1. We have audited the accompanying standalone financialstatements of Jamna Auto Industries Limited ("theCompany”), which comprise the Standalone Balance Sheetas at March 31, 2025 and the Standalone Statement ofProfit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income),the Standalone Statement of Changes in Equity and theStandalone Statement of Cash Flows for the year thenended, and Notes to the Standalone Financial Statements,including material accounting policy information and otherexplanatory information.
2. In our opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidstandalone financial statements give the information requiredby the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act”) in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view in conformity with theaccounting principles generally accepted in India, of thestate of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, andtotal comprehensive income (comprising of profit and othercomprehensive income), changes in equity and its cashflows for the year then ended.
Basis for opinion
3. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standardson Auditing (SAs) specified under Section 143(10) ofthe Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards arefurther described in the "Auditor's Responsibilities for theAudit of the Standalone Financial Statements” sectionof our report. We are independent of the Company inaccordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Instituteof Chartered Accountants of India together with the ethicalrequirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalonefinancial statements under the provisions of the Act and theRules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements andthe Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence wehave obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basisfor our opinion.
Key audit matters
Key audit matter
How our audit addressed the key audit matter
Information Technology (IT) General Controls (ITGC), ITDependent Controls and Cybersecurity (refer note 48(i) tothe standalone financial statements):
The Company operates multiple enterprise resource planning('ERP') applications that are integral to its financial reportingprocesses. On July 5, 2024, certain systems were impacted by aransomware incident. In response, the Company intimated CERT-In and also initiated containment, restoration, and remediationmeasures with the support of external cybersecurity experts.
Effective IT General Controls (ITGCs) and IT-dependent controlsincluding automated controls, configurations, and system¬generated reports are essential to ensure that these systemsprocess data completely, accurately, and consistently to supportreliable financial reporting.
We have considered this as a key audit matter due to the complexityof the ERP environment, the nature and timing of the ransomwareincident, and extensive of involvement of our IT specialists inevaluating the effectiveness of the Company's response andrelated IT controls.
Our audit procedures included the following:
• Engaged our IT specialists to obtain an understanding ofthe Company's IT environment, IT applications and relatedinfrastructure relevant to financial reporting and to assesscybersecurity risks relevant to the audit.
• Evaluated and tested the design and operating effectivenessof relevant ITGCs over in-scope systems, including controlsrelated to access management, change management,and IT operations, as well as controls addressing identifiedcybersecurity risks relevant to the audit.
• Evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness ofIT dependent controls identified as relevant for the audit.
• Assessed the independence, objectivity, competence andcapability of management's expert and reviewed the reportissued by management's external cybersecurity experts andassessed management's remedial actions.
• Assessed the progress of remediation measures implementedby management in response to internal control observationsrelated to ITGCs and cybersecurity risks communicated by usto the management/ those charged with governance.
Estimation of turnover discount and recording of priceadjustments impacting revenue
The estimated liabilities on this account at the year-end arerecorded under Trade payables/adjusted with Trade receivablesunder note 11 to the standalone financial statements and thatconsequently impacts the revenue appearing in note 26 to thestandalone financial statements.
Revenue is measured by the Company at the transaction price,i.e. the amount of consideration received/ receivable from itscustomers. In determining the transaction price for the sale ofproducts, the Company considers the effects of volume baseddiscounts and price adjustments to be passed on to the customersbased on various parameters like savings on materials, share ofbusiness, rebates, etc. provided to the customers.
The Company, at the year end, estimates and recognises such priceadjustments based on agreed terms, negotiations undertaken,commercial considerations and other factors.
We have considered this as a key audit matter on account of thesignificant judgement and estimates involved in calculation of priceadjustments to be recorded as at the year end.
• Tested compensating internal controls and performedsubstantive procedures as appropriate around completenessand accuracy of information generated from the system inresponse to the ransomware incident.
We have performed procedures including the following:
• Understanding and evaluating the design and implementationof controls around the revenue recognition process includingthe process of recording of price adjustments and testing theoperating effectiveness of the controls.
