1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of IL&FS INVESTMENT
MANAGERS 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, 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 ouraudit.
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 disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by the Management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
statement presentation. We believe that
ourauditprovidesareasonablebasisforouropinion.
3. As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 (CARO)
issued by the Central Government of India 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. Furtherto ourcomments 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
ouraudit;
(b) in ouropinion, properbooks of account as required by law have been
keptbythe 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 ouropinion, the Balance Sheet, the Profitand Loss Account and
the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this report are in compliance
with theAccounting Standards referred to Section 211 (3C)of the
CompaniesAct, 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 BalanceSheet,of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March31,2011:
(li) in the case of the Profit and LossAccount, of the profit for the
year ended on that date and
(lii) in the case ofthe Cash Flow Statement, ofthe cash flows for
theyearendedonthatdate.
5. On the basis ofthe written representations received from the
Directors as on March 31, 2011 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 Section
274(1 )(g) of the CompaniesAct, 1956.
Annexure to the Auditors Report
Re: IL&FS INVESTMENT MANAGERS LIMITED (Referred to in paragraph 3 of
our report of even date)
(i) Having regard to the nature of the Companys activities clauses
(ii), (viii), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii),
(xix) and (xx) of CARO are not applicable to the Company.
(ii) 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) The fixed assets were physically verified during the year by the
Management in accordance with a regular programme of verification
which, in our opinion, provides for physical verification of all the
fixed assets at reasonable intervals. According to the information and
explanations given to us, no material discrepancies were noticed on
such verification.
(c) The fixed assets disposed off during the year, in ouropinion, do
not constitute a substantial part of the fixed assets of the Company
and such disposal has, in ouropinion, not affected the going concern
status of the Company.
(iii) In respect of loans, secured or unsecured, granted by the Company
to companies, firms or other parties covered in the Register maintained
undeletion 301 of the Companies Act, 1956, according to the information
and explanations given to us:
(a) The Company has placed inter corporate deposits aggregating Rs.
377,303,253 during the year with one such party. At the year-end. the
outstanding balance of such deposit was Rs. 313,365,753 and the maximum
amount involved during the year was Rs! 373,365,753.
(b) The rate of interest and other terms and conditions of such loans
are, in our opinion, prima facie not prejudicial to the interests of
the Company.
(c) The receipts of principal amounts and interest have been regular.
(d) There are no overdue amounts over Rs. 100,000 remaining outstanding
as at March 31,2011.
The Company has not taken any loans from companies firms or other
parties covered in the register maintained under Section 301 of the
Companies Act, 1956 and accordingly, clauses (f) and (g) of the
paragraph 4(iii) of CARO are not applicable to the Company.
(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 with regard
to purchase of fixed assets and the sale of services. During the course
of ouraudit, we have notobserved any majorweakness in such internal
control system.
(v) To the best of our knowledge and belief and according to the
information and explanations given to us, there were no contracts or
arrangements referred to in Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956 that
needed to be entered in the register maintained under the said section
(excluding deposit reported under paragraph (iii) above). Accordingly
sub clause (b)of clause (v) is not applicable.
(vi) According to the information and explanation given to us, the
Company has not accepted any deposits from the public covered under the
provisions of Section 58Aand 58AAof the Companies Act, 1956 and the
rules framed there under, during the year.
(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) According to information and explanation given to us in respect
of statutory dues:
(a) The Company has generally been regular in depositing Service Tax
and income tax and regular in depositing undisputed dues. including
Provident Fund, Investor Education and Protection Fund, Employees
State Insurance, Cess and other material statutory dues applicable to
it with the appropriate authorities during the year.
(b) There were no undisputed amounts payable in respect of Income-tax,
Cess and other material statutory dues in arrears, outstanding as at
March 31,2011 for a period of more than six months from the date they
became payable.
(c) Details of disputed Income-tax dues which have not been deposited
as on March 31,2011 on account of any dispute are given below:
Name of Nature of Forum where Period ofwhich Amount
statute the dues dispute the amount relates (Rs.)
Income Tax
Act, 1961 Income Tax
in demand CIT (A) and
ITAT (Appeals) 2003-2007 12,187,094
(ix) 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 Companies Act,1956.
(x) To the best of our knowledge and belief 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.
For Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Chartered Accountants
(Registration No. 117366W)
A. B. JANI
Mumbai, April 21, 2011 Partner
(Membership No. 46488)
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