Annual Report & Accounts December 2009 – Charting new frontiers

Audited

The information provided on this page was audited by Deloitte and Pannell Kerr Forster on 31 March 2010.

For further information see the report of the independent joint auditors.

Group Statement of Value Added

For the period ended 31 December 2009

  31 Dec 2009
N'million
% 31 Mar 2009
N'million
%
Gross income 196,408   217,630  
Interest paid (64,339)   (54,908)  
Interest on long-term borrowings (1,545)   (1,744)  
  130,524   160,978  
Administrative overheads:        
– Local (31,216)   (30,012)  
– Foreign (949) (1,322)
Value added 98,359 100 129,644 100
Distribution        
Employees        
– Salaries and benefits 40,604 41 50,203 39
Government        
Company income tax 4,306 4 8,216 6
The future        
– Asset replacement (depreciation)        
– Local 5,467 6 6,108 5
– Foreign 79 - 95 -
– Asset replacement (provision for losses) 40,624 42 45,552 35
– Asset replacement (deferred taxation) 4,090 4 6,901 5
– Expansion (transfers to reserves) 3,189 3 12,569 10
  98,359 100 129,644 100