Consolidated Financial Statements
For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018
MANAGEMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIALSTATEMENTS
The accompanying consolidated financial statements of Golden Star Resources Ltd. (the “Company”) and all information in this
financial report are the responsibility of management. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the InternationalAccounting Standards Board ("IFRS") and, where
appropriate, include management’s best estimates and judgments.
Management maintains a system of internal control designed to provide reasonable assurance that assets are safeguarded from
lossorunauthorizeduse,andthatfinancialinformationistimelyandreliable.However,anysystemofinternalcontroloverfinancialreporting,nomatterhowwelldesignedandimplemented,hasinherentlimitationsandmaynotpreventordetectallmisstatements.
The Board of Directors is responsible for ensuring that management fulfills its responsibilities for financial reporting and is
ultimately responsible for reviewing and approving the consolidated financial statements.
The Board carries out this responsibility principally through its Audit Committee. The Board of Directors appoints the Audit
Committee, and all of its members are independent directors. TheAudit Committee meets periodically with management and the
auditors to review internal controls, audit results, accounting principles and related matters. The Board of Directors approves the
consolidated financial statements on recommendation from theAudit Committee.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent firm of Chartered ProfessionalAccountants, was appointed by the shareholders at
the last annual meeting to examine the consolidated financial statements and provide an independent professional opinion.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has full and free access to theAudit Committee.
"Andrew Wray" "André van Niekerk"
Andrew Wray André van Niekerk
President and Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Toronto, Canada
February 18, 2020
Report of Independent Registered PublicAccounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Golden Star Resources Ltd.
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Golden Star Resources Ltd. and its subsidiaries
(together, the Company) as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the related consolidated statements of operations
and comprehensive loss, cash flows and changes in shareholders’equity for the years then ended, including the
related notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial statements). We also have audited the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on criteria established in
Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the
Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and its financial performance and its cash
flows for the years then ended in conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the
InternationalAccounting Standards Board.Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects,
effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on criteria established in
Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the COSO.
Basis for Opinions
The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective
internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over
financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting on page 27 of
the 2019 Management’s Discussion andAnalysis. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Company’s
consolidated financial statements and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our
audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public CompanyAccounting Oversight Board (United
States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free
of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether e