We have audited the accompanying financial statements (the “financial statements”) of Indo Gulf IndustriesLimited (the “Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March, 2024, and the Statement of Profitand Loss, Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes tothe financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatoryinformation.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanation given to us, the aforesaidfinancial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the “Act”), in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed underSection 133 of the Act read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, (“Ind AS”)and other accounting principles generally accepted in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March, 2024;
(b) in the case of the Statement of Profit & Loss, of the profit for the year ended on that date;
(c) in the case of the Statement of Changes in Equity, of the changes in equity during the year ended on that date;and
(d) in the case of the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended on that date.
2. Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (the “SAs”)specified under Section143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in theAuditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent ofthe Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Indiatogether with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisionsof the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance withthese requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on the financial statements.
3. Key Audit Matter
Key audit matters are those matters which in our professional judgement were of most significance in our audit ofthese Financial Statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit as awhole and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We havedetermined the below matters to be the key audit matters to be communicated in this report:
Key Audit Matter
How our audit addressed the matter
Litigations and Claims
Audit Procedures Performed
Litigation and claims are pending with multiple taxand regulatory authorities.
In the normal course of business, financial interest orexposures may arise from pending legal/ regulatoryproceedings. Whether a claim needs to be recognizedas a liability or discosed as a contingent liability in theFinancial Statements or is considered as remote, isdependent on a number of significant
Understood managements’s internal instructions,process and control for determining and estimating thetax litigations, other litigations and claims at itsappropriate accounting and /or disclosure.
Discussed pending matters with the Company’spersonnel with respect to the status of cases of litigationsand claims.
assumptions and judgements made by themanagement. The amount s involved are potentiallysignificant and determining the amount, if any, to berecognized or disclosed in the financial statements, isinherently subjective. We have considered Litigationsand claims as Key Audit Matter because theestimates on which these amounts are based involve asignificant degree of management judgement,including accounting estimates that involves highestimation uncertainity.
Assesesd management’s conclusions throughunderstanding precedents set in similar cases, whereverobtained by the management.
We have assessed the adequacy and appropriateness ofrecognition, measurement, presentation and disclosureof contingent liabilities in the Financial Statements.
4. Information other than the Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report Thereon
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The otherinformation comprises the information included in the Annual Report, the Board’s Report including Annexures toBoard’s Report but does not include the financial statements and our auditors’ report thereon. The above-referredinformation is expected to be made available to us after the date of this audit report.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form ofassurance conclusion thereon. In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to readthe other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the otherinformation is materially inconsistent 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, we conclude that there is amaterial misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
When we read the other information, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are requiredto communicate the matter to those charged with governance and take appropriate actions necessitated by thecircumstances and the applicable laws and regulations.
5. Responsibilities of Management and Those charged with Governance for the Financial Statements
The Company’s Management and Board of Directos are responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of theAct with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financialposition, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with theaccounting standards specified under Section 133 of the Act and other accounting principles generally accepted inIndia. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovision of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates thatare reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of internal financial control, that wereoperating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to thepreparation and presentation of the Financial Statements that give a true and fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the Management and Board of Directors are responsible for assessing theCompany’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern andusing the going concern basis of accounting unless Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company orto cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.
6. Auditor’s Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statement
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free frommaterial 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 accordancewith SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or errorand are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence theeconomic 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 maintain professionalscepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatementof the Financial Statements, whether due to fraud orerror, 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 misstatementresulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting 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 audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3) (i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressingour opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and theoperating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, basedon the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that maycast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a materialuncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in thefinancial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are basedon the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditionsmay 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 underlying transactions and events in a manner thatachieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope andtiming of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that weidentify during 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.
7. Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (the “Order”), issued by the CentralGovernment of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, we give in the“Annexure A” a statement on the matters specified in the paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extentapplicable.
2. As required by section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) we have sought and obtained section, all the information and explanations which to the best of ourknowledge 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 the Company so far asappears from our examination of those books and proper returns adequate for the purposes of our audit;
(c) the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, the Statement of Changes in Equity, the Statement ofCash Flows and notes to the financial statements dealt with by this Report are in agreement with thebooks of account;.
(d) in our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified underSection 133 of the Act, read , read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, asamended;
(e) on the basis of written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2024, none of thedirectors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2024, from being appointed as a director in terms of Section164(2) of the Act;
(f) with respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financial statements of theCompany and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in “Annexure B";
(g) the Company has not paid any managerial remuneration to its directors and thus, the provisions of section197 read with Schedule V of the Act are not applicable to the Company for the year ended March 31,2024;
(h) with respect to the other matters included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 as amended in our opinion and to the best of ourinformation and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations as at March 31, 2024 on its financialpositions in the financial statements Refer Note No.24(4)(iii) to the financial statements.
ii. The Company does not have any long-term contracts including derivatives contracts, for which therewere any material foreseeable losses as required under the applicable law or accounting standards;
iii. There were no amounts which were 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 havebeen advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any othersources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other person or entities, including foreignentities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, thatthe Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entitiesidentified in any manner 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 havebeen received by the Company from any person or entities, including foreign entities (“FundingParties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall,whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on such audit procedures that were considered reasonable and appropriate in thecircumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representationsunder sub-clause (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
v. The Company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year. Hence, the Company is notrequired to comply with the provision of Section 123 of the Act.
vi. The reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 is applicablefrom April 1, 2023.
Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used accounting softwarefor maintaining its books of account, which have a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facilityeffective from 6th July, 2023 and the same has operated throughout the remaining year for allrelevant transactions recorded in the software.
We did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with in the accountingsoftware in the remaining period.
For HEMANT ARORA &CO. LLP
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSFirm Registration No. 002141C/C400006
Place: Dehradun Kamal Nagpal
Date: 30th May 2024 Partner
UDIN: 24408066BKDUYX1502 M. No.: 408066