We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Nexxus Petro IndustriesLimited (Formerly known as Nexxus Petro Industries Private Limited) (“theCompany”), which comprise the balance sheet as at 31st March, 2025, and thestatement of Profit and Loss, and statement of cash flows for the year ended 31stMarch, 2025, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of materialaccounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanationsgiven to us, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by theCompanies Act, 2013, as amended (“the Act”) in the manner so required and givea true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generallyaccepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March,2025, andits profit and loss, and its cash flows for the year ended 31st March,2025.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specifiedunder section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under thoseStandards are further described in the “ Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of theFinancial Statements” section of our report. We are independent of the Company inaccordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of CharteredAccountants of India (ICAI) together with the ethical requirements that are relevantto our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Companies Act,2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriateto provide a basis for our opinion on the financial statements
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of mostsignificance in our audit of the financial statements for the financial year ended on31st March, 2025. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of thefinancial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do notprovide a separate opinion on these matters and there is no any Key Audit Matterswhich need to be reported.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the otherinformation. The other information comprises the information included in theManagement Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Report including Annexures toBoard’s Report, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governance andShareholder’s Information, but does not include the financial statements and ourauditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and wedo not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to readthe other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information ismaterially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtainedduring 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 materialmisstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We havenothing to report in this regard.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation ofthese financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position,financial performance, and cash flows of the Company in accordance with theaccounting principles generally accepted in India, including the accountingStandards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions ofthe Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing anddetecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriateaccounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internalfinancial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy andcompleteness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentationof 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 assessingthe Company’s ability to 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 intends to liquidate the 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 financialreporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financialstatements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraudor error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonableassurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an auditconducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement whenit exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered materialif, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influencethe 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 andmaintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financialstatements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit proceduresresponsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting amaterial misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resultingfrom 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 todesign audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Undersection 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible forexpressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financialcontrols system with reference to financial statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and thereasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made bymanagement.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concernbasis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether amaterial uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If weconclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attentionin our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or,if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions arebased 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
continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financialstatements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statementsrepresent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fairpresentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among othermatters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings,including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during ouraudit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we havecomplied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and tocommunicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonablybe thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determinethose matters that were of most significance in the audit of the standalone financialstatements for the period ended 31st March, 2025 and are therefore the key auditmatters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulationprecludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rarecircumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our reportbecause the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”), issuedby the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 ofthe Companies Act, 2013, we give in the ‘ Annexure A’ a statement on the mattersspecified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which tothe best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of ouraudit.
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been keptby the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash FlowStatement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books ofaccount.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting
Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of theCompanies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31stMarch, 2025 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on 31st March, 2025 from being appointed as a director in termsof Section 164 (2) of the Act.
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financialreporting with reference to these financial statements of the Company and theoperating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in“Annexure B”.
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report inaccordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, asamended in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to theexplanations given to us:
i. The Company has not any pending litigation which should require to
disclose on its financial position.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative
contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the
Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
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(a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledgeand belief, as disclosed in Note 29 to the standalone financialstatements, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested(either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sourcesor kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other persons orentities, including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that theIntermediary shall:
• directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons orentities identified in any manner whatsoever (“UltimateBeneficiaries”) by or on behalf of the Company or
• Provide any guarantee, security or the like to or on behalfof the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(b) The management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledgeand belief, as disclosed in the accounts, no funds have been receivedby the Company from any persons or entities, including foreign
entities (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whetherrecorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall:
• directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons orentities identified in any manner whatsoever (“UltimateBeneficiaries”) by or on behalf of the Funding Party or
• Provide any guarantee, security or the like from or onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on such audit procedures as considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our noticethat 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 misstatements.
v. There dividend has not been declared or paid during the year by the Company.
Hence the compliance of section 123 of the act is not applicable.
(h) With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditor’s Report under Section197(16) of the Act:
In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us,the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the current yearis in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act. The remunerationpaid to any director is not in excess of the limit laid down under Section 197 ofthe Act. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has not prescribed other details underSection 197(16) of the Act which are required to be commented upon by us.
(i) Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has usedan accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a featureof recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughoutthe year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further, duringthe course of our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail featurebeing tampered with.
For Keyur Shah & AssociatesChartered AccountantsFRN No: 333288W
Membership No.: 181329 Date: 29th May,2025
UDIN -25181329BMHBUR9670 Place: Ahmedabad