Singapore Airlines 2012 Annual Report Download - page 89

087ANNUAL REPORT 2011/2012
Independent Auditors’ Report
To the members of Singapore Airlines Limited
Report on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Singapore Airlines Limited (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries
(the “Group”) set out on pages 89 to 188, which comprise the statements of financial position of the Group and the Company
as at 31 March 2012, the statements of changes in equity of the Group and the Company and the consolidated profit and loss
account, consolidated statement of comprehensive income and consolidated statement of cash flows of the Group for the year
then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation of financial statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with the
provisions of the Singapore Companies Act, Chapter 50 (“the Act”) and Singapore Financial Reporting Standards, and for
devising and maintaining a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide a reasonable assurance that assets are
safeguarded against loss from unauthorised use or disposition; and transactions are properly authorised and that they are
recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of true and fair profit and loss accounts and balance sheets and to maintain
accountability of assets.
Auditors’ Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in
accordance with Singapore Standards on Auditing. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements
and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about 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 judgment, 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 of the financial statements that give a true and fair view 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 consolidated financial statements of the Group and the statement of financial position and statement of
changes in equity of the Company are properly drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the Act and Singapore Financial
Reporting Standards so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and of the Company as at 31 March
2012 and of the results, changes in equity and cash flows of the Group and the changes in equity of the Company for the
year ended on that date.