Audit Report / Information • Apr 28, 2014
Audit Report / Information
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Deloitte Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises Gouverneur Roppesingel 13 3500 Hasselt Belgium Tel. + 32 11 89 39 50
Fax + 32 11 89 39 51 www.deloitte.be
Statutory auditor's report to the shareholders' meeting on the annual accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013
The original text of this report is in Dutch
Deloitte Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises Gouverneur Roppesingel 13 3500 Hasselt Belgium Tel. + 32 11 89 39 50 Fax + 32 11 89 39 51 www.deloitte.be
To the shareholders
As required by law and the company's articles of association, we report to you in the context of our appointment as the company's statutory auditor. This report includes our report on the annual accounts together with our report on other legal and regulatory requirements. These annual accounts comprise the balance sheet as at 31 December 2013 and the income statement for the year then ended, as well as the summary of accounting policies and other disclosures.
We have audited the annual accounts of Option NV ("the company"), prepared in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium, which show total assets of 9.551 (000) EUR and a loss for the year of 12.631 (000) EUR.
The board of directors is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of annual accounts in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium, and for such internal control as the board of directors determines is necessary to enable the preparation of annual accounts that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these annual accounts based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISA). Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the annual accounts are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the annual accounts. The procedures selected depend on the statutory auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the annual accounts, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the statutory auditor considers internal control relevant to the company's preparation and fair presentation of the annual accounts 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 company's internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the board of directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the annual accounts. We have obtained from the company's officials and the board of directors the explanations and information necessary for performing our audit.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Deloitte Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises Burgerlijke vennootschap onder de vorm van een coöperatieve vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid / Société civile sous forme d'une société coopérative à responsabilité limitée Registered Office: Berkenlaan 8b, B-1831 Diegem VAT BE 0429.053.863 - RPR Brussel/RPM Bruxelles - IBAN BE 17 2300 0465 6121 - BIC GEBABEBB
In our opinion, the annual accounts of Option NV give a true and fair view of the company's net equity and financial position as of 31 December 2013 and of its results for the year then ended, in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium.
Despite the fact that the company continued to incur significant losses over the year that impact its financial position, the financial statements have been drafted using the going concern principle. Without modifying the above unqualified opinion, we draw your attention to section Critical judgements – Going concern of the annual report, in which the board of directors, in accordance with Belgian regulatory requirements, justifies the application of the going concern principle based upon the additional financing of 12 million EUR concluded after year end and the business plan it has developed aimed at benefiting from the potential of the M2M market. This assumption of going concern is only justified if, and only if, the company is able to realize its current business plan or can further rely on the financial support of its shareholders. No adjustments have been recorded with respect to the valuation or the classification of certain balance sheet items, which would be required, should the company no longer be able to continue its operations.
In addition, the company's balance sheet includes 3.932 (000) EUR of capitalized development expenses. These development expenses have been capitalized in accordance with the company's valuation rules, as specified in section C7 of the financial statements. The extent to which the assumptions, underlying the capitalization, are not, not fully or not timely realized, may impact the carrying amount of capitalized expenses.
The board of directors is responsible for the preparation and the content of the directors' report on the annual accounts, as well as for maintaining the company's accounting records in compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium and for the company's compliance with the Companies Code and the company's articles of association.
As part of our mandate and in accordance with the Belgian standard which is complementary to the International Standards on Auditing as applicable in Belgium, our responsibility is to verify, in all material respects, compliance with certain legal and regulatory requirements. On this basis, we make the following additional statements, which do not modify the scope of our opinion on the annual accounts:
there are no transactions undertaken or decisions taken in violation of the company's articles of association or the Companies Code that we have to report to you.
The financial consequences linked to these decisions are explained in the section Related parties transactions -Conflict of interest procedure of the annual report, except for the interest rate and maturity date relating to the abovementioned decision of the board of directors of 22 January 2014.
Hasselt, 23 April 2014
The statutory auditor
DELOITTE Bedrijfsrevisoren / Reviseurs d'Entreprises BV o.v.v.eCVBA / SC s.f.d. SCRL Represented by Dominique Roux
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