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In preparing the consolidated financial statements the Parent Company’s Management is responsible for
assessing the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, any matters related
to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting, except in situations where the
Management intends to either liquidate the Group or discontinue its operations, or has no realistic
alternative but to do so.
The Parent Company’s Management and members of the Parent Company’s Supervisory Board are
required to ensure that the consolidated financial statements meet the requirements of the Accounting
Act of 29 September 1994 (“the Accounting Act” – 2023 Journal of Laws, item 120 with subsequent
amendments). Members of the Parent Company’s Supervisory Board are responsible for overseeing the
financial reporting process.
Responsibilities of the Auditor for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements
as a whole are free from material misstatements due to fraud or error, and to issue an independent
auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but it is not
a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with NSA will always detect an existing material
misstatement. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if it could be
reasonably expected that they, individually or in the aggregate, could influence the economic decisions
of users made on the basis of these consolidated financial statements.
The concept of materiality is applied by the auditor at the planning stage and when performing the audit
and evaluating the effect of identified misstatements on the audit and of uncorrected misstatements, if
any, on the financial statements, as well as when formulating the auditor’s opinion. In view of the above,
all of the opinions and statements contained in the auditor’s report are expressed subject to the
qualitative and quantitative level of materiality set in accordance with the applicable standards on
auditing and the auditor’s professional judgement.
The scope of the audit does not include an assurance regarding the Group’s future profitability, or
regarding the effectiveness of the Parent Company’s Management in the handling of the Group’s affairs
now or in the future.
Throughout an audit in accordance with NSA, we exercise professional judgement and maintain
professional skepticism, as well as:
− identify and assess the risks of a material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements
resulting from fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures in response to such risks and obtain
audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not
detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting a
material misstatement resulting from error, because fraud may involve collusion, forgery, deliberate
omission, misrepresentation or override of internal controls;
− obtain an understanding of the internal controls relevant to the audit in order to plan our audit
procedures, but not to express an opinion on the effectiveness of the Group’s internal controls;
− evaluate the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the estimates
and related disclosures made by the Parent Company’s Management;
− conclude on the appropriateness of the Parent Company Management’s use of the going concern basis
of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether material uncertainty exists related
to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a going
concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our
auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements or, if such
disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence
obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the
Group to cease to continue as a going concern;