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136 Notes to the company accounts
Unilever PLC
Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2002
Fixed assets
Goodwill and Intangibles
£ million £ million
2002 2001
Goodwill ––
Intangible assets 3–
3–
Fixed investments
£ million £ million
2002 2001
Shares in group companies 2 237 2 237
Book value of PLC shares held in
connection with share options 219 196
2 456 2 433
Shares in group companies
Shares in group companies are stated at cost or valuation, less
amounts written off.
£ million
2002
Movements during the year:
1 January 2 237
Additions 36
Disposals (36)
31 December 2 237
Shares held in connection with share options
£ million
2002
Movements during the year:
1 January 196
Additions 55
Disposals (30)
Valuation adjustments (2)
31 December 219
Debtors
£ million £ million
2002 2001
Due within one year:
Amounts owed by group companies 720 1 928
Other 67 79
787 2 007
Due after more than one year:
Other 27 –
Cash and current investments
£ million £ million
2002 2001
This includes amounts for which
repayment notice is required 33 138
Creditors
£ million £ million
2002 2001
Due within one year:
Amounts owed to group companies 752 1 349
Bonds and other loans 915 1 043
Taxation and social security 135 34
Dividends 311 284
Other 92
Accruals and deferred income 49
2 126 2 721
Due after more than one year:
Bonds and other loans –763
Profit retained
£ million £ million
2002 2001
1 January 948 935
Profit for the year 546 430
Dividends on ordinary and deferred shares (460) (417)
31 December 1 034 948
Contingent liabilities
£ million £ million
2002 2001
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: 8 077 8 526
Of the above, guaranteed also by NV 3 816 3 817
Remuneration of auditors
£ million £ million
2002 2001
Parent company audit fee 1.6 1.4
Payments by the parent company for
non-audit services provided by
PricewaterhouseCoopers United Kingdom (a) 9.3 17.3
(a) See also note 2 on page 77.
Profit appropriation
£ million £ million
2002 2001
The proposed appropriation of the profit
of PLC is as follows:
Interim and recommended final dividends 460 417
Profit for the year retained 86 13