The individual and consolidated interim financial information are presented in thousands of Reais, unless otherwise states and were prepared in accordance with accounting practices adopted in Brazil, which are derived from the Brazilian Corporation Law, pronouncements, guidelines and interpretation of the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC), and the rules of the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM).
As disclosed in the financial statements of the year ended on December 31, 2008, for the first time when preparing the Parent Company only and consolidated financial statements for 2008, the Company adopted the amendments to the Corporate Law introduced by Law
11638, which was approved on December 28, 2007 with the respective changes introduced by Provisional Measure 449 on December 3, 2008. Accordingly, the income statements of the parent company and consolidated for the period ended March 31, 2008 were adjusted for the purpose of maintaining comparability with the income statements for the period ended March 31, 2009. The adjustments that were made are presented as follows: