

Gross debt

Net debt

Gross debt is comprised of current and non-current borrowings and lease liabilities.

21

$’000

20

$’000

264,741

(27,805)

 327,491 

(36,630)

(740,195)

(847,227)

(503,259)

(556,366)

264,741

 327,491 

(768,000)

(883,857)

(503,259)

(556,366)

Net debt as at 1 July 2020

Cash flows

Foreign exchange adjustments

Other non-cash movements

Net debt as at 30 June 2021

CASH 
$’000

LEASES 
$’000

BORROWINGS 
$’000

TOTAL 
$’000

 327,491 

(101,618)

(782,239)

(556,366)

(52,269)

(10,481)

-

30,458

229

(2,878)

44,509

47,872

(4,333)

22,698

37,620

(7,211)

264,741

(73,809)

(694,191)

(503,259)

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RI S K

This section of the notes discusses the Group’s exposure to various risks and shows how these could affect the Group’s financial 
position and performance.

10

11

12

Critical accounting estimates and judgements

Financial risk management

Capital management

126

126

131

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10   C R I T I C A L  ACCO U N T I N G E S T I M AT E S A N D J U D G E M E N T S

The preparation of financial statements requires the use of accounting estimates which, by definition, will seldom equal the actual 
results. Management also needs to exercise judgement when applying the Group’s accounting policies. This note provides an 
overview of the areas that require a high degree of judgement or complexity, and for items which could have a material adjustment 
if estimates and assumptions were incorrect. Detailed information about each of these estimates and judgements is included 
in notes 2 to 25 together with information about the basis of calculation for each affected line item in the financial statements. 
In addition, this note also explains where there have been actual adjustments this year as a result of an error and of changes to 
previous estimates.

Significant estimates and judgements

•  Recognition of revenue - note 2 and note 25(e)

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

Impairment of assets - note 3

Estimated fair value of financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income - note 6(c)

Estimation uncertainties and judgements made in relation to lease accounting - note 7(d)

Estimation of fair values of land and buildings - note 7(h)

Estimation of useful life of property, plant and equipment - note 7(c)

Estimated goodwill impairment - note 7(e)

Estimated useful life of intangible assets - note 7(e)

•  Recognition of deferred tax asset for carried forward tax losses - note 7(f)

• 

Share based payments - determining the achievement of non market based conditions - note 19

•  Uncertain tax positions - note 7(f)

•  Determination of lease term - note 7(d)

Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated. They are based on historical experience and other factors, including 
expectations of future events that may have a financial impact on the entity and that are believed to be reasonable under the 
circumstances.

11  F I N A N C I A L  R I S K M A N AG E M E N T

This note explains the Group’s exposure to financial risks and how these risks could affect the Group’s future financial performance. 
Current year profit and loss information has been included where relevant to add further context.

Risk

Exposure arising from

Measurement

Management

Market risk - foreign exchange

Future commercial transactions

Cash flow forecasting

Natural hedge

Recognised financial assets and 
liabilities not denominated in AUD

Sensitivity analysis

Market risk - interest rate

Long-term borrowings at variable rates Sensitivity analysis

Review on continuous basis

Market risk - security prices

Investments in equity securities

Sensitivity analysis

Portfolio diversification

Credit risk

Cash and cash equivalents, trade 
receivables, Derivative financial 
instruments and debt instruments, 
investments and contract assets.

Aging analysis and  
credit rating

Liquidity risk

Borrowings and other liabilities

Rolling cash flow forecasts

Diversification of bank deposits, 
credit limits, retention of title 
over goods sold, letters of 
credit

Availability of committed credit 
lines and borrowing facilities

The Group’s key management personnel report to the Audit and Risk Committee and Board regularly on the progress and 
objectives of the risks and the associated corporate governance policy objectives.

The Group’s financial risk management is carried out by a central treasury department under policies approved by the Board of 
directors. Group treasury identifies, evaluates and hedges financial risks in close co-operation with the Group’s operating units.  
The Board provides written principles for overall risk management, as well as policies covering specific areas, such as foreign 
exchange risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, use of derivative financial instruments and non-derivative financial instruments, and 
investment of excess liquidity.

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a.  Market risk

In respect of other monetary assets and liabilities held in currencies other than the AUD, the Group ensures that the net 
exposure is kept to an acceptable level by matching foreign denominated financial assets with matching financial liabilities and 
vice versa.

(i) Foreign exchange risk

Exposure

The Group’s exposure to foreign currency risk at the end of the reporting period, expressed in Australian dollars, was as follows:

USD 
$’000

GHS 
$’000

GBP 
$’000

Cash

7,418

8,355

Trade and other assets

15,363

14,701

-

16

EUR 
$’000

2,836

9,022

Other non-current 
receivables

Financial assets FVOCI

-

-

-

-

2,796

11,281

564

-

Trade payables

(22,880)

(8,631)

(1,478)

(10,330)

Borrowings

(8,794)

-

-

(11,281)

30 JUNE 2021

INR 
$’000

EGP 
$’000

TZS 
$’000

ZAR 
$’000

291

440

1,490

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

30 JUNE 2020

BWP 
$’000

274

-

-

-

XOF 
$’000

-

469

-

-

(26)

(315)

(52)

(1,932)

(2,415)

-

-

-

-

-

USD 
$’000

GHS 
$’000

GBP 
$’000

EUR 
$’000

INR 
$’000

EGP 
$’000

TZS 
$’000

ZAR 
$’000

Cash

13,549

15,798

Trade and other assets

29,628

 10,091 

 - 

 - 

 454 

 2,610 

  43 

 1,131 

 14,353

4,683

35

Other non-current 
receivables

Financial assets FVOCI

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 1,645 

 56,178 

 259 

 - 

Trade payables

(22,190)

(7,094)

(1,561)

(20,816)

Borrowings

(9,554)

 - 

 - 

(56,178)

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

BWP 
$’000

 275 

XOF 
$’000

 - 

 - 

 10,017 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

(54)

(1,584)

(690)

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

(10)

 - 

-

-

-

-

 35 

 - 

 - 

 - 

Amounts recognised in profit or loss and other comprehensive income

During the year, the following foreign exchange related amounts were recognised in profit or loss and other comprehensive 
income:

21

$’000

20

$’000

Amounts recognised in profit or loss

Net foreign exchange loss included in other income/other expenses

(7,152)

(3,316)

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a.  Market risk (continued)

(i) Foreign exchange risk (continued) 

Sensitivity analysis

A 10 percent strengthening of the Australian dollar against the following currencies at 30 June would have impacted pre-tax 
profit or loss by the amounts shown below. This analysis assumes that all other variables, in particular interest rates, remain 
constant. The analysis is performed on the same basis for 2020.

PROFIT OR (LOSS)

30 June 2021

USD

XOF

GHS

GBP

BWP

EUR

TZS

EGP

INR

30 June 2020

USD

GHS

GBP

EUR

TZS

INR

XOF

A$’000

808

177

(1,311)

(141)

(151)

(139)

(107)

(38)

(26)

(928)

(1,039)

(1,709)

(16)

546

(102)

(751)

(848)

(3,919)

A 10 percent weakening of the Australian dollar against the above currencies at 30 June would have had the equal but opposite 
effect on the above currencies to the amounts shown above, on the basis that all other variables remain constant. The Group’s 
exposure to other foreign exchange movements is not material.

(ii) Price risk

Exposure

The Group’s exposure to equity securities price risk arises from investments held by the Group and classified in the balance 
sheet as at fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI). 29% (2020: 22%) of the Group’s investments in equity 
securities are publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange, the London Stock Exchange and the Canadian Stock 
Exchange.

Sensitivity analysis

The table below summarises the impact of an increase/(decrease) of the financial assets FVOCI on the Group’s equity for the 
year after tax. The analysis is based on the assumption that the FVOCI financial assets had increased by 10% or decreased by 
10% with all other variables held constant.

FVOCI - increase 10%

FVOCI - decrease 10%

IMPACT ON OTHER COMPONENTS   
OF EQUIT Y

21

$’000

1,788

(1,788)

20

$’000

 1,654 

(1,654)

Other components of equity would increase/decrease as a result of gains/losses on equity securities classified as fair value 
through other comprehensive income.

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a.  Market risk (continued)

(ii) Price risk (continued)

Amounts recognised in profit or loss and other comprehensive income

The amounts recognised in other comprehensive income in relation to the various investments held by the Group are 
disclosed in note 6(c).

b.  Credit risk 

(i) Risk management 

Credit risk is managed on a Group basis. 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 investment securities. Credit risk also arises from cash and cash equivalents. The Group limits its exposure to credit risk 
from cash and cash equivalents by only investing in counterparties that have an acceptable credit rating.

(ii) Trade receivables and accrued revenue provisions

Individual receivables which are known to be uncollectible are written off by reducing the carrying amount directly. The other 
receivables are assessed collectively for expected credit losses.

Trade receivables and accrued revenue for which an impairment/expected credit loss provision was recognised are written off against 
the provision when there is no expectation of recovering additional cash.

The creation and release of the provision for impaired and expected credit loss receivables has been included in other expenses in the 
consolidated statement of profit or loss.

As at 30 June 2021, current trade receivables and accrued revenue of $283,413,000 (2020: $331,673,000) were assessed for expected 
credit losses. Of this $42,246,000 (2020: $102,470,000) were past due. The amount of the provision for impaired and expected credit 
loss receivables was $13,097,000 (2020: $11,172,000).

The Group applies the AASB 9 simplified approach to measuring expected credit losses which uses a lifetime expected credit 
loss allowance for trade receivables and accrued revenue.

Expected credit losses are based on a review of payment profiles over 12 months, historical credit loss experience in this 
period and financial information affecting the ability of the customers to settle the receivable. Historical loss rates are adjusted 
to reflect balances receivable or otherwise provided for. Accrued revenue relates to unbilled completed services and has 
substantially the same characteristics as the trade receivables for the same type of contracts. The historical loss rates are 
adjusted to reflect current and forward-looking information on macroeconomic factors affecting the ability of the customers 
to settle the receivables. The Group has identified that the external credit ratings and default rates are the most relevant factors 
in understanding whether a client will be able to settle the receivable and therefore these have been considered and applied 
to the receivables to arrive at an expected credit loss. Following this review a provision of $397,000 (2020: $948,000) has been 
recorded for expected credit losses and has been included within the provision for doubtful debts balance at 30 June 2021.

The aging of these receivables greater than 90 days past due is as follows:

3 to 6 months

Over 6 months

21

$’000

3,350

12,983

16,333

20

$’000

7,425

41,721

49,146

Of the above trade receivables and accrued revenue over 90 days $12,700,000 (2020: $10,136,000) has already been provided for 
in the financial statements and of the remaining amounts the Group has received various other cash amounts after year end.

