1. We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of lvalue Infosolutions Limited (“the Company”), which comprise the standalone Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2026, and 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 for the year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements, including material accounting policy information and other explanatory information in which are included the returns for the year ended on that date audited by the branch auditor of the Company’s branch located at Singapore.
2. 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 accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2026, and total comprehensive income (comprising of profit and other comprehensive income), changes in equity and its cash flows for the year then ended.
BASIS FOR OPINION
3. We conducted our audit 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 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 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.
KEY AUDIT MATTERS
4. Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
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Assessment of impairment to the carrying value of investment in subsidiary
(Refer Notes 2(q) and5a to the standalone financial statements)
The carrying amount of the Company’s investment in equity shares of a subsidiary, Quantanxt Technologies Private Limited (formerly known as ASPL Info Services Private Limited) (the “Subsidiary”) as at March 31,2026, is Rs. 575 lakhs.
The Company carries investments in subsidiaries at cost (less accumulated impairment loss, if any) and the Management reviews the carrying amount of such investments at each reporting date in accordance with Ind AS 36 ‘Impairment of Assets’. Where any indicators of impairment exist, the Management determines the recoverable amount of the investments using the ‘value-in-use’ approach and recognises an impairment loss if the carrying amount exceeds the recoverable amount.
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Our audit procedures included the following:
• Understood and evaluated the design and tested operating effectiveness of the controls related to Management’s impairment assessment of investments in subsidiaries.
• Evaluated Management’s basis for identifying impairment indicators (e.g., the Subsidiary’s financial position and performance).
• Evaluated the impairment methodology applied in accordance with the requirements under Ind AS 36 for the investment.
• Evaluated, with the assistance of auditor’s experts (where considered necessary):
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The Management has used the discounted cash flow (‘DCF’) model for estimating the recoverable amount of the Company’s investment in the Subsidiary for the purpose of carrying out the impairment assessment, which involves significant management judgement in estimation of the projected cash flows using assumptions such as discount rate, revenue growth rates and gross margin over the projection period and terminal growth rate.
We considered this to be a key audit matter due to significant management judgement and assumptions involved in estimating the recoverable amount.
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o the cashflow projections by testing the key management assumptions like discount rate, terminal growth rate, etc., and the other estimates used in the impairment analysis; and
o the valuation approach selected and methodology applied by the Management to determine the recoverable amount of the investment.
• Performed sensitivity analysis on the key assumptions such as revenue growth rates, gross margin, terminal growth rate and discount rate within a reasonably possible range to assess the impact of any change in these assumptions on the recoverable amount of the investment causing it to exceed the carrying amount.
• Tested arithmetical accuracy of computations involved in the DCF model.
• Assessed adequacy of the disclosures made in the standalone financial statements.
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OTHER INFORMATION
5. The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, but does not include the 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 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 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 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 and take appropriate action as applicable under the relevant laws and regulations.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGEMENT ANDTHOSE CHARGED WITH GOVERNANCE FOR THEFINANCIAL STATEMENTS
6. 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 Indian 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 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.
7. In preparing the financial statements, 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 Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
8. Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.
AUDITOR’S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDITOF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
9. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the 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 financial statements.
10. As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the 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 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 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 financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the 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 MATTER
14. The financial statements of 1 Branch located outside India, included in the standalone financial statements, which constitute total assets of Rs. 11,773 lakhs and net assets of Rs. 4,504 lakhs as at March 31, 2026, total revenue of Rs. 3,925 lakhs, total comprehensive income (comprising of profit and other comprehensive income) of Rs. 1,834 lakhs and net cash inflows
amounting to Rs. 936 lakhs for the year then ended, have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in its country and has been audited by other auditor under generally accepted auditing standards applicable in its country. The company’s management has converted the financial statements of the branch located outside India from the accounting principles generally accepted in its country to the accounting principles generally accepted in India. We have audited these conversion adjustments made by the company’s management. Our opinion in so far as it relates to the balances and affairs of such branch located outside India is based on the report of other auditor and the conversion adjustments prepared by the management of the Company and audited by us.
15. We did not audit the financial information of 2 Branches included in the standalone financial statements of the Company, which constitute total assets of Rs. 491 lakhs and net liability of Rs. 88 lakhs as at March 31,2026, total revenue of Rs. 171 lakhs, total comprehensive loss (comprising of loss and other comprehensive loss) of Rs. 257 lakhs and net cash outflows amounting to Rs. 74 lakhs for the year then ended. The unaudited financial information in respect of these branches has been provided to us by the management, and our opinion on the standalone financial statements of the Company and our report in terms of sub section (3) of Section 143 of the Act, in so far as it relates to the amounts and disclosures included in respect of these branches, is based solely on such unaudited financial information furnished to us. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us by the Management, these financial information are not material to the Company.
Our opinion on the financial statements and our report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements below, is not modified in respect of the above matters of our reliance on the work done and reports of the other auditor and the financial information certified by the management.
REPORT ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORYREQUIREMENTS
16. 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 the Annexure B a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
17. 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, the reports of the other auditor and proper returns adequate for the purposes of our audit have been received from the branches not visited by us except that the backup of certain books of accounts maintained in electronic mode has not been maintained on a daily basis on servers physically located in India during the year and the matters stated in paragraph 17(i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 (as amended).
(c) The reports on the accounts of the branch office of the Company audited under Section 143(8) of the Act by branch auditor have been sent to us and have been properly dealt with by us in preparing this report.
(d) 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 and with the returns received from the branches not visited by us.
(e) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act.
(f) 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 is disqualified as on March 31,2026, from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
(g) With respect to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith, reference is made to our remarks in paragraph 17(b) above and paragraph 17(i)(vi) below.
(h) 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 A”.
(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 financial statements - Refer Note 34 to the financial statements;
ii. The Company was not required to recognise a provision as at March 31, 2026 under the applicable law or Indian Accounting Standards, as it does not have any material foreseeable losses on long-term contracts. The Company did not have any long term derivative contracts as at March 31,2026.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended March 31,2026.
iv. (a) The management has represented that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in Note 46 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, 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, as disclosed in the Note 46 to the standalone financial statements, 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 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 (a) and (b) contain any material misstatement.
v . The Company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used core accounting software for maintaining its books of account, which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and that has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software, except that
(a) at the application layer where the audit log is not maintained in case of modification by certain users with specific access and,
(b) with respect to database which is operated by a third party service provider, in the absence of any information pertaining to audit trail in the independent service auditor’s report, we are unable to comment on whether the audit trail feature at database layer was enabled and operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the database.
Further, the Company has used another accounting software, which is operated by a third party service provider for maintaining
certain books of account and in the absence of the independent service auditor’s report, we are unable to comment on whether the audit trail feature of the aforesaid software was enabled and operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software.
During the course of performing our procedures, other than the aforesaid instances of audit trail not maintained where the question of our commenting does not arise, we did not notice any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.
Further, the audit trail, to the extent maintained in the prior year, has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
18. The Company has paid/provided for managerial remuneration in accordance with the requisite approvals mandated by the provisions of Section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act.
For Price Waterhouse & Co Chartered Accountants LLP
Firm Registration Number: 304026E/E-300009
Arunkumar Ramdas
Partner
Membership Number: 112433
UDIN: 26112433YDEOWO6801
Place: Mumbai
Date: May 27, 2026
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