Terms/ rights attached to equity shares
Equity shares have a par value of INR 10 per share. Each holder of equity shares is entitled to one vote per share. The company declares and pays dividends in Indian rupees. The dividend proposed by the Board of Directors is subject to the approval of the shareholders in the ensuing Annual General Meeting. In the event of liquidation of the company, the holders of equity shares will be entitled to receive remaining assets of the company, after distribution of all preferential amounts.
c. In respect of the year ended 31st March, 2019, the Board of Directors has proposed a dividend of Rs.1.50 (15 percent) per Equity Share, subject to approval by the shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting after which dividend would be accounted and paid out of the retained earnings available for distribution in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
Nature of reserves:
a) Capital Reserve : Capital reserve represents incentives given by the FFIs for onetime settlement of the foreign currency loan.
b) Securities Premium : Securities premium represents premium received on issue of shares. The reserve is utilised in accordance with the provisions of Companies Act, 2013.
c) General Reserve : The general reserve is created by way of transfer of part of the profits before declaring dividend pursuant to the provisions of Companies Act, 1956. Mandatory transfer to general reserve is not required under the Companies Act, 2013.
d) Retained Earnings : Retained earnings generally represents the undistributed profit amount of accumulated earnings of the company.
e) Other Comprehensive Income:
Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) represents the balance in equity for items to be accounted under OCI and comprises of: items that will not be reclassified to profit and loss
i. The Company has made an irrevocable election to present the subsequent fair value changes of investments in OCI. This reserve represents the cumulative gains and losses arising on the revaluation of equity instruments measured at fair value including tax effects. The company transfers restated fair value amounts from this reserve to retained earnings when the relevant financial instruments are disposed.
ii. The actuarial gains and losses along with tax effects arising on defined benefit obligations are recognised in OCI.
Effective April 1, 2018, the Company has applied Ind AS 115 which establishes a comprehensive framework for determining whether, how much and when revenue is to be recognized. Ind AS 115 replaces Ind AS 18 Revenue and Ind AS 11 Construction Contracts. The Company has adopted Ind AS 115 using the cumulative effect method. The impact of the adoption of the standard on the financial statements of the Company is insignificant. However, various disclosures prescribed under Ind As 115 are given below:
Defined Benefit Plans:
A. The company provides for gratuity to the employees as per Payment of Gratuity Act,1972. Employees who are in continuous service for a period of 5 years are eligible for gratuity. The amount of gratuity is payable on retirement/resignation. The gartuity plan is a funded plan and the company makes contributions to recognised funds in India.
The Company has a policy on compensated absences which are both accumulating and non-accumulating in nature. The expected cost of accumulating compensated absences is determined by actuarial valuation performed by an independent actuary at each balance sheet date using “Projected Unit Credit Method’’ on the additional amount expected to be paid/availed as a result of the unused entitlement that has accumulated at the balance sheet date. Expense on non-accumulating compensated absences is recognized in the period in which the absences occur.
B. The employees’ gratuity fund scheme managed by a Trust is a defined benefit plan. The present value of obligation is determined based on actuarial valuation using the “Projected Unit Credit Method” which recognizes each period of service as giving rise to additional unit of employee benefit entitlement and measures each unit separately to build up the final obligation. The obligation for compensated absences is recognized in the same manner as gratuity.
The unused tax credits represents the MAT credit entitlements and the same can be carried forward upto 15th assessment year, immediately succeeding the assessment years in which such tax credit becomes allowable.
The Company’s future profitability depends on the external factors like international supply and demand for its products, crude prices, exchange fluctuations, dumping from sources other than that covered by Anti dumping duty. The company has made profits during the current financial year as the aforesaid factors are favourable to the company.
Provision for decommissioning liability:
Decommissioning Liability: This provision has been created for estimated costs of dismantling and removing the item and restoring the site in respect of leased premises on which the plant is super structured. The lease agreement is for a period of 30 years which is valid upto 26th June, 2019. The company has initiated the process to extend the same for a further period of 30 years, i.e., upto 26th June, 2049.
