We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Algoquant Fintech Limited (the"Company"), which comprises the standalone balance sheet as at 31-March-2025, the standalonestatement of profit and loss (including other comprehensive income), standalone statement of changesin equity and standalone statement of cash flow for the year then ended 31-March-2025, and a summaryof the material accounting policies and other explanatory information ("here in after 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 theaforesaid standalone financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013(the "Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view, in conformity with the IndianAccounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of the Act, read with (the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards) Rules, 2015) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of thestate of affairs of the Company as at 31-March-2025, its profit (including other comprehensive income),changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor'sResponsibilities 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 CharteredAccountants of India ('ICAI') together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of thestandalone financial 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 Code of Ethics.We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis forour opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Emphasis of Matter - Basis of Accounting and Restriction on use
We draw attention to note 2(A)(i) to the standalone financial statements, which describes that theCompany has given effect to the Composite Scheme of Arrangement ("the approved Scheme") betweenthe Company, Algoquant Investments Private Limited (the holding company hereinafter referred toas Amalgamating Company or AIPL) and Growth Securities Private Limited (hereinafter referred toas Demerged Company or GSPL) and their shareholders and creditors for the amalgamation of AIPLwith the Company and amalgamation of Stock Broking Business of GSPL, referred to as "the Demergedundertaking" per the Approved Scheme, into the Company on a going concern basis with effect fromthe appointed date of 01-April-2023, as approved by the Hon'ble National Company Law Tribunal(Ahmedabad) (NCLT) vide its order dated 03-October-2024, in accordance with the accounting treatmentprescribed in the scheme which is in line with the accounting principles as laid down in Appendix Cto Ind AS 103, 'Business Combinations'. Accordingly, the comparative financial information for theprevious year presented in the accompanying standalone financial statement has been restated fromthe beginning of the earliest period presented, being 01-April-2023.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were of most significance inour audit of the standalone financial statements for the financial year ended 31 -March-2025. Thesematters were addressed in the context of our audit of the standalone financial statements as a whole,and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. For eachmatter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matter is provided in that context.
We have determined the matter described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated inour report. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the auditof the standalone financial statements section of our report, including in relation to these matters.Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessmentof the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements. The results of our auditprocedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for ouraudit opinion on the accompanying standalone financial statements.
Key audit matter
How our audit addressed the key audit matter
Information technology (IT) systems used infinancial reporting process.
The company's operational and financialprocesses are highly dependent on informationsystems due to large volume of transactions thatare processed daily.
We therefore identified IT systems and controlsover financial reporting as a key audit matter forthe Company.
We performed the following procedures assisted
by specialized IT auditors on the IT infrastructure
and applications relevant to financial reporting:
• Tested the design and operating effectivenessof IT access controls, including audit trail, overthe information systems that are relevant tofinancial reporting and relevant interfaces,configuration and other identified applicationcontrols.
• Tested IT general controls (logical access,change management and aspects of IToperational controls). This included testingthat requests for access to systems wereappropriately reviewed and authorized.
• Tested the Company's periodic review ofaccess rights. We also inspected requests ofchanges to systems for appropriate approvaland authorization.
• In addition to the above, we tested thedesign and operating effectiveness of certainautomated and IT dependent manual controlsthat were considered as key internal controlsover financial reporting.
• Tested the design and operating effectivenesscompensating controls in case deficiencieswere identified and, where necessary,extended the scope of our substantive auditprocedures
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other informationcomprises the other information included in the Annual Report, but does not include the standalonefinancial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Company's annual report is expected to bemade available to us after the date of this Auditor's Report.
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 theother information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistentwith the standalone financial statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit orotherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed on the other information obtained prior to the date of thisauditor's report, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we arerequired to report that fact. Reporting under this section is not applicable as no other information isobtained at the date of this auditor's report.
The accompanying standalone financial statements have been approved by the Company's Board ofDirectors. The Company's Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) ofthe Act with respect to the preparation and presentation of these standalone financial statements thatgive a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance (including other comprehensiveincome), changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under Section133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended.This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detectingfrauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenanceof adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy andcompleteness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalonefinancial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether dueto 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 of accounting unless management either intend to liquidatethe Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reportingprocess.
Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statementsas a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor'sreport that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guaranteethat an audit conducted in accordance with Standards on Auditing will always detect a materialmisstatement 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 decisions
As part of an audit in accordance with Standards on Auditing specified under section 143(10) of the Act,we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement 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. Therisk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resultingfrom error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, orthe override 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 are alsoresponsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financialcontrols system with Reference to Standalone Financial Statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness 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 use of the 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 standalone financial statements or, if such disclosures areinadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained upto the date of our auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company tocease to continue 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.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the plannedscope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies ininternal control 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 andother matters that may reasonably 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 thatwere of most significance in the audit of the standalone financial statements of the current period andare therefore, the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless law orregulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, wedetermine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences ofdoing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. 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 A" a statement on thematters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report, to the extent applicable, 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 of the accompanyingstandalone financial statements;
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company sofar as it appears from our examination of those books;
c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss (including OtherComprehensive Income), the Standalone Statement of Changes in Equity and the StandaloneStatement of Cash Flows dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the relevant books ofaccount;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Indian AccountingStandards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of the Act;
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31-March-2025taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on31-March-2025 from being appointed 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 StandaloneFinancial Statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, referto our separate Report in "Annexure B". Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on theadequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls withReference to Standalone Financial Statements; and
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance withthe requirements of section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best ofour information and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by theCompany to its Directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 ofthe Act.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance withRule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our opinion and tothe best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact its financialposition as at 31-March-2025;
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts forwhich there were any material foreseeable losses as at 31-March-2025;
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Educationand Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended 31-March-2025;
iv. a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, on
the date of this audit report, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested(either from borrowed funds or securities premium or any other sources or kind offunds) by the Company to or in any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities('the intermediaries'), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or investin other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf ofthe Company ('the Ultimate Beneficiaries') or provide any guarantee, security or thelike on behalf the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
b) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, nofunds have been received by the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities ('the Funding Parties'), with the understanding, whether recordedin writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether directly or indirectly, lendor invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by oron behalf of the Funding Party ('Ultimate Beneficiaries') or provide any guarantee,security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
c) Based on such audit procedures performed as considered reasonable and appropriatein the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believethat the management representations under sub-clauses (a) and (b) above containany material misstatement.
v. The Company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year ended 31-March-2025.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audittrail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevanttransactions recorded in the software except that, a) the software was inoperative from01-April-2024 to l6-June-2024. Further, during the course of our audit we did not comeacross any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with, in respect of accountingsoftware(s) where the audit trail has been enabled. The audit trail has not been recordedby the Company from 01-April-2023 to l6-June-2024, therefore not be commented upon.
Chartered Accountants
Firm's Registration No.: 000018N/N500091
Deepanshu Saini
Partner
Membership No.: 510573
UDIN: 25510573BMLNGA9322
Place: New Delhi
Date: 30-May-2025