4th Aug 2006 13:02
Toyota Motor Corporation04 August 2006 (Translation) August 4, 2006To Whom It May Concern: Company Name: TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION Name and Title of Representative: Katsuaki Watanabe, President (Code Number: 7203 Securities exchanges throughout Japan) Name and Title of Contact Person: Hiroshi Nishida General Manager, Financial Reporting Dept., Accounting Division Telephone Number: 0565-28-2121 Notice Concerning the Election of a Temporary Accounting Auditor Toyota Motor Corporation ("TMC") hereby announces that, at the meeting of theBoard of Corporate Auditors held today, TMC's temporary Accounting Auditor waselected under the provisions of Article 346, Paragraphs 4 and 6 of theCorporation Act, as described below. 1. Reason for Election ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was TMC's Accounting Auditor, wassuspended from part of its businesses, including auditing services under theSecurities and Exchange Law and the Corporation Act, by order of the FinancialServices Agency, for a period of two months from July 1, 2006 to August 31,2006. Due to the suspension, ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers lost itsqualification as an accounting auditor. As a result, the position of TMC'sAccounting Auditor became vacant. Today, TMC elected PricewaterhouseCoopersAarata as its temporary Accounting Auditor. 2. Elected Temporary Accounting Auditor Name: PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata Location: 8-3, Shinbashi 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 3. Date of Engagement August 4, 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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