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| Exceptional transactions not related to normal business operations are accounted for as non-recurring items, always being recorded at Group level; segment results for operational reporting expressly exclude these, though the IAS-based segment notes allocate these items to the segments. The items/transactions must meet certain criteria to be accounted for as non-recurring, amongst others they must impact on earnings per share by at least one cent. The most common non-recurring items are capital gains, additional write-downs and restructuring provisions and gains are the 2002 non-recurring items, the main items relating to impairments charges and restructuring.
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