We have audited the accompanying financial statements ofAditya Birla Money Limited (the "Company"), which comprise theBalance Sheet as at 31st March 2026, and the Statement of Profitand Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statementof Cash Flows and the Statement of Changes in Equity for theyear ended on that date, and notes to the financial statements,including a summary of material accounting policies and otherexplanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us, the aforesaid financial statementsgive the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the"Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view inconformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed underSection 133 of the Act, ("Ind AS") and other accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Companyas at 31st March 2026, and its profit, total comprehensive income,its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year ended onthat date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the financial statements in accordancewith the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under Section143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards arefurther described in the Auditor's Responsibility for the Audit of theFinancial Statements Section of our report. We are independentof the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued bythe Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) togetherwith the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit ofthe financial statements under the provisions of the Act and theRules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and theICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtainedby us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our auditopinion on the financial statements.
Key Audit Matter
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgement, were of most significance in our audit of the financialstatements of the current period. These matters were addressed inthe context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, andin forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separateopinion on these matters. We have determined the mattersdescribed below to be the key audit matters to be communicatedin our report.
Sr. No. Key Audit Matter
Auditor's Response
1 Information Technology and General Controls
We understood and assessed the overall IT control environment and the controls in place
The financial accounting and reporting systems
which included controls over access to systems and data, as well as system changes.
of the Company are fundamentally reliant on IT
Tested the design and operating effectiveness of IT access controls over the information
systems and IT controls to process significant
systems that are important to financial reporting and various interfaces, configuration
volume of transactions.
and other identified application controls.
Due to the complexity, large volume of
Tested IT general controls (logical access, change management and aspects of IT
transactions processed daily and reliance on
operational controls). This included testing that requests for access to systems were
automated and IT dependent manual controls,
appropriately reviewed and authorised.
matter pertaining to adequacy and effectivenessof IT control environment is considered as a KeyAudit Matter.
Our areas of audit focus included user accessmanagement, developer access to the productionenvironment and changes to the IT environment.These are key to ensuring, IT dependent andapplication-based controls are operatingeffectively.
Tested the Company’s periodic review of access rights. We also inspected requests ofchanges to systems for appropriate approval and authorisation.
In addition to the above, we tested the design and operating effectiveness of certainautomated and IT dependent manual controls that were considered as key internalfinancial controls with reference to financial statements.
Tested the design and operating effectiveness compensating 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 information comprises the informationincluded in the Director's report but does not include the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
• Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assuranceconclusion thereon.
• In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so,consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtainedduring the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
• If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude thatthere is a material misstatement of this other information,we are required to report that fact. We have nothing toreport in this regard.
Responsibilities of Management and Board ofDirectors for the Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the mattersstated in Section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparationof these financial statements that give a true and fair view ofthe financial position, financial performance including othercomprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity of theCompany in accordance with the accounting principles generallyaccepted in India, including Ind AS specified under Section 133of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance ofadequate accounting records in accordance with the provisionsof the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and forpreventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selectionand application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; anddesign, implementation and maintenance of adequate internalfinancial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring theaccuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant tothe preparation and presentation of the financial statement thatgive a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement,whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management and Boardof Directors are responsible for assessing the Company's abilityto continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, mattersrelated to going concern and using the going concern basis ofaccounting unless the Board of Directors either intends to liquidatethe Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternativebut to do so.
The Company's Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeingthe Company's financial reporting process.
