1. We have audited the accompanying standalone financialstatements of Sumeru Industries Limited ("the Company"), whichcomprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement ofProfit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), theStatement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flowsfor the year ended on that date, and a summary of the significantaccounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafterreferred to as "the standalone financial statements").
2. In our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements give the information required by the Companies Act,2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fairview in conformity with the accounting principles generallyaccepted in India including Indian Accounting Standardsprescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies(Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, ("IndAS"), of the state of affairs (financial position) of the Company as atMarch 31, 2024 and its profit (financial performance includingother comprehensive income), its cash flows and the changes inequity for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
3. We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements inaccordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under section143(10) of the Act (SAs). Our responsibilities under thoseStandards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities forthe Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of ourreport. We are independent of the Company in accordance with theCode of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia (ICAI) together with the ethical requirements that arerelevant to our audit of the standalone financial statements underthe provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and wehave fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance withthese requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe thatthe audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriateto provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone financialstatements.
Key Audit Matters
4. Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financialstatements for the year ended March 31, 2024. These matters wereaddressed in the context of our audit of the standalone financialstatements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and wedo not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
5. We have determined the matters described below to be the keyaudit matters to be communicated in our report:
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No.
Key Audit Matter
How our audit addressedthe key audit matter
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Fair Valuation of Investments
The Company's investments (other thaninvestment in Associates) are measuredat fair value at each reporting date andthese fair value measurementssignificantly impact the Company'sresults. Within the Company'sinvestment portfolio, the valuation ofcertain assets such as unquoted equityand bonds requires significant judgmentas a result of quoted prices beingunavailable and limited liquidity in thesemarkets.
We have assessed the Company'sprocess to compute the fair value ofvarious investments. For quotedinstruments, we have independentlyobtained market quotations andrecalculated the fair valuations. For theunquoted instruments, we haveobtained an understanding of thevarious valuation methods used bymanagement and analysed thereasonableness of the principalassumptions made for estimating thefair values and various other data usedwhile arriving at the fair valuemeasurement.
and Auditor's Report Thereon
6. The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for thepreparation of the other information. The other informationcomprises the information included in the Management Discussionand Analysis, Board's Report including Annexures to Board'sReport, Business Responsibility Report, Corporate Governance andShareholder's Information, but does not include the standalonefinancial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not coverthe other information and we do not express any form of assuranceconclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financialstatements, our responsibility is to read the other information and,in doing so, consider whether the other information is materiallyinconsistent with the standalone financial statements or ourknowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwiseappears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there isa material misstatement of this other information; we are requiredto report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.Management's Responsibility for the Standalone FinancialStatements
7. The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the mattersstated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparationof these standalone financial statements that give a true and fairview of the financial position, financial performance, totalcomprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows of theCompany in accordance with the Ind AS and other accountingprinciples generally accepted in India.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequateaccounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act forsafeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing anddetecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and applicationof appropriate accounting policies; making judgments andestimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design,implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financialcontrols, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracyand completeness of the accounting records, relevant to thepreparation and presentation of the standalone financialstatements that give a true and fair view and are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
8. In preparing the standalone financial statements, management isresponsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as agoing concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to goingconcern and using the going concern basis of accounting unlessmanagement either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
9. The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing theCompany's financial reporting process.
Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the StandaloneFinancial Statements
10. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whetherthe standalone financial statements as a whole are free frommaterial misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issuean auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonableassurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee thatan audit conducted in accordance with Standards on Auditing willalways detect a material misstatement when it exits. Misstatementcan arise from fraud or error and are considered material if,individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expectedto influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis ofthese standalone financial statements.