Note 1.1: Segment information
The Company operates only in one business segment being the manufacture of Oxo-Alcohols and there are no geographical segments to be reported.
Note 1.2: As per Indian Accounting Standard 24 “Related parties disclosure” the disclosure of Related parties as defined in the Standard are given hereunder:
* The weighted average number of shares takes into account the weighted average effect of changes in treasury share transactions during the year. There have been no other transactions involving Equity Shares or potential Equity Shares between the reporting date and the date of authorisation of these financial statements.
Note 1.3: Operating Lease
The Company’s plant is super structured on leased premises. The term of the lease arrangement is 30 years which is valid upto 26th June, 2019. The leases have escalation clauses of (annual rentals fixed by the Port Trust Board on the valuation made by the District Revenue Authorities on quinqennium basis) and renewal rights. The Company has initiated the process to renew the lease agreement for a further period of 30 years and the terms of the leases are under negotiation.
Note 1.4: Impairment of Assets
According to an internal technical assessment carried out by the Company, there is no impairment in the carrying cost of cash generating units of the Company in terms of Indian Accounting Standard 36 ‘Impairment of Assets’
Note: Previous year’s figures have been regrouped and rearranged wherever necessary to make them comparable with the current year figures.
a) Credit risk:
i) Credit risk is the risk that counterparty will not meet its obligations under a financial instrument or customer contract, leading to a financial loss. The Company is exposed to credit risk from its operating activities (primarily trade receivables), from cash and cash equivalents, deposits with banks. The management has a credit policy in place and the exposure to credit risk is monitored on an ongoing basis
ii) Financial assets that are neither past due nor impaired
Cash and cash equivalents, deposits with banks, security deposits, investments in securities & mutual funds are neither past due nor impaired. Cash and cash equivalents, deposits are held with banks which are reputed and credit worthy banking institutions. Hence the expected credit loss is negligible. Investments in securities & mutual funds are actively traded in the stock markets and there is no collateral held against these because the counterparties are entities with high credit ratings assigned by the various credit rating agencies. Hence the expected credit loss is negligible.
iii) Financial assets that are past due but not impaired
Credit risk arising from trade receivables is managed in accordance with the Company’s established policy, procedures and control relating to customer credit risk management. The average credit period on sales of products is less than 45 days. All trade receivables are reviewed and assessed for default on a quarterly basis. For trade receivables, as a practical expedient, the Company computes credit loss allowance based on a provision matrix. The provision matrix is prepared based on historically observed default rates over the expected life of trade receivables and is adjusted for forward-looking estimates. The provision matrix at the end of the reporting period is as follows:
b) Liquidity risk:
i) Liquidity risk is defined as the risk that the Company will not be able to settle or meet its obligations on time or at a reasonable price. The Company’s objective is to maintain optimum level of liquidity to meet it’s cash and collateral requirements at all times. Prudent liquidity risk management implies maintaining sufficient cash and marketable securities and the availability of funding through an adequate amount of committed credit line to meet obligations. Due to the dynamic nature of underlying bussiness, company maintains flexibility in funding by maintaining availability under committed credit lines.
ii) Maturities of financial liabilities
The table below analyse the company’s financial liabilities into relevant maturity groupings based on their contractual maturities for all non-derivative financial liabilities:
2.1 Capital management
The company’s objectives when managing capital is to safeguard their ability to continue as a going concern, maintain a strong credit rating and healthy capital ratios in order to support its business and provide adequate return to shareholders through continuing growth and maximise the shareholders value. The company sets the amount of capital required on the basis of annual business and long term operating plans which include capital and other strategic investments. The funding requirements are met through a mixture of equity, internal fund generation and borrowed funds. The company tries to maintain an optimal capital structure to reduce cost of capital and monitors capital on the basis of debt-equity ratio.
