We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Citichem India Limited (“the Company”) which
comprises the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss and statement of cash
flows for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary 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 (“the act”) in the manner so
required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India;
a) In the case of Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March, 2025,
b) In case of Statement of Profit & Loss, of the Profit for the year ended on that date, and
c) In case of Cash Flow Statement, cash flow for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of
the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are 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 requirements that are relevant to our audit of the 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 Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have
obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Other Information
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the
information included in the “Management Discussion and Analysis” and “Director's Report”, but does not include
the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the 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 financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information, and in
doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the 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.
Responsibility of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act,
2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the
financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with
the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the accounting Standards 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 implementation and
maintenance of 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 financial statement that give a true and 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'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.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the company's financial reporting process
Auditor’s Responsibility for the Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the 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 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 consolidated 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 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 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 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
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 financial statements, including the
disclosures, and whether the 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 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
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 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.
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 purposes of our audit.
b) 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.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report
are in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under
Section 133 of the Act.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2025 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 Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial control over financial reporting of the company with
reference to these financial statements and operating effectiveness of such control, refer to our separate
report in Annexure “B” to this report.
g) 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, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according
to the explanations given to us:
1. the Company has no material pending litigations as on balance sheet date;
2. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were
any material foreseeable losses.
3. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection
Fund by the Company during the year ended March 31,2025.
h) With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditors' Report under Section 197(16) of the Act:
In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the
Company to its directors during the current year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the
Act. The remuneration paid to any director is not in excess of the limit laid down under Section 197 of the Act.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has not prescribed other details under Section 197(16) which are required
to be commented upon by us.
i) Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used an accounting software for
maintaining its books of account 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. Further, during the
course of our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.
Furthermore, the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record
retention.
For NGST & Associates
Chartered Accountants
Firm Regn. No 135159W
Place: Mumbai
Date: 30 May 2025 Sd/-
Bhupendra S Gandhi
Partner
M. No. 122296
UDIN - 25122296BMHZXJ7731
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