1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of ASSOCIATED CERAMICS
LIMITED as at March 31,2005, Profit & Loss Account and also the Cash
Row Statement of the Company 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 have 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 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:
0) 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 have been physically verified by the
management during the year and no material discrepancies between the
book records and the physical inventory have been noticed. In our
opinion, the frequency of verification is reasonable.
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 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 and the same has been properly dealt
with in the books of account.
(iii) a) The company has taken unsecured loans from two companies
covered in the register maintained under Section 301 of the Companies
Act, 1956. As per arrangement with those companies the amount has been
drawn as per requirement.The maximum amount drawn during the year was
Rs. 69.15 Lacs and the year end balance was Rs. 3.76 Lacs. The company
has granted loans to two companies covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956.The maximum amount
outstanding during the year was Rs. 1.89 Lacs and year end Balance was
Nil.
b) In our opinion and according to information and explanations given
to us the rate of interest and other terms and conditions on which said
loans have been taken or granted are prima facie not prejudicial to the
interest of the company.
c) The Company has repaid the principal amount as stipulated and has
been regular in the payment of interest for the loan taken by it. In
case of loan granted by the company neither principal amount or
interest is due as per terms of the loan.
d) There are no overdue amounts of principal and interest in respect of
the said loans,
(iv) In our opinion, there are adequate internal control procedures
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 not have been
informed of any major weaknesses in the aforesaid internal control
procedures.
(v) a) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the transactions that need to be entered into the register
in pursuance to Section 301 of the Act, have been so entered.
b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there are no transactions made pursuance of contracts or
arrangements entered into the register in pursuance of Section 301 of
the Act exceeding the value of Rupees Five Lacs in respect of any party
during the year.
(vi) The company has not accepted any deposits from the public within
the meaning of Sections 58A and 54AA of the Act and the rules framed
thereunder,
(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 examination by us, in our opinion, the
company is generally regular in depositing the undisputed statutory
dues including provident fund, investor education and protection fund,
employees state insurance, income-tax, sales tax, wealth tax, customs
duty, cess and other material statutory dues, as applicable, with the
appropriate authorities and no undisputed amount payable in respect of
the aforesaid dues were outstanding as at 31 st March, 2005 for a
period of more than six month.
b) According to the information and explanations given to us and the
records of the company examined by us, there are no dues of Sales Tax,
Ihcome Tax, Customs Duty, Wealth Tax, Excise Duty and Cess which have
not been deposited on account of any dispute (without considering cases
wherein the disputed dues have been paid under protest and net of
demands raised which have been adjusted by the appropriate authorities
against the fund of some other year(s) due to the company).
(x) The company has no accumulated losses as at March 31,2005 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 institutions 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 statutes 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 in shares, securities,
debentures and other instruments.
(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 taken any term loans during the year.
(xvii) On the basis of an overall examination of the Balance Sheet of
the company, in our opinion and according to the information and
explanation given to us, there are no funds raised on a short term
basis which have been used for long term and vice-versa,
(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 not raised any money by public issue during the
year.
(xx) During the course of our examination of the books and records of
the company, carried out in accordance with the generally accept
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, notice 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 purpose 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 and Profit and Loss Account and Cash Row Statement
dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account;
d) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss and Cash Row
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 March 31,2005 and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none
of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2005 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, 2005;
(ii) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the year
ended on that date. (iii) in the case of the Cash Row Statement of the
Cash Flows for the year ended on that date.
For A. PANDEY & ASSOCIATES
Chartered Accountants
Sd/-
Date : 25.07.2005 ICAI Membership No. 52873 |