We have audited the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements of EKENNIS SOFTWARESERVICE LIMITED (“the Company”), which comprise the Standalone Balance Sheet as at March31, 2025, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss for the year ended on March 31, 2025, theStandalone Statement Cash flow statement for the year ended & and a summary of significantaccounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, theaforesaid Standalone Financial Statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Accounting Standardsprescribed under Section 133 of the Act & other accounting principles generally accepted in India, ofthe state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, its Profit/(loss) and its cash flows for theyear ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements in accordance with the standards onAuditing specified under section 143(10) of the Act (SAs). Our responsibilities under those standardsare further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the Standalone FinancialStatements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code ofEthics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) together with the independencerequirements that are relevant to our audit of the Standalone financial statements under the provisionof the Act, and the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities inaccordance with these requirements and the ICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidencewe have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on the Standalonefinancial statements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in ouraudit of the Standalone financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in thecontext of our audit of the Standalone financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinionthereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated inour report.
S.No.
Key Audit Matter
1.
Cash, Cash Equivalent, Bank Balance and Fixed Deposit:
Cash, cash equivalent, Bank Balance and fixed deposit consist of cash in hand, Balance withbank in current accounts and term deposit (current and non-current). We focused on this areaas it is material to the Standalone financial statements and area of significant risk for our auditas it requires considerable time and resource to audit due to its magnitude, it is considered tobe a key audit matter. The Company’s disclosure about cash, cash equivalent and otherfinancial assets are included in Note 2.15 of the Standalone financial statements
The company operates in India and is subject to periodic challenges by local tax authoritieson a range of tax matters during the normal course of business including direct taxes, indirecttaxes matter.
These involve significant management judgement to determine the possible outcome of thetax litigations
Auditor Response to key Audit Matter:
Principal Audit Procedures:
Balance with Bank in Current Account
We have obtained list of various bank accounts maintained by Company along with theirusages, type and closing balance as appearing in the books as of the reporting date. Wereconciled the Bank balances to bank confirmations and items of reconciliation as appearingin the books of accounts.
Cash in Hand:
Cash in Hand on the reporting date is not material having regard to the size of the company,so that we have sought physical cash verification report conducted by management. We havealso independently verified on sample basis during our audit period and the reconciliationhas been carried out.
Term Deposit:
We have obtained list of Fixed deposit opened by Company and lying in the Bank as on thereporting date. We have verified Balance appearing in the Books to the Bank Balanceconfirmation provided by management to us.
We have also verified interest income against these Fixed deposit booked by the Companywith the statement of fixed deposit provided to us during the audit period. We have soughtfrom the Bank for the Fixed deposit which are lien against Bank Overdraft.
Our audit procedures included review of the classification of the cash, cash equivalent andother financial assets and any restriction on the use of the cash and cash equivalent.
Conclusion:
We found the key judgement and assumptions used by management in recognizing the cash& cash equivalents to be supportable based on the available evidence.
The company’s board is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The other informationcomprises the information included Management Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Report includingAnnexures to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility Report but does not include the FinancialStatements and our Auditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do notexpress any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements, our responsibility is to read the otherinformation and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with theStandalone Financial Statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwiseappears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this otherinformation, we 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 CompaniesAct, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these Standalone Financial Statements to give atrue and fair view of the financial position, financial performance, & cash flows of the Company inaccordance with accounting standard & accounting principles generally accepted in India. Thisresponsibility also 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 detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments andestimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequateinternal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness ofthe accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the Standalone Financial Statementsthat give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the Standalone Financial Statements, management is responsible for assessing the company’sability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and usingthe going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the company or tocease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The board of directors are responsible for overseeing the company’s financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Standalone financial statements as awhole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s reportthat includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that anaudit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate,they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decision of users taken on the basis of thesefinancial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professionalscepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• identify and assess the risks of material misstatements of the Standalone financial statements,whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The riskof not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting fromerror, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or theoverride of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial controls relevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we arealso responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financialcontrols system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accountingestimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of going concern basis of accounting and,based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events orconditions that may cast significant doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’sreport to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate,to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date ofour auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the company to cease tocontinue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the Standalone financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether the Standalone financial statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the Standalone financial statements that, individually orin aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of theStandalone financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitativefactors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) toevaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the Standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scopeand timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internalcontrol that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevantethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and othermatters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, relatedsafeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that wereof most significance in the audit of the Standalone financial statements of the current period and aretherefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulationprecludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine thata matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so wouldreasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. 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 ourknowledge and belief 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 faras it appears from our examination of those books;
c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss & Standalone CashFlow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone financial statements comply with the accounting standardsspecified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014;
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025, takenon record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2025,from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act;
f) With respect to the adequacy of internal financial control over financial reporting of the company& the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in Annexure “A.” Ourreport expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of thecompany’s internal financial controls over financial reporting
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with therequirements of 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 theprovisions of section 197 of the Ac
h) With respect to other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 of
the companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our opinion and to the best of our
information and according to the explanation given to us:
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in itsfinancial statements.
(ii) The Company has made provision, as at March 31, 2025 as required under the applicable lawor accounting standards, for material foreseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts includingderivative contracts.
(iii) The Company is not liable to transfer any amounts, to the Investor Education and ProtectionFund during the year ended March 31, 2025.
(iv) a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds(which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned orinvested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds)by the Company to or in any other person or entity, including foreign entity (“Intermediaries”),with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall,whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by 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 knowledge and belief, no funds(which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Companyfrom any person or entity, including foreign entity (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding,whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly orindirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by oron behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, securityor the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(v) The Company has not declared any dividend during the year.
(vi) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2025,which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operatedthroughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further, during thecourse of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tamperedwith.
Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trailfeature being tampered with and the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per thestatutory requirements for record retention..
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (the “Order”) issued by the CentralGovernment in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in “Annexure B” a statement on thematters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
For A Y & CompanyChartered AccountantsFRN : 020829C
-sd-
Arpit GuptaPartner
M.NO. : 421544
UDIN : 25421544BMIUYC1380
Place : Bengaluru
Date : 26.05.2025