Movements in the provision for impairment and expected credit losses of trade receivables and accrued revenue that are 
assessed collectively are as follows:

At 1 July 

Provision (reversed)/recognised during the year

Receivables written off during the year as uncollectible

Expected credit loss provision recognised (including currency impact)

At 30 June

21

$’000

11,172

10,997

(8,521)

(551)

13,097

20

$’000

10,827

(831)

228

948

11,172

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c.  Liquidity risk

Prudent liquidity risk management implies maintaining sufficient cash and marketable securities, the availability of funding 
through an adequate amount of committed credit facilities and the ability to close out market positions. The Group manages 
liquidity risk by continuously monitoring forecast and actual cash flows and matching the maturity profiles of financial assets 
and liabilities. Due to the dynamic nature of the underlying businesses, the Group aims at maintaining flexibility in funding by 
keeping committed credit lines available with a variety of counterparties.

(i) Financing arrangements

The Group had access to the following undrawn debt facilities at the end of the reporting period:

Total unutilised facilities

(ii) Maturities of financial liabilities

21

$’000

20

$’000

329,580 

 344,853 

The tables below analyse the Group’s financial liabilities into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining period at the 
reporting date to the contractual maturity date. The amounts disclosed in the table are the contractual undiscounted cash 
flows.

CONTRACTUAL MATURITIES OF FINANCIAL 
LIABILITIES

LESS THAN  
6 MONTHS

6 - 12  
MONTHS

BETWEEN  
1 AND 2 YEARS

BETWEEN  
2 AND 5 YEARS

OVER  
5 YEARS

TOTAL 
CONTRACTUAL 
CASH FLOWS

CARRYING 
AMOUNT 
LIABILITIES

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

Group - at 30 June 2021

Lease liabilities

Borrowings

Trade payables

Total

Group - at 30 June 2020

Lease liabilities

Borrowings

Trade payables

Total

14,345

16,102

30,751

26,488

10,714

98,400

73,809

23,008

23,008

44,797

795,583

260,311

-

-

-

-

-

886,396

694,191

260,311

260,311

297,664

39,110

75,548

822,071

10,714

1,245,107

1,028,311

16,229

14,071

29,911

59,756

3,710

123,677

101,618

 20,948 

 20,149 

 547,307 

 265,680 

261,092

-

-

-

 - 

-

 854,084 

 782,238 

261,092

261,092

 298,269 

 34,220 

 577,218 

 325,436 

 3,710 

 1,238,853 

 1,144,948 

The amounts disclosed in the table are the maximum amounts allocated to the earliest period in which the guarantee could be 
called. The parent entity does not expect these payments to eventuate.

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1 2  C A P I TA L  M A N AG E M E N T

a.  Risk management

The Group’s capital management objectives are to ensure there is adequate funding to meet operation requirements, strategic 
objectives and to provide returns to shareholders through cost effective and efficient capital structuring.

The Group manages its capital needs through a combination of equity and debt funding arrangements. The Group uses a 
number of different measures to monitor capital including gearing ratio, cash flow leverage ratios and net debt ratios.

b.  Dividends

(i) Ordinary shares

Final ordinary unfranked dividend for the year ended 30 June 2020 of 3.5 cents (2019: 3.5) per fully 
paid ordinary share paid on 3 November 2020 (23 October 2019).

Interim ordinary unfranked dividend for the year ended 30 June 2021 of 3.5 cents (2020: 3.5 cents) 
per fully paid share paid on 7 April 2021 (25 March 2020).

Total dividends provided for or paid

Dividends paid in cash or satisfied by the issue of shares under the dividend reinvestment plan  
during the years ended 30 June 2021 and 2020 were as follows:

Paid in cash

Movement in payable, see note 6(d)

Issue of shares under dividend re-investment plan

Total dividends provided for or paid

21

$’000

20

$’000

24,563

 24,019 

24,707

49,270

 24,024 

 48,043 

63,482

(15,174)

962

49,270

24,019

15,174

8,850

48,043

The Company’s Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) was suspended with effect from, 16 March 2021 until further notice. While 
the DRP was suspended, participants in the DRP received cash dividends including the dividend paid on 7 April 2021. Please 
refer to ASX announcement dated 22 February 2021 for further details. A copy of the DRP rules was attached to Perenti’s  
ASX announcement released on 6 April 2020.

(ii) Dividends not recognised at the end of the reporting period

In addition to the above dividends, since year end the directors determined an unfranked final 
dividend of 2.0 cents per fully paid ordinary share (2020: 3.5 cents). The amount expected to be paid 
on 20 October 2021 out of retained profits at the date of the dividend payment, but not recognised as 
a liability at year end is

21

$’000

14,086

20

$’000

24,553

(iii) Franked dividends

Franking credits available for subsequent reporting periods based on a tax rate of 30% (2020 - 30%)

-

10,476

The above amounts are calculated from the balance of the franking account as at the end of the reporting period, adjusted for 
franking credits and debits that will arise from the settlement of liabilities or receivables for income tax and dividends after the 
end of the year.

(iv) Conduit Foreign Income

Conduit Foreign Income (CFI) amounts for subsequent reporting periods are 

339,948

267,695

These balances are taken from the CFI register and are available to pay dividends. The CFI register is adjusted for foreign 
income received, withholding tax incurred and dividends paid. Unlike franked dividends no tax credit accompanies a dividend 
paid out of a CFI balance.

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G RO U P S TRU C T U RE

This section provides information which will help users understand how the Group structure affects the financial position and 
performance of the Group as a whole. In particular, there is information about:

• 

changes to the structure that occurred during the year as a result of business combinations;

A list of significant subsidiaries is provided in note 14. This note also discloses details about the Group’s equity accounted investments.

13

14

Business combination

Interests in other entities

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134

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1 3   B U S I N E S S  CO M B I N AT I O N

On 1 July 2020 the Group, through its subsidiary Technology Driven Mining Pty Ltd, acquired three new technology companies 
namely Sandpit Innovation Pty Ltd, Improvement Resources Pty Ltd and Spidler Group Pty Ltd, collectively named idoba.  
On 1 April 2021 idoba acquired another entity, Optika Solutions Pty Ltd. As part of these transactions the previous owners of the 
acquired companies were issued a total 4.5% of the share capital in idoba. The total consideration paid for these transactions 
included $10.6 million of cash and $0.5 million of other consideration. Other balances recognised as part of the acquisitions 
included goodwill of $5.0 million and software intangibles of $6.2 million. The transactions were not considered material 
individually or in aggregate to the Group.

There were no business combinations in the year ended 30 June 2020.

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1 4  I N T E R E S T S   I N  O T H E R  E N T I T I E S

The consolidated financial statements incorporate the assets, liabilities and results of the following principal subsidiaries in 
accordance with the accounting policy described in note 25(b):

NAME OF ENTIT Y

COUNTRY OF INCORPORATION AND 
PRINCIPAL PL ACE OF BUSINESS

CL ASS OF SHARES

EQUIT Y HOLDING

African Mining Services Burkina Faso Sarl
African Mining Services (Ghana) Pty Ltd *
African Mining Services Guinee Sarl
African Mining Services Mali Sarl
African Mining Services Senegal Suarl
African Mining Services Cote D’Ivoire Sarl
African Mining Services Ghana Ltd
Ausdrill (Ghana) Pty Ltd *
ACN 103534087 Pty Ltd *
Perenti Group Services Pty Ltd *
Perenti International Pty Ltd *
Ausdrill Pty Ltd *
Perenti Properties Pty Ltd *
Perenti Finance Pty Ltd *
AMCG Ltd
Perenti Holdings Pty Ltd
Ausdrill Tanzania Limited
Perenti Utilities Pty Ltd *
BTP Equipment Pty Ltd *
BTP Parts Pty Ltd *
Connector Drilling Pty Ltd *
Drill Rigs Australia Pty Ltd *
Energy Drilling Australia Pty Ltd *
Golden Plains Pty Ltd *
Logistics Direct Ltd
MinAnalytical Holdings Pty Ltd *
MinAnalytical Laboratory Services Australia Pty Ltd *
Barminco Mining Services Botswana Proprietary Ltd
Ausdrill Mining Surface Botswana Proprietary Ltd
Perenti UK Ltd
Power Solutions Africa Suarl
Mining Technology and Supplies Ltd
Barminco Mining Services Canada Limited
Barminco Finance Pty Ltd *
Barminco Holdings Pty Ltd *
Barminco Limited *
Supply Direct South Africa Pty Ltd *
Synegex Holdings Pty Ltd *
Supply Direct Pty Ltd *
Supply Direct Pty Ltd (United Kingdom Branch)*
Barholdco (EIS) Pty Ltd
Barminco South Africa Pty Ltd
Barminco Egypt LLC
West African Mining Services Ltd
Barminco Egypt Underground Mining Services SAE  
Investment Commercial
SLR Australia Pty Ltd
Barminco India Holdings Pty Ltd
Barminco India Investments Pty Ltd
Barminco AUMS Holding Pty Ltd *
Barminco Indian Underground MIning Services LLP
African Underground Mining Services Limited
African Underground Mining Services Ltd Mali Sarl
African Underground Mining Services Burkina Faso Sarl
AUMS (T) Limited
Barminco Mining Services USA LLC
Perenti USA Inc
Underground Mining Alliance Ltd
Technology Driven Mining Pty Ltd
Improvement Resources Pty Ltd
Sandpit Innovation Pty Ltd
Spidler Group Pty Ltd
Spidler Technologies Pty Ltd
Optika Solutions Pty Ltd
BG Umoja Services Limited
AMAX Ltd

Burkina Faso
Australia
Guinea
Mali
Senegal
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Ghana
Australia
Tanzania
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Ghana
Australia
Australia
Botswana
Botswana
UK
Senegal
Ghana
Canada
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
United Kingdom
Australia
South Africa
Egypt
Ghana

Egypt
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
India
Ghana
Mali
Burkina Faso
Tanzania
USA
USA
Ghana
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Tanzania
Ghana

Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary

Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary

21

%
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100

100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
96
100
100
70
96
96
96
96
96
96
80
60

20

%
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
-
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100

100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
-
-
70
100
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

   Underground Mining Alliance (UMA) is a 70/30 operation between AUMS and Rocksure International, a Ghanaian Mining contractor and has been included in  

subsidiaries above.

  BG Umoja Services Limited is a 80/20 operation between Perenti International Pty Ltd, Barminco AUMS Holding Pty Ltd and Geofields Tanzania Limited,  

a Tanzanian Mining Contractor, and has been included in subsidiaries above.

  AMAX Ltd is a 60/40 operation between African Mining Services (Ghana) Pty Ltd and MAXMASS Ltd, a Ghanaian Mining Contractor, and has been included in  

subsidiaries above.

*  These subsidiaries have been granted relief from the necessity to prepare financial reports in accordance with ASIC Corporations (Wholly-owned Companies) 

Instrument 2016/785. For further information refer to note 23.

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U N R E CO G N I S E D I T E M S

This section of the notes provides information about items that are not recognised in the financial statements as they do not yet satisfy 
the recognition criteria.

In addition to the items and transactions disclosed below, there are also:

15

16

17

Contingencies

Commitments

Events since the end of the financial year

136

136

136

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1 5  CO N T I N G E N C I E S

a.   Contingent liabilities

In the course of business, liabilities may arise from different events including contractual disputes, litigations and other claims. 
The outcomes from these events cannot be predicted or in the opinion of directors are without merit and therefore no 
amounts have been disclosed. 