Auditor's Responsibility for the Audit of theFinancial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whetherthe financial statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue anauditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assuranceis a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an auditconducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a materialmisstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise fromfraud or error and are considered material if, individually or inthe aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influencethe economic decisions of users taken on the basis of thesefinancial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professionaljudgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout theaudit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of thefinancial statements, whether due to fraud or error, designand perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting amaterial misstatement resulting from fraud is higher thanfor one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion,forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or theoverride of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial control relevantto the audit in order to design audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) ofthe Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinionon whether the Company has adequate internal financialcontrols with reference to financial statements in place andthe operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies usedand the reasonableness of accounting estimates and relateddisclosures made by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use ofthe going concern basis of accounting and, based on the auditevidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significantdoubt on the Company's ability to continue as a goingconcern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists,we are required to draw attention in our auditor's reportto the related disclosures in the financial statements or, ifsuch disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Ourconclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up tothe date of our auditor's report. However, future events orconditions may cause the Company to cease to continue asa going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and contentof the financial statements, including the disclosures, andwhether the financial statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achievesfair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the financialstatements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probablethat the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeableuser of the financial statements may be influenced. We considerquantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning thescope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work;and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements inthe financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding,among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the auditand significant audit findings, including any significant deficienciesin internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statementthat we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regardingindependence, and to communicate with them all relationshipsand other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the financial statements of the currentperiod and are therefore the key audit matters. We describethese matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulationprecludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremelyrare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not becommunicated in our report because the adverse consequencesof doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the publicinterest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and RegulatoryRequirements
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 andexplanations which to the best of our knowledge and beliefwere necessary for the purposes of our audit.
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by lawhave been kept by the Company so far as it appears from ourexamination of those books except for not complying withthe requirement of audit trail as stated in (i)(vi) below (referNote 56 to the financial statements).
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss includingOther Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Cash Flowsand Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Reportare in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements complywith the Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act.
e) On the basis of the written representations received fromthe Directors as on 31st March 2026 taken on record by theBoard of Directors, none of the Directors is disqualified as on31st March 2026 from being appointed as a director in termsof Section 164(2) of the Act.
f) The modification relating to the maintenance of accounts andother matters connected therewith, is as stated in paragraph(b) above.
g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controlswith reference to financial statements of the Company andthe operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate Report in "Annexure A". Our report expressesan unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operatingeffectiveness of the Company's internal financial controlswith reference to financial statements.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included in theAuditor's Report in accordance with the requirements ofSection 197(16) of the Act, as amended,
In our opinion and to the best of our information and accordingto the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by theCompany to its Directors during the year is in accordance withthe provisions of Section 197 of the Act.
i) With respect to the other matters to be included in theAuditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our opinionand to the best of our information and according to theexplanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pendinglitigations on its financial position in its financialstatements - Refer Note 50 to the financial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contractsincluding derivative contracts for which there were anymaterial foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to betransferred to the Investor Education and ProtectionFund by the Company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the
best of it's knowledge and belief, no funds havebeen advanced or loaned or invested (eitherfrom borrowed funds or share premium or anyother sources or kind of funds) by the Companyto or in any other persons or entities, includingforeign entities ("Intermediaries"), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Intermediary shall, directly orindirectly lend or invest in other persons or entitiesidentified in any manner whatsoever by or onbehalf of the Company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries")or provide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(b) The Management has represented, that, tothe best of it's knowledge and belief, no fundshave been received by the Company from anypersons or entities, including foreign entities("Funding Parties"), with the understanding,
whether recorded in writing or otherwise, thatthe Company shall, directly or indirectly, lend orinvest in other persons or entities identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of the FundingParty ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on the audit procedures performed thathas been considered reasonable and appropriatein the circumstances, nothing has come to ournotice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule11(e), as provided under (a) and (b) above, containany material misstatement.
v. The Company has not declared or paid any dividendduring the year and has not proposed final dividendfor the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included testchecks, the Company has used accounting softwarefor maintaining its books of account for the financialyear ended 31st March 2026 which have the featureof recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the samehas operated throughout the year for all relevant
transactions recorded in the software systems exceptaudit trail feature was not enabled at the database levelfor accounting software to log any direct data changes.
Further, during the course of our audit, we did not comeacross any instance of the audit trail feature beingtampered with and the audit trail has been preservedby the Company as per the statutory requirements forrecord retention.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,2020 (the "Order") issued by the Central Government interms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in "Annexure B"a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4of the Order.
For DELOITTE HASKINS & SELLS LLP
Chartered Accountants(Firm's Registration No. 117366W/W-100018)
Mukesh Jain
(Partner)
Place: Mumbai (Membership No. 108262)
Date: 17th April 2026 UDIN: 26108262HSHBAC8875