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Annual Report of Euram Bank Vienna 2017

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Responsibilities <strong>of</strong> the auditor for the audit <strong>of</strong> the annual accounts<br />

Our objectives are to obtain sufficient certainty as to whether the annual accounts<br />

as a whole are free from significant – intended or unintentional – false<br />

representations and to issue an audit certificate that contains our audit opinion.<br />

Sufficient certainty is a high degree <strong>of</strong> certainty, but no guarantee that an audit<br />

conducted according to the EU-REG and to the Austrian principles <strong>of</strong> proper year-end<br />

audits, requiring application <strong>of</strong> the ISA, will always reveal significant false<br />

representations, if such exist. False representations may result from fraudulent<br />

acts or errors and are deemed significant if some or all <strong>of</strong> them may reasonably<br />

be expected to impact on the economic decisions made by users on the basis <strong>of</strong><br />

these annual accounts.<br />

In the course <strong>of</strong> a year-end audit in accordance with the EU-REG and the Austrian<br />

principles <strong>of</strong> proper year-end audits, requiring application <strong>of</strong> the ISA, we exercise<br />

our dutiful discretion throughout the entire audit, maintaining a critical basic<br />

attitude.<br />

Moreover, the following applies:<br />

– We identify and analyse the risks <strong>of</strong> significant – intended or unintentional<br />

false representations in the annual accounts, we plan audit procedures in<br />

response to said risks, we implement them and obtain audit evidence that is<br />

sufficient and suitable to serve as a basis for our audit opinion. The risk that<br />

significant false representations resulting from fraudulent acts are not revealed<br />

is higher than the one resulting from errors, as fraudulent acts may involve<br />

deceitful interactions, falsifications, intentional omissions, misleading representations<br />

or the bypassing <strong>of</strong> internal controls.<br />

<strong>Euram</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> AG<br />

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