We have audited the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements of Nicco Parks & Resorts Limited (“the Company”), which comprise theBalance Sheet as at 31st March, 2025, and the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes inEquity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary ofmaterial accountingpolicies and other explanatory notes for the year ended on that date (hereinafter referred to as “the Standalone Financial Statements”).
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements givethe information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair viewin conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards notified under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards)Rules, 2015, as amended from time to time, (hereinafter referred to as the “Ind AS”) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, ofthe state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March, 2025, its profit (including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and its cash flowsfor the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (hereinafter referred to as “the SAs”)specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those SAs are further described in the “Auditors’ Responsibilities for the Auditof the Standalone Financial Statements” section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issuedby the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (hereinafter referred to as “the ICAI”) together with the ethical requirements that are relevantto our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements under the provisions of the Act, and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our otherethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements.
We draw attention to Note No. 52 of the Standalone Financial Statements dealing with the preparation of the Standalone Financial Statement onthe going concern basis. Pending formalization ofthe agreements as stated therein, there is material uncertainty vis-a-vis Company’s operations ongoing concern basis and its ability to continue so as a going concern. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were ofmost significance in our audit ofthe Standalone Financial Statementsfor the financial year ended 31st March, 2025. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit ofthe Standalone Financial Statements as awhole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have considered the matters describedbelow to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the “Auditors’ Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements” sectionof our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to ourassessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Standalone Financial Statements. The results of our audit procedures, including theprocedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements.
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Audit of Revenue Recognition
The industry in which the Company operates involves collectionsthrough cash and other digital means from walk-in customers.This enhances the inherent risk of collections made without rev¬enue being recorded by the Company.
Our audit procedures based on which we arrived at the conclusionregarding reasonableness of the recognition of revenue includethe following:
• Assessed whether the revenue recognition accounting policies arein compliance with the applicable accounting standards.
• Evaluated the design and implementation of internal controls inaccordance with the Company’s accounting policy. We tested theoperating effectiveness ofthe internal control relating to revenuerecognition.
• Tested the design, implementation and operating effectiveness ofthe Company’s general information technology controls and keyapplication controls over the Company’s information technologysystems which govern revenue recognition in the accountingsystem.
• Performed substantive tests by selecting samples of cash andother digital receipt transactions recorded during the year andreconciled to the revenue. As part of the substantive tests, weinspected the underlying documents and performed reconciliationof collections made at the sales/ billing counter with the revenuerecorded.
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 Standalone Financial Statements, Consolidated Financial Statements and our Auditors’ Reportsthereon. Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form ofassurance conclusion thereon.
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 such other information is materially inconsistent with the Standalone FinancialStatements, or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If based on the workwe have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We havenothing to report with respect to the above.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation andpresentation of these Standalone Financial Statements in terms of the requirements of the Act that give a true and fair view of the financialposition, financial performance (including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and cash flows ofthe Company in accordance withaccounting principles generally accepted in India including the Ind AS. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions 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 judgments and estimates that are reasonableand prudent; and the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively forensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the Standalone FinancialStatements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the Standalone Financial Statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the ability of the Company to continueas a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless theBoard of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the financial reporting process of the Company.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Standalone Financial Statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors’ report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high levelof assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expectedto influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these Standalone Financial Statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional 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 andperform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for ouropinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud mayinvolve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls;
• 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)^) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company hasadequate internal financial controls with reference to the Standalone Financial Statements in place and the operating effectiveness ofsuch controls;
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures in theStandalone Financial Statements made 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 ability of theCompany 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 Standalone Financial Statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify ouropinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditors’ 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, including the disclosures, and whetherthe Standalone Financial 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 our independence,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 Standalone Financial Statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters inour auditors’ report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, wedetermine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably beexpected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. 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 Act, we give in the “Annexure A” a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order,to the extent applicable.
2. Further to our comments in the annexure referred to in the paragraph above, 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 necessaryfor the purposes of our audit;
b) Proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those booksexcept for the matters stated in 3(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014;
c) The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), theStandalone Statement of Changes in Equity and the Standalone Statement of Cash Flows dealt with by this Report are in agreementwith the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards notified underSection 133 of the Act, read with the relevant Rules as amended from time to time;
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the Directors as on 31st March, 2025 taken on record by the Board ofDirectors, none of the Directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2025 from being appointed as a Director in terms ofSection 164(2)of the Act;
f) The observation relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in the paragraph 2(b)above on reporting under section 143(3)^) of the Act and paragraph 3(vi) below on reporting under rule 11(g) of the Companies(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to the Standalone Financial Statements of theCompany and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure B” to this report. Our reportexpresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of internal financial control with reference to theStandalone Financial Statements of the Company.
3. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors’ Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors)Rules, 2014 (as amended) from time to time, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations givento us:
i. Pending litigations (other than those already recognized in the accounts) having material impact on the financial position of theCompany have been disclosed in the Standalone Financial Statements as required in terms of accounting standards and provisionsof the Act - refer note 42 of the Standalone Financial Statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeablelosses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by theCompany.
iv. a. The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief as disclosed in note no. 54(vii) to the Standalone
Financial Statements, no funds (which are material either individually or in aggregate) have been advanced or loaned orinvested (either from borrowed funds or securities premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or inany other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recordedin writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, 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 or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
b. The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief as disclosed in note no. 54(vii) to the StandaloneFinancial Statements, no funds (which are material either individually or in aggregate) have been received by the Companyfrom any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Parties (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, securityor the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
c. Based on such audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has cometo our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e) of Companies(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 as amended from time to time, as provided under (a) and (b) above, contain any materialmisstatement.
v. The interim dividends declared and paid by the Company during the year and until the date of this report are in compliance withsection 123 of the Act. As stated in note no. 55 to the Standalone Financial Statements, the Board of Directors of the Company hasdeclared an interim dividend for the year during the Board Meeting held on 27th May, 2025. The dividend declared is in accordancewith section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to declaration of dividend.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks and in accordance with requirements of Implementation Guide on Reportingon Audit Trail under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, the Company has used accounting softwarefor maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has been operatedthroughout the year at application level for all relevant transactions, other than those for property, plant and equipment which hasbeen maintained manually, recorded in the software.
However, audit trail feature was not enabled at database level to log any direct data changes.
Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of the audit trail feature (where available) being tamperedwith and the audit trail, as available, has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
4. With respect to the reporting of Other Maters under section 197(16) of the Act to be included in the Auditors’ Report, in our opinion andaccording to the information and explanations given to us, the remuneration (including sitting fees) paid by the Company to its Directors duringthe current financial year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act and is not in excess of the limit laid down therein.
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSFIRM’S REGISTRATION NO: 301051E/ E300284
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Place: Kolkata (PARTNER)
Date: 27th May, 2025 MEMBERSHIP NO. 058940
UDIN: 25058940BMMIQT6974