Audit Report / Information • Aug 31, 2015
Audit Report / Information
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KPMG Bedrijfsrevisoren - Réviseurs d'Entreprises Prins Boudewiinlaan 24d 2550 Kontich Belgium
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In accordance with the legal requirements, we report to you in the context of our statutory auditor's mandate. This report includes our report on the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended March 31, 2015, as defined below, as well as our report on other legal and regulatory requirements.
We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV ("the Company") and its subsidiaries (jointly "the Group"), prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union, and with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium. These consolidated financial statements comprise the consolidated statement of financial position as at March 31, 2015 and the consolidated income statement, the consolidated statement of comprehensive income, the consolidated statement of changes in equity and the consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and notes, comprising a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information. The total of the consolidated statement of financial position amounts to EUR (million) 3.661,2 and the consolidated statement of comprehensive income shows a profit for the year of EUR (million) 321,4.
The board of directors is responsible for the preparation of these consolidated financial statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union, and with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium, and for such internal control as the board of directors determines, is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISAs). Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free from material misstatement.
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FREE TRANSLATION OF UNQUALIFIED STATUTORY AUDITOR'S REPORT ORIGINALLY PREPARED IN DUTCH
Statutory auditor's report to the general meeting of Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV/SA as of and for the year ended March 31, 2015 Report on the consolidated financial statements
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the statutory auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the statutory auditor considers internal control relevant to the Group's preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements 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. 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 consolidated financial statements.
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 unqualified opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements give a true and fair view of the Group's equity and consolidated financial position as at March 31, 2015 and of its consolidated financial performance and its consolidated cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union, and with the legal and regulatory requirements applicable in Belgium.
The board of directors is responsible for the preparation and the content of the annual report (more in particular Part 4 Corporate Governance and Part 5 Financial report of the Annual Report) on the consolidated financial statements.
In the context 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 provide the following additional statement which does not modify the scope of our opinion on the consolidated financial statements:
FREE TRANSLATION OF UNQUALIFIED STATUTORY AUDITOR'S REPORT ORIGINALLY PREPARED IN DUTCH Statutory auditor's report to the general meeting of Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV/SA as of and for the year ended March 31, 2015
Report on the consolidated financial statements
The annual report on the consolidated financial statements includes the information required $\bullet$ by law, is consistent, in all material respects, with the consolidated financial statements and does not present any material inconsistencies with the information that we became aware of during the performance of our mandate. Management is putting in place procedures that provides them with an appropriate basis for the description of the main characteristics of the internal control and risk management systems in relation to the financial reporting process included in the management report.
Kontich, July 3, 2015
KPMG Réviseurs d'Entreprises / Bedrijfsrevisoren Statutory Auditor represented by
L. Ruysen Réviseur d'Entreprises / Bedrijfsrevisor
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