1. We have audited the attached balance sheet of MphasiS Limited (the
Company) as at 31 October 2010 and also the profit and loss account
and the cash flow statement 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 our audit.
2. We conducted our audit in accordance with 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) issued by the Central Government of India in terms of
sub-section (4A) of Section 227 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. Without qualifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 2(c) to
the financial statements. In accordance with the order of the Honble
High Court of Karnataka and Honble High Court of Judicature at Madras,
the goodwill of Rs 173,468,380 accounted at the time of acquisition of
MphasiS FinSolusitions Private Limited and deficit of Rs 4,298,664 in
net assets acquired by the Company as of appointed date of 1 November
2009 has been reduced from the securities premium account of the
Company and expenses of Rs 622,311 incurred by the Company in
connection with the amalgamation scheme have been adjusted against the
general reserves of the Company which is different from the
requirements of Accounting Standard 14 for Accounting for
Amalgamations and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as
discussed in the said note.
5. Further to our comments in the annexure referred to above, we
report that:
i. 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;
ii. 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;
iii. The balance sheet, profit and loss account and cash flow
statement dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of
account;
iv. 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 Companies Act, 1956.
v. On the basis of the written representations received from the
directors, as on 31 October 2010, and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, we report that none of the directors is disqualified as on
31 October 2010 from being appointed as a director in terms of clause
(g) of sub-section (1) of section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956.
vi. 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;
a) in the case of the balance sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at 31 October 2010;
b) in the case of the profit and loss account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date; and
c) in the case of cash flow statement, of the cash flows for the year
ended on that date.
Annexure referred to in paragraph 3 of our report of even date Re:
MphasiS Limited (the Company)
(i) (a) The Company has maintained proper records showing full
particulars, including quantitative details and situation of fixed
assets.
(b) The Company has a regular programme of physical verification of
fixed assets which, in our opinion, is reasonable having regard to the
size of the Company and the nature of its assets. In accordance with
this programme, certain fixed assets were physically verified by the
management during the year and we are informed that no material
discrepancies were noticed on such verification.
(c) There was no substantial disposal of fixed assets during the year.
(ii) The Company is a service company, primarily rendering information
technology solutions and related services. Accordingly, it does not
hold any physical inventories. Thus, paragraph 4(ii) of the Companies
(Auditors Report) Order, 2003 (as amended) is not applicable to the
Company.
(iii) As informed, the Company has neither granted nor taken any loans,
secured or unsecured, to or from companies, firms or other parties
covered 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 the activities of the Company do not involve purchase of
inventories and the sale of goods. 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. During the course of our audit, no major weakness has been
noticed in the internal control system in respect of these areas.
During the course of our audit, we have not observed any continuing
failure to correct major weakness in internal control system of the
company.
(v) (a) According to the information and explanations provided by the
management, we are of the opinion that the particulars of contracts or
arrangements referred to in section 301 of the Act that need to be
entered into the register maintained under section 301 have been so
entered.
(b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or
arrangements exceeding value of Rupees five lakhs have been entered
into during the financial year at prices which are reasonable having
regard to the prevailing market prices at the relevant time.
(vi) The Company has not accepted any deposits from the public.
(vii) In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with the size and nature of its business.
(viii) To the best of our knowledge and as explained, the Central
Government has not prescribed maintenance of cost records under clause
(d) of sub-section (1) of section 209 of the Companies Act, 1956 for
services rendered by the Company.
(ix) (a) Undisputed statutory dues including investor education and
protection fund, employees state insurance, income-tax, sales-tax,
labour welfare fund, provident fund, wealth-tax, customs duty, excise
duty, professional tax, central sales tax, cess have generally been
regularly deposited with the appropriate authorities though there have
been delays in remittance of service tax and Value Added Tax in few
cases.
Further, there were no dues on account of cess under section 441A of
the Companies Act, 1956 since the date from which the aforesaid section
comes in to force has not yet been notified by the Central Government
of India.
