Income Statement

For the year ended 28 March 2009

  2009 2008
Restated*
  Notes £m £m
Continuing operations      
Revenue 2 502.4 467.0
Operating expenses 3 (405.9) (387.8)
Operating profit before exceptional items   96.5 79.2
Exceptional items – operating 4 (8.9) -
Operating profit   87.6 79.2
Share of profits of associated companies after taxation   8.9 7.1
Profit on the disposal of a business   - 0.9
Profit on the disposal of investments   - 1.7
Exceptional items – non-operating 4 - 2.6
Profit before interest and taxation   96.5 88.9
Interest income 5 7.8 4.4
Interest expense 5 (6.4) (2.4)
Retirement benefit obligation finance income 25 33.3 33.7
Retirement benefit obligation finance cost 25 (35.1) (33.4)
Profit before taxation   96.1 91.2
Taxation      
– UK 6 (21.8) (18.2)
– Overseas 6 (6.7) (6.5)
Profit for the year from continuing operations   67.6 66.5
Discontinued operations      
Profit for the year from discontinued operations 7 296.5 21.9
Profit for the year   364.1 88.4
Profit attributable to equity shareholders of the Company   363.0 88.1
Profit attributable to minority interests   1.1 0.3
    364.1 88.4
     
Earnings per share attributable to the Company’s equity holders      
From continuing operations      
Basic 8 50.9p 43.4p
Diluted 8 50.4p 42.7p
From discontinued operations      
Basic 8 226.8p 14.4p
Diluted 8 224.6p 14.0p
On profit for the year      
Basic 8 277.7p 57.8p
Diluted 8 275.0p 56.7p

The accompanying Notes [PDF, 122KB] form an integral part of these Financial Statements.

*Restated for the disposal of Cash Systems (excluding Cash Processing Solutions) – see note 7.

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