The Directors present their Twenty Fourth Annual Report and the Audited
Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011.
Business Performance
The gross deployment of the Company for the year 2010-11 were Rs. 9,435
Crores as against Rs. 4,585 Crores for the year 2009-10.
Rs. in Crores
Deployment 2010-11 2009-10 % change
Two & Three Wheelers 2,034 1,364 49%
Consumer Durables 2,262 1,037 118%
Mortgages 1,672 1,067 57%
Vendor Financing 1,346 149 803%
Other assets 389 165 136%
Construction Equipment 694 - -
Small Business Loans and
Personal
Loan Cross sell 1,038 803 29%
Total 9,435 4,585 106%
Financial Results
Rs. in Crores
Particulars 2010-11 2009-10
Income from Operations 1,392.33 910.06
Other Income 13.80 6.10
Total 1,406.13 916.16
Expenses 441.79 311.97
Loan losses and Provisions 204.61 260.58
Interest and Finance Charges 377.95 201.67
Depreciation 11.86 7.64
Total Expenditure 1,036.21 781.86
Profit before Taxation 369.92 134.30
Provision for Taxation 123.29 44.90
Profit for the year after Taxation 246.63 89.40
Prior period adjustments relating to
earlier years 0.33 0.01
Profit for the year after Taxation and prior
period adjustments 246.96 89.41
Balance brought forward from previous year 85.25 0.40
Transfer from Debenture Redemption Reserve - 48.05
Profit available for appropriations 332.21 137.86
Appropriations:
Transfer to Reserve Fund (49.50) (18.00)
Transfer to General Reserve (25.00) (9.00)
Provision for Proposed Dividend (36.63) (21.96)
Provision for Dividend Tax (5.94) (3.65)
Balance carried to Balance Sheet 215.14 85.25
Dividend
The Directors recommend for the consideration of the shareholders at
the ensuing Annual General Meeting, payment of dividend of Rs. 10 per
share (100 percent) for the year ended 31 March 2011. The amount of
dividend and tax thereon aggregates to Rs. 42.57 Crores.
Dividend paid for the year ended 31 March 2010 was Rs. 6 per share (60
percent). The amount of dividend and tax thereon aggregated to Rs. 25.61
Crores.
Change in the name and status of the Company
Name of the Company has changed from ‘Bajaj Auto Finance Limited to
‘Bajaj Finance Limited consequent to the fresh Certificate of
Incorporation issued by the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, Pune
w.e.f. 6 September 2010.
The Company has become a subsidiary of Bajaj Finserv Limited w.e.f. 5
July 2010.
Working Results
The Company, during the year 2010-11, deployed a total amount of Rs.
9,435 Crores under various products. As against this, during the
previous year 2009-10, the total amount deployed was Rs. 4,585 Crores.
The receivables under financing as on 31 March 2011 were Rs. 7,270 Crores
as compared to Rs. 4,032 Crores as on 31 March 2010.
Total income during 2010-11 increased to Rs. 1,406 Crores from Rs. 916
Crores during 2009-10.
The profit before tax for the year was at Rs. 370 Crores, as against Rs.
134 Crores in the previous year. The profit after tax for the year was
Rs. 247 Crores as compared to Rs. 89 Crores in the previous year. This has
been due to improvement in net interest margins across businesses,
contribution from new lines of businesses, third party fee products
distribution and various re-engineering initiatives.
The Companys current provisioning standards are more stringent than
RBI prudential norms. In line with its conservative approach, the
Company continues to strengthen its provisioning norms beyond the
Reserve Bank of India regulation by accelerating the provisioning to an
early stage of delinquencies based on the past experience and emerging
trends. Consequently, the additional estimated provision aggregates Rs.
39 Crores for the year.
The Company had an excellent year aided by strong volume growth in
Consumer and Small & Medium Enterprise business lines. During the year,
the Company launched three new product lines viz. Construction
equipment finance, Retail loans against securities and Home loans. Its
investments over the last three years in people, processes and
technology have begun to yield operating leverage benefits resulting in
improvement in margins. Portfolio quality, aided by a good
macro-economic environment is robust. Recent acquisitions across
products are performing significantly better than earlier.
Operations
The operations of the Company are elaborated in the annexed Management
Discussion and Analysis Report.
Conservation of Energy and Technology Absorption
The Company, being a Non-Banking Financial Company, does not have any
manufacturing activity. The Directors, therefore, have nothing to
report on Conservation of Energy and Technology Absorption.
Foreign Currency
Foreign currency expenditure amounting to Rs. 1.27 Crores (previous year
Rs. 0.45 Crore) was incurred during the year under review. The Company
did not have any foreign exchange earnings.
Employee Stock Option Scheme
Details required to be provided under Securities and Exchange Board of
India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase Scheme)
Guidelines, 1999 are set out in the Annexure to this report.
Fixed Deposits
During the year under review, the Company renewed fixed deposits of Rs.
0.30 Crore. Public Deposits outstanding at the year end were Rs. 1.75
Crores and the number of depositors were 616. At the end of the
financial year under review, there were 71 deposits aggregating Rs. 0.13
Crores which matured but remained unclaimed as on that date. The
Company had written to these depositors and as on date, a deposit of Rs.
5,000/- has been repaid.
Credit Rating
Despite a tough economic environment, the Company managed to retain all
its credit ratings owing to high capital adequacy, strong promoter
support, tightened credit acceptance criteria and robust
asset-liability management.
CRISIL has re-affirmed the highest rating of FAAA/Stable for the
Fixed Deposit programme of the Company. This rating indicates very
strong degree of safety with regard to timely payment of interest and
principal. The Company is one of the very few Non-Banking Financial
Companies (NBFCs) which enjoy the highest rating.
