We have audited the accompanying financial statements of GRAND FOUNDRY LIMITED(the “Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement ofProfit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes in Equityand the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended on that date and notes to the financialstatements, including a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatoryinformation (hereinafter referred to as the “Financial Statements”).
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, (“Ind AS”) and other accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2024, its 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 of the Standalone Financial Statements in accordance with the Standardson Auditing (“SA”s) as specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities underthose Standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of theStandalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Companyinaccordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia(“ICAI”) together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the StandaloneFinancial Statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and wehave fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and theICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained byus is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significancein our audit of the Financial Statements of the current period. 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. We have determined the mattersdescribed below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
We have determined that there are no other key audit matters to communicate in our report.
Other Matters
The comparative financial statement of the company for the year ended March 31, 2023 prepared inaccordance with accounting standards, included in these financial statements, have been audited by M/sVijay V. Dedhia & Co., Chartered Accountants, whose audit report dt. May 27, 2023 expressed anunmodified opinion. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Information Other than the Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report Thereon
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 and Sustainability Report,
Corporate Governance and Shareholder’s Information, but does not include the financialstatements 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 materially inconsistentwith the financial statements, or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit orotherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement ofthis other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the FinancialStatements
The Company’s Board of Directors is 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 ofthe financial position, financial performance, including other comprehensive income, changes inequity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generallyaccepted in India, including Ind AS specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility alsoincludes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of theAct for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgmentsand estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance ofadequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy andcompleteness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of thefinancial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement,whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management and Board of Directors is responsible forassessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, mattersrelated to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Board ofDirectors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realisticalternative but to do so.
The Company’s Board of Directors is 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 as awhole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, andto issue an auditor’sreport that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not aguarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a materialmisstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are consideredmaterial if, individually or in 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 maintainprofessional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whetherdue to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Therisk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for oneresulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions,misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial control relevant to the audit in order to designaudit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act,we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequateinternal financial controls with reference to financial statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness ofaccounting estimates and related disclosures made by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis ofaccounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability tocontinue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are requiredto draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financial statementsor, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based onthe 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 financial statements, includingthe disclosures, and whether the Financial Statements represent the underlying transactionsand events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the Financial Statements that, individually or inaggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user ofthe financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitativefactors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work andin evaluating the results of our work; and(ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, theplanned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant
deficiencies in internal financial controls that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied withrelevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them allrelationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, andwhere applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those mattersthat were of most significance in the audit of the financial statements ofthe current period andare therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless lawor regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rarecircumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report becausethe adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the publicinterest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit 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 including Other ComprehensiveIncome, Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealt with bythis Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid 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 March31, 2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualifiedas on March 31, 2024 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) ofthe Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financialstatements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate Report in “Annexure A”. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on theadequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company’s internal financial controls withreference to financial statements.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordancewith the requirements of section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and tothe best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the companyhas not paid any managerial remuneration to its directors during the year. Accordinglyprovisions of section 197 of the Act is not applicable.
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, as amended, in ouropinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact itsfinancial position;
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contractsfor which there were any material foreseeable losses;
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to theInvestor Education 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 otherperson or entity, including foreign entity (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediaryshall, 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”) or provide any guarantee, security orthe like onbehalf 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 orinvest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or onbehalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries ; and
(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that hascaused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) ofRule 11(e), as provided under (a) and (b) above, contain any materialmisstatement.
v. There is no interim or final dividend have been declared or paid by the Companyduring the year.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has usedaccounting softwares for maintaining its books of account for the financial yearended March 31, 2024 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facilityand the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactionsrecorded in the softwares. Further, during the course of our audit we did not comeacross any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicablefrom April 1, 2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutoryrequirements for record retention is not applicable for the financial year endedMarch 31, 2024.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (the “Order”) issued bythe Central Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in “AnnexureB” a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
For Ashwani & Associates
Chartered Accountants
(Firm’s Registration No. 000497N)
Sanj eeva NarayanPartner
(Membership No. 084205)
UDIN: 24084205BKAMLW6203
Place: New DelhiDate: May 09, 2024