(1) During the year the company has set up a unit in Special Economic
Zone (SEZ) at Surat. All the expenditure pertaining to this unit till
the date it commenced commercial activities have been capitalised to
fixed assets and depreciation on fixed assets has been calculated
accordingly.
(2) Contingent Liabilities (Rs.in Lacs)
2010-11 2009-10
(a) Claims against the Company not
acknowledged as debt 11.05 11.18
(b) Demand on account of sales tax assessment
raised against the company for the various
years but the same is not acknowledged
as debt hence, not provided for. Appeals
are pending 2,254.10 5.33
(c) Demand under disputed central excise
matter, Appeals are being filed 242.50 --
The contingent liability towards sales tax is Rs. 2,254.10 lacs (previous
year Rs. 5.33 lacs). The amount of Rs. 2,246.57 lacs (out of Rs. 2,254.10
lacs) is demand raised during the year by the Sales Tax department,
Gujarat for the years, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1997-98 and
1999-2000. This is on account of Sales Tax department, Gujarat,
treating branch transfer and sales outside Gujarat as local sales, for
lack of F and C forms. These forms have been completely destroyed
alongwith other records as they were kept in basement storage, which
was flooded during the heavy rain of 20 on July 13, 2000 in Ahmedabad.
This demand is despite the company having paid sales tax in respective
states on such branch transfers and sales out of Gujarat. The
Government of Gujarat has issued a letter dt. 18.10.2005 to the
Commissioner of Sales Tax to grant relief for records destroyed in this
instance. Hon''ble Commissioner of Sales Tax has granted administrative
relief in the past in cases of such calamities. The matter is now
pending before the appellate authority. As advised by legal counsel,
considering the merits of the case, no provision is required to be made
in the books of accounts.
The company''s VAT/Sales tax assessments in the state of Gujarat are
completed up to the year 2006-07. There is no other pending demand for
any year in Gujarat state except above.
(3) Segment Reporting
(a) Primary Segment : Business
The company is operating in only one segment i.e. Home Appliances.
Therefore reporting on primary segment is not considered.
(4) Subsidiaries
Following are the subsidiaries and step down subsidiaries of the
Company:
i) Symphony Aircoolers Inc, USA (Subsidiary)
ii) Sylvan Holdings Pte. Ltd., Singapore (Subsidiary)
iii) IMPCO S DE RL DE CV, Mexico (Subsidiary of Subsidiary)
iv) IMPCO Air Coolers INC, USA (Subsidiary of Subsidiary)
(5) Employee Benefits
The present value of gratuity and leave encashment obligations is
determined based on actuarial valuation using the projected unit credit
method, which recognises each period of service as giving rise to
additional unit of employee benefit entitlement and measures each unit
separately to build up the final obligation.
(6) Leave encashment
As per policy followed by the Company there is no vesting benefit of
leave encashment at the end of the year. Therefore there is no
liability of leave encashment existing at the end of the year.
Accordingly no provision is made for leave encashment.
(7) There are no Micro and Small Enterprises, to whom the Company owes
dues, which are outstanding for more than 45 days as at 30th June,
2011. This information as required to be disclosed under the Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 has been determined
to the extent such parties have been identified on the basis of
information available with the Company.
(8) In the opinion of the board, Current Assets, Loans and Advances
are approximately, stated at the value, if realised in ordinary course
of business. Provisions for all known liabilities are provided for in
full and the same are adequate and not in excess of the amount
considered as reasonably necessary.
(9) Previous year figures have been rearranged/ regrouped wherever
necessary to make them comparable with the figures of the current year.
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