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Director’s statement of compliance with duty to promote the success of the company<\/span><\/p>\n This statement by the Board of Directors describes how they have approached the responsibilities under s172(1) (a) to (f) of the Companies Act 2006 in the financial year ending 31 March 2020.<\/p>\n The director sets strategic objectives covering the current and following four financial years and maintains a financial plan that reflects how the company intends to achieve these objectives. This plan is kept under continuous review, with financial projections updated at least annually. All key business decisions are taken with reference to this strategic and financial plan.<\/p>\n The company has very little physical infrastructure. Our key asset is our employees. Accordingly, we seek to promote the best interests of our employees through:<\/p>\n The company\u2019s principal suppliers are business software publishers (known as \u201cvendors\u201d in the industry). Our relationships with key vendors are structured formally and are typically documented in detailed contracts. Specific personnel are allocated to the maintenance and development of these vendor relationships and the company has a detailed, formal policy on the content of vendor contracts and for the commercial terms of trading with vendors that is intended to ensure the trading terms are balanced and fair to both parties.<\/p>\n The company\u2019s trading with customers is also managed on the basis that specific personnel are allocated to the maintenance and development of key relationships. Some customer trading is undertaken under bespoke contracts, some on our standard terms and conditions and some on the customer\u2019s standard terms and conditions. In all three cases we again operate a formal policy with regard to acceptable and fair commercial and legal terms of trading.<\/p>\n In all business relationships \u2013 vendors, customers and others \u2013 we only deal with parties who operate to our minimum standards of fairness, transparency and financial probity. In our international business we are careful in our expansion into frontier markets and have strict and formal approval processes to manage market, legal, reputational, data management, IT security and credit risk. We have in-house professional resource who are legally and professionally qualified and highly experienced in all of these areas and where necessary we supplement this with the highest quality of external professional advice. 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