Fine Organic Industries Limited

Report on the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements

OPINION

1. We have audited the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements of Fine Organic Industries Limited (herein referred to as "the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income), the Statement of Changes in Equity, the Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the Standalone Financial Statements, including a summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory information (Collectively referred to as "the Standalone Financial Statements").

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 (herein referred to as "the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards (herein referred to as "Ind AS") prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, and their standalone profit (including other comprehensive income), their standalone statement of changes in equity and their standalone cash flows for the year ended as on date.

BASIS FOR OPINION

3. We conducted our audit of Standalone Financial Statement in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act, as amended. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of 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 (herein referred to as "the 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 made there under, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on Standalone Financial Statements.

KEY AUDIT MATTERS

4. 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.

5. 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.

A. Revenue Recognition

For the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company has recognized revenue from contracts with customers amounting to INR 2,20,519.45 lakhs.

Revenue from contracts with customers is recognized when control of the goods is transferred to the customer at an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods.

The Company has generally concluded that as its principle, it typically controls the goods before transferring them to the customer.

The variety of terms that define when controls are transferred to the customer, as well as the high value of the transactions, give rise to the risk that revenue is not recognized in the correct period.

Revenue is measured net of returns and allowances, cash discounts, trade discounts and volume rebates (collectively 'discount and rebates'). There is a risk that these discount and rebates are incorrectly recorded as it also requires a certain degree of estimation, resulting in understatement of the associated expenses and accrual.

Revenue is also an important element of how the Company measures its performance. The Company focuses on revenue as a key performance measure, which could create an incentive for revenue to be recognized before the risk and rewards have been transferred.

Accordingly, due to the significant risk associated with revenue recognition in accordance with terms of Ind AS 115 'Revenue from contracts with customers', it was determined to be a key audit matter in our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements.

{Refer to Note No. 29 of the Standalone Financial Statements}.

Auditors’ Response:

Our audit procedures included the following:

• Assessed the Company's revenue recognition procedure / Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's).

Assessed the revenue recognition policy of the company along with details of any inconsistencies with Ind AS 115 'Revenue from Contracts with Customers'.

• Assessed the design and tested the operating effectiveness of internal controls related to revenue recognition, discounts and rebates.

• Performed 10 sample tests each for sale transactions (Domestic and exports, including SEZs) undertaken between September 2024 to March 2025 and accordingly traced sales invoices, sales orders, delivery challans and other related documents. Additionally, in respect of these samples, checked that the revenue has been recognized as per the terms.

• To test cut off selected sample of sales transactions made pre-year and post-year end, agreeing the period of revenue recognition to third party support, such as transporter invoice and customer confirmation of receipt of goods.

• Assessed the methodology for recording of discount/ rebates on sample basis.

• Assessed whether the cash discount, trade discounts, etc. are in adherence with the policy of the company including its accounting impact.

• Performed analytical procedures of revenue by streams to identify any unusual trends.

• The Company has provided confirmations from customers on a sample basis to support the existence of trade receivables and assessed the relevant disclosures made in the Standalone Financial Statements.

• The Company has provided balance confirmation of 10 Customers each on sample basis (Domestic and exports) along with its reconciliations.

• In accordance with SA 505, we have obtained external confirmation from Trade Receivables Parties on a sample basis and reconciliations were provided wherever necessary.

B. Allowance for Credit Losses

The Company applies 'simplified approach' which requires expected lifetime losses to be recognised from initial recognition of the trade receivables. The Company uses historical default rates to determine impairment loss on the portfolio of trade receivables and adjusted to reflect current and estimated future economic conditions of its customers, their industry and geography of operations.

At every reporting date these historical default rates are reviewed and changes in the forwardlooking estimates are analysed.

In calculating expected credit loss, the Company also considers other related information for its customers, including credit periods, to estimate the probability of default in future and has taken into account estimates of possible effect from any uncertain events / litigations etc. The Management has exercised significant judgement in estimating the allowance for credit losses.

(Refer to Note No. 14 of the Standalone Financial Statements)

Auditor’s Response:

Our audit procedures to test the effectiveness of controls over allowances for credit loss includes the following:

• Trade Receivables ageing report as on balance sheet date along with comparison to previous year.

• Completeness and accuracy of information used in the estimation of probability of default.

• Status of recovery trade receivables as on April 25, 2025 out of the total outstanding as at March 31, 2025.

• Verification of calculation of the allowance for credit losses.

• Testing the arithmetical accuracy and computation of the allowance prepared by the Management.

Verification of exchange gains/ losses arising from retranslation and forward contract and its accounting impact along with its consideration in computation of the allowances of credit losses.

• Testing the allowance for credit loss through alternate scenarios, including profiling of customers based on their attributes with various sensitivities around approach, the assumptions and reviewing the possible effect of any uncertain events / litigations to validate the management estimates.

C. Evaluation of uncertain tax imposition

The Company has material uncertain tax imposition including matters under dispute which involves significant judgement to determine the possible outcome of these disputes.

{Refer to Note No. 41 of the Standalone Financial Statements}

Auditors’ Response:

• The Company has provided details of all pending assessments including assessments that have been re-open and demands for the year ended March 31, 2025.

Verification of latest correspondence made to the relevant tax authorities for the pending assessments and status of such pending assessments as on reporting date.

Assessed managements evaluation of such assessment on company's financial position as of the reporting date, including disclosure and recognition of any certain or contingent liabilities.

• We have obtained Management note/ view on a possible outcome and its impact on the financial position of the Company for all pending assessments and disputed matters under litigation.

