- Balance Sheet of the Company Financial Statements
- Income Statement of the Company Financial Statements
- Notes
- Supplementary Information
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Supplementary Information
AUDITORS’ REPORT
To: The EADS N.V. shareholders.
Report on the company financial statements
We have audited the accompanying 2007 company financial statements which are part of the financial statements of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V., Amsterdam, as authorised for issue on 10th March 2008, which comprise the balance sheet as at 31st December 2007, the income statement for the year then ended, and the notes.
Management’s Responsibility
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the company financial statements and for the preparation of the report of the Board of Directors, both in accordance with Part 9 of Book 2 of the Netherlands Civil Code. This responsibility includes: designing, implementing and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the company financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.
Auditors’ Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the company financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Dutch law. This law requires that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the company financial statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the company financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors’ judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the company financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditors consider internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the company financial statements 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 company 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 company financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. as at 31st December 2007, and of its result for the year then ended in accordance with Part 9 of Book 2 of the Netherlands Civil Code.
Report on other legal and regulatory requirements
Pursuant to the legal requirement under 2:393 sub 5 part e of the Netherlands Civil Code, we report, to the extent of our competence, that the report of the Board of Directors is consistent with the company financial statements as required by 2:391 sub 4 of the Netherlands Civil Code.
Rotterdam, 10th March 2008 Amsterdam, 10th March 2008
KPMG Accountants N.V. Ernst & Young Accountants
L.A. Blok F.A.L. van der Bruggen
Other Supplementary Information
Appropriation of result
Articles 30 and 31 of the Articles of Association provide that the board of directors shall determine which part of the result shall be attributed to the reserves. The general meeting of shareholders may dispose of a reserve only upon a proposal of the Board of Directors and to the extent it is permitted by law and the Articles of Association. Dividends may only be paid after adoption of the annual accounts from which it appears that the shareholders’ equity of the company is more than the amount of the issued and paid-in part of the capital increased by the reserves that must be maintained by law.
It will be proposed at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders that the net loss of €446 million as shown in the income statements for the financial year 2007 is to be deducted from retained earnings and that a payment of a gross amount of €0.12 per share shall be made to the shareholders from distributable reserves.
Subsequent events
For further information please see Note 37 of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
