Where I am, a much larger class B strata in Canberra, we also just present the higher level summary of income and expenditure totals against the budget. As treasurer, I write some commentary about the sorts of things covered in categories that might be less obvious and explanations for things that are substantially over or under compared with previous years or expectation. Through the year, I keep track of the individual items ledger because it is not uncommon for our managing agent to put an expense against the wrong budget line.
At the very least, your executive committee should have access to the detail and should demand it of the managing agent. A function of the treasurer includes keeping track of this stuff and a function of the EC is to supervise the treasurer. The EC cannot perform its function without this information from the managing agent. The EC should politely but firmly remind the managing agent that it works for the Owners Corporation, whose functions are exercised by the EC. The managing agent is not the boss.
Since your general meeting has directed your EC to provide that detail. If the managing agent obfuscates then the next step might be for the EC to engage an auditor to check the accounts and get that detail out of the managing agent.
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