Report on Compliance of the Annual Report
CONVENIENCE TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ ANNUAL REPORT ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN TURKISH
To the General Assembly of Şok Marketler Ticaret A.Ş.
1. Opinion
We have audited the annual report of Şok Marketler Ticaret A.Ş. (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Group”) for the year ended at 31 December 2021.
In our opinion, the financial information and the analysis made by the Board of Directors by using the information included in the audited consolidated financial statements regarding the Group’s position in the Board of Directors’ Annual Report are consistent with the audited full set consolidated financial statements and with the information obtained in the course of independent audit and presented fairly, in all material respects,
2.Basis for Opinion
Our independent audit was conducted in accordance with the Independent Standards on Auditing that are part of the Turkish Standards on Auditing (the “TSA”) issued by the Public Oversight Accounting and Auditing Standards Authority (“POA”). Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities in the Audit of the Board of Directors’ Annual Report section of our report. We hereby declare that we are independent of the Group in accordance with the Ethical Rules for Independent Auditors (including Standards on Independence) (the “Ethical Rules”) and the ethical requirements regarding independent audit in regulations issued by POA that are relevant to our audit of the consolidated financial statements. We have also fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Ethical Rules and regulations. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained during the independent audit provides a sufficient and appropriate basis for our opinion.
3. Our Audit Opinion on the Full Set Consolidated Financial Statements
We expressed an unqualified opinion in the auditor’s report dated 17 February 2022 on the consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2021 and for the year then ended.
4. Board of Director’s Responsibility for the Annual Report
The Group management’s responsibilities related to the annual report according to Articles 514 and 516 of Turkish Commercial Code (“TCC”) No. 6102 and Capital Markets Board’s (“CMB”) Communiqué Serial II, No:14.1, “Principles of Financial Reporting in Capital Markets” (the “Communiqué”) are as follows:
When preparing the annual report, the Board of Directors considers secondary legislation arrangements enacted by the Ministry of Trade and other relevant institutions.
5. Independent Auditor’s Responsibility in the Audit of the Annual Report
Our aim is to express an opinion and issue a report comprising our opinion within the framework of TCC and Communiqué provisions regarding whether or not the financial information and the analysis made by the Board of Directors by using the information included in the audited consolidated financial statements in the annual report are consistent with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Group and with the information we obtained in the course of independent audit and presented fairly, in all material respects.
Our audit was conducted in accordance with the TSAs. These standards require that ethical requirements are complied with and that the independent audit is planned and performed in a way to obtain reasonable assurance of whether or not the financial information and the analysis made by the Board of Directors by using the information included in the audited consolidated financial statements in the annual report are consistent with the audited consolidated financial statements and with the information obtained in the course of audit and presented fairly, in all material respects.
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Adnan Akan, SMMM
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Istanbul, 17 February 2022