Change of Certified Public Accountant

RNS Number : 6488M

Konami Corporation

08 May 2015

 



May 8, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KONAMI CORPORATION Takuya Kozuki, Representative Director, President Shares listed: Tokyo and London Stock Exchange Contact: Junichi Motobayashi, General Manager, Finance and Accounting  Tel: [phone]

Notice of Change of Certified Public Accountant

KONAMI CORPORATION (the "Company") hereby announces that its Audit & Supervisory Board has resolved, at the Audit & Supervisory Board Meeting held today, that the Company will change its certified public accountant responsible for audit certification in accordance with Article 193-2, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, as described below.

1.   Expected date of change

June 26, 2015

2.   Overview of incoming and outgoing certified public accountants 

(1) Overview of incoming certified public accountant

1)	Name	PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata
2)	Location	Sumitomo Fudosan Shiodome Hamarikyu Bldg. 8-21-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
3)	Names of Engagement Partners	Yasuhiro Nakajima, Takeshi Tadokoro, Yoshihisa Chiyoda
4)	Registration status under the registration system of audit firms for listed companies of The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants	Registered

 (2) Overview of outgoing certified public accountant

1)	Name	KPMG AZSA LLC
2)	Location	AZSA Center Building, 1-2 Tsukudo-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
3)	Names of Engagement Partners	Eiji Mizutani, Yoshiaki Hasegawa

3.   Reason for nominating the certified public accountant stated in 2 - (1)

The reasons for the Audit & Supervisory Board to nominate PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata as the independent registered public accounting firm are that PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata is considered to secure required expertise, independence and eligibility for the Company's accounting auditor. This led to its decision that PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata has established a system to perform the Company's accounting audit appropriately and adequately.

4.   Most recent date of appointment of outgoing certified public accountant 

June 27, 2014

5.   Opinions on audit reports and other documents prepared by the outgoing certified public accountant in the past three years 

Not applicable.

6.   Reason and background for the decision to change 

The Accounting Auditor of the Company, KPMG AZSA LLC, will retire upon expiration of its term of office at the close of the 43th Ordinary General Meeting of Stockholders to be held on June 26, 2015. This resulted in that the Company decided to reconsider its accounting auditor, and it conducted a comparative review of auditors to examine whether proposed audit services and fees were reasonable for the Company's industry and business scale. Accordingly, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata will be newly elected to serve as the Company's Accounting Auditor.

7.   Opinions of the outgoing certified public accountant concerning "Reason and background for the decision to change" at 6 and the statements in audit reports and other

Not applicable.

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