Audit Report / Information • Apr 17, 2018
Audit Report / Information
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Deloitte & Touche S.p.A. Via Cefalonia 70 25124 Brescia Italia
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To the Shareholders of SABAF S.p.A.
We have audited the separate financial statements of Sabaf S.p.A. (the "Company"), which comprise the statement of financial position as at December 31, 2017, the income statement, the comprehensive income statement, the statement of changes in shareholders' equity, the cash flow statement for the year then ended, and the explanatory notes.
In our opinion, the accompanying separate financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of the Company as at December 31, 2017, and of its financial performance and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union and the requirements of national regulations issued pursuant to art. 9 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 38/05.
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISA Italia). Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the separate Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the ethical requirements applicable under Italian law to the audit of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the separate financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
Ancona Bari Bergamo Bologna Brescia Cagliari Firenze Genova Milano Napoli Padova Parma Roma Torino Treviso Verona
Sede Legale: Via Tortona, 25 - 20144 Milano | Capitale Sociale: Euro 10.328.220,00 i.v
Codice Fiscale/Registro delle Imprese Milano n. 03049560166 - R.E.A. Milano n. 1720239 | Partita IVA: IT 03049560166
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In its separate financial statements as at December 31, 2017, the Company reports investments in Faringosi Hinges S.r.l. and A.R.C. S.r.l. as measured under the cost method with a total amount of Euro 15.2 million. The value of the investments is in line with the net assets of the investee companies, including goodwill and assets with an indefinite useful life recognised upon initial acquisition. Therefore, in order to verify the recoverability of the value of the investments, we referred to the impairment tests performed in terms of IAS 36 on the CGUs represented by the two investments (respectively, the "Hinges" CGU for Faringosi Hinges S.r.I. and the "Professional burners" CGU for A.R.C. S.r.I.). The impairment tests are performed by a comparison between the recoverable amount of the CGU, determined as the highest between the "value in use" and the carrying amount of the investments.
The impairment process carried out by the Management is complex since it includes several assumptions regarding the forecasted future cash flows from CGUs, the definition of an appropriate discount rate (WACC) and of a long-term growth rate (g-rate). In order to determine the recoverable amounts, the Company took into account cash flows as reported in the 2018-2022 forward plans, drafted by the management of the subsidiaries at the beginning of 2018.
The assumptions on forecast cash flows are affected by future expectations on exogenous variables, among which the most relevant are the market evolution, in term of volumes and values and the discount rates.
Considering the relevant value of assets accounted for within the financial statements, and the subjectivity of estimates used to determine future cash flows, as well as the variables described above, we considered the impairment test to be a key audit matter for the Sabaf S.p.A. separate financial statements.
The paragraphs "Use of estimates" and the paragraph "equity Investments", within the explanatory notes report information on the impairment test, including the sensitivity analysis, which shows the effects of variations of the key variables used in implementing the impairment test.
We first examined how the Management determined the value in use of the CGUs, taking into account procedures and assumptions on which the impairment test is based.
In particular, we carried out the following procedures, with assistance of experts of our network:
The Directors are responsible for the preparation of the separate financial statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union and the requirements of national regulations issued pursuant to art. 9 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 38/05 and, within the terms established by law, for such internal control as the Directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the separate financial statements, the Directors are responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless they have identified the existence of the conditions for the liquidation of the Company or for the termination of the operations or have no realistic alternative to such choices.
The Board of Statutory Auditors is responsible for overseeing, within the terms established by law, the Company's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the separate 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 International Standards on Auditing (ISA Italia) 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 separate financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISA Italia), we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the separate 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.
We communicate with those charged with governance, identified at an appropriate level as required by ISA Italia, 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 those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence applicable in Italy, 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 the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors' report.
The Shareholders' Meeting of Sabaf S.p.A. has appointed us on April 28, 2009 as auditors of the Company for the years from December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2017.
We declare that we have not provided prohibited non-audit services referred to in art. 5 (1) of EU Regulation 537/2014 and that we have remained independent of the Company in conducting the audit.
We confirm that the opinion on the separate financial statements expressed in this report is consistent with the additional report to the Board of Statutory Auditors, in its role of Audit Committee, referred to in art. 11 of the said Regulation.
The Directors of Sabaf S.p.A. are responsible for the preparation of the report on operations and the report on corporate governance and ownership structure of Sabaf S.p.A. as at December 31, 2017, including their consistency with the related separate financial statements and their compliance with the law.
We have carried out the procedures set forth in the Auditing Standard (SA Italia) n. 720B in order to express an opinion on the consistency of the report on operations and some specific information contained in the report on corporate governance and ownership structure set forth in art. 123-bis, n. 4 of Legislative Decree 58/98 with the separate financial statements of Sabaf S.p.A. as at December 31, 2017 and on their compliance with the law, as well as to make a statement about any material misstatement.
In our opinion, the above-mentioned report on operations and information contained in the report on corporate governance and ownership structure are consistent with the separate financial statements of Sabaf S.p.A. as at December 31, 2017 and are prepared in accordance with the law.
With reference to the statement referred to in art. 14, paragraph 2 (e), of Legislative Decree 39/10, made on the basis of the knowledge and understanding of the entity and of the related context acquired during the audit, we have nothing to report.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE S.p.A.
Signed by Andrea Restelli Partner
Brescia, Italy April 12, 2018
This report has been translated into the English language solely for the convenience of international readers.
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