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Financial Statements

• Preparation of the Financial Statements and Directors' Responsibilities
• Directors' Responsibilities for, and Report on, Internal Control over Financial Reporting
• Auditors' Reports on the Financial Statements and on Internal Control over Financial Reporting (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404)
• Independent Auditors' Report to the Members of AstraZeneca PLC (Group)
• Consolidated Income Statement
• Consolidated Statement of Recognised Income and Expense
• Consolidated Balance Sheet
• Consolidated Cash Flow Statement
• Accounting Policies (Group)
• Notes to the Financial Statements (Group)
  • Notes 1-5
  • Notes 6-10
  • Notes 11-15
  • Notes 16-20
  • Notes 21-25
  • Notes 26-30
• Principal Subsidiaries
• Independent Auditors' Report to the Members of AstraZeneca PLC (Company)
• Company Balance Sheet
• Accounting Policies (Company)
• Notes to the Financial Statements (Company)
• Group financial record

Notes 6-10

• 6  Segment information
• 7  Product sales information
• 8  Property, plant and equipment
• 9  Goodwill
• 10  Intangible assets

6 SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Group’s activities are in one business segment, pharmaceuticals. There are no other significant classes of business, either singularly or in aggregate.

Geographic areas

The tables below show information by geographic area and, for sales and property, plant and equipment, material countries. The figures show the sales, operating profit and profit before tax made by companies located in that area/country, together with segment assets, segment assets acquired, net operating assets and property, plant and equipment owned by the same companies; export sales and the related profit are included in the area/country from which those sales were made.

	Sales
	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m
UK
External	1,981	1,686	1,388
Intra-Group	6,506	6,123	5,037
	8,487	7,809	6,425
Continental Europe
Belgium	387	344	360
France	1,806	1,641	1,630
Germany	1,164	1,113	1,180
Italy	1,111	1,075	986
Spain	840	723	713
Sweden	985	843	767
Others	2,291	1,929	1,779
Intra-Group	4,123	4,314	3,852
	12,707	11,982	11,267
The Americas
Canada	1,145	1,031	976
US	13,404	12,381	10,735
Others	872	673	523
Intra-Group	786	351	413
	16,207	14,436	12,647
Asia, Africa & Australasia
Australia	631	481	502
Japan	1,585	1,433	1,453
China	403	224	198
Others	954	898	760
Intra-Group	56	49	41
	3,629	3,085	2,954
Continuing operations	41,030	37,312	33,293
Intra-Group eliminations	(11,471)	(10,837)	(9,343)
	29,559	26,475	23,950

Export sales from the UK totalled $7,546m 31 December 2007 (2006 $7,012m, 2005 $5,716m). In the US, sales to three wholesalers accounted for approximately 82% of US sales (2006 three wholesalers accounted for approximately 80%, 2005 three wholesalers accounted for approximately 80%).

Intra-Group pricing is determined on an arm’s length basis.

	Operating profit			Profit before tax
Profit from	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m
UK	2,060	1,852	1,526	1,828	1,936	1,560
Continental Europe	2,894	3,648	3,073	2,964	3,700	3,095
The Americas	2,734	2,437	1,628	2,781	2,627	1,743
Asia, Africa & Australasia	406	279	275	410	280	269
Continuing operations	8,094	8,216	6,502	7,983	8,543	6,667
				Total assets
				2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m
UK				12,003	13,346	10,694
Continental Europe				7,311	6,937	6,525
The Americas				24,175	6,334	5,686
Asia, Africa & Australasia				2,217	1,950	1,752
Income tax receivable				2,251	1,365	183
Continuing operations				47,957	29,932	24,840
	Assets acquired 1			Net operating assets 2
	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m
UK	929	2,282	366	5,043	4,977	3,761
Continental Europe	624	440	380	4,972	4,820	4,703
The Americas	17,858	292	224	19,742	2,081	1,930
Asia, Africa & Australasia	48	50	38	1,510	1,270	1,228
Continuing operations	19,459	3,064	1,008	31,267	13,148	11,622

¹Included in ‘assets acquired’ are those assets that are expected to be used during more than one period (property, plant and equipment, goodwill and intangible assets).

²Net operating assets exclude short term investments, cash, short term borrowings, loans, retirement benefit obligations and non-operating receivables and payables.

	Property, plant and equipment
	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m
UK	2,490	2,508	2,276
Sweden	2,204	2,104	1,897
US	1,915	1,172	1,176
Rest of the world	1,689	1,669	1,636
Continuing operations	8,298	7,453	6,985

Geographic markets

The table below shows turnover in each geographic market in which customers are located.

	2007 $m	2006 $m	2005 $m
UK	1,003	850	757
Continental Europe	9,138	8,053	7,706
The Americas	15,459	14,213	12,327
Asia, Africa & Australasia	3,959	3,359	3,160
Continuing operations	29,559	26,475	23,950