RAND WATER ANNUAL REPORT 2023

Consolidated Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2023

Revenue from the sale of water is recognised in profit or loss at the point where the customer obtains control, which is at the metering point in terms of IFRS 15. The IFRS 15 revenue recognition model is similar to potable water in steps 1, 3, 4 and 5. Summary of Principal Accounting Policies and Significant Judgements 3.13 Revenue from contracts with customers (Continued)

Step 1: Identify the contract with a customer

An entity will recognise revenue at a point in time (when control transfers) if performance obligations in a contract do not meet the criteria for recognition of revenue over time.

Step 2: Identify the performance obligation in the contract

The Group recognises revenue over time, at the abstraction point, the sum of the cost of raw water at the gazette price and a recovery of direct expenses incurred for the abstraction of the raw water for the rights shared with Rand Water and a management fee of 10%. Rand Water recognises revenue from the Vaalkop scheme based on an annual calculated recovery rate. The recovery rate is applied consistently for the current financial period to which it relates. The recovery rate represents the recovery of cost incurred to operate and maintain the scheme, for the benefit of the specific group of customers.

The recovery rate is assessed annually, and an over/under recovery component is built into the next financial year, depending on the determined recovery rate as compared to actual costs incurred.

Step 3: Determine the transaction price

The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods to a customer. Under the terms of the arrangement, the Group will sell water at fixed prices, which is reviewed during each year of the contract term.

Step 4: Allocate transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract

The promise to transfer water to the customer represents one performance obligation that is satisfied over time, The transaction price is allocated to each performance obligation based on the relative standalone selling prices of the goods being provided to the customer. To do so, the Group determines the standalone selling price (“SSP”) at contract inception of the distinct good underlying each performance obligation in the bundled arrangement and allocate the transaction price in proportion to those standalone selling prices. As the Group frequently sells water on a standalone basis in the normal course of its operations, the price it charges for water when it sells to similar customers is the best evidence of the SSP. As a result, the Group is not required to estimate or derive the SSP of water; rather, it uses those SSPs for purposes of allocating the transaction price. The Group recognises revenue when (or as) it satisfies a performance obligation by transferring a promised good (that is, an asset) to the customer. An asset is transferred when (or as) the customer obtains control of that asset. The customer obtains control of a good if it has the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from that good. The Group transfers control of the water over time and the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits provided by the seller’s performance as it performs; therefore, the seller would satisfy its performance obligations and would recognise revenue on sales of water over time by measuring the progress toward complete satisfaction of its performance obligation to deliver water. The objective when measuring progress is to depict the Group’s performance in transferring control of water to customers. Therefore, revenue has been recognised as control is transferred for the performance obligation (i.e. water upon delivery to the customer’s reservoirs or catchment area). Step 5: Recognise revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation

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