Independent Auditor’s Report

 

Consolidated Income Statement

 

Consolidated Statement of Recognised Income and Expense

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet

 

Consolidated Cash Flow Statement

 

Statement of Group Accounting Policies

 

Notes to the Consolidated
Financial Statements

 

Company Balance Sheet

 

Company Reconciliation of Movement in Capital and Reserves

 

Company Cash Flow Statement

 

Notes to the Company
Financial Statements

 

 

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We have audited the Group and Company financial statements (the ‘‘financial statements’’) of NTR plc for the year ended 31 March 2009 which comprise the Group Income Statement, the Group and Company Balance Sheets, the Group and Company Cash Flow Statements, the Group Statement of Recognised Income and Expense, the Company Reconciliation of Movement in Capital and Reserves and the related notes. These financial statements have been prepared under the accounting policies set out therein.

 

This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with section 193 of the Companies Act 1990. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company’s members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

 

Respective responsibilities of directors and auditor
The Directors’ responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as adopted by the EU, and, in the case of the Company, as applied in accordance with the Companies Acts 1963 to 2009, are set out in the Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities.

 

Our responsibility is to audit the financial statements in accordance with relevant legal and regulatory requirements and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland).

 

We report to you our opinion as to whether the financial statements give a true and fair view and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Acts 1963 to 2009. We also report to you our opinion as to whether proper books of account have been kept by the Company; whether at the balance sheet date, there exists a financial situation requiring the convening of an extraordinary general meeting of the Company; and whether the information given in the Directors’ Report is consistent with the financial statements. In addition, we state whether we have obtained all the information and explanations necessary for the purposes of our audit, and whether the Company balance sheet is in agreement with the books of account. We also report to you if, in our opinion, any information specified by law regarding Directors’ remuneration and Directors’ transactions is not disclosed and, where practicable, include such information in our report.

 

We read the other information contained in the Annual Report and consider whether it is consistent with the audited financial statements. The other information comprises only the Directors’ Report, the Chairman’s Statement, the Chief Executive’s Review, Market Overview and the Business Review. We consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with the financial statements. Our responsibilities do not extend to any other information.

 

Basis of Audit Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) issued by the Auditing Practices Board. An audit includes examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. It also includes an assessment of the significant estimates and judgments made by the directors in the preparation of the financial statements, and of whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Group’s and Company’s circumstances, consistently applied and adequately disclosed.

 

We planned and performed our audit so as to obtain all the information and explanations which we considered necessary in order to provide us with sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error. In forming our opinion, we also evaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of information in the financial statements.

 

Opinion
In our opinion:

•	the Group financial statements give a true and fair view, in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU, of the state of the Group’s affairs as at 31 March 2009 and of its loss for the year then ended;
•	the Company financial statements give a true and fair view, in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU and as applied in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Acts 1963 to 2009, of the state of the Company’s affairs as at 31 March 2009; and
•	the financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Acts 1963 to 2009.

We have obtained all the information and explanations which we consider necessary for the purposes of our audit. In our opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the Company. The Company balance sheet is in agreement with the books of account.

 

In our opinion, the information given in the Directors’ Report is consistent with the financial statements.

 

The net assets of the Company, as stated in the Company balance sheet are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and, in our opinion, on that basis there did not exist at 31 March 2009 a financial situation which under Section 40 (1) of the Companies (Amendment) Act 1983 would require the convening of an extraordinary general meeting of the Company.