TD BANK GROUP • 2025 ANNUAL REPORT • FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND NOTES
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial
Statements
We have audited the accompanying Consolidated
Balance Sheets
of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) as of October 31, 2025
and 2024, the related Consolidated
Statements
of Income, Comprehensive Income,
Changes in Equity, and Cash Flows for the years then ended,
and the related notes (collectively referred
to as the
“consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion,
the consolidated financial statements present
fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position
of TD at October 31, 2025 and 2024, its
consolidated financial performance and its
consolidated cash flows for the years then
ended, in conformity with
International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS) as issued by the International Accounting
Standards Board.
We also have audited, in accordance with the
standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB),
TD’s internal control over
financial reporting as of October 31, 2025, based
on criteria established in Internal Control –
Integrated Framework issued by the Committee
of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework)
and our report dated December 3, 2025, expressed
an unqualified opinion thereon.
These consolidated financial statements are
the responsibility of TD’s management. Our responsibility
is to express an opinion on TD’s consolidated
financial
statements based on our audits. We are a public
accounting firm registered with the PCAOB
and are required to be independent with respect
to TD in accordance
with the U.S. federal securities laws and
the applicable rules and regulations of
the Securities and Exchange Commission
and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with
the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards
require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable
assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement,
whether due to error or fraud. Our audits
included performing procedures to
assess the risks of material misstatement
of the financial statements, whether due
to error or fraud, and performing procedures
that respond to those risks. Such
procedures included examining, on a test basis,
evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures
in the consolidated financial statements.
Our audits also included
evaluating the accounting principles used and
significant estimates made by management,
as well as evaluating the overall presentation
of the consolidated
financial statements. We believe that our audits
provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below
are matters arising from the current
period audit of the consolidated financial
statements that were communicated
or required to be communicated to the audit
committee and that: (1) relate to accounts
or disclosures that are material to the consolidated
financial statements,
and (2) involved our especially challenging,
subjective, or complex judgments.
The communication of critical audit
matters does not alter in any way our opinion
on
the consolidated financial statements, taken
as a whole, and we are not, by communicating
the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on
the
critical audit matters or on the accounts or
disclosures to which they relate.
Allowance for credit losses
Description of the Matter
TD describes its significant accounting judgments,
estimates, and assumptions in relation
to the allowance for credit losses in Note 3
of the consolidated financial statements. As
disclosed in Note 8 to the consolidated financial
statements, TD recognized $9,745 million
in allowances for credit losses on its
consolidated balance sheet using an expected
credit loss model (ECL). The ECL is an
unbiased
and probability-weighted estimate of credit losses
expected to occur in the future, which is
based on the probability of default (PD),
loss given default (LGD) and exposure at
default (EAD) or the expected cash
shortfall relating to the underlying financial asset.
The
ECL is determined by evaluating a range
of possible outcomes incorporating the time
value of money and reasonable and supportable
information about past events, current conditions,
and future economic forecasts. ECL allowances
are measured at amounts equal to
either (i) 12-month ECL; or (ii) lifetime ECL
for those financial instruments that have experienced
a significant increase in credit risk
(SICR) since initial recognition or when
there is objective evidence of impairment.
Auditing the allowance for credit losses was
complex and required the application of
significant judgment and involvement of
specialists because of the sophistication of
the models, the forward-looking nature
of the key assumptions, and the inherent
interrelationship of the critical variables used
in measuring the ECL. Key areas of judgment
include evaluating: (i) the models and
methodologies used for measuring both the
12-month and lifetime expected credit losses;
(ii) the assumptions used in the ECL
scenarios including forward-looking information
(FLI) and assigning probability weighting;
(iii) the determination of SICR; and (iv)
the
assessment of the qualitative component applied
to the modelled ECL based on management’s
expert credit judgment.
How We Addressed the
Matter in Our Audit
We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design,
and tested the operating effectiveness of
management’s controls over the
allowance for credit losses. The controls
we tested included, amongst others, the development
and validation of models and selection
of appropriate inputs including economic forecasting,
determination of non-retail borrower
risk ratings, the integrity of the data used
including the associated controls over relevant
information technology (IT) systems,
and the governance and oversight over the
modelled results and the use of expert credit judgment.
To test the allowance for credit losses, our audit procedures included, amongst
others, involving our credit risk specialists
to assess
whether the methodology and assumptions,
including management’s SICR triggers, used in
significant models that estimate the ECL
across various portfolios are consistent
with the requirements of IFRS. This included
reperforming the model validation procedures
for
a sample of models to evaluate whether management’s
conclusions were appropriate. With the assistance
of our economic specialists,
we evaluated the models, methodology and
process used by management to develop
the FLI variable forecasts for each scenario
and
the scenario probability weights. For a sample
of FLI variables, we compared management’s
FLI to independently derived forecasts
and publicly available information. On a sample
basis, we recalculated the ECL to test
the mathematical accuracy of management’s
models. We tested the completeness and accuracy
of data used in measuring the ECL by agreeing
to source documents and systems
and evaluated a sample of management’s non-retail
borrower risk ratings against TD’s risk rating
policy. With the assistance of our
credit risk specialists, we also evaluated
management’s methodology and governance
over the application of expert credit judgment
by
evaluating that the amounts recorded
were reflective of underlying credit quality and
macroeconomic trends. We also assessed the
adequacy of disclosures related to the allowance
for credit losses.