This is a translation into English of the statutory auditors’ report on the financial statements of the Company issued in French and it is provided solely for the convenience of English-speaking users. This statutory auditors’ report includes information required by European regulation and French law, such as information about the appointment of the statutory auditors or verification of the management report and other documents provided to the shareholders.
This report should be read in conjunction with, and construed in accordance with, French law and professional auditing standards applicable in France.
For the year ended August 31, 2024
To the Annual General Meeting of,
SODEXO
255, quai de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad
92866 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9, France
In compliance with the engagement entrusted to us by your Annual General Meetings, we have audited the accompanying financial statements of Sodexo for the year ended August 31, 2024.
In our opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities and of the financial position of the Company as at August 31, 2024 and of the results of its operations for the year then ended in accordance with French accounting principles.
The audit opinion expressed above is consistent with our report to the Audit Committee.
We conducted our audit in accordance with professional standards applicable in France. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Our responsibilities under these standards are further described in the Statutory Auditors' Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report.
We conducted our audit engagement in compliance with the independence requirements of the French Commercial Code (Code de commerce) and the French Code of Ethics for Statutory Auditors (Code de déontologie de la profession de commissaire aux comptes) for the period from September 1, 2023 to the date of our report and specifically, we did not provide any prohibited non-audit services referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 537/2014.
In accordance with the requirements of articles L.821-53 and R.821-180 of the French Commercial Code relating to the justification of our assessments, we inform you of the key audit matters relating to the risks of material misstatement that, in our professional judgment, were the most significant in our audit of the financial statements of the current period, as well as how we addressed those risks.
These matters were addressed as part of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on specific items of the financial statements.
The balance of equity investments as at August 31, 2024 represented 6,470 million euros, the largest asset on the balance sheet. They are recognized at cost or contribution value. They are written down, where appropriate, when their value in use at the year-end is less than their carrying amount.
