Welcome to the week ahead, our summary of the forthcoming key company announcements. Companies are no longer obliged to notify the London Stock Exchange (LSE) of results and trading updates, so this list does not claim to be comprehensive. You can read company announcements at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 1 September
Interim: Falkland Oil & Gas
Trading statement: Berkeley Group
AGMs: Berkeley Group, Igas Energy
EGMs: Mecom, Retroscreen Virology
Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Markit Purchasing Managers' Index - manufacturing, Halifax house prices, Bank of England/GfK inflation over the next 12 months
Companies paying dividends: JPM Claverhouse (4.5p), Utilico Emerging Markets Utilities (1.525p)
Tuesday 2 September
Interims: Johnson Service, Smart Metering Systems
Finals: Alumasc, CPL Resources, Imimobile, Mattioli Woods, Redrow
AGMs: Energy Assets, Reneuron, Severfield
Economics: Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index - construction
Companies paying dividends: Advanced Computer Software (0.44p), iomart (1.75p), Solid State Supplies (5.75p)
Wednesday 3 September
Interims: Belgravium Technologies, Biome Technologies, Goals Soccer Centres, Petards
Finals: Hargreaves Lansdown, Mucklow A&J
Trading statements: Ashtead, Safestore, Spirit Pub Company
AGM: Ashtead
Economics: BRC shop price index, Official reserves, Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index - services, Composite all-sector index
Companies paying dividends: Man (2.37p), St Modwen Property (1.463p)
Thursday 4 September
Interim: River & Mercantile
Finals: Frontier Developments, Go-Ahead
Trading statements: Aer Lingus, Betfair, easyJet, SuperGroup
AGMs: Betfair, Carclo, Carpetright, Consort Medical, Dart, Reabold Resources, Scholium, Trakm8
Economics: New car registrations, Bank of England interest rate announcement, Asset purchase target
Company paying dividend: Synergy Healthcare (14.2p)
Friday 5 September
Interim: Emis
AGMs: Better Capital, Christian Dior, Circle Oil, Latchways
EGMs: APC Technology, Man
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen New Dawn (2.6p), Ashtead (9.25p), Avon Rubber (1.87p), Bglobal (11p), BlackRock Income & Growth (2.2p), Cranswick (22p), CSR (3.05p), Domino's Pizza (7.81p), GCP Student Living (1.4p), Impellam (6.25p), Inchcape (6.3p), Investors in Global Real Estate (1.05p), Keller (8.4p), M Winkworth (1.5p), Pembroke VCT (3p), Porvair (1.2p), QinetiQ (3.2p), Redcentric (1p), RPC (11p), Treveria (special) (1.2p), Tyman (2p)
Shares going ex-dividend on 3 September
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Aggreko ord 20p | 9.38 | 3 Oct |
| Amino Technologies ord 1p | 1.15 | 19 Sep |
| Amlin | 8.1 | 2 Oct |
| Arbuthnot Banking ord 1p | 11 | 3 Oct |
| Arm ord 0.05p | 2.52 | 3 Oct |
| Avesco ord 10p | 1.5 | 1 Oct |
| Betfair | 14 | 3 Oct |
| BHP Billiton | 37.3 | 23 Sep |
| BlackRock Latin American Inv Trust | 9.03 | 3 Oct |
| British Smaller Companies VCT2 | 2 | 7 Oct |
| Capital & Counties Properties ord 25p | 0.5 | 26 Sep |
| Capital & Regional Properties ord 10p | 0.35 | 26 Sep |
| Carillion ord 50p | 5.6 | 5 Nov |
| Centamin | 0.52 | 3 Oct |
| Cineworld ord 1p | 3.8 | 3 Oct |
| Dialight ord 1.89p | 5.2 | 6 Oct |
| Esure ord 0.08333p | 3.6 | 17 Oct |
| Esure ord 0.08333p (special) | 1.5 | 17 Oct |
| F&C Capital & Income Inv Trust | 2.25 | 30 Sep |
| Glencore | 3.6 | 19 Sep |
| Greggs ord 20p | 6 | 13 Oct |
| HgCapital Trust (special) | 19 | 26 Sep |
| International Personal Finance ord 10p | 4.2 | 3 Oct |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson ord 5p | 10.6 | 1 Oct |
| JPM American IT ord 25p | 1 | 8 Oct |
| Michael Page International ord 1p | 3.42 | 3 Oct |
| Micro Focus International | 17.7 | 3 Oct |
| Mid Wynd International | 2.1 | 11 Oct |
| National Express ord 5p | 3.35 | 19 Sep |
| Novae ord 10p | 6.6 | 1 Oct |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Trust | 2.8 | 30 Sep |
| Personal Assets Trust ord £12.5 | 140 | 16 Oct |
| Personal Group | 4.9 | 25 Sep |
| Phoenix | 26.7 | 2 Oct |
| Pinewood Shepperton ord 10p | 1.9 | 6 Oct |
| Portmeirion ord 5p | 5.5 | 1 Oct |
| Real Estate Credit Investments | 0.27 | 26 Sep |
| Robert Walters ord 20p | 1.65 | 17 Oct |
| RTC | 0.5 | 1 Oct |
| Securities Trust of Scotland ord 25p | 1.15 | 26 Sep |
| Serco ord 2p | 3.1 | 17 Oct |
| Shire ord 5p | 2.242 | 3 Oct |
| Standard Life Equity Income | 3.2 | 26 Sep |
| TUI Travel ord 10p | 4.05 | 3 Oct |
| XP Power ord 1p | 13 | 10 Oct |
| Zotefoams ord 5p | 1.75 | 9 Oct |
The ex-dividend date is the first day on which it is no longer possible to buy the shares and qualify for the dividend. Ex-days are almost always a Wednesday. The record date is usually two days after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.
