Key audit matter
How our audit addressed the ki audit matter
ifT'Dairment assessment of its investment in subsidiaries and associates
fas described in Note 7 of the standalone financial statements)
The Company's investments in varioussubsidiaries and associates are accounted forat cost (subject lo impairment assessment).Where an indication of impairment/reversal ofpreviously recorded impairment exists, thecarrying value of investments is assessed.
The Company's investments In subsidiaries andassociates represent a substantial portion of itstotal assets. Any change in the recoverableamount of these inveslmenls could have asignificant impact on the Company'sstandalone financial statements.
Considering the significance and magnitude ofthese investments to the standalone financialstatements, assessment of the carrying amountof these investments is considered as a keyaudit matter.
Our procedures to include the following:
• We obtained an understanding from themanagement, assessed and tested the designand operating effectiveness of the Company'skey controls over the impairment assessmenof its investments.
• We evaluated the Company's process foridentifying indicators of Impairment/reversalof previous impairment for its investments insubsidiaries and associates.
• We checked the mathematical accuracy ofthe impairment and agreed relevant data backto the latest budgets actual past results andother supporting documents.
• We performed sensitivity analysis to assesschange in assumptions that could lead toimpairment or material change on theestimated recoverable amounts.
• We assessed the adequacy of relevantdisclosures as per applicable accountingrequirements.
We have audited the accompanying standalonefinancial statements of Digispice TechnologiesLimited ("the Company"), which comprise theBalance sheet as at March 31,2025, the Statement ofProfit and Loss, including the statement of OtherComprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statementand the Statement of Changes in Equity for the yearthen ended, and notes to the standalone financialstatements, including a summary of materialaccounting policies and other explanatoryinformation.
In aur opinion and to the best of our information ondaccording to the explanations given to us, theaforesaid standalone financial statements give theinformation required by the Companies Act, 2013, asamended ("the Act") in the manner so required andgive a true and fair view in conformity with theaccounting principles generally accepted in India, ofthe state of affairs of the Company as atMarch 31,2025, its loss including othercomprehensive income, its cash flows and thechanges in equity for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the standalone financialstatements in accordance with the Standards onAuditing (SAs), as specified under Section 143(10) ofthe Act. Our responsibilities under those Standardsare further described in the 'Auditors Responsibilitiesfor the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements'section of our reportWe are independent of theCompany in accordance with the 'Code of Ethics'issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia together with the ethical requirements that arerelevant to our audit of the financial statementsunder the provisions of the Act and the Rulesthereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with theserequirements and the Code of Ethics. We believethat the audit evidence we have obtained issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for ouraudit opinion on the standalone financialstatements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in ourprofessional judgment, were of most significancein our audit of the standalone financial
statements for the financial year ended March 31,2025. These matters were addressed in thecontext of our audit of the standalone financialstatements as a whole, and in forming ouropinion thereon, and we do not provide aseparate opinion on these matters. For eachmatter below, our description of how our auditaddressed the matter is provided in that context.
We have determined the matters describedbelow to be the key audit matters to becommunicated in our report. We have fulfilled theresponsibilities described in the Auditor'sresponsibilities for the audit of the standalonefinancial statements section of our report,including in relation to these matters. Accordingly,our audit included the performance ofprocedures designed to respond to ourassessment of the risks of material misstatementof the standalone financial statements. Theresults of our audit procedures, including theprocedures performed to address the mattersbelow, provide the basis for our audit opinion onthe accompanying standalone financialstatements.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsiblefor the other information. The other informationcomprises the director's report in the Annualreport, but does not include the financialstatements and our auditor's report thereon. Theannual report is expected to be made availableto us after the date of this auditor's report.
Our opinion on the financial statements does notcover the other information ond we do notexpress any form of assurance conclusionthereon.
In connection with our oudit of the financialstatements, our responsibility is to read the otherinformation and, in doing so, consider whethersuch other information is materially inconsistentwith the financial statements or our knowledgeobtained in the audit or otherwise appears to bematerially misstated., If, based on the work wehave performed, we conclude that there is amaterial misstatement of this other information,we are required to report that fact We havenothing to report in this regard.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsiblefor the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Actwith respect to the preparation of thesestandalone financial statements that give atrueand fair view of the financial position, financialperformance including other comprehensiveincome, cash flows and changes in equity of theCompany in accordance with the accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, includingthe Indian Accounting Standards (lnd AS)specified under Section 133 of the Act read withthe Companies (Indian Accounting Standards)Rules, 2015, as amended. This responsibility alsoincludes maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions of theAct for safeguarding of the assets of theCompany and for preventing and detectingfrauds and other irregularities; selection andapplication of appropriate accounting policies;making judgments and estimates that arereasonable and prudent; and the design,implementation and maintenance of adequateinternal financial controls, that were operatingeffectively for ensuring the accuracy andcompleteness of the accounting records, relevantto the preparation and presentation of thestandalone financial statements that give a trueand fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements,management is responsible for assessing theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern,disclosing, as applicable, matters related to goingconcern and using the going concern basis ofaccounting unless management either intends toliquidate the Company or to cease operations, orhas no realistic alternotive but to do so.
Those Board of Directors ore also responsible foroverseeing the Company's financial reportingprocess.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonableassurance about whether the standalonefinancial statements as a whole are free from -
material misstatement, whether due to fraud orerror, and to issue an auditor's report thatincludes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is ahigh level of assurance, but is not a guaranteethat an audit conducted in accordance with SAswill always detect a material misstatement, whenit exists.