Note. 3. Significant accounting estimates and assumptions
The key assumptions concerning the future and other key sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date, that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next financial year, are described below. The company based its assumptions and estimates on parameters available when the financial statements were prepared. Existing circumstances and assumptions about future developments, however, may change due to market changes or circumstances arising that are beyond the control of the company. Such changes are reflected in the assumptions when they occur.
4.1 Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, plant and equipment represent a significant proportion of the asset base of the Company. The charge in respect of periodic depreciation is derived after determining an estimate of an asset’s expected useful life and the expected residual value at the end of its life. The useful lives and residual values of company’s assets are determined by management at the time the asset is acquired and reviewed periodically, including at each financial year end. The lives are based on historical experience with similar assets as well as anticipation of future events, which may impact their life, such as changes in technology.
4.2 Impairment of non-financial assets
Impairment exists when the carrying value of an asset or cash generating unit exceeds its recoverable amount, which is the higher of its fair value less costs of disposal and its value in use. The fair value less costs of disposal calculation is based on available data from binding sales transactions, conducted at arm’s length, for similar assets or observable market prices less incremental costs for disposing of the asset. The value in use calculation is based on a DCF model. The cash flows are derived from the budget for the next five years and do not include restructuring activities that the company is not yet committed to or significant future investments that will enhance the asset’s performance of the CGU being tested. The recoverable amount is sensitive to the discount rate used for the DCF model as well as the expected future cash-inflows and the growth rate used for extrapolation purposes.
4.3 Impairment of Financial assets
The impairment provisions for financial assets are based on assumptions about risk of default and expected loss rates. The company uses judgement in making these assumptions and selecting the inputs to the impairment calculation based on the company’s past history, existing market conditions as well as forward looking estimates at the end of each reporting period.
4.4 Operating Lease
The Company has taken on lease a commercial property for its business operations and the lease rentals for the property are subject to escalations during the tenure of lease. However, as these escalations were in the nature of general inflation to compensate for the lessor’s expected inflationary cost increase, the company is directly charging the lease payments to the statement of profit and loss instead of following straight line method of charging lease payments.
4.5 Taxes
Deferred tax assets are recognised for unused tax losses to the extent that it is probable that taxable profit will be available against which the losses can be utilised. Significant management judgement is required to determine the amount of deferred tax assets that can be recognised, based upon the likely timing and the level of future taxable profits together with future tax planning strategies.
4.6 Employee benefits (gratuity and compensated absences)
The cost of the defined benefit plans and the present value of the gratuity/compensated absences obligation are determined using actuarial valuations. An actuarial valuation involves making various assumptions that may differ from actual developments in the future. These include the determination of the discount rate, future salary increases and mortality rates. Due to the complexities involved in the valuation and its long-term nature, a defined benefit obligation is highly sensitive to changes in these assumptions. All assumptions are reviewed at each reporting date.
The parameter most subject to change is the discount rate. In determining the appropriate discount rate for plans operated in India, the management considers the interest rates of government bonds. The mortality rate is based on publicly available mortality tables for the specific countries. Those mortality tables tend to change only at interval in response to demographic changes. Future salary increases and gratuity increases are based on expected future inflation rates.
4.7 Fair value measurement of financial instruments
When the fair values of financial assets and financial liabilities recorded in the balance sheet cannot be measured based on quoted prices in active markets, their fair value is measured using valuation techniques including the DCF model. The inputs to these models are taken from observable markets where possible, but where this is not feasible, a degree of judgement is required in establishing fair values. Judgements include considerations of inputs such as liquidity risk, credit risk and volatility. Changes in assumptions about these factors could affect the reported fair value of financial instruments.
4.8 Provision for decommissioning
The company has recognised a provision for decommissioning obligations associated with the leased premises on which the plant is super structured. In determining the fair value of the provision, assumptions and estimates are made in relation to discount rates, the expected cost to dismantle and remove the plant from the site and the expected timing of those costs.
4.9 Contingencies
Management judgement is required for estimating the possible inflow/ outflow of resources, if any, in respect of contingencies/ claims/ litigations against the Company/ by the Company as it is not possible to predict the outcome of pending matters with accuracy.
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