1. Company Overview

Manaksia Steels Limited (“the Company”) is a public limited company incorporated in India having its registered office situated at 8/1, Lal Bazar Street, Bikaner Building, Kolkata - 700 001. The Company has its shares listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The Company is primarily engaged in the manufacture of value-added secondary steel products like Cold Rolled Sheets, Galvanised Corrugated Sheets, Galvanised Plain Sheets, Colour Coated (Pre-painted) Sheets, etc. The manufacturing units of the Company are located at Haldia & Bankura (West Bengal).

a) Terms/rights attached to each class of shares Equity Shares:

The Company has only one class of equity shares having a par value of Rs.1/-. Each holder of equity share 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 any of the remaining assets of the company, after distribution of all preferential amounts. The distribution will be in proportion to the number of equity shares held by the shareholders.

Notes :

The Company’s Working Capital facilities are secured by First Charge on the current assets of the Company ranking pari passu with the respective Working Capital Bankers.

The amount is further secured on second charge basis on fixed assets of the Company ranking pari passu with the respective Working Capital Bankers.

Notes :

Disclosure of payables to MSME vendors as defined under the “Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Act, 2006” is based on the information available with the Company regarding the status of registration of such vendors under the said Act, as per the intimation received from them on requests made by the Company.

There are no overdue principal amounts/interest payable amounts for delayed payments to such vendors at the Balance Sheet date. There are no delays in payment made to such suppliers during the year or for earlier years and accordingly there is no interest paid or outstanding interest in this regard in respect of payments made during the year or brought forward from previous years.

2. Employee Benefits

I) Defined Contribution Plan

Contribution to defined contribution plan, recognized are charged off during the year as follows :

II) Defined Benefit Plan

Gratuity is paid to employees under the Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 through unfunded scheme. The present value of obligation is determined based on actuarial valuation using 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.

f) Sensitivity Analysis

Significant actuarial assumptions for the determination of the defined benefit obligation are discount rate, expected salary increase and mortality. The sensitivity analysis below have determined based on reasonably possible changes of the assumptions occuring at the end of the reporting period, while holding all other assumptions constant. The result of sensitivity analysis is given below :

II) Fair Value Hierarchy

All Financial Assets & Financial Liabilites are carried at amortised cost except Current Investments and Foreign Currency Forward Contracts, which have been fair valued using Level 1 & Level 2 Hierarchy respectively.

Level 1 — Quoted (unadjusted) market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 — Valuation techniques for which the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement is directly or indirectly observable.

Level 3 — Valuation techniques for which the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement is unobservable.

The following table represents the fair value heierarchy of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilites measured at Fair Value on a recurring basis :

III) Financial Risk Management

In the course of its business, the Company is exposed primarily to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates, equity prices, liquidity and credit risk, which may adversely impact the fair value of its financial instruments. The Company’s focus is on foreseeing the unpredictability of financial markets and seek to minimize potential adverse effects on its financial performance.

a) Market Risk -

Market Risk Comprises of Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk, Interest Rate Risk & Equity Price Risk.

i) Exchange Rate Risk

The fluctuation in foreign currency exchange rates may have a potential impact on the Statement of Profit and Loss and Equity, where any transactions are denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of the Company.

The Company’s Exchange Rate Risk exposure is primarily due to Trade Payables, Trade Receivables and Borrowings in the form of Buyers’ Credit denominated in foreign currencies. The Company uses foreign exchange and forward contracts primarily to hedge foreign exchange exposure.

An appreciation/depreciation of the foreign currencies with respect to functional currency of the Company would result in an decrease/increase in the Company’s Net Profit before Tax by approximately Rs. 81.66 lacs for the year ended March 31, 2018 (March 31, 2017 : - Rs. 10.12 lacs)

ii) Interest Rate Risk

Interest rate risk is measured by using the cash flow sensitivity for changes in variable interest rates. The Company does not have any interest bearing liabilities having floating rate of interest. Hence, the Company does not have any material exposure to Interest Rate Risk.

iii) Equity Price Risk

Equity price risk is related to change in market reference price of investments in equity securities held by the Company. The fair value of quoted investments held by the Company exposes the Company to equity price risks. In general, these investments are held for trading purposes.

The fair value of quoted investments in equity, classified as Fair Value through Profit & Loss as at March 31, 2018, March 31, 2017 and April 1, 2016, was Rs. 623.80 lacs, ‘ Nil lacs and ‘ Nil lacs respectively.

