Operating Profit from Continuing Operations
 Review of Results
 Summarised Consolidated Profit and Loss Account – Achieved Profits Basis
Earnings per Share – Achieved Profits Basis
 Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses – Achieved Profits Basis
 Summarised Consolidated Balance Sheet – Achieved Profits Basis
 Reconciliation of Movement in Shareholders’ Capital and Reserves – Achieved Profits Basis
 Notes on the Achieved Profits Basis Supplementary Information
 The Achieved Profits Basis of Financial Reporting
 Report of the Auditors on the Achieved Profits Basis Supplementary Information

 

 

 

 

Earnings per Share – Achieved Profits Basis

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Year ended 31 December 199819981997
Operating profit after tax£752m£811m*
Operating earnings per share38.7p42.0p*
Total profit after tax£1,037m£1,189m
Total earnings per share53.4p61.5p
Average number of shares1,942m1,932m
*Restated for altered basis of recognition of investment returns, as explained in note 4(ii).

 

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