We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Deepak Nitrite Limited (the “Company”), which comprisethe Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025 and the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Cash FlowStatement and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended on that date, and notes to the financial statements, including asummary of material accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the “Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair viewin conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act, (“Ind AS”) and other accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025 and its profit, total comprehensive income, its cashflows and the changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (“SA”s) specified undersection 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibility for the Audit ofthe Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethicsissued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (“ICAI”) together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of thestandalone financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the standalone financialstatements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the standalone financial statements as awhole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have determined the mattersdescribed below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
Sr.
No.
Key Audit Matter
Auditor’s Response
1
Revenue recognition
Our audit procedures with regard to revenue
Revenue is one of the key profit drivers and is therefore susceptible tomisstatement.
recognition included testing controls, automated andmanual, around dispatches / deliveries, inventoryreconciliations and circularization of receivable
Cut-off is the key assertion insofar as revenue recognition is concerned,
balances, testing of cut-offs and performing analytical
since an inappropriate cutoff can result in material misstatement ofresults for the year.
review procedures.
• The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the informationincluded in the Directors' report, but does not include the consolidated financial statements, standalone financial statements andour auditor's report thereon.
• Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form ofassurance conclusion thereon.
• In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doingso, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financial statements or our knowledgeobtained during the course of our 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 requiredto report that 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 accounting principles generally accepted in India,including Ind AS specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records inaccordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuringthe accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements thatgive a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, management and Board of Directors are responsible for assessing the Company's abilityto continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accountingunless the Board of Directors either intend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Company's Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a highlevel of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement whenit exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonablybe expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone 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 standalone financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, designand perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide abasis 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 controls relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriatein the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Companyhas adequate internal financial controls with reference to standalone financial statements in place and the operating effectivenessof such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosuresmade by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidenceobtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company'sability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in ourauditor's report to the related disclosures in the standalone financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify ouropinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor's report. However, future events orconditions 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, andwhether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fairpresentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probablethat the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalone financial statements may be influenced. We considerquantitative 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.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit andsignificant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal financial controls 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 ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in theaudit of the standalone financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters inour auditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, wedetermine 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.
1. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit, we report, that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessaryfor 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 it appears from ourexamination of those books.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statement andStatement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken on record by the Board ofDirectors, none of the directors 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 with reference to standalone financial statements of theCompany and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure A”. Our report expressesan unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls with referenceto standalone financial statements.
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, theremuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalone financial statements- Refer Note 35 to the standalone financial statements;
ii. The Company has made provision, as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, for material foreseeablelosses, if any, on long-term contracts including derivative contracts - Refer Note 39 to the standalone financial statements;
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and ProtectionFund by the Company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in the note 49 (v)(a) and
(b) to the financial statements, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed fundsor share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies),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 mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the likeon behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(b) The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in the note 49 (vi)(a)and (b) to the financial statements, no funds have been received by the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies),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 mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or thelike on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on the audit procedures performed that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in thecircumstances, nothing has come to 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 final dividend proposed in the previous year, declared and paid by the Company during the year is in accordance withsection 123 of the Act, as applicable.
As stated in note 50 to the standalone financial statements, the Board of Directors of the Company has proposed finaldividend for the year which is subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. Suchdividend proposed is in accordance with section 123 of the Act, as applicable.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software's systems formaintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2025, which have the feature of recording audit trail(edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software'ssystems. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature beingtampered with and the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for recordretention.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued by the Central Government in terms of Section143(11) of the Act, we give in “Annexure B” a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
Chartered Accountants(Firm's Registration No. 117366W/W-100018)
(Partner)
Place: Vadodara (Membership No. 116642)
Date: May 28, 2025 (UDIN 25116642BMLMXH3395)