2008 Consolidated Financial Report

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KPMG LLP Chartered Accountants 618 Greenwood Centre 3200 Deziel Drive Windsor ON N8W 5K8 AUDITORS' REPORT Telephone 15191 251-3500 Telefax 151 91 2 51-3530 (519) 251-3540 Internet www.kping.ca To the Warden and Members of Council and Ratepayers of the Corporation of the County of Essex: We have audited the consolidated statement of financial position of the Corporation of the County of Essex as at December 31, 2008 and the consolidated statements of financial activities and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the County's administration. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by administration, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. In our opinion, these consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the County as at December 31, 2008 and the results of its financial activities and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with the accounting principles prescribed by the Public Sector Accounting Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole. The current year's supplementary information included in Schedule 1 is presented for the purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic consolidated financial statements. Such supplementary information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic consolidated financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole. ~~'~G r<~ Chartered Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants Windsor, Canada June 9, 2009 KPMG LLP is a CanaJino Lmltetl Ilvblllry ynnna,biny end s member Tirm of p,e KPMG ne.wmk of iuda,rendam member lions afhlia[otl with KPMG Intemetinnal, a Swiss eoopetaeivo. KPMG Cznatln provMes senncas io KPMG LLP.