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Key Audit Matter
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How the Key Audit Matter was addressed in our audit
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Revenue including receivables and contract assets
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The Company derives a significant portion of its revenue from Advanced Metering Infrastructure Service Provider
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Our audit procedures in respect of this area included:
• Evaluated the design of internal controls relating
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(AMISP) contracts, which typically include components
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to evaluation of performance obligations and
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such as Supply, installation, integration, testing and
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identification of those that are distinct including
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commissioning of an integrated system of Smart Meters and operation, and maintenance of installed smart meters over the contract period.
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allocation of transaction price to each distinct performance obligation.
• Performing substantive audit procedures including sample testing covering review of contracts with customers, identifying the distinct performance obligation recorded by the Company. Considered the terms of the contracts and assessed the transaction price to test the revenue on sample basis.
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Key Audit Matter
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How the Key Audit Matter was addressed in our audit
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The recognition of revenue under these arrangements
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We carried out a combination of procedures
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is complex and judgemental due to its long-term
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involving enquiry and observation, re-performance
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nature spanning into multiple performance obligations,
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and inspection of evidence in respect of operation
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requiring allocation of transaction price to each distinct
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of these controls.
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component based on relative standalone selling prices, Valuation and recoverability of receivables and contract assets due to procedural clearances and approvals from government utilities, etc.
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• We performed test of details and tested relevant contracts, documents and subsequent settlements for material trade receivable balances and amounts included in contract assets that are due on
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Given the materiality of the amounts involved and the
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performance of future obligations.
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significant estimates and judgements outlined above, we have identified revenue, including receivables and contract assets, as a key audit matter for the current year's audit.
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• We evaluated the assumptions used to calculate allowance for expected credit loss for trade receivables through analysis of ageing, historical collection and bad debts write-off trends, specific
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individual circumstances of the customers and forward looking estimates.
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• We verified the appropriateness and sufficiency
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of disclosures made by the management in the financial statements.
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We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Genus Power Infrastructures Limited (“the Company”), which comprise the Standalone Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, and the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss, including Other Comprehensive Income, Standalone Statement of Changes in Equity and Standalone Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements, including material accounting policy information and other explanatory information.
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 Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended (“Ind AS”) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, and standalone profit including other comprehensive income, standalone changes in equity and its standalone cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under Section 143(10) of the
Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the 'Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in 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 standalone financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on standalone financial statements.
Emphasis of Matter
We draw attention to Note 37 to the standalone financial statements which describes that a search under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 was conducted by the Directorate of Enforcement at the Company's Corporate office and its Chairman's residence, and the management's position thereof.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were of most significance in our audit of the standalone financial statements for the current year. These matters 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. We have determined the matter described below to be the key audit matter to be communicated in our report:
Information Other than the Standalone Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report Thereon
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Company's Annual report but does not include the standalone financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Annual report is expected to be made 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 will not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
When we read the Annual report, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance under SA 720 'The Auditor's responsibilities Relating to Other Information' and take necessary actions, as applicable under the relevant laws and regulations.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Standalone Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance
with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone financial statement that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, the Management and Board of Directors are responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless 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 reporting process.
Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee
that an audit 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 decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone financial statements.
We give in “Annexure A” a detailed description of Auditor's responsibilities for Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements.
Other Matter
The standalone financial statements of the Company for the previous year ended March 31, 2024, were audited by another firm of chartered accountants along with one of the joint statutory auditors of the Company i.e. Kapoor Patni & Associates, whose report dated May 29, 2024, expressed an unmodified opinion on those statements.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”), issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of Section 143 of the Act, we give in “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 best of our knowledge 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 far as it appears from our examination of those books, except for the matters stated in the paragraph 2(h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g).
(c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss including other comprehensive income, the Standalone Statement of Changes in Equity and the Standalone Statement of Cash Flow 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 Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors are disqualified as on
March 31, 2025 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act.
(f) The reservation relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in paragraph 2(b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) and paragraph 2(h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g).
(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to standalone financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such 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 accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 34(b) to the standalone financial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented
that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed 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 foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, 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 have been received by the Company from any person(s)
or entity(ies), including foreign entities (Funding Parties), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, as on the date of this audit report, that the Company shall, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on the audit procedures performed that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, and according to the information and explanations provided to us by the Management in this regard nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub¬ clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e) as provided under (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
v. The final dividend paid by the Company during the year in respect of the same declared for the previous year is in accordance with Section 123 of the Companies Act, 2013 to the extent it applies to payment of dividend. Further, the Company has not declared any dividend for the current financial year.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software, the erstwhile version from April 1, 2024 to October 2, 2024 and
migrated version from October 3, 2024 onwards, for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility, except that audit trail feature was not enabled in the migrated version for certain transactions tables at the application level. Further, in the earlier version, the audit trail was not enabled at the database level to log any direct changes and in the migrated version, which is managed and maintained by a third-party software service provider, we are unable to comment on the audit trail functionality at the database level due to inadequate coverage in the SOC report. Refer note 58 to the standalone financial statements.
Furthermore, where the audit trail feature was enabled, it has operated throughout the year for all transactions recorded in the accounting software. Also during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with in respect of such accounting softwares. Additionally, the audit trail feature of the prior year has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention to the extent it was enabled and recorded in the previous year.
3. I n our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the remuneration paid/ provided by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 read with Schedule V of the Act and the Rules thereunder.
For M S K A & Associates For Kapoor Patni & Associates
Chartered Accountants Chartered Accountants
ICAI Firm Registration No. 105047W ICAI Firm Registration No. 019927C
Vinod Gupta Abhinav Kapoor
Partner Partner
Membership No. 503690 Membership No. 419689
UDIN: 25503690BMNTAT6796 UDIN: 25419689BMIILC1620
Place: Jaipur Place: Jaipur
Date: May 30, 2025 Date: May 30, 2025
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