Headline earnings

for the year ended 30 September

Rm	2009	2008	% change	2007
Reconciliation of headline earnings
Profit for the period from continuing operations	1 117	877	27.4	986
Less:
Preference shareholders	(73)	(67)		(30)
Non-controlling interest	(114)	(114)		(138)
Earnings used in the calculation of basic earnings per
share from continuing operations	930	696	33.6	818
Adjusted for:
Impairment of goodwill		1		16
Impairment of intangible assets				40
Impairment of investments	2	1		1
Impairment of land and buildings	13	1
Reversal of impairment of property, plant and
equipment		(17)		(11)
Profit on disposal of property, plant and equipment	(5)	(28)		(1)
Loss/(profit) on disposal of subsidiaries/investments		2		(1)
Tax effect of headline adjusting items	2	6
Non-controlling share of headline adjusting items		10		(16)
Headline earnings from continuing operations	942	672		846
Earnings from discontinued operation	634	105		109
Adjusted for:
Profit on disposal of property, plant and equipment		(2)
Profit on disposal of discontinued operation	(678)
Tax effect of headline adjusting items	90
Headline earnings from discontinued operations	46	103		109
Headline earnings	988	775	27.5	955
Headline earnings per share (cents)
Basic	78.2	61.5	27.2	77.6
Continuing operations	74.6	53.3	40.0	68.8
Discontinued operation	3.6	8.2	(56.1)	8.8
Diluted	77.5	60.5	28.6	73.8
Continuing operations	73.9	52.5	41.3	65.4
Discontinued operation	3.6	8.0	(55.0)	8.4