We have audited the financial statements of Deccan Bearings Limited (“the Company”),
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which comprise the balance sheet as at 31 March 2024, and the statement of Profit and Loss,
(including other comprehensive income), statement of changes in equity and statement of cashflows for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary ofsignificant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous, the aforesaid 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(Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, (“Ind AS”) and other accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2024, and loss(including other comprehensive income),changes in equity and its cash flows forthe year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified undersection 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards arefurther described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statementssection of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code ofEthics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (“ICAI”) together with theethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under theprovisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled ourother ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code ofEthics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our audit opinion on the financial statements.
Key audit matters are those that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance inour audit of financial statements of the current year. These matters were addressed in thecontext of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon,and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The otherinformation comprises the information included in the annual report, but does not includethe financial statements and our auditor's 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 materiallyinconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit orotherwise appears to be materially misstated. If, based on the work we have performed, weconclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required toreport that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) ofthe Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these financialstatements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance,changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, including the accounting Standards specified under section 133of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records inaccordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company andfor preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application ofappropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financialcontrols, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of theaccounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statementsthat give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraudor error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related togoing concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management eitherintends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but todo so.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financialreporting process.
Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements asa whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an
auditor'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 amaterial 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 andmaintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements,whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive tothose risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to providea basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resultingfrom fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involvecollusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override ofinternal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to designaudit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under Section143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion onwhether the company has adequate internal financial controls with reference tofinancial statements in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonablenessof accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basisof accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a materialuncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubton the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that amaterial uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’sreport to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosuresare inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the auditevidence obtained up to the date of our auditors' report. However, future eventsor conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financialstatements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statementsrepresent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fairpresentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the financial statements that, individually orin aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeableuser of the financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality andqualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results ofour work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the financialstatements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters,the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including anysignificant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have compliedwith relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate withthem all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determinethose matters that were of most significance in the audit of the financial statements of thecurrent period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in ourauditors' report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter orwhen, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not becommunicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so wouldreasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1 As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2016 (“the Order”), issuedby the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of theCompanies Act, 2013, we give in the Annexure 'A' a statement on the matters specified inparagraphs 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 best ofour 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, and the Cash Flow Statement dealtwith by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid IndAS financial statements comply with the AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies(Accounts) Rules,2014.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on
31 March, 2024, taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on 31stMarch, 2024 from being appointed as a director in terms of
Section 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 our separateReport in “Annexure B”.
(g) With the respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report inaccordance with the requirements of Section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in ouropinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors is in accordance with theprovisions of Section 197 of Act; and
(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 and tothe best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact itsIndAS financial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativescontracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no
funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have beenadvanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premiumor any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other personor 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 identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) orprovide 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 material either individually or in the aggregate) have beenreceived by the Company from any person or entity, including foreign entity(“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or investin other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalfof the Funding Party(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, securityor 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 causedus 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. Proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 for maintainingbooks of account using accounting software which has a feature of recordingaudit trail (edit log) facility is applicable to the Company with effect from April 1,2024, and accordingly, reporting under Rule 11(g) of Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014 is not applicable for the financial year ended March 31,2024.
For Suvarna & KatdareChartered Accountants(FRN. 125080W)
Ravindra Raju SuvarnaPartner (M.No.032007)
Date: 15/05/2024
UDIN NO: 24032007BKAJQF825