Audit Report / Information • Apr 30, 2025
Audit Report / Information
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We have audited the separate financial statements of Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d. ("the Company"), which comprise the separate statement of financial position as at 31 December 2024, and the separate statements of comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows for the year then ended, and notes, comprising material accounting policies and other explanatory information (further referred to as "the financial statements").
In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements give a true and fair view of the unconsolidated financial position of the Company as at 31 December 2024 and of its unconsolidated financial performance and its unconsolidated cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union ("EU IFRS").
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in Croatia and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. 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 financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.

Revenue in 2024: EUR 243,082 thousand (2023: EUR 232,191 thousand). As at 31 December 2024: trade receivables: EUR 23,606 thousand; contract liabilities: EUR 14,475 thousand (31 December 2023: trade receivables: EUR 17,897 thousand; contract liabilities: EUR 26,767 thousand).
Please refer to the Note 1 Revenue recognition of Material accounting policies, Note 4 c) Revenue recognition of Critical accounting estimates and judgements, Note 5 Sales revenue and Note 6 Segment reporting in the financial statements.
In the year ended 31 December 2024, the Company's principal revenue streams included sales of products and software, as well as provision of services, including installation and integration services, maintenance and support.
Application of revenue recognition principles of the relevant financial reporting standard, IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers ("the Standard") is complex and requires making significant assumptions and judgment. In the Company's case, particular complexity is associated with the following factors:
Our audit procedures in this area included, among others:

| Key audit matter (continued) | How our audit addressed the matter (continued) |
|---|---|
| — Although contracts with customers are usually agreed with fixed transaction price, significant judgement is required in allocating the transaction price to the performance obligations. The |
o Determination of total contract consideration, by reference to contracts with customers and subsequent modifications to the framework agreement, if any; |
| transaction price, which is the consideration the Company expects to receive for the transfer of products and services to the customer, is allocated to the performance obligations based on their relative standalone selling price; |
o Allocation of the contract consideration to each of the identified performance obligations, based on their estimated stand‐alone selling prices, also by reference to the sales department's data and the analysis of current transaction prices; |
| In the wake of the above factors, we considered revenue recognition to be associated with a significant risk of material misstatement in the financial statements. Therefore, the area required our increased attention in the audit and as such was determined to be a key audit matter. |
o Determination of the timing of the transfer of control, the resulting pattern of revenue recognition and revenue amounts, by reference to sales invoices, inventory and shipping documents, customer acceptance forms and other documents as appropriate. |
| For a sample of customers, obtaining confirmations of the accounts receivable outstanding as at the reporting date, and challenging any significant differences between the amounts confirmed and the Group's records by inspecting the underlying documentation such as contracts with customers, invoices, shipping documents and customer acceptance forms; |
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| Examining whether the Company's revenue recognition‐ related disclosures in the financial statements appropriately address the relevant quantitative and qualitative requirements of the applicable financial reporting framework. |

Management is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the Management Report (together with Sustainability Statement) and Corporate Governance Report included in the Annual Report of the Company but does not include the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements, or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
With regard to the Management Report, and the Corporate Governance Report, we also performed procedures prescribed by applicable legal requirements and we report that:
If, based on the work we have performed above, we conclude that there is a material misstatement, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
Management is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with EU IFRS, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of the financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is 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 management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors' 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 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 financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal controls 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, and communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, actions taken to eliminate threats or safeguards applied.
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 unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
We were appointed by those charged with governance on 27 June 2024 to audit the separate financial statements of Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d. for the year ended 31 December 2024. Our total uninterrupted period of engagement is six years, covering the year ended 31 December 2019 to 31 December 2024.
We confirm that:
The engagement partner on the audit resulting in this independent auditors' report is Domagoj Hrkać.
In accordance with the requirements of Article 462 paragraph 5 of Capital Market Act, we are required to express an opinion on compliance of the separate financial statements of the Company as at and for the year ended 31 December 2024, as included in the attached electronic file FI‐ERNT‐2024‐1Y‐Revidirano‐Nekonsolidirano‐EN.xbri, with the requirements of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815 of 17 December 2018 supplementing Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on the specification of a single electronic reporting format (the "RTS on ESEF").
Management is responsible for the preparation of the separate financial statements in a digital format that complies with the RTS on ESEF. This responsibility includes:
Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Company's ESEF reporting, as a part of the financial reporting process.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on whether the consolidated financial statements comply, in all material respects, with the RTS on ESEF, based on the evidence we have obtained. We conducted our reasonable assurance engagement in accordance with International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 (Revised), Assurance Engagements Other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information (ISAE 3000) issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.
A reasonable assurance engagement in accordance with ISAE 3000 involves performing procedures to obtain evidence about compliance with the RTS on ESEF. The nature, timing and extent of procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material departures from the requirements of set out in the RTS on ESEF, whether due to fraud or error. Reasonable assurance is a high degree of assurance. However, it does not guarantee that the scope of procedures will identify all significant (material) non‐compliance with the RTS on ESEF.
In respect of the subject matter, we have performed the following procedures:

We believe that the evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, based on the procedures performed and evidence obtained, the separate financial statements of the Company as at and for the year ended 31 December 2024 presented in ESEF format and contained in the aforementioned attached electronic file, have been prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the requirements of the RTS on ESEF.
Our opinion does not represent an opinion on the true and fair view of the financial statements as this is included in our Report on the Audit of the Financial Statements. Furthermore, we do not express any assurance with respect to other information included in documents in the ESEF format.
KPMG Croatia d.o.o. za reviziju 29 April 2025 Croatian Certified Auditors Eurotower, 17th floor Ivana Lučića 2a 10000 Zagreb Croatia
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