Full Annual Report - Inchcape

Financial statements
Notes to the accounts continued
3 Revenue and expenses continued
d. Auditors’ remuneration
During the year the Group (including its overseas subsidiaries) obtained the following services from the Group’s auditor at costs as
detailed below:
Audit services:
– Fees payable for the audit of the parent Company and the consolidated Financial statements 0.4 0.4
Fees payable to the Company’s auditor and its associates for other services:
– The audit of the Company’s subsidiaries pursuant to legislation 1.7 1.7
– Other services supplied pursuant to such legislation 0.9 0.1
– Services relating to taxation 1.4 1.5
– All other services – 0.1
4.0 3.4
Total fees payable to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 4.4 3.8
Audit fees – firms other than PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 0.1 0.1
The fees for other services supplied pursuant to legislation include £0.8m related to the Rights Issue. These costs have been recognised
in equity as part of the net proceeds of the Rights Issue.
e. Staff costs
Wages and salaries 356.5 353.4
Social security costs 43.0 39.6
Other pension costs 11.2 12.3
Share-based payment charge / (credit) 3.8 (0.9)
414.5 404.4
Information on Directors’ emoluments and interests which forms part of these audited consolidated Financial statements, is given in the
Board report on remuneration which can be found on pages 68 – 74 of this document.
f. Average number of employees
2009
Number
2009
£m
2009
£m
2008
£m
2008
£m
Distribution Retail Total
2008
Number
2009
Number
2008
Number
2009
Number
2008
Number
Australasia 557 594 595 574 1,152 1,168
Europe 350 430 474 591 824 1,021
North Asia 1,381 1,378 – – 1,381 1,378
South Asia 1,003 1,022 – – 1,003 1,022
United Kingdom 159 166 4,955 6,090 5,114 6,256
Russia and Emerging Markets 1,387 1,414 2,660 3,055 4,047 4,469
Total operational 4,837 5,004 8,684 10,310 13,521 15,314
Central 156 162
13,677 15,476
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Inchcape plc ¦ Annual Report and Accounts 2009