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Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Overview
Business review
Governance
Financials
Investors
Ahold Delhaize Annual Report 2016
A more detailed description of our responsibilities is set out in the appendix to our report.
Amsterdam, February 28, 2017
PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V.
D. van Ameijden RA
Our responsibility is to plan and perform an audit engagement in a manner that allows us to obtain sufficient and appropriate audit evidence to
provide a basis for our opinion. Our audit opinion aims to provide reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from
material misstatement. Reasonable assurance is a high but not absolute level of assurance which makes it possible that we may not detect all
misstatements. Misstatements may arise due to fraud or error. They are considered to be material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could
reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of the financial statements.
Materiality affects the nature, timing and extent of our audit procedures and the evaluation of the effect of identified misstatements on
our opinion.
