The provisional summarised consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with the framework concepts and the measurement and recognition requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") in effect for the Group at 28 February 2023 and further comply with the SAICA Financial Reporting Guides as issued by the Accounting Practices Committee, the Financial Reporting Pronouncements as issued by the Financial Reporting Standards Council, at a minimum contain the requirements of IAS 34 Interim Financial Reporting, as well as the requirements of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 of South Africa and the JSE Limited's Listings Requirements.

The preparation of these summarised financial statements and consolidated annual financial statements from which these summarised financial statements were derived from for FY23 was supervised by the Chief Financial Officer, Mr Ivan Dittrich, CA(SA).

Accounting policies

The accounting policies applied in the preparation of these summarised consolidated financial statements are in terms of IFRS and are consistent with those accounting policies applied in the preparation of the previous consolidated annual financial statements.

Adoption of amendments to existing standards and interpretations

The Group adopted the following amendments to existing standards and interpretations, which did not have a material impact on the consolidated annual financial statements.

Applicable standard or note	Amendment	Effective reporting period
IFRS 16	Covid-19-related Rent Concessions beyond 30 June 2021	1 April 2021
IFRS 9 and IFRS 16	Annual Improvements to IFRS Standards 2018-2020	1 January 2022
IAS 16	Proceeds before Intended Use	1 January 2022
IAS 37	Onerous Contracts—Cost of Fulfilling a Contract	1 January 2022

New standards, amendments to existing standards and interpretations that are not yet effective and have not yet been early adopted

Applicable standard or note	Amendment	Effective reporting period
IAS 1	Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current	1 January 2024
IAS 1 and IFRS Practice Statement 2	Disclosure of Accounting Policies	1 January 2023
IAS 8	Definition of Accounting Estimates	1 January 2023
IAS 12	Deferred Tax related to Assets and Liabilities arising from a Single Transaction	1 January 2023
IFRS 10 and IAS 28	Sale or contribution of Assets between an Investor and its Associate or Joint Ventures	The effective date has been postponed indefinitely

The Group did not early adopt any new, revised or amended accounting standards or interpretations. The accounting standards, amendments to issued accounting standards and interpretations, which are relevant to the Group but not yet effective at 28 February 2023, are being evaluated for the impact of these pronouncements. Other than the IAS 12 amendment, the accounting standards, amendments to issued standards and interpretations are not expected to have a material impact.

Critical judgements

The results of the Group have many areas where key assumptions concerning the future, and other key areas of estimation could have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities within the financial period.

The results contain sources of critical judgements in the following areas:

• judgement in recognising revenue that contains the agent vs principal (net vs gross revenue);
• judgement in determining lease terms;
• judgement in recognition of revenue from multi-year contracts;
• judgements in determining if financial assets should be derecognised; and
• judgement in determining the starting point of the tax rate reconciliation.

Key sources of estimation uncertainty

The results of the Group have many areas where key assumptions concerning the future, and other key areas of estimation could have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities within the financial period.

The results contain sources of estimation and uncertainty in the following areas:

• estimates made in determining the recoverable amount of goodwill included in the statement of financial position;
• estimates made in determining the valuation of Westcon International for calculation of the Equity Appreciation Plan IFRS 2 charge;
• estimates made in determining the probability of future taxable income justifying the recognition of deferred tax assets;
• estimates made in determining uncertain tax positions;
• estimates made in determining the fair value of share-based payment expenses arising from various share incentive schemes in the Group;
• estimates made in determining the level of provision required for obsolete inventory;
• estimates made in determining the amount or timing relating to restructuring, legal claims, pension and dilapidation obligations; and
• estimates made when measuring the expected credit losses.

Going concern

The directors have reviewed the future profit and cash flow projections in conjunction with the current economic climate as well as banking facilities in place to support all the operations, in order to express an opinion on the adequacy of working capital and the ability to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future. These projections covered future financial performance, solvency and liquidity for a period of 12 months from the date of the release of these results. The directors have concluded that the Group will continue to be a going concern for the foreseeable future and therefore the results have been prepared on a going concern basis.

Independent auditor's report

The independent auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc, has issued its unmodified audit opinions on the consolidated annual financial statements and on these summarised consolidated financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2023 in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. These summarised consolidated financial statements have been derived from the audited consolidated annual financial statements and are consistent in all material respects, with the Group's consolidated annual financial statements. The consolidated annual financial statements and the auditor's unmodified reports on the consolidated annual financial statements and on these summarised consolidated financial statements are available for inspection at the Company's registered office.

The auditor's reports do not necessarily report on all of the information contained in this announcement/financial results. Shareholders are therefore advised that in order to obtain a full understanding of the nature of the auditor's engagement they should obtain a copy of the reports together with the accompanying financial information from the Company's registered office.

The full set of consolidated annual financial statements and unmodified audit opinion with their key audit matters from PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. is available for inspection as its registered offices and at www.datatec.com/annual-results.php. Any reference to future financial performance included in this announcement has not been audited or reported on by the Company's auditor.