Unilever 2014 Annual Report Download - page 45

4 OTHER REPORTIN
Our report on the Report of the Drectors and the other
nformaton s unmodfed
Pursuant to the legal requrement under Part 9 of Book 2 of
the Netherlands vl ode
• We have no defcences to report as a result of our
examnaton whether the Report of the Drectors, to the
extent we can assess, has been prepared n accordance
wth Part 9 of Book 2 of ths ode, and whether the
nformaton as requred under Part 9 of Book 2 has been
annexed and
• Further we report that the Report of the Drectors, to the
extent we can assess, s consstent wth the onsoldated
Fnancal Statements and the NV ompany Accounts as
requred by Artcle 2391 sub 4 of the Netherlands vl ode
Engagement
We have been engaged by the eneral Meetng at 14 May 2014
as audtor of Unlever NV snce the audt of year 2014 and we
are the statutory audtor snce that date up untl today
Independence
We are ndependent of the Unlever roup n accordance wth the
“Verordenng nzake de onafhankelkhed van accountants b
assurance-opdrachten” (VO) and other relevant ndependence
regulatons n the Netherlands Furthermore we have
compled wth the “Verordenng gedrags- en beroepsregels
accountants” (VBA)
Our opnon on other matters prescrbed by the ompanes
Act 2006 s unmodfed
In our opnon
• the part of the Drectors’ Remuneraton Report to be audted
has been properly prepared n accordance wth the ompanes
Act 2006 and
• the nformaton gven n the Strategc Report and the
Drectors’ Report for the fnancal year for whch the Fnancal
Statements are prepared s consstent wth the onsoldated
Fnancal Statements and the PL ompany Accounts
We have nothng to report n respect of the matters on whch
we are requred to report by excepton
Under ISAs (UK and Ireland) we are requred to report to you f,
based on the knowledge we acqured durng our audt, we have
dentfed other nformaton n the annual report that contans
a materal nconsstency wth ether that knowledge or the
onsoldated Fnancal Statements and/or the PL ompany
Accounts, a materal msstatement of fact, or that s
otherwse msleadng
In partcular, we are requred to report to you f
• we have dentfed materal nconsstences between the
knowledge we acqured durng our audt and the Drectors’
statement that they consder that the Annual Report and
Fnancal Statements taken as a whole s far, balanced and
understandable and provdes the nformaton necessary for
shareholders to assess the roup’s performance, busness
model and strategy or
• the Report of the Audt ommttee does not approprately
address matters communcated by us to the Audt ommttee
Under the ompanes Act 2006 we are requred to report to you
f, n our opnon
• adequate accountng records have not been kept by Unlever
PL, or returns adequate for our audt have not been
receved from branches not vsted by us or
• the PL ompany Accounts and the part of the Drectors’
Remuneraton Report to be audted are not n agreement
wth the accountng records and returns or
• certan dsclosures of Drectors’ remuneraton specfed
by law are not made or
• we have not receved all the nformaton and explanatons
we requre for our audt
Under the Lstng Rules we are requred to revew
• the Drectors’ statement, set out on page 78, n relaton to
gong concern and
• the part of the orporate overnance Statement on pages 46
to 48 relatng to the company’s complance wth the ten
provsons of the 2012 UK orporate overnance ode
specfed for our revew
We have nothng to report n respect of the above responsbltes
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