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86 Experian Annual Report 2012 Governance
Annual general meeting
The 2012 annual general meeting of the
Company will be held at The Merrion Hotel,
Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
at 9.30am on Wednesday 18 July 2012.
Shareholders who are unable to attend in
person may submit questions beforehand via
email to [e-mail]
or on the prepaid card sent to shareholders
with the notice of meeting. The questions
will be addressed at the meeting, via the
Company’s website at www.experianplc.com
or individually as appropriate. The notice of
meeting has been circulated to shareholders
and can also be viewed on the Company’s
website.
Independent auditors
The auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
have indicated their willingness to continue
in office and a resolution that they be re-
appointed as auditors of the Company will be
proposed at the annual general meeting.
Statements of directors’
responsibilities
The directors are responsible for:
•preparing the annual report, the Group
and parent company financial statements
and the report on director’s remuneration
in accordance with applicable law and
regulations;
•preparing financial statements which give
a true and fair view of the state of affairs
at the balance sheet date, and the profit
or loss for the period then ended of (a)
the Group (in accordance with IFRSs as
adopted for use in the European Union),
and (b) the Company (in accordance with
UK Accounting Standards);
•keeping proper accounting records which
disclose, with reasonable accuracy, at any
time the financial position of the Group
and the Company and enable them to
ensure that the Group financial statements
comply with applicable law and Article 4
of the International Accounting Standards
Regulation;
•taking such steps as are reasonably open
to them to safeguard the assets of the
Company and the Group, and to prevent
and detect fraud and other irregularities;
and
•the maintenance and integrity of the
statutory and audited information on the
Company’s website (Jersey legislation and
UK regulation governing the preparation
and dissemination of financial statements
may differ from requirements in other
jurisdictions).
In addition, the directors consider that, in
preparing the financial statements:
•suitable accounting policies have been
selected and applied consistently;
•judgments and estimates made have been
reasonable and prudent;
•the Group financial statements comply
with IFRSs as adopted for use in the
European Union;
•all accounting standards which they
consider applicable have been followed in
preparing the parent company financial
statements; and
•it is appropriate that the Group and parent
company financial statements have been
prepared on a going concern basis.
The directors confirm that, to the best of
their knowledge, the financial statements
are prepared in accordance with the
applicable set of accounting standards, give
a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities,
financial position and profit of the Company
and the Group taken as a whole; and this
directors’ report contains a fair review of
the development and performance of the
business and the position of the Company
and the Group taken as a whole, together
with a description of the principal risks and
uncertainties that they face.
By order of the Board
Charles Brown
Company Secretary
9 May 2012
Corporate headquarters:
Newenham House
Northern Cross
Malahide Road
Dublin 17
Ireland
Registered office:
22 Grenville Street
St Helier
Jersey
JE4 8PX
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