Audit Report / Information • Apr 25, 2023
Audit Report / Information
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Statutory auditor's report to the general meeting for the year ended December 31, 2022
Free translation The original text is in French
BDO Bedrijfsrevisoren BV / BTW BE 0431.088.289 / RPR Brussel BDO Réviseurs d'Entreprises SRL / TVA BE 0431.088.289 / RPM Bruxelles
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The Corporate Village Da Vincilaan 9, Box E.6 Elsinore Building B-1930 Zaventem
Free translation The original text is in French
In the context of the statutory audit of the annual accounts of MDxHealth SA ("the Company"), we hereby present our statutory auditor's report. It includes our report of the annual accounts and the other legal and regulatory requirements. This report is an integrated whole and is indivisible.
We have been appointed as statutory auditor by the general meeting of May 28, 2020, following the proposal formulated by the administrative body issued upon recommendation of the Audit Committee. Our statutory auditor's mandate expires on the date of the general meeting deliberating on the annual accounts closed on December 31, 2022. We have performed the statutory audit of the annual accounts of the Company for twenty consecutive years.
We have audited the annual accounts of the Company, which comprise the balance sheet as at December 31, 2022, the profit and loss account for the year then ended and the notes to the annual accounts, characterised by a balance sheet total of 124,684,072 EUR and a profit and loss account showing a loss for the year of 47,822,442 EUR.
In our opinion, the annual accounts give a true and fair view of the Company's net equity and financial position as at December 31, 2022, as well as of its results for the year then ended, in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium.
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) as applicable in Belgium. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the 'Statutory auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the annual accounts' section in this report. We have complied with all the ethical requirements that are relevant to the audit of annual accounts in Belgium, including those concerning independence.
We have obtained from the administrative body and the officials of the Company 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.
BDO Bedrijfsrevisoren BV / BTW BE 0431.088.289 / RPR Brussel BDO Réviseurs d'Entreprises SRL / TVA BE 0431.088.289 / RPM Bruxelles
BDO Bedrijfsrevisoren - BDO Réviseurs d'Entreprises BV/SRL, a company under Belgian law in the form of a private limited liability company, is a member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of independent member firms. BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the annual accounts of the current year. This matter was addressed in the context of our audit of the annual accounts as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on this matter.
In note C-cap 3.1 to the annual accounts, the Company has accounted for the investment in subsidiaries MDxHealth Inc and MDxHealth BV for a total value of 3,421,651 EUR. The Company also recognized intercompany receivables amounting to 79.770.812 EUR. Given the high cash burn ratio at the level of the Company's subsidiaries that is inherent to the sector the Company is operating in, we consider the valuation of investments in subsidiaries and intercompany receivables from the same subsidiaries as a key audit matter requiring high auditor's attention.
Our audit procedures included the following, amongst others:
We assessed the valuation methodology used by the Company to estimate the value of the investment in subsidiaries and the related intercompany receivable.
We verified calculations prepared by management and agreed to supporting documentation.
The administrative body 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 administrative body determines is necessary to enable the preparation of annual accounts that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the annual accounts, the administrative body 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 the administrative body either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the annual accounts as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a statutory auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an
Statutory auditor's report to the general meeting of the company on the annual accounts for the year ended December 31, 2022 3.
audit conducted in accordance with ISAs 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 annual accounts.
When executing our audit, we respect the legal, regulatory and normative framework applicable for the audit of annual accounts in Belgium. However, a statutory audit does not guarantee the future viability of the Company, neither the efficiency and effectiveness of the management of the Company by the administrative body. Our responsibilities with respect to the administrative body's use of the going concern basis of accounting are described below.
As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
Company's internal control;
We communicate with the Audit Committee 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 identified during our audit.
We also provide the Audit Committee with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on
MDXHEALTH SA:
our independence and, where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with the Audit Committee, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current year, and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our statutory auditor's report, unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter.
The administrative body is responsible for the preparation and the content of the director's report, for the documents to be deposited in accordance with the legal and regulatory requirements, as well as for the compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements regarding bookkeeping, with the Code of companies and associations and with the Company's by-laws.
In the context of our mission and in accordance with the Belgian standard (version revised 2020) which is complementary to the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) as applicable in Belgium, it is our responsibility to verify, in all material aspects, the director's report, certain documents to be deposited in accordance with the legal and regulatory requirements, and compliance with certain provisions of the Code of companies and associations and of the Company's by-laws, as well as to report on these elements.
In our opinion, after having performed specific procedures in relation to the director's report, the director's report is consistent with the annual accounts for the same financial year, and it is prepared in accordance with articles 3:5 and 3:6 of the Code of companies and associations.
In the context of our audit of the annual accounts, we are also responsible for considering, in particular based on the knowledge we have obtained during the audit, whether the director's report contains any material misstatement, i.e. any information which is inadequately disclosed or otherwise misleading. Based on the procedures we have performed, there are no material misstatements we have to report to you.
The social balance sheet, to be deposited at the National Bank of Belgium in accordance with article 3:12, §1, 8° of the Code of companies and associations, includes, both in terms of form and content, the information required by the said Code, including that relating to information on wages and training and does not present any material inconsistencies with the information that we have at our disposition during the performance of our mission.
• Our audit firm and our network did not provide services which are incompatible with the statutory audit of annual accounts and our audit firm remained independent of the Company during the terms of our mandate.
• The fees related to additional services which are compatible with the statutory audit of annual accounts as referred to in article 3:65 of the Code of companies and associations, were duly itemised and valued in the notes to the annual accounts.
We do not have to report to you any transactions undertaken or decisions taken in breach of the by-laws or the Code of companies and associations.
This report is in compliance with the contents of our additional report to the Audit Committee as referred to in article 11 of regulation (EU) No 537/2014.
Zaventem, April 25, 2023
BDO Réviseurs d'Entreprises SRL Statutory auditor Represented by Bert Kegels* Auditor *Acting for a company
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