A 10% change in equity prices of such securities held as at March 31, 2018, March 31, 2017 and April 1, 2016, would result in an impact of Rs. 62.38 lacs, ‘ Nil lacs and ‘ Nil lacs respectively on equity before tax impact.

b) Liquidity Risk -

Liquidity risk refers to the risk that the Company cannot meet its financial obligations. The objective of liquidity risk management is to maintain sufficient liquidity and ensure that funds are available for use as per requirements.

The Company has obtained fund and non-fund based working capital facilities from various banks. The Company invests its surplus funds in bank fixed deposit, equity instruments and mutual funds, which carry no or low market risk.

The following table shows a maturity analysis of the Company’s Financial Liabilities on the basis of undiscounted contractual payments :

c) Credit Risk -

Credit risk is the risk of financial loss arising from counter-party failure to repay or service debt according to the contractual terms or obligations. Credit risk encompasses both the direct risk of default and the risk of deterioration of creditworthiness. Financial instruments that are subject to credit risk principally consist of Trade Receivables, Loans Receivables, Investments, Cash and Cash Equivalents and Financial Guarantees provided by the Company. None of the financial instruments of the Company result in material concentration of credit risk.

The Company has a policy of dealing only with credit worthy counter parties as a means of mitigating the risk of financial loss from defaults. The Company manages risks through credit approvals, establishing credit limits and continuously monitoring the creditworthiness of customers to which the company grants credit terms in the normal course of business.

3. Capital Management

The Company’s capital management is intended to create value for shareholders by facilitating the meeting of long term and short term goals of the Company.

The Company determines the amount of capital required on the basis of annual business plan coupled with long term and short term strategic investment and expansion plans. The funding needs are met through cash generated from operations and short term bank borrowings.

The Company monitors the capital structure on the basis of net debt to equity ratio and maturity profile of the overall debt portfolio of the Company. Net debt includes interest bearing borrowings less cash and cash equivalents, other bank balances and current investments. The table below summarises the capital, net debt and net debt to equity ratio of the Company.

4. First Time Adoption of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS)

These Standalone Financial Statements of Company for the year ended March 31, 2018 have been prepared in accordance with Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS). For the purposes of transition to Ind AS, the Company has followed the guidance prescribed in Ind AS 101-First Time Adoption of Indian Accounting Standard, with April 1, 2016 as the transition date and IGAAP as the previous GAAP.

The transition to Ind AS has resulted in changes in the presentation of the financial statements, disclosures in the notes thereto and accounting policies and principles. The accounting policies set out in Note 2 have been applied in preparing the standalone financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2018 and the comparative information. Exemptions on first time adoption of Ind AS availed in accordance with Ind AS 101 have been set out in note 40.1 below. An explanation of how the transition from previous GAAP to Ind AS has affected the Company’s Balance Sheet, Statement of Profit and Loss, is set out in note 40.2 and 40.3.

4.1 Exemptions availed on First Time Adoption of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS)

Ind AS 101 “First time Adoption of Indian Accounting Standards” permits Companies adopting Ind AS for the first time to take certain exemptions from the full retrospective application of Ind AS during the transition. The Company has accordingly on transition to Ind AS availed the following key exemptions :

I. Business Combination

In accordance with Ind AS 101, the Company has elected not to restate business combinations that occurred before the date of transition i.e. 1st April 2016. In view of the same, the Indian GAAP carrying amounts of assets and liabilities, that are required to be recognized under Ind AS, is their deemed cost at the date of the acquisition. After the date of the acquisition, measurement is in accordance with respective Ind AS.

II. Property, Plant & Equipment

In accordance with Ind AS 101, the Company has elected to continue with the carrying values under previous GAAP as deemed cost at the transition date i.e. 1st April 2016 for all the items of property, plant and equipment.

Notes :

1. Under Ind AS, revenue from sales of goods is inclusive of excise duty and are net of sales tax, discounts and secondary trade promotions. Under previous GAAP, sales included sales tax but were shown net of excise duty.

2. Under Ind AS, Actuarial Gains/Losses on Gratuity and Deferred Tax effect thereon are routed through Other Comprehensive Income instead of profit or loss.

3. Under previous GAAP, the premium or discount on derivative instruments were expensed over the period of the contract. Under Ind AS, the net mark to market loss/gain on fair valuation of such instruments are recognised in profit or loss.

4.2 There were no significant reconciliation items between cash flows prepared under IGAAP and those prepared under Ind AS.

5. The Company has presented segment information in the consolidated financial statements which are presented in the same financial report. Accordingly, in terms of Paragraph 4 of Ind AS 108 ‘Operating Segments’, no disclosures related to segments are presented in this standalone financial statements.

6. Corresponding comparative figures for the previous year have been regrouped and readjusted wherever considered necessary to conform to the current year presentation.