(b) According to the information and explanations given to us, no
undisputed amounts payable in respect of provident fund, investor
education and protection fund, employees state insurance, income-tax,
wealth-tax, service tax, sales-tax, customs duty, excise duty, cess and
other undisputed statutory dues were outstanding, at the year end, for
a period of more than six months from the date they became payable.
(c) According to the records of the Company, there are no dues of
income-tax, sales-tax, wealth-tax, service tax, customs duty, excise
duty and cess which have not been deposited on account of any dispute
except the following:
Disputed
Name of the Nature ot dues Amount
statue
Income Tax Act, 1961 Adjustment for transfer
pricing and other 245,934,507
disallowances
452,240,663
120,900,000
Income Tax Act, 1961 Disallowances under 18194 392
section 10A
6,843,257
13,377,287
Customs Act, 1962 Debonding charges 5,990,000
Karnataka Sales Tax Act, Sales tax 3 934 982
1957 1,196,557
Finance Act, 1994 Service tax 21,926,611
Name of the Amount Paid Period to which the
Forum where
dispute is
under protest amount relates pending
(Rs) (financial year)
Income Tax Act, 1961 In the process
of filing
Nil 2005-06 appeal before
Income Tax
Appellate Tribunal
53,500,000 2004-05 Commissioner ot Income
Tax (Appeals)
Nil 2003-04 Income Tax Appellate
Tribunal
Income Tax Act,
1961 10,000,000 2001 -02 Commissioner of Income
Nil 2002-03 Tax
6,500,000 2005-06
Customs Act, 1962 Commissioner of Customs
Nil 2002-03 (Appeals)
Karnataka Sales Tax Act,
1957 3,934,982 2004-05 Sales Tax Appellate
1,196,559 2003-04 Tribunal, Karnataka
Finance Act, 1994 Nil 2005-2007 CESTAT, Karnataka
(x) The Company has no accumulated losses at the end of the financial
year and it has not incurred cash losses in the current and immediately
preceding financial year.
(xi) Based on our audit procedures and as per the information and
explanations given by the management, we are of the opinion that the
Company has not defaulted in repayment of dues to a financial
institution, bank or debenture holders. As at the year end, the
Company did not have any outstanding dues to any financial institutions
and debenture holders.
(xii) According to the information and explanations given to us and
based on the documents and records produced to us, the Company has not
granted loans and advances on the basis of security by way of pledge of
shares, debentures and other securities.
(xiii) In our opinion, the Company is not a chit fund or a nidhi /
mutual benefit fund / society. Therefore, the provisions of clause
4(xiii) of the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 (as amended)
are not applicable to the Company.
(xiv) In our opinion, the Company is not dealing in or trading in
shares, securities, debentures and other investments. Accordingly, the
provisions of clause 4(xiv) of the Companies (Auditors Report) Order,
2003 (as amended) are not applicable to the Company.
(xv) According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has not given any guarantee for loans taken by others from bank
or financial institutions.
(xvi) Based on information and explanations given to us by the
management, term loans were applied for the purpose for which the loans
were obtained.
(xvii) According to the information and explanations given to us and on
an overall examination of the balance sheet of the Company, we report
that no funds raised on short-term basis have been used for long-term
investment.
(xviii) The Company has not made any preferential allotment of shares
to parties or companies covered in the register maintained under
section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956.
(xix) The Company did not have any outstanding debentures during the
year.
(xx) The Company has not raised any money through a public issue during
the year.
(xxi) Based upon the audit procedures performed for the purpose of
reporting the true and fair view of the financial statements and as per
the information and explanations given by the management, we report
that no fraud on or by the Company has been noticed or reported during
the course of our audit.
For S.R. BATLIBOI & Co.
Firm registration number: 301003E
Chartered Accountants
per Navin Agrawal
Partner
Membership No.: 56102
Place : Bangalore
Date : 22 November 2010
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