1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Allied Resins &
Chemicals Limited as at 31st March 2010, and the related Profit and
Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement for the year ended on that date
annexed thereto, which we have signed under reference to this report.
These financial statements are the responsibility of the companys
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit.
2. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Auditing Standards
generally accepted in India. Those Standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for
our opinion.
3 As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003, as
amended by the Companies (Auditors Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004,
issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A)
of Section 227 of The Companies Act, 1956 of India (the Act) 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, a statement on the
matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
4. Attention is drawn to the below mentioned Notes on Schedule 16 to
the accounts, consequential effect thereof on the years profit and
year-end net assets being not ascertainable -
4.1 Note A. 8 regarding accounting of retirement benefits related
liabilities have not been actuarially ascertained and provided for in
keeping with Accounting Standard (AS) 15 - Employee Benefits,
4.2 Note B. 5 regarding non-availability of confirmation of balances in
respect ot Sundry Creditors, Sundry Debtors, Loans and Advances and
Unsecured Loans,
4.3 Note B. 11 indicating non-recognition of deferred tax to comply
with Accounting Standard (AS) 22 - Accounting of Taxes on Income.
5. Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to in paragraph 3
above, we report that:
(a) Subject to Note B.5 referred to in paragraph 4.2 above we have
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 appears from our examination of
those books;
(c) The Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement
dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash
Flow Statement dealt with by this report, subject to the Notes A.8 and
B.11 referred to in paragraphs 4.1 and 4.3 above, comply with the
accounting standards referred to in sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of
the Act;
(e) On the basis of written representations received from the
directors, and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the
directors is disqualified as on 31st March 2010 from being appointed as
a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section (1) of Section 274 of
the Act;
(f) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to
the explanations given to us, the said financial statements together
with the notes thereon and attached thereto, subject to the Notes
A.8and B. 11 referred to in paragraphs 4.1 and 4.3 above, give in the
prescribed manner the information required by the Act and subject to
our comments in paragraphs 4 above regarding consequential effect of
the Notes referred thereunder on the years profit and year-end net
assets being not ascertainable, give a true and fair view in conformity
with the accounting principles generally accepted in India:
(i) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
company as at 31st March 2010;
(ii) in the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date; and
(iii) in the case of the Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows for the
year ended on that date.
ANNEXURE to the Auditors Report of ALLIED RESINS & CHEMICALS LIMITED
[Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors Report of even date to the
Members of Allied Resins & Chemicals Limited on the financial
statements for the year ended 31st March 2010]
1. (a) The company is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars including quantitative details and situation of fixed
assets.
(b) The fixed assets of the company have not been physically verified
by the management during the year.
(c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, no fixed asset item has been disposed of by the company
during the year.
2. (a) The inventory has been physically verified by the management
during the year. In our opinion, the frequency of verification is
reasonable.
(b) In our opinion, the procedures of physical verification of
inventory followed by the management are reasonable and adequate in
relation to the size of the company and the nature of its business.
(c) On the basis of our examination of the inventory records, in our
opinion, the company is maintaining proper records of inventory. The
discrepancies noticed on physical verification of inventory as compared
to book records were not material.
3. The company has neither granted nor taken any loan, secured or
unsecured, to and from companies, firms or other parties covered in the
register maintained under Section 301 of the Act.
4. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, having regard to the explanation that certain items
purchased are of special nature for which suitable alternative sources
do not exist for obtaining comparative quotations, there is an adequate
internal control system commensurate with the size of the company and
the nature of its business for the purchase of inventory, fixed assets
and for the sale of goods and services. Further, on the basis of our
examination of the books and records of the company, and according to
the information and explanations given to us, we have neither come
across nor have been informed of any continuing failure to correct
major weaknesses in the aforesaid internal control system.
5. According to the information and explanations given to us, there
have been no contracts or arrangements referred to in Section 301 of
the Act during the year to be entered in the register required to be
maintained under that Section. Accordingly, commenting on transactions
made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements does not arise.
6. The Company has not accepted deposits during the year from the
public under the directives issued by the Reserve Bank of India and
provision of Sections 58A and 58AA of the Act, 1956 and the rules
framed thereunder. However, there are outstanding public deposits
amounting to Rs.61.75 lacs, which have all matured. Pursuant to the
negotiated settlement vide Memorandum of Understanding dated 14th
December 2007, the outstanding amount is payable in 72 installments.
