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In forceGeneral insurance: Financial statementsLast checked 11 November 2026

Balance sheet (GRS 300.0)

A regulatory return listed by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australia.

Collects information on a general insurer's financial position. APRA uses it to supervise the firm (prudential supervision), including checking it meets the capital standards. Source

Official title: Reporting Standard GRS 300.0 Statement of Financial Position

The facts

Who files
This Reporting Standard applies to all general insurers authorised under the Insurance Act 1973 (insurers). Source
How often
Quarterly and annually. Source
Deadline
The information required by this Reporting Standard in respect of an insurer must be provided to APRA: (a) in the case of quarterly information, within 20 business days after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates; (b) in the case of annual information, within three months after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates; or (c) in the case of information provided in accordance with paragraph 7, within the time specified by notice in writing. Source
Format
XML, Excel, Web form. Lodged in APRA Connect: upload an XML file built to the published XSD, upload an Excel file using the form layouts in the reporting taxonomy, or enter the data on screen. APRA Connect does not take XBRL for these collections. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the APRA: APRA Connect; Alternate Submission Process (temporary). See how firms file with the APRA.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
General insurance: Financial statements

Templates (1)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the APRA's code in brackets.

  • Statement of Financial Position (GRS 300.0 Table 1) (GRS_300_0_Table_1)

Form tables in the APRA Connect reporting taxonomy (GRS 300.0 Statement of Financial Position-V13). Source

Validation rules

14 rules, as counted from the APRA's published material. They are written for people to read; software cannot run them as published. Source

How they are written: Excel Rules worksheet listing each rule ID, type (error or warning) and a plain-English business definition; an XSD in the same zip validates the structure of XML files. No executable expressions are published for these collections..

The rules, on apra.gov.au

How they were counted

Rows in the Rules worksheet of the current reporting taxonomy workbook(s) inside the APRA Connect taxonomy artefacts zip: 14 in GRS 300.0 Statement of Financial Position-V13.xlsx. Includes general checks such as the ABN check. Built-in data type and enumeration checks are not listed as rules.

Counts are in the APRA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published only added up across firms. Data from this return appear in: Quarterly general insurance performance statistics (industry totals). Source

Where it is published (Excel database and specifications)

  • Quarterly general insurance performance statistics

    Added up across firms · Excel database and specifications

    Industry totals for general insurers: financial performance and position, investments and capital adequacy, by class of business and state, quarterly. The specifications file maps each published item to its source reporting standard. Source

Official documents (5)

The APRA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.