1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Hinduja Global
Solutions 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 fi nancial statements are the responsibility of the
Companys Management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on
these fi nancial 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 fi
nancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and
disclosures in the fi nancial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and signifi cant estimates
made by the Management, as well as evaluating the overall fi nancial
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 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 specifi ed 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 disqualifi ed 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 fi nancial 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 fl ows for
the year ended on that date.
Annexure to the Auditors Report (Referred to in Paragraph 3 of the
Auditors Report of even date to the members of Hinduja Global
Solutions Limited on the fi nancial statements for the year ended March
31, 2011)
(i) (a) The Company is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars, including quantitative details and situation, of fixed
assets.
(b) The fixed assets are physically verifi ed 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 verifi ed 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 the fixed assets has not been
disposed of by the Company during the year.
(ii) The Company is primarily engaged in the business of Information
Technology/ Information Technology Enabled Services and accordingly, it
does not hold any inventories. Thus, paragraph 4 (ii) of the Order is
not applicable.
(iii) (a) The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured,
to companies, fi rms or other parties covered in the register
maintained under Section 301 of the Act. Accordingly, clauses (iii)(b)
to (iii)(d) of the paragraph 4 of the Order are not applicable to the
Company during the current year.
(b) The Company has not taken any loans, secured or unsecured, from
companies, fi rms or other parties covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Act. Accordingly, clauses (iii)(f) and
(iii)(g) of the paragraph 4 of the Order are not applicable to the
Company during the current year.
(iv) 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 fixed assets and for the sale of 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.
(v) (a) In our opinion and according to the information and
explanations given to us, the particulars of contracts or arrangements
referred to in Section 301 of the Act have been entered in the register
required to be maintained under that Section.
(b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, in respect of the transactions made in pursuance of such
contracts or arrangements and exceeding the value of Rupees Five Lacs
in respect of any party during the year, no comparative prices are
available because, as explained to us by the Management, these
transactions are of a specialised and exclusive nature.
(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 its size and nature of its business.
(viii) The Central Government of India has not prescribed the
maintenance of cost records under clause (d) of sub- section (1) of
Section 209 of the Act for any of the products of the Company.
(ix) (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, 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 sales tax,
wealth tax, service tax, customs duty, excise duty and cess as at March
31, 2011 which have not been deposited on account of a dispute. The
particulars of dues of income tax as at March 31, 2011 which have not
been deposited on account of a dispute is as follows:
Name of the Nature of dues Amount
Statute (Rs. In Lacs)
The Income Income Tax liability including 1,336.31
Tax Act, 1961 interest and penalty, where
applicable
Name of the Statue Period to which Forum where the
the amount dispute is pending
relates
The Income
Tax Act, 1961 Assessment Year Commissioner
2007-2008 of Income Tax
(Appeals)
Also, refer footnote 2 of Note 1(b) on Schedule S.
(x) The Company has no accumulated losses as at March 31, 2011 and it
has not incurred any cash losses in the fi nancial year ended on that
date or in the immediately preceding fi nancial year.
(xi) 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 banks as at the Balance Sheet date.
Further, there were no dues payable to fi nancial institution and
debenture holders as at the Balance Sheet date.
(xii) 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) The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit fund/
nidhi/ mutual benefit fund/ societies are not applicable to the
Company.
(xiv) In our opinion, the Company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments.
(xv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has not given any guarantee for loans taken by
others from banks or fi nancial institutions during the year.
(xvi) 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.
(xvii) 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.
(xviii) 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.
(xix) The Company has not issued any debentures during the year.
(xx) The Company has not raised any money by public issue 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 such case by the Management.
For Price Waterhouse
Firm Registration Number: 301112E
Chartered Accountants
Partha Ghosh
Place : Mumbai Partner
Date : May 12, 2011 Membership Number: F-55913
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