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2004  Annual Report  
 
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Annual financial statements

Notes to the company financial statements

for the year ended 31 December

 
 

 

   
 
   
2004 
2003 
   
Rm 
Rm 
1 Advances and other debtors
  Sundry debtors and accrued interest
6 
  Maturity structure
  These assets are repayable on demand or at short notice and are all
  owed within South Africa.
 
 
2 Current taxation
  Normal South African taxation
  Current taxation prepaid
  Current taxation liability
 
(1)
    
(1)
3 Taxation rate reconciliation (excluding non-trading and capital items)
% 
  Standard rate of South African normal taxation
30 
30 
  Non-taxable income
>(100)
 (30)
  S23 application
105 
  Non-deductible capital items
>100 
  Prior year adjustments and underprovisions
125 
  STC
49 
  Other – deferred tax
 
 
  Total taxation on income as percentage of profit before taxation
  (excluding transaction taxes and non-trading and capital items)
208 
 
4 Other investments
Rm 
Rm 
  Carrying amount
  Unlisted investments
32 
32 
  Valuation
  Unlisted investments at directors’ valuation
32 
32 
5 Share capital
  Ordinary share capital
  Authorised
  600 000 000 (2003: 350 000 000) ordinary shares of R1 each
600 
350 
  Issued    
  394 211 390 (2003: 274 754 425) fully paid ordinary shares of R1 each
394 
275 
  Subject to the restrictions imposed by the Companies Act of 1973, the unissued shares are under the control of the directors until the forthcoming annual general meeting. In terms of special resolutions passed in general meeting, the directors were granted the general authority to buy back up to 10% of the issued share capital of the company until the forthcoming annual general meeting.
 
 
6 Sundry creditors
  Creditors and other accounts
12 
3 
Impairment of advances
  Specific impairment of intergroup advances made to subsidiary companies.
218 
 

Nedcor Limited has also guaranteed these intergroup advances for which the impairment has been raised.

Where the net asset values of subsidiaries of Nedcor are negative and advances have been made by Nedbank Limited, Nedcor has guaranteed the repayment of these advances to Nedbank Limited.

  
  
8 Cash flow from operating activities
  Reconciliation of profit from operating to cash flow from operating activities
  Profit from operations
4 850 
  Adjusted for:  
  Foreign exchange translation gain
(1)
(382)
  Impairment of advances
218 
60 
 

Impairment of investments

70 
 

Loss on sale of subsidiary companies

 
345 
  Cash flows from operating activities
291 
4 873 
9 Operating expenses
  Audit fees – current year
4 
                 – prior year
  Directors' fees
2 
  Other
1 
10 Restatement of 2003 dividends received    
  Dividends received from subsidiaries during 2003, to the amount of R1 207 million, were adjusted against the carrying value of these investments as it was paid out of pre-acquisition reserves.