11. As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professionaljudgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout theaudit. We also;
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of thestandalone financial statements, whether due to fraud or error,design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide abasis for our opinion. The risks of not detecting a material
misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resultingfrom error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentionalomissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal controls relevant to the audit inorder to design audit procedures that are appropriate in thecircumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are alsoresponsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Companyhas adequate internal financial controls system in place and theoperating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and thereasonableness of accounting estimate and related disclosuresmade by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of thegoing concern basis of accounting and, based on the auditevidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related toevents or conditions that may cast significant doubt on theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern. If we concludethat a material uncertainty exists, we are required to drawattention in our audit's report to the related disclosures in thestandalone financial statements, or if such disclosures areinadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based onthe audit evidence obtained up to the date of our audit's report.However, future events or conditions may cause the Company tocease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall, presentation, structure and content of thestandalone financial statements, including the disclosers andwhether the standalone financial statements represent theunderlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fairpresentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalonefinancial statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes itprobable that the economic decisions of a reasonablyknowledgeable user of the standalone financial statements may beinfluenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitativefactors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluatingthe results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of anyidentified misstatements in the standalone financial statements.
12. We communicate with those charged with governance regarding,among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the auditand significant audit findings, including any significant deficienciesin internal control that we identify, during our audit.
13. We also provide those charged with governance with a statementthat we have complied with relevant ethical requirementsregarding independence, and to communicate with them allrelationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought tobear on our independence, and where applicable, relatedsafeguards.
14. From the matters communicated with those charge withgovernance, we determine those matter that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the standalone financial statements ofthe current period and are therefore the key audit matters. Wedescribe these matters in our auditor's report unless law orregulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, inextremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter shouldnot be communicated in our report because the adverseconsequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
15. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (the'Order') issued by the Central Government of India in terms ofSection 143(11) of the Act, we give in the Annexure B, a statementon the matters specified in paragraph 3 and 4 of the Order.
16. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our audit wereport that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanationswhich to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary forthe purposes of our audit;
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law havebeen kept by the Company so far as it appears from ourexamination of those books;
c) The Balance Sheet, the statement of Profit & Loss including Othercomprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Equity and theStatement of Cash Flow dealt with by this Report are in agreementwith the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statementscomply with Ind AS specified under section 133 of the Act, readwith Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014;
e) As per the management representation, we report,
• No funds have been advanced or loaned or invested by theCompany to or in any other person(s) or entities, including foreignentities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding that theintermediary shall whether directly or indirectly lend or invest inother persons or entities identified in any manner by or on behalf ofthe Company (Ultimate Beneficiaries) or provide any guarantee,security or the like on behalf of ultimate beneficiaries.
• No funds have been received by the Company from any person(s)or entities including foreign entities ("Funding Parties") with theunderstanding that such company shall whether, directly orindirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of the funding party (ultimatebeneficiaries) or provide guarantee, security or the like on behalf ofthe Ultimate beneficiaries.
• Based on the audit procedures performed, we report that nothinghas come to our notice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations given under sub-clause (i) and (ii) by themanagement contain any material mis-statement.
f) In our opinion, as the Company has not declared/paid any dividendduring the year, reporting for the compliance with Section 123 ofthe Companies Act, 2013 is inapplicable.
g) On the basis of the written representation received from thedirectors as on March 31, 2024 taken on record by the Board ofDirectors, none of directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2024from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) ofAct.
h) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls overfinancial reporting of the Company and the opening effectivenessof such controls, refer to our separate report in "Annexure A". Ourreport expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy andoperating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controlsover financial reporting.
i) With respect to other matters to be included in the Auditor's Reportin accordance with the requirements of section 197(16) of the Act,as amended, the Company has neither paid nor provided for anyremuneration to its directors during the year.
j) With respect to the other matter to be included in the Auditor'sReport in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014 (as amended), in our opinion and to the bestof our information and according to the explanations given to us;
1. The company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on itsfinancial position in its standalone financial statements.
2. The Company did not have any Long Term Contracts includingderivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeablelosses.
3. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred tothe Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
Place : Ahmedabad
Date : 29/04/2024 For, Nitin K. Shah & Co.
Chartered AccountantsFirm Reg. No.:107140W
Vaibhav N. ShahProprietorM. No. 116817
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