We have audited the attached balance sheet of TAJ GVK Hotels & Resorts
Limited, Hyderabad (A.P.) as at 31st March, 2011, the Profit and Loss
account for the year ended on that date annexed thereto, and its Cash
Flow statement for the year ended on that date. 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.
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.
As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 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.
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, the Profit and Loss Account and the Cash-flow
Statement dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of
account;
(iv) In our opinion, 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 Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the
directors, as on 31st March, 2011, and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, we report that none of the directors is disqualified as on
31st March, 2011 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 31st March, 2011;
(b) in the case of the Profit and Loss account, of the PROFIT of the
Company for the year ended on that date; and
(c) in the case of the Cash-flow Statement, of the cash flows of the
Company for the year ended on that date.
THE ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH 3 OF OUR REPORT OF EVEN DATE.
1.1. The Company has maintained proper records showing full
particulars including quantitative details and situation of fixed
assets.
1.2. According to the information and explanations furnished to us,
the Company has physically verified all its fixed assets during the
year. No material discrepancies were noticed during the year on such
verification.
1.3. According to the information and explanations furnished to us,
the Company has not disposed of a substantial part of its fixed assets
during the year.
2.1. According to the information and explanations furnished to us,
the Company has physically verified its inventories during the year. In
our opinion, the frequency of verification is reasonable.
2.2. In our opinion, the procedures of physical verification of
inventories followed by the management are reasonable and adequate in
relation to the size of the Company and the nature of its business.
2.3. According to the information furnished to us, the Company is
maintaining proper records of inventory and the discrepancies noticed
on verification between the physical stocks and the book records were
not material and have been properly dealt with in the books of account.
3.1. According to the information and explanations furnished to us, the
Company has not granted secured or unsecured loans to Companies, firms,
or other parties whose particulars are recorded in the register
maintained under Section 301 of the Companies Act 1956.
3.2 According to the information and explanations furnished to us, the
Company has taken an unsecured loan of Rs. 5 crores from a company, whose
particulars are recorded in the register maintained under Section 301
of the Companies Act 1956. The terms and conditions of the loan are not
prima facie prejudicial to the interest of the Company and the Company
is regular in payment of interest. The principle is due in 2013.
4. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there are adequate internal control systems commensurate
with the size of the Company and the nature of its business with regard
to purchases of inventory, fixed assets and for the sale of goods and
services. Further during the course of our audit, we have not come
across any instances of major weaknesses in internal control that in
our opinion require correction, but have so continued without
correction.
5.1 Based on the information and explanations given to us, we are of
the opinion that the transactions that need to be entered in the
register maintained under section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956 have
been so entered.
5.2 In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the transactions which have been entered into, pursuant to
contracts that have been entered in the register maintained under
Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956 have been made at prices which
are reasonable having regard to prevailing market prices at the
relevant time.
6. The Company has not accepted any deposits from public and
consequently, the directives issued by the Reserve Bank of India and
the provisions of sections 58A and 58AA or any other relevant
provisions of the Act and the rules framed there under are not
applicable. According to the information furnished to us, no Order has
been passed on the Company by the Company Law Board or National Company
Law Tribunal or Reserve Bank of India or any Court or any other
Tribunal for non compliance with the provisions of Sections 58A and 58
AA of the Companies Act, 1956.
7. In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with the size and nature of its business.
8. The Central Government has not prescribed under section 209 (1) (d)
of the Companies Act, 1956 the maintenance of cost records for the
products of the Company.
9.1 According to the information furnished to us, the Company is
regular in depositing with appropriate authorities, the undisputed
statutory dues including Provident Fund, Investor Education Protection
Fund, Employees State Insurance, Income Tax, Sales Tax, Wealth Tax,
Service tax, Customs Duty, Excise Duty, Cess and other material
statutory dues applicable to it.
9.2 According to the information and explanations furnished to us, no
undisputed statutory dues mentioned in the preceding paragraph are in
arrears, as at the date of the Balance Sheet under report, for a period
of more than six months from the date they became payable.
9.3 According to the information furnished to us, the following amounts
of Income Tax and Sales Tax have been disputed by the Company, as at
the date of the Balance Sheet under report.
Name of the Nature of Rs. Amount paid
statute the dues In lacs under protest
(Rs.in lacs)
86.41 86.41
Income Tax Act, 1961 Income Tax 18.77
6.96
135.86 40.92
A.P.General Sales Sales Tax
Tax Act 33.60 4.20
Finance Act,1994 Service tax 23.64 —
Name of the Financial year to Forum where the
which the dispute is pending
amount relates
statute
Income Tax Act, 1961 2002-03 Appellate Tribunal
2006-07 - Do -
2007-08 CIT (Appeals), Hyderabad
A.P.General Sales 2005-06 to High Court of Andhra
2008-09 Pradesh
2005-06 to Appellate Tribunal
2009-10
Tax Act
Finance Act,1994 2005-06 to Commissioner Appeals
2008-09 (Chandigarh)
10. According to the information and explanations furnished to us, the
Company has been incorporated for a period exceeding five years. It had
no accumulated losses at the end of the financial year and it has not
incurred cash losses during the financial year covered by our audit and
in the immediately preceding financial year.
11. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
furnished to us by the Company, there were no defaults in repayment of
its dues to financial institutions and banks at the date of the Balance
Sheet. The Company has not issued any debentures.
12. According to the information and explanation given to us, the
Company has not granted any loans or advances on the basis of security
by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities.
13. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
furnished to us, the Company is not a chit fund or a nidhi/ mutual
benefit fund / society and hence the requirements of clause 4(xiii) of
the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 are not applicable to the
Company during the year under report.
14. According to the information furnished to us, the Company is not
dealing in or trading in shares, securities, debentures and other
investments. Accordingly, the requirements of clause 4(xiv) of the
Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 are not applicable to the
Company.
15. According to the information and explanation given to us, the
Company has not given any guarantees for loans taken by others from
banks or financial institutions.
16. According to the information and explanation given to us, on an
overall basis, the term loans have been applied for the purpose for
which they were raised.
17. According to the information and explanations given to us, and on
an overall examination of the balance sheet of the Company, we report
that funds raised on short-term basis have, prima facie, not been used
during the year for long-term investments.
18. According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has not made any preferential allotment of shares during the
year to parties and companies covered in the register maintained under
section 301 of the Act, or to any others.
19. According to the information and explanations given to us, the
Company has not issued any debentures during the year under report.
20. The Company has not raised any money through public issues during
the year. Accordingly, the provisions of clause 4(xx) of the Companies
(Auditors Report) Order, 2003 are not applicable to the Company during
the year under report.
21. According to the information and explanations given to us, and
based on the audit procedures generally adopted by us, we report that,
during the year, no fraud on or by the Company has been noticed or
reported that is either significant or could have caused a material
misstatement in the financial statements.
For BRAHMAYYA & Co.,
Registration No: 000513S
Chartered Accountants
Koteswara Rao SSR
Place :Hyderabad Partner
Date : 28th April, 2011 Membership No: 18952
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