We have audited the standalone financial statements ofRestaurant Brands Asia Limited (the "Company") whichcomprise the standalone balance sheet as at 31 March 2025,and the standalone statement of profit and loss (includingother comprehensive income), standalone statement ofchanges in equity and standalone statement of cash flows forthe year then ended, and notes to the standalone financialstatements, including material accounting policies and otherexplanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and accordingto the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalonefinancial statements give the information required by theCompanies Act, 2013 ("Act") in the manner so required andgive a true and fair view in conformity with the accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, of the state of affairsof the Company as at 31 March 2025, and its loss and othercomprehensive loss, changes in equity and its cash flows forthe year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standardson Auditing (SAs) specified under Section 143(10) of the Act.Our responsibilities under those SAs are further described inthe Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the StandaloneFinancial Statements section of our report. We are independentof the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issuedby the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India together withthe ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of thestandalone financial statements under the provisions of theAct and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our otherethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirementsand the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence wehave obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basisfor our opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgment, were of most significance in our audit of thestandalone financial statements of the current period. Thesematters were addressed in the context of our audit of thestandalone financial statements as a whole, and in formingour opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinionon these matters.
Carrying value of investment in subsidiary
See Note 6 to standalone financial statements
The key audit matter
How the matter was addressed in our audit
As at March 31, 2025, the Company has investment of
Our audit procedures included the following:
' 12,331.79 Million (March 31, 2024: ' 12,331.79 million) inthe Equity shares, ' 223.02 Million (March 31, 2024: ' Nil)in the Preference shares and has granted loan of ' 643.90Million (March 31,2024: Nil) to its subsidiary, PT Sari Burger
• Assessing the Company's accounting policy forimpairment of investments in subsidiary with applicableaccounting standards;
Indonesia ("BK Indonesia") which are carried at cost.
• Obtaining an understanding of the
Company's
In accordance with Ind AS 36 - "Impairment of Assets",the Company annually assesses for potential indicators ofimpairment. Given the performance of the subsidiary, the
process for assessing the indicators of impairment ofinvestments, and for the estimation of the recoverablevalue, wherever necessary;
Company identified impairment indicators on the aforesaid
• Evaluating design and implementation
and testing
investment.
operating effectiveness of relevant key internal controls
For the purpose of the impairment assessment, recoverablevalue has been determined by forecasting and discounting
with respect to the impairment assessment process ofinvestment in subsidiary;
future cash flows. The Company's process for assessing
• Evaluating whether the length of the forecast period
and determining recoverable amount involves judgements
over which detailed cash flow forecasts
have been
and assumptions relating to identification of impairmentindicators, forecasts of future cashflows, long-term growthrates and discount rates applied to such cash flows.
prepared is appropriate;
Accordingly, we identified the impairment of investmentin aforesaid subsidiary as a key audit matter becauseimpairment assessment involves significant degree ofjudgement in determining the key assumptions
• Evaluating the appropriateness of key inputs andassumptions used in the cash flow projections/comparable companies or transactions includingdiscount rates, expected growth rates, terminal growthrates and applicable multiples;
• Involving our valuation specialists to assist in theevaluation of key assumptions such as discount rate,growth rate, terminal value considered in estimatingprojections, cash flows and methodologies used by theCompany;
• Performing sensitivity analysis on key inputs andassumptions, to independently estimate a range forcomparison and its impact on future cashflows;
• Comparing the carrying value of the Company'sinvestment in subsidiary with the current valuation of itsinvestment and assessing the need for any impairment;
The Company's Management and Board of Directors areresponsible for the other information. The other informationcomprises the information included in the Company's annualreport, but does not include the financial statements andauditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does notcover the other information and we do not express any formof assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financialstatements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether the other informationis materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained in the audit orotherwise appears to be materially misstated. If, based on thework we have performed, we conclude that there is a materialmisstatement of this other information, we are required toreport that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company's Management and Board of Directors areresponsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Actwith respect to the preparation of these standalone financialstatements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs,profit/ loss and other comprehensive income, changes inequity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with theaccounting principles generally accepted in India, includingthe Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified underSection 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordancewith the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets
of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds andother irregularities; selection and application of appropriateaccounting policies; making judgments and estimates thatare reasonable and prudent; and design, implementationand maintenance of adequate internal financial controls,that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracyand completeness of the accounting records, relevant tothe preparation and presentation of the standalone financialstatements that give a true and fair view and are free frommaterial misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, theManagement and Board of Directors are responsible forassessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern,disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concernand using the going concern basis of accounting unless theBoard of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company orto cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing theCompany's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance aboutwhether the standalone financial statements as a wholeare free from material misstatement, whether due to fraudor error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes ouropinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance,but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordancewith SAs will always detect a material misstatement whenit exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error andare considered material if, individually or in the aggregate,they could reasonably be expected to influence the economicdecisions of users taken on the basis of these standalonefinancial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exerciseprofessional judgment and maintain professional skepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• I dentify and assess the risks of material misstatementof the standalone financial statements, whether due tofraud or error, design and perform audit proceduresresponsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidencethat is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basisfor our opinion. The risk of not detecting a materialmisstatement resulting from fraud is higher than forone resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion,forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, orthe override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant tothe audit in order to design audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)
(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing ouropinion on whether the company has adequate internalfinancial controls with reference to financial statementsin place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policiesused and the reasonableness of accounting estimatesand related disclosures made by the Management andBoard of Directors.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of the Managementand Board of Directors use of the going concern basisof accounting in preparation of standalone financialstatements and, based on the audit evidence obtained,whether a material uncertainty exists related to eventsor conditions that may cast significant doubt on theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern. Ifwe conclude that a material uncertainty exists, weare required to draw attention in our auditor's reportto the related disclosures in the standalone financialstatements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, tomodify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on theaudit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor'sreport. However, future events or conditions may causethe Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and contentof the standalone financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the standalone financialstatements represent the underlying transactions andevents in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governanceregarding, among other matters, the planned scope andtiming of the audit and significant audit findings, includingany significant deficiencies in internal control that we identifyduring our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with astatement that we have complied with relevant ethical
requirements regarding independence, and to communicatewith them all relationships and other matters that mayreasonably be thought to bear on our independence, andwhere applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the standalone financial statementsof the current period and are therefore the key audit matters.We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless lawor regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter orwhen, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that amatter should not be communicated in our report becausethe adverse consequences of doing so would reasonablybe expected to outweigh the public interest benefits ofsuch communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,2020 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government ofIndia in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in the"Annexure A" a statement on the matters specified inparagraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2 A. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we
report that:
a. We have sought and obtained all the informationand explanations which to the best of ourknowledge and belief were necessary for thepurposes of our audit.
