EasyJet 2013 Annual Report Download - page 92

easyJet plc Annual report and accounts 2013
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Governance
Statement of Directors’ responsibilities
The Directors are responsible for preparing the
Annual Report, the Directors’ remuneration report
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; and
• 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 Directors’ remuneration
report 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 financial and corporate
governance information as provided on the easyJet
website (www.easyJet.com). Legislation in the
United Kingdom governing the preparation and
dissemination of accounts may differ from
legislation in other jurisdictions.
The Directors consider that the Annual Report and
accounts, taken as a whole, is fair, balanced and
understandable and provides the information
necessary for shareholders to assess the Company’s
and the Group’s performance, business model
and strategy.
Each of the Directors, whose names and functions
are listed on pages 60 and 61 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:
• so far as the Director is aware, there is no relevant
audit information of which the Company’s
auditors are unaware; and
• 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 90 was approved
by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue
on 18 November 2013 and signed on behalf of the
Board by:
Carolyn McCall OBE Chris Kennedy
Chief Executive Chief Financial Officer