We have audited the accompanying financial statements of DEEPAK BUILDERS & ENGINEERSINDIA LIMITED (“the Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31stMarch 2025, theStatement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Cash Flowsand the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended on that date, and notes to the financialstatements, including a 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 financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the “Act”) inthe manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian AccountingStandards (“Ind AS”) prescribed under section 133 of the Act and other accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March 2025, its profit andloss (including other comprehensive income), its cash flows and changes in equity for the year endedon that date.
We conducted our audit of the financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing(SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards arefurther described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section ofour report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by theInstitute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) together with the independence requirements thatare relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rulesmade there under, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with theserequirements 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 audit opinion on the financial statements.
Key audit matters are those matter 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 ofour audit of the financial statements as a whole and in forming our opinion thereon and we do notprovide a separate opinion on these matters. We have determined the matters described below to bethe key audit matters to be communicated in our audit.
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Key Audit Matters
Auditor’s Response
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Revenue Recognitions from Long TermConstruction Contracts
The Company’s significant portion ofbusiness is undertaken through long-termconstruction contracts. Revenue fromthese contracts is recognized over aperiod in accordance with therequirements of Ind AS 115, Revenuefrom Contracts with Customers. Due tothe nature of the contracts, revenuerecognition involves usage of percentageof completion method which is determinedbased on output method such as surveysof performance completed to date,appraisal of results achieved, milestonesreached, units produced or units delivered
Our audit procedures include the following:
• Reading the company’s revenue recognitionaccounting policies and assessingcompliance with the policies in terms of IndAS 115.
• We performed test of controls over revenuerecognition with specific focus ondetermination of progress of completion andrecording of costs incurred.
• We performed tests of details, on a samplebasis, and read the underlying customercontracts and its amendments, if any, keycontract terms and milestones etc. forverifying estimation of contract revenue andcost and / or any change in such estimation.
which involves significant judgements, •
We reviewed the management’s evaluation
identification of contractual
obligations
process to recognize revenue over a period of
and the Company’s rights
to receive
time, status of completion for projects and
payments for performance completed till
total cost estimates.
date, changes in scope and consequential •
We tested contracts with exceptions including
revised contract price and recognition of
contracts with low or negative margins,
the liability for loss making
contracts.
contracts with significant changes in planned
[Note 2.2(O)]
•
cost estimates, contracts with significantcontract assets and liabilities, and significantoverdue net receivable positions for contractsand tested these exceptions with itscorrelation with the underlying contracts,documents for the triggers during the period.We tested that the contractual positions andrevenue for the year are presented anddisclosed in compliance of Ind AS 115 in theInd AS financial statements.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. Theother information comprises the Board’s Report including Annexure to Board’s Report andShareholder’s information, Management Discussion and Analysis and Corporate Governance butdoes not include the Financial Statements and our auditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not expressany form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the otherinformation and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with thefinancial statements or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears tobe materially misstated. If, based on the work we have performed on the other information that wehave obtained prior to the date of this auditor’s report, we conclude that there is a materialmisstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report inthis regard.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of theCompanies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that givea true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance including other comprehensiveincome, change in equity and cash flows of the company in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, including the Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act. Thisresponsibility also includes the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovision of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the company and for preventing and detectingthe frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies;making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation andmaintenance of adequate internal financial control, that were operating effectively for ensuring theaccuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentationof the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement,whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing theCompany’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to goingconcern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Board of Directors either intendsto liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the company’s financial reportingprocess.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a wholeare free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s reportthat includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guaranteethat an 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 or in theaggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken onthe 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. Therisk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for oneresulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions,misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial controls relevant to the audit in order to designaudit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act,we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequateinternal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness 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 uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability tocontinue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we arerequired to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financialstatements 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, futureevents or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, includingthe disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactionsand 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 of theFinancial Statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in
(i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluatethe effect of any identified misstatements in the 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 deficiencies ininternal financial controls 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 andother 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 mattersthat were of most significance in the audit of the Financial Statements of the current period and aretherefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law orregulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we
determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverseconsequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits ofsuch communication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 issued by the Central Governmentof India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the Annexure - Astatement on the matters Specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
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 ourknowledge 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 the Company sofar as it appears from our examination of those books except for the matters stated inparagraph 2(h)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g);
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including the Statement of OtherComprehensive Income, the Cash Flow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealtwith by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Ind AS financial statements comply with the AccountingStandards prescribed under section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended.
e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2025taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on31st March, 2025 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 these financialstatements and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in‘Annexure B’ to this report;
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g) The managerial remuneration for the year ended 31 March, 2025 has been paid / providedby the company to its directors in accordance with the provisions of section 197 read withschedule V to the Act.
h) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given tous, we report as under with respect to other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report inaccordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 -
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial positionin its financial statements; Refer Note 36.2 to the Financial Statement
(ii) The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivatives contracts forwhich there were any material foreseeable losses.
(iii) There were no amounts which required to be transferred by the Company to theInvestor Education and Protection Fund.
(iv)
a) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed fundsor share 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”), withthe understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediaryshall, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified inany manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company (“UltimateBeneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries.
b) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,no funds have been received by the Company from any person(s) or entity(ies),including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether
recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly orindirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) orprovide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
c) Based on such audit procedures that we considered reasonable and appropriatein the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us tobelieve that the representations under sub-clause (a) and (b) above contain anymaterial misstatement.
(v) The Board of Directors of the Company has proposed final dividend for the yearwhich is subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual GeneralMeeting. The amount of dividend proposed is in accordance with section 123 of theAct, as applicable.
(vi) Based on our examination which included test checks, performed by us, theCompany has used accounting software systems for maintaining their respectivebooks of account for the financial year ended March 31,2025 which have the featureof recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout theyear for all relevant transactions recorded in the software systems. Further, during thecourse of audit, we have not come across any instance of the audit trail feature beingtampered with. Additionally, the audit trail has been preserved by the Company asper the statutory requirements for record retention.
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