We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Frontier Capital Limited (“the Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2026, and the Statement of Profit and Loss, the Statement of Changes in Equity 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 (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( the “act), 2013 in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards presented under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rule, 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, 2026, and its loss, changes in equity and its cash flows 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 (“the Act”). 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 independence requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 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.
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 period. 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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How our audit addressed the key audit matter
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The Company has not attained the Net Owned
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- Read and assessed the board resolution passed
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Fund requirement as laid down in Chapter III
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by the Company at its meeting held 28th March
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B of the Master Direction Reserve Bank of
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2025 for approval of raising of funds by way of
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India (Non-Banking Financial Companies - Registration, Exemptions and Framework for Scale Based Regulation) Directions, 2025 of Rs. 5 crores as on 31st March 2026.
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rights issue for an amount of Rs.6 Cr.
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Impairment of Financial Assets based on
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- Read and assessed the Company's impairment
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Expected Credit Loss ('ECL') (as described in
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provision policy and their compliance with Ind AS
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Note 3.5 of the Ind AS Financial Statements)
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109 and the governance framework approved by the Board of Directors pursuant to Reserve Bank
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Due to the significance of the judgments used
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of India guidelines and directions issued from
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in both classifications of loans into various stages as well as the computation of expected
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time to time.
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credit losses on such financial assets as per
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- Understood the Company's key credit processes
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Ind AS 109, this has been considered as a key
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comprising granting, recording and monitoring of
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audit matter.
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loans as well as impairment provisioning.
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Financial instruments, which include loans to
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- Read and assessed the Company's impairment
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customers, represent a significant portion of the total assets of the Company.
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provisioning policy as per Ind AS 109.
- Obtained an understanding of the Company's
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The Company has gross loans aggregating Rs.
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Expected Credit Loss ('ECL') methodology, the
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291.21 lakhs as at March 31, 2026.
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underlying assumptions and performed sample tests to assess the staging of outstanding
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Estimates regarding the impairment provision against loans are based on the expected credit
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exposures.
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loss model developed by the Company based
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- Tested the ECL model, including assumptions
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on the guiding principles prescribed under Ind AS 109.
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and underlying computation.
- Assessed the Exposure at Default used in the
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As stated, in the notes to the financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2026,
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impairment calculations on a test basis.
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the impairment provision is based on the
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- Assessed the items of loans, credit related
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expected credit loss model requires the
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contingent items as at the reporting date which are
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management of the Company to make
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considered in the impairment computation as at
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significant judgments in connection with related computation.
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the reporting date.
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These include:
(a) Segmentation of the loan portfolio into homogenous pool of borrowers;
(b) Identification of exposures where there is a significant increase in credit risk and those that are credit impaired;
(c) Determination of the 12 month and life¬ time probability of default for each of the segments identified; and
(d) Loss given default for various exposures based on past trends, experience or management estimates etc., Note 3.5 to the Ind AS Financial Statements explains the various matters that the management has considered for developing this expected credit loss model.
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Information Other than the Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report thereon
The Company’s Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in Annual Report comprising Directors Report and Corporate Governance Report, but does not include the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Annual Report is expected to be 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 will 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 identified above when it becomes available 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 for the Standalone Financial Statements
The Company’s Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) with respect to the preparation of these standalone 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 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 financial statements 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 the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors are 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 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 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 Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls system 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 have communicated 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 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. 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
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 Companies Act, 2013, we give in the Annexure 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:
(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, (the Statement of Changes in Equity) and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of accounts.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified 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 March 31, 2026 (except Mr. George Sundersingh John Davis (DIN: 09317798) who has not given such written representations) and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors other than Mr. George Sundersingh John Davis, is disqualified as on March 31, 2026 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act. We are unable to comment on the eligibility of Mr. George Sundersingh John Davis to be appointed as director of the company in the absence of his written representation in this regard.
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure A”.
(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:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statements, if any.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company except unpaid dividend Rs.3,849/-.
iv. (a) the management has represented that (Refer Note 37(xvi)), to the best of it’s 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, whether, 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;
(b) the management has represented (Refer Note 37(xvi)), that, to the best of it’s 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, whether, 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
(c) Based on such audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the aforesaid representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11 (e) contain any material misstatement.
v. During the year the company has not paid or declared any dividend.
vi. The company uses an accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature
of recording audit trail (edit log) facility but the same was not made operational for all relevant
transactions recorded in the software during the year.
3. As regards the matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report under section 197(16) of the Act, we report
that the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the
provisions of section 197 of the Act.
For A P Rajagopalan & Co.
Chartered Accountants Firm’s Registration No. 108321W
R Ganesh Partner
Membership No. 038157 UDIN: 26038157FIFTAC9841 Place: Mumbai Date: 26th May 2026
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