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Key Audit Matters
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How the Key Audit Matters was addressed in our audit
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Revenue Recognition from Sale of Metals and Metal Products
Description of the matter:
The Company’s revenue arises primarily from the sale of lead, copper and aluminium, together with their related products, to customers across diverse contract arrangements. Revenue is recognised at a point in time upon transfer of control of goods to the customer, measured at the transaction price allocated to each performance obligation, net of price adjustments and quality claims.
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Our audit procedures in respect of revenue recognition included the following:
• Obtained an understanding of the Company’s revenue recognition policies, end-to-end order-to- cash process, and controls over contract review and revenue cut-off.
• Evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of key internal controls over revenue recognition, including authorisation of customer contracts, dispatch and delivery confirmation, and recording of price and quality claims.
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We identified revenue recognition as a Key
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• Tested a sample of revenue transactions by agreeing
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Audit Matter for the following reasons:
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recorded revenues to underlying customer contracts,
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• The Company operates under diverse contractual arrangements with customers, involving varying delivery
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sales invoices, dispatch records, lorry receipts/bill of lading, and customer acknowledgements, to verify that control had transferred at the point of recognition.
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terms, price adjustment clauses, and
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• Performed cut-off testing around the financial year-
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quality claim provisions, each of which
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end to assess whether revenues were recognised in
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affects the timing and quantum of
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the correct accounting period, including review of
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revenue recognised.
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goods dispatched but not yet delivered and goods
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• Revenue recognition requires
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returned post year-end.
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management judgement in
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• Assessed the appropriateness of variable consideration
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determining: (i) the point at which
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recorded, including price claim adjustments and
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control transfers to the customer; (ii)
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quality deductions, by examining credit notes issued,
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the transaction price, particularly where
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claim correspondence with customers, and historical
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variable consideration such as price
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settlement patterns.
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claims and quality deductions applies; and (iii) the allocation of transaction price to performance obligations.
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• Performed analytical procedures on revenue by product line (lead, copper, aluminium) and compared recognised volumes and realisations against market
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• Given the materiality of revenues
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price indices and prior period trends to identify
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to the financial statements and the
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unexpected movements warranting further inquiry.
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judgement involved in applying Ind AS 115 - Revenue from Contracts with Customers, this area carries significant risk of misstatement, whether due to error or otherwise.
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• Assessed whether the disclosures in the financial statements in respect of revenue recognition policies, significant judgements, and disaggregation of revenue are in accordance with the requirements of Ind AS 115.
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(Refer Note 22 to the standalone financial statements)
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We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Jain Resource Recycling Limited(Formerly known as Jain Resource Recycling Private Limited) ("the Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2026, and the Statement of Profit and Loss, including Other Comprehensive loss, Statement of Changes in Equity and Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements, including 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 the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with 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, 2026, and profit (including other comprehensive loss), changes in equity and its cash flows 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 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 ("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 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 obtained by us 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 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 report.
INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE STANDALONE 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 Director’s report, Management Discussion and Analysis including annexures to the Board Report, Corporate Governance and Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting but does not include the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Director’s report, Management Discussion and Analysis including annexures to the Board Report, Corporate Governance and Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting 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 Director’s report, Management Discussion and Analysis including annexures to the Board Report, Corporate Governance and Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance under SA 720 ‘The Auditor’s responsibilities Relating to Other Information’.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGEMENT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS 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 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 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 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, the 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.
We give in "Annexure A” a detailed description of Auditor’s responsibilities for Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements.
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 Act, we give in "Annexure B” 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 except that in the absence of Independent Auditors SOC 2 report for the period March 01, 2026 to March 31, 2026, we are unable to comment whether back-up of the books of account and other books and papers maintained in electronic mode, have been kept in servers physically located in India on a daily basis for the period March 01, 2026 to March 31, 2026 and matters stated in paragraph 2(h) (vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g).
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including other comprehensive loss, the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account maintained for the purpose of preparation of the financial statements.
(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, 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) The reservation relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in paragraph 2(b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) and paragraph 2(h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g).
(g) 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 C”.
(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 has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 36 to the 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 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 it’s knowledge and belief, as disclosed in Note 52 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.
B. The Management has
represented, that, to the best of it’s knowledge and belief, as disclosed in Note 52 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, 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, and according to the information and explanations provided to us by the Management in this regard 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 mis¬ statement
. The Company has neither declared
nor paid any dividend during the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used two accounting softwares for maintaining its books of account, one of which is managed and maintained by a third-party software service provider and was implemented from April 01, 2025. Both the softwares have a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility at application level and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software’s at application level. Further, in respect of one accounting software there is no feature of recording audit trail(edit log) facility at database level.
In respect of the other accounting software, in absence of adequate coverage on the audit trail (edit log) in the Independent Auditors SOC 2 report for the period April 01, 2025 to
February 28, 2026 and in the absence of the Independent Auditors SOC 2 report for the period March 01, 2026 to March 31, 2026, we are unable to comment on the audit trail feature at the database level.(Refer Note 56 to the standalone financial statements)
Further, during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with. Additionally, the audit trail of prior years has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention to the extent it was enabled and recorded in prior years.
3. In our opinion, according to information, explanations given to us, the remuneration paid or provided by the Company to its directors is within the limits laid prescribed under Section 197 of the Act.
For M S K C & Associates LLP
Chartered Accountants ICAI Firm Registration Number - 001595S/S000168
Geetha Jeyakumar
Partner
Place: Chennai Membership No. 029409
Date: May 18, 2026 UDIN: 26029409YQBHZB5718
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