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42 2014 Form 10-K | H&R Block, Inc.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
DISCUSSION OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
H&R Block's management is responsible for the integrity and objectivity of the information contained in this document.
Management is responsible for the consistency of reporting this information and for ensuring that accounting principles
generally accepted in the U.S. are properly applied. In discharging this responsibility, management maintains an
extensive program of internal audits and requires members of management to certify financial information within
their scope of management. Our system of internal control over financial reporting also includes formal policies and
procedures, including a Code of Business Ethics and Conduct that reinforces our commitment to ethical business
conduct and is designed to encourage our employees and directors to act with high standards of integrity in all that
they do.
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, composed solely of independent outside directors, meets
periodically with management, the independent auditor and the Director, Audit Services (our chief internal auditor)
to review matters relating to our financial statements, internal audit activities, internal accounting controls and non-
audit services provided by the independent auditors. The independent auditor and the Director, Audit Services have
full access to the Audit Committee and meet with the committee, both with and without management present, to
discuss the scope and results of their audits, including internal control, audit and financial matters.
Deloitte & Touche LLP audited our consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2014, 2013 and 2012. The
audits were conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States).
MANAGEMENT'S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as
such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 12a-15(f). Under the supervision and with the participation of management,
including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of
our internal control over financial reporting based on the criteria established in "Internal Control - Integrated
Framework" issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), using the
1992 framework, as of April 30, 2014.
Based on our assessment, management concluded that as of April 30, 2014, the Company's internal control over
financial reporting was effective based on the criteria set forth by COSO. The Company's external auditor, Deloitte &
Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an audit report on the effectiveness of the
Company's internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ William C. Cobb /s/ Gregory J. Macfarlane
William C. Cobb Gregory J. Macfarlane
President and Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer