阿斯麦ASML International N.V. (ASML) 2003年年度报告「NASDAQ」.pdf

1、Annual Report 2003Annual Report 2003ASML MissionProviding leading edge imagingsolutions to continuously improve ourcustomers global competitivenessFor 2003,ASML has made a change in the way we presentinformation in our Annual Report.Since the Company was founded in 1984,ASML hasembraced good corpora

2、te governance and exemplifiedconsistency and transparency in our public disclosures.Recent developments in the Netherlands and in the United States include new and amended reportingregulations for publicly listed companies such as ASML.As a result,the Company has decided to include the entiretyof“Fo

3、rm 20-F”in our Annual Report for 2003.Form 20-F isrequired by the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)in the United States for companies like ASML,a foreignprivate issuer on the NASDAQ stock market.And so,this years Annual Report looks different.But nowadays,in the context of corporate governance

4、 and financial accountability,ASML believes such a changein presenting the Companys information is better forshareholders.In 2002,for example,the Company reported three separatesets of annual financial statements.One report was basedon accounting principles generally accepted in the United States kn

5、own as U.S.GAAP.Another statement was for Dutch statutory purposes based on accountingprinciples generally accepted in the Netherlands known asDutch GAAP.Finally,the Company filed a third statementusing Form 20-F based on U.S.GAAP.For 2003,we have simplified our reporting into two sets of financial

6、statements.One is the Dutch statutory reportbased on Dutch GAAP.The other is Form 20-F based onU.S.GAAP.In this report,you will find Form 20-F in its entirety.It is divided into three parts:Part One provides detailed information about the Companyfor different items such as risk factors specific to A