1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of GODFREY PHILLIPS
INDIA LIMITED (the Company) as at March 31, 2011, the Profit and Loss
Account and the Cash Flow Statement of the Company for the year ended
on that date, both annexed thereto. 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 misstatements. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and the disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and the significant estimates
made by the 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 (CARO)
issued by the Central Government in terms of Section 227(4A) of the
Companies Act, 1956, we enclose 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 as follows:
(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 it appears from our examination of
those books;
(c) the Balance Sheet, the Profit and Loss Account and the Cash Flow
Statement dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of
account;
(d) in our opinion, the Balance Sheet, the Profit and Loss Account and
the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this report are in compliance
with the Accounting Standards referred to in Section 211(3C) of the
Companies Act, 1956;
(e) 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:
(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 of the
Company for the year ended on that date and
(iii) in the case of the Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows of the
Company for the year ended on that date.
5. 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, none of the Directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2011
from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 274(1)(g) of the
Companies Act, 1956.
ANNEXURE TO THE AUDITORS'' REPORT
(Referred to in paragraph 3 of our report of even date)
Having regard to the nature of the Company''s
business/activities/result, clauses 4 (x) and (xiii) of the Companies
(Auditor''s Report) Order, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the Order)
are not applicable.
(i) In respect of its fixed assets:
(a) The Company has maintained proper records showing full particulars,
including quantitative details and situation of the fixed assets.
(b) As explained to us, the Company has a system of physical
verification of fixed assets which is designed to cover all fixed
assets once in a period of three years and in accordance therewith, no
physical verification was due during the current year. In our opinion,
the frequency of physical verification is reasonable having regard to
the size of the Company and the nature of its fixed assets.
(c) The fixed assets disposed off during the year, in our opinion, do
not constitute a substantial part of the fixed assets of the Company
and such disposal has, in our opinion, not affected the going concern
status of the Company.
(ii) In respect of its inventory:
(a) As explained to us, the inventories were physically verified during
the year by the Management at reasonable intervals.
(b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the procedures of physical verification of inventories
followed by the Management were reasonable and adequate in relation to
the size of the Company and the nature of its business.
(c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has maintained proper records of its
inventories and no material discrepancies were noticed on physical
verification and have been properly dealt with in the books of account.
(iii) In respect of loans, secured or unsecured, granted by the Company
to companies, firms or other parties covered in the Register maintained
under Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956(the Act), according to
the information and explanations given to us:
(a) The Company has granted unsecured loan amounting to Rs. 100 lacs to
a company during the year. The maximum amount due during the year in
respect of the said loan and the year-end balance is Rs. 100 lacs.
(b) The rate of interest and other terms and conditions of such loan
are, in our opinion, prima-facie, not prejudicial to the interest of
the Company.
(c) As per the terms and conditions of the loan made no principal
amount or interest thereon was due during the year.
According to the information and explanations given to us, the Company
has not taken any loans, secured or unsecured, from companies, firms or
other parties listed in the Register maintained under Section 301 of
the Companies Act, 1956.
(iv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, having regard to the explanations that some of the items
purchased are of special nature and suitable alternative sources are
not readily available for obtaining comparable quotations, there is an
adequate internal control system commensurate with the size of the
Company and the nature of its business with regard to purchases of
inventory and fixed assets and the sale of goods. There are no sale of
services during the year. During the course of our audit, we have not
observed any major weakness in such internal control system.
(v) In respect of contracts or arrangements 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:
(a) The particulars of contracts or arrangements referred to in Section
301 that needed to be entered in the Register maintained under the said
Section have been so entered.
(b) Where each of such transaction is in excess of Rs. 5 lacs in
respect of any party, the transactions have been made at prices which
are prima facie reasonable having regard to the prevailing market
prices at the relevant time except in respect of certain purchases for
which comparable quotations are not available and in respect of which
we are unable to comment.
(vi) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has not accepted any deposits from the public during the year.
In respect of unclaimed deposits, the Company has complied with the
provisions of Sections 58A & 58AA or any other relevant provisions of
the Companies Act, 1956.
(vii) In our opinion, the internal audit functions carried out during
the year by a firm of Chartered Accountants appointed by the Management
have been commensurate with the size of the Company and the nature of
its business.