The company has paid 27 installments till 31st March 2010.
7. The company has an internal audit system. However, the scope and
area of the internal audit should be enlarged to make it commensurate
with the size and nature of the business of the company.
8. The Central Government has prescribed maintenance of cost records
under Section 209(1 )(d) of the Act in respect of certain products of
the company. We have broadly reviewed the books of accounts and records
of the company and are of the opinion that prima facie, the prescribed
accounts and records have been maintained. We have not, however,
carried out a detailed examination of such accounts records.
9. (a) According to the information and explanations given to us and
records of the company examined by us, in our opinion, the company is
not regular in depositing undisputed statutory dues including Provident
Fund, Investors Education and Protection Fund, Employees State
Insurance, Income Tax, Sales Tax, Service Tax with the appropriate
authorities. The extent of the arrears of statutory dues outstanding as
at 31st March 2010, for a period of more than six months from the date
they became payable, in respect of sales tax is as follows :-
Name of the statute Amount(Rs. lacs)
Central Sales Tax 15.05
Delhi Sales Tax 28.53
(b) According to the information and explanations given to us and the
records of the company examined, the particulars of dues of Income Tax,
Sales Tax and Excise Duty as at 31st March 2010 which have not been
deposited on account of disputes are as follows :-
Name of the
statutes Nature of dues Amounts Period to
which the Forum where
(Rs./lacs) amounts dispute is
relates pending
Income Tax
Act 1961 Search and seizure
conducted 2030.29 1.4.1988
to 25.8.98 Honble High
by Income Tax Dept Court Calcutta
Central Exc
ise Act, Demand pending
1944 against show 28.60 Feb .06 to
Aug .07 Additional
cause notice
for hearing Commissioner
Central
Excise Act, Demand pending
1944 against show 322.75 2008-09 Commissioner
(Anti Evas
ion Unit) cause notice
for hearing
Central
Excise Act, Revision of
1944 Appeal Order 26.58 July 06 to
March 07 Tribunal
Central
Excise Act, Demand pending
1944 against show 12.50 Jan 06 to
March 08 Tribunal
cause notice
pending before
Tribunal
West Bengal
Sales Tax Demand raised
by certificate 15.95 1980-1981
to 1986- Taxation
Revisional
Act, 1941 officer (Stay
granted by 1987 Board
Calcutta
High Court)
West Bengal
Sales Tax Verification
of challans 6.04 1979-80 Assistant
Act,1941 Commissio
ner of
Sales Tax
West Bengal
Sales Tax Stay petition
and appeal hearing 868.36 1993-1994
to Taxation
Revisional
Act, 1941 1999-2000 Board
10. The company has no accumulated losses as at 31st March 2010 and it
has not incurred cash losses in the financial year ended on that date
or in the immediately preceding financial year.
11. According to the records of the company examined by us and the
information and explanation given to us, the company has not defaulted
in repayment of settlement dues to any financial institution or dues to
bank or debenture holders as at the balance sheet date.
12. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the company has not granted any loans and advances on the
basis of security by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other
securities.
13. The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit fund /
nidhi / mutual benefit fund/societies are not applicable to the
company.
14. In our opinion, the company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments.
15. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the company has not given any guarantee for loans taken by
others from banks or financial institutions during the year.
16. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us and the books and records of the company examined, the
company has not obtained any term loans during the year.
17. On the basis of an overall examination of the balance sheet of the
company, in our opinion and according to the information and
explanations given to us, there are no funds raised on a short-term
basis which have been used for long-term investment.
18. The company has not made preferential allotment of shares to
parties and companies covered in the register maintained under Section
301 of the Act during the year.
19. In respect of the debentures issued by the company in earlier year
the company has created security or charge.
20. The company has not raised any money by public issues during the
year.
21. During the course of our examination of the books and records of
the company, carried out in accordance with the generally accepted
auditing practices in India, and according to the information and
explanations given to us, we have neither come across any instance of
fraud on or by the company, noticed or reported during the year, nor
have we been informed of such case by the management.
For L. B. Jha & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Registration No. 301088E
K. K. Bhanja
Place: Kolkata Partner
Date: The 28th May, 2010 Membership No.: 14722
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