The Australian Industry Council (AIC) is an organization of Australian business associations. The role of AIC is to represent the interests of business and to identify the concerns of its members and then plans united actions. In this way business policies are developed and the concerns of business are represented to government (if applicable). This year, many of its business members are very concerned that inflation can strongly affect to industry, and profit is varied across industries. The Board of Directors of AIC demands a report from you (as a Director of Industry Policy unit) on this matter.

To prepare analyses for the report, you determine to look at the past 5 0 years and concentrate on 5 industry sectors which are Consumer Staples, Energy, Heath Care, Information Technology, and Materials. For each industry, data on industry profit and inflation figures are collected from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Figures on annual inflation are based on the date of releasing industry profit.

• To report the profit before income tax figures (in $millions) of each firms in their industry sectors