Company: AZN
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001104659-25-014750
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Company: ASTRAZENECA PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 18
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 in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the assumptions used and the accuracy of the obligations. These procedures also included, among others, (i) the involvement of professionals with specialised skill and knowledge to assist in developing an independent expectation of the defined benefit obligations for the UK and Sweden, (ii) comparing the independent estimate to management’s estimate to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimate, and (iii) testing the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used in the models. Developing the independent estimate involved independently deriving inflation, discount rate and mortality assumptions by evaluating the specifics of each plan and, where applicable, considering national information, and comparing the discount and inflation rates with developed ranges of recent external reporting of other companies.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
London, United Kingdom
6 February 2025
We have served as the Group’s auditor since 2017.
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