We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Seamec Limited (“the Company”), which comprise the Standalone Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, and the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Standalone Statement of Cash Flows and the Standalone 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 to as "the 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 1 33 of the Act read with the 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 March 31, 2024, and its profit (including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
2. BASiS FOR OPiNiON
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those SAs are further described in the Auditor's Responsibility 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 made 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 obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
3. KEY AuDiT MATTERS
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the standalone financial statements of the current year. 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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Key Audit Matter
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Auditor’s Response
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A
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carrying value, useful life of the fleet (Vessel) & fleet equipments of the company, Amortization of dry dock cost and cost of Modification
As on 31.03.2024, the Net Book Value of Fleet and Fleet Equipments stands at ' 39,416.47 lakhs representing 32% of the total assets. This includes Value of Vessels and Value of Equipments and Dry Dock Cost.
The management reviews the estimated useful life and the residual value of the same annually. The Company assesses at the end of each reporting period whether there is any indication that an asset may be impaired by considering internal and external sources of information.
Refer Note 3 (a), (c), (d) and 4 of Standalone Financial Statements.
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Our procedures in relation to the depreciable lives of the Fleet
& Fleet Equipment included:
• Testing the key controls over the management's judgment in relation to the accounting estimates of the useful life of the same.
• Assessing the management's estimates on the useful life of Fleet and Fleet Equipment with reference to technical evaluation, practice followed by peers and useful life prescribed in relevant schedule of Companies Act.
• We have also assessed the Company's process of assessing the impairment requirement and the revenue and cost related to each vessel has been analyzed for the purpose of any sign with regard to impairment.
• We have also assessed the recognition of Cost of modification and Dry Dock cost based on recognition criterion given in relevant Ind AS. Reviewed the amortisation of Dry dock cost till the estimated date for next Dry dock.
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Key Audit Matter
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Auditor’s Response
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B
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Expected Credit Loss on Trade Receivable
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Our procedures in relation to the Expected Credit Loss on
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As on 31.03.2024, trade receivables stand at INR
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Trade Receivable included:
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22,257.91 Lakhs after providing Expected Credit
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• Testing with regard to trade receivable includes testing
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Loss amounting to ' 14,027.10 Lakhs.
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controls over billing, collections, ageing analysis, etc.
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The inherent risk in relation to the expected credit
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• Test the completeness and accuracy of the data.
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losses of trade receivable is considered significant due to the subjectivity of significant assumptions and estimates used.
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• Critically assessed and tested the significant judgments used by management based on past experience.
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Refer Note 3 (t) and 8 and 14 of Standalone Financial Statements.
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• Analyzing the key terms of contract with customers to ascertain provision required for expected credit loss.
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4. iNFORMATiON OTHER THAN THE STANDALONE FiNANCiAL STATEMENTS AND AUDiTOR’S REPORT THEREON
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in Company's Annual Report, but does not include the standalone financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Company's Annual report is expected to be made available to us after the date of this auditor's report.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not and will 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 during the course of our audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If, based on the work performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
5. RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGEMENT AND THE BOARD Of Directors For The Standalone FiNANciAL STATEMENTS
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are 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 (including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the Ind AS and other accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding 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, the Management and 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.
6. auditors’ responsibility FOR THE AuDIT OF THE 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 auditors' 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 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 the Management and Board of Directors.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of Management and Board of Directors 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 auditors' 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.
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 auditors' 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.
7. REPORT ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUiREMENTS
a. As required by the Companies (Auditors' Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government of India in terms of Section 143(11) of the Companies Act, 2013, we give in the "Annexure A”, a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
b. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
i. We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
ii. In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books expect for the matters stated in para viii(e) below on reporting under rule 1 1 (g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors Rules, 2014).
iii. The Standalone Balance Sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, the Standalone Statement of Changes in Equity and the Standalone Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
iv. In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended.
v. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2024 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.
vi. With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to standalone financial statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B”.
vii. The modification relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in paragraph (b) above on reporting under section 143(3)(b) and paragraph viii(e) below on reporting under rule 11(g).
viii. 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:
a. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 40 of standalone financial statements;
b. The company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contract for which there were any material foreseeable losses;
c. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
d. (i) Management has represented that, to the
best of its knowledge and belief, no funds 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(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, 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;
(ii) 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, 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; and
(iii) Based on such audit procedures performed and information and explanation given,
nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) contain any material mis-statement.
e. Based on the audit procedures performed that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances by us, which includes test checks, the Company has used ERP as its accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and that has operated throughout the financial year for all relevant transactions recorded in the said software except that the audit trail (edit log) feature has option of disabled or enabled throughout the year. During the course of performing our procedures, we did not notice any instance of audit trail feature being disabled and tempered with.
f. As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1, 2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record retention is not applicable for the financial year ended March 31, 2024.
c. With respect to the other matters to be included in Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirements of section 197 (16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our informations 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 the Section 197 of the Act.
For T R Chadha & Co LLP
Chartered Accountants Firm Regn. No: 006711N/N500028
Pramod Tilwani
Partner
Place: Mumbai Membership No. 076650
Date: May 28, 2024 UDIN: 24076650BKEFZB6594
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