Auditor's Report
We have audited the financial statements of Keppel Land Limited and the consolidated financial statements of
the Group as set out on pages 164 to 208 comprising the balance sheets of the Company and of the Group as
at 31 December 2002, and the profit and loss accounts and the statements of changes in equity of the
Company and of the Group and cashflow of the Group for the year ended 31 December 2002, and notes
thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s Directors. 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 plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free
of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and
disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and
significant estimates made by the Directors, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion,
- (a) the financial statements are properly drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act
(“Act”) and Statements of Accounting Standard and so as to give a true and fair view of :
- (i) the state of affairs of the Company and of the Group as at 31 December 2002, the results and
changes in equity of the Company and of the Group and the cash flow of the Group for the year
then ended; and
- (ii) the other matters required by Section 201 of the Act to be dealt with in the financial statements
and consolidated financial statements;
- (b) the accounting and other records, and the registers required by the Act to be kept by the Company and
by those subsidiaries incorporated in Singapore of which we are the auditors have been properly kept in
accordance with the provisions of the Act.
We have considered the financial statements and auditors’ reports of all subsidiaries of which we have not
acted as auditors, being financial statements included in the consolidated financial statements. The names of
those subsidiaries audited by our associated firms and those audited by other firms are stated in the notes to
the accounts.
We are satisfied that the financial statements of the subsidiaries that have been consolidated with the financial
statements of the Company are in form and content appropriate and proper for the purposes of the
preparation of the consolidated financial statements and we have received satisfactory information and
explanations as required by us for those purposes.
The auditors’ reports on the financial statements of the subsidiaries were not subject to any qualification and
in respect of subsidiaries incorporated in Singapore did not include any comment made under Section 207(3)
of the Act.
Singapore, 27 March 2003
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