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2 INVESTMENTS IN SUBSIDIARIES
 mllon
2015
ost
At 1 January 2015 29,240
Addtons 31
Dsposals (11)
At 31 December 2015 29,260
Imparment losses
At 1 January 2015 –
Addtons –
Reversal of prevous mparments –
At 31 December 2015 –
arryng amount at 31 December 2015 29,260
arryng amount at 31 December 2014 29,240
Detals of the company’s subsdary undertakngs are gven n note 27 to the
consoldated fnancal statements
3 OTHER NONURRENT ASSETS
 mllon
2015
 mllon
2014
Loans to group companes(b) 2,766 782
(b) Loans to group companes nclude balances wth several group companes
whch are nterest bearng at market rates and are unsecured and
repayable on demand
4 TRADE AND OTHER URRENT REEIVABLES
 mllon
2015
 mllon
2014
Loans to group companes(c) 1,579 3,801
Amounts due from group companes(c) 804 548
Taxaton 28 35
Other 68 78
2,479 4,462
(c) Loans to group companes and amounts owed from group companes
nclude balances wth several group companes whch are nterest bearng
at market rates and are unsecured and repayable on demand
5 ASH AND ASH EQUIVALENTS
There was no cash at bank and n hand for whch payment notce
was requred at ether 31 December 2015 or 31 December 2014
6 TRADE PAYABLES AND OTHER URRENT LIABILITIES
 mllon
2015
 mllon
2014
Other amounts owed to group companes(d) 19,935 20,423
Loans from group companes(d) 2,481 1,775
Bonds and other loans 1,551 3,777
Other 194 206
24,161 26,181
(d) Amounts owed to group companes nclude balances wth several group
companes whch are nterest bearng at market rates They are unsecured
and repayable on demand
DIVIDENDS
Under IAS 10 ‘Events after the Balance Sheet Date’, proposed
dvdends do not meet the defnton of a lablty untl such tme as
they have been approved by shareholders at the Annual eneral
Meetng Therefore, we do not recognse a lablty n any perod for
dvdends that have been proposed but wll not be approved untl
after the balance sheet date Ths holds for external dvdends as
well as ntra-group dvdends pad to the parent company
TAXATION
Unlever NV, together wth certan of ts subsdares, s part of a
tax groupng for Dutch corporate ncome tax purposes Unlever
NV s the head of the fscal unty The members of the fscal entty
are ontly and severally lable for any taxes payable by the Dutch
tax groupng
PROVISIONS
Provsons are recognsed where a legal or constructve oblgaton
exsts at the balance sheet date, as a result of a past event, where
the amount of the oblgaton can be readly estmated and where
the outflow of economc beneft s probable
FINANIAL UARANTEES
Where the ompany enters n fnancal guarantee contracts to
guarantee the ndebtedness of other companes wthn ts group,
the ompany consders these to be nsurance arrangements and
accounts for them as such In ths respect, the ompany treats the
guarantee contract as a contngent lablty untl such tme as t
becomes probable that the ompany wll be requred to make a
payment under the guarantee
1 INTANIBLE ASSETS
 mllon
Indefnte-
lfe
ntangble
assets
 mllon
Fnte-lfe
ntangble
assets
 mllon
Software
 mllon
Total
ost
At 1 January 2015(a) 440 935 137 1,512
Addtons 506 349 –855
Dsposals (20) – – (20)
At 31 December 2015 926 1,284 137 2,347
Amortsaton &
Imparment
At 1 January 2015(a) –(121) (117) (238)
Addtons –(67) (11) (78)
At 31 December 2015 –(188) (128) (316)
arryng amount at
31 December 2015 926 1,096 92,031
arryng amount at
31 December 2014 440 814 20 1,274
(a) The amounts as at 1 January 2015 have been restated to FRS 101
Further detals can be found n note 21
150 Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2015Financial statements
NOTES TO THE OMPANY AOUNTS
UNILEVER NV ONTINUED