1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Simplex
Infrastructures Limited (the Company”) as at 31st 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 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. Tose 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 (Auditor''s Report) Order, 2003, as
amended by the Companies (Auditor''s 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 further report that:
3.1 (a) The Company has maintained 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
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 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.
3.2 (a) The inventory other than work-in-progress
[comprising site development costs etc. as indicated in Note 1(g) on
Schedule 19 to Accounts], stocks with third parties and material in
transit has been physically verified by the Management during the year.
In respect of inventory lying with third parties, these have
substantially been confirmed by them. In our opinion, the frequency of
verifcation is reasonable.
(b) In our opinion, the procedures of physical verifcation of inventory
followed by the Management are reasonable and adequate in relation to
the size of the Company and the nature of its business.
(c) On the basis of our examination of the inventory records, in our
opinion, the Company has maintained proper records of materials at
sites, materials in transit and stores. As regards work- in-progress,
as explained by the Management, it is not practicable to maintain
cumulative quantitative records, since it comprises site development
cost etc. as indicated in Note 1(g) on Schedule 19 to Accounts. The
discrepancies noticed on physical verifcation of inventory as compared
to book records were not material.
3.3 (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.
(b) The Company has not taken any loans, secured or unsecured, from
companies, firms or other parties covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Act.
3.4 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.
3.5 (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, the transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or
arrangements and exceeding the value of Rupees Five Lakhs in respect of
any party during the year, have been made at prices which are
reasonable having regard to the prevailing market prices at the
relevant time.
3.6 In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the Company has complied with the provisions of Sections
58A and 58AA or any other relevant provisions of the Act and the
Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 1975 with regard to the
deposits accepted from the public. According to the information and
explanations given to us, no Order has been passed by the Company Law
Board or National Company Law Tribunal or Reserve Bank of India or any
Court or any other Tribunal on the Company in respect of the aforesaid
deposits.
3.7 In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
3.8 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.
3.9 (a) According to the information and explanations given to us and
the records of the Company examined by us, in our opinion, the Company
has generally been regular in depositing during the year, the
undisputed statutory dues including provident fund, investor education
and protection fund, 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 applicable, as at 31st March 2011, which have not
been deposited on account of a dispute, are as follows:
Name of the
statute Nature
of dues Amount Period to Forum where the
(Rupees in which the dispute is pending
Tousand) amount relates
Andhra Pradesh
General Demand
against
turnover 406 1996-97 High Court,
Sales Tax
Act, 1957 tax
challenged Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh
General Demand
against
turnover 287 1997-98 to Andhra Pradesh
Sales
Sales Tax
Act, 1957 tax
challenged 1999-2000 Tax Appellate
Tribunal
Andhra Pradesh
General Demand
against 771 2003-04 Andhra Pradesh
Sales
Sales Tax
Act, 1957 Interstate
purchase Tax Appellate
Tribunal,
Visakapattanam
Goa Sales
Tax Act, 1964 Disallowance
of tax paid 6,436 2004-05 Appellate
Tribunal in
on
interstate
purchases Goa
Central Sales
Tax Act, 1956 Penalty under
Section 10A 712 2003-04 Assistant
Commissioner
of Commercial
Taxes
(Margoa, Goa)
Orissa Sales
Tax Act, 1947 WCT
disallowance
of 52 2002-03 Appellate
Tribunal,
[For Angul] labour
component Cuttack
Orissa Sales
Tax Act, 1947 Disallowance
on machinery 584 2001-02 Appellate
Tribunal,
[For Paradeep] hire charges - - Cuttack
Orissa Sales
Tax Act, 1947 Levy of tax
on free
issue 258 1985-86,
1988- Appellate
Tribunal,
[For
Sambalpur] of
materials 89 &
1989-90 Cuttack
Uttar
Pradesh Trade Sales Tax 614 2003-04 Joint
Commissioner
Tax Act, 1948 Appeal
Uttar
Pradesh Trade Sales Tax 5,639 2006-07 Deputy
Commissioner
Tax Act, 1948 Ghaziabad
Uttar
Pradesh Trade Sales Tax 3,332 2006-07 Additional
Commissioner
Tax Act, 1948 Gorakhpur
Uttar
Pradesh Trade Sales Tax 4,455 2007-08 Deputy
Commissioner
Tax Act, 1948 Ghaziabad
Finance
Act, 1994- Service Tax 952,418 1.3.2005 to High Court
at Calcutta
Service Tax 30.9.2008
Finance
Act, 1994- Service
Tax on 46,012 10.9.2004 to High Court at
Calcutta
Service Tax construction
of port 15.6.2005
Finance Act,
1994-Service
Tax Service Tax 158,441 2003-04,
2005- High Court at
Delhi
06,
2006-07
and
2008-09
Finance Act,
1994-Service
Tax Service Tax 10,429 1.10.2009 to Reply to
Commissionerate
31.3.2010 is pending
Finance Act,
1994-Service
Tax Service Tax 24,931 March, 2007 to Customs,
Excise &
Service
January, 2008 Tax Appellate
Tribunal
Finance Act,
1994-Service
Tax Service Tax 457 October, 2007 Commissioner of
to April, 2008 Central Excise
(Appeals)
3.10 The Company has no accumulated losses as at 31st March 2011 and it
has not incurred any cash losses in the financial year ended on that
date or in the immediately preceding financial year.
3.11 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.
3.12 The Company has not granted any loans and advances on the basis of
security by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities.
3.13 The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit fund /
nidhi / mutual benefit fund/ societies are not applicable to the
Company.
3.14 In our opinion, the Company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments.
3.15 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 financial institutions during the year.
3.16 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.
3.17 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.
3.18 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.
3.19 The Company has not issued during the year any secured debenture.
3.20 The Company has not raised any money by public issues during the
year.
3.21 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 We draw your attention to the following matters:
a) As indicated in Note 8 on Schedule 19 to the Accounts, year-end
exchange fluctuation loss of Rs.73,411 thousand pertaining to a foreign
currency loan has not been provided for which is required under
Accounting Standard 11 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange
Rates” for reasons given by the management in the said Note. Had this
item been accounted for, both the Profit for the year and the year- end
net worth would have been lower by Rs.73,411 thousand.
b) As indicated in Note 9 on Schedule 19 to the Accounts, in view of
heightened political risk in the country in which one of the
subsidiaries of the Company operates, substantial erosion of its net
worth and lack of adequate information, we are unable to comment on the
extent of diminution, other than temporary, if any, in the carrying
amount of investment of Rs.38,688 thousand in the said subsidiary in
keeping with Accounting Standard 13 Accounting for Investments” and
the extent of eventual recoverability of year-end Sundry Debtors of
Rs.105,942 thousand and Advances of Rs.38,507 thousand due from the
said subsidiary (together with its effect on the year''s Profit and the
year-end net worth).
5. Further to our comments in paragraph 3 above, we report that:
(a) Except for the indeterminate effects of the matter referred to in
paragraph 4 (b) above, 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, 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, except for the effects of the matter referred to in
paragraph 4 (a) above and indeterminate effects of the matter referred
to in
paragraph 4 (b) above, the Balance Sheet, the Profit and Loss Account
and the 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 disqualified 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 financial statements together
with the notes thereon and attached thereto give, in the prescribed
manner, the information required by the Act, and give, except for the
effects of the matter referred to in paragraph 4 (a) above and the
indeterminate effects of the matter referred to in paragraph 4 (b)
above, 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 31st 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 Price Waterhouse
Firm Registration Number: 301112E
Chartered Accountants
P. Law
Partner
Membership Number 51790
Kolkata
30th May, 2011 |