We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of M/S Standard Capital Markets Limited ('theCompany'), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss, including theStatement of Other Comprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statement and the Statement of Changes in Equity for theyear then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies andother explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as the "standalone financial statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalonefinancial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 ('the Act'), as amended in the mannerso required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, ("Ind AS") and otheraccounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2025, its profitincluding other comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs),as specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described inthe 'Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the standalone Financial Statements' section of our report. We areindependent of the Company in accordance with the 'Code of Ethics' issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalone financial statements underthe provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordancewith these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficientand appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Act with respectto the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position,financial performance, including other comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company inaccordance with the Ind AS and other accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of theassets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and applicationof appropriate implementation and maintenance of accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that arereasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, thatwere operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to thepreparation and presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free frommaterial misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company's ability tocontinue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concernbasis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has norealistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
AUDITOR'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as a wholeare free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors' report that includesour opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted inaccordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud orerror and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influencethe economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professionalskepticism throughout the audit. We also:
a. Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements, whether due tofraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatementresulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentionalomissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
b. Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing ouropinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
c. Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by Management.
d. Conclude on the appropriateness of Management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based onthe audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertaintyexists, we are required to draw attention in our auditors' report to the related disclosures in the financial statementsor, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidenceobtained up to the date of our auditors' report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company tocease to continue as a going concern.
e. Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events ina manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timingof the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identifyduring our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that mayreasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the standalone financial statements for the financial year ended 31 March 2025 and aretherefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors' report unless law or regulation precludespublic disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not becommunicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweighthe public interest benefits of such communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 issued by the Central Government of India in termsof sub-section (11) of Section 143 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Order"), and on the basis of such checksof the books and records of the Company as we considered appropriate and according to the information andexplanations given to us, we give in the "Annexure-I" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 ofthe 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 best of our knowledge andbelief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
b. In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appearsfrom our examination of those books.
c. The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income,the Cash Flow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement withthe books of account;
d. In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specifiedunder Section 133 of the Act, read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended;
e. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken on recordby the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31,2025 from being appointed as adirector in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
f. In our opinion, the company has, in all material respects reasonably adequate internal financial controls systemover financial reporting, keeping in view the size of the company, and nature if its business. Such Internal financialcontrols over the financial reporting were operating effectively as on March 31, 2025, based on the internalcontrol over financial reporting criteria established by the company considering the essential components ofinternal control stated in the Guidance Note "Audit of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting"issued by The institute of Chartered accountants of India.
g. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statements.
ii. According to the information and explanations provided to us, the Company did not have any long-term contractsincluding derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, 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 (which are materialeither individually or in the aggregate) 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 person or entity,including foreign entity ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise,that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee,security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
b. The Management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (which are materialeither individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any person or entity, includingforeign entity ("Funding Parties"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that theCompany shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee,security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
c. Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances,nothing has come to our notice that 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 misstatement.
v. As per the representation received and to the best of its knowledge and belief,
a. The interim dividend declared and paid by the Company during the year and until the date of this audit reportis in compliance with Section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.
b. The Board of directors of the Company have not proposed any final dividend for the current year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software formaintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31,2025 which has a feature of recordingaudit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactionsrecorded in the software. Further, during our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trailfeature being tampered with.
Additionally, the audit trail, where enabled, has been preserved by the company as per the statutory requirements
for record retention.
For Krishan Rakesh & Co.Chartered AccountantsFirm Regn. No. 009088N
Place: Delhi K.K. Gupta
Dated: 28-05-2025 (Partner)
UDIN: 25087891BMIDYE1022 M.No. 087891