We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of
HATHWAY BHAWANI CABLETEL AND DATACOM LIMITED ("the Company"), which
comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2015, the Statement of
Profit and Loss, the Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended, and a
summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory
information.
Management's Responsibility for the Standalone Financial Statements
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated
in Section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect
to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a
true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance and
cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India, including the Accounting Standards
specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the
Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. This responsibility also includes
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and
for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection
and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments
and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design,
implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls,
that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and
completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and
presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view
and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Auditor's Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these standalone
financial statements based on our audit.
We have taken into account the provisions of the Act, the accounting
and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in
the audit report under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made
there under.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing
specified under Section 143(10) of the Act. Those Standards require
that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements
are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about
the amounts and the disclosures in the financial statements. The
procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the
assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial
statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk
assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant
to the Company's preparation of the financial statements that give a
true and fair view in order to design audit procedures that are
appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing
an opinion on whether the Company has in place an adequate internal
financial controls system over financial reporting and the operating
effectiveness of such controls. An audit also includes evaluating the
appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness
of the accounting estimates made by the Company's Directors, as well as
evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and
appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the standalone
financial statements.
Opinion
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone financial statements
give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and
give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as
at March 31, 2015, and its loss and its cash flows for the year ended
on that date.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2015 ("the
Order"), issued by the Central Government of India in terms of section
143(11) of the Act, we give in the Annexure a statement on the matters
specified in paragraph 3 and 4 of the said Order, to the extent
applicable.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and 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 it appears from our examination of
those books;
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash
Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the
books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements
comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the
Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014;
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the
directors as on March 31, 2015 and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2015
from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the
Act; and
(f) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's
Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors)
Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and
according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigation on its
financial position in its financial statements Refer Note no. 4.04 to
the Financial Statements;
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including
derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable
losses; and
iii. There were no amounts, which were required to be transferred to
the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
ANNEXURE TO THE AUDITOR'S REPORT
(Referred to in Paragraph 1 under "Other Legal and Regulatory
Requirements" of our report of even date)
i. (a) The Company has maintained records of fixed assets, other than
distribution equipments, showing particulars of assets including
quantitative details and location except the following:
- Location-wise particulars of some of the Distribution Equipments like
cabling and other line equipments. As explained to us, nature of such
assets is such that maintaining location-wise particulars is
impractical; and
- Location-wise particulars of Access Devices with the subscribers;
(b) According to the information and explanations given to us, fixed
assets, other than distribution equipments including Cable TV /
Internet Access Devices with the subscribers, were physically verified
during the year as per the programme of verification which, in our
opinion, is reasonable. Material discrepancies arising on such physical
verification have been properly dealt within the books of accounts.
However, in absence of physical verification for distribution
equipments and access devices, discrepancies have not been ascertained
and not dealt within the books of accounts;
ii. (a) The inventories have been physically verified by the
management during the year;
(b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanation
given to us, the frequency of verification and procedures of physical
verification followed by the management are reasonable and adequate in
relation to the size of the Company and the nature of its business;
(c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanation
given to us, the Company is maintaining proper records of such
inventory. We have been informed that discrepancies observed on
physical verification between the stocks and the book records were not
material;
iii. The Company has not granted any interest free unsecured loan to a
company covered in the register maintained under section 189 of the
Act. Accordingly, the sub-clauses (a) to (b) of the clause 3 (iii) of
the Order are not applicable ;
iv. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there exists an adequate internal control system with
regards to purchases of the inventory and fixed assets and sale of
goods and services. The management is in process of further
strengthening the internal controls over documentation in certain areas
so as to make it commensurate with the size of the Company and the
nature of its business. During the course of our audit, we have not
observed any other area of continuing failure to correct major weakness
in internal controls;
v. In our opinion and according to the information and explanation
given to us, the Company has not accepted deposits from the public and
therefore, the provisions contained in sections 73 to 76 or any other
relevant provisions of the Act and Rules framed there under are not
applicable to the Company. We have been informed that no order has been
passed by Company Law Board or National Company Law Tribunal or Reserve
Bank of India or any Court or any other Tribunal;
vi. The Central Government has prescribed maintenance of cost records
under section 148(1) of the Act in respect of certain service
activities of the Company. We have broadly reviewed the accounts and
records of the Company in this connection 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
same;
vii. (a) Based on the records produced before us, the Company has been
generally regular in depositing with appropriate authorities undisputed
statutory dues such as provident fund, employees state insurance,
income-tax, sales-tax, wealth tax, service tax, value added tax, cess
and other statutory dues applicable to it. According to the information
and explanations given to us, no undisputed amount payable in respect
of outstanding statutory dues were in arrears as at March 31, 2015 for
a period of more than six months from the date they became payable;
(b) According to the information and explanation given to us, there are
no outstanding disputed dues payable by the Company in case of income
tax, wealth tax, sales tax, duty of customs, service tax, duty of
excise, value added tax and cess as on March 31, 2015;
(c) According to the information and explanation given to us, no
amounts were required to be transferred to investor education and
protection fund in accordance with the relevant provisions of the
Companies Act, 1956 and rules made there under. Therefore, the
provisions of sub-clause (c) of the clause 3(vii) of the Order relating
to transfer of amount to investor education and protection fund are not
applicable;
viii. The Company's accumulated losses as at the end of financial year
are more than fifty percent of its net worth and it has not incurred
cash losses in the financial year ended on March 31, 2015 and in the
immediately preceding financial year;
ix. Based on our audit procedure and according to the information and
explanation given to us, we are of the opinion that the Company has not
defaulted in repayment of dues to the financial institutions and banks;
x. 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;
xi. Based on information and explanation given to us and based on
overall review of the funds utilization, we are of the view that the
Company has generally utilized funds for which they were obtained; and
xii. Based upon the audit procedures performed and the information and
explanations given by the management, we report that no fraud on or by
the Company has been noticed or reported during the course of our
audit.
FOR G. M. KAPADIA & CO.
Chartered Accountants
Firm Registration No. 104767W
ATUL SHAH
Partner
Membership No. 39569
Mumbai
Dated: May 25, 2015
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