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Please find page 98 of the 2013 Experian annual report below. You can navigate through the pages in the report by either clicking on the pages listed below, or by using the keyword search tool below to find specific information within the annual report.Statement of directors’ responsibilities
The directors are responsible for:
•preparing the annual report, the
Group and parent company financial
statements and the report on
directors’ 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 also 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
8 May 2013
Corporate headquarters:
Newenham House
Northern Cross
Malahide Road
Dublin 17
Ireland
Registered office:
22 Grenville Street
St Helier
Jersey
JE4 8PX
Directors’ report continued
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