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Article A343-1 of the French Insurance Code

With regard to the information included in the annual accounts submitted or to be submitted to the General Meeting, a set of internal procedures, known as the audit trail, must make it possible to:

a) Reconstruct transactions in chronological order;

b) All information is supported by an original document from which it must be possible to trace it back to the summary document and vice versa;

c) Explain changes in balances from one year-end to the next by retaining the movements that have affected the accounting items.

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Article A343-1

En ce qui concerne l’information comprise dans les comptes annuels soumis ou à soumettre à l’assemblée générale, un ensemble de procédures internes, appelé piste d’audit, doit permettre :

a) De reconstituer dans un ordre chronologique les opérations ;

b) De justifier toute information par une pièce d’origine à partir de laquelle il doit être possible de remonter par un cheminement ininterrompu au document de synthèse et réciproquement ;

c) D’expliquer l’évolution des soldes d’un arrêté à l’autre par la conservation des mouvements ayant affecté les postes comptables.

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