1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Info Edge (India)
Limited, as at March 31, 2008, 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,
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 is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars including quantitative details and situation of its 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) The Company does not maintain any inventory, accordingly clauses
(ii)(a) to (ii)(c) of Para 4 of Companies (Auditors Report) Order,
2003, as amended by the Companies (Auditors Report)
(Amendment) Order, 2004, are not applicable to the Company for the
current year.
(iii) The Company has neither taken nor granted any loans, secured or
unsecured, to companies, firms or other parties covered in the register
maintained under Section 301 of the Act. Accordingly clauses (iii)(b),
(iii)(c), (iii)(d), (iii)(f) and (iii)(g) of Para 4 of Companies
(Auditors Report) Order, 2003, as amended by the Companies (Auditors
Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004, are not applicable to the Company for
the current year.
(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 fixed assets and for the sale of 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.
(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, having regard to the explanation that certain items
purchased are of special nature for which suitable alternative sources
do not exist for obtaining comparative market prices, 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.
(vi) The Company has not accepted any deposits from the public within
the meaning of Sections 58A and 58AA of the Act and the rules framed
there under.
(vii) In our opinion, the company has an internal audit system
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
(viii) 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.
(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
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, there are no dues of income-tax,
sales tax, wealth tax, service tax, customs duty, excise duty and cess
which have not been deposited on account of any dispute.
(x) The Company has no accumulated losses as at March 31, 2008 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 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.
(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 company has not given any guarantee for loans taken by
others from banks or financial institutions during the year.
(xvi) The Company has not obtained any term loans.
(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 any debentures during the year,
nor are there any debentures outstanding at the year end.
(xx) The management has disclosed the end use of money raised by public
issue (Refer Note 18 on Schedule 19) and the same has been verified by
us.
(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
material 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, 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
and taken on record by the Board of Directors at the meeting held on
April 30, 2008, none of the directors is disqualified 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 March 31, 2008;
(ii) in the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date.
(iii) in the case of the Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows for the
year ended on that date.
Kaushik Dutta
Membership No. F - 88540
Partner
For and on behalf of
Date : April 30, 2008 Price Waterhouse
Place: Gurgaon Chartered Accountants
