Aurum Pacific (China) Group Limited informed the shareholders of the company and potential investors that based on the preliminary assessment of the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the group for the nine months ended 30 September 2017, the group is expected to record the unaudited consolidated loss attributable to owners of the Company in the range of approximately HKD 21 million to HKD 24 million for the nine months ended 30 September 2017 as compared with the unaudited consolidated loss attributable to owners of the company of approximately HKD 28 million for the nine months ended 30 September 2016. The expected decrease in the unaudited consolidated loss attributable to owners of the company was mainly attributable to the net effect of (i) the recognition of estimated changes in fair value of consideration payable for business combination of approximately HKD 5.6 million relating to the acquisition of 60% equity interest in First Surplus Investments Ltd. and its subsidiaries (the acquisition of FS Group) completed on 25 October 2016; (ii) the recognition of estimated changes in fair value of contingent consideration assets for business combination of approximately HKD 5.7 million relating to the acquisition of FS Group completed on 25 October 2016; (iii) the absence of the loss of approximately HKD 8.2 million from the discontinued operation relating to a disposal of the entire equity interest of Native Hope Limited and its subsidiaries completed on 30 June 2016; (iv) the absence of write-off of intangible assets of approximately HKD 1.1 million on 30 September 2016; (v) the absence of the impairment loss on goodwill of approximately HKD 1.4 million on 30 September 2016 and (vi) the improvement of the operation resulted from the favorable performance of the mobile game business acquired on 25 October 2016.