• Evaluating management's methodology and assumptions usedin the calculations of price adjustments as per arrangements/negotiations with customers.
• Evaluating the reasonableness of the provision by comparingthe ratio of these price adjustments as a percentage of salesfor both current year and prior years and assess materialvariance, if any.
• Testing samples for credit notes issued subsequent to the year-end and payments made as per customer contracts/ agreedprice negotiations.
• Testing completeness, arithmetical accuracy and validity of thedata used in the computation of price adjustments as per thearrangement with customers.
5. The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for theother information. The other information comprises theinformation included in the Annual Report but does notinclude the standalone financial statements and our auditor'sreport thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does notcover the other information and we do not express any formof assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financialstatements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether the other informationis materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained in the audit orotherwise appears to be materially misstated. If, based on thework we have performed, we conclude that there is a materialmisstatement of this other information, we are required toreport that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
6. The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for thematters stated in Section 134(5) of the Act with respect to
the preparation of these standalone financial statements thatgive a true and fair view of the financial position, financialperformance, changes in equity and cash flows of theCompany in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, including the Indian AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act. Thisresponsibility also includes maintenance of adequateaccounting records in accordance with the provisions ofthe Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company andfor preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;selection and application of appropriate accounting policies;making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent; and design, implementation and maintenance ofadequate internal financial controls, that were operatingeffectively for ensuring the accuracy and completenessof the accounting records, relevant to the preparation andpresentation of the standalone financial statements that givea true and fair view and are free from material misstatement,whether due to fraud or error.
'. In preparing the standalone financial statements, Board of
Directors is responsible for assessing the Company's abilityto continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable,matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless Board of Directors eitherintends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, orhas no realistic alternative but to do so.
8. Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeingthe Company's financial reporting process.
9. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance aboutwhether the standalone financial statements as a wholeare free from material misstatement, whether due to fraudor error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes ouropinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurancebut is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordancewith SAs will always detect a material misstatement when itexists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and areconsidered material if, individually or in the aggregate, theycould reasonably be expected to influence the economicdecisions of users taken on the basis of these standalonefinancial statements.
10. As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exerciseprofessional judgement and maintain professionalscepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatementof the standalone financial statements, whether dueto fraud or error, design and perform audit proceduresresponsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidencethat is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basisfor our opinion. The risk of not detecting a materialmisstatement resulting from fraud is higher than forone resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion,forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, orthe override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant tothe audit in order to design audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressingour opinion on whether the Company has adequateinternal financial controls with reference to financialstatements in place and the operating effectivenessof such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policiesused and the reasonableness of accounting estimatesand related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management'suse of the going concern basis of accounting and,based on the audit evidence obtained, whethera material uncertainty exists related to events orconditions that may cast significant doubt on theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern.
If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, weare required to draw attention in our auditor's reportto the related disclosures in the standalone financialstatements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, tomodify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on theaudit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor'sreport. However, future events or conditions may causethe Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and contentof the standalone financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the standalone financialstatements represent the underlying transactions andevents in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
11. We communicate with those charged with governanceregarding, among other matters, the planned scope andtiming of the audit and significant audit findings, includingany significant deficiencies in internal control that we identifyduring our audit.
12. We also provide those charged with governance with astatement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicatewith them all relationships and other matters that mayreasonably be thought to bear on our independence, andwhere applicable, related safeguards.
13. From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were ofmost significance in the audit of the standalone financialstatements of the current period and are therefore the keyaudit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor'sreport unless law or regulation precludes public disclosureabout the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances,we determine that a matter should not be communicatedin our report because the adverse consequences of doingso would reasonably be expected to outweigh the publicinterest benefits of such communication.
14. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020("the Order"'), issued by the Central Government of India interms of sub-section (11) of Section 143 of the Act, we givein the Annexure B a statement on the matters specified inparagraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
15. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information andexplanations which to the best of our knowledge andbelief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required bylaw relating to preparation of the aforesaid standalonefinancial statements have been kept so far as it appearsfrom our examination of those books, except that thebackup of books of account and other books andpapers maintained in electronic mode has not beenmaintained on a daily basis on servers physicallylocated in India from July 4, 2024 to October 20, 2024and February 21, 2025 to March 4, 2025 and the mattersstated in paragraph 15(h)(vi) below on reporting underRule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors)Rules, 2014 (as amended). Also refer Note 48(ii) to thestandalone financial statements.