b. I n our opinion, proper books of account asrequired by law have been kept by the Companyso far as it appears from our examination ofthose books except for the matters statedin the paragraph 2(B)(f) below on reportingunder Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014.
c. The standalone balance sheet, the standalonestatement of profit and loss (including othercomprehensive income), the standalonestatement of changes in equity and thestandalone statement of cash flows dealt withby this Report are in agreement with the booksof account.
d. In our opinion, the aforesaid standalonefinancial statements comply with the Ind ASspecified under Section 133 of the Act.
e. On the basis of the written representationsreceived from the directors from 01 April 2025to 22 April 2025 taken on record by the Board ofDirectors, none of the directors is disqualifiedas on 31 March 2025 from being appointed asa director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
f. the reservation relating to the maintenanceof accounts and other matters connectedtherewith are as stated in the paragraph 2(A)(b) above.
g. With respect to the adequacy of the internalfinancial controls with reference to financialstatements of the Company and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate Report in "Annexure B".
B. With respect to the other matters to be included inthe Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, inour opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to us:
a. The Company does not have any pendinglitigations which would impact itsfinancial position.
b. The Company did not have any long-termcontracts including derivative contractsfor which there were any materialforeseeable losses.
c. There were no amounts which were requiredto be transferred to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the Company.
d (i) The management has represented
that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, as disclosed in the Note 45 tothe standalone financial statements, nofunds have been advanced or loaned orinvested (either from borrowed funds orshare premium or any other sources orkind of funds) by the Company to or in anyother person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities ("Intermediaries"), withthe understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Intermediaryshall directly or indirectly lend or investin other persons or entities identified inany manner whatsoever by or on behalf ofthe Company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") orprovide any guarantee, security or the likeon behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(ii) The management has representedthat, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, as disclosed in the Note 45 to thestandalone financial statements, no fundshave been received by the Company fromany person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities ("Funding Parties"), with
the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Companyshall directly or indirectly, lend or investin other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever by or onbehalf of the Funding Parties ("UltimateBeneficiaries") or provide any guarantee,security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries.
(iii) Based on the audit procedures thathave been considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothinghas come to our notice that has caused usto believe that the representations undersub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), asprovided under (i) and (ii) above, containany material misstatement.
e. The Company has neither declared nor paid anydividend during the year.
f. Based on our examination which included testchecks except for the instances mentionedbelow, the Company, has used accountingsoftwares for maintaining its books of accountwhich have a feature of recording audit trail(edit log) facility and the same has operatedthroughout the year for all relevant transactionsrecorded in the respective softwares:
• The feature of recording audit trait(edit log) facility was not enabled at thedatabase level to log any direct datachanges for the accounting software usedfor maintaining the books of accounts.
• In the absence of coverage of audit trait(edit log) with respect to database levelin the independent auditor's reportin relation to controls at the serviceorganization for the point of sale software,which is operated by third-party softwareservice provider, we are unable tocomment whether the audit trail featureof the database level of the said softwarewere enabled and operated through outthe year for all relevant transactionsrecorded in the software
Further where audit trail (edit log) facility was enabledand operated, we did not come across any instanceof the audit trail feature being tampered with.Additionally, except where audit trail (edit log) facilitywas not enabled in the previous year, the audit trail hasbeen preserved by the Company as per the statutoryrequirements for record retention.
C. With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditor'sReport under Section 197(16) of the Act:
I n our opinion and according to the information andexplanations given to us, the remuneration paid by theCompany to its directors during the current year is inaccordance with the provisions of Section 197 of theAct. The remuneration paid to any director is not inexcess of the limit laid down under Section 197 of the
Act. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has not prescribedother details under Section 197(16) of the Act which arerequired to be commented upon by us.
For B S R & Co. LLP
Chartered AccountantsFirm's RegistrationNo.:101248W/W-100022
Rishabh Kumar
Partner
Place: Mumbai Membership No.: 402877
Date: 19 May 2025 ICAI UDIN:25402877BMOTWM3682