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| Recognition of sales – estimation of items to be deducted from sales
See Note 3 – Accounting principles – Sales, to the consolidated financial statements |
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| Sales incentives, discounts and product returns are deducted from sales, as are incentives granted to distributors or consumers, such as commercial cooperation, coupons, discounts and loyalty programs. | Sales incentives, discounts and product returns are deducted from sales, as are incentives granted to distributors or consumers, such as commercial cooperation, coupons, discounts and loyalty programs.How our audit addressed this risk We assessed the appropriateness of the accounting policies applied by the Group with respect to the recognition of product returns, sales incentives, discounts and other incentives granted to customers, with respect to IFRS. |
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| These various deductions are recorded simultaneously to the recognition of sales, based mainly on statistics compiled from past experience and contractual conditions. | These various deductions are recorded simultaneously to the recognition of sales, based mainly on statistics compiled from past experience and contractual conditions.How our audit addressed this risk We familiarized ourselves with the internal control systems implemented by the Group’s commercial entities, with a view to measuring and accounting for items deducted from sales, especially at the end of the reporting period, and we tested, on a sample basis, the main controls of those systems. |
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| We deemed estimating these amounts at the reporting date to be both difficult (due to the range of contracts and contractual conditions prevalent in the Group’s different markets) and sensitive (sales are a key indicator in the assessment of the performance of the Group and its Management), and to have a material impact in the financial statements. | We deemed estimating these amounts at the reporting date to be both difficult (due to the range of contracts and contractual conditions prevalent in the Group’s different markets) and sensitive (sales are a key indicator in the assessment of the performance of the Group and its Management), and to have a material impact in the financial statements.How our audit addressed this risk We also carried out substantive tests on representative samples in order to ascertain whether product returns, sales incentives, discounts and other incentives granted to customers were being estimated correctly. Our tests consisted primarily in: |
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| Accordingly, these estimates constitute a key audit matter given the risk that product returns, sales incentives, discounts and other incentives granted to customers (distributors or consumers) are not fully catalogued and/or properly measured and thus that sales are not accounted for correctly and/or in the appropriate reporting period. | Accordingly, these estimates constitute a key audit matter given the risk that product returns, sales incentives, discounts and other incentives granted to customers (distributors or consumers) are not fully catalogued and/or properly measured and thus that sales are not accounted for correctly and/or in the appropriate reporting period.How our audit addressed this risk
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As required by legal and regulatory provisions and in accordance with professional standards applicable in France, we have also verified the information pertaining to the Group presented in the Board of Directors’ management report.
We have no matters to report as to its fair presentation and its consistency with the consolidated financial statements.
We attest that the information pertaining to the Group presented in the management report includes the consolidated non‑financial performance statement required under Article L.225-102-1 of the French Commercial Code. However, in accordance with Article L.823-10 of the French Commercial Code, we have not verified the fair presentation and consistency with the consolidated financial statements of the information given in that statement, which will be the subject of a report by an independent third party.
In accordance with professional standards applicable to the Statutory Auditors’ procedures for annual and consolidated financial statements presented according to the European single electronic reporting format, we have verified that the presentation of the consolidated financial statements to be included in the annual financial report referred to in paragraph I of Article L.451-1-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code (Code monétaire et financier) and prepared under the Chief Executive Officer’s responsibility, complies with this format, as defined by European Delegated Regulation No. 2019/815 of 17 December 2018. As it relates to the consolidated financial statements, our work included verifying that the tagging in the financial statements complies with the format defined by the aforementioned Regulation.
On the basis of our work, we conclude that the presentation of the consolidated financial statements to be included in the annual financial report complies, in all material respects, with the European single electronic reporting format.
It is not our responsibility to ensure that the consolidated financial statements to be included by the Company in the annual financial report filed with the French Financial Markets Authority - AMF correspond to those on which we carried out our work.
We were appointed Statutory Auditors of L’Oréal by the Annual General Meeting of 29 April 2004. At 31 December 2021, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit and Deloitte & Associés were in the eighteenth consecutive year of their engagement.
Management is responsible for preparing consolidated financial statements giving a true and fair view in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union and for implementing the internal control procedures it deems necessary for the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free of material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
