EasyJet 2015 Annual Report Download - page 88

84 easyJet plc Annual report and accounts 2015
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 (EU). 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 EU 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 Company will continue
in business.
The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting
records that are sufficient to show and explain the Group’s and
the Company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy
at any time the financial position of the Group and the Company
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 Group
and the Company 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, amongst other things, the financial and corporate governance
information provided on the easyJet website (http://corporate.
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 Group’s and the Company’s position and performance,
business model and strategy.
Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed in
on pages 48 and 49 confirm that, to the best of their knowledge:
• the Group and Company 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 Company; and
• the Strategic report, included in the annual 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 84 was approved by the Board
of Directors and authorised for issue on 16 November 2015
and signed on its behalf by:
CAROLYN MCCALL OBE ANDREW FINDLAY
Chief Executive Chief Financial Officer