
130Financial statements 2024 Auditor’s report
Responsibilities of the Board of Directors
and the Managing Director for the Financial
Statements
The Board of Directors and the Managing
Director are responsible for the prepara-
tionofconsolidatedfinancialstatements
that give a true and fair view in accordance
with IFRS Accounting Standards as adopt-
edbytheEU,andoffinancialstatements
that give a true and fair view in accordance
with the laws and regulations governing
thepreparationoffinancialstatementsin
Finland and comply with statutory require-
ments. The Board of Directors and the Man-
aging Director are also responsible for such
internal control as they determine is neces-
sarytoenablethepreparationoffinancial
statements that are free from material mis-
statement, whether due to fraud or error.
Inpreparingthefinancialstatements,the
Board of Directors and the Managing Direc-
tor are responsible for assessing the fund’s
ability to continue as a going concern,
disclosing, as applicable, matters relat-
ing to going concern and using the going
concernbasisofaccounting.Thefinancial
statements are prepared using the going
concern basis of accounting unless there is
an intention to liquidate the fund or cease
operations, or there is no realistic alterna-
tive but to do so.
Auditor’s Responsibilities for the
Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable
assuranceaboutwhetherthefinancial
statements as a whole are free from mate-
rial misstatement, whether due to fraud or
error, and to issue an auditor’s report that
includes our opinion. Reasonable assur-
ance is a high level of assurance, but is
not a guarantee that an audit conducted
in accordance with good auditing practice
will always detect a material misstatement
when it exists. Misstatements can arise
from fraud or error and are considered
material if, individually or in the aggregate,
theycouldreasonablybeexpectedtoinflu-
ence the economic decisions of users taken
onthebasisofthefinancialstatements.
As part of an audit in accordance with good
auditing practice, we exercise professional
judgment and maintain professional skep-
ticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of
materialmisstatementofthefinancial
statements, whether due to fraud
or error, design and perform audit
procedures responsive to those risks,
and obtain audit evidence that is
sufficientandappropriatetoprovide
a basis for our opinion. The risk of not
detecting a material misstatement
resulting from fraud is higher than for
one resulting from error, as fraud may
involve collusion, forgery, intentional
omissions, misrepresentations, or the
override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal
control relevant to the audit 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
fund’s internal control.