% in 4Q17. Cost & Expense In 1Q18, cost of service was Bt17,281mn increasing 6.3% YoY and 1.5% QoQ mainly from the change in accounting treatment on the partnership with TOT. • Regulatory fee was

’19 change Q3’18 Q2’19 Q3’19 change change Btmn Btmn y-on-y Btmn Btmn Btmn y-on-y q-on-q Finance cost Interest expense from borrowing 1,751 2,016 15.1% 632 673 691 9.3% 2.7% Interest expense from ABPIF

Power Producer (IPP) increased by Baht 2,389 million mainly from the increase in average price of natural gas together with EGAT’s dispatch instruction of Sriracha Power Plant. The increase in coal cost

arising in 2018. This, then, make a higher cost of utility service in 2018 than this year. ▪ A decreasing administrative expense in Q1/2019 compared with those in Q1/2018 comes mainly from the 28.69-million

decrease in natural gas price. However, cost of sales of biomass power plants increased according to the increase in electricity production unit as the lower shutdown hours to improve the power plants

, or 67.78% of sale, rising from 66.45% in the same period last year. Boost in gross profit margin was mostly from cost management lowering the price of raw material, the main part in cost of sales. In

by Baht 98.6 million mainly from cost of Natural Gas Power Plant from decrease in fuel material cost because of the decline in average natural gas price. In addition, cost of repair and maintenance of

. Reasons were as follows; • Strategic focus in Thai White rice of domestic market and price adjustment, regarding to increasing in cost of goods. • Moreover, increase in sales volume from government contract

linked to tourism and the export sector. In contrast, consumer spending in some provinces linked to the agricultural sector continued to decelerate in line with lower farm income due to the low price of

expense 11.65 10.71 0.79 0.77 Total cost of goods sold and expenses 1,431.44 1,360.32 The overview of costs and expenses of the year 2017, the proportion of cost good sold decreased that resulted to the