We have audited the standalone financial statements of Chandni Machines Limited ("theCompany"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2024, and the Statement of Profitand Loss (including other comprehensive income), Statement of Changes in Equity and Statementof Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summaryof material accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as "thestandalone financial statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, theaforesaid standalone 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 with the IndianAccounting Standards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, (“Ind AS”) and other accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31 March 2024, and its profit(including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended onthat 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 Standalone Financial Statements section of our report.We are 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 to ouraudit of the standalone 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.
Key audit matters ('KAM') are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of mostsignificance in our audit of the standalone financial statements of the current period. These matterswere addressed in the context of our audit of the standalone financial statements, and in formingour opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We havedetermined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in ourreport.
Verification and measurement of Investments in Equity Instruments
As at 31 March 2024, the Company has non¬current investments in quoted equityinstruments amounting to Rs.197.41 lakhs(Refer Note no.5).
This was determined as a key audit matter, asthe verification and measurement of theinvestments at fair value at the year-end
Our audit procedures related to theverification of equity instruments involvesrecognition, classification, measurementand reconciliation of demat holdingstatement with the books for thetransactions during the year and thebalance as at the year end and assessingthe fair value on the basis of quoted price
involves significant judgment and estimate.
on the last trading day on the recognizedstock exchange.
We have verified the quantitative details ofinvestments in equity instruments at theend of the year with the demat holdingstatement. We have also verified demattransaction statements with broker’s bills,on test check basis, for the acquisition anddisposal of equity instruments. We haveassessed the classification of equityinstruments in the financial statements.
We have verified initial measurement andde-recognition on disposal of the equityinstruments and assessed its fair value atthe year end.
Measurement and valuation of inventory
As at 31 March 2024, the Company has inventoryamounting to Rs.295.09 lakhs. (Refer Note no.9)This was determined a key audit matter, as themeasurement and valuation of the inventory atthe year-end involves significant judgement andestimate.
The Company uses internal and externalexperts, to perform volumetric assessments, onbasis of which the quantity for these inventoriesis estimated.
Our audit procedures relating to themeasurement of inventory included thefollowing:
(a) Understanding and evaluating thedesign and operating effectiveness ofcontrols over physical count andmeasurement of such inventory; (b)Evaluation of competency and capabilitiesof management’s experts; (c) Observing,physically or through remote access,inventory measurement and countprocedures carried out by management, toensure its appropriateness andcompleteness; (d) Obtaining andinspecting, inventory measurement andphysical count results for such inventories,including assessing and evaluating theresults of analysis performed bymanagement in respect of differencesbetween book and physical quantities.
Based on the above procedures performed,we did not identify any material exceptionsin the measurement of inventory quantities.
The Company’s Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. Theother information comprises the information included in the Company’s annual report, but does notinclude the financial statements and our auditors’ report thereon. The Company’s annual report isexpected to be made available to us after the date of this auditor’s report.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and wewill not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read theother Information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether
the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financial statements or ourknowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
When we read the Company’s annual report, if we conclude that there is a material misstatementtherein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance and takenecessary actions, as applicable under the relevant laws and regulations.
The Company's management and Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated inSection 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statementsthat give a true and fair view of the state of affairs, profit / loss (including other comprehensiveincome), changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specifiedunder Section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Companyand for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application ofappropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls that wereoperating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records,relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a trueand 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 areresponsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, asapplicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accountingunless management 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 reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financialstatements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and toissue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level ofassurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will alwaysdetect a material 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 standalone financialstatements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintainprofessional 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, 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 material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for oneresulting 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 auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we arealso responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal
financial controls with reference to standalone financial statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accountingestimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accountingand, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related toevents or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as agoing concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to drawattention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the standalone financial statementsor, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on theaudit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditors' 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, and whether the standalone financial statements represent theunderlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that,individually or in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonablyknowledgeable 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 inevaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements inthe standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the plannedscope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies ininternal 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 our independence, andwhere applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those mattersthat were of most significance in the audit of the standalone financial statements of the currentperiod and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors' reportunless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rarecircumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because theadverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interestbenefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditors' Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order") issued by theCentral Government of India in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in "Annexure A" astatement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2. (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 (including other comprehensiveincome), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealtwith by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the IndianAccounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31March 2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on 31 March 2024 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 with reference tostandalone financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness ofsuch controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B".
(B) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors' Report in accordance
with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the
best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial positionin its standalone financial statements as mentioned in Note no.49;
ii. The company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts forwhich there were any material foreseeable losses; and
iii. There has been no amount required to be transferred to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,
no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowedfunds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the companyto or in any other person or entity, including foreign entity (“Intermediaries”),with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that theIntermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of thecompany (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or thelike on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(b) The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, no funds have been received by the company from any person or entity,including foreign entity (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whetherrecorded in writing or otherwise, that the company shall, whether, directly orindirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) orprovide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the UltimateBeneficiaries; and
(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that hascaused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) ofRule 11(e), as provided under (a) and (b) hereinabove, contain any materialmisstatement.
v. The company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year.
vi. 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 ofour audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered.
As proviso 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 forrecord retention is not applicable for the financial year ended 31 March 2024.
(C) With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditors' Report under Section197(16) as amended:
According to the information and explanations given to us, the Company haspaid/provided for managerial remuneration in accordance with the provisions of Section197 read with Schedule V to the Act. The Ministry of corporate Affairs has not prescribedother details under Section 197(16) of the Act which are required to be commented uponby us.
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Date: 29 May 2024