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EVALUATING RISKS IN FINANCIAL INFORMATION<br />

Analysis of the main features of the process involved in identifying risks, including the<br />

risk of errors or fraud, as regards:<br />

• Whether the process exists <strong>and</strong> is documented.<br />

• Whether the process covers the totality of the objectives of the financial in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

(existence <strong>and</strong> occurrence; integrity; valuation; submission, breakdown <strong>and</strong><br />

comparability; rights <strong>and</strong> obligations) whether it is updated <strong>and</strong>, if so, how often.<br />

• The existence of a process <strong>for</strong> identifying the consolidation perimeter.<br />

• Whether the process takes into account the effects of other types of risks (operative,<br />

technological, financial, legal, reputational, environmental, etc.) in as much as these<br />

affect the financial statements.<br />

• Which of the entity’s governing bodies supervises the process.<br />

The Amper Group has a Corporate Risk Map that has been set up to act as a tool to facilitate<br />

the identification, management <strong>and</strong> monitoring of any risks that could have a significant impact<br />

on the entity’s objectives. Monitoring <strong>and</strong> updating the Corporate Risk Map is the responsibility<br />

of the different Market <strong>and</strong> Product Managers, as well as of Internal Auditing. The Auditing <strong>and</strong><br />

Control Commission supervises <strong>and</strong> verifies said in<strong>for</strong>mation, also ensuring that the risks faced<br />

by the company are in line with its strategy.<br />

The main risk categories dealt with are the following:<br />

• Risks relating to processes.<br />

• <strong>Financial</strong> risks.<br />

• Technological risks.<br />

• Human capital risks.<br />

The process <strong>for</strong> identifying the risks of errors being present in the financial in<strong>for</strong>mation that is<br />

used by the Amper Group <strong>for</strong> the 2011 financial year covers the totality of the objectives in terms<br />

of financial in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>and</strong> is documented in one of the policies that make up the ICSFI, the<br />

“Policy <strong>for</strong> Identifying The Risk of Errors in the <strong>Financial</strong> In<strong>for</strong>mation of the Amper Group”. This<br />

is one of the internal policies that the Amper Group considers vital as part of its ICSFI strategy.<br />

The main objective of this policy is to develop in detail the basic guidelines approved by the<br />

Board of Directors (see Section 1) in terms of the staff involved in identifying the risk of errors.<br />

Said basic guidelines can be summarised as follows:<br />

- Responsibilities: <strong>Financial</strong> Management is responsible <strong>for</strong> designing, executing <strong>and</strong><br />

supervising the process of identifying the risk of errors existing in the financial<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation of the Amper Group. Amper’s Auditing <strong>and</strong> Control Commission ultimately<br />

oversees the process based on the reports issued by Internal Auditing.<br />

- Frequence: In order <strong>for</strong> the risks to be identified sufficiently in advance, the process by<br />

which they are identified will be per<strong>for</strong>med on, at least, an annual basis (<strong>and</strong>, in any<br />

case, whenever there is knowledge of relevant facts that affect the Company’s<br />

operations, or of other circumstances that have a substantial impact on the

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