1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of BINANI CEMENT LIMITED
(the Company) as at March 31, 2011 and the Profit and Loss Account
and also the Cash Flow Statement for the year ended on that date
annexed thereto. 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 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. Further to our comments in the paragraph 3 above, we report that:
i. We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the
best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our
audit;
ii. 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.
iii. The Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement
dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account.
iv. 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
Companies Act, 1956.
v. On the basis of the written representations received from the
directors, as on March 31, 2011 and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, we report that none of the directors is disqualified as on
March 31, 2011 from being appointed as a director in terms of clause
(g) of sub-section (1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956.
vi. In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to
the explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information
required by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give
a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India:
a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2011;
b) in the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date; and
c) in the case of Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows for the year
ended on that date.
ANNEXURE TO AUDITORS REPORT [Referred to in paragraph 3 of the
Auditors Report of even date to the members of BINANI CEMENT LIMITED
on the financial statements for the year ended 31st March, 2011]
(i) (a) The Company has maintained proper records showing full
particulars, including quantitative details and situation of fixed
assets.
(b) All the fixed assets have not been physically verified by the
management during the year but there is a regular programme of
verification which, in our opinion, is reasonable having regard to the
size of the Company and the nature of its assets. As informed, no
material discrepancies were noticed on such verification.
(c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, a substantial part of fixed assets has not been disposed
off by the Company during the year.
(ii) (a) As explained to us, the inventory has been physically verified
by the management during the year. In our opinion, the frequency of
verification is reasonable.
(b) 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) The Company is maintaining proper records of inventory and no
material discrepancies were noticed on physical verification carried
out at the end of the year.
(iii) As per information and explanations given to us, the Company has
neither granted nor taken loan, secured or unsecured, to or from
companies, firms or other parties covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956. Accordingly, the
sub-clauses (b), (c), (d), (f) and (g) of clause (iii) are not
applicable to the Company.
(iv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there exists an adequate internal control system
commensurate with the size of the Company and the nature of its
business with regard to purchase of inventory, fixed assets and with
regard to the sale of goods. During the course of our audit, we have
not observed any continuing failure to correct major weaknesses in
internal control system of the Company.
(v) (a) In respect of transactions entered in the register maintained
in pursuance of Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956, to the best of
our knowledge and belief and according to the information and
explanations given to us, particulars of contracts or arrangements that
needs to be entered into the register have been so entered.
(b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the transactions made in pursuance of the contracts or
arrangements entered in the register maintained under Section 301 of
the Companies Act, 1956 and exceeding the value of Rs. 5 lakhs in
respect of such party during the year have been made at a price which
are reasonable having regard to prevailing market price at the relevant
time.
(vi) 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.
(vii) In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with the size and nature of its business.
(viii) 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 we are of the opinion that prima facie, the prescribed accounts
and records have been made and maintained.
(ix) (a) The Company is generally regular in depositing with
appropriate authorities 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 applicable to
it.
Further, since the Central Government has till date not prescribed the
amount of cess payable under Section 441A of the Companies Act,1956, we
are not in a position to comment upon the regularity or otherwise of
the company in depositing the same.
(b) According to the information and explanations given to us, no
undisputed amounts payable in respect of provident fund, investor
education and protection fund, employees state insurance, income-tax,
wealth-tax, service tax, sales-tax, customs duty, excise duty, cess and
other undisputed statutory dues were outstanding, at the year end, for
a period of more than six months from the date they became payable.
