Ann: Half Year Report - commentary, page-3

well it would have been a terrible day to come out today, although Monday might be worse. It would be nice to get a real profit, although acquisitions come with one off costs.

I do think they need to get their accounting act together, to get these reports audited in time. However all the new acquisitions would complicate things - different accounting systems and partial dates for inclusion - be a bit of a nightmare really.