2005 annual report

notes to consolidated financial statements 351kb

consolidated financial statements

notes to consolidated financial statements

December 31, 2005

TELUS Corporation is one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, providing a full range of telecommunications products and services. The Company is the largest incumbent telecommunications service provider in Western Canada and provides data, Internet protocol, voice and wireless services to Central and Eastern Canada.


Notes to consolidated financial statementsDescription
1. Summary of significant accounting policiesSummary review of accounting principles and the methods used in their application by the Company
2. Accounting policy developmentsSummary review of forthcoming generally accepted accounting principle developments that may affect the Company
3. Regulation of rates charged to customersSummary review of rate regulation impacts on Company operations and revenues
4. Financial instrumentsSummary schedule and review of financial instruments, including fair values thereof
5. Restructuring and workforce reduction costsSummary continuity schedules and review of restructuring and workforce reduction costs
6. Financing costsSummary schedule of items comprising financing costs by nature
7. Income taxesSummary reconciliations of statutory rate income tax expense to provision for income taxes and analyses of future income tax asset and liability
8. Per share amountsSummary schedules and review of numerators and denominators used in calculating per share amounts and related disclosures
9. Share-based compensationSummary schedules and review of compensation arising from share options, restricted stock units and employee share purchase plan
10. Accounts receivableSummary schedule and review of arm’s-length securitization trust transactions and related disclosures
11. Capital assetsSummary schedule of items comprising capital assets
12. GoodwillSummary schedule of goodwill and review of reported fiscal year acquisitions from which goodwill arises
13. Short-term obligationsSummary review of bilateral bank facilities
14. Long-term debtSummary schedule of long-term debt and related disclosures
15. Shareholders’ equitySummary schedules and review of shareholders’ equity and changes therein including share option price stratification and normal course issuer bid summaries
16. Commitments and contingent liabilitiesSummary review of contingent liabilities, labour negotiations, commitments, lease obligations, guarantees, claims and lawsuits
17. Additional financial informationSummary schedules of items comprising certain primary financial statement line items
18. Employee future benefitsSummary and review of employee future benefits and related disclosures
19. Segmented informationSummary disclosure of segmented information regularly reported to the Company’s chief operating decision maker
20. Related party transactionsSummary and review of 2004 transactions with a formerly related party
21. Differences between Canadian and United StatesSummary schedules and review of differences between Canadian generally accepted accounting principles generally accepted accounting principles and United States generally accepted accounting principles as they apply to the Company