We have audited the accompanying financial statements of LGT Business ConnextionsLimited (Formerly known as LGT Business Connextions Private Limited) (“the Company”),which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31 2025, the Statement of Profit and loss and theCash flow statement for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including asummary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us,the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013, asamended (“the Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity withthe accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as atMarch 31, 2025, its profit and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing(SAs), as specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standardsare further described in the 'Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the 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 together with the ethical requirementsthat are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Act and theRules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with theserequirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained issufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the financial statements.
The Company’s Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information.The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, but does notinclude the financial statements and auditor’s reports thereon. The annual report is expected tobe 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 notexpress any 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 such other information is materially inconsistent
with the financial statements, or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to bematerially misstated. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is amaterial misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We havenothing to report in this regard.
The Company's Board of Directors and Management is responsible for the matters stated insection 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that give atrue and fair view of the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of the Companyin accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Companies(Accounting Standards) Rules, 2021 (as amended) specified under section 133 of the CompaniesAct, 2013 (“Act”). This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting recordsin accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company andfor preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application ofappropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable andprudent; and the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls,that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a trueand 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’sability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concernand using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidatethe 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 reportingprocess.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as awhole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue anauditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, butis not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a materialmisstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are consideredmaterial if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence theeconomic 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 maintainprofessional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whetherdue to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain 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 oneresulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions,misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design auditprocedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, weare also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequateinternal financial controls with reference to financial statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness ofaccounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis ofaccounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty existsrelated to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability tocontinue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we arerequired to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financialstatements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions arebased on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, futureevents or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements,including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, theplanned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significantdeficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied withrelevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them allrelationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence,and where applicable, related safeguards.
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 1” a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
2. 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 ofour 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 theCompany so far as it appears from our examination of those books except for the mattersstated in the paragraph 2B(f) below on reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
(iii) The standalone balance sheet, the standalone statement of profit and loss (includingother comprehensive income), the standalone statement of changes in equity and thestandalone statement of cash flows dealt with by this Report are in agreement with thebooks of account.;
(iv) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting Standardsspecified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Companies (Accounting Standards)Rules, 2021 (as amended) specified under section 133 of the Act;
(v) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31,2025 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified ason March 31, 2025 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of theAct;
(vi) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to financialstatements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate Report in “Annexure B;
(vii) According to the information and explanations given to us and based on ourexamination of the records of the Company, the managerial remuneration paid duringthe year exceeded the limits prescribed under Section 197 of the Companies Act, 2013.However, the Company has obtained the requisite approvals from the shareholders inthe Extraordinary general meeting held on December 30,2024 in accordance with theprovisions of Schedule V to the said Act;
(viii) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report inaccordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, asamended in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to theexplanations given to us:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations on its financial position inits financial statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativecontracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses;
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,
as disclosed to the financial statements, no funds have been advanced or loanedor invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sourcesor kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other persons or entities, includingforeign entities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectlylend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoeverby or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
b) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief,as disclosed to the financial statements, no funds have been received by theCompany from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“FundingParties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise,that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of theFunding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security orthe like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
c) Based on such audit procedures performed that have been consideredreasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our noticethat has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (a) and(b) contain any material misstatement.
(v) Since no dividend declared by the company comment on the same, declaredor paid during the year by the company is in compliance with section 123 ofthe Companies Act, 2013 or not, does not arise.
(vi) Pursuant to the requirements of Rule 11 (g) of the Companies (Audit andAuditors) Rules, 2014, we report that the Company has used accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of account for the financial year endedMarch 31, 2025, which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility.However, based on our examination, which included test checks, we note thatthe audit trail feature was enabled only from December 2024 and was not
operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in thesoftware. Accordingly, we are unable to comment on whether the audit trailfeature was tampered with or whether the audit trail has been preserved bythe Company for the entire financial year as per the statutory requirementsfor record retention.
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Place: Chennai.
Date: 21-07-2025