EasyJet 2012 Annual Report Download - page 64

Governance
Statement of Directors’ responsibilities
The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report,
the Report on Directors’ remuneration and the accounts in
accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the Directors to prepare accounts for each
financial year. Under that law the Directors have prepared the
Group and Company accounts in accordance with International
Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the
European Union. Under company law the Directors must not
approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they give
a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and the
Company and of the profit or loss of the Group and the Company
for that period. In preparing these accounts, the Directors are
required to:
→select suitable accounting policies and then apply them
consistently;
→make judgements and accounting estimates that are
reasonable and prudent;
→state whether applicable IFRSs as adopted by the European
Union have been followed, subject to any material departures
disclosed and explained in the accounts;
→prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is
inappropriate to presume that the Group and the Company will
continue in business.
The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting
records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s
and the Group’s transactions and disclose with reasonable
accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company
and the Group and enable them to ensure that the accounts
and the Report on Directors’ remuneration comply with the
Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the Group accounts,
Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for
safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and
hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and
detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity
of the Company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom
governing the preparation and dissemination of accounts may
differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed on
pages 40 and 41 confirm that, to the best of their knowledge:
→the Group accounts, which have been prepared in accordance
with IFRSs as adopted by the EU, give a true and fair view of
the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group;
and
→the Directors’ report includes a fair review of the development
and performance of the business and the position of the
Group, together with a description of the principal risks and
uncertainties that it faces.
In accordance with Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006, each
Director in office at the date the Directors’ report is approved,
confirms that:
(a) so far as the Director is aware, there is no relevant audit
information of which the Company’s auditors are unaware;
and
(b) he / she has taken all the steps that he / she ought to have
taken as a Director in order to make himself / herself aware
of any relevant audit information and to establish that the
Company’s auditors are aware of that information.
The Annual Report on pages 1 to 62 was approved by the Board
of Directors and authorised for issue on 19 November 2012 and
signed on behalf of the Board by:
Carolyn McCall OBE Chris Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer
easyJet plc
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