We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of M/s Orient Tradelink Limited (“the company’) which comprises the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the statement of Profit and Loss account and statement of cash flows for the year the ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information (herein referred to as “the Financial Statements).
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, except to the effects of the matters described in the Paragraphs mentioned below, 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 March 31, 2024, and its profit and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis of Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SA’s) 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 Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules there under, 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.
Emphasis of Matter
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. Following are our observations:
a) The company had delayed in filing of GST Returns, no provision had been made for the interest on delayed payments. Further the inputs has not been reversed for non payment to vendors within 180 days as per section 16(2) of the CGST Act. The company has not complied with the provisions of Rule 36(4) of the CGST Act.
b) The company had not complied with provisions of TDS Laws and no provisions had been made for the late payment charges and interest for delayed payments and non-compliance.
c) Inventory, balance of debtors, creditors, Balance of Security Deposit and valuation of Intangible Assets and their amortisation there off reported in Financial Statements is as certified by the management.
d) E Invoicing under CGST Act, 2017 is applicable on the Company, but the company has not been generating invoices through E-Invoicing Portal.
How the emphasis of matters is addressed in our Audit
Our audit procedures on key matters includes the following:
a) Obtained the outstanding litigations list as compared to the previous year. Enquired and obtained explanations for movement in litigations during the year.
b) Inquired with management regarding the status of significant litigations and claimes including obtaining legal team views on the likely outcome of each litigations and claims and the magnitude of potential exposure.
c) Examined the Company’s legal expenses and read the minutes if Board meetings, to evaluate the completeness if list of the open litigations.
d) Read the latest correspondence between the Company and tax/legal authorities and reviewed legal opinions obtained by management, where applicable, for significant matters and considered the same in evaluating the appropriateness of the Company’s provisions or disclosure of contingent liabilities.
e) With respect to the tax matters, we involved tax specialists to evaluate the significant cases and the technical grounds for Management’s conclusions on the provisions or disclosures of contingent liabilities.
f) For non-tax matters, we evaluated Management’s decisions and rationale for provisions established or disclosure made for contingent liabilities.
Information other than the financial statements and auditors’ report thereon
The Company’s board of directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Board’s Report including Annexure to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility Report but does not include the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Board Report is expected to be made available to us after the date of this Audit Report.
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 standalone financial statements, or our knowledge obtained during the course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a no 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 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. 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.
That Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the company’s financial reporting process.
Auditors’ 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 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
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”), as amended, issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the “Annexure B” 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, and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account;
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 (Account) Rules, 2014;
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2023 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’. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company’s internal financial controls over financial reporting.
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, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
1) The Company have certain pending litigations which may impact its financial position.
2) The Company did not have any long term contracts including derivatives contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
3) There were no amount which required to be transferred by the company to the Investor Education and Protection Fund.
4) i) The management has represented that, to the best of its 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 or entity, 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 person or entity identified in any manner whatsoever by or behalf of the company (“ultimate beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate beneficiaries.
ii) The management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been received by the company from any person or entity 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 person or entity identified in any manner whatsoever by or behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the ultimate beneficiaries; and
iii) Based on such audit procedures that were considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that representations under sub clause (i) and (ii) contain any material mis-statement.
5) The Company has neither declared nor paid any dividend during the year.
6) Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) but the same has not been operative for all relevant transactions recorded in the software during the year.
3. With respect to the matter to be included in the Auditors’ Report under section 197(16):
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.
4. This report includes a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 & 4 of the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020, issued by the Central Government in terms of sectionl43(l 1) of the Companies Act, 2013, as Annexure B.
For SCAN & Company Chartered Accountants FRN-113954W
CA Vanin Agarwal Partner M. No. 507056 Place: New Delhi Date: 30.05.2024
UDIN: 24507056BKHJKB1305
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