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Sources of Finance
Financial Structures of Four Well Known British Companies
As a matter of interest, here are the financing structures of four companies that you can find in the database of company data. Here we can see how each company is financed by its ordinary (equity) shareholders and in three out of the four cases by preference shareholders and/or banks and other lenders - they are the creditors with amounts falling due after more than one year.
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| | AG Barr | British Airways plc | Cadbury Schweppes | Marks & Spencer plc |
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| Currency | £ '000 | £ million | £ million | £ million |
| 0 | 7,097 | 1,577 | 2,156 |
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| Called-up share capital | 4,865 | 271 | 257 | 853 |
| Share premium | 905 | 788 | 1,050 | 3 |
| Other reserves | 0 | 270 | 149 | -4,437 |
| Profit and loss account | 50,623 | 687 | 1,564 | 6,662 |
| 56,393 | 2,016 | 3,020 | 3,081 |
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