Fiscal Report 2016

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Management Responsibility For Financial Reporting

The accompanying financial statements and all other information contained in this annual report are the responsibility of the management of Prince Edward Island Mutual Insurance Company. The financial statements have been prepared by management in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and have been approved by the Board of Directors.

Preparation of financial information is an integral part of management’s broader responsibilities for the ongoing operations of Prince Edward Island Mutual Insurance Company. Management maintains a system of internal accounting controls to provide reasonable assurance that transactions are accurately recorded on a timely basis, are properly approved and result in reliable financial information. Such information also includes data based on management’s best estimates and judgements.

The Audit Committee and the Board of Directors review and approve the annual financial statements. In addition, the Audit Committee meets periodically with financial officers of Prince Edward Island Mutual Insurance Company and the external auditors, and reports to the Board of Directors thereon.

The accompanying financial statements have been audited by Grant Thornton LLP, authorized to practice public accounting by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Prince Edward Island, who are engaged by the Board of Directors and whose appointment was ratified at the annual meeting of the policyholders. The auditors have access to the Audit Committee, without management present, to discuss the results of their work. Their report dated February 9, 2016 expresses their unqualified opinion on the Company’s 2015 financial statements.

Terry Shea,

CEO/Manager

Rudy Smith,

Treasurer/Controller

Independent auditor’s report

To the policyholders of
Prince Edward Island Mutual Insurance Company

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Prince Edward Island Mutual Insurance Company, which comprise the statement of financial position as at December 31, 2015, and the statement of comprehensive income, statement of members’ surplus and statement of 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 International Financial Reporting 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.

Auditor’s 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 the 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 the auditor’s 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, the auditor considers 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.
Grant Thornton LLP. A Canadian Member of Grant Thornton International Ltd We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained in our audit 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 Prince Edward Island Mutual Insurance Company as at December 31, 2015, and its financial performance and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.

Grant Thornton LLP,

Chartered Accountants