Misstatements can arise from fraud or error andare considered material if, individually or in theaggregate, they could reasonably be expected toinfluence the economic decisions of users takenon the basis of these standalone financialstatements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, weexercise professional judgment and maintainprofessional skepticism throughout the audit. Wealso:
• Identify and assess the risks of materialmisstatement of the standalone financialstatements, whether due to fraud or error,design and perform audit proceduresresponsive to those risks, and obtain auditevidence that is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our opinion. The risk of notdetecting a material misstatement resultingfrom fraud is higher than for one resulting fromerror, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery,intentional omissions, misrepresentations, orthe override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal controlrelevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in thecircumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of theAct, we are also responsible for expressing ouropinion on whether the Company hasadequate internal financial controls withreference to financial statements in place andthe operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accountingpolicies used and the reasonableness ofaccounting estimates and related disclosuresmade by management.
* Conclude on the appropriateness ofmanagement's use of the going concern basis ofaccounting and, based on the audit evidenceobtained, whether a materia! uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company's ability tocontinue as a going concern. If we conclude thata material uncertainty exists, we are required todraw attention in our auditor's report to thereloted disclosures in the standalone financialstotements or, if such disclosures are inadequate,to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are basedon the audit evidence obtained up to the date ofour auditors report. However, future events orconditions may cause the Company to ceose tocontinue as a going concern.
* Evoluate the overall presentation, structure andcontent of the standalone financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether thestandalone financial statements represent theunderlying transactions and events in a mannerthat achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged withgovernance regarding, among other matters, theplanned scope and timing of the audit andsignificant audit findings, including any significantdeficiencies in Internal control that we Identify duringour audit
We also provide those charged with governancewith a statement that we have complied withrelevant ethical requirements regardingindependence, and to communicate with them allrelationships and other matters that mayreasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, relatedsafeguards
From the matters communicated with thosecharged with governance, we determine thosematters that were of most significance in the auditof the standalone financial statements for thefinancial year ended March 31, 2025, and aretherefore the key audit matters. We describe thesematters in our auditor's report unless law orregulation precludes public disclosure about thematter or when, in extremely rare circumstances,.
we determine that a matter should not becommunicoted in our report because the adverseconsequences of doing so would reasonably beexpected to outweigh the public interest benefitsof such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor'sReport) Order, 2020 ("the Order"), issued by theCentral Government of India in terms of sub¬section (ll) of Section 143 of the Act, we give in the"Annexure 1" a statement on the matters specifiedin paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, wereport, to the extent applicable, that:
a) We have sought and obtained all theinformation and explanations which to the best ofour knowledge and belief were necessary for thepurposes of our audit;
b) In our opinion, proper books of account asrequired by law have been kept by the Companyso far as it oppears from our examination of thosebooks except (i) as mentioned in note 46 of thefinancial statements, we were unable to verify theback up of books of accounts maintained inelectronic mode for the period from April 01, 2024to August 23, 2024, as necessary logs in respect ofsuch period are not available with the Companyand (ii) for the matter stated in the paragraph 2(0(vl) on reporting under Rule ll(g);
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit andLoss including the Statement of OtherComprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statementand Statement af Changes in Equity dealt with bythis Report are in agreement with the books ofaccount;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalonefinancial statements comply with the AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act,
read with Companies (Indian AccountingStandards) Rules, 2015, as amended;
e) On the basis of the written representationsreceived from the directors as on March 31, 2025,taken on record by the Board of Directors, none ofthe directors are disqualified as on March 31,2025,from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164 (2) of the Act;
f) The modification relating to the maintenanceof accounts and other matters connectedtherewith are as stated in the paragraph (b)above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) andparagraph 2(i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11
g) With respect to the adequacy of the internalfinancial controls with reference to thesestandalone financial statements and theoperating effectiveness of such controls, refer toour separate Report in "Annexure 2" to this report;
h) In our opinion, the managerial remuneration forthe year ended March 31, 2025, has been paid/provided by the Company to its directors inaccordance with the provisions of Section 197 readwith Schedule V to the Act;
i) With respect to the other matters to be includedin the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, asamended in our opinion and to the best of ourinformation and according to the explanationsgiven to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact ofpending litigations on its financial position in itsstandalone financial statements - Refer note 31Bto the standalone financial statements;
il. The Company did not have any long-termcontracts including derivative contracts for whichthere were any material foreseeable losses;
iii. There were no amounts which were requiredto be transferred to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the Company.
iv) a) The management has represented that, tothe best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosedin the note 50 to the standalone financialstatements, no funds have been advanced orloaned or invested (either from borrowed funds orshare premium or any other sources or kind offunds) by the Company to or in any other personsor entities, including foreign entities("Intermediaries’), with the understanding,whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that theIntermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectlylend or invest in other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of theCompany ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provideany guarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries;
b) The management has represented that, to thebest of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed inthe note 50 to the standalone finoncialstatements, no funds have been received by theCompany from any persons or entities, includingforeign entities ("Funding Parties"), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Company shall, whether,directly or indirectly, lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries; and
c) Based on such audit procedures performedthat have been considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothing hascome to our notice that has caused us to believethat the representations under sub-clause (a)and (b) contain any material misstatement.
v) No dividend has been declared or paid duringthe year by the Company.
vi) Based on our examination which included testchecks, the Company has used accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of accountwhich have a feature of recording audit trail (editlog) facility for all relevant transactions recordedin the software used by the Company except thatoudit trail feature was not enabled for directchanges to database when using certain accessrights as referred in note 46 to the standalonefinancial statements. Further, we are unable tocomment on whether audit trail feature ofsoftware operated throughout the year for allrelevant transactions recorded in such softwareor whether there were any instances of the audittrail feature being tampered with as explained inthe above note. Additionally, the audit trail ofprevious year has been preserved by theCompany as per the statutory requirements forrecord retention to the extent it was enabled andrecorded in the previous year.
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