1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of BF Utilities Limited
(the ''Company'') as at 30th September 2011, 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 Company''s
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 (Auditor''s Report) Order, 2003, as
amended by the Companies (Auditor''s Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004
(together the ''Order''), 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 further report that :
4. Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to in paragraph 3
above, we report that:
(a) 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 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, as on 30th September 2011 and taken on record by the Board
of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 30th
September 2011 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 give, in the prescribed
manner, the information required by the Act, and 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 30th September 2011;
(ii) In the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the Loss 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.
Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors'' Report of even date to the
members of BF Utilities Limited on the financial statements for the
year ended 30th September 2011
1. (a) The Company is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars, including quantitative details and situation, of fixed
assets.
(b) The fixed assets are physically verified by the Management
according to a phased programme designed to cover all the items over a
period of 2 years which, in our opinion, is reasonable having regard to
the size of the Company and the nature of its assets. Pursuant to the
programme, a portion of the fixed assets has been physically verified
by the Management during the year and no material discrepancies between
the book records and the physical inventory have been noticed.
(c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, a substantial part of fixed assets has not been disposed
of by the Company during the year.
2. (a) The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured, to
companies, firms or other parties covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Act.
(b) The Company has not taken any loans, secured or unsecured, from
companies, firms or other parties covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Act.
3. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, 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, no major weakness have been noticed or
reported.
4. 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, the question of commenting
on transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements
does not arise.
5. The Company has not accepted any deposits from the public within
the meaning of Sections 58A and 58AA of the Act and the rules framed
there under.
6 In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system commensurate
with its size and nature of its business.
7. We have broadly reviewed the books of account maintained by the
Company in respect of products where, pursuant to the Rules made by the
Central Government of India, the maintenance of cost records has been
prescribed under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 209 of the
Act, and are of the opinion that prima facie, the prescribed accounts
and records have been made and maintained. We have not, however, made a
detailed examination of the records with a view to determine whether
they are accurate or complete.
8. (a) According to the information and explanations given to us and
the records of the Company examined by us, in our opinion, the Company
is regular in depositing the undisputed statutory dues including
provident fund, investor education and protection fund, employees''
state insurance, income-tax, sales-tax, wealth tax, service tax,
customs duty, excise duty, cess and other material statutory dues as
applicable with the appropriate authorities.
(b) According to the information and explanations given to us and the
records of the Company examined by us, there are no dues of income-tax,
sales-tax, wealth-tax, service-tax, customs duty, excise duty and cess
which have not been deposited on account of any dispute.
9. The Company has no accumulated losses as at 30th September 2011 and
it has not incurred any cash losses in the financial year ended on that
date or in the immediately preceding financial year.
10. 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 dues to any financial institution or bank or debenture
holders as at the balance sheet date.
11. The Company has not granted any loans and advances on the basis of
security by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities.
12. The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit fund /
nidhi / mutual benefit fund/ societies are not applicable to the
Company.
13. In our opinion, the Company has maintained proper records of
transactions and contracts relating to dealing or trading in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments during the year and timely
entries have been made therein. Further, such securities have been held
by the Company in its own name or are in the process of transfer in its
name, except to the extent of the exemption granted under Section 49 of
the Act.
14. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the terms and conditions of the guarantees given by the
Company, for loans taken by others from banks or financial institutions
during the year, are not prejudicial to the interest of the Company.
The Company has also given an undertaking for loans taken/ to be taken
from financial institutions on behalf of the subsidiary, which
considering the company is a parent promoter and being informed by the
management that the undertaking is given to ensure financial and
operational continuance of the project undertaken by it as detailed in
Note no 4A in Schedule K to the Financial Statements, is not at present
prejudicial to the interest of the company.
15. In our opinion, and according to the information and explanations
given to us, on an overall basis, the term loans have been applied for
the purposes for which they were obtained
16. 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.
17. The Company has not made any preferential allotment of shares to
parties and companies covered in the register maintained under Section
301 of the Act during the year.
18. The Company has not issued any debentures and hence the company
has not created any security or charge in respect thereof.
19. The Company has not raised any money by public issues during the
year.
20. 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.
21. Considering the nature of the business conducted by the Company,
the other clauses, viz, (ii),( iii) (b),(c),(d),(f) and (g) of
paragraph 4 of the Companies (Auditor''s Report) Order 2003, as amended
by the Companies (Auditor''s Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004, are not
applicable in the case of the Company for the current year, and hence
in our opinion there is no matter which arises to be reported in the
aforesaid clauses of the order.
For Dalal & Shah
Firm Registration Number: 102021W
Chartered Accountants
Anish P. Amin
Partner
Mumbai, 23rd November, 2011 Membership Number 40451 |