We were engaged to audit the accompanying statement of standalone financial results ofAtcom Technologies Limited (‘the Company’) for thequarter and year ended March 31, 2024(‘the statement’) attached herewith, being submitted by the Company pursuant to the requirementof Regulation 33 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015,as amended.
In absence of any sufficient appropriate audit evidences regarding certainty, quantum and timeframe for recovery from Trade receivable, Loan to subsidiary (including interest), outcome ofpending legal action initiated against debtors and legal cases/ / insolvency proceedings initiatedby banks against company for recovery of loans and possession of Company's properties,transfer of banks dues in favor of ARC, other factors such as non-availability of confirmations ofTrade Receivables, Trade payables, Borrowings and bank accounts, non-payment of Tradepayables and other liabilities including statutory dues, non-availability of finance due torecalling of the bank finance and attachment of bank accounts by Income tax departmentagainst its dues, impact of actions and forthcoming actions that may be taken by various legaland statutory authorities due to various factors mentioned herein etc and in view of multipleuncertainties as stated above we are unable to determine the possible effect on the financialresult and ability of the company to continue as a going concern.
Because of the significance of the matters described in the Basis of Disclaimer of Opinion sectionof our report, absence of sufficient appropriate audit evidences and Material uncertainty relatedto Going Concern paragraph below, it is not possible to form an opinion on the financial resultsdue to the potential interaction of the uncertainties and their possible cumulative effect on thestandalone financial results. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the standalonefinancial results.
Basis of Disclaimer of Opinion
(a) The company has not translated following monetary items denominated in foreign currency asat year ended closing rate and has been carried forward at the rate as at 31st March 2015, 31st March
2016, and / or 31st March 2017, which is not in accordance with Ind-AS -21 "The Effect of changesin Foreign Exchange Rates" and accounting policy followed by the Company.
1. the company has accumulated losses and its net-worth has been substantially recorded. TheCompany is currently under liquidation in the High Court. Further the Company has also fileda scheme of rearrangement & compromise with the NCLT. These conditions state that amaterial uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the entity’s ability to continue asa going concern.
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 describedin the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. Weare independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute ofChartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our auditof the financial statements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder,and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and theCode of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our qualified opinion.
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, andwe do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
The matters described under the Basis for Qualified Opinion section were determined to be keyaudit matters to be communicated in our audit report.
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 Governanceand Shareholder’s Information, but does not include the standalone financial statements and ourauditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and wedo not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read theother information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materiallyinconsistent with the standalone financial statements or our knowledge obtained during the course
of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of thisother information; we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company’s Board of Director sis responsible for the matters state din section134(5) of theCompaniesAd,2013(“theAd”)withrespedtothepreparationofthesestandalonefmandalstatementsthatgiveatrueandfairviewofthefinancialposition,financialperformance,changesinequityandcashflowsofthe Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India,including the accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility alsoinclude maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision soft he Actfor safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments andestimates that are reasonable and prudent;
anddesign,implementationandmaintenanceofadequateinternalfinancialcontrols,thatwereoperatingeffectively 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 freefrom materialmisstatement,whetherduetofraudorerror.
Inpreparingthefinandalstatements,managementisresponsibleforassessingtheCompany’sabilitytocontinueasagoingconcern,disclosing,asapplicable, matters related to going concern and using thegoing concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company orto cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reportingprocess.
Ourobjectivesaretoobtainreasonableassuranceaboutwhetherthefinancialstatementsasawholearefree 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 thatan audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when itexists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually orin the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of userstaken on the basis of these financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintainprofessional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements,whether due to fraud or error, 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 riskof not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting fromerror, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or theoverride of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial control relevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we arealso responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internalfinancial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accountingestimates and related disclosures made by the 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 standalone financial statements or, if suchdisclosures are inadequate, 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 Company to cease to continue as a goingconcern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that,individually or in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonablyknowledgeable user of the standalone financial statements may be influenced. We considerquantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and inevaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements inthe standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the plannedscope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficienciesin internal control 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 standalone financial statements of the currentperiod and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s reportunless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rarecircumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because theadverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interestbenefits of such communication.
As per rule 11(g) of the Companies Rules, 2014 we report that the company has provided sufficientand appropriate evidence to verify software used to maintain audit trail records. On test check basiswe state that the transactions are covered in audit trail feature
1 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 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 Companyin so far as it appears from our examination of those books;
c The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other ComprehensiveIncome, the Cash Flow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by thisReport are in agreement with the relevant books of account.
d In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone Ind AS financial statements comply with the IndianAccounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with relevant rulesissued thereunder.
e On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31stMarch,2024 and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as
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on 31 March, 2024 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of theAct;
f With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting ofthe Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Reportin “AnnexureA”
g With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance withRule11oftheCompanies(AuditandAuditors)Rules,2014,asamended,inouropinionandtothebest of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
(i) TheCompanyhasdisclosedtheimpactofpendinglitigationsonitsfinancialpositioninitsstandalone Ind AS financial statements. Refer Notes to the standalone Ind ASfinancial statements.
(ii) The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contractsfor which there were any material foreseeablelosses.
(iii) There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to theInvestor Education and Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended
31March,2024.
2 With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditor’s Report under section 197(16) of theAct: In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us,theCompany has
notpaidanyremunerationtoitsdirectorsduringthecurrentyear.ThereforecommentonwhethertheremunerationpaidtoanydirectorisinexcessofthelimitlaiddownundersaidsectionoftheAct has notbeengiven.
3. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued by theCentral Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in “Annexure B” astatement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
Ronak GadaDesignated PartnerMembership No. 146825Firm’s Registration No. W100059
Date:29/05/2024
UDIN:24146825BKCUWJ6144