We have audited the accompanyingfinancial statements of AFLOAT ENTERPRISES LIMITED(Formerlyknown as “Adishakti Loha & Ispat Limited) (“the Company”), which comprise the balance sheet as at31stMarch 2024, the statement of profit and loss and the statement of cash flows for the year thenended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies andother explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and explanations given to us, the aforesaid financialstatements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally acceptedin India of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March2024, netprofitand its cash flows for theyear ended on that date.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the ‘Auditor’sResponsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements’ section of our report. We are independent ofthe Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia (ICAI) together with ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statementsunder the provisions of the Actand the rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that theaudit evidences we have obtained are sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in ouraudit of the standalone financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in thecontext of our audit of the standalone financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinionthereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have determined that thereare no key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. Theother information comprises the information included in the Management Discussion and Analysis,Board’s Report including Annexure to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility Report, CorporateGovernance and Shareholder’s Information, but does not include the financial statements and theauditor’s report thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statement 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 withthe financial statements or our knowledge 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 is a material misstatement of thisother information; we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act withrespect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financialposition, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance withthe applicable accounting standards and the other accounting principles generally accepted in India.This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with theprovisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detectingfrauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; makingjudgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation andmaintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that are operating effectively for insuring theaccuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation ofthe financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatements,whether due to fraud or error.
In the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continueas a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, 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 the Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain a reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a wholeare free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue our report thatincludes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that anaudit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.Misstatements can arise due to fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or inaggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on thebasis of these financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with the SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintainprofessional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
(i) Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether dueto fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain auditevidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of notdetecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than one resulting from error, asfraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations or the override ofinternal control.
(ii) Obtain an understanding of the internal controls relevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we arealso responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internalfinancial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
(iii) Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accountingestimates and related disclosures made by management.
(iv) Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accountingand, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related toevents or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as agoing concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to drawattention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if suchdisclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the auditevidence obtained upto the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditionsmay cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
(v) Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, includingthe disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions andevents in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
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 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 reasonable be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable,relevant safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters thatwere 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, or when in extremely rarecircumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because theadverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interestbenefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (‘the Order’), as amended, issued bythe Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give inthe Annexure A, a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the order, to theextent applicable.
a. We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of ourknowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes 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;
c. the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with bythis report are in agreement with the books of account;
d. In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the accounting standardsspecified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules,2014;
e. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2024taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31stMarch,2024 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 over financial statements of theCompany and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report inAnnexure B. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operatingeffectiveness of the Company’s internal financial controls over financial statements.
g. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of ourinformation and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact its financialposition (Refer note no. 29 of the financial statements).
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for whichthere were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. The Company is not required to transfer any amount to the Investor Education andProtection Fund.
iv. (a) The management has represented that, to the best of it’s knowledgeand belief, otherthan as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have beenadvancedorloanedorinvested(eitherfromborrowed funds or share premium or any othersources 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 inwriting or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend orinvest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf ofthe company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like onbehalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(b)The management has represented, that, to the best of it’s knowledge and belief, otherthan as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been received by the companyfrom 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 or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
(c)Based on such audit procedures that has considered reasonable and appropriate in thecircumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that therepresentations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) contain any material mis-statement.
v. No dividend has been declared or paid by the company during the period covered by thisreport in pursuance with Section 123 of the Companies Act 2013
vi. Basedon examination, which includes test checks, the Company has used accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of account for the financial year ended on 31st March2024 which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has beenoperated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software.Further, during the course of our audit and the audit trail feature has not been tamperedwith.
As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from 1st April2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 onpreservation of audit trail as per statutory requirements for the record retention is notapplicable for the financial year ended on 31st March 2024.
h. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, no remuneration has
been paid by the company to its director during the current financial year which is subject to ceiling
under Section 197 of the Act.
FOR V.N. PUROHIT & CO.
Chartered Accountants
Firm Regn. No. 304040E
O.P. Pareek
Partner
Membership No. 014238
UDIN:24014238BKAUBW3204
New Delhi, the 24thday of May, 2024