Financial Statements 2017/18


Independent Auditor’s Report to the Governors of Middlesex University continued


Opinion on other matters required by the Office for Students (“OfS”) and Research England Audit Code of Practice


In our opinion, in all material respects:


— Funds from whatever source administered by the higher education institution for specific purposes have been properly applied to those purposes and managed in accordance with relevant legislation.


— Funds provided by the OfS have been applied in accordance with the terms and conditions of funding for higher education institutions and any other terms and conditions attached to them.


— The requirements of the OfS’s accounts direction have been met.


Responsibilities of the Governors


As explained more fully in the financial responsibilities of the Governors statement (set out on page 54), the members of the Governing body are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Governors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.


In preparing the financial statements, the Governors are responsible for assessing the Group and the University’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Governors either intend to liquidate the Group or the University or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.


Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements


Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.


Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.


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James Aston (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of BDO LLP, Statutory Auditor Gatwick


Date:


BDO LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (with registered number OC305127).


Middlesex University


A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.


In addition, we also report to you whether income from funding bodies, grants and income for specific purposes and from other restricted funds administered by the University have been properly applied only for the purposes for which they were received and whether income has been applied in accordance with the Statutes and, where appropriate, with the Terms and Conditions of Funding from the Office for Students.


Use of our report


This report is made solely to the University’s Governors, as a body, in accordance with paragraph 124B of the Education Reform Act 1988. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the University’s Governors those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the University and the University’s Governors as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.


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