We have audited the accompanying Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements of the TRANS FREIGHT CONTAINERS LIMITED (“the Company”), which comprises of the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income), the Statement of Cash Flow and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information (herein after referred to as “Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements”). Management’s Responsibility for the Standalone Ind AS 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 and presentation of these Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance including other comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) prescribed 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 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 Standalone Ind AS financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Auditor’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements based on our audit.
We have taken into account the provisions of the Act, the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder.
We conducted our audit of Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under Section 143(10) of the Act. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and the disclosures in the Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the standalone Ind AS 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 Standalone Ind AS 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 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 Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements.
Opinion
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid Standalone Ind AS 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 including the Ind AS, of the financial position of the Company as at March 31,2024 and its financial performance including other comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued by the Central Government of India in terms of section 143 (11) 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 purpose of our audit;
b. In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those books;
c. The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including other comprehensive income, the Cash Flow Statement and the Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d. In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements comply with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with relevant rules issued thereunder and relevant provisions of the Act.
e. on the basis of written representations received from the directors as on March 31,2024 and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 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 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 Standalone Ind AS financial statements - Refer Note 26 to the Standalone Ind AS 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 were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
3. The Ministry of Company Affairs through its notification issued on 24th March, 2021. relating to Audit Trail, is applicable on all companies and will be implemented from 1st April, 2023.
The Companies (Accounts) Second Amendment Rules, 2021 through MCA notification dated 24.03.2021, a new proviso has been added in Rules 3(1) of The Companies (Accounts) Rules. 2014, which speaks about mandatory use of accounting software which has a feature of recording an - audit trail of each and every transaction; creating an edit log of each change made in books of account along with the date when such changes were made; and ensuring that the audit trail cannot be disabled.
The proviso to rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable for the auditee company w.e.f. April 1, 2023.
Based on our examination, with respect to the compliance of the above proviso, test check method was applied and we observed that the company has used an accounting software i.e. Tally Prime software, for maintaining its books of account, which did not had a feature enabled at the data entry and recording level and certain master fields with certain privileged access rights of recording Audit Trail (edit log) facility and the same did not operate throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in Tally Prime software. Instances of audit trail feature being tampered with was not observed during the year and hence did not require to be reported. For RAMANAND & ASSOCIATES (Chartered Accountants)
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Place: Navi Mumbai Dated: May 30, 2024 UDIN: 24142644BKATMD9351
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