We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statementsof GANDHAR OIL REFINERY (INDIA) LIMITED (the Company'),having its CIN No. L23200MH1992PLC068905, which comprisethe Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, the Statement of Profit andLoss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement ofChanges in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year thenended, and notes to the financial statements, including a materialaccounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe 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 fairview in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribedunder section 133 of the Act read with the companies (IndianAccounting Standard) Rules, 2015, as amended, (“Ind AS”) andother accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the stateof affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025 its Profit and othercomprehensive income, changes in equity and its cash flows for theyear ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the statement in accordance with theStandards on Auditing (SAs) specified under Section 143(10) of theAct. Our responsibilities under those SAs are further described in theAuditors' Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone FinancialStatements section of our report. We are independent of the Companyin accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute ofChartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirementsthat are relevant to our audit of the standalone financial statementsunder the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we havefulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with theserequirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the auditevidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide abasis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgment, were of most significance in our audit of the StandaloneFinancial Statements for the year ended March 31, 2025. Thesematters were addressed in the context of our audit of the StandaloneFinancial Statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon,and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We havedetermined the matters described below to be the key audit mattersto be communicated in our report.
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No.
Key Audit Matters
Auditor Response
1.
Inventory valuation and consumption of Raw and packing
We have performed the following procedures in relation to the
material:
accuracy of recorded consumption and inventory:
Accuracy of recording of inventory & related consumption at
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Understood, evaluated and tested the key controls over the
appropriate values
recording of inventory and booking of consumption. We selecteda sample of transactions and:
Checked the goods receipt notes and material issue slipson a sample basis to ensure correct recording of materialsreceipts & consumption.
Tested and verified, the weighted average rate of inputs, at whichconsumption was recorded.
Tested and verified the Overhead absorption rate calculationused for inventory valuation.
Reviewed the process of physical verification of inventoriescarried out by the management at various locations byparticipating in the said process.
Verified the reports of physical verification of inventory carriedout by the management and corrective actions taken to rectifythe identified discrepancies (if any).
2.
Property, Plant and Equipment - Refer Note No.3(a)
There are areas where management judgement impacts thecarrying value of property, plant and equipment, and theirrespective depreciation rates. These include the decision tocapitalise or expense costs; the review of useful life and residualvalue on reporting date; the use of management assumptionsand estimates for the determination or the measurementcriteria for Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE) derecognisedupon disposal, replacement, deduction and reclassification.Due to the materiality in the context of the Balance Sheet of theCompany and the level of judgement and estimates required, weconsider this to be as area of significance.
We assessed the controls in place over the Property, Plant &Equipment, evaluated the appropriateness of capitalisation process,performed tests checks on costs capitalised, and the de-recognitioncriteria for assets disposed, replaced, and reclassified. In performingthese procedures, we reviewed the judgements made by themanagement including the nature of underlying costs capitalised;the appropriateness of useful life and residual value considered forcalculation of depreciation; the useful lives of assets prescribedin Schedule II to the Companies Act and the useful lives of certainassets as per the technical assessment of the management. Weobserved that the management has regularly reviewed the aforesaidjudgements and there are no material changes.
• The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for thepreparation of the other information. The other informationcomprises the information included in the ManagementDiscussion and Analysis, Board's Report including Annexuresto Board's Report, Business Responsibility Report, CorporateGovernance and Shareholder's Information, but does not includethe financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
• Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover theother information and we do not express any form of assuranceconclusion thereon.
• In connection with our audit of the financial statements, ourresponsibility is to read the other information identified abovewhen it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whetherthe other information is materially inconsistent with the financialstatements or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwiseappears to be materially misstated.
• If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude thatthere is a material misstatement of this other information; weare required to communicate the matter to those chargedwith governance.
The company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters statedin section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013(“the Act”) with respectto the preparation of these financial statements that give a true andfair view of the state of affairs (financial position), net profit (financialperformance including Other Comprehensive Income), ChangesIn Equity and Cash Flows of the company in accordance with theaccounting principles generally accepted in India including the Ind ASspecified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the company andfor preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selectionand application of appropriate implementation and maintenanceof accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are
reasonable and prudent and design, implementation and maintenanceof adequate internal financial controls that were operating effectivelyfor ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financialstatements that give a true and fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, Board of directors is responsiblefor assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern,disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and usingthe going concern basis of accounting unless the Board of Directorseither intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or hasno realistic alternative but to do so.
