We have audited the accompanying Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements of Natraj Proteins Ltd, (the Company) which comprises the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024 and the Statement of Profit and Loss (Including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended as on that date, a summary of the material accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Opinion:
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements gives the information required by the Companies Act 2013("the Act") in the manner so required and gives a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies ( Accounting Standards) Rules - 2015, as amended ( IND AS) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the company as on 31st March 2024, the Loss including other comprehensive income, its cash flows and Changes in equity for the year ended as on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing ( SA) as specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the standalone financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ( ICAI) together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the standalone financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the rules thereunder and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence that is obtained by us, is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Kev Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements for the financial year ended 31st March 2024. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. For the matter below our description of how our audit addressed the matter is provided in that context.
We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Statement section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Financial Statement. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying Financial Statement.
Key Audit Matter
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Auditor’s Response
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Provisions and Contingent liabilities in respect of
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Our audit procedures based on which we arrived at the
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certain litigations of Assessment of Direct and Indirect
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conclusion regarding reasonableness of the
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Taxes not acknowledged as debt.
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contingent liabilities include the following:
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The Company has material uncertain tax positions
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a.
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Understanding the current status of the
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including other matters under dispute which involves
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litigations/tax assessments;
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significant judgment to determine the possible outcome of these disputes. Claims made against the company are significant. These are pending for decision before relevant forums and consequential
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b.
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Examining communication received from various Tax Authorities/ relevant forums and follow up action thereon;
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and possible impact thereof and provisions/ disclosure required have been based on the management's assessment of the probability of the occurrence of the liability.
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c.
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Evaluating the merit of the subject matter under consideration with reference to available independent legal / tax advice;
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The Company's assessment is supported by the facts of matter, their own judgment, past experience, and advices from independent tax consultants wherever
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d.
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Discussion with the management on the development in these cases during the year ended 31st march 2024; and
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considered necessary.
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e.
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Review of the disclosures made by the company
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Accordingly, the management does not expect that the above claims/obligations (including under litigation), when ultimately concluded and determined, will have a material and adverse effect on the company's results of operations or financial condition.
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in the financial statements in this regard and analysis of evaluation of the contentions of the Company through discussions, collection of details of the subject matter under consideration and the likely outcome
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We determined the above area as a Key Audit Matter in view of associated uncertainty relating to the outcome of these matters
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Information Other than the Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report Thereon
The Company's Management Board of Directors are responsible for the preparation of the other information and presentation of its report (Hereinafter called as “Board Report”). The other information comprises the information included in the Board' s Report including Annexure to Board's Report and Shareholders Information, Management Discussion and Analysis Report and report on corporate governance, but does not include the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The other information as stated above is expected to be made available to us after the date of this Auditor's Report.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the 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 this other information; we are required to communicate the matters to those charged with governance and describe necessary actions required as per applicable laws and regulations.
Responsibility of Management and those charged with Governance for the Financial Statements:
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act 2013 (the Act) with respect to the preparation of these Ind AS Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance (including other comprehensive income), cash flows and changes in
equity of the Company in accordance with the Accounting principles generally accepted in India ,including the Indian Accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding 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 are reasonable and prudent ; and the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the Ind AS 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, management is responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to 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 reporting process.
Auditor’s Responsibilities for the audit of Financial Statements:
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our report. In conducting our audit, we have taken into account the provisions of the act: the accounting and auditing standards and matter which are required to be included in audit report under the provisions of the Act and Rules made thereunder.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with Standards on Auditing's (SA) 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 expected to 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 professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the 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 risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting 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 financial control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability 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 the standalone financial statements or, if such disclosures 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 going concern.
Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the standalone financial statements, including the
disclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions 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 reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalone financial 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. (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal financial 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 regarding independence, 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 the audit of the standalone financial statements of the current period and therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matters or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequence of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditors 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, as a statement on the maters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit.
(b) In our opinion proper books of accounts as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income), the statement of Changes in the Equity and the statement of Cash Flow dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the relevant books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone Financial Statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2024, and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors are disqualified as on March 31, 2024, from being appointed as a director in terms of section 164(2) of the Act.
(f) With respect to adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer our separate report in Annexure B to this report. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls over financial reporting.
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with requirements of section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in
accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act.
(h) 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, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its Ind AS Financial Statements as on 31/03/2024. Refer to Note No 30. B , 20 (4) to the Financial Statements.
ii. The company did not have any long-term contract including derivative contracts as at the year-end for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection fund by the company.
iv. (a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds( which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested ( either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kinds of funds) by the company to or in any other person(s) or entities, including foreign entities ( “Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing otherwise, that the intermediary shall, whether directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified 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, no funds ( which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the company from the any persons or entities, including foreign entities (“funding parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the company shall, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the funding parties ( “ Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or like on behalf of the Ultimate beneficiaries:
(c) Based on such audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused to us to believe that the representations under sub clause (i) and (ii) of the Rule 11 (e), as provided above contains any material mis- statement.
v. The company has neither declared dividend nor paid any dividend during the year.
vi. The Company is maintaining its books of account manually during the year. Consequently, the company is not required to comply with the provisions related to audit trail and reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules 2014 is not applicable.
For BHUTORIA GANESAN & CO ICAI Firm Reg No: 004465c Chartered Accountants
ca. r gokulakrishnan partner
M.NO 402792
Place: Bhopal
Date: 27.05.2024
UDIN: 24402792BKHHOH6472
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