Tech Mahindra Limited
Report on the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
OPINION
We have audited the standalone financial statements of Tech Mahindra Limited (the "Company”) which comprise the standalone balance sheet as at 31 March 2024, 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 policies 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 ("Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31 March 2024, and its profit and 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 Section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those SAs 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 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 we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on the standalone financial statements.
EMPHASIS OF MATTER
We draw attention to note 37B to the standalone financial statements, which describes in detail certain matters relating to erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited ("erstwhile Satyam”), amalgamated with the Company with effect from 1 April 2011. In accordance with the Scheme approved by the Honourable High Court of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, the Company has presented separately under "Suspense Account (net)” claims made by 37 companies in the City Civil Court, for alleged advances amounting to INR 12,304 million, to erstwhile Satyam. The Company’s management, on the basis of current legal status, lack of documentation to support the validity of the claims and external legal opinion believes that these claims will not be payable on final adjudication.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
KEY AUDIT MATTER
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the standalone financial statements of the current period. 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.
KEY AUDIT MATTER
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Revenue recognition on fixed price development contracts
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See Note 2.9 and 45 to standalone financial statements
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The key audit matter
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How the matter was addressed in our audit
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The Company engages in fixed price development contracts, including contracts with multiple performance obligations. Revenue recognition in such contracts involves judgments relating to identification of distinct performance obligations, determination of transaction price for such performance obligations and the appropriateness of the basis used to measure revenue over a period.
In case of fixed price development contracts where performance obligations are satisfied over a period of time, revenue is recognised using the percentage of completion method based on management’s estimate of contract efforts.
The estimation of total efforts or costs involves significant judgement and is assessed throughout the period of the contract to reflect any changes based on the latest available information.
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Our audit procedures included:
• Obtained an understanding of the systems, processes and controls for evaluation of fixed price development contracts to identify distinct performance obligations and recognition of revenue.
• Evaluated the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls relating to recording of the contract value, determining the transaction price, allocation of consideration to performance obligations, measurement of efforts incurred and process around estimation of efforts required to complete the performance obligations and the most appropriate method to recognise revenue.
• On a selected sample of contracts, we tested that the revenue recognised is in accordance with the revenue recognition accounting standard. We:
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- evaluated the identification of performance obligations;
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- considered the terms of the contracts to determine the transaction price, including adjustments for any sums payable to the customer;
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- determined if the Company’s evaluation of the method used for recognition of revenue is appropriate;
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- tested the Company’s calculation of efforts incurred, estimation of contract efforts including estimation of onerous obligations if any, through a retrospective review of efforts incurred with estimated efforts.
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Assessed the appropriateness of the related disclosures in the financial statements.
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Impairment of investments
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See Note 2.8 and 36 to standalone financial statements
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The key audit matter
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How the matter was addressed in our audit
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The Company has investment in subsidiaries, associates and joint venture. These investments are accounted for at cost, less impairment. If triggers for impairment exist on the balance sheet date, the recoverable amounts of the above investments are estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss, if any.
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Our audit procedures included:
• Evaluated impairment risk and assessed whether triggers exist for any investments based on consideration of external and internal factors affecting the value and performance of the investments.
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Determination of triggers for impairment in value of these investments and recoverable amount, involves significant estimates and judgements, including the cash flow projections and sensitivity analysis of the key assumptions.
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Obtained management assessment of recoverable amount for investments where impairment risk is identified.
Where management has used an independent valuer, evaluated the independent valuer’s competence, capabilities and objectivity, and assessing the valuation methodology used by the independent valuer to estimate the fair value of investments.
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The key audit matter
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How the matter was addressed in our audit
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• Evaluated the reasonableness of cash flow projections and assessed the underlying key assumptions in management’s valuation models used to determine recoverable amount considering external data, including assumptions of projected margins, revenue growth rates, terminal growth rates, discount rates.
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• Assessed the sensitivity of the assumptions on the impairment assessment and assessed the forecasts against the historical performance.
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• Engaged independent valuation specialists to assist in the evaluation of assumptions and methodologies used by the Company in assessment of recoverable value of certain investments, as appropriate.
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• Assessed the appropriateness of the related disclosures in the financial statements.
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OTHER INFORMATION
The Company’s Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Company’s annual report, but does not include the financial statements and auditor’s report(s) thereon. The Company’s 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 Company’s annual report, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance and take necessary actions, as applicable under the relevant laws and regulations.
MANAGEMENT’S AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE STANDALONE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The Company’s Management and Board of Directors are 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 state of affairs, profit/ loss and other comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) 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 judgments 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 statements 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 is 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.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, 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, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls with reference to financial statements in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the Management and Board of Directors.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of the Management and Board of Directors use of the going concern basis of accounting in preparation of standalone financial statements and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material
uncertainty exists related to events or conditions 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’s report to the related disclosures in the standalone 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 of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease 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 underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other 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 that were of most significance in the audit of the standalone financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
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 Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in the "Annexure A” a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 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 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 2B(f) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
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 flows 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 Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act.
e. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 01 April 2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 March 2024 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
f. the modification relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in the paragraph 2(A) (b) above on reporting under Section 143(3) (b) and paragraph 2B(f) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
g. With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B”.
B. 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:
a. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations as at 31 March 2024 on its financial position in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 31, 37 and 38 to the standalone financial statements.
b. The Company has made provision, as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, for material foreseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts including derivative contracts -Refer Note 33B and 48 to the standalone financial statements.
c. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
d (i) The management has represented that, to the best of it’s knowledge and belief, as disclosed in the Note 55(ii) to the standalone financial statements, 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.
(ii) The management has represented that, to the best of it’s knowledge and belief, as disclosed in the Note 55(ii) to the standalone financial statements, no funds have been received by the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign
Place: Bengaluru Date: 25 April 2024
entities ("Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, 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 Parties ("Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(iii) Based on the audit procedures
performed that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, 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 (i) and (ii) above, contain any material misstatement.
e. With reference to the dividend declared or paid during the year by the Company incorporated in India:
(i) The interim dividend declared or paid during the year by the Company is in compliance with Section 123 of the Companies Act, 2013;
(ii) 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 for dividend; and
(iii) As noted in Note 18 to the standalone financial statements, the Board of Directors of the Company have proposed final dividend for the year subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. The dividend declared is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to declaration of dividend.
f. Based on our examination which included test checks, except for instances mentioned below, the Company has used accounting softwares for maintaining its books of account which have the feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all the relevant transactions recorded in the respective softwares.
i. The feature of audit trail (edit log) was not enabled in full at the application layer of the accounting softwares in respect of the revenue system, payroll system and consolidation system and in respect of certain fields and tables of the accounting software used for maintaining the general ledger; and
ii. The feature of audit trail (edit log) was not enabled at the database layer to log any direct data changes in the accounting softwares used for maintaining books of accounts relating to the general ledger system, revenue system, payroll system and consolidation system.
During the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.
C. With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditor’s Report under Section 197(16) of the Act:
In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the remuneration paid/payable by the Company to its directors during the current year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act. The remuneration paid/ payable to any director is not in excess of the limit laid down under Section 197 of the Act. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has not prescribed other details under Section 197(16) of the Act which are required to be commented upon by us.
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