We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Zomato Limited ("the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024 and the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Cash Flows and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatory information, which includes Foodie Bay Employees ESOP Trust ("trust") (herein 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 and based on the consideration of report of the other auditor on financial statements of Foodie Bay Employees ESOP Trust ("trust") referred to in the Other Matters section below 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 the 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, 2024 and its profit, total comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity 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 Responsibility
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 made thereunder and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us and the audit evidence obtained by the other auditor in terms of their reports referred to in the Other Matters section below, is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Emphasis of Matter
We draw attention to Note 39 to the standalone financial statements relating to the show cause notices (SCNs) received by the Company from GST authorities in respect of GST on delivery charges. The Company, supported by the external expert's advice, is of the view that, it has a strong case on merits. Given the uncertainty involved, the ultimate outcome will be ascertained on the disposal of above matter.
Our conclusion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key Audit Matters
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 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 matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
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Impairment of investment in a subsidiary
(Refer note 5 & 41 of the standalone financial statement)
Investments in subsidiaries are accounted for at cost less impairment in the Company's standalone financial statements;
If impairment indicators exist, the recoverable amounts of the investments in subsidiaries are estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss, if any. Any such impairment loss is recognised in the Statement of Profit and Loss;
During the current year, based on identified impairment indicators, management has carried out impairment assessment by comparing the carrying value of these investments to their recoverable amount to determine whether an impairment was required to be recognized.
We considered the assumptions relating to future revenue growth and the valuation assumptions, specifically, the assumptions relating to weighted average cost of capital and terminal growth rate, used in estimation of recoverable value of the investment in Zomato Hyperpure Private Limited (with carrying value of INR 1,664 Crores as on March 31, 2024) and Blink Commerce Private Limited (with Carrying value of INR 6,248 Crores as on March 31, 2024) as key audit matter due to the significance of the investment amount and the significant estimates and judgement involved in estimation of these assumptions.
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Principal audit procedures performed:
• Evaluated the design, implementation and tested the operating effectiveness of relevant internal controls relating to impairment assessment of investment in subsidiary.
• Evaluated the reasonableness of the business assumptions relating to future revenue growth;
• Evaluated the objectivity and competency of the specialist engaged by the Company and reviewed the valuation report issued by such specialist;
• We have used our valuation specialists to assess overall reasonableness of the assumptions used particularly those relating to the weighted average cost of capital and terminal growth rate;
• Performed sensitivity analysis on the key assumptions such as weighted average cost of capital and terminal growth rate;
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Fair valuation of investment in other entities
(Refer note 5 & 33 of the standalone financial statement)
The Company has made investments in CureFit Healthcare Private Limited, BigFoot Retail Solutions Private Limited, Samast Technologies Private Limited and Adonmo Private Limited where the aggregate carrying value of these investments as on March 31, 2024 is INR 1,939 crores. These investments are measured at Fair Value through Other Comprehensive Income ('FVTOCI') as at March 31, 2024.
We considered the valuation assumptions relating to weighted average cost of capital, terminal growth rate, revenue multiple and the methodology in estimation of fair value of these investments as a key audit matter due to the significance of the investment amount and the significant estimates and judgement involved in determination of fair value.
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Principal audit procedures performed:
• Evaluated the design, implementation and tested operating effectiveness of relevant internal controls relating to determination of the fair value of investment in the said entities.
• Evaluated the objectivity and competence of the specialist engaged by the Company and reviewed the valuation report issued by such specialist.
• With the assistance of our valuation specialists, we have assessed overall reasonableness of the methodology used and assumptions used particularly those relating to the weighted average cost of capital, terminal growth rate and revenue multiple.
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Revenue Recognition
(Refer note 20 & 2.2.x of the standalone financial statements)
The Company provides an e-commerce platform that enables merchants to sell their food items to users through the platform. The Company mainly generates revenue through commission revenue.
The Company's revenue process is largely automated and relies significantly on its IT systems.
