Reserve Bank of Australia Balance Sheet

At close of business on Wednesday, 15 January 2025
$ million
Liabilities and Equity Movement Assets Movement
Australian notes on issue 103,627 -185 Gold and foreign exchange[1] 108,215 -243
Exchange Settlement balances 265,128 3,299 Australian dollar investments[2] 305,157 -2,397
Deposits (excluding Exchange Settlement balances) 44,770 -4,830 Other assets (including clearing items) 2,343 -437
Other liabilities 16,249 -669      
Other reserves and current year earnings[3] -14,099 -692      
Capital and Reserve Bank Reserve Fund 40 -      
Total 415,715 -3,077 Total 415,715 -3,077
The Bank's liabilities and assets data are provided on a more disaggregated basis in statistical table A1 – RBA Balance Sheet.

Footnotes

Gold and foreign exchange
Movements in this item reflect:
a. the Bank's transactions in gold and foreign exchange (including under swaps) and foreign securities;
b. earnings and changes in the valuation of gold and foreign currency investments, including changes in the market prices of the Bank's holdings of foreign currency securities.
In the week to 15 January the fall mainly reflects item (a).
[1]

Australian dollar investments
Movements in this item reflect:
a. the Bank's transactions in securities;
b. earnings and changes in the valuation of the Bank's Australian dollar investments.
In the week to 15 January the fall mainly reflects item (a).
[2]

Other reserves and current year earnings
This item includes unallocated earnings, accounting reserves and accumulated gains or losses on the Bank's assets from movements in domestic and foreign yields, and exchange rates. The treatment of earnings at year-end is subject to distribution of profits as determined in section 30 of the Reserve Bank Act.
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