We have audited the accompanying Ind AS standalone financial statements of SMS Lifesciences India Limited ("theCompany"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including OtherComprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended onthat date and a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to asthe "Standalone Financial Statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidstandalone financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the mannerso required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards ("Ind AS") prescribedunder Section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended andother accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025 andits profit, total comprehensive income, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing ("SA"s)specified under Section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described inthe Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We areindependent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountantsof India ("ICAI") together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalone financialstatements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made there under, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the auditevidence obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalonefinancial statements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of thestandalone financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit ofthe standalone financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separateopinion on these matters.
We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
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Key Audit Matter
Auditor's Response
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Recognition, measurement, presen-
Principal Audit Procedures
tation and disclosures of revenues
We assessed the Company's process to recognize the revenue as
from Contracts with Customers" asper Ind AS 115
per accounting standard, Ind AS 115
Our audit approach consisted testing of the design and operatingeffectiveness of the internal controls and substantive testing asfollows:
• Evaluated the design of internal controls relating toimplementation of the revenue accounting standard.
• Selected a sample of continuing and new contracts, and testedthe operating effectiveness of the internal control, relatingto identification of the distinct performance obligationsand determination of transaction price. We carried out acombination of procedures involving enquiry and observation,reperformance and inspection of evidence in respect ofoperation of these controls.
• Selected a sample of continuing and new contracts andperformed the following procedures:
1. Read, analysed and identified the distinct performanceobligations in these contracts.
2. Considered the terms of the contracts to determine thetransaction price including any variable consideration toverify the transaction price used to compute revenue andto test the basis of estimation of the variable consideration.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises theinformation included in the Management Discussion and Analysis, Board's Report including Annexures to Board'sReport, Corporate Governance and Shareholder's Information, but does not include the consolidated financialstatements, standalone financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express anyform of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other informationwe are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to thepreparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financialperformance, including other comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordancewith the Ind AS specified u/s 133 of the Act and other accounting principles generally accepted in India.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions ofthe Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for 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 of adequate internal financial controls, that were operatingeffectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparationand presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company's ability tocontinue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concernbasis of accounting unless the management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has norealistic alternative but to do so.
The management is responsible for ensuring that the accounting software used has the feature of Audit Trail thatcaptures the changes to each and every transaction of Books of accounts. Also ensure that the Audit Trail Feature isalways enabled at the database level and protected from any modification through implementing controls. Ensurethat Audit Trail is retained as per statutory requirements for record retention through periodic backups.
The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as a wholeare free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includesour opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted inaccordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud orerror and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influencethe economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements, whether due tofraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatementresulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentionalomissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures thatare appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressingour opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, basedon the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that maycast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a materialuncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in thestandalone financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusionsare based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor's report. However, future events orconditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions and eventsin a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that, individually or in aggregate,makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalone financialstatements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope ofour audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatementsin the standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timingof the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identifyduring our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that mayreasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the standalone financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key auditmatters. We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure aboutthe matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in ourreport because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interestbenefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (the "Order") issued by the Central Government
of India in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in "Annexure A" a statement on the matters specified in
paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order to the extent applicable.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit we report that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations 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 by law have been kept by the Company so far as itappears from our examination of those books.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, Statementof Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealt with by this Report are in agreement with thebooks of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Ind AS specified underSection 133 of the Act read with Companies Ind AS rules 2015 as amended.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken onrecord by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2025 from beingappointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financial statements of theCompany and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B".Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company'sinternal financial controls over financial reporting.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirementsof section 197(16) of the Act, as amended:
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, theremuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions ofsection 197 read with Schedule V of the Act.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our informationand according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalonefinancial statements - Refer Note 46 on contingent liabilities to the Ind AS financial statements.
ii. The Company has made provision, as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, formaterial foreseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts including derivative contracts.
iii. During the year ended March 31, 2025, the company has transferred an amount of Rs. 5.97 lakhsto Investor Education and Protection Fund, relating to the unclaimed amounts of fractional sharesallotted at the time of Demerger.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed
in the note 51(vi) to the standalone financial statements, no funds (which are material eitherindividually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowedfunds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any otherperson or entity, including foreign entity ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whetherrecorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lendor invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of theCompany ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf ofthe Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(b) The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosedin the note 51(vii) to the standalone financial statements, no funds (which are material eitherindividually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any person or entity,including foreign entity ("Funding Parties"), with the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest inother persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the FundingParty ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries; and
(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate inthe circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as provided under (a) and (b) above,contain any material misstatement.
(d) Based on our examination which includes test checks, the Company, in respect of financialyear commencing on 1st April 2024, has used an accounting software for maintaining its booksof account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has beenoperated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further,during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature beingtampered with, in respect of the accounting software where such feature is enabled and the audittrail has been preserved by the company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
v. The dividend paid by the company during the year is in respect of the same declared for the previousyear is in accordance with Sec 123 of Companies Act, 2013 to the extent it applies to payment ofdividend.
Chartered Accountants
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Place: Hyderabad
Partner
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