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Financial Highlights

Revenue and EBIT by geography
RevenueEBIT
Year ended 31 March2011
US$m		2010
US$m		Growth1
%		2011
US$m		2010
US$m 		Growth1
%
North America 2,254 2,060 9 610 572 7
Latin America 722 559 19 235 166 30
UK and Ireland 736 730 3 213 205 5
EMEA/Asia Pacific 502 454 12 54 51 7
Sub total 4,214 3,803 10 1,112 994 10
Central Activities2 - - - (66) (62) -
Continuing activities 4,214 3,803 10 1,046 932 11
Discontinuing activities3 25 77 n/a (2) 3 n/a
Total 4,239 3,880 8 1,044 935 10
EBIT margin4 24.8% 24.5%
1 Total growth at constant exchange rates
2 Central Activities comprise costs of central corporate functions
3 Discontinuing activities include UK account processing, some UK hosted database activities, UK mortgage software activities and other smaller discontinuing activities
4 EBIT margin is for continuing business only, excluding FARES
Income Statement and Earnings analysis
Year ended 31 March2011
US$m		2010
US$m
Total EBIT from continuing operations 1,044 935
Net interest (71) (81)
Benchmark PBT 973 854
Exceptional items (2) (68)
Amortisation of acquisition intangibles (129) (140)
Acquisition expenses (8) -
Charges for demerger-related equity incentive plans (13) (28)
Financing fair value remeasurements (142) (18)
Profit before tax 679 600
Group tax (charge)/credit (129) 9
Profit after tax for continuing operations 550 609
Benchmark earnings (non-controlling interest) (52) (45)
Benchmark earnings 701 647
Benchmark EPS (US cents) 70.0 63.7
Basic EPS for continuing operations (US cents) 50.6 56.4
Weighted average number of ordinary shares (million) 1,002 1,015