We have audited the accompanying Ind AS financial statements of Sainik Finance & Industries Limited comprising of the BalanceSheet as at 31 March 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss, including other comprehensive income, the Cash Flow Statement andthe Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and notes to the Ind AS financial statements, including a summary ofsignificant accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as 'the Ind AS financial statements').
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid Ind AS financialstatements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013, as amended ('the Act') in the manner so required and give atrue and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company asat 31 March 2025, their profits including other comprehensive income, their cash flows and the statement of changes in equity for theyear ended on that date.
We conducted our audit of the Ind AS financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs), as specified underSection 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the 'Auditor's responsibilities for theaudit of the Ind AS Financial Statements' section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the 'Code ofEthics' issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our auditof the financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilitiesin accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Ind AS financial statements.
We draw attention to note no. 39 to the Ind AS financial statements in terms of which it has been reported that in certain cases, theCompany has advanced loans on which no amount has been received against the principal and interest accrued thereon but thesame is in accordance with the loan agreements entered by the Company which provides for payment of interest along withprincipal amount or at the expiry of the said loan agreements. Although, the Company is confident of the recovery of the saidamounts as per respective terms of the loan agreements and has obtained declarations and confirmations from the respectiveparties. Our report is not modified in respect of this matter.
Key Audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statementsof the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in formingour 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. We have fulfilled theresponsibilities described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the Ind AS financial statements section of our report,including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to ourassessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Ind AS financial statements. The results of audit procedures performed byus, including those procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanyingInd AS financial statements.
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Auditors' Response
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Impairment on financial assets (expected credit losses).
Ind AS 109 requires the Company to recognise impairment lossallowance towards its financial assets (designated at amortisedcost and fair value through other comprehensive income) usingthe expected credit loss (ECL) approach. Such ECL allowanceis required to be measured considering the guiding principles ofInd AS 109 including:
• unbiased, probability weighted outcome under variousscenarios;
• time value of money;
• impact arising from forward looking macro-economic factorsand;
• availability of reasonable and supportable informationwithout undue costs.
Applying these principles involves significant estimation invarious aspects, such as:
• grouping of borrowers based on homogeneity by usingappropriate statistical techniques;
• staging of loans and estimation of behavioral life;
• determining macro-economic factors impacting credit qualityof receivables;
• estimation of losses for loan products with no/minimalhistorical defaults.
Considering the significance of such allowance to the overallfinancial statements and the degree of estimation involved incomputation of expected credit losses, this area is consideredas a key audit matter.
We read and assessed the Company's accounting
policies for impairment of financial assets and their
compliance with Ind AS 109.
• We tested the criteria for staging of loans based ontheir past-due status to check compliance withrequirement of Ind AS 109. Tested a sample ofperforming (stage 1) loans to assess whether anyloss indicators were present requiring them to beclassified under stage 2 or 3 and vice versa.
• We evaluated the reasonableness of theManagement estimates by understanding theprocess of ECL estimation and tested the controlsaround data extraction and validation.
• Tested the ECL model, including assumptions andunderlying computation.
• Assessed the floor/minimum rates of provisioningapplied for loan products with inadequate historicaldefaults.
• Audited disclosures included in the Ind AS financialstatements in respect of expected credit losses.
• The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of other information which comprises the Director's Reportincluding annexures to Director's Report, Management Discussion and Analysis Report and Report on Corporate Governance,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 accordingly, we do not express any form ofassurance 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 financial statements or our knowledge obtained during thecourse of audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
• Based on the work we have performed, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information; we arerequired to report the fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation and presentation of these Ind AS financial statements in termsof the requirements of the Act that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance including other comprehensiveincome, cash flows and statement of changes in equity in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India,including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under Section 133 of the Act. The respective Board of Directors of theCompanies are responsible for maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguardingof the assets and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accountingpolicies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and the design, implementation and maintenance ofadequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accountingrecords, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the Ind AS financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free frommaterial misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, which have been used for the purpose of preparation of the Ind AS financialstatements by the Directors of the Company, as aforesaid.
In preparing the Ind AS financial statements, the respective Board of Directors of the companies are responsible for assessing theability of the Company to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless Management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realisticalternative but to do so.
Those respective Board of Directors of the Companies are also responsible for overseeing the financial reporting process of theCompany.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Ind AS financial statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is ahigh level assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatementwhen it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they couldreasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these Ind AS financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional scepticism throughout theaudit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement on the Ind AS financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, designand perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to providea basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting fromerror, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentation, 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 thecircumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion onwhether 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 disclosuresmade by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the auditevidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on theCompany's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to drawattention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the Ind AS 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 Ind AS financial statements, including the disclosures, and whetherthe 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 andsignificant 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 regardingindependence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on ourindependence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charge with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in theaudit of Ind AS financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in ourauditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances in ourreport because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public benefits of suchcommunication.
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the order”) issued by the Central Government in terms ofSection 143(11) of the Act, we give in the “Annexure A” a statement on the matters specified in paragraph 3 and 4 of the saidorder, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by section 143(3) of the Act, we report, to the extent applicable, that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief werenecessary for the purposes of our audit of the aforesaid Ind AS financial statements;
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from ourexamination of those books.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, the CashFlow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of accountmaintained for the purpose of preparation of the Ind AS financial statements;
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Ind AS financial statements comply with the Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act.
e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31 March, 2025 taken on record by the Boardof Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 March, 2025 from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164 (2) of the Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure (B)”.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors' Report in accordance with the requirements of Section197(16) of the Act, as amended, In our opinion and to the best of our information and accordingly to the explanations givento us, no remuneration has been paid by the company to its directors during the year.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Auditand Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. There is no pending litigation which would have its impact on Ind AS financial statement of the Company.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any materialforeseeable losses.
iii. There are no amounts required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company duringthe year ended 31 March 2025
iv. (a) 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 fund or share premium or any other source or kind of funds) by theCompany to or in any other persons(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or thelike on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(b) The management has represented that, to best of its knowledge and belief, no funds have been received by theCompany from any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with theunderstanding, whether recording 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 Funding Party(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(c) Based on such audit procedures that we considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothinghas come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representation under clause (a) and (b) contain anymaterial misstatement.
v. The Company has neither declared nor paid any dividend during the year.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used accounting software for maintaining itsbooks of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughoutthe year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software. Further, during the course of our audit we did not comeacross any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.
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Place: New Delhi Membership No.: 090572
Date: 28 May 2025 UDIN: 25090572BMICUM2389