We have audited the financial statements of Abhijit Trading Company Limited (“the Company”), whichcomprise the balance sheet as at March 31, 2024, and the statement of profit and loss (including othercomprehensive income), the statement of changes in equity and the statement of cash flows for the year thenended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies and otherexplanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidfinancial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (‘Act’) in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted inIndia, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2024, its profit Amount of Rs. 3,79,496/- andcash out 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 theCompanies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the auditor’sresponsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of theCompany 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 theprovisions of the Act and the rules there under, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities inaccordance 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 ouropinion.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidfinancial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true andfair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India of the state of affairs of theCompany as at 31st March 2024, its profit/loss statement and its cash flows statement for the year ended onthat date, subject to following observation:
(a) During the year, the company purchased shares of Sital Leasing & Finance Ltd, which is not showing indemat statement of the company, there is difference of 2898211 shares between books and demat statementas on 31.03.2024.
Information other than the financial statements and auditors’ report thereon
The Company’s board of directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The otherinformation comprises the information included in the Management Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Reportincluding Annexures to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governance 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 anyform of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalonefinancial statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to bematerially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this otherinformation, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
Management’s responsibility for the financial statements
The Company’s board of directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134 (5) of the Act withrespect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position,financial performance including other comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity of theCompany in accordance with the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) prescribed under section 133 of theAct read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 and Companies (Indian AccountingStandards) Rules, 2016, as amended from time to time, and other accounting principles generally accepted inIndia.
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 fraudsand other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments andestimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internalfinancial 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 trueand fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability tocontinue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The boards of directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are freefrom material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes ouropinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted inaccordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise fromfraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably beexpected to influence the economic 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 professionalskepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud orerror, 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 materialmisstatement 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 areappropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are alsoresponsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controlssystem in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, basedon the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that maycast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a materialuncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in thefinancial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are basedon the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditionsmay cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures,and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner thatachieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scopeand timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal controlthat we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters thatmay reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards. From thematters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key auditmatters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosureabout the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not becommunicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on other legal and regulatory requirements
As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2016 (“the Order”), issued by the CentralGovernment of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, we give inAnnexure “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 knowledgeand belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit;
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as itappears from my examination of those books;
(c) The balance sheet, the statement of profit and loss, and the cash flow statement dealt with by this reportare in agreement with the books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the accounting standards specified undersection 133 of the Act, read with rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014;
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2024 taken onrecord by the board of directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2024 from beingappointed 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 Companyand the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in “Annexure B”. Our reportexpresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company’s internalfinancial controls over financial reporting;
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with therequirements of section 197 (16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our informationand according to the explanations given to our, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors duringthe 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 theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to our;
a. The Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact its financial position;
b. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there wereany material foreseeable losses; and
c. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the Company.
(i) with respect to the proviso to rule 3 sub section 1 of companies (Accounts) rules 2014, the company didnot maintain the accounting software which has a feature of recording of audit trail of each and everytransaction, creating and edit log of each change made in the books of accounts along with the date whensuch changes were made and ensuring that the audit trail cannot be disabled.