Financial statements 2009

15. Tangible fixed assets

15. Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets comprise the following:

In CHF'000 31.12.2009 31.12.2008
Land and buildings 74 672 79 694
Equipment and machines 71 174 85 843
     
  145 846 165 537

Land and buildings

Land and buildings
In CHF'000 Land Buildings Building improvements Construction in progress Total
Gross values at cost          
           
As of January 1, 2008 15 794 81 900 12 677 163 110 534
Additions   1 630 4 439 1 531 7 600
Disposals and retirements   -2 787 -456 -3 243
Change in scope of consolidation   105 58 163
Currency translation adjustment -139 -1 905 -287 -2 -2 333
Reclassification & others   107 107
           
As of January 1, 2009 15 655 78 943 16 431 1 799 112 828
Additions 2 070 1 946 536 4 552
Disposals and retirements -10 -342 -205 -557
Currency translation adjustment -4 -50 -157 3 -208
Reclassification & others -559 -559
           
As of December 31, 2009 15 641 80 621 18 015 1 779 116 056
           
Accumulated depreciation and impairment          
           
As of January 1, 2008 -20 359 -9 596 -29 955
Systematic depreciation -3 488 -1 727 -5 215
Recovery of depreciation on disposals and retirements 472 456 928
Change in scope of consolidation -90 -90
Currency translation adjustment 1 084 114 1 198
           
As of January 1, 2009 -22 381 -10 753 -33 134
Systematic depreciation -3 509 -2 411   -5 920
Impairment -955 -1 779 -2 734
Recovery of depreciation on disposals and retirements 94 205 299
Currency translation adjustment 39 66 105
           
As of December 31, 2009 -26 712 -12 893 -1 779 -41 384
           
Net book values as of December 31, 2008 15 655 56 562 5 678 1 799 79 694
           
Net book values as of December 31, 2009 15 641 53 909 5 122 0 74 672
           
Useful life in years Indefinite 10 – 50 4 – 8    
In CHF'000 31.12.2009 31.12.2008
Fire insurance value of buildings 94 581 90 079
Corporate buildings on land whose owner has granted a permanent and specific right of use 4 473 4 160

Impairments in 2009 relating to construction in progress mainly consisted in a building project which was not pursued.

Equipment and machines

Equipment and machines
In CHF'000 Technical equipment and machinery Other equipment Total
Gross values at cost      
       
As of January 1, 2008 226 620 15 590 242 210
Additions 51 417 1 696 53 113
Disposals and retirements -71 785 -661 -72 446
Change in scope of consolidation 1 006 291 1 297
Currency translation adjustment -9 756 -237 -9 994
Reclassification & others -816 -816
       
As of January 1, 2009 197 502 15 862 213 363
Additions 21 701 1 628 23 329
Disposals and retirements -21 190 -1 078 -22 268
Change in scope of consolidation 22 22
Currency translation adjustment -967 -135 -1 102
Reclassification & others 12 743 -304 12 439
       
As of December 31, 2009 209 789 15 995 225 783
       
Accumulated depreciation and impairment      
       
As of January 1, 2008 -135 086 -10 107 -145 193
Systematic depreciation -38 293 -1 789 -40 082
Impairment -14 931 -55 -14 986
Recovery of depreciation on disposals and retirements 67 452 354 67 805
Change in scope of consolidation -758 -136 -894
Currency translation adjustment 5 328 499 5 828
       
As of January 1, 2009 -116 287 -11 234 -127 521
Systematic depreciation -30 108 -1 315 -31 423
Impairment -116 -116
Recovery of depreciation on disposals and retirements 19 169 1 051 20 220
Currency translation adjustment 766 75 841
Reclassification & others -16 663 52 -16 611
       
As of December 31, 2009 -143 239 -11 371 -154 610
       
Net book values as of December 31, 2008 81 215 4 628 85 843
       
Net book values as of December 31, 2009 66 550 4 624 71 174
       
Useful life in years 2 – 10 4 – 7  

The technical equipment and machinery comprises assets made available to clients and generating recurring service revenue. 2009 and 2008 impairment losses mainly consisted in assets made available to clients that were written off due to swaps out of those assets. Included in reclassification & others is a net amount of kCHF 4 040 comprising assets made available to clients which were sold to those customers. This impact is treated as operating activity in the cash flow statement.

In CHF'000 31.12.2009 31.12.2008
Fire insurance value of technical equipment and machinery 132 765 128 350