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Auditors express an audit opinion on the set of financial statements which comprises of the statement of financial position, the statement of comprehensive income, the statement of changes in equity, the statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies for reporting year. Thus, the cash flow statement is also audited alongside other components of the financial statements. But unlike the statement of financial position and the statement of comprehensive income the auditors do not perform the tests of control and substantive procedures with respect to the statement of cash flows.
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