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  Pearson Annual Report 1997    

Notes to the Accounts

   
 

24. Disposals

 

  1997 1996
All figures in £ millions Churchill
Livingstone
Other Total Total
Disposal analysis of subsidiary
undertakings and businesses
       
Tangible fixed assets (0.8) (3.0) (3.8) (54.1)
Goodwill written back (3.5) (5.2) (8.7) (1.4)
Stocks (11.4) (1.1) (12.5) (1.9)
Debtors (6.1) (8.4) (14.5) (24.9)
Creditors and taxation (1.9) 5.1 3.2 7.4
Provisions 0.1 (2.9) (2.8) 1.0
Deferred taxation (0.4) (0.1) (0.5) 6.5
Equity minority interest - 0.4 0.4 -
Net cash 0.2 (0.7) (0.7) (5.5)