Basil Read Annual Report 2009 | Financial statement, Report of the independent auditors

ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Milestones in time

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Group profile Group at a glance Group timeline – five years Milestones in time Five year review Board Management Group structure Chairman’s statement Chief executive officer’s review Operational review

Financial director’s report Risk and opportunity management Corporate governance

Audit/risk committee report Sustainable development

Value added statement Financial statements Administration Shareholders’ diary

Report of the independent auditors

TO THE MEMBERS OF BASIL READ HOLDINGS LIMITED We have audited the group annual financial statements and annual financial statements of Basil Read Holdings Limited, which comprise the consolidated and separate statements of financial position as at 31 December 2009, and the consolidated and separate income statements, the consolidated and separate statements of comprehensive income, the consolidated and separate statements of changes in equity and consolidated and separate statements of cash flows for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes, and the directors’ report, as set out from here. Directors’ responsibility for the financial statements The company’s directors are responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and in the manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa. This responsibility includes: designing, implementing and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances. Auditors’ responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the 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 entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated and separate financial position of Basil Read Holdings Limited as at 31 December 2009, and its consolidated and separate financial performance and its consolidated and separate cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and in the manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa. PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc Director: JP van Staden Registered Auditor Johannesburg 11 March 2010