We considered accuracy of revenue relating to food delivery as a key audit matter because of the complexity of the IT systems and significance of volumes of data processed by the IT systems.
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Principal audit procedures performed:
• We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of
(i) the general IT controls, automated controls and control over system generated reports relevant for revenue recognition by involving our IT specialist;
(ii) controls over recording of revenue relating to food delivery business; (iii) control over determination of commission rate and (iv) control over reconciliations performed between the commission revenue recorded and amount received from payment gateway;
• We tested inter se reconciliations between reports generated from relevant IT systems with general ledger;
• We tested, on a sample basis, underlying contracts, identifying the key terms and attributes from the contracts and checking them against the underlying data from the system used in the transaction processes and then recalculating the revenue amount.
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Information Other than the 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 Board's report, but does not include the consolidated financial statements, standalone financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Board 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 during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
• When we read the Board's report if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance as required under SA 720 'The Auditor's responsibilities Relating to Other Information'.
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 including other comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including 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 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 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, management and Board of Directors is 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 intend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Company's Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Auditor's Responsibility 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 financial controls 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 standalone 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.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting 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.
• Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the Company which include the trust to express an opinion on the standalone financial statements. We are responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the audit of the financial statements of such entities included in the standalone financial statements of which we are the independent auditors. For the trust included in the standalone financial statements, which have
been audited by other auditor remain responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the audits carried out by them. We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalone financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the standalone financial statements.
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 financial controls 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.
Other Matters
We did not audit the financial statements of trust included in the standalone financial statements of the Company whose financial statements reflect total assets of INR 25 crores as at March 31, 2024 and total revenue of INR Nil for the year ended on that date, as considered in the standalone financial statements. The financial statements of trust have been audited by the other auditor whose reports
have been furnished to us by the management and our opinion in so far as it relates to the amounts and disclosures included in respect of the trust and our report in terms of subsection (3) of Section 143 of the Act, in so far as it relates to trust, is based solely on the report of such other auditor.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements and our report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements below is not modified in respect of these matters.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit and on the consideration of the reports of other auditor on the separate financial statement, referred to in the Other Matters section above, 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, except for not complying with requirements of Audit trail as stated in (i)(vi) 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.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the relevant 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 March 31, 2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2024 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 standalone financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer
to our separate Report in "Annexure A". Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls with reference to standalone financial statements.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirements of section 197(16)of the Act, as amended,
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.
h) The Modification relating to complying with the requirements of audit trial is as stated in paragraph (b) above.
i) 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, as amended 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.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company during the year March 31, 2024.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in the notes to the accounts no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) 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, as disclosed in the notes to accounts, no funds (which are material either individually or in aggregate ) 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, 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, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us or other auditor 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 company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year and has not proposed final dividend for the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used
accounting software for maintaining its books of account for the year ended March 31, 2024 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software, except that:
(a) in respect of certain accounting software, audit trail was not enabled at the database level to log any direct data changes,
(b) in respect of an accounting software for maintenance of payroll records, operated by third party software service provider, in the absence of an independent auditor's system and organization controls report covering the requirement of audit trail at database level, we are unable to comment whether audit trail feature at database level was enabled and operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software or whether there were any instances of the audit trail feature been tampered with and
(c) in respect of an accounting software, for maintenance of purchase records for the period from August 17, 2023 operated by a third party software service provider, in the absence of an independent auditor's system and organization controls report covering the requirement of audit trail at database level, we are unable to comment whether audit trail feature of the software at database level was enabled and operated from August 17, 2023 for all relevant transactions recorded in the software or whether there were any instances of the audit trail feature been tampered with.
Further, during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with in respect of the accounting software for which the audit trail feature was operating.
As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1, 2023 reporting under Rule 11 (g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record retention is not applicable for the year ended March 31, 2024.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in "Annexure B" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
For Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Chartered Accountants (Firm's Registration No. 015125N)
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Vikas Khurana
(Partner)
Place: Gurugram (Membership No. 503760)
Date: May 13, 2024 UDIN: 24503760BKFDGV2205
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