For information about guarantees given by entities within the Group, including the parent entity, please refer to note 24.

b.   Contingent assets

The Group lodged a claim in relation to a matter which at the date of this report is unresolved and is subject to litigation.  
The directors are confident that a favourable outcome will be achieved. However, the contingent asset has not been 
recognised as a receivable at 30 June 2021 as receipt of this amount is dependent on the outcome of the litigation.

16  CO M M I TM E N T S

a.  Capital commitments

Capital expenditure contracted for at the end of the reporting period but not recognised as liabilities is as follows:

Property, plant and equipment

Payable:

Within one year

The capital commitments are to be funded from cash and available finance facilities.

17  E V E N T S S I N C E T H E E N D O F T H E F I N A N C I A L Y E A R

21

$’000

20

$’000

92,013

 57,528 

On 7 July 2021, the Group announced that Sandfire Resources had received its mining licence for the Motheo project in Botswana. 
The licence is one of the two primary conditions required for the finalisation of the Motheo Project. This contract was announced 
by the Group on 9 June 2021 with an estimated contract value of $648 million (at 100% basis) over a 7 year and 3-month term 
which will likely be structured through a joint venture. The Group continues to work collaboratively toward the finalisation of the 
contract with Sandfire which is expected in the near term.

On 9 July 2021, the Group announced the finalisation of its contract with Panoramic Resources Limited for development and 
production works at their Savannah Nickel Project in Western Australia. The finalised contract represents a value of approximately 
$280 million over a four-year contract term which was initially announced on 6 April 2021.

On 19 July 2021, the Group announced the award of a five year contract to its AMS JV AMAX Ltd at AngloGold Ashanti’s Iduapriem 
gold mine in the Western Region of Ghana. The contract value was $470 million (100% share) and is structured through a 60/40 
joint venture with MAXMASS Limited.

On 23 July 2021, the Group announced the appointment of experienced Sydney-based executive, Mr Timothy Longstaff, as  
Non-Executive Director. Mr Longstaff joined the Board with effect from 16 August 2021.

On 26 July 2021, the Group launched idoba, a new capital light technology-driven service offering available to the mining 
and resources industry. Perenti acquired Sandpit Innovation, Improvement Resources and Optika Solutions to form idoba in 
accordance with its 2025 Strategy.

On 24 August 2021, the directors determined the payment of a final ordinary dividend of 2.0 cents (unfranked) per fully paid share 
to be paid on 20 October 2021 out of retained earnings at 30 June 2021. The financial effect of this transaction has not been 
brought to account at 30 June 2021.

There are no other matters or circumstances that have arisen since the end of the financial year which significantly affected or 
may significantly affect the operations of the Consolidated entity, the results of those operations, or the state of affairs of the 
Consolidated entity in subsequent financial years.

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O T H E R  D I S C L O S U R E

This section of the notes includes other information that must be disclosed to comply with the accounting standards and other 
pronouncements, but that is not immediately related to individual line items in the financial statements.

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

Related party transactions

Share-based payments

Remuneration of auditors

Earnings per share

Assets pledged as security

Deed of cross guarantee

Parent entity financial information

Summary of significant accounting policies

138

140

142

143

144

144

147

149

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1 8  R E L AT E D  PA R T Y T R A N S AC T I O N S

a.   Parent entities

’The ultimate parent entity of the Group is Perenti Global Limited.

b.  Subsidiaries

Interests in subsidiaries are set out in note 14.

c.  Key management personnel compensation

Short-term employee benefits

Post-employment benefits

Leave entitlements

Share-based payments

Detailed remuneration disclosures are provided in the remuneration report on pages 64 to 78.

d.  Transactions with other related parties

The following transactions occurred with related parties:

Sales of goods and services

Entities related to key management personnel

Purchase of goods and services

Other property related expenses-electricity

21

$

20

$

3,903,542

 4,172,626

140,675

67,012

 153,483 

 205,701 

1,620,819

 1,886,958 

5,732,048

 6,418,768 

21

$

20

$

15,697,482

 3,233,476 

296,700

 261,381 

(i) Purchases from entities associated with related parties

The Group acquired the following goods and services from entities that are associated with members of the Group  
key management personnel:

•  provision of exploration drilling services

•  mining services

• 

electricity services

A director, Mr Robert Cole, is currently the Chairman of Synergy. A number of Australian Perenti Global Limited subsidiaries 
have been provided with electricity services from Synergy. All contracts and services are based on normal commercial terms 
and conditions and Mr Cole is not party to any contract negotiations for either party.

A director, Ms Andrea Hall, is a non-executive director of Evolution Mining Limited. Evolution Mining has been provided with 
mining services and mineral analysis services by a Perenti Global Limited subsidiary. All contracts and services are based on 
normal commercial terms and conditions and Ms Hall is not party to any contract negotiations for either party.

A previous director, Mr Ian Cochrane, was a non-executive director of Dacian Gold Limited up to 10 May 2021. Dacian Gold has 
been provided with mining services by Perenti Global Limited. These services have been provided on arm’s length commercial 
terms and conditions. Mr Cochrane was not party to any contract negotiations for either party.

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1 8   R E L AT E D  PA R T Y T R A N S AC T I O N S (CO N T I N U E D)

e.  Outstanding balances arising from sales / purchases of goods and services

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

Current receivables (sales of goods and services)

Entities related to key management personnel

Current payables (purchases of goods and services)

Other property related expenses-electricity

f.  Loans to related parties

Loans to key management personnel

Balance at 1 July

Loans repayments made

Interest charged

Interest received

End of period

Loans from non-controlling interest

Balance at 1 July

Loan repayments made

Impact of foreign exchange

End of period

g.  Terms and conditions

21

$

20

$

497,775

 6,792 

(5,218)

(18,785)

21

$

20

$

187,512

 190,409 

-

8,964

(10,437)

186,039

(2,327)

 9,867 

(10,437)

 187,512 

2,705,255

 2,659,753

(1,200,008)

-

(215,239)

 45,502

1,290,008

 2,705,255

All transactions were made on normal commercial terms and conditions and at market rates. The loans to key management 
personnel on acquisition of the Barminco group are repayable by 22 October 2022. Interest was payable at the rate of 4.80% 
and 4.52% on loans advanced. Outstanding balances are unsecured and are repayable in cash.

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19  S H A R E- B A S E D PAYM E N T S

a. 

 Employee Option Plan

The Employee Option Plan is designed to provide long-term incentives for senior managers to deliver long-term shareholder 
returns. Under the plan, participants are granted options which only vest if certain performance conditions are met. 
Participation in the plan is at the Board’s discretion and no individual has a contractual right to participate in the plan or to 
receive any guaranteed benefits. The amount of options that will vest depends on Perenti Global Limited’s total shareholders 
return (TSR), including share price growth, dividends and capital returns, ranking with a peer group of selected companies that 
are listed on the ASX over a period of time. Once vested, the options remain exercisable for a period of between 3.6 years and  
5 years from their issue date. Options are granted under the plan for nil consideration.

Options granted for nil consideration and settled in shares under the plan carry no dividend or voting rights.

Set out below are summaries of options granted under the plan:

AVERAGE EXERCISE PRICE 
PER SHARE OPTION

NUMBER OF  
OPTIONS

AVERAGE EXERCISE PRICE 
PER SHARE OPTION

21

As at 1 July

Granted during the year

Exercised during the year

Forfeited during the year

As at 30 June 

Vested and exercisable at 30 June

$0.00

$0.17

$1.15

$0.00

1,200,006

-

(733,338)

(466,668)

-

-

$0.00

$0.17

$0.17

$0.27

20

NUMBER OF  
OPTIONS

3,733,354

-

(2,466,680)

(66,668)

1,200,006

881,488

The weighted average share price at the date of exercise of options during the year ended 30 June 2021 was $1.26 (2020: $1.55)

No options expired unexercised during the periods covered by the above tables.

Share options outstanding at the end of the year have the following expiry date and exercise prices.

GRANT DATE

EXPIRY DATE

EXERCISE PRICE

SHARE OPTIONS 
30 JUNE 2021

SHARE OPTIONS 
30 JUNE 2020

23/12/2015

20/04/2018

20/04/2018

23/12/2020

21/11/2021

12/06/2022

$0.17

$1.19

$1.55

-

-

-

-

800,005

266,667

133,334

1,200,006

Weighted average remaining contractual life of options outstanding at end of period was zero years. 

There were no options granted during the year ended 30 June 2021 (2020: Nil).

During the year ended 30 June 2021 all options under the Employee Option Plans were either exercised or forfeited and therefore at  
30 June 2021 there are no unvested options and the Employee Option Plans terminated.

b.  Rights Plan

The Board had established an Incentive Rights Plan for eligible employees holding senior executive and senior management roles 
with a focus on delivering outcomes that create value for shareholders. The plan allows for three different types of incentive rights; 
retention rights, performance rights and short-term incentive rights. Performance rights were granted during the year and are treated 
in substance as options and are accounted for as share based payments. Participation under the plan is at the Board’s discretion and no 
individual has a contractual right to participate in the plan or receive any guaranteed benefits. Rights granted for nil consideration under 
the plan carry no dividend or voting rights.

Retention rights

Each retention right issued under the plan converts into one ordinary share of Perenti Global Limited on exercise. The retention rights 
granted on 31 October 2020. Retention rights are not subject to performance hurdles.

Short-term incentive rights

Each short-term incentive right issued under the plan converts into one ordinary share of Perenti Global Limited on exercise. Certain 
Executive’s are invited to participate in the plan. Short-term incentive rights are based upon business outcomes which comprise of a 
mix of financial and non-financial measures. The Board retains absolute discretion with respect to the targets and outcomes assessed 
under the plan. The Short-term incentives vest twelve months after the grant date.

Performance rights

Each performance right issued under the plan converts into one ordinary share of Perenti Global Limited on exercise. Performance 
rights vest and become exercisable when the applicable performance, service or other vesting conditions specified at the time of grant 
are satisfied within a predetermined performance period.

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b.  Rights Plan (continued)

Performance rights (continued)

The performance period for the rights granted during the period will run from 1 July 2020 until 30 June 2023, the performance 
period for the rights granted in 2020 run from 1 July 2019 until 30 June 2022. In addition to continued service, the Board has 
set the following performance criteria for rights granted:

• 

• 

50% of the performance rights will vest if the total shareholder return (TSR) vesting condition is met which are on sliding 
scale based upon the TSR benchmark as disclosed in the remuneration report; and

50% of the performance rights will vest if the return on average capital employed (ROACE) vesting condition is met which 
are on sliding scale of ROACE outcomes between 14.5% and 19% as disclosed in the remuneration report.

Set out below is a summary of rights granted under the above plans.

As at 1 July

Granted during the year

Forfeited during the year

Vested during the year

As at 30 June 

21

20

NUMBER OF 
RIGHTS

NUMBER OF 
RIGHTS

9,644,034

5,891,669

(1,259,189)

(1,224,352)

13,052,162

5,661,178

4,839,040

(856,185)
-
9,644,034

There were 5,607,028 performance rights, 284,641 Short Term Incentive Rights and nil retention rights granted during the year ended 
30 June 2021 (30 June 2020: 4,554,513 performance rights and 284,527 Short Term Incentive Rights and nil retention rights).

