orderly and efficient conduct of its business, including adherence
to the respective company’s policies, the safeguarding of its assets,
the prevention and detection of frauds and errors, the accuracy and
completeness of the accounting records, and the timely preparation
of reliable financial information, as required under the Companies
Act, 2013.
Auditor’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Group’s internal
financial controls over financial reporting based on our audit. We
conducted our audit in accordance with the Guidance Note on
Audit of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting (the
“Guidance Note”) issued by the ICAI and the Standards on Auditing,
issued by ICAI and deemed to be prescribed under section 143(10)
of the Companies Act, 2013, to the extent applicable to an audit of
internal financial controls, both issued by the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India. Those Standards and the Guidance Note
require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
adequate internal financial controls over financial reporting was
established and maintained and if such controls operated effectively
in all material respects.
Our audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence
about the adequacy of the internal financial controls system over
financial reporting and their operating effectiveness.
Our audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting
included obtaining an understanding of internal financial controls
over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness
exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating
effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. 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. We believe that the audit
evidence we have obtained and the audit evidence obtained by
the other auditors in terms of their reports referred to in the Other
Matters paragraph below, is sufficient and appropriate to provide
a basis for our audit opinion on the Company’s internal financial
controls system over financial reporting.
Meaning of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal financial control over financial reporting is a
process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial
statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal financial control
over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that
(1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail,
accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of
the assets of the company;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and
that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made
only in accordance with authorisations of management and
directors of the company;
(3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely
detection of unauthorised acquisition, use, or disposition of
the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the
financial statements.
Inherent Limitations of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial
Reporting
Because of the inherent limitations of internal financial controls over
financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper
management override of controls, material misstatements due to
error or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also, projections
of any evaluation of the internal financial controls over financial
reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the internal
financial control over financial reporting may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance
with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Opinion
In our opinion, the Holding Company and its subsidiary companies
which are companies incorporated in India, have, in all material
respects, an adequate internal financial controls system over
financial reporting and such internal financial controls over financial
reporting were operating effectively as at March 31, 2016, based
on the internal control over financial reporting criteria established
by the Company considering the essential components of internal
control stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial
Controls Over Financial Reporting issued by the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India.
Other Matters
Our aforesaid reports under Section 143(3)(i) of the Act on the
adequacy and operating effectiveness of the internal financial
controls over financial reporting insofar as it relates to six subsidiary
companies, which are companies incorporated in India, is based
on the corresponding reports of the auditors of such companies
incorporated in India.
For
O. P. Bagla & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Firm Regn No. 000018N
(Atul Bagla)
Place : New Delhi
Partner
Dated : 28th April, 2016
Membership No. 91885
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