2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT
BOURBON 2017 Registration Document 204 PARENT COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 5 Statutory Auditors’ report on the annual financial statements (year ended December 31, 2017) STATUTORY AUDITORS’ REPORT ON THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2017) This is a translation into English of the statutory auditors’ report on the financial statements of the Company issued in French and it is provided solely for the convenience of English speaking users. This statutory auditors’ report includes information required by European regulation and French law, such as information about the appointment of the statutory auditors or verification of the management report and other documents provided to shareholders. This report should be read in conjunction with, and construed in accordance with, French law and professional auditing standards applicable in France. To the Bourbon Corporation Annual General Meeting, Opinion In compliance with the engagement entrusted to us by your Annual General Meetings, we have audited the accompanying financial statements of Bourbon Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2017. In our opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities and of the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2017 and of the results of its operations for the year then ended in accordance with French accounting principles. The audit opinion expressed above is consistent with our report to the Audit Committee. Basis for Opinion Audit Framework We conducted our audit in accordance with professional standards applicable in France. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the “Statutory Auditors’ Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements” section of our report. Independence We conducted our audit engagement in compliance with independence rules applicable to us, for the period from January 1, 2017 to the date of our report and specifically we did not provide any prohibited non-audit services referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 537/2014 or in the French Code of ethics (code de déontologie) for statutory auditors. Material uncertaintysurrounding going concern Without qualifying the above opinion, we draw your attention to the material uncertainty relating to events or circumstances that are likely to compromise the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern as described in Note 1 to the financial statements. Justification of Assessments - KeyAudit Matters In accordance with the requirements of Articles L.823-9 and R.823-7 of the French Commercial Code (code de commerce) relating to the justification of our assessments, and excluding the matter described in the “Material uncertainty surrounding going concern” section, we inform you of the key audit matters relating to risks of material misstatement that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period, as well as how we addressed those risks. We ascertained that there were no key audit matters to be communicated in our report. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the annual financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon. We do not provide a separate opinion on specific items of the financial statements. Verification of the Management Report and of the Other Documents Provided to Shareholders We have also performed, in accordance with professional standards applicable in France, the specific verifications required by French law. Information given in the management report and other documents provided to shareholders with respect to the financial position and the financial statements We have no observations as to the consistency with the financial statements of the information given in the Board of Directors’ management report and in the other documents provided to shareholders with respect to the financial position and the financial statements.
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