The Company also enjoys the highest rating of P1+ from CRISIL and
A1+ from ICRA for Short Term Debt programme. The Long Term
Non-Convertible Debentures have been assigned AA+/Stable rating by
CRISIL indicating high degree of safety with regard to timely payment
of interest and principal and high credit quality rating of LAA+ with
stable outlook by ICRA. The Company has also been assigned AA+/
Stable rating by CRISIL and LAA+ with stable outlook by ICRA for Rs.
400 Crores Lower Tier II Bond programme.
As regards the latest Bank Loan Ratings for the bank facilities
stipulated by RBI, as a part of BASEL II guidelines, CRISIL has
assigned AA+/Stable rating for the Companys Cash Credit/ Working
Capital Demand Loan amounting to Rs. 1,035 Crores and Long Term Bank
facilities amounting to Rs. 2,515 Crores and P1+ rating for the Short
Term Bank facilities amounting to Rs. 950 Crores.
RBI Guidelines
The Company continues to fulfill all the norms and standards laid down
by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) pertaining to non- performing
assets, capital adequacy, statutory liquidity ratio etc. As against
the RBI norm of 12%, the capital adequacy ratio of the Company is 20%.
In line with the RBI guidelines for Asset-Liability Management (ALM)
system for NBFCs, the Company has an Asset-Liability Committee which
meets periodically to review its ALM risks and opportunities.
Upon change of name of the Company, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
issued a fresh Certificate of Registration in the name of Bajaj Finance
Limited w.e.f. 5 October 2010. The RBI has also changed classification
of the Company from ‘Asset Finance Company to a ‘Loan Company.
Corporate Social Responsibility
During the year 2010-11, Bajaj Group continued its Corporate Social
Responsibility initiative in various fields. Activities in this area
are set out in greater detail in the Corporate Social Responsibility
Report.
Directors
Rahul Bajaj, Madhur Bajaj and Sanjiv Bajaj, Directors, retire from the
Board by rotation this year and being eligible, offer themselves for
re-appointment.
The information on the particulars of Directors seeking re-appointment
as required under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock
Exchanges has been given in the notice of Annual General Meeting.
Appointment of Manager under the Companies Act,1956
Subject to the approval of the shareholders, the Board of Directors
have re-appointed Rajeev Jain, as Manager under the Companies Act, 1956
with the designation Chief Executive Officer (CEO), for a further
period of five years with effect from 1 April 2011, on the terms of
remuneration set out in the resolution in the notice of the ensuing
Annual General Meeting. The resolution is commended for approval of
the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting.
Directors Responsibility Statement
In compliance of Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, the
Directors state that:
(i) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable
accounting standards have been followed along with proper explanation
relating to material departures;
(ii) the Directors have selected such accounting policies and applied
them consistently and made judgments and estimates that are reasonable
and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs
of the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit of
the Company for that period;
(iii) the Directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding the assets of
the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other
irregularities;
(iv) the Directors have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern
basis.
Statutory Disclosures
As required under the provisions of Section 217(2A) of the Companies
Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules,
1975, as amended, particulars of employees are set out in the Annexure
to the Directors Report. As per the provisions of Section
219(1)(b)(iv) of the said Act, these particulars will be made available
to any shareholder on request.
Directors Responsibility Statement as required by Section 217(2AA) of
the Companies Act, 1956 appears in the preceding paragraph.
Certificate from auditors of the Company regarding compliance of
conditions of Corporate Governance is annexed to this report.
Disclosures as prescribed by Non-Banking Financial (Deposit Accepting
or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007
and other NBFC regulations have been made in this Annual Report.
A Cash Flow Statement for the year 2010-11 is attached to the Balance
Sheet.
Corporate Governance
Pursuant to clause 49 of the listing agreement with stock exchanges, a
separate section titled ‘Corporate Governance has been included in
this Annual Report, along with the reports on Management Discussion and
Analysis and General Shareholder Information.
All Board members and senior management personnel have affirmed
compliance with the Code of Conduct for the year 2010-11. A declaration
to this effect signed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Company is contained in this Annual Report.
The CEO and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) have certified to the Board
with regard to the financial statements and other matters as specified
in clause 49 of the listing agreement and the said certificate is
contained in this Annual Report.
Group
Pursuant to an intimation from the promoters, the names of the
promoters and entities comprising Group as defined under the
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, (MRTP) Act, 1969 are
disclosed in the Annual Report for the purpose of Regulation 3(1)(e) of
the SEBI(Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations,
1997.
Auditors Report
The observations made in the Auditors Report read with the relevant
notes thereon are self-explanatory and hence, do not call for any
further comments under Section 217 of The Companies Act, 1956.
Auditors
The Directors recommend the appointment of Dalal & Shah, Chartered
Accountants as auditors for the period from the conclusion of the
ensuing Annual General Meeting till the conclusion of the next Annual
General Meeting and to fix their remuneration.
The Company has obtained a certificate from Dalal & Shah, Chartered
Accountants, Mumbai to the effect that their re- appointment as
auditors of the Company if made would be within the limits prescribed
under Section 224(1B) of the Companies Act, 1956.
Acknowledgement
The Board of Directors takes this opportunity to express their sincere
appreciation for the support and the co- operation from the banks,
financial Institutions and the debenture trustees.
The Board of Directors also put on record their sincere appreciation of
the hard work and commitment put in by the management and employees of
the Company and thank them for another good year for the Company.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Rahul Bajaj
Chairman
Pune: 17 May 2011
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