Financial Information - Uralita
Financial Information - Uralita
Financial Information - Uralita
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ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
FINANCIAL INFORMATION<br />
In 2006, the Group organised its business into<br />
five large business lines:<br />
• Insulation<br />
• Pipe Systems<br />
• Roofing<br />
• Gypsum<br />
Secondary segments – geographic<br />
The Group conducts business in:<br />
• Spain<br />
• Rest of the EU<br />
• Other countries<br />
The business segments are basically defined by<br />
the products involved.<br />
Basis and methodology for business segment<br />
reporting<br />
Revenue and expenses that cannot be<br />
specifically attributed to a business line because<br />
of decisions adopted for the overall Group or<br />
other reasons are attributed to a “Corporate<br />
Unit” to which the necessary consolidation<br />
adjustments and eliminations are attributed in<br />
order to draw up consolidated financial<br />
statements for the Group from the aggregate of<br />
the businesses.<br />
Costs of the parent company identified as arising<br />
from services provided to subsidiaries are<br />
passed on to them and are recognized in the<br />
profit and loss of the various businesses. The<br />
remaining transactions of the parent company<br />
are included in the “Corporate Unit”.<br />
The segment information provided below is<br />
based on monthly reports prepared by the<br />
various businesses and generated from the<br />
accounts and other records of the companies<br />
comprising the businesses in the same way as<br />
the information used to prepared the<br />
accompanying consolidated financial statements.<br />
The structure of this information is designed as if<br />
each business were an independent business<br />
arising from the consolidation or combination of<br />
the companies that comprise it and had its own<br />
resources.<br />
Segment information by business is presented<br />
below.<br />
The transactions carried out in 2005 in the<br />
Chemicals Business, which was sold that year,<br />
were included in the “Corporate Unit”.<br />
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