Accounting and Financial Reporting Laws. As a public company, ALCHEMY is required to follow strict accounting principles and standards, to report financial information accurately and completely, and to have appropriate internal controls and processes to ensure that accounting and financial reporting complies with law. Each of us in ALCHEMY must comply with these requirements and do what is needed to help ALCHEMY, as a company, comply. The rules for accounting and financial reporting require the proper recording of, and accounting for, revenues and expenses. If you have responsibility for or any involvement in these areas, you must understand and adhere to these rules. Also, these rules prohibit anyone from assisting others to account improperly or make false or misleading financial reports. Therefore, you must accurately and completely record and report all information, and you must not assist anyone to record or report any information inaccurately or in a way that could be misleading. Additionally, you must never provide advice to anyone outside of ALCHEMY, including customers, other suppliers and business partners, about how they should be recording or reporting their own revenues and expenses. Violations of laws associated with accounting and financial reporting can result in fines, penalties, and imprisonment, and they can lead to a loss of public faith in a company. If you become aware of any action related to accounting or financial reporting that you believe may be improper, you should immediately tell ALCHEMY; this may be done through your management, ALCHEMY counsel, ALCHEMY Internal Audit and Business Controls or by informing ALCHEMY management using any of ALCHEMY's other communications channels. If you wish to report your concerns anonymously, you can use the ALCHEMY Speak Up Program. If you have any questions, you may contact ALCHEMY counsel or ALCHEMY Internal Audit and Business Controls.
