The Board of Directors is currently composed of the following members:


Founder, Chairman of Business & Decision's Board of Directors and Managing Director : Patrick BENSABAT.

Patrick Bensabat graduated from Israel's Polytechnics Institute (1984) and has a Master of Sciences in Information Systems. He was a Consultant, followed by Project Manager at GSI Finance. He founded Business & Decision in 1992.

Deputy General Director and Executive Director : Christophe DUMOULIN.

Christophe Dumoulin graduated from the University of Lyon and has a MBA from San Francisco University. He began his career at Metrologie. In 1992, he was appointed Managing Director of EIS editor Pilot Software. He joined Business & Decision in 1996.

Administrative and Financial Director : Frédéric LECEAN.

With more than 18 years of experience in the IT sector, 10 years of which were spent in IT services and 8 years of which were devoted to finance, Frédéric Lecan, 40 years old, joined the Business & Decision team in 2004 as Administrative and Finance Director of the Group.

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Publications for Shareholders

Business & Decision subscribes to the authority of the Euronext Paris market and respects their recommendations as far as financial reporting is concerned.

Business & Decision publishes a report annually, in French, stamped by l'Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), available on request at Business & Decision's head-quarters, in pdf format (Acrobat) on its corporate website (www.businessdecision.com) and on the AMF website (www.amf-France.org), in the Sophie database. An abridged annual report in also available in English, in PDF format (Acrobat), on the Business & Decision website.

Business & Decision also publish press releases on their financial results, in French and English, in accordance with the financial calender or on all other developments of a financial character. These press releases are posted on the company's internet sites (www.businessdecision.com) and on the AMF site (www.amf-france.org), in the Sophie database.

The obligatory financial reporting is also published as " Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires " and, in a summarized form, in "la Tribune", the weekly economic and financial magazine.

Business & Decision meet french and international financial analysts regularly, notably at half-yearly and annual results presentation meetings ("réunions SFAF ").

A collection of financial elements (provisional calendar, Company continuity schedules, Group organization chart, financial indicators, Stock Market indicators, financial documentation) are also available, in French and in English, on the group's corporate website, under the "Investors" tab.

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Inspection of Accounts: permanent account auditors

Robert BENJAMIN
Start of mandate : appointed at the time of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 1 December 1997
End of mandate : mandate expired at the close of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders called to preside over the accounts of the financial year closed on 30 June 2005, renewed at the time of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (mixed) on 16 December 2003 ; mandate will expire at the close of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders called to preside over the accounts of the financial year closing on 30 June 2009

Aplitec SA, represented by Pierre LAOT
Start of mandate : appointed at the time of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 30 March 2000
End of Mandate : mandate expired at the close of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders called to preside over the accounts of the financial year closed on 30 June 2005, renewed at the time of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (mixed) on 30 June 2005 until 31 December 2010

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Change of Key Accounting Dates

At the Annual General Meeting held on 16 December 2004, the shareholders of Business & Decision unanimously approved the change of accounting dates to coincide with the calender year.

Business & Decision subscribed for the first time in the financial year of 2005 to the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), endorsed by the IASB (Internation Accounting Standards Board), and the interpretations of public regulations by the IFRIC (International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee), approved by the European Union on 31 December 2005.

By subscribing to IFRS 1 standards the company has accepted the principles of the application criterion with authorised exemptions.

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