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Advanced Enzyme Technologies Ltd. - Quarterly/Annual Result Disclosures and Notes dated 31 Mar 2021

Auditor and Management Disclosures and Notes for the annual results dated 31 Mar 2021

Notes:-

(i) The above standalone financial results of the Advanced Enzyme Technologies Limited ('the Company') were reviewed by the Audit Committee and thereafter approved by the Board of Directors at their meeting held on 29 May 2021. The statutory auditors have expressed unmodified opinion. The audit report will be filed with stock exchanges and will be available on the Company’s website. The above results has been prepared in accordance with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 (Ind AS) prescribed under Section 133 of the Companies Act, 2013 and other recognised accounting practices and policies in India.

(ii) The Company operates only in one business segment viz. 'manufacturing and sales of enzymes'.

(iii) The Company has allotted 4,500 equity shares during the quarter and 49,950 equity shares during the year ended 31 March 2021 to employees under the 'AETL Employee Stock Option Scheme 2015'- ("AETL ESOS 2015").

(iv) During the year, the Company has concluded transfer and assignment of its leasehold rights in the property situated at Jalna (BT park), Maharashtra with a tripartite agreement with Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation ('MIDC') and the transferees to relinquish its rights on the said leasehold property. Accordingly, the gain on the transaction aggregating Rs 7.2 million is included under “Other Income" in the quarter ended 31 December 2020.

(v) During the year the Company has computed its corporate tax liability as per lower tax rate available under Section 115BAA of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as introduced by the taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019. Accordingly, the Company has remeasured its deferred tax assets/ liability including unutilized Minimum Alternate Tax credit asset aggregating Rs 27.08 million and is expensing it out equally over a period of two quarters beginning from the quarter ended 31 December 2020.

(vi) On 11 January 2021, the Company completed the acquisition of 51 % of the paid up equity share capital in SciTech Specialties Private Limited ('SSPL') for a total consideration of Rs 316.26 million. SSPL is technology based contract manufacturing company specialising in effervescent granules and tablets.

(vii) The Company has considered internal and external information while assessing recoverability of its assets disclosed in the financial statement upto the date of approval of these financial results by the Board of Directors. Based on such assessment and considering the current economic indicators, the Company expects to recover the carrying amount of these assets. The Company has also considered the impact of COVID-19 on the business for the foreseeable future and has concluded that the Company has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern. The impact of the global health pandemic may be different from that estimated as at the date of approval of these financial results and the Company will continue to closely monitor any material changes to future economic conditions.

(viii) The figures for the quarter ended 31 March 2021 and corresponding quarter ended in the previous year as reported in these standalone financial results are the balancing figures between standalone audited figures in respect of the full financial year and the published year to date figures upto the end of the third quarter of the relevant financial year. Also, the figures up to the end of the third quarter had only been reviewed and not subjected to audit.

(ix) The Board of Directors in its meeting held on 29 May 2021 have proposed the final dividend for the financial year 2020-21 of Rs 0.90 per equity share and the same will be paid after approval of the shareholders in Annual General Meeting of the Company.

M.M. Kabra
Wholetime Director