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INDEPENDENT
OUR OPINION
In our opinion, the nancial statements of Goodman Property Trust (the Trust), including its controlled entities (the Group), present fairly, in all material respects, the nancial position of the Group as at 31 March 2017, and its nancial performance and its cash ows for the year then ended in accordance with New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (NZ IFRSs).
AUDITOR’S
BASIS FOR OPINION
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (New Zealand) (ISAs NZ). Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the nancial statements section of our report.
REPORT
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is suf cient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
To the unitholders of Goodman Property Trust
We are independent of the Group in accordance with Professional and Ethical Standard 1 (Revised) Code of Ethics for Assurance Practitioners (PES 1) issued by the New Zealand Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants’ Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (IESBA Code), and we have ful lled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements.
Our rm carries out other services for the Group in the area of other assurance related services. The provision of these other services has not impaired our independence as auditor of the Group.
OUR AUDIT APPROACH
Overview
An audit is designed to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. For the purpose of our audit, we used a threshold for overall group materiality of $5.4 million.
We agreed with the Audit Committee that we would report to them misstatements identified during our audit above $0.5 million as well as misstatements below that amount that, in our view, warranted reporting for qualitative reasons.
We have one key audit matter being valuation of investment properties.
Materiality
The scope of our audit was in uenced by our application of materiality.
Based on our professional judgement, we determined certain quantitative thresholds for materiality, including the overall group materiality for the nancial statements as a whole as set out above. These, together with qualitative considerations, helped us to determine the scope of our audit and the nature, timing and extent of our audit procedures and to evaluate the effect of misstatements, both individually and in the aggregate on the nancial statements as a whole.
The nancial statements comprise:
 The balance sheet as at 31 March 2017;
 the statement of pro t or loss for the year then ended;
 the statement of changes in equity for the year then ended;
 the statement of cash ows for the year then ended; and
 the notes to the nancial statements, which include signi cant accounting policies.
Overall group materiality How we determined it
Rationale for the materiality benchmark applied
AUDIT SCOPE
$5.4 million
5% of profit before tax excluding valuation movements relating to investment properties and financial instruments.
We applied this benchmark because, in our view, it is reflective of the metrics against which the performance of the Group is most commonly measured.
GOODMAN PROPERTY TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2017 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
We designed our audit by assessing the risks of material misstatement in the nancial statements and our application of materiality. As in all of our audits, we also addressed the risk of management override of internal controls, including among other matters consideration of whether there was evidence of bias that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud.
We tailored the scope of our audit in order to perform suf cient work to enable us to provide an opinion on the nancial statements as a whole, taking into account the structure of the Group, the accounting processes and controls, and the industry in which the Group operates.
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TO THE UNITHOLDERS OF GOODMAN PROPERTY TRUST