Financial Statements of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health

Thursday, December 31, 2015

INDEPENDENT AUDITORSREPORT

To the Members of the Board of Health of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (“the Entity”), which comprise the financial position as at December 31, 2015 and the statement of operations and surplus, changes in net debt, and cash flows for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditors’ Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.
 
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on our judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, we consider internal control relevant to the Entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements 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 entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
 
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion

In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health as at December 31, 2015, and its results of operations and the changes in its net debt and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards.

Comparative Information

The financial statements of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health as at and for the year ended December 31, 2014, were audited by another auditor who expressed an unmodified opinion on those statements on May 6, 2015.
 
Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants
May 4, 2016
Waterloo, Canada