Weighted average remaining contractual life of rights outstanding at the end of the year 1.13 years (30 June 2020: 1.36 years).  
Weighted fair value of rights granted during the year $0.66 (30 June 2020: $1.57).

An independent third party valuer provided a valuation report with the following inputs used to determine the fair value of rights at the 
grant date included:

RIGHT

GRANT DATE

PERFORMANCE 
PERIOD END DATE

SHARE PRICE 
GRANT DATE

EXPECTED 
VOL ATILIT Y

DIVIDEND  
YIELD

RISK-FREE 
INTEREST RATE

FAIR VALUE  
GRANT DATE

Performance - ROACE

28 Feb 2019

30 Jun 2021

Performance - TSR

28 Feb 2019

30 Jun 2021

Retention

28 Feb 2019

31 Oct 2020

Performance - ROACE

10 Jun 2019

30 Jun 2021

Performance - TSR

10 Jun 2019

30 Jun 2021

Performance - ROACE

28 Nov 2019

30 Jun 2022

Performance - TSR

28 Nov 2019

30 Jun 2022

Short Term Incentive Plan

24 Oct 2019

24 Oct 2020

Short Term Incentive Plan

10 Nov 2020

9 Nov 2021

Performance - ROACE

Performance - TSR

9 Apr 2021

9 Apr 2021

30 Jun 2023

30 Jun 2023

Performance - ROACE

28 May 2021

30 Jun 2023

Performance - TSR

28 May 2021

30 Jun 2023

$1.74

$1.74

$1.74

$1.33

$1.33

$1.95

$1.95

$1.84

$1.13

$1.13

$1.13

$0.67

$0.67

54.92%

54.92%

54.92%

52.07%

52.07%

46.00%

46.00%

-

-

64.00%

64.00%

67.00%

67.00%

3.74%

3.74%

3.74%

3.74%

3.74%

3.60%

3.60%

3.74%

6.19%

6.19%

6.19%

10.53%

10.53%

1.67%

1.67%

1.67%

1.07%

1.07%

0.66%

0.66%

-

-

0.12%

0.12%

0.08%

0.08%

$1.60

$1.22

$1.64

$1.23

$0.82

$1.78

$1.33

$1.88

$1.06

$0.99

$0.62

$0.54

$0.21

c.  Expenses arising from share-based payment transactions

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

For further information on the above options and rights, refer the Remuneration Report on pages 64 to 78.

Options issued under employee option plan

Rights issued under employee rights plan

21

$’000

-

2,033

2,033

20

$’000

 165 

 4,542 

 4,707 

The total amount to be expensed for share based payments is determined by reference to the fair value at grant date, which includes 
any market performance conditions and the impact of any non-vesting conditions but excludes the impact of any service and non-
market performance vesting conditions. Non-market vesting conditions are included in assumptions about the number of options or 
rights that are expected to vest. The total expense is recognised over the vesting period. At the end of each reporting period, the Group 
revises its estimate of the number of equity instruments expected to vest based on non-market vesting conditions. The impact of the 
revision of the original estimates, if any, is recognised in profit or loss such that the cumulative expense reflects the revised estimates, 
with a corresponding adjustment to the share-based payments reserve.

Significant judgement is required in determining the achievement of non-market conditions.

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2 0   R E M U N E R AT I O N O F AU D I T O R S

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

a.  PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia

(i)  Audit and other assurance services

Audit and review of financial statements

(ii)  Taxation services

Tax compliance services

(iii)  Other services

Advisory and accounting consulting services

Total remuneration of PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia

b.  Network firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia

(i)  Audit and other assurance services

Audit and other assurance services

(ii)  Taxation services

Tax compliance services

(iii)  Other services

Advisory and accounting consulting services

Total remuneration of network firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia

Total remuneration of PricewaterhouseCoopers firms

c.  Non PricewaterhouseCoopers audit firms

(i)  Audit and other assurance services

Audit and review of financial statements

(ii)  Taxation services

Tax compliance services

(iii)  Other services

Advisory and accounting consulting services

Total remuneration of non PricewaterhouseCoopers firms

21

$

20

$

1,205,168

 897,872

499,719

688,392

515,250

 1,215,091

2,220,137

2,801,355

868,835

 782,269 

235,124

 276,334 

72,202

 42,657

1,176,161

 1,101,260

3,396,298

3,902,615

153,763

 131,900 

165,963

 350,513 

636,235

 677,134 

955,961

 1,159,547 

It is the Group’s policy to employ PricewaterhouseCoopers on assignments additional to their statutory audit duties where 
PricewaterhouseCoopers expertise and experience with the Group are important. These assignments are principally tax advice and due 
diligence reporting on acquisitions, or where PricewaterhouseCoopers is awarded assignments on a competitive basis.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

21  E A R N I N G S P E R S H A R E

a.  Basic (loss)/earnings per share

From continuing operations attributable to the ordinary equity holders of the Company

b.  Diluted (loss)/earnings per share

21

CENTS

(7.8)

20

CENTS

3.5

From continuing operations attributable to the ordinary equity holders of the Company

(7.8)

3.5

c.  Reconciliation of earnings used in calculating earnings per share

(Loss)/profit attributable to the ordinary equity holders of the Company used in calculating basic and 
diluted earnings per share:

From continuing operations

(55,140)

23,837

d.  Weighted average number of shares used as denominator

21

$’000

20

$’000

21

20

NUMBER

NUMBER

Weighted average number of ordinary shares used as the denominator in calculating  
basic earnings per share

703,365,307

 689,198,530

Adjustments for calculation of diluted earnings per share:

Effect of share options on issue

Effect of share rights on issue

-

-

760,273

503,386

Weighted average number of ordinary and potential ordinary shares used as the denominator in 
calculating diluted earnings per share

703,365,307

690,462,189

The number of potential ordinary shares not considered dilutive at 30 June 2021 is 8,305,205.

e.  Information on the classification of securities

(i) Options

Options granted to employees are considered to be potential ordinary shares and have been included in the determination of diluted 
earnings per share to the extent to which they are dilutive. The options have not been included in the determination of basic earnings 
per share. Details relating to the options are set out in note 19.

(ii) Rights

Rights granted to employees are considered to be potential ordinary shares and have been included in the determination of diluted 
earnings per share to the extent to which they are dilutive. The rights have not been included in the determination of basic earnings  
per share. Details relating to the options are set out in note 19.

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2 2  A S S E T S P L E D G E D A S S E C U R I T Y

The carrying amounts of assets pledged as security for current and non-current borrowings are:

Current

Floating charge

Cash and cash equivalents

Receivables

Inventory

Total current assets pledged as security

Non-current

Floating charge

Plant and equipment

Freehold land and buildings

Receivables

Investment

Total non-current assets pledged as security

Total assets pledged as security

21

$’000

20

$’000

207,856

291,506

170,585

669,947

 284,467 

 360,424 

 213,292 

 858,183 

565,497

53,844

124,679

36,699

780,719

699,290

 57,042 

 21,233 

 111,278 

888,843

1,450,666

1,747,026

Restrictions and covenants imposed under leasing agreements over right-of-use assets are disclosed in note 7(d) and therefore not 
included in this disclosure.

2 3  D E E D  O F   C RO S S G UA R A N T E E

Perenti Global Limited and the entities noted below are parties to a deed of cross guarantee under which 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 a directors’ report under ASIC Corporations (Wholly-owned Companies) Instrument 2016/785. 
The closed group consists of Perenti Global Limited and the following entities:

ACN 103534087 Pty Ltd;
African Mining Services (Ghana) Pty Ltd;
Perenti International Pty Ltd;
Perenti Group Services Pty Ltd;
Perenti Finance Pty Ltd;
Ausdrill (Ghana) Pty Ltd;
Ausdrill Pty Ltd;
Perenti Properties Pty Ltd;
Perenti Utilities Pty Ltd;
BTP Parts Pty Ltd;
BTP Equipment Pty Ltd;
Connector Drilling Pty Ltd;
Drill Rigs Australia Pty Ltd;
Energy Drilling Australia Pty Ltd;
Golden Plains Pty Ltd;
MinAnalytical Holdings Pty Ltd;
MinAnalytical Laboratory Services Australia Pty Ltd;
Supply Direct Pty Ltd;
Supply Direct South Africa Pty Ltd;
Supply Direct Pty Ltd (United Kingdom Branch);
Synegex Holdings Pty Ltd;
Barminco Holdings Pty Ltd*;
Barminco Finance Pty Ltd*;
Barminco Limited*;
Barminco AUMS Holdings Pty Limited*.

* Entities added to the Deed of cross guarantee during the year ended 30 June 2021.

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2 3  D E E D O F  C RO S S G UA R A N T E E (CO N T I N U E D)

a.  Consolidated statement of profit or loss, consolidated statement of comprehensive income and summary of 

movements in consolidated retained earnings (continued)

The above companies represent a ‘closed group’ for the purposes of the instrument, and as there are no other parties to the 
deed of cross guarantee that are controlled by Perenti Global Limited, they also represent the ‘extended closed group.

Set out below and on the next page is a consolidated statement of profit or loss, a consolidated statement of comprehensive 
income and a summary of movements in consolidated retained earnings for the closed group.

Consolidated statement of profit or loss

Revenue from continuing operations

Other income

Materials expense

Labour costs

Rental and hire expense

Depreciation expense

Amortisation expense

Management fee income

Finance costs

Finance income

Other expenses from ordinary activities

Share of net profits of joint ventures accounted for using the equity method

Impairment of assets

Profit before income tax

Income tax benefit

Profit for the year

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income

Other comprehensive income

Profit for the year

Items that may be reclassified to profit or loss

21

$’000

20

$’000

998,219

116,083

 338,116 

 63,319 

(302,861)

(114,287)

(486,877)

(154,252)

(10,773)

(104,641)

(38,571)

-

(61,667)

12,108

(91,807)

-

(8,059)

21,154

23,196

44,350

(7,063)

(36,180)

-

 4,468 

(14,558)

 14,113 

(49,697)

 41,696 

(25,337)

 60,338

 5,030 

65,368

44,350

65,368

Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations

9,203

(723)

Items that will not be reclassified to profit or loss

Gain on revaluation of land and buildings

Gain on revaluation of financial assets FVOCI, net of tax

Other comprehensive income for the year, net of tax

Total comprehensive income for the year

Summary of movements in consolidated retained earnings

Retained earnings at the beginning of the financial year

Profit for the year

Retained earnings transfer

Dividends paid

Retained earnings at the end of the financial year

4,008

1,333

14,544

58,894

-

 6,133 

5,410

70,778

270,180

44,350

(110,532)

 253,162 

65,368

(307)

(50,672)

(48,043)

153,326

270,180

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2 3  D E E D  O F   C RO S S G UA R A N T E E (CO N T I N U E D)

b.  Consolidated statement of financial position

Set out below is the consolidated statement of financial position as at 30 June of the closed group.

