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10. Calculate segment operating profit as a component of segment revenue for the three business segments Merchanting, sell and Manufacturing - in 2010. Which business segment seems to have done the crush?

Segment operating profit as a ploughshare of segment revenue for:

Merchanting: €0.0615bn ÷ €1.72bn = 0.03575bn ×100 = 3.6%

Retailing: €0.0024bn ÷ €0.24bn = 0.01 × 100 = 1%

Manufacturing: (€3.5m) ÷ €40m = -0.0875 there is no profit

From the figures shown it appears merchanting has done the best as its operating profit is the biggest percentage of the revenue.

11. Calculate the increase in total operating profit as percentage of upset from 2009 to 2010. Use the data in note 2 on page 62 to suggest possible causes for this increase.

The increase in total operating profit as percentage of overthrow from 2009 to 2010 is 12.17%. The decrease in staff costs of €10,199 from 2009 to 2010 could be a possible cause for the increase. Lease rentals and other hire charges lessen by €196. Restructuring costs also decreased by€13,584.


12. discern three efforts made by the Group to emerge from the scotch downturn.






To emerge from the economic downturn the Group continued to serve to
excess capacity in the branch network and implemented measures that
reduced overheads in the like for like business by €27.4 million.(page 7)

13. In relation to the categories of assets set out below: (a) what rule of depreciation does the group employ? (b) If the depreciation policy was uttered in terms of a % rate, what range of rates would confine?

Freehold Buildings
Plant and machinery
Motor vehicles

(a)For freehold buildings the group employs straight line depreciation.
For set up and machinery the group employs reducing balance.
For motor vehicles the group employs reducing balance.

(b)The percentage rate for freehold buildings is 9%.

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