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Hitachi, Ltd. Annual Report 2007
48
3. BASIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT TRANSLATION
The accompanying consolidated financial statements are expressed in yen and, solely for the convenience of the reader,
have been translated into United States dollars at the rate of ¥118=U.S.$1, the approximate exchange rate prevailing on
the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market as of March 30, 2007. This translation should not be construed as a representation
that all amounts shown could be converted into U.S. dollars.
4. INVESTMENTS IN SECURITIES AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES
Short-term investments as of March 31, 2007 and 2006 are as follows:
Thousands of
Millions of yen U.S. dollars
2007 2006 2007
Investments in securities:
Available-for-sale securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥13,279 ¥ 75,975 $112,534
Held-to-maturity securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 57 364
Trading securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,664 86,724 175,119
¥33,986 ¥162,756 $288,017
Investments and advances, including affiliated companies as of March 31, 2007 and 2006 are as follows:
Thousands of
Millions of yen U.S. dollars
2007 2006 2007
Investments in securities:
Available-for-sale securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ 396,910 ¥ 447,298 $3,363,644
Held-to-maturity securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048 1,316 8,881
Securities without readily determinable fair values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,190 79,321 611,780
Investments in affiliated companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406,324 368,989 3,443,424
Advances and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,252 132,749 1,468,237
¥1,049,724 ¥1,029,673 $8,895,966