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade receivables

Inventories

Current tax receivables

Assets classified as held for sale

Total current assets

Non-current assets

Investments in other Group companies

Receivables

Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income

Joint ventures accounted for using the equity method

Property, plant and equipment

Deferred tax assets

Right-of-use assets

Intangible assets

Total non-current assets

Total assets

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables

Borrowings

Lease liabilities

Current tax liabilities

Employee benefit obligations

Total current liabilities

Non-current liabilities

Borrowings

Lease liabilities

Deferred tax liabilities

Employee benefit obligations

Total non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Equity

Contributed equity

Reserves

Retained earnings

Total equity

21

$’000

98,746

186,722

91,232

13,762

28,894

20

$’000

 58,590 

 147,027 

 59,898 

 6,871 

-

419,356

 272,386 

496,266

 666,667 

152,125

25,536

-

394,971

139,055

70,057

666,585

 168,444 

 23,632 

365,289

 216,378 

 121,596 

 44,158 

-

1,944,595

 1,606,164

2,363,951

 1,878,550

145,766

 65,438 

1,829

22,729

13,389

54,411

238,124

691,102

55,320

74,941

2,656

824,019

1,062,143

1,752

7,091

 7,161 

 17,589 

 99,031 

257,309

38,345

 78,384 

 845 

 374,883 

 473,914 

1,301,808

 1,404,636

1,137,783

 1,135,323 

10,699

153,326

(867)

 270,180

1,301,808

1,404,636

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2 4  PA R E N T E N T I T Y F I N A N C I A L  I N F O R M AT I O N

a.  Summary financial information

The individual financial statements for the parent entity, Perenti Global Limited, show the following aggregate amounts:

Balance sheet

Current assets

Non-current assets

Total assets

Current liabilities

Non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

Shareholders’ equity

Issued capital

Other reserves

Asset revaluation reserve

Share-based payments reserve

Pre-2015 reserve

Accumulated losses - 2015 reserve

Accumulated losses - 2020 reserve

Retained earnings

Total equity

Profit for the period

Total comprehensive income

21

$’000

20

$’000

5,937

 45,562 

901,114

907,051

929

8,074

9,003

 895,349 

 940,911 

 38,160 

 15,188 

 53,348 

1,137,783

 1,135,323 

3,213

13,096

-

 909 

 13,064 

 - 

(183,177)

(183,177)

(78,556)

(78,556)

5,689

-

898,048

 887,563 

54,903

54,903

 7,902 

 7,902 

The financial information for the parent entity has been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies below.

b.  Guarantees entered into by the parent entity

The parent entity has not entered into any guarantees during the year (2020: nil).

However, there are cross guarantees given by Perenti Global Limited as described in note 23. Net asset deficiencies exist in 
some of the subsidiaries covered by the deed of cross guarantee.

c.  Contingent liabilities of the parent entity

The parent entity did not have any contingent liabilities as at 30 June 2021 or 30 June 2020.

d.  Contractual commitments for the acquisition of property, plant or equipment

As at 30 June 2021, the parent entity had $nil contractual commitments for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment 
(30 June 2020: $7,356,000).

e. 

 Accumulated losses - reserves

Each reserve of the parent entity has the same nature and purpose as described for the consolidated Group (in note 8(b)).  
In addition, the parent entity on 30 June 2020 and 30 June 2015 established separate reserves for the purpose of paying 
future dividends. The reserves are referred to as “Accumulated losses - 2020” and the “Accumulated losses - 2015 reserve”. 
On the date of establishment, the “Accumulated losses - 2020” had an amount of ($78,556,000) transferred to it from retained 
earnings and the “Accumulated losses - 2015 reserve” had an amount of ($183,177,000) transferred to it from retained earnings.

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f.  Parent entity financial information

The financial information for the parent entity, Perenti Global Limited has been prepared on the same basis as the consolidated 
financial statements, except as set out below.

(i) Investments in subsidiaries, associates and joint venture entities

Investments in subsidiaries, associates and joint venture entities are accounted for at cost in the financial statements of Perenti 
Global Limited. Dividends received from associates are recognised in the parent entity’s profit or loss when its right to receive 
the dividend is established.

(ii) Tax consolidation legislation

Perenti Global Limited and its wholly-owned Australian controlled entities have implemented the tax consolidation legislation.

The head entity, Perenti Global Limited, 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 
stand-alone taxpayer in its own right.

In addition to its own current and deferred tax amounts, Perenti Global Limited 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.

The entities have also entered into a tax funding agreement under which the wholly-owned entities fully compensate Perenti 
Global Limited for any current tax payable assumed and are compensated by Perenti Global Limited for any current tax 
receivable and deferred tax assets relating to unused tax losses or unused tax credits that are transferred to Perenti Global 
Limited under the tax consolidation legislation. The funding amounts are determined by reference to the amounts recognised 
in the wholly-owned entities’ financial statements.

The amounts receivable/payable under the tax funding agreement are due upon receipt of the funding advice from the head 
entity, which is issued as soon as practicable after the end of each financial year. The head entity may also require payment of 
interim funding amounts to assist with its obligations to pay tax instalments.

Assets or liabilities arising under tax funding agreements with the tax consolidated entities are recognised as current amounts 
receivable from or payable to other entities in the Group.

Any difference between the amounts assumed and amounts receivable or payable under the tax funding agreement are 
recognised as a contribution to (or distribution from) wholly-owned tax consolidated entities.

(iii) Financial guarantees

Where the parent entity has provided financial guarantees in relation to loans and payables of subsidiaries for no compensation, 
the fair values of those guarantees are accounted for as contributions and recognised as part of the cost of the investment.

(iv) Share-based payments

The grant by the Company of options and rights over its equity instruments to the employees of subsidiary undertakings in the 
Group is treated as a capital contribution to that subsidiary undertaking. The fair value of employee services received, measured 
by reference to the grant date fair value, is recognised over the vesting period as an increase to investment in subsidiary 
undertakings, with a corresponding credit to equity.

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This note provides a list of all significant accounting policies adopted in the preparation of these consolidated financial statements. 
These policies have been consistently applied to all the periods presented, unless otherwise stated. The financial statements are for 
the consolidated entity consisting of Perenti Global Limited and its subsidiaries.

a.  Basis of preparation

These general purpose financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards, and 
Interpretations issued by the Australian Accounting Standards Board, Urgent Issues Group Interpretations and the Corporations Act 
2001. Perenti Global Limited is a for-profit entity for the purpose of preparing the financial statements.

(i) Compliance with IFRS

The consolidated financial statements of Perenti Global Limited and its subsidiaries also comply with International Financial 
Reporting Standards (IFRS) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

(ii) New or amended Accounting Standards and Interpretations adopted by the Group

The Group has adopted all of the new, revised or amending Accounting Standards and Interpretations issued by the Australian 
Accounting Standards Board (‘AASB’) that are mandatory for the current reporting period.

•  AASB 2018-7 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards - Definition of Material

•  AASB 2018-6 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards - Definition of Business

•  AASB 2019-3 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards - Interest Rate Benchmark Reform

•  AASB 2019-5 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards - Disclosure of the Effect of New IFRS Standards Not Yet 

issued in Australia

•  Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting and AASB 2019-1 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards - 

References to the Conceptual Framework

The Group has not elected to adopt the following amendments early:

•  AASB 2020-3 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards - Annual Improvements 2018-2020 and Other 

Amendments

The amendments listed above did not have any impact on the amounts recognised in prior periods and are not expected to 
significantly affect the current or future periods.

(iii) Impact of standards issued but not yet applied by the entity

Certain new accounting standards and interpretations have been published that are not mandatory for the 30 June 2021 
reporting period and have not been early adopted by the Group. The Group is assessing impact of the new standards, however 
does not expect to have a material impact on the Group in the current or future reporting periods and on foreseeable future 
transactions.

Configuration or Customisation Costs in a Cloud Computing Arrangement

In April 2021, the International Financial Reporting Standards Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) issued a final agenda decision, 
‘Configuration or customisation costs in a cloud computing arrangement’. The decision specifies what configuration or 
customisation expenditure relating to cloud computing arrangements is able to be recognised as an intangible asset.

The Group’s accounting policy has historically been to capitalise implementation costs related to cloud computing 
arrangements as intangible assets in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position. The adoption of this agenda decision 
could result in a reclassification of these intangible assets to either a prepaid asset in the Consolidated Statement of Financial 
Position and/or recognition of an expense in the Consolidated Statement of Profit and Loss, impacting both the current and/or 
prior periods presented.

As at 30 June 2021, the Group has not finalised its assessment of the impact of the IFRIC agenda decision. The Group’s 
preliminary analysis indicated that the impact is not material.

(iv) Historical cost convention

These financial statements have been prepared on a historical cost basis except for the following:

• 

• 

• 

certain classes of property, plant and equipment measured at fair value,

assets held for sale are measured at the lower of carrying amount and fair value less costs to sell, and

certain financial assets and liabilities (including derivative instruments) measured at fair value through profit or loss.

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b.   Principles of consolidation

(i) Subsidiaries

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

The acquisition method of accounting is used to account for all business combinations by the Group (refer to note 25(i)).

Intercompany transactions, balances and unrealised gains on transactions between group companies are eliminated. 
Unrealised losses are also eliminated unless the transaction provides evidence of an impairment of the transferred asset. 
Accounting policies of subsidiaries have been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies adopted by 
the Group.

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

(ii) Joint arrangements

Under AASB 11 Joint Arrangements, investments in joint arrangements are classified as either joint operations or joint ventures. 
The classification depends on the contractual rights and obligations of each investor, rather than the legal structure of the joint 
arrangement. Perenti Global Limited has only joint ventures.

Joint ventures
Interests in joint ventures are accounted for using the equity method (see (iii) below), after initially being recognised at cost in 
the consolidated statement of financial position.

(iii) Equity method

Under the equity method of accounting, the investments are initially recognised at cost and adjusted thereafter to recognise 
the Group’s share of the post-acquisition profits or losses of the investee in profit or loss, and the Group’s share of movements 
in other comprehensive income of the investee in other comprehensive income. Dividends received or receivable from joint 
ventures are recognised as a reduction in the carrying amount of the investment. Where the Group’s share of losses in an 
equity-accounted investment equals or exceeds its interest in the entity, including any other unsecured long-term receivables, 
the Group does not recognise further losses, unless it has incurred obligations or made payments on behalf of the other entity.

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

The carrying amount of equity-accounted investments is tested for impairment in accordance with the policy described  
in 25(j).

(iv) Changes in ownership interests

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

When the Group 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 a joint venture or financial asset. In addition, any amounts 
previously recognised in other comprehensive income in respect of that entity are accounted for as if the Group has 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.

If the ownership interest in a joint venture is reduced, but joint control or significant influence is retained, only a proportionate 
share of the amounts previously recognised in other comprehensive income are reclassified to profit or loss where appropriate.

c.  Segment reporting

Operating segments are reported in a manner consistent with the internal reporting provided to the chief operating decision 
maker. The chief operating decision maker, who is responsible for allocating resources and assessing performance of the 
operating segments, has been identified as the Managing Director.

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d. 

