1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of GlaxoSmithKline
Pharmaceuticals Limited (the company), as at 31st December, 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
(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 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 31st December, 2010 and taken on record by the Board
of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st
December, 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 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 31st December, 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 Auditors Report
[Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors Report of even date to the
members of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited on the financial
statements for the year ended 31st December, 2010]
1. (a) The company is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars including quantitative details and situation of
fixed assets, other than the situation of furniture and office
equipment, for which the situation recorded is the location of the
companys different establishments.
(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
of by the company during the year.
2. (a) The inventory, excluding materials in transit, has been
physically verified by the management during the year.
Further, a major portion of inventory lying with third parties 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. In our
opinion, the discrepancies noticed on physical verification of
inventory as compared to book records were not material.
3. (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. Accordingly, clauses
(iii)(b) to (iii)(d) of paragraph 4 of the Order are not applicable to
the company for the current year.
(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. Accordingly, clauses (iii)(f) and
(iii)(g) of paragraph 4 of the Order are not applicable to the company
for the current year.
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 and 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 we been
informed of any instance of major weaknesses in the aforesaid internal
control system.
5. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there are no contracts or arrangements referred to in
Section 301 of the Act during the year that need to be entered in the
register maintained under that Section. Accordingly, clause (v)(b) of
paragraph 4 of the Order is not applicable to the company for the
current year.
6. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the company has complied with the provisions of Sections
58A, 58AA or any other relevant provisions of the Act and the Companies
(Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 1975 with regard to the deposits
accepted 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 the 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 generally regular in depositing 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 in India.
(b) According to the information and explanations given to us and the
records of the company examined by us, there are no dues of wealth tax,
customs duty and cess which have not been deposited on account of any
dispute. The particulars of dues of income-tax, sales tax, service tax
and excise duty as at 31st December, 2010 which have not been deposited
on account of a dispute, are as follows -
Name of the statute Nature of dues Amount*
Rs. in lakhs
The Income-tax Income-tax 19,93.26
Act, 1961 including interest,
as applicable
The Centra! Sales Sales tax 9,46.33
Tax Act, 1956 and including
Local Sales Tax interest and
Acts penalty, as
applicable
9,71.40
The Finance Service tax 2,55.45
Act, 1994
The Central Excise duty 1,10.14
Excise Act, 1944 including interest
and penalty, as
applicable
2,89.17
30.12
Name of the Period to which the Forum where the
statue amount relates dispute is pending
The Income-tax
Act, 1961 #Assessment Years Appellate Authority -
2006-2007 and up to Commissioners
2007-2008 level
The Central Sales
Tax Act, 1956 and
Local Sales Tax
Acts Several demands Appellate Authority-
pertaining to the up to Commissioners
period 1983-1984 level
to 2009-2010
Several demands Tribunal
pertaining to the
period 1990-1991
to 2005-2006
The Finance
Act, 1994 January 2001 to Tribunal
December 2002
and May 2006 to
January 2007
The Central
Excise Act, 1944 Several demands Appellate Authority -
pertaining to the up to Commissioners
period March 1992 to level
November 2007
Several demands Tribunal
pertaining to the
period October 1994
to January 2007
1977 to 1980 The High Court of
Judicature at Bombay
* Net of amounts paid including under protest
# Out of total dues of Rs. 19,93.26 lakhs, an amount of Rs. 5,70.00
lakhs has been deposited subsequent to the year end.
10. The company has no accumulated losses as at 31st December, 2010
and 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.
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 and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments.
15. 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, the company has not obtained any term loans that were not
applied for the purpose for which these were raised.
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 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 issued any debentures.
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
material fraud on or by the company, noticed or reported during the
year, nor have we been informed of such case by the management.
For Price Waterhouse & Co.
Firm Registration No. 007567S
Chartered Accountants
Himanshu Goradia
Partner
Mumbai, 14th February, 2011 Membership No. 45668
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