5. We have determined the matter described below to be the key audit matter to be communicated in our report.
Key audit matter
How our audit addressed the key audit matter
Impairment assessment of Goodwill
Our audit relating to impairment assessment of goodwillincluded, but was not limited to, the following procedures:
Refer notes 2 (d)(ii) and 4 to the accompanying standalonefinancial statements.
• Obtained an understanding of the management's process
for identification of CGU to which goodwill is allocated and
As at 31 March, 2025, the Company's assets include
for performing impairment assessment;
goodwill aggregating to ?1,371 million relating to businessacquisitions made by the Company in earlier years.The company has performed annual impairment testof goodwill as required under Ind AS 36, Impairment of
• Evaluated the design and tested the operating effectivenessof the key internal controls over the process of impairmentassessment;
Assets (‘Ind AS 36') by determining the fair value of theCash Generated Units (CGUs) to which the goodwill isallocated, using discounted cash flow method.
• Evaluated management's identification of CGU;
• Involved auditor's valuation expert to assess the
appropriateness of the valuation methodology an
The carrying values of goodwill will be recovered throughfuture cash flows and there is a risk that the goodwill will
assumptions used by the management to determine therecoverable values of CGU;
be impaired if the cash flows do not meet the Company's
• Reconciled the cash flows to the business plans approved
expectations.
by the Board of Directors of the company;
The determination of the recoverable value of CGUs
• Evaluated and challenged management's assumptions
requires management to estimate future cash flowprojections using certain key estimates and assumptions,principally relating to estimated revenue, operatingmargins, growth rates, and involves determiningappropriate discount rates.
such as implied growth rates during explicit periods,terminal growth rates and discount rates for theirappropriateness based on our understanding of thebusiness, past results and external factors such asindustry trends and forecasts;
Considering goodwill balance is significant to the
• Tested the mathematical accuracy of the management
standalone financial statements and its annual impairment
computations;
assessment involves a high degree of subjectivity andestimate uncertainty as described above, which requires
• Performed independent sensitivity analysis of aforesaid
significant auditor attention, and therefore, impairment
key assumptions to assess the effect of reasonablypossible variations on the estimated recoverable amounts
assessment of goodwill is considered as a key audit matterfor the current year audit.
to evaluate sufficiency of headroom between recoverablevalues and carrying amounts; and
• Evaluated the appropriateness and adequacy of disclosuresgiven in the standalone financial statements includingdisclosure of significant assumptions, judgements usedand sensitivity analysis performed by the management, inaccordance with applicable accounting standards.
1. We have audited the accompanying standalone financialstatements of Jubilant Pharmova Limited (‘the Company'),which comprise the Standalone Balance Sheet as at 31March 2025, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss(including Other Comprehensive loss), the StandaloneStatement of Cash Flow and the Standalone Statementof Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and notesto the standalone financial statements, including materialaccounting policy information and other explanatoryinformation.
2. In our opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidstandalone financial statements give the informationrequired by the Companies Act, 2013 (‘the Act') inthe manner so required and give a true and fair view inconformity with the Indian Accounting Standards (‘IndAS') specified under section 133 of the Act read with theCompanies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015and other accounting principles generally accepted inIndia, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31 March2025, and its profit (including other comprehensive loss),
its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year endedon that date.
Basis for Opinion
3. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standardson Auditing specified under section 143(10) of the Act.Our responsibilities under those standards are furtherdescribed in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit ofthe Standalone Financial Statements section of our report.We are independent of the Company in accordance withthe Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of CharteredAccountants of India (‘ICAI') together with the ethicalrequirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalonefinancial statements under the provisions of the Act andthe rules 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 abasis for our opinion.
Key Audit Matters
4. Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgment, were of most significance in our audit of thestandalone financial statements of the current period.These matters were addressed in the context of our auditof the standalone financial statements as a whole, andin forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide aseparate opinion on these matters.
Information other than the StandaloneFinancial Statements and Auditor’s Reportthereon
6. The Company's Board of Directors are responsible forthe other information. The other information comprisesthe information included in the Annual Report, but doesnot include the standalone financial statements and ourauditor's report thereon. The Annual Report is expectedto be made available to us after the date of this auditor'sreport.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements doesnot cover the other information and we will not express anyform of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financialstatements, our responsibility is to read the otherinformation identified above when it becomes availableand, 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.
When we read the Annual Report, if we conclude thatthere is a material misstatement therein, we are requiredto communicate the matter to those charged withgovernance.
Responsibilities of Management andThose Charged with Governance for theStandalone Financial Statements
7. The accompanying standalone financial statements havebeen approved by the Company's Board of Directors.The Company's Board of Directors are responsible for thematters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respectto the preparation and presentation of these standalonefinancial statements that give a true and fair view of thefinancial position, financial performance including othercomprehensive loss, changes in equity and cash flowsof the Company in accordance with the Ind AS specifiedunder section 133 of the Act and other accounting
principles generally accepted in India. This responsibilityalso includes maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions of the Actfor safeguarding of the assets of the Company and forpreventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;selection and application of appropriate accountingpolicies; making judgments and estimates that arereasonable and prudent; and design, implementation andmaintenance of adequate internal financial controls, thatwere operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy andcompleteness of the accounting records, relevant to thepreparation and presentation of the financial statementsthat give a true and fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
8. In preparing the standalone financial statements, the Boardof Directors is responsible for assessing the Company'sability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, asapplicable, matters related to going concern and usingthe going concern basis of accounting unless the Boardof Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or tocease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to doso.
