1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of NIIT Technologies
Limited, as at 31 March 2011, 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 manage-
ment. 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 explana- tions given to us, we further report that:
(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 verified by the management
according to a phased programme designed to cover all the items over a
period of two 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.
(ii) (a) According to the information and explanation given to us, the
Company procures inventories specifically for the purpose of executing
certain contracts and no inventory is held at any point of time during
the year. Accordingly clauses (ii)(a) and (ii)(b) of Paragraph 4 of
the Order are not applicable to the Company.
(b) On the basis of our examination of the inventory records, in our
opinion, the Company is maintaining proper records of inventory.
(iii) (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. The Company has granted a loan to a
Society aggregating Rs 250,000,000 as described in Notes 15 and 16 of
Schedule 17. Provisions of Section 297, 299 and 301 of the Companies
Act, 1956 are not considered to be applicable to a Society.
(b) The Company has not taken any loan from any party covered under
register maintained under Section 301 of the Act.
(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 inventory, 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 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. Also refer para (iii) (a)
above.
(b) In respect of transactions with subsidiaries for rendering of
services and for purchase of goods and services aggregating to Rs.
55,081 lacs (excluding recoveries towards common services from domestic
subsidiaries Rs 23,181,667 which are at cost, also refer Note 7 of
Schedule 17) and Rs.169 lacs respectively, and with others for
rendering of services and for purchase of goods and services
aggregating to Rs. 138 lacs and Rs.309 lacs respectively, the
management has informed us that these transactions dealt are of a
special nature and therefore comparable prices are not available. In
our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to
us, there are no other transactions
made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements exceeding the value
of Rupees five lacs in respect of any party during the year.
(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 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 generally 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, excise 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, the particulars of dues of
income-tax, 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, are as follows:
Name of the Nature of dues Amount due Amount deposited
statute (Rs. Lacs) under protest
(Rs. Lacs)
Income-tax Income-tax 263.16 200
Act, 1961 Interest 110.17
Income-tax Income-tax 444.59 -
Act, 1961 Interest 135.06
Name of the Period to Forum where
statute which the the dispute is
(Rs. Lacs) amount pending
relates
200 AY 2006-07 CIT (Appeals)
- AY 2007-08 CIT (Appeals)
(x) The Company has no accumulated losses as at March 31, 2011 and it
has not incurred any cash losses in the financial year ended on that
date or in the immediately preceding financial year.
(xi) According to the records of the Company examined by us and the
information and explanation given to us, the Company has not defaulted
in repayment of dues to any financial institution or bank or 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 terms and conditions of the guarantees given by the
Company aggregating to Rs. 8,334 lacs to banks for two wholly owned
subsidiaries are not prejudicial to the interest of the Company.
(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) There are no outstanding debentures as at the year end.
Accordingly clause (xix) of Paragraph 4 of the Order is not applicable
to the Company.
(xx) The Company has not raised any money by public issues 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.
4. Further to our comments 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 31 March 2011 and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 March 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 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 31 March 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 flows for the
year ended on that date.
For and on behalf of
Price Waterhouse
Firm Registration Number – FRN 301112E
Chartered Accountants
Usha Rajeev
Partner
Membership No. F-087191
Place : New Delhi
Date : May 6th, 2011
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