A- This form is specified for public shareholding companies which should submit their annual report, and it is considered as a self-assessment for the company, to ensure its commitment of the provision of Article (4) of the Instructions of Issuing Companies Disclosure, Accounting and Auditing Standards.
B- This form shall be completed and sent to the JSC attached with the annual report before 31/3 of every fiscal year.
C- Three hard copies of the annual report shall be sent attached with them a CD that contains the material of the annual report stored on a PDF file not exceeding 2 MB.
D- While preparing the annual report of the company ,the order and the sequencing of form shall be taken into account. As the order of the form and the annual report must be the same.
E- The company shall attach a copy of the form with the annual report, and keep another copy for auditing purposes with the Commission in the future.
F- The instructions of the form which are issued in accordance with the Commissions circular no. 12/1/29 of 5/1/2014should be read and followed carefully as follow:
1- The items stated in the Board of Directors must be complete, and the information mentioned in the message of the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the financial statements is not a substitute of the information which should be stated in these items.
2- The capital investment concept means: assets that the company owns through capital utilization or any other resources that might be necessary to achieve the company's goals.
3- The list that contains the names of the Board of Directors and the upper management should include all names who served in these positions in the previous fiscal year which the annual report covers ,regardless of whether they are still in their positions or they left , as well regardless of the period of time they spent in their positions, with reference to newly appointed persons after the end of the fiscal year( if any) as a note in the report.
4- The upper management with the executive authority contains basically : the chief executive officer or the general manager, the chief financial officer and all the officers with executive authority in the company( specified by the Board of Directors) regardless of the job description given to them and full time work in the company , regardless of being temporarily employed, assigned or appointed.
5- Signing the third endorsement by the upper management ( the general manager , chief executive officer, chief financial officer) fully and accurately with full information and data mentioned in the report shows that these mentioned above are considered of the executive authority in the company and should be listed in this category.
6- In case there are no dividends distributed for stockholders in any of the years under description of profit chain or losses in the annual report, this should be clarified in the chain by adding the statement ( there is not ) and clarify if the dividends distributed for stockholders in any of the years were cash dividends or in- kind dividends.
7- Financial analysis in its general meaning are the main financial ratios: ( liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, return on equity ratios, debt ratios) and any comparison between the balance sheet or the income statement between two consecutive years,
( horizontal analysis) to show the growth and declining rate is not listed under the concept of financial analysis.
8- Confirming to mention the ownership of issued securities of natural persons who are representatives of the members of the Board of Directors and their relatives and companies under control of them, or mentioning explicitly that there is no ownership in case there is not any.
9- Ownership of issued securities of the Companies under the control of the members of the board of directors and the upper management and their relatives should be mentioned or mentioning explicitly that there is no ownership in case there is not any.
10- Ownership of issued securities of the relatives of natural persons of the members of the board of directors and the upper management and their relatives should be mentioned or mentioning explicitly that there is no ownership in case there is not any.
11- Benefits and compensations given to the chairman, members of the board of directors and the upper management through the fiscal year should be clarified in details for each one of them separately, and the paid amount for each one of them must be elucidated according to the item that it follows( salary, rewards, transportation allowance…..etc)
12- The external auditing report which is a part of the edited annual financial statements in the annual report should be signed by the external auditor with his name and the number of his license on it.
13- The third endorsement related to the accuracy, correctness and completion of the data and the information in the report should be signed by the chairman of the board of directors , the general manager and the chief financial officer in the company or who is in these positions.
14 - The items that might not contain any information like ( no ownership for any of the upper management, no risk existence or lack of contribution to environmental protection…..etc.) this should be clearly mentioned in the annual report by a statement which shows that there is not any ( no ownership, no risk, no contribution….etc.)