9. The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeingthe Company's financial reporting process.
Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit ofthe Standalone Financial Statements
10. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assuranceabout whether the standalone financial statements as awhole are free from material misstatement, whether dueto fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report thatincludes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a highlevel of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an auditconducted in accordance with Standards on Auditingwill always detect a material misstatement when it exists.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.
11. As part of an audit in accordance with Standards onAuditing, specified under section 143(10) of the Act weexercise professional judgment and maintain professionalskepticism 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 relevantto the audit in order to design audit procedures thatare appropriate in the circumstances. Under section143(3)(i) of the Act we are also responsible forexpressing our opinion on whether the Company hasadequate internal financial controls with referenceto financial statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls;
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policiesused and the reasonableness of accounting estimatesand related disclosures made by management;
• Conclude on the appropriateness of Board ofDirectors' use of the going concern basis of accountingand, 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 maycause the Company to cease to continue as a goingconcern; and
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure andcontent of the standalone financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether the standalonefinancial statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achievesfair presentation.
12. 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 weidentify during our audit.
13. We also provide those charged with governance witha statement that we have complied with relevantethical requirements regarding independence, andto communicate with them all relationships and othermatters that may reasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
14. 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.
15. As required by section 197(16) of the Act, based on ouraudit, we report that the Company has paid remunerationto its directors during the year in accordance with theprovisions of and limits laid down under section 197 readwith Schedule V to the Act.
16. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,2020 (‘the Order') issued by the Central Government ofIndia in terms of section 143(11) of the Act we give inthe Annexure I, a statement on the matters specified inparagraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
17. Further to our comments in Annexure I, as required bysection 143(3) of the Act based on our audit, we report, tothe extent applicable, that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information andexplanations which to the best of our knowledge andbelief were necessary for the purpose of our audit ofthe accompanying standalone financial statements;
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as requiredby law have been kept by the Company so far asit appears from our examination of those booksincluding the manner prescribed in Rule 3(1) ofCompanies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, except that theaudit trail feature was not enabled at the databaselevel as further stated in paragraph 17(h)(vi) below onreporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Auditand Auditors) Rules, 2014 (as amended);
c) The standalone financial statements dealt with by thisreport are in agreement with the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements comply with Ind AS specified undersection 133 of the Act;
e) On the basis of the written representations receivedfrom the directors and taken on record by the Boardof Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on31 March 2025 from being appointed as a director interms of section 164(2) of the Act;
f) With respect to the maintenance of accounts andother matters connected therewith refer to ourcomments in paragraph 17(b) above on reportingunder section 143(3)(b) of the Act and paragraph17(h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 (asamended);
g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financialcontrols with reference to standalone financialstatements of the Company as on 31 March 2025and the operating effectiveness of such controls,refer to our separate report in Annexure II wherein wehave expressed an unmodified opinion; and
h) With respect to the other matters to be included inthe Auditor's Report in accordance with rule 11 ofthe Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014(as amended), in our opinion and to the best of ourinformation and according to the explanations givento us:
i. The Company, as detailed in note 37 to thestandalone financial statements, has disclosedthe impact of pending litigations on its financialposition as at 31 March 2025;
ii. The Company did not have any long-termcontracts including derivative contracts forwhich there were any material foreseeablelosses as at 31 March 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 ended 31 March 2025;
iv. a. The management has represented that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief, asdisclosed in note 46(a) to the standalonefinancial statements, no funds have beenadvanced or loaned or invested (eitherfrom borrowed funds or securities premiumor any other sources or kind of funds) bythe Company to or in any person(s) orentity(ies), including foreign entities (‘theintermediaries'), with the understanding,
whether recorded in writing or otherwise,that the intermediary shall, whether,directly or indirectly lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Company(‘the Ultimate Beneficiaries') or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf theUltimate Beneficiaries;
b. The management has represented that,to the best of its knowledge and belief, asdisclosed in note 46(b) to the standalonefinancial statements, no funds havebeen received by the Company from anyperson(s) or entity(ies), including foreignentities (‘the Funding Parties'), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writingor 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 performedas considered reasonable and appropriatein the circumstances, nothing has come toour notice that has caused us to believethat the management representationsunder sub-clauses (a) and (b) abovecontain any material misstatement.
/. a. The final dividend paid by the Companyduring the year ended 31 March 2025 inrespect of such dividend declared for theprevious year is in accordance with section123 of the Act to the extent it applies topayment of dividend.
b. As stated in note 34(b) to the accompanyingstandalone financial statements, theBoard of Directors of the Company haveproposed final dividend for the year ended31 March 2025 which is subject to theapproval of the members at the ensuingAnnual General Meeting. The dividenddeclared is in accordance with section123 of the Act to the extent it applies todeclaration of dividend.
vi. As stated in Note 47 to the standalone financialstatements and based on our examination whichincluded test checks, the Company, in respectof financial year commencing on 1 April 2024,has used accounting software for maintainingits books of account which have a feature ofrecording audit trail (edit log) facility and thesame have been operated throughout the yearfor all relevant transactions recorded in thesoftware at the application level. The audit trailfeature was enabled from 01 April 2024 till 28January 2025 at database level for accountingsoftware to log any direct data changes, usedfor maintenance of all accounting records by theCompany ,however, we are unable to commenton the completeness and accuracy of the logsbeing maintained. The said audit trail feature forthe period 29 January 2025 to 31 March 2025,was not enabled at database level.
Further, during the course of our audit we didnot come across any instance of audit trailfeature being tampered with in respect of theaccounting software where such feature isenabled.
Furthermore, other than the impact of theinstances mentioned above, the audit trail hasbeen preserved by the Company as per thestatutory requirements for record retention fromthe date audit trail was enabled.
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Date: 16 May 2025 UDIN: 25504662BMOOFB7160