D. Information Technology (IT) systems and controls over financial reporting.

The Company's financial reporting process is heavily reliant on a complex IT environment, including automated accounting procedures and system interfaces and accordingly there is a risk of accuracy and completeness of financial reporting. Given the large volume of transactions— particularly in areas such as revenue recognition, account receivables/ payables and raw material consumption—robust IT systems and effective internal controls are essential to ensure the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the financial information.

We identified IT systems and related controls over financial reporting as a key audit matter due to the following:

a) The complexity of the IT systems involved, along with significance of automated control and system generated reports.

b) Critical role in processing significant transaction volumes and safeguarding financial data.

c) The inter-company reconciliation, preparation of standalone financial statements along with various working that are essential part of the financial statements remains a manual process, increasing the risk of undetected errors.

d) With growing digital operations, the risk of cybersecurity threats also becomes more significant, emphasizing the need for strong IT governance, access controls, and data protection measures.

e) The risk for unauthorised access, system change, common access that could potentially impact financial reporting.

Auditors’ Response:

Obtained and reviewed the Company's documented policies, processes, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) governing the use of IT systems relevant to financial reporting.

Assessed the digital logs maintained for modification of financial data by using system logins, role-based permissions. Testing on sample user accounts to confirm that only authorized person could view or change financial data, and that their access matched their job roles.

Conducted inquiries with the company's IT team and walkthrough to the overall security architecture of the company's IT system in order to determine the flow of financial data and the handling of any key IT-related threats during the year.

Assessed the operating effectiveness of IT application controls within financial reporting processes, ensuring their alignment with internal control objectives.

Assessed the automated and manual controls over financial reporting thereby ensuring reliability of the financial statements.

Reviewed backup policy and procedure over financial reporting and conducted detailed discussion over data backup system plan in case of any uncertain event.

INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE STANDALONE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND AUDITOR’S REPORT THEREON

6. The Company's Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Directors' report

including Annexures to Directors' Report, Management Discussion and Analysis Report, Annual Report, Business Responsibility Report, but does not include the Consolidated and Standalone Financial Statements and our auditor's report thereon.

Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

7. In connection with our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the Standalone Financial Statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.

If, based on the work we have performed we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

MANAGEMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY AND THOSE CHARGEDWITH GOVERNANCE FOR THE STANDALONE FINANCIALSTATEMENTS

8. The Company's Board of Directors are responsible for the matters specified 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, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the Indian accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 (as amended) and accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includes the 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 the 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 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.

9. In preparing the Standalone Financial Statements, management and 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 management/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 are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.

AUDITOR'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE AUDIT OF THESTANDALONE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

10. 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.

11. 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 risk 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 financial 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 system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.

• Evaluate the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the management.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of the 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 Standalone 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 Standalone Financial Statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

12. Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the Standalone Financial Statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the Standalone Financial Statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in

(i) Planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and

(ii) To evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the Standalone Financial Statements.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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 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

16. We draw your attention to Note No. 52 of the Standalone Financial Statements relating to the resumption of manufacturing operations at the Badlapur manufacturing unit (Plant W124- A) from November 28, 2024. These operations had been disrupted since January 18, 2024 due to a fire incident that occurred at an adjacent plant. Our report on the statement is not modified in respect of this matter.

REPORT ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORYREQUIREMENTS

17. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order"), issued by the Central Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in the ‘Annexure - I’ a statement on the matters specified in paragraph 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.

18. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit, we report to the extent applicable 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 of the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements.

b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law relating to preparation of the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements have been kept so far as it appears from our examination of those books.

c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income), Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealt with by this report are in agreement with the relevant books of account.

d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act, read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rule, 2015 (as amended).

e) On the basis of the written representations received from the Directors of the Company as on March 31, 2025, taken on record by the Board of Directors of the Company, none of the directors of the Company incorporated in India is disqualified as on March 31, 2025, from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.

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-II’. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls over financial reporting.

19. 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:

a) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position, (if any) in its Standalone Financial Statements.

b) The Company has made Provision, as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, for material foreseeable losses, if any, on longterm contracts including derivative contracts in its Standalone Financial Statements.

c) There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.

d) This clause is omitted vide notification dated March 24, 2021, in the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Amendment Rules, 2021 effective from April 01, 2021.

e) (i) The management has represented that, to

the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (Which are material either individually or in 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 persons or entities, 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 ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") by or on behalf of the Company or

• provide any guarantee, security or the like to or on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.

(ii) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (Which are material either individually or in aggregate) have been received by the Company from any persons or entities, 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 ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") by or on behalf of the Funding Party or

• provide any guarantee, security or the like from or on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and

(iii) Based on such audit procedures as considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under subclause (e) (i) and (e) (ii) contain any material misstatement.

f) The final dividend paid by the Company during the year in respect of the same declared for the previous year is in accordance with section 123 of the Companies Act 2013 to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.

As stated in Note No. 41 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. The dividend declared is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to declaration of dividend.

g) Based on our examinations which included test checks, the company has used an accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log facility) as prescribed in Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors Rules) 2014 (as amended) and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.

As per the Proviso to rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, reporting under Rule 11(g) of Companies (Audit and Auditors Rules) 2014 on preservation of Audit Trail the company has complied with the statutory requirements for record retention and has preserved an audit trail in its records for the financial year ended March 31, 2025.

20. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirements of section 197(16) of the Act, as amended:

In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the remuneration paid / provided by the Company to its directors during the current year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act. The remuneration paid to any director is not in excess of the limit laid down under Section 197 of the Act.

ICAIUDIN:25137872BMLBZN9528 For B Y & Associates

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CA Maulik N. Lodaya

Partner

Membership Number: 137872 Mumbai : May 8, 2025