Gschäftsbericht 2018

138 | Galenica Ltd. financial statements 2018 Finance Report of the statutory auditor on the financial statements Ernst & Young Ltd Schanzenstrasse 4a P.O. Box CH-3001 Berne Phone: +41 58 286 61 11 Fax: +41 58 286 68 18 www.ey.com/ch To the General Meeting of Galenica Ltd., Berne Berne, 5 March 2019 Report of the statutory auditor on the financial statements As statutory auditor, we have audited the financial statements of Galenica Ltd., which com- prise the statement of income, statement of financial position and notes (pages 132 to 137), for the year ended 31 December 2018. Board of Directors’ responsibility The Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accor- dance with the requirements of Swiss law and the company’s articles of incorporation. This responsibility includes designing, implementing and maintaining an internal control system relevant to the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. The Board of Directors is further responsible for selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies and making accounting estimates that are reason- able in the circumstances. Auditor’s responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Swiss law and Swiss Auditing Standards. Those standards require that we 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 dis- closures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judg- ment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial state- ments, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor consi- ders the internal control system relevant to the entity’s preparation 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 system. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made, 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 for the year ended 31 December 2018 comply with Swiss law and the company’s articles of incorporation. Report on key audit matters based on the circular 1/2015 of the Federal Audit Oversight Authority Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most signifi- cance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period. We have determined that there are no key audit matters to communicate in our report.