Company number
02338444
Legal & General Finance PLC
Report and Accounts 2024
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the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required
by auditing standards would identify it.
In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of fraud, as fraud may involve collusion,
forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. Our audit procedures are designed to
detect material misstatement. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance or fraud and cannot be expected
to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.
6 We have nothing to report on the other information in the Annual Report
The directors are responsible for the other information presented in the Annual Report together with the financial
statements. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, accordingly, we do not
express an audit opinion or, except as explicitly stated below, any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether, based on our financial statements
audit work, the information therein is materially misstated or inconsistent with the financial statements or our audit
knowledge. Based solely on that work we have not identified material misstatements in the other information.
Strategic report and Directors’ report
Based solely on our work on the other information:
• we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic report and the Directors’ report;
• in our opinion the information given in those reports for the financial year is consistent with the financial
statements; and
• in our opinion those reports have been prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.
7 We have nothing to report on the other matters on which we are required to report by exception
Under the Companies Act 2006, we are required to report to you if, in our opinion:
• adequate accounting records have not been kept by the Company, or returns adequate for our audit
have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
• certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
We have nothing to report in these respects.
8 Respective responsibilities
Directors’ responsibilities
As explained more fully in their statement set out on page 5, the directors are responsible for: the preparation of the
financial statements including being satisfied that they give a true and fair view; such internal control as they determine is
necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to
fraud or error; assessing the Company’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 they either intend to liquidate the Company or
to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor’s responsibilities
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 our opinion in an auditor’s report.
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but does not 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 aggregate, they could reasonably be
expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of the financial statements.
A fuller description of our responsibilities is provided on the FRC’s website at
www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities.
9 The purpose of our audit work and to whom we owe our responsibilities
This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the
Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company’s members
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 Company and the
Company’s members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.