In accordance with the "Corporate Governance Best-Practice Principles for WSE/TPEx Listed Companies", the Company evaluates the independence and suitability of the appointed accountants once a year. The audit certification work for the financial statements of our company for the fiscal year 2025 was undertaken by CPAs Isabel Lee and Ares Jhang from the KPMG International Cooperative. The assessment of the independence and suitability of the appointed accountants in 2025, based on the Audit Quality Indicators (AQIs), was reviewed by the Audit Committee during its 13th meeting of the 3rd session on February 25, 2025. It was subsequently submitted and approved by the 14th meeting of the 25th term of the board on February 25, 2025.
Referring to the audit quality disclosure framework with 5 major dimensions and 13 audit quality indicators provided by KPMG, the audit quality evaluation of the firm and the audit team is as follows:
Five Major Components |
Thirteen Indicators |
Evaluation |
Professionalism |
1-1 Apricot Kernel experience |
Good |
1-2 Training hours |
Fair |
1-3 Mobility Rate |
Fair |
1-4 Professional Support |
Good |
Quality Control |
2-1 Accountant's Load |
Good |
2-2 Audit Input |
Fair |
2-3 Case Quality Control Review Situation |
Fair |
2-4 Quality Control Support Capability |
Fair |
Independence |
3-1 Non-audit Service |
Good |
3-2 Customer Awareness |
Good |
Supervision |
4-1 External Inspection Failur and Magic Score |
Fair |
4-2 Improvement by letter from the competent authority |
Fair |
Innovation |
5-1 Innovation plan or initiative |
Good |