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Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2001
NOTES TO THE COMPANY ACCOUNTS
Unilever PLC
>105
Financial Statements
Fixed investments
£ million £ million
2001 2000
Shares in group companies 2 237 2 266
Book value of PLC shares held in
connection with share options 196 176
2 433 2 442
Shares in group companies
Shares in group companies are stated at cost or valuation, less
amounts written off.
£ million
2001
Movements during the year:
1 January 2 266
Additions 14
Disposals (43)
31 December 2 237
Shares held in connection with share options
£ million
2001
Movements during the year:
1 January 176
Additions 45
Disposals (20)
Valuation adjustments (5)
31 December 196
Cash at bank/in hand
£ million £ million
2001 2000
This includes amounts for which
repayment notice is required 138 387
Debtors
£ million £ million
2001 2000
Due within one year:
Amounts owed by group companies 1 928 1 894
Other 79 44
Total debtors 2 007 1 938
Creditors
£ million £ million
2001 2000
Due within one year:
Amounts owed to group companies 1 349 182
Bonds and other loans 1 043 1 447
Taxation and social security 34 79
Dividends 284 249
Other 2–
Accruals and deferred income 916
2 721 1 973
Due after more than one year:
Bonds and other loans 763 1 713
Profit retained
£ million £ million
2001 2000
1 January 935 905
Profit for the year 430 405
Dividends on ordinary and deferred shares (417) (375)
31 December 948 935
Contingent liabilities
£ million £ million
2001 2000
These are not expected to give rise to any
material loss and include guarantees given
for group companies, under which amounts
outstanding at 31 December were: 8 526 11 712
Of the above, guaranteed also by NV 3 817 7 570
Remuneration of auditors
£ million £ million
2001 2000
Parent company audit fee 1.4 1.4
Payments by the parent company for
non-audit services provided by
PricewaterhouseCoopers United Kingdom (a) 17.3 16.2
(a) See also note 2 on page 62.
Profit appropriation
£ million £ million
2001 2000
The proposed appropriation of the profit
of PLC is as follows:
Interim and recommended final dividends 417 375
Profit for the year retained 13 30