Heritage Foods Limited | 32nd Annual Report 2023-24

175 HERITAGE FOODS LTD | 32ND ANNUAL REPORT 2023-24 Standalone STRATEGIC REVIEW STATUTORY REPORT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS received by the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (‘the 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 performed as considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the management representations under sub-clauses (a) and (b) above contain any material misstatement. v. As stated in note 33 to the accompanying standalone financial statements, the final dividend paid by the Company during the year ended 31 March 2024 in respect of such dividend declared in the previous year is in accordance of Section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to payment of dividend. The Board of Directors of the Company have proposed final dividend for the year ended 31 March 2024 which is subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. The dividend declared is in accordance with Section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to declaration of dividend. vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company, in respect of financial year commencing on 1 April 2023, has used an accounting software for maintaining its books of account 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 except that audit trail feature was not enabled at the database level for the accounting software to log any direct data changes, as described in note 49 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 in respect of the accounting software where such feature is enabled. For Walker Chandiok & Co LLP Chartered Accountants Firm’s Registration No.: 001076N/N500013 Sanjay Kumar Jain Partner Membership No.: 207660 UDIN: 24207660BKERHW5646 Place: Hyderabad Date: 29 May 2024

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