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Changes over time for: Section 235


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Version Superseded: 01/08/2002
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235 Auditors’ report.E+W+S
(1)A company’s auditors shall make a report to the company’s members on all annual accounts of the company of which copies are to be laid before the company in general meeting during their tenure of office.
(2)The auditors’ report shall state whether in the auditors’ opinion the annual accounts have been properly prepared in accordance with this Act, and in particular whether a true and fair view is given—
(a)in the case of an individual balance sheet, of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year,
(b)in the case of an individual profit and loss account, of the profit or loss of the company for the financial year,
(c)in the case of group accounts, of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year, and the profit or loss for the financial year, of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole, so far as concerns members of the company.
(3)The auditors shall consider whether the information given in the directors’ report for the financial year for which the annual accounts are prepared is consistent with those accounts; and if they are of opinion that it is not they shall state that fact in their report.
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