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Statement of Directors' Responsibilities for The Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities for the Group Financial Statements The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Group financial statements in accordance with applicable United Kingdom law and regulations. Company law requires the Directors to prepare Group financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the Directors are required to prepare Group financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (‘IFRS’) as adopted by the European Union. Under Company law the Directors must not approve the Group financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period. In preparing the Group financial statements, International Accounting Standard 1 (‘IAS’) requires that the Directors: • Properly select and apply accounting policies; • Present information, including accounting policies, in a manner that provides relevant, reliable, comparable and understandable information; • Provide additional disclosures when compliance with the specific requirements in IFRS is insufficient to enable users to understand the impact of particular transactions, other events and conditions on the Group’s financial position and financial performance; and • Make an assessment of the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Group’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Group and enable them to ensure that the Group financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The Directors are also responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, Directors’ Report, the Directors’ Remuneration Report and the Corporate Governance Statement in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and applicable regulations, including the requirements of the Listing Rules and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Fair, balanced and understandable In accordance with the principles of the UK Corporate Governance Code, the Directors are responsible for establishing arrangements to evaluate whether the information presented in the Annual Report, taken as a whole, is fair, balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Group’s position and performance, business model and strategy, and making a statement to that effect. This statement is set out on page 78 of the Annual Report. 114 Annual Report and Accounts 2020 EnQuest PLC Strategic report Corporate governance Financial statements Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of EnQuest PLC For the year ended 31 December 2020 Report on the audit of the Financial Statements 1. Opinion In our opinion: • the Financial Statements of EnQuest PLC (the ‘Parent Company’) and its subsidiaries (together the ‘Group’) give a true and fair view of the state of the Group’s and of the Parent Company’s affairs as at 31 December 2020 and of the Group’s loss for the year then ended; • the Group Financial Statements have been properly prepared in accordance with international accounting standards in conformity with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union and IFRSs as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB); • the Parent Company Financial Statements have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, including Financial Reporting Standard 101 “Reduced Disclosure Framework”; and • the Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. We have audited the Financial Statements which comprise: • the Group Income Statement; • the Group and Company Balance Sheets; • the Group and Company Statements of Changes in Equity; • the Group Cash Flow Statement; • the related notes 1 to 30 to the Group Financial Statements; and • the related notes 1 to 11 to the Company Financial Statements. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the preparation of the Group Financial Statements is applicable law, international accounting standards in conformity with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and IFRSs as adopted by the European Union and issued by the IASB. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the preparation of the Parent Company Financial Statements is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 101 “Reduced Disclosure Framework” (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). 2. Basis for opinion We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Group and the Parent Company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Financial Statements in the UK, including the Financial Reporting Council’s (the ‘FRC’s’) Ethical Standard as applied to listed public interest entities, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. The non-audit services provided to the Group and Parent Company for the year are disclosed in note 5(g) to the Financial Statements. We confirm that non-audit services prohibited by the FRC’s Ethical Standard were not provided to the Group or the Parent Company. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. 3. Material uncertainty related to going concern We draw attention to note 2 in the Financial Statements, which indicates that the Revolving Credit Facility expires in October 2021 and the new facility has not been signed at the time of publication of the Group’s results. As stated in note 2, these events or conditions, along with the other matters set forth in note 2, indicate that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s and Parent Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter. In auditing the Financial Statements, we have concluded that the Directors’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the Financial Statements is appropriate. Our evaluation of the Directors’ assessment of the Group’s and Parent Company’s ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting included: • we obtained an understanding of the relevant controls relating to the going concern assumption; • we have tested the clerical accuracy of the model used to prepare the going concern forecasts; • we have assessed the historical accuracy of forecasts prepared by management; • we have verified the consistency of key inputs relating to future costs, hedging and production to other financial and operational information obtained during our audit; • we have agreed the available facilities to underlying agreements and external confirmation from debt providers and testing covenant calculation forecasts performed by management; • we have challenged management as to the reasonableness of oil and gas pricing assumptions applied, based on benchmarking to market data; • we have assessed and concluded on the reasonableness of management’s sensitivity analysis on the forecast, including the downside scenarios such as lower oil prices and reduced production, and considered the mitigating actions highlighted by management in the event that they were required; and • we have challenged management as to the adequacy of disclosures made in the Annual Report and Accounts. EnQuest PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2020 115 Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of EnQuest PLC continued For the year ended 31 December 2020 In relation to the reporting on how the Group has applied the UK Corporate Governance Code, we have nothing material to add or draw attention to in relation to: • the Directors’ statement in the Financial Statements about whether the Directors considered it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting; and • the Directors’ identification in the Financial Statements of the material uncertainty related to the Group’s and Parent Company’s ability to continue as a going concern over a period of at least twelve months from the date of approval of the Financial Statements. Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report. 4. Summary of our audit approach Key audit matters The key audit matters that we identified in the current year were: • Going concern (see section 3 above, Material uncertainty related to going concern); • Impairment of oil & gas assets and goodwill and valuation of Magnus contingent consideration; and • Valuation of decommissioning liability. These key audit matters were also identified by the Group’s auditor in the prior year, Ernst & Young, with the exception of the valuation of decommissioning liability which we have assessed as a key audit matter in the current year due to the highly judgemental nature of the assumptions, in particular
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