We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Gokul Refoils & Solvent Limited ("the Company"), which comprise theBalance sheet as at March 31,2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income), the Statement of changes in equity,the Cashflow Statement for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of Significant Accounting policiesand other explanatory information^ (hereinafter referred to as the standalone financial statements).
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid financial statements give theinformation required by the Companies Act 2013 ("Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the IndianAccounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 as amended(" Ind AS") and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2025, and its profit,total comprehensive income, the changes in equity and cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards on auditing specified under section 143 (10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Ourresponsibilities under those Standards are further described in the auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section ofour report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the code of ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Indiatogether with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the rulesthereunder, 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 is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on the standalone financialstatements
Key audit matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements of thecurrent period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinionthereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have determined the matters described below to be the key auditmatters to be communticated in our report.
The Key Audit Matter :
Internal Control over Financial Reporting:
While the Company has limited turnover at the standalone level, it forms part of a group with substantial operations managed through its whollyowned subsidiary. As a result, internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) at the Company level must be appropriately tailored to reflect its rolein the consolidated structure while maintaining integrity and compliance at the standalone level.
We considered this a key audit matter due to the risk that, despite a strong group-wide control environment, key standalone control activities—especially those embedded in financial close processes and related party transactions—could be deprioritized, increasing the risk of undetectedmisstatements."
How the matter was addressed in our audit:
Our audit procedures included, among others:
• Assessing the design and implementation of key ICFR controls configured within the Company's SAP system.
• Reviewing system-generated reports, workflows, and access controls to verify segregation of duties and proper authorization protocols.
• Evaluating automated controls within SAP relevant to revenue recognition, expense accounting, and intercompany transactions.
• Testing the integrity of system logic and configurations impacting financial reporting.
Based on our audit procedures, no material weaknesses in the design or operating effectiveness of key system-based controls were identified.
The Company's board of directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The other information comprises the informationincluded in the Board's Report including Annexures to Board's Report, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governace report andshareholder's information but does not include the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether theother information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financial statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our auditor 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 reportthat fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company's board of directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134 (5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of thesestandalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance including other comprehensiveincome, cash flows and changes in equity of the Company in accordance with the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) prescribed undersection 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended from time to time, and other accountingprinciples generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection andapplication of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementationand maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of theaccounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statement that give a true and fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is 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 either intends to liquidatethe 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.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the 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, butis not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatementscan arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence theeconomic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
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 risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform auditprocedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Therisk 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 control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances.Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company hasadequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made bymanagement.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of 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 continueas a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the relateddisclosures in the 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 continueas a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financialstatements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probable thatthe economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalone financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitativemateriality 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 effectof any identified misstatements in the standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significantaudit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regardingindependence, 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. From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters thatwere of most significance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe thesematters 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 beexpected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020("the Order"), issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11)of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, we give in Annexure "A" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
As required by section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) we have sought and obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for thepurpose of our audit.
(b) in our opinion, the Company has kept proper books of account as required by law, so far as appears from our examination of the books.
(c) the balance sheet, the statement of profit and loss including the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, and the cash flow statementdealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) in our opinion, the afrosaid standalone financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Actread Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(e) on the basis of written representations received from the directors as on March 31,2025 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none ofthe directors is disqualified as on March 31,2025, from being appointed as a director in terms of section 164 (2) of the Companies Act, 2013.
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectivenessof such controls, refer to our separate report in "Annexure B" Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operatingeffectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls over financial reporting.
(g) 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 to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by theCompany to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act; and
(h) 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 in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us :-
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on the financial position in its financial statements as referred to in note34 to the Financial Statements.
(ii) The Company did not have any long term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
(iii) There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the
Company.
(iv) i. The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (Which are material either individually
or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any othersources or kind of funds) by the company to or in any other person or entity, including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or investin other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") orprovide any guarantee, security or the like 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 individuallyor in the aggregate) have been received by the company from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities ("FundingParties"), 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 ("UltimateBeneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
(iii) Based on such audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has cometo our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as provided under(a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
(v) The company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year in contravention of the provisions of section 123 of theCompanies Act, 2013.
(vi) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting softwares for maintaining its books ofaccount for the financial year ended March 31,2025 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same hasoperated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the softwares. Further, during the course of our audit wedid not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with in cases where the audit trail feature was enabledor audit trail not preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
For, M. R. Pandhi & Associates
Chartered AccountantsFirm Registration No.112360W
A. R. Devani
Partner
Place : Ahmedabad Membership No.170644
Date : 28th May, 2025 UDIN: 25170644BMHGDN8838