UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
March 22, 2004
Date of Report
(Date of earliest event reported)
Commission File Number: 0-13351
NOVELL, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | 87-0393339 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
404 Wyman Street, Suite 500
Waltham, MA 02451
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
(781) 464-8000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Item 5. Other Events
Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") requested that Novell provide ISS with additional information about the tax fees that Novell reported in its proxy statement for its 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. ISS further requested that Novell publish this information either in a Form 8-K filing or in a press release. The following is the information that we provided to ISS:
FEES PAID TO INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
The following table sets forth the aggregate fees billed by Ernst & Young LLP for services rendered for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003:
Audit Fees | $2,320,000 |
Audit-Related Fees | 115,000 |
Tax Fees-Compliance | 448,000 |
Total Audit, Audit-Related and Tax Compliance Fees | 2,883,000 |
Other Non-audit Fees: | |
Tax Fees-Other | 738,000 |
All Other Fees | 1,332,000 |
Total-Other Fees | 2,070,000 |
Total Fees | $4,953,000 |
By this measure, audit, audit-related and tax compliance fees represented 58.2% of all fees paid to Ernst & Young LLP in fiscal 2003.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: March 22, 2004 | Novell,Inc. (Registrant) By /s/ Joseph S. Tibbetts, Jr. Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer |