1. We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Shikhar ConsultantsLimited (the “Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31-03-2024 andthe Statement of Profit and Loss and Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended,and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
2. The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation ofthese standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financialposition, financial performance and cash flows of the Company in accordance withthe accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies(Accounts) Rules, 2014. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequateaccounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding theassets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgments 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 accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statementsthat give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether dueto fraud or error.
3. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based onour audit.
4. We have taken into account the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder including the accounting standards and matters which are required to beincluded in the audit report.
5. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specifiedunder Section 143(10) of the Act and other applicable authoritative pronouncementsissued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Those Standards andpronouncements require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan andperform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financialstatements are free from material misstatement.
6. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about theamounts and the disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selecteddepend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of materialmisstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In makingthose risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant tothe Company’s preparation of the financial statements that give a true and fair viewin order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. An
audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting policies usedand the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Company’sDirectors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
7. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our qualified audit opinion on the financial statements.
8. We draw your attention to the Note 21 to the financial statements, regarding Thecompany suspended on Bombay Stock Exchange since long time.
Provision has been made in books of account in respect of fees and penalties whichmay be levied on the Company for aforesaid non-compliances. Any fees andpenalties that may be levied by the Stock Exchange or SEBI for such noncompliances cannot presently be determined.
9. In our opinion, and to the best of our information and according to the explanationsgiven to us, except for the indeterminate effects of the matter described in para 8above, in the Basis for Qualified Opinion paragraph, the accompanying standalonefinancial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31-03-2024,and its profit and loss and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
10. As required by ‘the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2016’, issued by the CentralGovernment of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act(hereinafter referred to as the “Order”), and on the basis of such checks of the booksand records of the Company as we considered appropriate and according to theinformation and explanations given to us, we give in the Annexure B a statement onthe matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
11. 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 thebest of 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 and the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Cash FlowStatement, dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements comply with theAccounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 ofthe Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014; and
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31¬03-2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on 31-03-2024 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 over financialreporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, referto our separate Report in Annexure A.
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report inaccordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, inour opinion and to the best of our knowledge and belief and according to theinformation and explanations given to us:
(i) The Company does not have any pending litigations as at 31-03-2024 whichwould impact its financial position.
(ii) The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativecontracts as at 31-03-2024.
(iii) There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended 31¬03-2024.
For RDB and AssociatesChartered AccountantsFirm Reg. Number: 135005W
CA Aniket Baldawa
Place: Ahmednagar Partner
Date: 30-05-2024 Membership No. :149821