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MANAGEMENT SHARE STRATEGY SPECIAL SECTION MANAGEMENT REPORT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FURTHER INFORMATION<br />
Consolidated Balance Sheets • Statements of Income • Statements of Cash Flows • Statements of Changes in shareholders’ Equity • Fixed Assets Schedule • Notes • Independent Auditors’ Report<br />
Receivables and other assets of a277.138 million (prior year: a248.399 million) are attributable to<br />
Dynamit Nobel.<br />
Trade receivables comprise the following:<br />
12/31/20<strong>03</strong> 12/31/2002<br />
u ’000 t ’000<br />
Gross trade receivables 835,660 737,669<br />
Less valuation allowance – 90,0<strong>04</strong> – 51,935<br />
745,656 685,734<br />
Unbilled receivables from long-term contracts 2,681,998 2,263,350<br />
net of advance payments received – 2,4<strong>04</strong>,682 – 1,972,339<br />
277,316 <strong>29</strong>1,011<br />
Total 1,022,972 976,745<br />
Other receivables and other assets are composed as follows:<br />
12/31/20<strong>03</strong> 12/31/2002<br />
u ’000 t ’000<br />
Receivables from affiliated companies 65,005 67,<strong>29</strong>8<br />
Less valuation allowance – 30,727 – 40,775<br />
34,278 26,523<br />
Receivables from associated and related companies 21,531 27,872<br />
Less valuation allowance – 10,808 – 10,<strong>03</strong>3<br />
10,723 17,839<br />
Other receivables and other assets 439,527 457,308<br />
Less valuation allowance – 63,989 – 82,244<br />
375,538 375,064<br />
Total 420,539 419,426<br />
Other receivables and other assets include receivables from tax authorities of a76.918 million<br />
(prior year: a89.012 million), financial derivatives of a51.437 million (prior year: a43.480 million)<br />
and assets held for sale amounting to a31.134 million (prior year: a0 million).<br />
Assets held for sale essentially consist of the assets sold in the project company Daimlerstrasse<br />
GmbH & Co. KG, Frankfurt am Main. At the balance sheet date, <strong>mg</strong> planned to sell 68% of the capital<br />
stock in this project company to third parties (for further information see Note 25) ‘Subsequent<br />
Events’). This proportion of its assets is therefore reported as ‘assets held for sale’. The same applies<br />
to the company’s divested liabilities, which are reported as ‘liabilities held for sale’ (for further<br />
information see Note 11) ‘Liabilities’).<br />
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