We have audited the financial statements of SER Industries Limited ('the Company'), which comprise theBalance Sheet as at 31st March 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss, the Statement of Changes in Equity,and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, includinga summary 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, theaforesaid Ind AS financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so requiredand give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, ofthe state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March 2024 and its loss, changes in equity and its cash flowsfor the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under Section143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in theAuditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements Section of our report. We areindependent 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 financialstatements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we havefulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics.We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis forour opinion.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in ouraudit of the financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of ouraudit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide aseparate opinion on these matters. There is no key audit matter to communicate during the audit period.
Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134 (5) of the CompaniesAct, 2013 ('the Act') with respect to the preparation and presentation of these Ind AS financial statementsthat give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cashflows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, includingthe Indian Accounting Standards(Ind AS) specified under Section 133 of the Act.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraudsand other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgmentsand estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate
internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness ofthe accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statement that gives 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 tocontinue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.Auditor's Responsibility for the audit of financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole arefree 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 professionalscepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due tofraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain auditevidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of notdetecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error,as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the overrideof internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the CompaniesAct, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company hasadequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of suchcontrols.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accountingestimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accountingand, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to eventsor conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a goingconcern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in ourauditor's report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures areinadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up
to the date of our auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Companyto cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions andevents in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
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 internalcontrol that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevantethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and othermatters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, relatedsafeguards.
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 precludespublic disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a mattershould not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonablybe expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication
Other Matter
We are given to an understanding that-
1. Trading of Company's shares is under suspension; however, the Company has taken required stepsto resume the trading.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of these matters.
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 Act, we give in the Annexure'B', a statement on the matters specified in paragraph 3 and 4 of the Order.
2. As required by Section143(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, except for the mattersstated in paragraph 2(g)(vi).
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 financial statements comply with the Ind AS specified underSection 133 of the Act, read with Companies (Accounting Standard) Rules, 2021 and therelevant provisions of the Act and Rules made thereunder.
e. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as of31st 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 the financial reportingof the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separateReport in "Annexure A". Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacyand operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls over financialreporting.
g. with respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors' Report in accordance withRule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the bestof our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has no litigations which require disclosure, which would impact inits financial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contractsand hence making provisions as required under the applicable law or accountingstandard for material foreseeable losses is not required.
iii. There were no amounts required to be transferred to the Investors Education andProtection Fund by the Company.
iv. a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,other than as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been advancedor 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(s) or entity(ies),including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whetherrecorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly orindirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provideany 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,other than as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been receivedby the company from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities
("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; and
c) Based on our audit procedures we have considered reasonable and appropriatein the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believethat the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) contain any materialmisstatement.
v. The company has not declared or paid any dividend during the year in contraventionof the provisions of section 123 of the Act.
vi. Based on our examination, the Company has not used the accounting software formaintaining its books of accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2024 whichhas a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility with respect to the financialtransactions which impact the financial statements.
As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from 1stApril 2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 onpreservation of audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record retention is notapplicable for the financial year ended 31st March 2024.
h. The qualification relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewithare as stated in the paragraph 2(b) above on reporting under Section 143(3)(b) and paragraph2(g)(vi) above on reporting under Rule 11(g).
For Vinayaka Bhat & Associates
Chartered Accountants
FRN: 023984S
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Vinayaka Bhat
Date: 28th May 2024 Proprietor
Place: Bangalore M. No- 259167
UDIN: 24259167BKGSNC4629