AstraZeneca Annual Report and Form 20-F Information 2011

Financial StatementsIndependent Auditor’s Report to the Members of AstraZeneca PLCWe have audited the Parent Company Financial Statements ofAstraZeneca PLC for the year ended 31 December 2011 set out onpages 193 to 197. The financial reporting framework that has beenapplied in their preparation is applicable law and UK AccountingStandards (UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body,in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006.Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to theCompany’s members those matters we are required to state to themin an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extentpermitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyoneother than the Company and the Company’s members, as a body, forour audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.Respective responsibilities of directors and auditorAs explained more fully in the Preparation of the Financial Statementsand the Directors’ Responsibilities Statement set out on page 140,the Directors are responsible for the preparation of the ParentCompany Financial Statements and for being satisfied that they givea true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit, and express anopinion on, the Parent Company Financial Statements in accordancewith applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK andIreland). Those standards require us to comply with the AuditingPractices Board’s (APB’s) Ethical Standards for Auditors.Scope of the audit of the financial statementsA description of the scope of an audit of financial statements isprovided on the APB’s website, frc.org.uk/apb/scope/private.cfm.Opinion on financial statementsIn our opinion, the Parent Company Financial Statements:> > Give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs as at31 December 2011.> > Have been properly prepared in accordance with UK GenerallyAccepted Accounting Practice.> > Have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of theCompanies Act 2006.Opinion on other matters prescribed by theCompanies Act 2006In our opinion:> > The part of the Directors’ Remuneration Report to be audited hasbeen properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.> > The information given in the Directors’ Report for the financial yearfor which the financial statements are prepared is consistent withthe Parent Company Financial Statements.Matters on which we are required to report by exceptionWe have nothing to report in respect of the following matters wherethe Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:> > Adequate accounting records have not been kept by the ParentCompany, or returns adequate for our audit have not been receivedfrom branches not visited by us.> > The Parent Company Financial Statements and the part of theDirectors’ Remuneration Report to be audited are not in agreementwith the accounting records and returns.> > Certain disclosures of Directors’ Remuneration specified by laware not made.> > We have not received all the information and explanations we requirefor our audit.Other matterWe have reported separately on the Group Financial Statements ofAstraZeneca PLC for the year ended 31 December 2011.Jimmy DabooSenior Statutory AuditorFor and on behalf of KPMG Audit Plc, Statutory AuditorChartered Accountants15 Canada Square, London, E14 5GL2 February 2012192 Financial StatementsAstraZeneca Annual Report and Form 20-F Information 2011