We have audited the standalone financial statements of GSB Finance Limited ("the Company”), which comprise the
balance sheet as at 31st March 2025, and the statement of Profit and Loss, 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.
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 Act in the manner so required and give a true and
fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at 31st March 2025, and profit/loss, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit following 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 following 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 Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules there
under, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities following 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
financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial
statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these
matters.
Our opinion is not qualified in respect of the above matters
Other Information
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the
[information included in the Management 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.
Management’s Responsibility 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”) concerning the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the
financial position, financial performance, and cash flows of the Company following the accounting principles generally
accepted in India, including the Indian accounting Standards ('Ind AS') specified under section 133 of the Act. This
responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records following 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 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.
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 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 it is not a guarantee that an audit conducted following 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
based on these financial statements.
As part of an audit following 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 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, 2016 ("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 "B” 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 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) Based on our Examination, which included test checks, the company has used accounting software for maintaining
its books of account for the financial year ended 31st March 2025 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 the audit trail feature being tampered
with.
(d) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income), statement of
Changes in Equity and statement of the Cash Flow dealt with by this Report agree with the books of account.
(e) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards ('Ind
AS') specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(f) Based on 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.
(g) For 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”.
(h) Concerning the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report by 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.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts, including derivative contracts, for which there were any
material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts required to be transferred to the investor education and
protection fund by the company.
UDIN : 25032007BMIGDH4411
Membership Number: 125080W
Place: Mumbai
Date: 10 May, 2025
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