Audit Report / Information • May 6, 2017
Audit Report / Information
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As required by law and the by-laws, we report to you in the context of our statutory auditor's mandate. This report includes our opinion on the annual accounts, as well as the required additional statements. The annual accounts include the balance sheet as at December 31, 2016, the income statement for the year then ended, and the disclosures.
We have audited the annual accounts of the company for the year ended December 31, 2016, prepared in accordance with the financial-reporting framework applicable in Belgium, which show a balance sheet total of 20.609.641 EUR and a loss for the year of 16.001.144 EUR.
The board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of annual accounts that give a true and fair view 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 (ISAs) as adopted in Belgium. Those standards require that we comply with the 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 the company's internal control relevant to the preparation of annual accounts that give a true and fair view, 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 entity'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 board of Directors and company officials 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.
In our opinion, the annual accounts give a true and fair view of the company's net equity and financial position of the Company as at 31 December 2016, and of its results for the year then ended, in accordance with the financial-reporting framework applicable in Belgium.
Without qualifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note C 6.20 in the financial statements which describes the uncertainty with regard to the Company's ability to attract additional funding to develop its full development plan and the ability of the Company's management to reassess its development plan.
The board of Directors is responsible for the preparation and the content of the Director's report, as well as for the compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements regarding bookkeeping, with the Company Code and with the company's by-laws.
In the context of our mandate and in accordance with the Belgian standard which is complementary to the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) 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:
b) on May 10, 2016, the final price of the shares to be issued in the context of the offering. Mrs Béatrice De Vos, Mr Everard van der Straten, Mr François Meurgey, Mr Yves Désiront and Bruservices SA represented by Mr Henri De Meyer have subscribed, directly or indirectly (through related companies or companies in which they have financial interests), to convertible bonds issued by the Company on 5 August 2015 and to the subscription commitment attached to it. The conversion value of the abovementioned convertible bonds and the subscription attached to it was depending directly, on the one hand, of the completion of the Offering on 15 may 2016 at the latest and, on the other hand, of the final price per share retained. This decision may create a situation of conflict of interest of a proprietary law nature with regards to directors concerned.
Directors concerned have subscribed as follows:
| Directors concerned | Amount subscribed for convertible bonds (EUR) |
Amount subscribed for capital increase (EUR) |
|---|---|---|
| Béatrice De Vos (through Bejamad BVBA and the shareholders syndication) |
25,000 | 50.000 |
| Everard van der Straten (through Espad-Service SA and Teck Finance SA) |
200.000 | 400.000 |
| François Meurgey (through the shareholders syndication) |
27.000 | 54.000 |
| Yves Désiront (through Trend Finance SA) |
1.000.000 | 2.000.000 |
| SA (through) Bruservices SRIB SA) |
330.000 | 660,000 |
c) on November, 7 2016 the grant to Espad Services SA and Oukelos SPRL exceptional bonuses of 25.000 EUR each. Everard van der Straten is the majority shareholder of Espad Services SA and François Meurgey is the majority shareholder of Oukelos SPRL. These companies billed such amounts impacting consequently the result of the company.
Brussels, 21st April 2017
Mazars Réviseurs d'Entreprises SCRL Statutory Auditor Represented by
Xavier DOYEN
RSM Réviseurs d'entreprises SCRL Statutory Auditor represented by
Luis LAPERAL
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