We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Neptune Petrochemicals Limited("the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March, 2025, the Statement ofProfit and Loss, and the Cash Flows for the year then ended and notes to the financialstatements, including a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatoryinformation (hereinafter referred to as "the financial statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act,2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity withthe accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Companyas at 31 March 2025, and profit and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified underSection 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those SAs are further described in theAuditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. Weare independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Instituteof Chartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirements that are relevant toour 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 theserequirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Other Information
The Company's management and Board of Directors are responsible for the otherinformation. The other information comprises the information included in the Company'sannual report, but does not include the financial statements and our auditors' report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do notexpress any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the otherinformation and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materiallyinconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit orotherwise appears to be materially misstated. If based on the work we have performed, weconclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required toreport that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
a) As informed to us, the Company, Neptune Petrochemicals Limited ("the Company"),was incorporated on October 21, 2021, as a Private Company under the provisions ofChapter XXI of the Companies Act, 2013, by way of conversion of the erstwhileproprietorship concern of Mr. Paresh Shah, which was subsequently operated as apartnership firm.
b) The Company was converted from a Private Limited Company to a Public LimitedCompany with effect from 16th July 2024. The change in status has been duly approvedby the Registrar of Companies, and the financial statements have been preparedaccordingly.
c) The Company issue 60,01,000 equity shares of face value ^10 each, offered at a priceof ^122 per share (including a premium of ^112 per share) and got listed on NSEEmerge as on 04th May, 2025.
d) The Company increased its authorized share capital from ^15 crore to ^25 crore tofacilitate these share issuances. This was approved by shareholders and filed with theRegistrar of Companies and the fact has been appropriately disclosed in the financialstatements under Note 3.
e) We were informed that certain motor vehicles belonging to the erstwhileproprietorship firm were transferred to the Company on 1st February 2024, thoughthe registration continues to be in the name of the Director as of the reporting date.However, these have been accounted for as assets of the Company.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) ofthe Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these financialstatements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance andcash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally acceptedin India including the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read withRule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. This responsibility also includes maintenanceof adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguardingthe assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimatesthat are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequateinternal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy andcompleteness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of thefinancial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement,whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management and Board of Directors are responsiblefor 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 unlessmanagement either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has norealistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reportingprocess.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements asa whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue anauditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance,but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect amaterial misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and areconsidered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected toinfluence 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 maintainprofessional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
a. Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements,whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive tothose 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 fromfraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion,forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
b. Obtain an understanding of internal financial controls relevant to the audit in order todesign audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether theCompany and its subsidiary companies which are companies incorporated in India, hasadequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectivenessof such controls.
c. Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness ofaccounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
d. Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis ofaccounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertaintyexists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the ability ofthe Company 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 therelated disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate,to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained upto the date of our auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may causethe Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
e. Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent theunderlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the Financial Statements that, individuallyor in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonablyknowledgeable user of the Financial Statements may be influenced. We consider quantitativemateriality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluatingthe results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the
Financial Statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, theplanned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significantdeficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied withrelevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them allrelationships 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 thosematters that were of most significance in the audit of the financial statements of the currentperiod and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor'sreport unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, inextremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated inour report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. A. 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 bestof our knowledge and 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 theCompany so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
c) The balance sheet, the statement of profit and loss and the statement of cash flowsdealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the AS 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 on31stMarch, 2025, taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on 31stMarch, 2025, from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164 (2) of the Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reportingof the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separateReport in "Annexure A".
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordancewith 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 informationgiven to us, the remuneration paid by the company to its directors during the year isin accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act read with Schedule V ofthe Act.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordancewith Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and tothe best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
1. The company does not have any pending litigation, therefore the impact of pendinglitigation on its Financial Statement is not disclosed.
2. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts forwhich there were any material foreseeable losses.
3. There was no amount which are required to be transferred, to the investor'seducation and protection fund by the company.
-. i) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, nofunds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or sharepremium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Holding Company or its subsidiarycompanies incorporated in India to or in any other persons or entities, including foreignentities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Intermediary shall:
directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") by or on behalf of the Holding Company or itssubsidiary companies incorporated in India or
provide any guarantee, security or the like to or on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries
ii) The management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, nofunds have been received by the Holding Company or its subsidiary companiesincorporated in India from any persons or entities, including foreign entities ("FundingParties"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that theHolding Company or its subsidiary companies incorporated in India shall:
directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") by or on behalf of the Funding Parties or provideany guarantee, security or the like from or on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries
iii) Based on such audit procedures as considered reasonable and appropriate in thecircumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations under sub-clause (d)(i) and (d)(ii) contain any material mis-statement.
i. The company has not declared and paid any dividend during the year.
i. Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used anaccounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature ofrecording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the yearfor all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further, during the course of ouraudit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.
As provision to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable fromApril 1, 2023, reporting under Rule 11 (g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules,2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record
retention is not applicable for the financial year ended March 31, 2025.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order"), issued bythe Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act,we give in the "Annexure B" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
For Piyush J. Shah & Co.
Chartered Accountants
FRN: 121172W
Sd/-
Nitin Agarwal
Partner
Membership No. 143915
UDIN: 25143915BMIALD2961
Place: Ahmedabad
Date: 24 June 2025