OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2013. Pursuant to Article 43 of the Law on the Bank of Latvia, the Bank of Latvia's business operations and documents are audited on an annual basis by the Audit Commission whose composition is approved by the State Audit Office.

The Bank of Latvia has received a positive auditors' opinion on its financial statements for 2012 from the auditing company Ernst & Young Baltic SIA and the State Audit Office, stating the following: "In our opinion, the financial statements of the Bank give a true and fair view of the financial position of the Bank as at 31 December 2012, and of its financial performance and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with the "Financial Accounting Policy of the Bank of Latvia" approved by the Council of the Bank, and the law "On the Bank of Latvia".

According to the financial statements, the Bank of Latvia's profit earned in 2012 was 34 million lats. Net interest income accounted for the major part of the Bank of Latvia's income, mostly resulting from income from investing foreign currency reserves in sound and highly liquid financial instruments.

The Bank of Latvia's financial statements for 2012 and the auditors' report are available on the website of the Bank of Latvia. In April the Council of the Bank of Latvia will take a decision on approving the bank's Annual Report for 2012.

Pursuant to the Law on the Bank of Latvia, 65% or 22.1 million lats of the Bank of Latvia's profit for 2012 will be appropriated to the state budget; the rest of the profit will be transferred to the reserve capital of the Bank of Latvia. The Bank of Latvia's profit appropriated to the state budget over the last five years totals 135 million lats.