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July 2024

From Published Accounts

By Himanshu Kishnadwala, Chartered Accountant
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COMPILERS’ NOTE

As per the amendments to the Companies Act, 2013 and Rules thereto, for Financial Years commencing on or after 1st April, 2023, i.e., audit reports issued for FY 2023–24, the auditor needs to report on whether the accounting software used by a company has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and whether the same has been operated throughout the year and it has not been tampered. To assist auditors on this new reporting requirement, ICAI has, in February 2024, issued an Implementation Guide on Reporting on Audit Trail under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 (Revised 2024) Edition.

Given below are instances of modified reporting on the above for the year ended 31st March, 2024. (One such instance was also given in June 2024 issue.)

HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED

Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements

As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:

(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 for certain matters in respect of audit trail as stated in the paragraph 2B(f) below;

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