On 18 February 2014, the PZU Supervisory Board selected KPMG Audyt Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością Sp.k. with its registered office in Warsaw, ul. Inflancka 4A, 00-189 Warsaw, entered by the National Chamber of Statutory Auditors on the list of audit firms under no. 3546 as the entity to audit the financial statements for the years 2014-2016, and on 27 April 2017 the PZU Supervisory Board exercised the option of extending this cooperation to include 2017-2018.
The scope of the concluded agreement encompasses the following in particular:
Main assumptions underlying the policy for selecting the audit firm.
The following are among the main assumptions underlying PZU’s policy for selecting the audit firm:
The main assumptions underlying the Policy for the provision of permitted non-audit services by the audit firm conducting the statutory audit, by entities related to this audit firm and by a member of the audit firm’s network:
In 2018 the audit firm auditing the financial statements rendered permitted services to PZU that were not part of the audit. The Company conducted an assessment of the audit firm’s independence and the PZU Supervisory Board consented to the rendering of the foregoing services.
In recent years, PZU’s additional cooperation with KPMG Audyt has covered, without limitation, audits of solvency and financial standing reports required by the Solvency II Directive.
Fee charged by audit firm auditing PZU’s financial statements (PLN thous.) |
1 January - 31 December 2018 |
1 January - 31 December 2017 |
compulsory audit of the annual financial statements / consolidated financial statements | 609 | 4,950 |
other assurance services, including a review of financial statements/consolidated financial statements | 759 | 1,793 |
tax advisory services | - | - |
other services | - | - |
Total | 1,368 | 6,743 |
Fee charged byaudit firm auditing the PZU Group’s financial statements (PLN thous.) |
1 January - 31 December 2018 |
1 January - 31 December 2017 |
audit of the financial statements | 7,813 | 7,673 |
other assurance services | 4,814 | 3,568 |
Total | 12,627 | 11,241 |