The Company's Management and Board of Directors arealso responsible for overseeing the company's financialreporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whetherthe standalone financial statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors'report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a highlevel of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conductedin accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatementwhen it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and areconsidered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they couldreasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions ofusers taken on the basis of these standalone financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professionaljudgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout theaudit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of thestandalone financial statements, whether due to fraud or error,design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks,and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting amaterial misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than forone resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery,intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override ofinternal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial controls relevantto the audit in order to design audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) ofthe Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinionon whether the Company has adequate internal financialcontrols with reference to financial statements in place and theoperating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies usedand the reasonableness of accounting estimates and relateddisclosures made by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of thegoing concern basis of accounting and, based on the auditevidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significant doubton the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If weconclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required todraw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosuresin the standalone financial statements or, if such disclosures areinadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are basedon the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor'sreport. However, future events or conditions may cause theCompany to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of thestandalone financial statements, including the disclosures, andwhether the standalone financial statements represent theunderlying transactions and events in a manner that achievesfair presentation.
• Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding thestandalone financial statements of the company to express anopinion on the standalone financial statements.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the StandaloneFinancial Results that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probablethat the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user ofthe Standalone Financial Results may be influenced. We considerquantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning thescope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work;and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in theStandalone Financial Results.
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 ininternal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statementthat we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regardingindependence, and to communicate with them all relationshipsand other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the Standalone Financial Statementsof the current period and are therefore the key audit matters.We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless law orregulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, inextremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not
be communicated in our report because the adverse consequencesof doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the publicinterest benefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020(‘the Order'), issued by the Central Government of India interms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in the “Annexure A”,
a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and4 of the Order.
2. (A) As required by Section 143 (3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the informationand explanations, which to the best of ourknowledge and belief, were necessary for thepurposes of our audit;
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as requiredby law have been kept by the Company so far as itappears from our examination of those books;
(c) The balance sheet, the statement of profit andloss (including other comprehensive income), thestatement of changes in equity and the statement ofcash flows dealt with by this report are in agreementwith the books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements comply with the Indian AccountingStandards (Ind AS) specified under Section133 of the Act;
(e) On the basis of the written representations receivedfrom the directors as on March 31, 2025 takenon record by the Board of Directors, none of thedirectors is disqualified as on March 31, 2025 frombeing appointed as a director in terms of Section164(2) of the Act.
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internalfinancial controls with reference to the standalonefinancial statements of the Company and theoperating effectiveness of such controls, refer toour separate Report in “Annexure B”.
(g) With respect to the other matters to be includedin the Auditor's Report in accordance withthe requirements of section 197(16) of theAct, as amended:
In our opinion and to the best of our informationand according to the explanations given to us, theremuneration paid by the Company to its directorsduring the year is in accordance with the provisionsof section 197 of the Act.
(B) With respect to the other matters to be included inthe Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, asamended, in our opinion and to the best of our informationand according to the explanations given to us:
(a) The Company has, to the extent ascertainable,disclosed the impact of pending litigations on itsfinancial position in its financial statements - ReferNote 32 to the standalone financial statements;
(b) The provision has been made in the standalonefinancial statement, as required under theapplicable law or accounting standard, for materialforeseeable losses, if any, on long term contractsincluding derivatives contracts.
(c) There were no amounts which were requiredto be transferred to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the Company.
(d) (i) The management has represented that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief,other than disclosed in Note no. 4 and 5 tothe Financial Statement, no funds (whichare material either individually or in theaggregate) have been advanced or loanedor invested by the company to or in any otherperson(s) or entities, including foreign entities(“Intermediaries”), with the understandingthat the intermediary shall whether directlyor indirectly lend or invest in other persons orentities identified in any manner by or on behalfof the company (Ultimate Beneficiaries) orprovide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of ultimate beneficiaries;
(ii) The management has represented that, tothe best of its knowledge and belief, no fundshave been received by the company from anyperson(s) or entities including foreign entities(“Funding Parties”) with the understandingthat such company shall whether, directly orindirectly, lend or invest in other persons orentities identified in any manner whatsoeverby or on behalf of the funding party (ultimatebeneficiaries) or provide guarantee, security orthe like on behalf of the Ultimate beneficiaries.
(iii) Based on such audit procedures asconsidered reasonable and appropriate inthe circumstances, nothing has come to ournotice that has caused us to believe that therepresentation under sub-clause (d) (i) and (ii)contain any material mis-statement.
(e) The final dividend paid by the Company duringthe year in respect of Financial Year 2023¬2024 in accordance with section 123 of theAct, as applicable.
(f) Based on our examination which included testchecks, the company has used an accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of accountwhich has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log)facility and the same has operated throughout theyear for all relevant transactions recorded in thesoftware. Further, during the course of our auditwe did not come across any instance of audit trailfeature being tampered with and the audit trail hasbeen preserved by the company as per statutoryrequirements for record retention.
For Kailash Chand Jain & Co.
Chartered AccountantsFirm Registration No.: 112318W
Saurabh Chouhan
Partner
Membership No.: 167453Place: MumbaiDate: May 22, 2025UDIN: 25167453BMLKUN8397