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CONSOLIDATED AND SEPARATE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Illustration 4

• Q Ltd holds 48% of the voting rights in S Ltd, a listed

company, whose relevant activities are directed through

voting rights. The remaining voting rights are held by

thousands of individual shareholders.

• No other shareholder holds more than 1% of the voting

rights and no shareholders have collective voting

agreements.

• Does Q Ltd have power over S Ltd?

• Taking into account the dispersion of other shareholders, Q Ltd’s
voting interest is sufficiently dominant for it to have the practical

ability to direct the relevant activities unilaterally

• Thus, Q Ltd would conclude that it has power over S Ltd

• What if…??

• A proxy had been elected to represent 20% of the other shareholders at shareholder
meetings?

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