We have audited the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements of DIFFUSION ENGINEERS LIMITED ("the Company"), which comprise the balance sheet as at March 31, 2025, and the Statement of Profit and Loss including the statement of Other Comprehensive Income and the Cash Flows Statement and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant 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 March 31, 2025, its profit including other comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs), as 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 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
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the standalone Ind AS Financial Statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2025. 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. For each matter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matter is provided in that context.
We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the standalone financial statements section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying standalone financial statements.
Key audit matters
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How our audit addressed the key audit matter
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Revenue recognition
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Revenue is recognized when control of the goods are
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Our audit procedures included the following:
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transferred to the customer at an amount that reflects
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Evaluated Company's revenue recognition policy and its
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the consideration to which the Company expects to be
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compliance in terms of Ind AS 115 'Revenue from contracts with
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entitled in exchange for those goods. During the year
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customers'.
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ended March 31, 2025, the Company has recognized revenue amounting to ' 3160.07 millions. Terms of sales arrangements, including the timing of transfer of
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• Assessed the design and tested the operating effectiveness of internal controls related to revenue recognition.
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control, delivery specifications including incoterms in
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• Evaluated the general information and technology control
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case of exports, timing of recognition of sales require
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environment and tested the operating effectiveness of key IT
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significant judgment in determining revenues. The
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application controls over recognition of revenue.
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risk is, therefore, that revenue may not get recognised
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• Tested samples of individual sales transaction and traced to
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in the correct period. Therefore, there is a significant
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sales invoices, sales orders, (received from customers) and
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risk associated with timing of revenue recognition in
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other related documents. Further, in respect of the samples
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accordance with terms of Ind AS 115 'Revenue from
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tested, reviewed recognition of revenue when the conditions
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contracts with customers'. Accordingly, due to the
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for revenue recognitions are met.
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significant risk associated with revenue recognition in
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• Selected sample of sales transactions made pre- and post-
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accordance with terms of Ind AS 115 'Revenue from
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year-end, traced the period of revenue recognition to
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contracts with customers', it has been determined to
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underlying documents.
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be a key audit matter in our audit of the Standalone
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• Performed procedures to identify any unusual trends of
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financial statements.
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revenue recognition.
• Assessed the relevant disclosures made within the standalone financial statements.
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IT systems and controls over financial reporting.
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We identified IT systems and controls over financial
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We applied the following audit procedures among others, to obtain
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reporting as a key audit matter for the Company
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sufficient and appropriate audit evidence:
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because its financial accounting and reporting
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• Assessed the complexity of the IT environment through
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systems are fundamentally reliant on IT systems and
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discussion with the IT team and identified IT applications that
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IT controls to process significant transaction volumes,
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are relevant to our audit;
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specifically with respect to revenue and raw material
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• Assessed the design and evaluation of the operating
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consumption. Also, due to large transaction volumes
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effectiveness of IT general controls over program development
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and the increasing challenge to protect the integrity of the Company's systems and data, cyber security
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and changes, access to program and data and IT operations;
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has become more significant. Automated accounting
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• Performed inquiry procedures with the IT team of the
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procedures and IT environment controls, which include
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Company in respect of the overall security architecture and
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IT governance, IT general controls over program
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any key threats addressed by the Company in the current year;
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development and changes, access to program and data
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• Assessed the design and evaluation of the operating
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and IT operations, IT application controls and interfaces
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effectiveness of IT application controls in the key processes
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between IT applications are required to be designed
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impacting financial reporting of the Company;
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and to operate effectively to ensure accurate financial
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• Assessed the operating effectiveness of controls relating to
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reporting.
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data transmission through the different IT systems to the financial reporting systems.
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Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements
The Company's 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 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 the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standard) Rules, 2015, as amended. 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 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 are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the 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 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 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 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 for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 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, 2016 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act (herein after referred to as the "Order"), and on the basis of such checks and records of the Company as we consider appropriate and according to the information and explanations given to us, we give in the "Annexure A", a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
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 Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d) I n our opinion, the aforesaid financial statement comply with the Accounting Standards referred to in section 133 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Rule 7 of the Companies (Account) Rules 2015.
e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31,2025, from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Companies Act, 2013.
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" Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls over financial reporting;
g) I n our opinion, the managerial remuneration for the year ended March 31, 2025 has been paid / provided by the Company to its directors in accordance with the provisions of section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act and
h) With respect to other matters to be included in the Auditors' Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our knowledge and belief and according to the information and explanations given to us, we report as under:
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations as at March 31, 2025, if any, on its financial position in its 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 was no amount required to be transferred to the Investor Education and
Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended March 31, 2025;
(iii) a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, 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 or entity, including foreign entity ("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 (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any person or entity, including foreign entity ("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;
c) Based on the audit procedures that were 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) & (b) contain any material misstatement.
(v) The final dividend paid by the Company during the year in respect of that declared for the previous year is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.
As stated in Note No 14 to the standalone financial statements, the Board of Directors of the Company have proposed final dividend for the year which is subject to the
approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
(vi) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software's for maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 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's. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
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 financial year ended March 31, 2025.
For PGS & Associates
Chartered Accountants Firm Registration No.: 0122384W UDIN: 25111592BMMJFJ8535
Premal H Gandhi
Partner
Membership Number: 111592
Place: Mumbai Date: 15th May 2025
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