We have audited the financial statements of DAPS Advertising Limited (“the Company”), whichcomprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March, 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss and theStatement of Cash Flows for the year ended and notes to the Financial Statements, including asummary of material 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 Financial Statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013(“the Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with theaccounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31stMarch, 2024 and its profit, and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified undersection 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards arefurther 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 Ethicsissued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirementsthat are relevant to our audit of the Financial Statements under the provisions of the CompaniesAct, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities inaccordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidencewe have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
The Company's Management & Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these FinancialStatements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance and cashflows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in 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 theAct for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds andother irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation andmaintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuringthe accuracy and completeness
of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statementthat give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud orerror
In preparing the Financial Statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company'sability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concernand using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidatethe Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so. Those Board ofDirectors are also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as awhole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue anauditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, butis not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a materialmisstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are consideredmaterial if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence theeconomic 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 maintainprofessional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whetherdue to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than forone 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 auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of theCompanies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether theCompany has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness ofaccounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis ofaccounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertaintyexists 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 our auditor's report to the related disclosures in thefinancial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Ourconclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor'sreport. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continueas a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the financial statements that, individually or inaggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user ofthe financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitativefactors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and(ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, theplanned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significantdeficiencies in 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,and where applicable, related safeguards.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued bythe Central Government of India in terms of Sub-Section (11) of Section 143 of theAct, we give in the Annexure A, a statement on the matters specified in the paragraphs3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best ofour knowledge and 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 theCompany so far as appears from our examination of those books;
c) The Balance Sheet and the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Statement of Cash Flowsdealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Financial Statements comply with the Accounting Standardsspecified under Section 133 of the Act;
e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors as on 31st March,2024, taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on31st 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 with reference to financialstatements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate report in Annexure B.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordancewith Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended, in our opinionand to the best of our information and according to the explanation given to us: -
i. There is no pending litigation as at 31st March, 2024 which has impact on the financialposition of the Company in its Financial Statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contract including derivative contracts forwhich there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. The Company did not have any amount required to be transferred, to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund during the year ended 31st March, 2024.
iv. a. The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,as disclosed in the Note 24.B.11 to the accounts, no funds have been advanced orloaned or invested either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sourcesor kind of funds by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lendor invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or onbehalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security orthe like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
b. The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, otherthan as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been advanced or loanedor invested either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kindof funds by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreignentities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or investin other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of theCompany (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
c. Based on audit procedures that has considered reasonable and appropriate inthe circumstances, nothing has come to the notice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations under above point (a) and (b) contain any material misstatement.
v. The final dividend paid by the Company during the financial year ended 31 March 2024in respect of such dividend declared for the previous year is in accordance with section123 of the Act to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.
As stated in note 24 (A.10) to the accompanying financial statement, the Board ofDirectors of the Company have proposed final dividend for the year ended 31 March2024 which is subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual GeneralMeeting. The dividend declared is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extentit applies to payment of dividend.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used anaccounting software for maintaining its books of accounts for the financial year endedMarch 31, 2024 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and thesame has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the
software. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance ofaudit trail feature being tampered with.
The company has confirmed to maintain and preserve the audit trail as per the provisoto Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 which is applicable from April 1,
2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 as perthe statutory requirements for record retention for the financial year ended March 31,
2024.
h) As required by section 197(16) of the Act based on our audit, we report that the Companyhas paid remuneration to its directors during the year in accordance with the provisions ofand limits laid down under section 197 read with Schedule V to the Companies Act, 2013.