1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Usha Martin 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 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 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 explanations given to us, we further report that :
i) 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.
ii) a) The inventory (excluding stocks lying in customs bonded
warehouse and with third parties) of the Company 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 verification is reasonable.
b) In our opinion, the procedures of physical verification 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 is maintaining proper records of inventory other
than, in respect of partly finished products (year end balance
Rs.414,818 thousand) of three Divisions which have been determined by
the Management based on physical verification as at the year end. The
discrepancies noticed on physical verification of inventory as compared
to book records were not material.
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.
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.
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 weakness 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.
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 price at the relevant time.
vi) 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.
vii) In our opinion, the Companys internal audit system (designed to
cover all significant areas over a period of two years) is commensurate
with the size of the Company and nature of its business.
viii) We have broadly reviewed the books of account maintained by the
Company in respect of certain products where, pursuant to the Rules
made by the Central Government of India, the maintenance of cost
records has been prescribed under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of
Section 209 of the Act, and are of the opinion that prima facie, the
prescribed accounts and records have been made and maintained. We have
not, however, made a detailed examination of the records with a view to
determine whether they are accurate or complete.
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
has generally been regular in depositing during the year 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, there were no dues in respect of
wealth-tax and cess as at 31st March, 2011 which have not been
deposited on account of a dispute other than certain disputed
income-tax, sales-tax, service tax, customs duty, and excise duty dues,
in respect of which amounts involved and forum at which dispute is
pending have been indicated in Note 23 on Schedule 18 to the Accounts.
x) 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.
xi) According to the records of the Company examined by us and the
information and explanations 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, for loans taken by others from banks or financial institutions
during the year, 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 other than Rs. 8,90,000
thousand being part of a term loan, disbursed towards the year end and
was pending utilisation.
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) The Company has neither issued during the year any secured
debentures nor has any outstanding debentures at the year end.
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, 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, 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
and taken on record by the Board of Directors, 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 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 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)
Kolkata Partner
11th May, 2011 Membership No. 51790
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