Based on our risk assessment procedure, we have identified following key audit risks / key areas and have formulated audit processes to check controls and transactions relating thereto:
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Particulars
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Considerations
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Key Areas of Focus
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Revenue
recognition: Cut Off
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• There is a risk that Revenue is not recognized in the correct period to which the transaction pertains or not recognized as per applicable Ind AS.
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Verify that revenue is recorded when control transfers.
Check goods dispatched before year-end but invoiced later and vice versa.
Review FOB, CIF, and other terms to determine correct revenue recognition point.
Ensure goods in transit at period-end are not prematurely recognized as revenue.
Verify internal movements are not booked as revenue.
Examine period-end adjustments to prevent cut¬ off errors or management override.
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Particulars Considerations
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Key Areas of Focus
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Inventory valuation • Inventory represents a material balance on the Balance
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Attend periodical physical inventory counts
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Sheet. Assessing the Net Realizable Value (NRV)
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to evaluate the condition of stock and verify
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requires significant management judgment regarding
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management's identification of damaged or slow-
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future demand, technological obsolescence, and selling
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moving items.
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prices. Overstatement risk exists if slow-moving or
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Test a sample of inventory items by comparing
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damaged stock is not adequately written down to NRV.
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their cost to actual post-period-end selling prices realized.
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Assess whether provisioning policies appropriately reflect the expected recoverability of such inventory based on demand forecast, market conditions and turnover trends.
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Capital Expenditure • Capital expenditure decisions involve substantial capital
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Authorization & Classification: Vouch a sample of
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/ Property Plant outlay and judgment regarding whether costs meet
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CapEx additions to supplier invoices, contracts,
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& Equipment / recognition criteria under IAS 16 / AASB 116 (Capital
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and underlying board approvals to evaluate
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Depreciation vs. Expense). Additionally, assessing useful lives,
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whether items qualified for capitalization or were
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depreciation rates, and potential impairment indications
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repairs/maintenance.
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involves significant estimation uncertainty.
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Depreciation Policy Review: Assess the reasonableness of management’s estimated useful lives and depreciation methods against asset performance and industry practices.
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Asset Verification & Impairment: Perform physical checks of a sample of newly capitalized assets and review internal/external indicators of asset impairment.
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Contingent liabilities • Significant judgements and management estimates
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involved
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or claims not recorded in books.
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Evaluate controls over monitoring legal cases, issue tracking, and approval of guarantees.
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Review notices, assessment orders, appeals, and correspondence with tax authorities to identify pending tax matters.
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We have audited the Standalone Financial Statements of Hexagon Nutrition Limited (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), which comprise the Standalone Balance sheet as at March 31,2026, 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 on that date, and notes to the Standalone Financial Statements, including a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter 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, 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 Indian Accounting Standards (“Ind AS”) prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2026, its profit, its total comprehensive income, its 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 Companies Act, 2013. 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 together with
the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 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 audit opinion on Standalone Financial Statements.
Emphasis of matter
a. We draw attention to Note 52 to the Standalone Financial Statements, which describes the conversion of the Company’s Compulsorily Convertible Preference Shares (CCPS) into equity shares subsequent to the reporting date.
b. We draw attention to Note 53 to the Standalone Financial Statements, which describes the listing of the Company’s equity shares on the stock exchange subsequent to the reporting date.
c. We draw attention to Note 54 to the Standalone Financial Statements, which describes the merger of Hexagon Nutrition (Exports) Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, with Hexagon Nutrition Limited, the Holding Company.
Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements is not modified in respect of the above matters.
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 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. We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our reports.
Information other than the Standalone Financial Statements and Auditors’ Report thereon
The Company’s Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report but does not include the Standalone Financial Statements and our auditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do 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 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. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information; we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance 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 Companies Act, 2013 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, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the Ind AS and other 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 implementation and maintenance of 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 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, management 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 management 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 Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls system 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 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.
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 consolidated 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 believe that the audit evidence obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on 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 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 sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, 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. 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.
c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Standalone Statement of Cash Flows, and Standalone Statement of Changes in Equity 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, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2026 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors are disqualified as on March 31, 2026 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 over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure B”.
g) I n our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the managerial remuneration for the year ended March 31, 2026, has been paid / provided by the Company to its directors is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act.
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 does not have any pending litigations which would impact its financial position except as referred in Note 41 to the Standalone Financial Statements.
ii. The Company did not have any material foreseeable losses on long-term contracts including derivative contracts during the year ended March 31, 2026.
iii. There were no amounts which were 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, whether, 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, that the Company shall, whether, 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; and
(C) Based on such audit procedures that we have 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 (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
v. The dividend declared or paid during the year by the Company is in compliance with section 123 of the Act.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used an accounting software for maintaining books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit logs) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all the relevant transaction recorded in the software. Further, during the course of our Audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with and the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
For S K Patodia & Associates LLP
Chartered Accountants
Firm Registration Number: 112723W/ W100962
Dhiraj Lalpuria
Partner
Membership Number: 146268
UDIN: 26146268UGAADD8029
Place : Mumbai
Date : June 30, 2026
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