| 2009 $m |
2008 $m |
2007 $m |
2006 $m |
2005 $m |
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Income statement - continuing operations |
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| Profit before adjusting items | 1,243 | 2,079 | 1,301 | 1,154 | 720 |
| Adjusting items¹ | (500) | - | - | - | 195 |
Pre-tax profit |
743 | 2,079 | 1,301 | 1,154 | 915 |
| Taxation | (240) | (362) | (191) | (194) | (132) |
Profit for the year on continuing operations |
503 | 1,717 | 1,110 | 960 | 783 |
Income statement – discontinued operations |
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Pre-tax profit |
- | 1,788 | 263 | 82 | 143 |
| Taxation | - | (35) | (89) | (28) | (41) |
Profit for the year on discontinued operations |
- | 1,753 | 174 | 54 | 102 |
Total profit for the year |
503 | 3,470 | 1,284 | 1,014 | 885 |
Earnings per share (diluted) |
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| Continuing operations (cents) | 28.4 | 90.2 | 55.4 | 48.3 | 38.8 |
| Continuing and discontinued operations (cents) | 28.4 | 182.0 | 63.9 | 51.0 | 34.5 |
Balance sheet ($m) |
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| Net cash | 1,718 | 1,474 | 1,832 | 1,301 | 1,011 |
| Net assets | 4,192 | 4,711 | 4,563 | 3,577 | 2,712 |
Other statistics |
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| Post-tax return on equity – continuing operations (%) | 13.5 | 41.6 | 32.2 | 36.0 | 29.8 |
| Ordinary dividend per share (cents) | 44.0 | 44.0 | 20.0 | 14.3 | 11.0 |
| Funds under management ($bn) | 46.8 | 74.6 | 61.7 | 49.9 | 43.0 |
| Average headcount - continuing operations | 1,776 | 1,731 | 1,548 | 1,364 | 1,129 |
| Average headcount - discontinued operations | - | 3,252 | 3,174 | 2,067 | 1,759 |
| Sterling/US dollar exchange rates | |||||
| Average | 0.5817 | 0.4981 | 0.5280 | 0.5600 | 0.5417 |
| Year-end | 0.6970 | 0.5043 | 0.5079 | 0.5759 | 0.5298 |
| 1 Adjusting items are those items presented separately on the face of the income statement by virtue of their size or nature - see Note 2 to the financial statements. | |||||
