1. We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Shikhar Consultants Limited (the “Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31-03-2024 and the Statement of Profit and Loss and Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements
2. 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 standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance 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, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. 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.
Auditors’ Responsibility
3. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
4. We have taken into account the provisions of the Act and the Rules made there under including the accounting standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report.
5. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under Section 143(10) of the Act and other applicable authoritative pronouncements issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Those Standards and pronouncements require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.
6. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and the disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Company’s preparation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. An
audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Company’s Directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
7. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our qualified audit opinion on the financial statements.
Basis for Qualified Opinion
8. We draw your attention to the Note 21 to the financial statements, regarding The company suspended on Bombay Stock Exchange since long time.
Provision has been made in books of account in respect of fees and penalties which may be levied on the Company for aforesaid non-compliances. Any fees and penalties that may be levied by the Stock Exchange or SEBI for such non compliances cannot presently be determined.
Qualified Opinion
9. In our opinion, and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, except for the indeterminate effects of the matter described in para 8 above, in the Basis for Qualified Opinion paragraph, the accompanying 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 31-03-2024, and its profit and loss and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
10. As required by ‘the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2016’, issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the “Order”), and on the basis of such checks of the books and records of the Company as we considered appropriate and according to the information and explanations given to us, we give in the Annexure B a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
11. 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 and 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 accompanying financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014; and
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31¬ 03-2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31-03-2024 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 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 knowledge and belief and according to the information and explanations given to us:
(i) The Company does not have any pending litigations as at 31-03-2024 which would impact its financial position.
(ii) The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts as at 31-03-2024.
(iii) There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company during the year ended 31¬ 03-2024.
For RDB and Associates Chartered Accountants Firm Reg. Number: 135005W
CA Aniket Baldawa
Place: Ahmednagar Partner
Date: 30-05-2024 Membership No. :149821
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