We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Nazara TechnologiesLimited (“the Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025, and theStatement of Profit and Loss, including Other Comprehensive loss, Statement of Changes inEquity and Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the standalonefinancial statements, including material accounting policy information and other explanatoryinformation (hereinafter referred to as the “standalone financial statements”).
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us,the aforesaid standalone financial statements give the information required by the CompaniesAct, 2013 (“the Act’) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity withthe Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with Companies(Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended (“Ind AS”) and other accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31 March2025, and its profit including other comprehensive loss, changes in equity and its cash flowsfor the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with theStandards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilitiesunder those Standards are further described in the ‘Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of theStandalone Financial Statements’ section of our report. We are independent of the Companyin accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(“ICAI”) together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalonefinancial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we havefulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Codeof Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our opinion.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significancein our audit of the standalone financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025. These
matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the standalone financial statements as awhole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on thesematters. We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to becommunicated in our report.
As described in Note 5 to the standalone financial statements, carrying value (net of impairment)of investment in subsidiaries and associates as at 31 March 2025 is ' 113,312 lakhs and' 95,422 lakhs respectively. Further, the Company has given loans amounting to ' 18,780 lakhsas at 31 March 2025 to such entities as given in note 6 to the standalone financial statements.
The management has noted impairment indicators in few of these entities as Company’s sharein net asset is lower than the carrying value of investment as at 31 March 2025. Consequentially,for some loans given, the Company has determined that there has been a significant increasein the credit risk and accordingly, has calculated lifetime ECL for such assets.
In view of the above, the Management of the Company has carried out an impairment testingfor the investments made in aforesaid entities using discounted cash flow model.
Key assumptions used in management’s assessment include estimates of future financialperformance, terminal value and discount rates, amongst others, as attributable to suchsubsidiaries and associate. Based on the management’s assessment, impairment loss of' 7,594 lakhs and ' 100 lakhs has been recognized on investments in subsidiaries, andassociates respectively as at 31 March 2025. Further, the management has recorded animpairment of ' 33 lakhs towards loans given to an entity as at 31 March 2025.
Considering the materiality of the amounts involved and significant degree of judgementinvolved in the estimates and key assumptions used in determining recoverable amount ofaforesaid investments and loans given, we have considered this matter as key audit matter.
Our audit procedures in respect of assessing the carrying value of investments and loans areincluded below:
• Obtained an understanding of management’s impairment process and evaluated thedesign and tested operating effectiveness of controls over the impairment assessmentand carrying value of investments and loans to subsidiaries and associate.
• Obtained the impairment analysis carried out by the management including report ofexternal independent valuation expert, where used.
• Assessed the professional competence, objectivity and capabilities of the externalindependent valuation expert, wherever, engaged by the management.
• Assessed the methodology used by the management to estimate the recoverable valueof investment and loans to subsidiaries and associates.
• Reconciled the cash flow projections used in the impairment assessment to businessplans approved by the management.
• Engaged auditor’s expert to validate the reasonableness of assumptions such as discountrates, terminal growth rate and methodology used by the management.
• Tested the arithmetical accuracy and sensitivity analysis performed by management ofkey assumptions such as discount and growth rates; and
• Assessed the appropriateness of disclosures made in the standalone financial statementsin accordance with the requirements of applicable Indian Accounting Standards.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other informationcomprises the Director’s report, Management Discussion and Analysis but does not include thestandalone financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information andwe do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is toread the other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so,consider whether such other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materiallymisstated.
When we read the Director’s report, Management Discussion and Analysis, if we concludethat there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter tothose charged with governance under SA 720 ‘The Auditor’s responsibilities Relating to OtherInformation’.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of theAct with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a trueand fair view of the financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flowsof the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India,including the Accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibilityalso includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisionsof the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detectingfrauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies;making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementationand maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively forensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparationand presentation of the standalone financial statement that give a true and fair view and arefree from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, the Management and Board of Directors areresponsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, asapplicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accountingunless the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations,or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reportingprocess.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financialstatements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, andto issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level ofassurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will alwaysdetect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error andare considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expectedto influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone financialstatements.
We give in “Annexure A” a detailed description of Auditor’s responsibilities for Audit of the
Standalone Financial Statements.
(a) The standalone financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2024,were audited by another auditor whose report dated 24 May 2024, expressed anunmodified opinion on those statements.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”), issued by theCentral Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we givein “Annexure B” 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, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the bestof our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
(b) I n our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by theCompany so far as it appears from our examination of those books except for thematters stated in the paragraph (h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g).
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including other comprehensiveloss, the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flow dealt withby this Report are in agreement with the books of account
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with theAccounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31March 2025, taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors aredisqualified as on 31 March 2025, from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164 (2) of the Act.
(f) The reservation relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connectedtherewith are as stated in paragraph 2(b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b)and paragraph (h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g).
(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference tostandalone financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness ofsuch controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure C”.
(h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordancewith Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and tothe best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financialposition in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 25 to the standalonefinancial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativecontracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and
belief, as disclosed in the Note 37(e) to the standalone financial statements,no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either fromborrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds)by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreignentities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, directly or indirectly lendor invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoeverby or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
b) The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledgeand belief, as disclosed in the Note 37(f) to the standalone financialstatements, no funds have been received by the Company from anyperson(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”),with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, thatthe Company shall, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other personsor entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of theFunding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, securityor the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
c) Based on the audit procedures performed that have been consideredreasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, and according to theinformation and explanations provided to us by the Management in thisregard nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe thatthe representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e) as providedunder (a) and (b) above, contain any material mis-statement.
v. The Company has neither declared nor paid any dividend during the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has usedan accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a featureof recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughoutthe year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further, during thecourse of our audit, we did not come across any instance of audit trail featurebeing tampered with. The audit trail has been preserved by the Company asper the statutory requirements for record retention to the extent it was enabledand recorded in the previous year.
The accounting software used for maintenance of payroll records of theCompany is operated by a third-party software service provider. In the absenceof ‘Independent Service Auditor’s Assurance Report on the Description ofControls, their Design and Operating Effectiveness’ (‘Type 2 report’ issuedin accordance with SAE 3402, Assurance Reports on Controls at a ServiceOrganisation), we are unable to comment on whether audit trail feature at the
application and database level of the said software was enabled and operatedthroughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the softwareor whether there is any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.Additionally, we are unable to comment whether the audit trail of prior year hasbeen preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for recordretention.
3. I n our opinion, according to information, explanations given to us, the remuneration paidby the Company to its directors is within the limits laid prescribed under Section 197 readwith Schedule V of the Act and the rules thereunder.
For M S K C & Associates LLP (Formerly known as M S K C & Associates)
Chartered AccountantsICAI Firm Registration Number: 001595S/S000168
Ojas D. Joshi
Partner
Membership No. 109752UDIN: 25109752BMMMGV8070
Place: MumbaiDate: 26 May 2025