
(821090.1)
Independent auditor's report
Management's responsibility for the consolidated financial statements
and the parent company financial statements
Management is responsible for the preparation of consolidated financial statements that give a true and fair
view in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the EU and additional
requirements in the Danish Financial Statements Act and for the preparation of parent company financial
statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with the Danish Financial Statements Act.
Management is further responsible for such internal control that Management determines is necessary to
enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud
or error.
In preparing the financial statements, Management is responsible for assessing the Group's and the Parent
Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern
and using the going concern basis of accounting unless Management either intends to liquidate the Group
or the Parent Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated financial
statements and parent company financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance as to whether the consolidated financial statements and
parent company financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud
or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of
assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs and the additional
requirements applicable in Denmark will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.
Misstatements may arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate,
they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these
consolidated financial statements and parent company financial statements.
As part of an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs and the additional requirements applicable in
Denmark, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit.
We also:
• identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements and
parent company financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit
procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to
provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is
higher than for one resulting from error as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions,
misrepresentations or the override of internal control.
• obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit 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 Group's and the Parent Company's internal control.
• evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting
estimates and related disclosures made by Management.
• conclude on the appropriateness of Management's use of the going concern basis of accounting in
preparing the consolidated financial statements and parent company financial statements and, based
on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that
may cast significant doubt on the Group's and the Parent Company's ability to continue as a going
concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our
auditor's report to the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements or parent company
financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are
based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor's report. However, future events or
conditions may cause the Group and the Parent Company to cease to continue as a going concern.