(viii) We are informed that the maintenance of cost records has not
been prescribed by the Central Government under section 209(1) (d) of
the Companies Act, 1956 in respect of the Company''s products.
(ix) According to the information and explanations given to us in
respect of statutory dues:
(a) The Company has been regular in depositing undisputed dues
including Provident Fund, Investor Education and Protection Fund,
Employees'' State Insurance, Income-tax, Wealth Tax, Customs Duty, Entry
tax, Excise Duty, Cess and other material statutory dues applicable to
it with the appropriate authorities and has generally been regular in
respect of dues of tax deducted at source, service tax and value added
tax. We are informed that there are no undisputed statutory dues as at
the year-end outstanding for a period of more than six months from the
date they became payable.
(b) There are no dues of Wealth Tax, Service Tax, Customs Duty and Cess
matters which have not been deposited on account of any dispute. The
details of dues of Sales Tax, Excise Duty and Income-tax as at March
31, 2011, which have not been deposited by the Company on account of
disputes are as follows:
Name of Nature of Amount Amount Period to
which the Forum where
the statute the dues of dues* deposited amount
relates dispute is
(Rs. lacs)(Rs. lacs) pending
Sales Tax
Laws Sales tax 0.83 0.25 1995-96, Sales Tax
2001-02 Tribunal
77.72 26.54 1998-99 to
1999-00, Upto
2005-06 to
2010-11 Commissioners''
Level
6.48 6.48 2006-07 High court
Central Excise duty 96.72 – 2008-09 to
2010-11 Upto
Excise Law Commissioners''
Level
453.67 – 2002-03 to
2006-07, Customs Excise
2008-09,
2009-10 Service Tax
Appellate
Tribunal
Income-Tax Income-tax 244.00 244.00 1980 to
1983, High Court
Law 1995-96 to
1997-98
301.27 301.27 2000-01,
2002-03 to Income Tax
2006-07 Appellate
Tribunal
316.50 269.85 1999-00,
2004-05 to Upto
2008-09 Commissioners''
Level
*amount as per demand orders, including interest and penalty, where
quantified in the Order.
Further, as per information available with the Company, the concerned
authority is in appeal against favourable orders received by the
Company in respect of the following matters:-
Name of the Nature of Amount Period to which
the Forum where
department
statute the dues (Rs. lacs) amount relates has preferred
appeal
Income Tax
Law Income tax 318.42 1969, 1974 to
1977, High Court
1991-92 to
1994-95,
2001-02,
2004-05
151.70 2002-03 to
2003-04 Income Tax
Appellate
Tribunal
6.07 2000-01 Upto Commissioners''
Level
U.P. Krishi
Utpadan Mandi cess 108.20 1997-98 to
1998-99 Supreme Court
Mandi
Adhiniyam
Central
Excise Law Excise duty 2.61 2009-10 Customs Excise
Service
Tax Appellate
Tribunal
Sales Tax
Laws Sales Tax 10.40 2007-08 High Court
(x) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has not defaulted in the repayment of dues to
banks.
(xi) In our opinion and according to the explanations given to us, the
Company has not granted any loans and advances on the basis of security
by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities during the
year.
(xii) As the Company is not dealing or trading in shares, securities,
debentures and other investments, paragraph 4(xiv) of the Order is not
applicable.
(xiii) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has not given any guarantees for loans taken
by others from banks or financial institutions during the year.
(xiv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the term loans have been applied for the purposes for
which they were obtained.
(xv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us and on an overall examination of the Balance Sheet, we
report that funds raised on short-term basis have not been used for
long- term investment.
(xvi) The Company has not made any preferential allotment of shares
during the year.
(xvii) The Company has not issued any debentures during the year.
(xviii) The Company has not raised money by way of public issue, during
the year.
(xix) To the best of our knowledge and according to the information and
explanations given to us, no fraud by the Company and no fraud on the
Company has been noticed or reported during the year, other than
defalcation of Rs. 2.47 lacs by an employee, which sum was subsequently
recovered from him.
For A. F. FERGUSON & CO.
Chartered Accountants
(Registration No. 112066W)
Jaideep Bhargava
Partner
Place: New Delhi (Membership No. 90295)
Date : May 29, 2011
|