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The following table shows the
summarised income statement and includes a reconciliation of the key
financial performance measures before and after specific items and
is discussed further in this Financial review.
Summarised
group income statement
| |
2008
|
|
2007
|
|
2006
|
|
|
Year ended 31 March |
£m |
|
£m |
|
£m |
|
| Revenue |
20,704
|
|
20,223
|
|
19,514
|
|
| Other operating
incomea
|
349
|
|
233
|
|
227
|
|
| Operating costsa
|
(18,697
|
) |
(17,915
|
) |
(17,246
|
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Operating
profit |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Before
specific items |
2,895 |
|
2,713 |
|
2,633 |
|
| Specific
items |
(539
|
) |
(172
|
) |
(138
|
) |
| |
2,356
|
|
2,541
|
|
2,495
|
|
| Net finance
expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Before
specific items |
(378 |
) |
(233 |
) |
(472 |
) |
| Specific
items |
–
|
|
139
|
|
–
|
|
| |
(378
|
) |
(94
|
) |
(472
|
) |
| Share of post
tax (losses) profits of associates and joint venturesb
|
(11
|
) |
15
|
|
16
|
|
| Profit on disposal
of associates and joint ventures – specific items |
9
|
|
22 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Profit before
taxation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Before
specific items |
2,506 |
|
2,495 |
|
2,177 |
|
| Specific
items |
(530
|
) |
(11
|
) |
(137
|
) |
| |
1,976
|
|
2,484
|
|
2,040
|
|
| Taxation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Before
specific items |
(581 |
) |
(611 |
) |
(533 |
) |
| Specific
items |
343
|
|
979
|
|
41
|
|
| |
(238
|
) |
368
|
|
(492
|
) |
| Profit for the year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Before specific items |
1,925 |
|
1,884 |
|
1,644 |
|
| Specific items |
(187
|
) |
968
|
|
(96
|
) |
| |
1,738
|
|
2,852
|
|
1,548
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Basic earnings
per share |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Before
specific items |
23.9 |
p |
22.7 |
p |
19.5 |
p |
| Specific items |
(2.4 |
p) |
11.7 |
p |
(1.1 |
p) |
| Total basic earnings per share |
21.5
|
p |
34.4
|
p |
18.4
|
p |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| a Includes
specific items. |
| b No
specific items in any of the years presented. |
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