 Foreign currency translation

(i) Functional and presentation currency

Items included in the financial statements of each of the Group’s entities are measured using the currency of the primary 
economic environment in which the entity operates (‘the functional currency’). The consolidated financial statements are 
presented in Australian dollar ($), which is Perenti Global Limited’s functional and presentation currency.

(ii) Transactions and balances

Foreign currency transactions are translated into the functional currency using the exchange rates at the dates of the 
transactions. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from the settlement of such transactions and from the translation of 
monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at year end exchange rates are generally recognised in profit 
or loss. They are deferred in equity if they are attributable to part of the net investment in a foreign operation.

Non-monetary items that are measured at fair value in a foreign currency are translated using the exchange rates at the date 
when the fair value was determined. Translation differences on assets and liabilities carried at fair value are reported as part of 
the fair value gain or loss. For example, translation differences on non-monetary assets and liabilities such as equities held at 
fair value through profit or loss are recognised in profit or loss as part of the fair value gain or loss and translation differences on 
non-monetary assets such as equities classified as at fair value through other comprehensive income are recognised in other 
comprehensive income.

(iii) Group companies

The results and financial position of foreign operations (none of which has the currency of a hyperinflationary economy) that 
have a functional currency different from the presentation currency are translated into the presentation currency as follows:

• 

• 

assets and liabilities for each statement of financial position presented are translated at the closing rate at end of the 
reporting period

income and expenses for each income statement and statement of comprehensive income are translated at average 
exchange rates (unless this is not a reasonable approximation of the cumulative effect of the rates prevailing on the 
transaction dates, in which case income and expenses are translated at the dates of the transactions), and

• 

all resulting exchange differences are recognised in other comprehensive income.

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

Goodwill and fair value adjustments arising on the acquisition of a foreign entity are treated as assets and liabilities of the 
foreign entity and translated at the closing rate.

e.  Revenue recognition

The Group recognises revenue when the Group satisfies performance obligations by transferring a promised good or service to 
a customer. An asset is transferred when or as the customer obtains control of that asset.

Contract assets and liabilities

AASB 15 uses the terms ‘contract asset’ and ‘contract liability’ to describe what is commonly known as ‘accrued revenue’ 
and ‘deferred revenue’. Accrued revenue represents receivables for unbilled completed services where the Group’s right to 
consideration is unconditional subject to only the passage of time. Deferred revenue arises where payment is received prior to 
work being performed and is allocated to the performance obligations within the contract and recognised as revenue over the 
course of the contract.

Variable consideration

AASB 15 provides requirements for variable considerations such as claims, variations and contract modifications. Where 
consideration in respect of a contract is variable, the expected value of revenue is only recognised to the extent that it is highly 
probable that it will not result in a significant reversal. The estimate is based on all available information including historic 
performance.

Contract fulfilment costs

Costs generally incurred prior to the commencement of a contract may arise due to mobilisation/site setup costs as these 
costs are incurred to fulfil a contract. Where these costs are expected to be recovered, they are capitalised and amortised 
over the contract consistent with the transfer of service to the customer. Where the costs, or a portion of these costs, are 
reimbursed by the customer, the amount received is recognised as deferred revenue.

Financing components

The Group does not expect to have any contracts where the period between the transfer of the promised goods or services 
to the customer and payment by the customer exceeds one year and/or which contain other material financing components. 
Therefore, the Group does not adjust any of the transaction prices for the time value of money or other financing components.

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e.  Revenue recognition (continued)

Warranties and defect periods

Contracts for sale of goods and services may include defect and warranty periods following completion of the sale or project. 
These obligations are not deemed to be separate performance obligations and therefore are estimated and included in the 
total costs of the contracts. Where required, amounts are recognised in accordance with AASB 137 Provisions, Contingent 
Liabilities and Contingent Assets.

Other income

Dividends

Dividends are received from financial assets measured at fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI). Dividends 
are recognised as other income in profit or loss when the right to receive payment is established. This applies even if they are 
paid out of pre-acquisition profits, unless the dividend clearly represents a recovery of part of the cost of an investment. In this 
case, the dividend is recognised in other comprehensive income if it relates to an investment measured at FVOCI.

f. 

Interest income

Interest income from financial assets at FVPL is included in the net fair value gains/(losses) on these assets. Interest income on 
financial assets at amortised cost and financial assets at FVOCI calculated using the effective interest method is recognised in 
profit or loss as part of other income.

Interest income is calculated by applying the effective interest rate to the gross carrying amount of a financial asset except 
for financial assets that subsequently become credit-impaired. For credit-impaired financial assets the effective interest rate is 
applied to the net carrying amount of the financial asset (after deduction of the loss allowance).

Interest income is presented as finance income where it is earned from financial assets that are held for cash management 
purposes, see note 6(a). Any other interest income is included in other income.

g.  Income tax

The income tax expense or revenue for the period is the tax payable on the current period’s taxable income based on the 
national income tax rate for each jurisdiction adjusted by changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities attributable to temporary 
differences between the tax base of assets and liabilities and their carrying amount in the financial statements, and to unused 
tax losses.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of the tax laws enacted or substantively enacted at the end of the 
reporting period in the countries where the Company and its subsidiaries and associates operate and generate taxable income. 
Management periodically evaluates positions taken in tax returns with respect to situations in which applicable tax regulation 
is subject to interpretation. It establishes provisions where appropriate on the basis of amounts expected to be paid to the tax 
authorities.

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

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

Deferred tax liabilities and assets are not recognised for temporary differences between the carrying amount and tax bases of 
investments in foreign operations where the Company is able to control the timing of the reversal of the temporary differences 
and it is probable that the differences will not reverse in the foreseeable future.

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

Perenti Global Limited and its wholly-owned Australian controlled entities have implemented the tax consolidation legislation. 
As a consequence, these entities are taxed as a single entity and the deferred tax assets and liabilities of these entities are set-
off in the consolidated financial statements.

Current and deferred tax is recognised in profit or loss, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other 
comprehensive income or directly in equity. In this case, the tax is also recognised in other comprehensive income or directly 
in equity, respectively.

(i) Investment allowances and similar tax incentives

Companies within the Group may be entitled to claim special tax deductions for investments in qualifying assets or in 
relation to qualifying expenditure (e.g. the Research and Development Tax Incentive regime in Australia or other investment 
allowances). The Group accounts for such allowances as tax credits, which means that the allowance reduces income tax 
payable and current tax expense. A deferred tax asset is recognised for unclaimed tax credits that are carried forward as 
deferred tax assets.

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h.  Leases

The Group’s leasing policy is described in note 7(d).

i.  Business combinations

The acquisition method of accounting is used to account for all business combinations, regardless of whether equity 
instruments or other assets are acquired. The consideration transferred for the acquisition of a subsidiary comprises the:

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

fair values of the assets transferred

liabilities incurred to the former owners of the acquired business

equity interests issued by the Group

fair value of any asset or liability resulting from a contingent consideration arrangement, and

fair value of any pre-existing equity interest in the subsidiary.

Identifiable assets acquired and liabilities and contingent liabilities assumed in a business combination are, with limited 
exceptions, measured initially at their fair values at the acquisition date. The Group recognises any non-controlling interest in 
the acquired entity on an acquisition-by-acquisition basis either at fair value or at the non-controlling interest’s proportionate 
share of the acquired entity’s net identifiable assets.

Acquisition-related costs are expensed as incurred.

The excess of the:

• 

• 

• 

consideration transferred

amount of any non-controlling interest in the acquired entity, and

acquisition date fair value of any previous equity interest in the acquired entity

Over the fair value of the net identifiable assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. If those amounts are less than the fair value of 
the net identifiable assets of the subsidiary acquired, the difference is recognised directly in profit or loss as a bargain purchase.

Where settlement of any part of cash consideration is deferred, the amounts payable in the future are discounted to their 
present value as at the date of exchange. The discount rate used is the entity’s incremental borrowing rate, being the rate at 
which a similar borrowing could be obtained from an independent financier under comparable terms and conditions.

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

If the business combination is achieved in stages, the acquisition date carrying value of the acquirer’s previously held equity 
interest in the acquiree is remeasured to fair value at the acquisition date. Any gains or losses arising from such 
remeasurements are recognised in profit or loss.

Under the acquisition method, the Group has up to 12 months post the acquisition date to finalise the fair values of identifiable 
assets and liabilities.

j. 

Impairment of assets

Goodwill and intangible assets that have an indefinite useful life are not subject to amortisation and are tested annually for 
impairment, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that they might be impaired. Other assets 
are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be 
recoverable. An impairment loss is recognised for the amount by which the asset’s carrying amount exceeds its recoverable 
amount. The recoverable amount is the higher of an asset’s fair value less costs to sell and value-in-use. For the purposes of 
assessing impairment, assets are grouped at the lowest levels for which there are separately identifiable cash inflows which are 
largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or groups of assets (cash-generating units). Non-financial assets, 
other than goodwill that suffered an impairment, are reviewed for possible reversal of the impairment at each reporting period. 
See note 3 and note 7(e).

k.  Cash and cash equivalents

For the purpose of presentation in the statement of cash flows, cash and cash equivalents includes cash on hand, deposits held 
at call with financial institutions, other short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less that 
are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and which are subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value, and bank 
overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities in the statement of financial position.

l.  Trade receivables

Trade receivables are recognised initially at fair value and subsequently measured at amortised cost, less provision for 
impairment and loss allowance. See note 6(b) for further information about the Group’s accounting for trade receivables and 
note 11(b) for a description of the Group’s impairment policies.

m.  Inventories

Consumables and store items, work in progress and finished goods are stated at the lower of cost and net realisable value. Cost 
comprises direct materials, direct labour and an appropriate proportion of variable and fixed overhead expenditure, the latter 
being allocated on the basis of normal operating capacity. Costs are assigned to individual items of inventory on the basis of 
weighted average costs. Net realisable value is the estimated selling price in the ordinary course of business less the estimated 
costs of completion and the estimated costs necessary to make the sale.

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n.  Non-current assets (or disposal groups) held for sale and discontinued operations

Non-current assets (or disposal groups) are classified as held for sale if their carrying amount will be recovered principally 
through a sale transaction rather than through continuing use and a sale is considered highly probable. They are measured at 
the lower of their carrying amount and fair value less costs to sell, except for assets such as deferred tax assets, assets arising 
from employee benefits, financial assets and investment property that are carried at fair value and contractual rights under 
insurance contracts, which are specifically exempt from this requirement.

An impairment loss is recognised for any initial or subsequent write-down of the asset (or disposal group) to fair value less 
costs to sell. A gain is recognised for any subsequent increases in fair value less costs to sell of an asset (or disposal group), but 
not in excess of any cumulative impairment loss previously recognised. A gain or loss not previously recognised by the date of 
the sale of the non-current asset (or disposal group) is recognised at the date of derecognition.

Non-current assets (including those that are part of a disposal group) are not depreciated or amortised while they are classified 
as held for sale. Interest and other expenses attributable to the liabilities of a disposal group classified as held for sale continue 
to be recognised.

Non-current assets classified as held for sale and the assets of a disposal group classified as held for sale are presented 
separately from the other assets in the balance sheet. The liabilities of a disposal group classified as held for sale are presented 
separately from other liabilities in the balance sheet.

