We have audited the accompanying standalone financial
statements of Shivalik Bimetal Controls Ltd. (“the
Company”), which comprise the Standalone Balance
Sheet as at 31st March, 2025, the Statement of Profit and
Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), Statement
of Cash Flows, the Statement of Changes in Equity for the
year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial
statements, including a summary of material accounting
policies and other explanatory information, (hereinafter
referred as “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 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 the Indian
Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the
Act read with Companies (Indian 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 at 31st March, 2025, and its profit and loss
(including other comprehensive income), changes in equity
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 (“SA’s”) specified under Section 143(10) of
the Act. Our responsibilities under those SAs 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
we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a
basis for our opinion.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters (‘KAM’) are those matters that, in our
professional judgment, were of most significance in our
audit of the standalone financial statements of the current
period. These matters were addressed in the context of our
audit of the standalone financial statements as a whole, and
in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a
separate opinion on these matters. We have determined the
matters described below to be the key audit matters to be
communicated in our report.
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The Key Audit Matters
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How our audit addressed the key audit matters
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1. Addition of Property, Plant and Equipment and Capital Work in Progress
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Refer note 2.3 to the Standalone financial statements
for accounting policy and note 3 for property, plant and
equipment and capital work-in-progress related presentation
and disclosures respectively.
During the year, the Company has added Rs 684.26 Lakhs
to capital work in progress and capitalized Rs 1795.21 Lakhs
of property, plant and equipment.
The above additions required significant management
efforts and judgement to identify costs incurred that meet
the recognition criteria under Ind AS 16, Property, Plant and
Equipment, including allocation of overheads, employee
costs and borrowing costs to capital projects, determine
timing of capitalization and classification of property, plant
and equipment in various asset classes, estimate related
useful lives and assign residual values to various items
capitalized as property, plant and equipment.
Given the significance of overall capital expenditure and
estimates/ judgement involved as mentioned above,
addition to capital work-in-progress and capitalisation of
property, plant and equipment has been determined as a
key audit matter.
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Our audit procedures in relation to additions to capital
work-in progress and capitalization of property, plant and
equipment included, but were not limited to the following:
- Obtained understanding of the business process
relating to accounting for various capital projects;
- Assessed the appropriateness of property, plant and
equipment and capital work-in-progress policy of the
Company and ensured that it is in line with Ind AS 16
‘Property, Plant and Equipment’;
- Evaluated the design and tested the operating
effectiveness of key manual and automated internal
controls relating to capitalization of various costs;
- Performed test of details by selecting samples of
additions during the year, and verified the underlying
supporting documents including contracts, agreements
and invoices to ensure capital work-in-progress is
recorded accurately in the correct period. Further,
tested the classification of the items capitalized in the
current year including timing of such capitalization;
- In respect of allocated internal costs, test checked the
reasonableness and appropriateness of allocation;
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The Key Audit Matters
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How our audit addressed the key audit matters
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- Examined the useful life for individual assets to
determine whether it is consistent with the Company’s
accounting policy, technical evaluation, and applicable
regulatory guidance; and
- Evaluated the appropriateness and adequacy of the
related presentation and disclosures in the standalone
financial statements in accordance with the applicable
accounting standards.
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2. Contingent Liabilities- Contingencies & Capital Commitments:
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The Company makes a determination for recording or
alternatively disclosing them as contingencies. We identified
this as a key audit matter because the estimation on which
these amounts are based involves a reasonable degree of
assessment by the management.
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We have obtained an understanding of the Company’s
internal instructions, and procedures in respect of
assessment and disclosure of contingent liabilities & capital
commitments and adopted the following audit procedures: -
1. understood and tested the operating effectiveness
of controls as established by the management for
obtaining all relevant information;
2. discussing with the management any material
developments and latest status;
3. reviewing the adequacy and completeness of
disclosures;
Based on the above procedures performed, the
assessment and disclosures of Contingent liabilities &
Capital Commitments are considered to be adequate and
reasonable.
