We have audited the Financial Statements of HERCULES HOISTS LIMITED ("theCompany”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, and the Statement ofProfit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), Statement of Changes in Equityand Statement of Cash flows for the year then ended, and notes to the Financial Statements,including a summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory information(hereinafter referred to as "the Financial Statements”).
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous, read together with the matters described in the Emphasis of Matters paragraph, theaforesaid 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 theaccounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as atMarch 31, 2025, and its net profit including other comprehensive income, changes in equityand its cash flows for the period 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 Standards are further describedin the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements Section of our report.We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by theInstitute of Chartered Accountants of India together with ethical requirements that are relevantto our 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.
1. In accordance with Note No. 25 of Financial Statement for the year ended 31st March2025, the Scheme of Arrangement between Hercules Hoists Limited ("Demergedentity") and Indef Manufacturing Limited ("Resulting entity") and their respectiveshareholders ("Scheme") became effective after regulatory approvals and conditionsprecedent. Accordingly, as per the Scheme, the Demerger of Demerged Undertakinginto Resulting Entity has been accounted under the pooling of interest methodretrospectively as prescribed in Appendix C Para 9 (iii) to IND AS 103 BusinessCombinations of entities under common control. Thus, the previous yearcorresponding numbers have been accordingly restated. The Restated FinancialStatements for the year ended 31 March 2024 has been prepared by the managementas per the approved scheme.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of mostsignificance in our audit of the Financial Statements of the current period. These matters wereaddressed in the context of our audit of the Financial Statements as a whole, and in formingour opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We havedetermined that there are no key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
The Company’s Management and the 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 materially inconsistentwith the Financial Statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears tobe materially misstated. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there isa material misstatement of this other information; we are required to report that fact. We havenothing to report in this regard.
The Company’s management and the Board of Directors is responsible for the matters statedin Section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these Financial Statements thatgive a true and fair view of the financial position, the financial performance, the changes inequity and the cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specifiedunder Section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequateaccounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assetsof the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection andapplication of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that arereasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internalfinancial controls that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completenessof the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the FinancialStatements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whetherdue to fraud or error.
In preparing the Financial Statements, the Management and the 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 reportingprocess.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Financial Statementsas a 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 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 Financial Statements.
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 Financial Statements, whetherdue to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Therisk 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 theCompanies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether thecompany has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness ofaccounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis ofaccounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability tocontinue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we arerequired to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the FinancialStatements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusionsare based 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 Financial Statements,including the disclosures, and whether the Financial Statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
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 our independence,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 in ourreport because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditors’ Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued bythe Central Government of India in terms of Section 143 (11) of the Act, we give in the"Annexure A” a statement on the matters specified 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 to the bestof our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit of theaforesaid Financial Statements.
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law relating to preparation ofthe aforesaid Financial Statements have been kept by the Company so far as itappears 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 Cash Flow Statement dealtwith by this Report are in agreement with the books of account maintained for thepurpose of preparation of the Financial Statements.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Financial Statements comply with the AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies(Account) Rules, 2014.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March31, 2025 and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on March 31, 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 ourseparate Report in "Annexure B”.
g) The provisions of Section 197 read with schedule V of the Act are not applicable tothe Company for the year ended March 31, 2025.
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 andto the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations which have an impact on itsfinancial position.
ii. The Company did not have any material foreseeable losses on long-termcontracts including derivatives contracts.
iii. There were no amounts required to be transferred to the Investor Education andProtection Fund by the company during the year ended March 31,2025.
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 borrowed fundsor share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in
any other persons or entities, including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediaryshall:
• directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever ("Ultimate Beneficiaries”) by or on behalf ofthe Company or
• provide any guarantee, security or the like to or on behalf of the UltimateBeneficiaries.
b. The management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, no funds have been received by the Company from any persons orentities, 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 identifiedin any manner whatsoever (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) by or on behalf ofthe Funding Party or
• provide any guarantee, security or the like from or on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries; and
c. Based on such audit procedures as considered reasonable and appropriate inthe circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believethat the representations under sub-clause (d) (i) and (d) (ii) contain any materialmis-statement.
V. The dividend declared or paid during the year by the Company is in compliancewith Section 123 of the Act.
VI. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has usedaccounting software for maintaining its books of account, which has a feature ofrecording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout theyear for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further, we did notcome across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
For Kanu Doshi Associates LLPChartered AccountantsFRN. No. 104746W/W100096
Kunal VakhariaPartner
Membership no. 148916UDIN: 25148916BM KN LO6350
Place: MumbaiDate: 27th May 2025