A discontinued operation is a component of the entity that has been disposed of or is classified as held for sale and that 
represents a separate major line of business or geographical area of operations, is part of a single co-ordinated plan to dispose 
of such a line of business or area of operations, or is a subsidiary acquired exclusively with a view to resale. The results of 
discontinued operations are presented separately in the consolidated statement of profit or loss.

o.  Investments and other financial assets 

Classification 

The Group classifies its investments in the following categories:

• 
• 

loans and receivables measured at amortised cost, and
financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI).

The classification depends on the entity’s business model for managing the financial assets and the contractual terms of the 
cash flows.

Measurement

At initial recognition, the Group measures a financial asset at its fair value plus transaction costs that are directly attributable 
to the acquisition of the financial asset. The Group subsequently measures all equity investments at fair value. Where the 
group’s management has elected to present fair value gains and losses on equity investments in OCI, there is no subsequent 
reclassification of fair value gains and losses to profit or loss following the derecognition of the investment. Dividends from 
such investments continue to be recognised in profit or loss as other income when the group’s right to receive payments is 
established. 

Loans and receivables are carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Details on how the fair value of financial instruments is determined are disclosed in note 6(f).

(i) Loans and receivables

Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an 
active market. They arise when the Group provides money, goods or services directly to a debtor with no intention of selling 
the receivable. They are included in current assets, except for those with maturities greater than 12 months after statement 
of financial position date which are classified as non-current assets. Loans and receivables are included in trade and other 
receivables (note 6(b)).

(ii) Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI)

The Group subsequently measures all equity investments at fair value. Where the Group’s management has elected to present 
fair value gains and losses on equity investments in OCI, there is no subsequent reclassification of fair value gains and losses 
to profit or loss following the derecognition of the investment. Dividends from such investments continue to be recognised 
in profit or loss as other income when the Group’s right to receive payments is established. Impairment losses (and reversal of 
impairment losses) on equity investments measured at FVOCI are not reported separately from other changes in fair value.

Financial assets - recognition and derecognition

Regular way purchases and sales of financial assets are recognised on trade date, being the date on which the Group commits 
to purchase or sell the asset. Financial assets are derecognised when the rights to receive cash flows from the financial assets 
have expired or have been transferred and the Group has transferred substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership.

Impairment

The Group assesses on a forward looking basis the expected credit losses associated with its debt instruments carried at 
FVOCI. The impairment methodology applied depends on whether there has been a significant increase in credit risk. For trade 
receivables, the group applies the simplified approach permitted by AASB 9, which requires expected lifetime losses to be 
recognised from initial recognition of the receivables, refer to note 11 for further detail.

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p.  Property, plant and equipment

The Group’s accounting policy for land and buildings is explained in note 7(c). All other plant and equipment is stated at 
historical cost less depreciation. Historical cost includes expenditure that is directly attributable to the acquisition of the items.

Subsequent costs are included in the asset’s carrying amount or recognised as a separate asset, as appropriate, only when 
it is probable that future economic benefits associated with the item will flow to the Group and the cost of the item can be 
measured reliably. All other repairs and maintenance are charged to profit or loss during the reporting period in which they are 
incurred.

Increases in the carrying amounts arising on revaluation of land and buildings are credited, net of tax, in other comprehensive 
income and accumulated in reserves in shareholders’ equity. To the extent that the increase reverses a decrease previously 
recognised in profit or loss, the increase is first recognised in profit or loss. Decreases that reverse previous increases of the 
same asset are first recognised in other comprehensive income to the extent of the remaining surplus attributable to the asset; 
all other decreases are charged to profit or loss. Each year, the difference between depreciation based on the revalued carrying 
amount of the asset charged to profit or loss and depreciation based on the asset’s original cost, net of tax, is reclassified from 
the property, plant and equipment revaluation surplus to retained earnings. The depreciation methods and periods used by the 
Group are disclosed in note 7(c).

The assets’ residual values and useful lives are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate, at the end of each reporting period.

An asset’s carrying amount is written down immediately to its recoverable amount if the asset’s carrying amount is greater than 
its estimated recoverable amount (note 25(j)).

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing proceeds with carrying amount. These gains or losses are included 
in profit or loss. When revalued assets are sold, it is Group policy to transfer any amounts included in other reserves in respect 
of those assets to retained earnings.

q.  Maintenance and repairs

Maintenance, repair costs and minor renewals are charged as expenses as incurred. Significant costs incurred in overhauling 
plant and equipment are capitalised and depreciated over the remaining useful life of the asset or the component in 
accordance with note 25(p).

r. 

Intangible assets

(i) Goodwill

Goodwill is measured as described in note 25(i). Goodwill on acquisitions of subsidiaries is included in intangible assets. 
Goodwill is not amortised, but it is tested for impairment annually, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances 
indicate that it might be impaired, and is carried at cost less accumulated impairment losses. Gains and losses on the disposal 
of an entity include the carrying amount of goodwill relating to the entity sold.

Goodwill is allocated to cash-generating units for the purpose of impairment testing. The allocation is made to those cash-
generating units or groups of cash-generating units that are expected to benefit from the business combination in which the 
goodwill arose, identified according to operating segments (note 1).

(ii) Customer related intangibles

Customer related intangibles acquired in a business combination are recognised at fair value at the acquisition date. They have 
a finite useful life and are subsequently carried at cost less accumulated amortisation and impairment losses. Customer related 
intangibles are amortised over the life of contract.

(iii) IT development and software

Costs associated with maintaining software programmes are recognised as an expense as incurred. Development costs that 
are directly attributable to the design and testing of identifiable and unique software products controlled by the Group are 
recognised as intangible assets where the following criteria are met:

it is technically feasible to complete the software so that it will be available for use

• 
•  management intends to complete the software and use or sell it
• 
• 
• 

there is an ability to use or sell the software
it can be demonstrated how the software will generate probable future economic benefits
adequate technical, financial and other resources to complete the development and to use or sell the software are 
available, and
the expenditure attributable to the software during its development can be reliably measured.

• 

Directly attributable costs that are capitalised as part of the software include employee costs and an appropriate portion of 
relevant overheads. Capitalised development costs are recorded as intangible assets and amortised from the point at which the 
asset is ready for use. Amortisation is calculated using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives.

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r. 

Intangible assets (continued)

(iv) Research and development

Expenditure on research activities, undertaken with the prospect of obtaining new scientific or technical knowledge and 
understanding, is recognised in the income statement as an expense when it is incurred.

Expenditure on development activities, being the application of research findings or other knowledge to a plan or design for 
the production of new or substantially improved products or services before the start of commercial production or use, is 
capitalised if the product or service is technically and commercially feasible and adequate resources are available to complete 
development. The expenditure capitalised comprises all directly attributable costs, including costs of materials, services, direct 
labour and an appropriate proportion of overheads. Other development expenditure is recognised in the income statement as 
an expense as incurred. Capitalised development expenditure is stated at cost less accumulated amortisation. Amortisation is 
calculated using the straight-line method to allocate the cost over the period of the expected benefit.

s.  Trade and other payables

These amounts represent liabilities for goods and services provided to the Group prior to the end of financial year which are 
unpaid. The amounts are unsecured and are usually paid within 45 to 60 days of recognition. Trade and other payables are 
presented as current liabilities unless payment is not due within 12 months from the reporting date. They are recognised initially 
at their fair value and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

t. 

 Borrowings

Borrowings are initially recognised at fair value, net of transaction costs incurred. Borrowings are subsequently measured at 
amortised cost. Any difference between the proceeds (net of transaction costs) and the redemption amount is recognised in 
profit or loss over the period of the borrowings using the effective interest method. Fees paid on the establishment of loan 
facilities are recognised as transaction costs of the loan to the extent that it is probable that some or all of the facility will be 
drawn down. In this case, the fee is deferred until the draw-down occurs. To the extent there is no evidence that it is probable 
that some or all of the facility will be drawn down, the fee is capitalised as a prepayment for liquidity services and amortised 
over the period of the facility to which it relates.

Borrowings are removed from the statement of financial position when the obligation specified in the contract is discharged, 
cancelled or expired. The difference between the carrying amount of a financial liability that has been extinguished or 
transferred to another party and the consideration paid, including any non-cash assets transferred or liabilities assumed, is 
recognised in other income and other expenses.

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

u.  Borrowing costs

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

v.  Provisions

Provisions are measured at the present value of management’s best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the present 
obligation at the statement of financial position date. The discount rate used to determine the present value reflects current 
market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the liability. The increase in the provision due to the 
passage of time is recognised as interest expense.

w.  Employee benefits

(i) Short-term obligations

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

(ii) Other long-term employee benefit obligations

The liabilities for long service leave and annual leave are not expected to be settled wholly within 12 months after the end of 
the period in which the employees render the related service. They are therefore measured as the present value of expected 
future payments to be made in respect of services provided by employees up to the end of the reporting period using the 
projected unit credit method. Consideration is given to expected future wage and salary levels, experience of employee 
departures and period of service. Expected future payments are discounted using market yields at the end of the reporting 
period of high quality corporate bonds with terms and currencies that match, as closely as possible, the estimated future cash 
outflows. Remeasurements as a result of experience adjustments and changes in actuarial assumptions are recognised in profit 
or loss.

The obligations are presented as current liabilities in the balance sheet if the entity does not have an unconditional right  
to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, regardless of when the actual settlement is expected  
to occur.

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w.  Employee benefits

(iii) Share-based payments

Equity settled share-based compensation benefits are provided to employees via the Ausdrill Limited Employee Option Plan,  
an employee share scheme and Perenti Global Limited Incentive Rights Plan. Information relating to these schemes is set out in 
note 19. Equity settled share-based payments are measured at the fair value of the equity instruments at grant date.

The fair value at grant date is independently determined using a Monte Carlo simulation or an amended Black Scholes Merton 
methodology valuation model.

The fair value at the grant date of the equity settled share-based payments is expensed on a straight-line basis over the vesting 
period, based on the Group’s estimate of equity instruments that will eventually vest, with a corresponding increase in equity.

At the end of each reporting period, the Group revises its estimate of the number of equity instruments expected to vest based 
on non-market vesting conditions. The impact of the revision of the original estimates, if any, is recognised in profit or loss 
such that the cumulative expense reflects the revised estimates, with a corresponding adjustment to the share-based payments 
reserve.

x.  Contributed equity

Ordinary shares are classified as equity.

Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares are shown in equity as a deduction, net of tax, from the 
proceeds. Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares for the acquisition of a business are not included in 
the cost of the acquisition as part of the purchase consideration.

y.  Dividends

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

z.  Earnings per share

(i) Basic earnings per share

Basic earnings per share, see note 21, is calculated by dividing:

• 

the profit attributable to equity holders of the Company, excluding any costs of servicing equity other than ordinary shares

•  by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the financial year, adjusted for bonus elements in 

ordinary shares issued during the year.