(c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the StandaloneStatement of Profit and Loss (including othercomprehensive income), the Standalone Statementof Changes in Equity and the Standalone Statement ofCash Flows dealt with by this Report are in agreementwith the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements comply with the Indian AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations receivedfrom the directors as on March 31, 2025, taken onrecord by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on March 31, 2025, from being appointedas a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
(f) With respect to the maintenance of accounts and othermatters connected therewith, reference is made to ourremarks in paragraph 15(b) above on reporting underSection 143(3)(b) and paragraph 15(h)(vi) below onreporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Auditand Auditors) Rules, 2014 (as amended).
(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financialcontrols with reference to standalone financialstatements of the Company and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls, refer to our separateReport in "Annexure A”.
(h) With respect to the other matters to be includedin the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules,2014 (as amended), in our opinion and to thebest of our information and according to theexplanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact ofpending litigations on its financial position in itsstandalone financial statements - Refer Note 38to the standalone financial statements;
ii. The Company was not required to recognisea provision as at March 31, 2025 under theapplicable law or Indian Accounting Standards, asit does not have any material foreseeable losseson long-term contract. The Company did not haveany derivative contracts as at March 31, 2025.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts,required to be transferred, to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by the Companyduring the year.
iv. (a) The management has represented that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief, asdisclosed in Note 47(vii)(A) to the standalonefinancial statements, no funds have beenadvanced or loaned or invested (eitherfrom borrowed funds or share premiumor any other sources or kind of funds) bythe Company to or in any other person(s)or entity(ies), including foreign entities("Intermediaries”), with the understanding,whether recorded in writing or otherwise,that the Intermediary shall, whetherdirectly or indirectly, lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Company("Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf ofthe Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(b) The management has represented that,to the best of its knowledge and belief,as disclosed in the Note 47(vii)(B) to thestandalone financial statements, no fundshave been received by the Companyfrom any person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities ("Funding Parties”), withthe understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Company shall,whether directly or indirectly, lend or investin other persons or entities identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of theFunding Party ("Ultimate Beneficiaries”) orprovide any guarantee, security or the likeon behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
(c) Based on such audit procedures that weconsidered reasonable and appropriate inthe circumstances, nothing has come to ournotice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations under sub-clause (a) and(b) contain any material misstatement.
v. The final dividend for the previous year and interimdividend declared and paid by the Company during theyear is in accordance with section 123 of the CompaniesAct 2013 to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.
Also, as stated in note 15 to the standalone financialstatements, the Board of Directors of the Companyhave proposed final dividend for the year which issubject to the approval of the members at the ensuingAnnual General Meeting. The dividend declared is inaccordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent itapplies to declaration of dividend.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks,the Company has used two accounting software(s) formaintaining its books of account which have featureof recording audit trail (edit log) facility, except that theaudit trail feature for one of the software used by theCompany did not operate for the entire year. For thesecond software, the audit trail has operated for theentire year for all relevant transactions recorded in thesoftware, except that (a) audit log feature may havenot operated for certain period due to cyber security/ransomware incident that was detected on July 5, 2024(refer note 48(i) to the standalone financial statements)and (b) the audit trail (edit log) for modification made
by certain users with specific access and for certaininformation or data was not enabled. During the courseof performing our procedures, we did not notice anyinstance of the audit trail feature being tampered withfor the second software. Further, the audit trail wasnot maintained in the previous year ended March 31,2024, and hence the question of our commenting onwhether the audit trail was preserved by the Companyas per the statutory requirements for record retentiondoes not arise.
16. The Company has paid/ provided for managerialremuneration in accordance with the requisite approvalsmandated by the provisions of Section 197 read withSchedule V to the Act.
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