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Information Other than the Financial Statements and
Auditor's Report thereon
The Board of Directors are responsible for the other
information. The other information comprises the information
included in the Management Discussion and Analysis,
Board’s Report including Annexures to Board’s Report,
Business Responsibility & Sustainability Report, Corporate
Governance and Shareholder’s Information but does not
include the consolidated financial statements, standalone
financial statements and our respective auditor’s report
thereon.
Our opinion on the Standalone 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 Standalone financial
statements, our responsibility is to read the other information
and, in doing so, consider whether the other information
is materially inconsistent with the standalone financial
statements or our knowledge obtained in the 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 report that fact. We have nothing to report in
this regard.
Management's Responsibilities for the Standalone
Financial Statements
The Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated
in Section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation
of these standalone financial statements that give a true and
fair view of the state of affairs, profit / loss (including other
comprehensive income), changes in equity and cash flows of
the Company in accordance with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting
Standards (Ind AS) 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 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 standalone financial statements 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, Board of
Directors are 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.
The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the
company’s financial reporting process.
Auditor's Responsibilities for Audit of Standalone
Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the standalone 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 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 expected to 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 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 Act, we are also responsible for
expressing our opinion on the complete set of financial
statements on whether the Company has adequate
internal financial controls with reference to standalone
financial statements 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 in the standalone 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 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; and
(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 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 are therefore the key
audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s
report unless law or regulation 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 adverse consequences 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 (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, statement 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 our 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 the Company so far as
appears from our examination of those books;
c. The Standalone Financial Statements dealt with
by this Report are in agreement with the 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 31st March, 2025, and
taken on record by the Board of Directors, none
of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March,
2025, from being appointed as a director in terms
of section 164 (2) of the Companies Act, 2013.
f. With respect to the adequacy of the internal
financial controls over financial reporting of the
Company and the operating effectiveness of such
controls, refer to our separate report in “Annexure
B”. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on
the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the
Company’s internal financial controls over financial
reporting.
g. In our opinion, the managerial remuneration for
the year ended 31st March, 2025 has been paid
/ provided by the company to its directors in
accordance with the provisions of Section 197 read
with Schedule V of the Companies Act, 2013; and
h. With respect to the other matters to be included in
the Auditor’s 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. there are no pending litigations as on date of
financial statements, against the company
as such there is no impact thereof to be
considered;
ii. the Company did not have any long-term
contracts including derivative contracts for
which there were any material foreseeable
losses; and
iii. There has been no delay in transferring
amounts, 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 kind of
funds) by the Company to or in any other
person or entity, including foreign entity
(“Intermediaries”), with the understanding,
whether recorded in writing or 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 any person or entity,
including foreign entity (“Funding Parties”),
with the understanding, whether recorded
in writing or otherwise, that the Company
shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend
or invest in other persons or entities
identified in any manner whatsoever by or
on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate
Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee,
security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate
Beneficiaries;
(c) Based on the audit procedures performed
that have been considered reasonable and
appropriate in the circumstances, nothing
has come to our notice that has caused us
to believe that the representations under
sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as
provided under (a) and (b) above, contain
any material misstatement.
v. The final dividend paid by the Company during
the year, in respect of the same declared for the
previous year is in accordance with Section 123
of the Act to the extent it applies to payment of
dividend.
The interim dividend declared and paid by the
company during the year is in accordance with
section 123 of the Act.
Company has proposed final dividend for
the year which is subject to the approval
of the members at the ensuing Annual
General Meeting. The dividend declared is in
accordance with Section 123 of the Act to the
extent it applies to declaration of dividend.
vi. The reporting under Rule 11(g) of the
Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 is
applicable from 1st April, 2023.
Based on our examination which included test
checks, the Company has used accounting
softwares for maintaining its books of account
for the financial year ended March 31, 2025
which has a feature of recording audit trail
(edit log) facility and the same has operated
throughout the year for all relevant transactions
recorded in the software’s. Further, during the
course of our audit we did not come across any
instance of audit trail feature being tampered
with.
For Arora Gupta & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Firm Registration No: - 021313C
Sd/-
Amit Arora
Place: New Delhi Partner
Date: May 29, 2025 Membership No:- 514828
ICAI UDIN No: 25514828BMOFOL7460
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