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              | | Land Registry Trading Fund Statement of Cash Flows
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                            for the year ended 31 March 2010(Expressed in thousands of Hong Kong dollars)
 
 
 |  | Note | 2010 | 2009 |  | 
                                     
 |  | Cash flows from operating activities |  |  |  |  | Profit from operations Depreciation and amortisation
 Increase/(Decrease) in deferred
                                  revenue
 Increase/(Decrease) in creditors and
 amounts due to related parties
 (Decrease)/Increase in provision for
 employee benefits
 Increase in customers' deposits
 Decrease/(Increase) in debtors and
 amounts due from related parties
 Profits tax paid
 |  |  167,989 33,362
 3,554
 
 2,674
 
 (1,674)
 171
 
 432
 (8,124)
 
 |  84,731 42,818
 (2,195)
 
 (3,172)
 
 5,017
 1,129
 
 (1,572)
 (40,621)
 
 
 |  | Net cash from operating activities |  | 198,384 
                                         
 | 86,135  
                                   
 |  | Cash flows from investing activities |  |  |  |  | Decrease in bank deposits (other than 
                                  cash equivalents) Purchase of fixed assets
 Interest received
 |  |  314,000 (25,326)
 11,946
 
 
 |  12,000 (16,867)
 23,996
 
 
 |  | Net cash from investing activities |  | 300,620 
                                         
 | 19,129
 
 |  | Cash flows from financing activities Dividend paid
 |  | (146,759)
 
 
 | (288,006)
 
 
 |  | Net cash used in financing activities |  | (146,759)
                                         
 | (288,006)
                                         
 |  | Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
 |  | 352,245
 
 | (182,742)
 
 |  | Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
 |  | 19,169
 
 | 201,911
 
 |  | Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
 |  | 371,414 
                                         
 | 19,169 
 
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 The Notes to the Financial Statements form part of these financial statements.
 
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