EX-99.4 5 o30540exv99w4.htm PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES exv99w4
 

EXHIBIT 99. 4
     For fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004, KPMG LLP and its affiliates were paid by Cameco Corporation and its subsidiaries the following fees:
                 
    2005     2004  
Audit fees:
               
Cameco — audit
  $ 389,000     $ 386,000  
Cameco — securities
    100,000        
Centerra — audit
    574,800       400,500  
Centerra — securities
          275,000  
 
           
 
  $ 1,063,800     $ 1,061,500  
 
               
Audit — related fees:
               
Bruce Power Reorganization
  $ 70,000        
SOX 404 Scoping Project
    35,000     $ 75,000  
Translation services
    10,000       9,000  
Accounting disclosure
          14,000  
Pensions and other
    7,500       10,700  
 
           
 
  $ 122,500     $ 108,700  
 
               
Tax:
               
Compliance
  $ 160,400     $ 83,800  
Planning and advice
    36,400       55,400  
 
           
 
  $ 196,800     $ 139,200  
 
               
All other fees:
               
 
           
 
           
 
               
Total
  $ 1,383,100     $ 1,309,400  
 
           
     Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
As part of Cameco’s corporate governance practices, under Cameco’s audit committee charter, the audit committee is required to pre-approve the audit and non-audit services performed by the external auditors. Unless a type of service is to be provided by the external auditors receives general pre-approval, it requires specific pre-approval by Cameco’s audit committee or audit committee chair, or in the absence of the audit committee chair, a member of the audit committee as designated by the audit committee. All pre-approvals granted pursuant to the delegated authority must be presented by the member(s) who granted the pre-approvals to the full audit committee at its next meeting. The audit committee has adopted a written policy to provide procedures to implement the foregoing principles.