136 Woodside Petroleum Ltd|Annual Report 2018
INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT
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TH:CT:WOODSIDE:2018:017
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Independent auditor's report to the shareholders of Woodside Petroleum
Ltd
Report on the audit of the financial report
Opinion
We have audited the financial report of Woodside Petroleum Ltd (the Company), including its subsidiaries
(collectively the Group), which comprises the consolidated statement of financial position as at 31
December 2018, the consolidated income statement, the consolidated statement of comprehensive
income, the consolidated statement of changes in equity and the consolidated statement of cash flows for
the year then ended, notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting
policies, and the directors' declaration.
In our opinion, the accompanying financial report of the Group is in accordance with the Corporations Act
2001, including:
a) giving a true and fair view of the Group’s financial position as at 31 December 2018 and of its
financial performance for the year ended on that date.
b) complying with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Regulations 2001.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Our responsibilities under
those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial
Report section of our report. We are independent of the Group in accordance with the auditor
independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and the ethical requirements of the Accounting
Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (the
Code) that are relevant to our audit of the financial report in Australia. We have also fulfilled our other
ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Code.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for
our opinion.
Key audit matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our
audit of the financial report of the current year. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit
of the financial report as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, but we do not provide a separate
opinion on these matters. For each matter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matter
is provided in that context.
We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the
Financial Report section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit
included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material
misstatement of the financial report. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures
performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying
financial report.