We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Aerpace Industries Limited (the “Company”),which comprise the balance sheet as at 31st March 2025, and the statement of Profit and Loss (includingother comprehensive income), and the statement of changes in equity and the statement of cash flows forthe year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accountingpolicies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as the “ Standalone FinancialsStatements”). In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us,the aforesaid standalone 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 Indian AccountingStandards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards)Rules, 2015, as amended (“Ind AS”) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the stateof affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, and its loss and other comprehensive income, changes inequity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10)of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilitiesfor the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of theCompany in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(“ICAI”) together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Standalone financialstatements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe that theaudit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on thefinancial statements.
Key Audit Matters
Key Audit Matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our auditof the standalone financial statements of the current period. Those matters were addressed in the context ofour audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming opinion thereon, and we do not provide aseparate opinion on these matters.
We have determined the matters described below to be the Key audit matters to be communicated in ourreport. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditors’ Responsibilities for the audit of thefinancial statements section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our auditincluded the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of risk of materialmisstatement of the financial statements.
The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matter below,provide the basis of our audit opinion on the accompanying financial statements.
How our audit addressed the key audit matter
The company has various internally generated
Our audit procedures included the following:
intangible assets under development. Initialrecognition of the expenditure under these
•We read the company’s research and
projects are based on assessing each project in
development expenditure accounting policies to
relation to specific recognition criteria that needs
assess compliance with Ind AS 38 “Intangible
to be met for capitalization. In addition, the
Assets”.
management also assess indication ofimpairment of the carrying value of assets which
• We performed test of control over management
requires management judgement and
process of identifying and capitalizing the
assumptions as affected by future market or
development expenditure in accordance with the
economic developments. Due to the materiality
accounting principles of capitalization of
of the assets under development recognized and
expenditure on internally generated intangible
the level of management judgement involved,
assets as per Ind AS 38 such
initial recognition and measurement of internally
astechnicalfeasibility ofthe project, the intention
generated intangible assets has been
and ability to complete the intangible asset,
considered as a key audit matter.
ability to use or sell the asset, generation of futureeconomic benefits and the ability to measurecost reliably.
• We performed test of details of developmentexpenditure capitalized by reviewing the keyassumptions including authorization of the stageof the project in the development phase, theaccuracy of costs included and assessing theuseful economic life attributed to the asset. Inaddition, we considered whether any indicatorsof impairment were present by understandingthe business rationale for the projects.
Other Information
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other informationcomprises the information included in the Management Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Reportincluding Annexures to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governance andShareholder’s Information but does not include the Ind AS financial statements and our auditor’s reportthereon. The annual report is expected to be made available to us after the date of this auditor’s report.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any formof assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other informationidentified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information ismaterially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwiseappears to be materially misstated.
When we read the annual report, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are requiredto communicate the matter to those charged with governance and take appropriate action as required underthe applicable laws and regulations.
Management’s and Board of Directors’ Responsibilities for the Standalone FinancialStatements
The Company’s Management and Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) ofthe Act with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair viewof the financial position, financial performance, including other comprehensive income, changes in equityand cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India,including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibilityalso includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act forsafeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that arereasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financialcontrols, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a trueand fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, the management and the Board of Directors areresponsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable,matters related to going concern and using the going concern the basis of accounting unless the Board ofDirectors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations or has no realistic alternative but todo so.
The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the company’s financial reporting process.
Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the standalone financial statements as awhole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report thatincludes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an auditconducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatementscan arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they couldreasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financialstatements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professionalskepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud orerror, 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,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 with reference to financialstatements in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimatesand related disclosures made by management and Board of Directors.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of the management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and,based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditionsthat may cast significant doubt on 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’s report to the related disclosuresin the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions arebased on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events orconditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements, includingthe disclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions andevents in a manner that achieves fair presentation.Materiality is the magnitude of misstatement in theFinancial Statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of areasonably knowledgeable user of the financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitativemateriality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of ourwork; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatement in the financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scopeand timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal controlthat we identify 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 mattersthat 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 those matters thatwere of most significance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore thekey audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes publicdisclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should notbe communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably beexpected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
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 Act, we give in the “Annexure A”, astatement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
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 theCompany so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
(c) The standalone balance sheet, the standalone statement of profit and loss ( includingothercomprehensive income), the standalone statement of changes in equity and the standalone statement ofcash flows dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Ind AS specified underSection 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken onrecord by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2025 from beingappointed 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 reporting of the Company andthe operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure B”. Our reportexpresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company’s internalfinancial controls over financial reporting
(B) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company did not have any pending litigations to be disclosed on its financial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts, including derivative contracts for which there were anymaterial foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and ProtectionFund by the Company.
iv. (a)The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (which arematerial either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested (either fromborrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any otherpersons or entities, including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entitiesidentified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”), or provide anyguarantee, 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 arematerial either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any persons orentities, including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the company shall, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified inany manner whatsoever 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 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 (a)and (b) contain any material misstatement.
v. The Company has neither declared nor paid any dividend during the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting softwaresystems for maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 which have thefeature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevanttransactions recorded in the software systems. Further, during the course of our audit we did not comeacross any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with and the audit trail has been preserved bythe Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
(C) With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditor’s Report under Section197(16) of the Act: In ouropinion, according to the information and explanation given to us, remuneration paid by the Company to itsdirectors during the current year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act. Theremuneration paid to any director is not in excess of the limit laid down under Section 197 of the Act.
For Ramanand & AssociatesChartered AccountantsFirm’s Registration No. 117776WRamanand GuptaPartner
Membership No. 103975Date: 14 May 2025Place: MumbaiUDIN: 25103975BMIFZT9319