(ii) Diluted earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share, see note 21, adjusts the figures used in the determination of basic earnings per share to take into 
account:

• 
• 

the after income tax effect of interest and other financing costs associated with dilutive potential ordinary shares, and
the weighted average number of shares assumed to have been issued for no consideration in relation to dilutive potential 
ordinary shares.

aa. Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of associated GST, unless the GST incurred is not recoverable 
from the taxation authority. In this case, it is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of the expense.

Receivables and payables are stated inclusive of the amount of GST receivable or payable. The net amount of GST recoverable 
from, or payable to, the taxation authority is included with other receivables or payables in the statement of financial position.

Cash flows are presented on a gross basis. The GST components of cash flows arising from investing or financing activities 
which are recoverable from, or payable to the taxation authority, are presented as operating cash flows.

ab. Rounding of amounts

The Company is of a kind referred to in ASIC Legislative Instrument 2016/191, issued by the Australian Securities and 
Investments Commission, relating to the ‘rounding off’ of amounts in this report and the accompanying financial report. 
Amounts in this report and the accompanying financial report have been rounded off to the nearest thousand dollars, or in 
certain cases, to the nearest dollar.

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FINANCIAL REPORTDIRECTORS’ DECLARATION

In the directors’ opinion:

(a)  the financial statements and notes set out on pages 84 to 157 are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including:

(i)  complying with Accounting Standards, the Corporations Regulations 2001 and other mandatory professional reporting 

requirements, and

(ii)  giving a true and fair view of the consolidated entity’s financial position as at 30 June 2021 and of its performance for the 

financial year ended on that date, and

(b)  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

(c)  at the date of this declaration, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the members of the extended closed Group identified 

in note 23 will be able to meet any obligations or liabilities to which they are, or may become, subject by virtue of the deed of cross 
guarantee described in note 23.

Note 25(a) confirms that the financial statements also comply with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the 
International Accounting Standards Board.

The directors have been given the declarations by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer required by section 295A  
of the Corporations Act 2001.

This declaration is made in accordance with a resolution of the directors.

Mark Alexander John Norwell

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer 
Director

Perth 
24 August 2021

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A.  DISTRIBUTION OF EQUIT Y SECU RI TI ES

Analysis of numbers of equity security holders by size of holding as at 21 July 2021:

HOLDING

1 - 1,000

1,001 - 5,000

5,001 - 10,000

10,001 - 100,000

100,001 and over

NUMBER OF 
HOLDERS

2,875

3,251

1,574

2,753

306

ORDINARY SHARES

SHARES

1,205,566

9,036,451

12,285,334

80,701,268

601,066,602

% OF SHARES  
ON ISSUE

0.17%

1.28%

1.74%

11.46%

85.35%

10,759

704,295,221

100.00% 

There were 1,864 holders of less than a marketable parcel of 353,973 ordinary shares as at 21 July 2021.

B.  E QUI T Y  SE CU RIT Y HOL DERS

The names of the twenty largest holders of quoted equity securities as at 21 July 2021 are listed below:

NAME

1. HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited

2. Citicorp Nominees Pty Limited

3. J P Morgan Nominees Australia Pty Limited

4. CS Third Nominees Pty Limited

5. Bremerton Pty Limited

6. Nebraska Pty Limited

7. National Nominees LImited

8. BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd 

9. Zero Nominees Pty Ltd

10. Purple Dragon Holdings Pty Ltd

11. BNP Paribas Noms Pty Ltd 

12. Mr BG Wright + Mrs WJ Wright

13. CTS Funds Pty Ltd

14. BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd 

15. Royale Blue Pty Ltd

16. Mrs Patricia Gladys Wright

17. BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd Six Sis Ltd

18. Gresham Partners Capital Limited

19. Mrs PG Wright + Mr MG Wright + Mr JG Wright 

20. HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited-GSCO ECA

ORDINARY SHARES

NUMBER HELD

PERCENTAGE OF 
ISSUED SHARES

193,568,119

93,616,100

79,787,199

29,958,038

26,005,640

26,005,640

12,339,149

9,122,573

8,000,000

6,280,613

5,232,762

5,051,035

5,009,748

4,850,866

3,708,161

3,623,553

3,075,445

2,689,150

2,451,544

2,341,126

27.48% 

13.29% 

11.33% 

4.25% 

3.69% 

3.69% 

1.75% 

1.30% 

1.14% 

0.89% 

0.74% 

0.72% 

0.71% 

0.69% 

0.53% 

0.51% 

0.44% 

0.38% 

0.35% 

0.33% 

Total held by the twenty largest shareholders

522,716,461

74.21% 

Unquoted equity securities

Rights issued under the Employee Incentive Rights Plan

NUMBER 
ON ISSUE

NUMBER 
OF HOLDERS

13,052,162

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C .  S UBSTANTIAL HOLDERS

Substantial holders in the Company are set out below as at 21 July 2021:

1. FMR LLC

2. L1 Capital

3. Dimensional Fund Advisors

4. Allan Gray Australia

E.  VO TI NG RI GHTS

ORDINARY SHARES

NUMBER HELD

PERCENTAGE

69,693,488

62,324,568

38,810,240

36,673,609

9.90% 

8.80% 

5.50% 

5.20%

The voting rights attaching to each class of equity securities are set out below:

(a)  Ordinary shares: every member present at a meeting of the Company in person or by proxy shall have one vote and  

upon a poll each share shall have one vote.

(b)  Options: no voting rights.

(c)  Rights: no voting rights.

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Revenue

Sales revenue (from continuing operations)

$’000

 764,950 

 866,281 

 1,638,392 

 2,046,058 

2,087,542

17

18

19

20

21

Profit/(loss)

EBITDA

Depreciation expense

Amortisation expense

Underlying EBIT(A)

Net interest expense

Operating profit before income tax  
(excluding impairment)

Impairment expense

Profit / (loss) before income tax

Income tax (expense) / benefit

Profit / (loss) from discontinued operations

Profit / (loss) for the year

Profit / (loss) for the year attributable to  
equity holders

Number of ordinary shares at year end

Weighted number of ordinary shares

Basic earnings / (loss) per share

Diluted earnings / (loss) per share

Statement of financial position

Total assets

Total liabilities

Shareholders’ equity

Net tangible assets per share

Cash flows

Gross cash flows from operating activities

Net cash flows from operating activities

Net cash flows from investing activities

Net cash flows from financing activities

Closing cash balance

Gross debt

Net debt

Dividends

Total dividends per share (interim and final 
declared)

Total dividends paid/payable *

Net Debt / Total Capital

Employees at year end

* Includes issue of shares under Dividend Reinvestment Plan.

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

000’s

000’s

cents

cents

$’000

$’000

$’000

$

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

$’000

cents

$’000

%

#

 135,791 

 177,250 

 401,049 

 370,377 

276,296

(62,172)

(74,528)

(164,829)

(232,141)

(222,230)

 - 

 68,872 

(28,997)

 - 

(29,062)

(38,564)

(39,303)

 86,823 

(28,643)

 180,707 

 211,708 

170,787

(52,239)

(52,134)

(62,957)

 44,622 

 74,079 

 268,554 

 107,146 

 - 

 44,622 

(13,671)

 250 

 - 

 74,079 

(14,730)

 1,701 

(113,635)

 154,919 

 27,362 

 - 

(59,608)

 47,538 

(19,983)

 - 

22,369

(70,563)

(48,194)

(4,109)

-

 31,201 

 61,050 

 182,281 

 27,555 

(52,303)

 31,201 

 312,277 

 312,277 

 10.0 

 9.7 

 61,050 

 181,326 

 23,837 

(55,140)

 362,197 

 685,706 

 701,528 

 351,782 

 605,818 

 689,199 

 17.4 

 17.1 

 30.0 

 29.8 

3.5

3.5

704,295

703,365

(7.8)

(7.8)

 1,187,362 

 1,367,761 

 2,666,766 

 2,742,894 

2,497,465

 557,248 

 593,010 

 1,255,154 

 1,343,140 

1,194,759

 630,114 

 774,751 

 1,411,612 

 1,399,754 

1,302,706

 2.02 

 2.14 

 0.97 

 0.99 

0.89

 132,111 

 94,613 

 90,155 

 52,593 

 297,680 

 426,787 

 206,912 

 306,539 

396,792

296,263

(101,127)

(161,517)

(109,937)

(170,967)

(204,083)

(6,965)

 78,284 

(13,141)

(25,240)

(144,450)

 166,710 

 137,258 

 223,524 

 327,491 

264,741

 388,617 

 404,550 

 757,443 

 883,857 

768,000

 221,907 

 267,292 

 533,919 

 556,366 

503,259

 4.00 

 6,246 

 7.00 

 7.00 

 7.00 

 19,855 

 42,602 

 48,023 

7.00

49,270

 26 

 26 

 27 

 28 

28

 5,206 

 6,103 

 8,270 

 7,729 

7,881

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FINANCIAL REPORTKEY DATES

20 21

8 October

Annual General Meeting

20 October

Dividend payment

20 22

21 February

Board meeting to approve the Half Year to  
31 Dec 2021 Financial Results 

Teleconference would be held Tuesday  
22 February 2022

22 August

Board meeting to approve the Full Year to  
30 June 2022 Financial Results 

Teleconference would be held Tuesday  
23 August 2022

7 October

Annual General Meeting

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

A

AASB

Australian Accounting Standards Board

ABAC Policy

Anti bribery and anti corruption Policy

ABN

ACN 

AMS

APES

ASIC

ASX

AUMS

BTP

CGU 

CFI

DCF

DRP

EBIT(A)

EBITDA 

ESG

FIFO

FVLCD

FVOCI

FVPL

GST

IASB

idoba

IFRS

IFRIC

ISG

JV

KMP

LTI

M&A

NCI

NPAT

OCI

OEM

OMG

Australian Business Number 

Australian Company Number

African Mining Services (Perenti subsidiary)

Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards

Australian Securities and Investments Corporation

Australian Stock Exchange

African Underground Mining Service (Perenti subsidiary)

Best Tractor Parts (Perenti subsidiary)

Cash Generating Unit

Conduit Foreign Income

Discounted cash flow

Dividend Reinvestment Plan

Earnings before interest, tax and amortisation

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation

Environment Social and Governance (Sustainability)

Fly In Fly Out workforce

Fair value less cost of disposal

Fair value through other comprehensive income

Fair value through profit and loss

Goods and Services Tax

International Accounting Standards Board

Perenti’s technology services business

International Financial Reporting Standards

International Financial Reporting Standards Interpretations Committee

Industry Sector Group

Joint venture

Key Management Personnel

Long term incentive

Mergers and acquisitions

Non-controlling interest

Net Profit After Tax

Other comprehensive income

Original Equipment Manufacturer

OMG Engineering  

B

C

D

E

F

G

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

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R

S

T

U

V

W

RCF

Revolving credit facility

ROACE

Return on average capital employed

SPI

STI

TFR 

TRIFR

TSR

UMA

VAT

VIU 

WCS

Serious potential incident

Short term incentive

Total Fixed Remuneration

Total recordable injury frequency rate

Total shareholders’ return

Underground Mining Alliance – a joint venture between Perenti subsidiary 
AUMS and Ghanaian mining contractor Rocksure

Value-added Tax

Value in Use

Well Control Solutions

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