We have audited the accompanying financial statements of UFM Industries Ltd ("the Company") which comprises the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss, the statement of changes in equity and the 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 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, its profits including other comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity 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 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.
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We draw attention to the following notes of the financial statement covered by this audit report:
Note 7: The company has disclosed non-financial "Other Current Assets and Non- Current Assets" vide this note. Other Current assets includes a payment made by the company of Rs. 1.00 crore in FY 15-16. The management has been demanding repayment of the said amount along with interest which has not been received. However, in the opinion of the management the said amount is recoverable and accordingly the asset has been carried in the books of accounts without providing for any provision for probable losses.
Note 7: The Company has disclosed non-financial "Other current and non-current Assets" vide this note. An amount of 13.25 Lakhs is being shown as Receivable in the other asset head. The same pertains to undisputed Receivable from Income Tax department which the management intends to recover in the future. The management has sent many communication letters to the Income Tax Department with regard to aforesaid matter and is hopeful of recovering the same.
Note 26.1: Kind attention is drawn to this note of the financial statements, whereby the company has disclosed "Other Administrative and Selling expenses" incurred during the year. Office rent amounting to Rs, 2.24 lakhs has been debited to the profit and loss account. On examination of the lease agreement, we came across the fact that the lease was a period of 11 months and therefore the
management had correctly classified the same as operating Lease. Non-application of the accounting principles as listed down in IND AS -116 "Leases" does not create any kind of impact on figures as reported in the financial statements, since the lease is operating in nature.
Our opinion is not modified in respect of these matters.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that in our professional judgement, were of most significance in our audit of financial statements of the financial year ended 31st March 2024. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole and in forming our opinion thereon we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have described below the following matters to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report. For each matter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matter is provided in that context.
We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of financial statements, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters listed below provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying financial statements.
Key Audit Matter
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Auditor's response to such key audit matters:
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Installation of new plant & machinery for modernization of plant by incurring a total cost of Rs. 449.93 lakhs at the flour mill premises located at Meherpur , Silchar, Assam-788015.
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Our Audit procedures included and were not limited to the following:
• Cross checking of all the physical copies of the bills of machinery purchased, along all the documents evidencing the incidental charges incurred to bring the machinery to its present location and condition where it is intended to be used by management as per principles of IND AS-10 "Property Plant & Equipment".
• Verifying whether the interest on term loan incurred for such modernization has been correctly accounted for as per IND AS-23 "Borrowing Costs". Refer Note 24 for detailed disclosures.
• Performing substantive Audit procedures including cross-checking rates at which import duty was paid on such import made. The management had earlier unintentionally paid the IGST on such imports made at lower rates which has been rectified and duly paid along with interest. Additional GST amounting to Rs. 25.86 lakhs have been paid and capitalized in the cost of machinery as per the principles laid down for calculation of costs in IND AS- 10 "Property, Plant and Equipment" and the differential depreciation amounting to Rs. 0.35 lakhs arising on
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account of such capitalization has been booked in the last quarter of the current financial year. Whereas the interest amounting to Rs. 4.93 lakhs incurred on such differential duty has been shown as Finance Cost. For detailed disclosures refer note 3 & note 24 of financial statements.
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• Reviewed the disclosures made by company in the financial statements for compliance as sought by IND AS.
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• Discussing with the management and those charged with governance the impact of such modernization on the company's growth aspects in terms of production capacity and improved efficiency in the production cycle in the near future.
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Other Information
The company's management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in company's annual 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 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 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, 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.
The 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 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 Sec 143(1)(i) of the Companies Act 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial control 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 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:
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.
a. 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.
b. 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.
c. In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
d. 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, 2024 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act.
e. With respect to adequacy of internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in Annexure-"B".
f. With respect to the other matters to be included in the auditor's report in accordance with the requirements of Section 197 (16) of the Act as amended:
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us the remuneration paid/provided by the company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act.
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 does not have any pending litigations which would impact its financial position.
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.
iv. (a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (which are material either individually or in aggregate) 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 persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or like on the behalf of ultimate beneficiaries.
(b) The management has represented that to the best of its knowledge and belief no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the company from any person or entity, including foreign entity ("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.
(c) Based on such audit procedures as considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (iv)(a) and (iv)(b) contain any material misstatement.
v. Since no dividend was declared or paid during the year by the company, reporting of compliance with Section 123 of the Act is not applicable.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used accounting software for maintaining its books of accounts which has a feature of recording Audit Trail (edit log) facility and the same has been operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. However, audit trail feature is not enabled for certain direct changes to data when using certain access rights. Further, during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered within respect of accounting software where audit trail was enabled.
For Anil Hitesh & Associates Chartered Accountants ICAI FRN: 325406E
CA Hitesh Jain Partner ICAI MNO:317845 Place: Silchar Dated: The 30th day of May 2024 UDIN:24317845BKCMNH1535
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