Report of the Auditors
To the Members of Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited
We have audited the financial statements from Consolidated Profit &
Loss Account to Notes to the Financial Statements which have been prepared
under the historical cost convention, as modified by the revaluation of certain fixed assets,
and the accounting policies set out on the following pages. These financial statements are
the responsibility of the Company's Directors. Our responsibility is to express an opinion
on these financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Those
standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of
the Group at 31st December 1997 and of its profit and cash flows for the year then ended in
accordance with International Accounting Standards and the Bermuda Companies Act.
Price Waterhouse
Southwark Towers
32 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9SY
United Kingdom
London, 18th March 1998
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