(c) According to the records of the Company, the dues outstanding of
income-tax, sales-tax, service tax, customs duty, excise duty and cess
on account of any dispute, are as follows:
Name of the statute Nature of dues Amount
(Rs. in Lakhs)
Customs Act, 1962 Duty on DEPB licenses and 6.77
interest there on
Central Excise
Act, 1944 ED demand against dispatch 1.78
of cement to earthquake area
Central Excise Act,
1944 Cenvat credit on welding 21.89
electrodes
Central Excise Act,
1944 Cenvat credit on welding 4.92
electrodes
Central Excise Act,
1944 Cenvat credit on welding 2.91
electrodes
Customs Act, 1962 Differential custom duty 30.61
Central Excise
Act, 1944 Cenvat credit on service tax 0.94
Central Excise Act,
1944 Excise duty on sale 1.00
Central Excise Act,
1944 Cenvat credit on capital
goods 34.70
Central Excise
Act, 1944 Cenvat credit on service tax 43.58
Central Excise
Act, 1944 Cenvat credit on service tax 2.60
Central Excise
Act, 1944 Penalty imposed on service 7.20
tax
Rajasthan Sales Tax
Act, Sales tax on freight and
credit 70.21
1994 notes
Rajasthan Sales
Tax Act, Sales tax matters 10.20
1994
Rajasthan Sales
Tax Act, Sales tax matters 0.50
1994
UP Trade tax /
Entry tax UP tax on entry of goods 64.77
UP Trade tax / Entry
tax UP tax on entry of goods 109.38
UP Trade tax / Entry
tax Late deposit of UP VAT 8.64
Rajasthan Tax on Entry Entry tax 811.00
of Goods into Local Area
Act, 1999
Rajasthan Finance Act, M R Cess 925.30
2006
Rajasthan Sales
Tax Act, Sales tax exemption 13,327.19
1994
Rajasthan Value Added Sales tax exemption 18,734.27
Tax Act, 2006
Income Tax Act, 1961 Interest under section
234B 301.11
and 234C
Name of the Period to which the Forum where dispute is
Statue amount relates pending
Customs Act, 1962 2000-01 Commissioner of Custom,
Kandla
Central Excise Act,
1944 2001-02 Honble Rajasthan High
Court, Jaipur
Central Excise Act,
1944 2000 to 2006 CESTAT, Delhi
Central Excise Act,
1944 2006 to 2008 Commissioner (Appeals),
Jaipur II
Central Excise Act,
1944 2008 to 2010 Commissioner (Appeals),
Jaipur II
Customs Act, 1962 2002-03 & 2003-04 Honble High Court, Gujarat
Central Excise Act,
1944 2006-07 & 2007-08 CESTAT, Delhi
Central Excise Act,
1944 2006-07 & 2007-08 CESTAT, Delhi
Central Excise Act,
1944 2006-07 CESTAT, Delhi
Central Excise Act,
1944 2008 to 2010 Commissioner (Appeals),
Jaipur II
Central Excise Act,
1944 2005-06 & 2006-07 Commissioner (Appeals),
Jaipur II
Central Excise Act,
1944 2007-08 CESTAT, Delhi
Rajasthan Sales Tax Act,
1994 1997-98 Honble High Court,
Jodhpur
Rajasthan Sales Tax Act,
1994 1996-97 Honble High Court,
Jodhpur
Rajasthan Sales Tax Act,
1994 2005-06 Honble High Court,
Jodhpur
UP Trade tax / Entry
tax 2004-05 & 2006-08 Honble Allahabad High
Court
UP Trade tax / Entry
tax 2009-10 Honble Allahabad High
Court
UP Trade tax / Entry
tax 2009-10 Additional Commissioner
(Appeals), Ghaziabad
Rajasthan Tax on Entry
of Goods into Local Area
Act, 1999 2006 to 2011 Honble Rajasthan High
Court
Rajasthan Finance Act,
2006 2008 to 2011 Honble High Court,
Jodhpur
Rajasthan Sales Tax Act,
1994 1998-99 Honble Supreme Court
Rajasthan Value Added
Tax Act, 2006 2007 to 2011 Honble High Court,
Jodhpur
Income Tax Act, 1961 2004-08 Commissioner of Income
Tax (Appeals) / High Court
(x) The Company does not have accumulated losses at the end of the year
and it has not incurred cash losses in the current year as well as in
the immediately preceding financial year.
(xi) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has not defaulted in repayment of dues to
financial institutions, banks or debenture holders.
(xii) According to information and explanation given to us, we are of
the opinion that the Company has not granted any loans and advances on
the basis of security by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other
securities.
(xiii) In our opinion, the Company is not a chit fund or a nidhi /
mutual benefit fund / society. Therefore, the provisions of clause
4(xiii) of the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 (as amended)
are not applicable to the Company.
(xiv) In our opinion, the Company is not dealing or trading in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments. However, the Company has
invested surplus funds in mutual funds. According to the information
and explanations given to us, proper records have been maintained of
the transactions and contracts and timely entries have been made
therein. The mutual fund investments have been held by the Company in
its own name.
(xv) 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.
(xvi) To the best of our knowledge and belief and according to the
information and explanations given to us, in our opinion, the term
loans availed by the Company were, prima facie, applied by it during
the year for the purpose for which the loans were raised, other than
temporary deployment in deposits with banks, pending application of
those loans.
(xvii) According to the information and explanations given to us and on
an overall examination of the balance sheet of the Company, we report
that no funds raised on short-term basis have been used for long-term
purpose.
(xviii) According to the information and explanations given to us, 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.
(xix) The Company has created securities or charge in respect of
debentures issued and outstanding at the year end.
(xx) The Company has not raised any money by way of public issues
during the year.
(xxi) 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 any such case by the management.
For Haribhakti & Co. For Kanu Doshi Associates
Chartered Accountants Chartered Accountants
FRN 103523W FRN 104746W
RAKESH RATHI JAYESH PARMAR
Partner Partner
Membership No.45228 Membership No.45375
Place : Mumbai Place : Mumbai
Date : 22nd April, 2011 Date : 22nd April, 2011
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