We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Prakash Woollen & Synthetic Mills Limited (“the Company”),which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), theCash Fow Statement and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including asummary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view inconformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India including Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified undersection 133 of the Act, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2024, and its profit (including other comprehensive income),its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013.Our responsibilities under those Standards are further 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 of Ethics issued by the Institute of CharteredAccountants of India together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisionsof the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with theserequirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basisfor our opinion.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statementsof the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming ouropinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
We have determined that there are no key audit matters to communicate in our report.
Information other than the Financial Statements and Auditors' Report thereon
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included inthe Annual Report, but does not include the financial statements and our aditors' report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance coclusionthereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified abovewhen it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. When we read the above reports, if weconclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) withrespect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs (financial position),profit or loss (financial performance including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordancewith the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards specified under section 133 of theAct. This responsibility also 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 ofappropriate implementation and maintenance of accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring theaccuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statement that give atrue and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible 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 basis of accounting unless management eitherintends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a 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 Standards of Auditing will always detect a material misstatement whenit exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonablybe expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with Standards on Auditing, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional skepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design andperform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis forour opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, asfraud 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 are appropriate in thecircumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for explaining our opinion on whether the Company hasadequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclousuresmade by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidenceobtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company'sability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in ourauditors' report to the related disclosures in the statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusionsare based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditors' report. However, future events or conditions may cause theCompany to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether thefinancial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit andsignificant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regardingindependence, and to communicate with them 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 determine those matters that were of most significance in theaudit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors'report unless law or regulation precludes public disclsures about the matter or when, in extremely circumstances, we determine that amatter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
As required by Section 197(16) of the Act, we report that the Company has paid remuneration to its directors during the year in accordancewith the provisions of and limits laid down under Section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act.
As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”), issued by the Central Government 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 paragraphs 3and 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 and belief were necessary forthe purposes of our audit.
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examinationof those books.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement withthe books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the IndAS specified under Section 133 of the Act, read withRule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2024 and taken on record by the Board ofDirectors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 st March, 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 reporting of the Company and the operating effectivenessof such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure B”.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statements.
ii) The Company did not have any long term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeablelosses.
iii) There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor 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 been 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 entity, including foreign entity ( Intermediaries), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend orinvest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the company ( Ultimate Bneficiaries)or provide 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 individuallyor in the aggregate) have been received by the company from any person or entity, including foreign entity (Funding Parties),with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lendor invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party ( UltimateBeneficiaries) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriae in the circumstances, noothing hascome to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11, asprovided under (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.
v) The company has not declared or paid dividend during the year.
vi) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the company has used accounting softwares for maintaining its books ofaccount for the financial year ended March 31, 2024 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the samehas operated through out the year for all the relevant transactions recorded in the softwares. Further, during the course of ouraudit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
As provision to Rule 3(1) of the Cmpanies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1, 2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record retention is notapplicable for the financial year ended March 31,2024.
Chartered AccountantsFirm's registration number: 005147C
Place : Village Amhera (Amroha) (Partner)
Date : 27.05.2024 Membership No. 074016
UDIN: 24074016BKAPDQ8204