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Toshiba Corporation received an adverse opinion audit report for the audit of the company’s internal control over financial reporting for FY2016.
Their auditor PriceWaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC, issued an adverse opinion on internal control over financial reporting due to non-effective internal control operation for reassessment on provisional estimate of contract loss liability related to the purchase price allocations procedures of S&W at the proper timing. One of the Toshiba group companies, Westinghouse acquired CB&I Stone & Webster (S&W) on December 31,2015. The company’s internal control over reassessment of provisional estimate of loss on contract liability related to purchase price allocation procedures of S&W had material weakness which resulted in the Company recording and reporting JPY 652,267 million loss on construction contracts. Westinghouse group filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy code with U.S. Bankruptcy court of New York on March 29, 2017. Due to this Toshiba group deconsolidated Westinghouse group from its financial statements even though it had material impact on the company’s consolidated financial statements.
I agree with the adverse opinion audit report for the internal control over financial reporting for Toshiba Corporation. Due to failure of its internal control over provisional estimate of contract loss liability, there was a material impact on consolidated financial statements. As a result of finalizing purchase price allocations procedures of S&W on December 31, 2016, the Company recorded JPY 652,267 million related to loss on certain construction contracts and accordingly, the Company reassessed the provisional estimate made for loss on contract liability in the current liabilities of discontinued operations in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2016 as a comparative figure.
However, when the company reassessed the provisional estimate of the loss on contract liability, the company failed to reassess appropriately using reasonable assumptions based on all of the information available as at the prior period closing. This resulted in a loss of JPY 652,267 million related to a specific contract recorded in the loss of discontinued operations. However, the substantial portion or all of the loss should have been recorded in the prior fiscal year.