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Experian Annual Report 2010 Governance84
Statement of directors’ responsibilities
Standards Regulation and the Company
nancial statements and the report on
directors’ remuneration comply with
the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 as
applicable. They are also responsible for
safeguarding the assets of the Company
and the Group and for taking reasonable
steps for the prevention and detection of
fraud and other irregularities.
The Company has a website which
contains up to date information on
Group activities and publishednancial
results. The directors are responsible
for the maintenance and integrity of
statutory and audited information on the
Company’s website. Jersey legislation
and United Kingdom regulation
governing the preparation and
dissemination ofnancial statements
may differ from requirements in other
jurisdictions.
The directors as at 19 May 2010 (whose
names and functions are included on
pages 52 and 53) conrm that, to the
best of their knowledge, thenancial
statements are prepared in accordance
with the applicable set of accounting
standards, give a true and fair view of
the assets, liabilities, nancial position
and prot or loss of the Company
and the Group taken as a whole; and
the management report includes 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
19 May 2010
The directors are responsible for
preparing the annual report and
the Groupnancial statements in
accordance with applicable law and
International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the
European Union, and for preparing the
Company nancial statements and
the report on directors’ remuneration
in accordance with applicable law and
United Kingdom Accounting Standards
(UK Generally Accepted Accounting
Practice).
The directors are responsible for
preparing nancial statements for each
nancial year which give a true and
fair view, in accordance with IFRSs as
adopted for use in the European Union,
of the state of affairs of the Group and
the prot or loss of the Group and a
true and fair view, in accordance with
UK Generally Accepted Accounting
Practice, of the state of affairs and of
the prot or loss of the Company for that
period.
The directors consider that in
preparing the nancial statements,
appropriate accounting policies have
been consistently applied, supported
by reasonable and prudent judgments
and estimates, that the Group nancial
statements comply with IFRSs as
adopted for use in the European Union
and that, with regard to the Company’s
nancial statements, all accounting
standards which they consider
applicable have been followed.
The directors are responsible for
ensuring that proper accounting records
are kept which disclose, with reasonable
accuracy, at any time, the nancial
position of the Group and the Company
and which enable them to ensure
that the Group nancial statements
comply with applicable law and Article
4 of the International Accounting