We have audited the financial statements of Bright Outdoor Media Limited (“the Company”), which comprise thebalance sheet as at 31st March 2025, and the statement of profit and loss, and statement of cash flows for theyear then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policiesand other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaidfinancial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 in the manner so required andgive a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state ofaffairs of the Company as at March 31,2025, and its profit and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) ofthe Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor’sResponsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of theCompany in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Indiatogether with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under theprovisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the auditevidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis forour opinion.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Financial Statements
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act,2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of thefinancial position, financial
performance, and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally acceptedin India, including the accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility alsoincludes 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 of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that arereasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls,that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevantto the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free frommaterial misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the Company’s abilityto continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are freefrom material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes ouropinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of 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 fromfraud 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 financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professionalskepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud orerror, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatementresulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud 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 areappropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are alsoresponsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controlssystem in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimatesand related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, basedon the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions thatmay cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that amaterial uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosuresin the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions arebased on the 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, including thedisclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in amanner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope andtiming of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that weidentify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters thatmay reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards. From thematters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters.We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about thematter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated inour report because the 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 the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2016 (“the Order”), issued by the CentralGovernment of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, we give inthe Annexure “A” a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extentapplicable.
2. 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 knowledgeand belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
b) In our opinion proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far asappears from our examination of those books
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by thisReport are in agreement with the books of account
d) In our opinion, the financial statement comply with the applicable Accounting Standards specified underSection 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors as on March 31,2025, and taken onrecord by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31,2025, from beingappointed 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 Companyand the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in Annexure ‘B’,
g) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, we reportas under with respect to other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014:
i. The impact of pending litigation has been duly disclosed in the financial statements, if any.
ii. The Company did not have any long term contracts including derivative contracts for whichthere existed any foreseeable losses
iii. There has not been any occasion in case of the Company during the year under report totransfer any sums to the Investor Education and Protection Fund; hence the question of delayin transferring such sums does not arise.
Dated: 29/05/2025
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