Earnings Call Excerpt
CGI Group Inc. (GIB)
F1Q09 Earnings Call Transcript
January 27, 2009 at 9:30 am ET
Executives
Lorne Gorber - Vice President and Investor Relations
Michael Roach - President and Chief Executive Officer
David Anderson - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Richard Tse - National Bank Financial
Scott Penner - TD Newcrest
Paul Steep - Scotia Capital
Jason Kupferberg - UBS
Mike Abramsky - RBC Capital Market
Ralph Garcea - Haywood Securities Inc.
Steven Li - Raymond James
Eric Bernofsky - Desjardins Securities
Presentation
Operator
All participants please standby, your meeting is ready to begin.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the CGI first quarter 2009 result conference call. Please be advised that this call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Lorne Gorber, Vice President, Global Communications and Investor Relations. Please go ahead Mr. Gorber.
Lorne Gorber
Thank you, Jenny and good morning everyone. With me to discuss the first quarter of fiscal 2009 are Michael Roach, our President and CEO and David Anderson, Executive Vice President and CFO. This call was being broadcast on CGI.com and recorded live at 9:30 am on January 27th.
Supplemental slides as well as the press release we issued earlier this morning are also available for download along with our Q1 MD&A, financial statement and accompanying notes, each of which are being filed with both SEDAR and Edgar. Please note that some statements made on the call maybe forward looking. Actual events or results may differ materially from those expressed or implied and CGI disclaims any intent or obligation to update or revise any forward looking statement whether it is a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
We report our financial results in accordance with Canadian GAAP, but we do discuss non-GAAP performance measures, which should be viewed as supplemental. The MD&A contains definition of each non-GAAP performance indicators used in our reporting. All of the figures expressed on this call are from continuing operations and in Canadian dollar unless otherwise noted.
I will turn the call over to David first to review the quarter’s results and then to Michael to discuss strategic highlights of the quarter before making a few concluding remarks.
Before turning the call to David, a reminder that our annual meeting is scheduled for 11 AM this morning, so our comments will be brief to leave as much time as possible for Q&A but we will have to limit the call to about 45 minutes. David?
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