Financial Statements
Notes to the consolidated accounts
8. Administrative and other expenses
8 (a) Analysis of administrative and other expenses
| 2007 £m |
2006 £m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Amortisation of intangible assets | 95 | 79 |
| Impairment of intangible assets | 20 | 58 |
| Employee remuneration | 205 | 184 |
| Share based payments: | ||
| Equity-settled transactions | 19 | 20 |
| Cash-settled transactions | 2 | 2 |
| Auditors' remuneration | 4 | 9 |
| Investment expenses and charges (i) | 72 | 56 |
| Investment property expenses | 6 | 5 |
| Operating lease rentals: | ||
| Land and buildings | 21 | 21 |
| Equipment | 6 | 4 |
| Renewal commission | 18 | 22 |
| Office costs | 22 | 12 |
| Movement in provision for past sales | 4 | 8 |
| Sundry administrative expenses | 87 | 76 |
| Total administrative and other expenses | 581 | 556 |
- Following an analysis of expense classifications a reallocation of 2006 costs has occurred moving £62m from the administration expenses line to the movement in investment contracts line.
Sub-lease rentals of £3m (2006: £2m) were received during the year.
8 (b) Auditors' remuneration
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 24 May 2007, the shareholders approved the reappointment of KPMG Audit Plc as auditor to the Company and subsidiaries. The following tables give an analysis of the total fees excluding VAT in respect of services provided to the Group. Information concerning the auditors' appointment process is given in the Corporate Governance Report.
| Fees for the year ended 31 December 2007 | UK Life & Pensions £m |
International Life & Pensions £m |
Asset Management £m |
Total £m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fees paid to KPMG | ||||
| Statutory audit fees | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
| Subsidiary and pension scheme audit fees | 1.2 | - | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| Total audit fees | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.3 |
| Other services supplied pursuant to such legislation | - | - | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Other services relating to taxation | - | - | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Services relating to information technology | 0.1 | - | - | 0.1 |
| Services relating to corporate finance transactions | 1.1 | - | - | 1.1 |
| All other services | - | - | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Total KPMG fees | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 3.8 |
KPMG Audit Plc is the auditor of the principal pension scheme of the Group, the Friends Provident Pension Scheme (FPPS). Fees paid to KPMG Audit Plc in 2007 in respect of the audit of FPPS amounted to £32,000 (2006: £29,000).
Corporate items of £1.7m (2006: £1.6m) are included within UK Life & Pensions.
IFA groups Sesame and Pantheon Financial which were acquired during the year have temporarily retained their pre-acquisition auditors for the 2007 year end.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP are auditors of Sesame and were paid £0.3m in audit related fees and, £0.03m in other fees. Deloitte and Touche LLP are the auditors of Pantheon Financial and were paid £0.06m in audit fees and £0.01m in other fees.
| Fees for the year ended 31 December 2006 | UK Life & Pensions £m |
International Life & Pensions £m |
Asset Management £m |
Total £m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fees paid to KPMG | ||||
| Statutory audit fees | 0.3 | - | - | 0.3 |
| Subsidiary and pension scheme audit fees | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
| Other audit fees | 0.2 | - | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Total audit fees | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
| Other services supplied pursuant to such legislation | 0.2 | - | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Services relating to information technology | - | - | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Services relating to recruitment and remuneration | - | - | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| All other services | - | - | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Total KPMG fees | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 3.1 |
| Fees paid to Ernst & Young | ||||
| Other services supplied pursuant to such legislation | - | - | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Other services relating to taxation | - | - | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Services relating to information technology | 0.8 | - | - | 0.8 |
| All other services | 4.4 | - | 0.1 | 4.5 |
| Total Ernst & Young fees | 5.2 | - | 1.0 | 6.2 |
| Total fees | 6.7 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 9.3 |