See note 2.3 to the financial statements for the Company’s disclosures of the related accounting policies, judgements and estimates and note 17 for further information.
The Company is transitioning from an R&D company to a more sales oriented company and is increasing inventory levels to cover possible future demand for its product. Due to limited historical sales related data, it is difficult for management to make robustly supported estimates concerning obsolescence of inventory.
Furthermore, the estimation of the net realisable value is based on an allocation of inventories to the different markets with different prices, based on sales forecasts by management and commercial partners, and clinical programs.
Other key parameters for the inventory valuation are expiration dates of the inventory and the costs of inventory.
Valuation of inventories was important to our audit given the above-mentioned challenges requiring management to make estimates and exercise judgement, as well as the magnitude of the inventory balance at 31 December 2014.