1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Coromandel
International Limited (the Company), as at March 31, 2011, and the
related Profit and Loss Account and the 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
(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 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 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 March 31, 2011 and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, 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 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 March 31, 2011;
(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 AUDITORS REPORT
[Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors Report of even date to the
members of Coromandel International Limited on the financial statements
for the year ended March 31, 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 three 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
off by the Company during the year.
2. (a) The inventory (excluding stocks with third parties) has been
physically verified by the management during the year. In respect of
inventory lying with third parties, these have substantially been
confirmed by them. 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 loans, secured or
unsecured, to/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, 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, the question of commenting
on transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements
does not arise.
6. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has complied with the directives issued by
Reserve Bank of India and the provisions of Sections 58A and 58AA or
any other relevant provisions of the Act and the Companies (Acceptance
of Deposits) Rules, 1975 with regard to the deposits accepted in
earlier years from the public. According to the information and
explanations given to us, no Order has been passed by the Company Law
Board or National Company Law Tribunal or Reserve Bank of India or any
Court or any other Tribunal on the Company in respect of the aforesaid
deposits.
7. In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
8. 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.
9. (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,
wealth tax and customs duty which have not been deposited on account of
any dispute. The particulars of dues of sales-tax, service tax, excise
duty and cess as at March 31, 2011 which have not been deposited on
account of dispute are as follows:
Name of the Nature of Dues Amount Years to which Forum where the
Statute (Rs. in
Lakhs) they relate dispute is pending
Karnataka Turnover Tax on
chemical mixture 8.33 1993-1994 to Sales Tax Appellate
Tribunal
Sales tax
Act, fertilizers 1996-1997
1957
Andhra
Pradesh Sales tax on
scrap sales,
Taxable 115.32 1995-1996 Appellate Deputy
commissioner Sales
General
Sales Tax turnover/Tax
on stock
transfer/Tax to Tax, Sales Tax
Appellate Tribunal
/Joint
Act, 1957 on Government of
India Subsidy/ 2005-2006 Commissioner of
Commercial Taxes/
Lease rentals/
Set-offs Commercial tax
Officer/Assistant
Commissioner (CT)
West
Bengal Disallowance of
tax adjustment, 3.90 2002-2003 Assistant
Commissioner
(Appeals),
Sales Tax
Act, surcharge and
penalties West Bengal
1994
Tamil Nadu Disallowance on
Stock Transfers 0.98 2001-2002 Sales Tax Appellate
Tribunal
General
Sales Tax
Act, 1959
Electricity
Supply Cess on
generation 155.06 2003-2004 to Honble High Courts
of Madras and
Act, 1948 of electricity 2008-2009 Andhra Pradesh
Central
Excise Disallowance/
demands 501.33 1999-2003 Commissioner
(Appeals)/Customs,
Act, 1944 relating to
excise duty Excise, Service
Tax Appellate
Tribunal and Honble
High Courts of
Andhra Pradesh
and Mumbai
The Customs Penalty on
customs duty 10.84 1998-1999 Customs, Excise,
Service Tax
Act, 1962 Appellate Tribunal,
Mumbai
Orissa
VAT Act, Disallowance
of input tax
credit 11.3 2005-2009 Additional
Commissioner of
2004 Commercial Tax
UP VAT Act Disallowance of 29.27 2005-2008 to Additional
Commissioner of
exemption benefit 2010-2011 Commercial Taxes
and Appellate
Tribunal
10. The Company has no accumulated losses as at March 31, 2011 and it
has not incurred any 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 explanations 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.
12. 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 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.
16. 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.
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 any preferential allotment of shares to
parties and companies covered in the register maintained under Section
301 of the Act during the year.
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
material fraud on or by the Company, noticed or reported during the
year, nor have we been informed of such case by the management.
21. The other clauses, (iii)(b), (iii)(c), (iii)(d), (iii)(f),
(iii)(g), (v)(b) and (xix) of paragraph 4 of the Companies (Auditors
Report) Order 2003, as amended by the Companies (Auditors Report)
(Amendment) Order, 2004, are not applicable in the case of the Company
for the current year, since in our opinion there is no matter which
arises to be reported upon under the aforesaid order.
For Price Waterhouse
Firm Registration Number 007568S
Chartered Accountants
Anupam Dhawan
Place : Hyderabad Partner
Date : April 21, 2011 Membership No. F-84451
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