IE Domain Registry Annual Report 2019

IE Domain Registry  Annual Report & Review  2019 43 Financial Statements The directors are responsible for ensuring that the company keeps or causes to be kept adequate accounting records which correctly explain and record the transactions of the company, enable at any time the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the company to be determined with reasonable accuracy, enable them to ensure that the financial statements and directors’ report comply with the Companies Act 2014 and enable the financial statements to be audited. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of 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 the corporate and financial information included on the company’s website. Legislation in Ireland governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. Accounting records The measures taken by the directors to ensure compliance with the requirements of Sections 281 to 285 of the Companies Act 2014, with regard to the keeping of proper accounting records, are the employment of appropriately qualified accounting personnel and the maintenance of computerised accounting systems. The company’s accounting records are maintained at the company’s registered office at 4th Floor, Harbour Square, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Statement on relevant audit information In the case of each of the persons who are directors at the time this report is approved in accordance with Section 332 of Companies Act 2014: a) So far as each director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s statutory auditors are unaware, and b) Each director has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s statutory auditors are aware of that information. Auditors In accordance with Section 383(2) of the Companies Act 2014, the auditors, Grant Thornton, will continue in office. On behalf of the Board Mr. Jim Joyce Director Mr. Eamonn Ceannt Director 24 April 2020