BERJAYA SPORTS TOTO BERHAD

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D I R E C T O R S ’ R E P O R T
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 1998
STAFF SHARE OPTION SCHEME
Pursuant to the Berjaya Sports Toto Berhad’s Staff Share Option Scheme, which became effective on
1 April 1994, options for 7,397,000 ordinary shares of RM1.00 each in the Company were granted to eligible
staff including full-time Executive Directors of the Company and its non-listed subsidiary companies. The
main features of the Staff Share Option Scheme are as follows:
(a) Eligible staff are those who are confirmed employees including full-time Executive Directors.
(b) The options granted may be exercised at any time within a period of five years from the Date of Offer
of the options except for options granted based on length of service which can only be exercised after
two years from the Date of Offer.
(c) The options may be exercised in respect of such lesser number of ordinary shares provided that the
number shall be in multiples of 1,000 shares. Such partial exercise of the options shall not preclude
the holders from exercising the options as to the balance of the ordinary shares.
(d) The exercise price for each ordinary share under the Option Scheme shall be the average of the mean
market quotation of the shares as shown in the Daily Official List issued by the Kuala Lumpur Stock
Exchange for the five market days preceding the respective Date of Offer or at the par value of the
ordinary shares of the Company whichever is higher.
As at 30 April 1998, there were 3,371,000 unissued ordinary shares under options which remained
unexercised.
OTHER STATUTORY INFORMATION
(a) Before the profit and loss accounts and balance sheets of the Company and of the Group were made
out, the Directors took reasonable steps:
(i) to ascertain that proper action had been taken in relation to the writing off of bad debts and the
making of provision for doubtful debts and satisfied themselves that all known bad debts had
been written off and that adequate provision had been made for doubtful debts; and
(ii) to ensure that any current assets which were unlikely to realise their value as shown in the
accounting records in the ordinary course of business had been written down to an amount which
they might be expected so to realise.
(b) At the date of this report, the Directors are not aware of any circumstances which would render:
(i) the amount written off for bad debts or the amount of the provision for doubtful debts in the
accounts of the Company and the Group inadequate to any substantial extent; or
(ii) the values attributed to current assets in the accounts of the Company and the Group misleading.
(c) At the date of this report, the Directors are not aware of any circumstances which have arisen which
render adherence to the existing method of valuation of assets or liabilities of the Company and the
Group misleading or inappropriate.