1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of VST Industries
Limited (the Company), as at 31st March, 2011, the related Profit and
Loss Account and the 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 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 give in the Annexure a
statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order.
4. Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to 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 31st March, 2011, 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.
ANNEXURE TO THE AUDITORS REPORT
[Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors Report of even date to the
Members of VST Industries Limited on the financial statements as at and
for the year ended 31st March, 2011.]
1. (a) The Company is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars including quantitative details and situation of fixed
assets.
(b) The fixed assets of the Company 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 of the Company
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
off by the Company during the year.
2. (a) The inventory of the Company has been physically verified by
the management during the year. 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. The
discrepancies noticed on physical verification of inventory as compared
to book records were not material.
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.
4. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, having regard to the explanation that certain items of
fixed assets purchased are of special nature for which suitable
alternative sources do not exist for obtaining comparative quotations,
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. 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.
5. According to the information and explanations given to us, there
have been no contracts or arrangements referred to in Section 301 of
the Act, during the year to be entered in the register required to be
maintained under that section. Accordingly, commenting on transactions
made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements does not arise.
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 and 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.
7. In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with the size and nature of its business.
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.
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
is 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, which have not been deposited on account of a dispute
(without considering cases wherein the disputed dues have been
deposited under protest) are as follows:
Name of the Nature of dues Amount period to which
Statue Rs. in Lakhs amount relates
The Central
Excise Excise duty on
Act, 1944 Printed 129.14 April 1996 to
Gay Wrappers March 2002
177.61 April 2002
September 2010
Service tax credit 2.48 February 2008
ineligibility July 2008
3.01 April 2008
Excise Duty 1.31 April 2005
March 2010
1029.54 January 2005
November 2009
Andhra
Pradesh Sales tax dues 14.39 1999-2000
General relating to
Sales dispute on
Tax Act,
1957
Income
Tax Act, Income tax 344.05 1998-1999
Court relating to
1961 disallowance of
claims
Name of the statue Forum where the dispute is pending
The Central Excise Honble Supreme Court of India
Act, 1944
Same grounds as the above
matter pending at Honble
Supreme Court of India
Tribunal
Tribunal
Commissioner (Appeal)
Order received on April 06,
2011 - Appeal yet to be filed
Andhra Pradesh Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal
General Sales
Tax Act, 1957
Income Tax Act, Honble High Court
1961 of Andhra Pradesh
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.
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. The Company
has not issued any debentures during the year.
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.
13. The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit
fund/nidhi/mutual benefit fund/societies are not applicable to the
Company.
14. In our opinion, the Company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments.
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.
16. The Company has not obtained any term loans.
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.
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.
19. The Company has not issued any debentures during the year.
20. The Company has not raised any money by public issues during the
year.
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.
For LOVELOCK & LEWES
Firms Registration Number: 301056E
Chartered Accountants
N. K. VARADARAJAN
Partner
Membership No. 90196
Hyderabad, 13th April, 2011.
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