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The group has a centralised treasury operation whose primary role is
to manage liquidity, funding, investment and the group’s financial risk,
including risk from volatility in currency and interest rates and counterparty
credit risk. The treasury operation is not a profit centre and the objective is
to manage risk at optimum cost.
The Board sets the treasury
department’s policy and its activities are subject to a set of controls
commensurate with the magnitude of the borrowings and investments under its
management. Counterparty credit risk is closely monitored and managed within
controls set by the Board. Derivative instruments, including forward foreign
exchange contracts, are entered into for hedging purposes only.
We have set out further details on
this topic and on our capital resources and foreign currency exposure in
note 36 to the financial statements in compliance with FRS 13.
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