Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Annual Consolidated Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the annual consolidated financial statements
as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report
that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an
audit conducted in accordance with NSAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.
Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they
could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these annual
consolidated financial statements.
The scope of the audit does not include assurance on the future viability of the Group or on the efficiency or
effectiveness with which the Management Board of the Parent has conducted or will conduct the affairs of the
Group.
As part of an audit in accordance with NSAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional
skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the annual consolidated financial statements,
whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and
obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of
not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error,
as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of
internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures
that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
effectiveness of the Group’s internal control.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting
estimates and related disclosures made by the Management Board of the Parent.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of the Management Board of the Parent’s use of the going concern
basis of accounting and based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists
related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a
going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in
our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the annual consolidated financial statements or, if such
disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence
obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the
Group to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the annual consolidated financial
statements, including the disclosures, and whether the annual consolidated financial statements
represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
• Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the entities or
business activities within the Group to express an opinion on the annual consolidated financial
statements. We are responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the group audit.
We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion.
We communicate with the Supervisory Board of the Parent regarding, among other matters, the planned scope
and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that
we identify during our audit.
We also provide the Supervisory Board of the Parent with a statement that we have complied with relevant
ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other
matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related
safeguards.
From matters communicated with the Supervisory Board of the Parent, we determine those matters that were of
most significance in the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current period and are therefore