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Announcement on the auditing company selection procedure to provide audit services for the financial statements of "Ural Oil and Gas" LLP for 2022-2023.

REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE AUDITOR SELECTING PROCEDURE (hereinafter referred to as the Request for Participation)

Ural Oil and Gas LLP (hereinafter referred to as the Client / Company) invites you to participate in the auditor selecting procedure to provide financial statements audit services, a detailed description of which is given below:

Information provided by the Client and approved by the Auditor Selection Commission f Ural Oil and Gas LLP (hereinafter referred to as the Client Commission):

  1. Name and address of the Client: Ural Oil & Gas LLP legal and actual address: 090000, 179 Yeskaliyev Street (3rd floor), Uralsk
  2. Description of the scope, nature of procedures, accounting periods of audit and related services purchased from an audit organization applying for the conclusion of an audit services procurement contract (hereinafter referred to as a Potential Participant):

- Audit of the Client's Separate Financial Statements prepared in accordance with IFRS as of and for the reporting years ending December 31, 2022 and 2023;

- Letter of recommendation to the Client's management about significant shortcomings in the internal control system, as well as about all other shortcomings and recommendations for the audited period.

The list of related services includes assessment of:

  • accounting and financial reporting, including estimation of the order of inventory accounting, considering the specifics of the activity,
  • adequacy of the internal control and risk management system of the Company on issues related to the preparation of financial statements,
  • the state of software and hardware equipment and reliability of automated information processing systems,
  • compliance of the Company's activities with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of accounting and financial reporting,
  • identified cases of theft and errors in accounting and financial reporting (fraud) of the Company.
  1. Terms of service provision, provision of an audit report on the Company's financial statements as of and for the reporting years ending December 31, 2022 and 2023, prepared in accordance with IFRS, are no later than February 15, 2023 and 2024, respectively.
  2. The amount allocated for the procurement of auditor services for the audit of the Company's financial statements with overhead expenses in tenge is:

Year

2022                                 2023

w/o VAT

35 781 750                       35 781 750

including VAT

40 075 560                       40 075 560

  1. List and contacts of the responsible executives of the Client with whom the Participants have the right to meet in order to obtain information for the preparation of an official offer for the provision of services:

– Leading Engineer of the Department of Marketing, Procurement and Logistics – Karabaev Kairat, mob. tel. 8 777 075 86 18, 8 701 550 85 41 address: KKarabayev@UOG.KZ

  1. Terms and procedure for providing information by Participants:

1) participants must provide confirmation of participation or non-participation in the Selection Procedure within 20 calendar days from the date of publication of the announcement of the selection procedure on the Client's website in the procurement section;

2) after the Participants confirm their participation in the selection procedure, the participants must provide signed Confidentiality Agreements;

3) participants shall submit official bids within 30 calendar days from the date of sending information by participants about participation in the Client's selection procedure;

  1. Technical specification for the procurement of services for the audit of financial statements

    It is required to provide audit services for the audit of separate financial statements of the Client prepared in accordance with international Financial Reporting Standards (hereinafter - IFRS) and in accordance with the list, forms approved by the regulatory act of the authorized state body of the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 28.02.2007 No. 234-III "On Accounting and Financial Reporting" as of and for the years ending December 31.

When providing services, the auditor must be guided by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Audit Activities".

Audit services for financial statements for the periods 2022-2023, provided in accordance with international auditing standards, include:

1) audit of annual financial statements for the periods 2022 and 2023. of the Client in order to express an independent opinion on the reliability of the preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS in all material aspects;

2) provision of related services listed below as part of the audit, the cost of which is included in the total cost of Services with the provision of appropriate recommendations on them in letters to the Client's management;

- expressing an opinion on the methodology and results of the assessment of fixed assets in accordance with the accounting policy of the Client;

- calculating depreciation of fixed assets and intangible assets, with the provision of a report;

- presentation of the results of the audit of the Client's financial year for the periods 2022 and 2023 for the management and shareholders of the Client upon request;

- provision of proposals for improving disclosures in the notes to the Client's financial statements;

- conducting a tax review of the financial year for the periods 2022 and 2023 without providing a tax report. Conducting a tax review shall affect accounting and tax procedures (especially those issues on which the possibility of tax risks is most significant);

- conducting consultations on accounting and tax accounting during the audit without providing consultation reports.

- assessment of accounting and financial statements (including assessment of inventory accounting procedures taking into account the specifics of the Client's activities, assessment and revaluation of assets and liabilities, methods and procedures for inventory of assets and liabilities, including reconciliation of accounts receivable and accounts payable with suppliers of goods, works/services);


- assessment of the adequacy of the Client's internal control and risk management system on issues related to accounting and financial reporting;

- assessment of the state of software and hardware equipment and reliability of automated information processing systems;

- assessment of compliance of the Client's activities with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of accounting and financial reporting;

3) technical requirements:

- availability of at least 10 (ten) specialists with 3 (three) years of work experience and having professional qualifications of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (hereinafter - ACCA):

- availability of at least 5 (five) specialists with an auditor's qualification certificate and with 3 (three) years of work experience:

- availability of 5 (five) audit partners who have ACCA or CA (Chartered Accountant) or Certified Public Accountant (hereinafter referred to as CPA) certificate and 3 (three) years of work experience:

- availability at the head of the audit organization of an auditor's qualification certificate, full ACCA or CPA professional qualification, or other similar international qualifications and the head's membership in a professional audit organization and with 3 (three) years of work experience:

- availability of a tax manager (partner) - a member of the Chamber of Tax Consultants and having 3 (three) years of work experience:

- availability of at least 3 (three) specialists with Chartered Financial Analyst International Certificate (hereinafter – CFA), or other similar international qualifications and with 3 (three) years of work experience:

- availability of work experience corresponding to the subject of services procured over the past ten years.

4) special requirement

-the auditor must be a member of a global network that has an office in the British Virgin Islands, where the Client's parent company is registered, in order to be involved in the audit on specific issues related to transactions with the parent company and to ensure the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the Client's parent company. It is required to confirm the experience of involving specialists of the British Virgin Islands in the subject of services procured.

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