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A N N U A L R E P O R T
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Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements (cont’d)
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Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the
disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events
in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
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Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the entities or
business activities within the Group to express an opinion on the consolidated financial statements.
We are responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the group audit. We remain
solely responsible for our audit opinion.
We communicate with the directors 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 identify
during our audit.
We also provide the directors 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 our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with the directors, 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 auditor’s 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.
Report on other legal and regulatory requirements
In our opinion, the accounting and other records required by the Act to be kept by the Company and by
those subsidiary corporations incorporated in Singapore of which we are the auditors have been properly
kept in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
The engagement partner on the audit resulting in this independent auditor’s report is Lim Siew Koon.
Ernst & Young LLP
Public Accountants and
Chartered Accountants
Singapore
15 March 2019
Independent
auditor’s report
For the financial year ended 31 December 2018