Heritage Foods Limited | 30th Annual Report 2021-22

Financial Statements Company Overview Statutory Reports 181 Independent Auditor’s Report To The Members of Heritage Foods Limited Report on the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements Opinion 1. We have audited the accompanying consolidated financial statements of Heritage Foods Limited (‘the Holding Company’) and its subsidiaries (the Holding Company and its subsidiaries together referred to as ‘the Group’), its associate and joint venture, as listed in Annexure 1, which comprise the Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022, the Consolidated Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Consolidated Cash Flow Statement and the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and a summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory information. 2. In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us and based on the consideration of the reports of the other auditor on separate financial statements and on the other financial information of a subsidiary, the aforesaid consolidated 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 (‘Ind AS’) specified under section 133 of the Act, read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, and other accounting principles generally accepted in India of the consolidated state of affairs of the Group, its associate and joint venture, as at 31 March 2022, and their consolidated profit (including other comprehensive income), consolidated cash flows and the consolidated changes in equity for the year ended on that date. Basis for Opinion 3. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing 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 Consolidated Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Group, its associate and joint venture 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 consolidated 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 together with the audit evidence obtained by the other auditors in terms of their reports referred to in paragraph 15 of the Other Matters section below, is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Key Audit Matter 4. Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the consolidated financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. 5. We have determined the matter described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report. Key audit matter How our audit addressed the key audit matter Revenue recognition Revenue from sale of goods is recognised when control of the products being sold is transferred to the customer and when there are no longer any unfulfilled obligations. The performance obligations in the contracts are fulfilled at the time of dispatch, delivery or upon formal customer acceptance depending on terms. Majority of the Holding Company’s sales arrangements are on a point-of-sale basis and requires little judgement to be exercised. Discounts are material and there are arrangements with varying terms based on schemes implemented throughout the year. There is a risk of revenue being overstated, resulting from pressure the management may feel to achieve performance targets at the reporting period end. Our audit included, but was not limited to, the following procedures: Ɣ Assessed the appropriateness of the revenue recognition accounting policies, including those relating to discounts in accordance with Ind AS 115 – Revenue from contracts with customers (‘Ind AS 115’). Ɣ Evaluated the integrity of the general information and technology control environment and tested the operating effectiveness of key IT application controls. Ɣ Evaluated the design and implementation of Holding Company’s controls in respect of revenue recognition, including discounts. Ɣ Performed substantive testing by selecting samples of revenue transactions recorded during the year by verifying the underlying documents, which included trip sheets, invoices, shipping documents and evidence of collection of receipts, as appropriate. Ɣ Performed substantive testing by selecting samples of discount transactions recorded during the year and comparing the parameters used in the calculation of the discounts with the relevant source documents (including invoices and schemes) to assess whether the methodology Consolidated