Table 4 Fiscal value and depreciation for joint-stock companies, by depreciation groups. 2001. Million kroner

4	Fiscal value and depreciation for joint-stock companies, by depreciation groups. 2001. Million kroner

	Total	Office machines	Goodwill	Trailers, trucks, cars etc.¹	Ships, airplanes and helicopters	Commercial buildings and other real estate


Opening amount per 1 January 2001	418 985	15 695	21 656	122 368	20 438	238 828

+ Purchase price of investments	104 202	7 392	9 224	42 324	9 113	36 149
+ Improvements of existing assets	4 052	71	46	1 290	209	2 436
- Depreciation and write-down²	2 021	208	45	616	301	851
- Rest compensation by realisation³	39 215	1 121	4 344	11 200	4 296	18 254

Basis for this year's depreciation	486 003	21 829	26 538	154 165	25 163	258 309

Transferred to profit and loss account	12 000	.	3 707	.	1 648	6 645
- This year's depreciation	38 845	5 074	5 099	22 668	3 028	2 974

Closing amount by 31 December 2001⁴	459 158	16 754	25 145	131 498	23 782	261 979

Number of forms in the sample	75 472	14 478	3 842	36 448	1 087	19 617

¹	Includes depreciation groups C (trailers, trucks, vans etc.), and D (cars, tractors, machines etc.).
²	Includes downwritten value by separation of non-financial current assets, amount of downwriting with sales profit and government subsidies.
³	Includes compensation for realisation/value of turnover at withdrawal of non-financial current assets minus amount included in income 2001.
⁴	Closing amount differs from basis for this year's depreciation corrected by this year's depreciation and transfers to profit and loss account. The cause of this is the set off between the lower limit of depreciation and the calculation of profit and loss on commercial building and other real estate.