Q. Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets
Provisions are recognised when the Company has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event, it is probable that the Company will be required to settle the obligation, and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.
The amount recognised as a provision is the best estimate of the consideration required to settle the present obligation at the end of the reporting period, taking into account the risks and uncertainties
surrounding the obligation. When a provision is measured using the cash flows estimated to settle the present obligation, its carrying amount is the present value of those cash flows (when the effect of the time value of money is material).
When some or all of the economic benefits required to settle a provision are expected to be recovered from a third party, a receivable is recognised as an asset if it is virtually certain that reimbursement will be received and the amount of the receivable can be measured reliably.
A disclosure for a contingent liability is made when there is a possible obligation or a present obligation that may, but probably will not require an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits or the amount of such obligation cannot be measured reliably. When there is a possible obligation or a present obligation in respect of which likelihood of outflow of resources embodying economic benefits is remote, no provision or disclosure is made.
R. Cash flow statements and Cash and cash equivalents
Cash flows are reported using the indirect method, whereby profit/ (loss) before tax is adjusted for the
effects of transactions of non-cash nature and any deferrals or accruals of past or future cash receipts or payments. The cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities of the Company are segregated based on the available information.
For the purpose of presentation in the cash flow statement, cash and cash equivalents includes cash on hand, deposits held at call with financial institutions, other short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and which are subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value.
S. Standards (including amendments) issued but not yet effective:
Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) notifies new standards or amendments to the existing standards under Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules as issued from time to time. For the year ended March 31, 2025, MCA has not notified any new standards or amendments to the existing standards applicable to the Company.
(i) The average credit period on sale is 20 days. No interest is charged on trade receivables for the first 30 days from the date of the invoice. Thereafter, interest is charged at 18% per annum on the outstanding balance.
(ii) Before accepting any new customer, the Company has a credit evaluating system to assess the potential customer's credit quality and defines credit limits by customer. Limits and scoring attributed to customers are reviewed twice a year. Of the trade receivables balance, C2,104.44 Lakhs (as at March 31, 2024: C2,185.95 Lakhs) is due from customers who represent more than 5% of the total balance of trade receivables.
(iii) The Company maintains an allowance of credit impaired accounts based on financial condition of the customer, ageing of customer receivable and overdue, available collaterals and historical experience of collections from customers. Accordingly, the Company creates provision towards credit impaired trade receivables after recovering the underlying collaterals. Besides, the Company has used a practical expedient by computing the expected credit loss allowance for trade receivables based on a historical loss rate method. The historical loss rate takes into account historical credit loss experience and adjusted for forward-looking information. The expected credit loss allowance is based on the average loss rate of the collections against the receivables.
14.3 Rights, preferences and restrictions attached to the equity shares
The Company has only one class of issued, subscribed and fully paid up equity shares having a face value of C2 each per share. Each holder of equity shares is entitled to one vote per share. The dividend (other than interim dividend) proposed, if any, 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. The distribution will be in proportion to number of equity shares held by the shareholders.
(i) Term loan from IDBI bank of C8,922.23 Lakhs (31 March 2024: C5,236.94 Lakhs) is secured by way of first pari passu charge by way of hypothecation on specific moveable plant & machinery procured out of the term loan and is repayable in 20 equal quarterly instalments starting from 01 August 2024 to 01 May 2029.
(ii) Term loan from IDBI bank of C3,501.49 Lakhs (31 March 2024: Nil) is secured by way of first pari passu charge by way of hypothecation on specific moveable plant & machinery procured out of the term loan and is repayable in 18 equal quarterly instalments starting from 01 February 2025 to 01 May 2029.
(iii) Term loan from IDBI bank of C412.34 Lakhs (31 March 2024: Nil) is secured by way of first pari passu charge by way of hypothecation on specific moveable plant & machinery procured out of the term loan and is repayable in 17 equal quarterly instalments starting from 01 February 2025 to 01 May 2029.
(iv) Term loan from State Bank of India of C4,456.75 Lakhs (31 March 2024: Nil) is secured by way of first pari passu charge by way of hypothecation on specific moveable plant & machinery procured out of the term loan and is repayable in 20 equal quarterly instalments starting from 25 July 2024 to 25 April 2029.
(v) Term loan from Standard Chartered Bank of C2,150.00 Lakhs (31 March 2024: Nil) is secured by way of exclusive charge by way of hypothecation on existing and future moveable Fixed Assets relating to Tissue Paper Project and is repayable in 14 equal quarterly instalments starting from 29 June 2026 to 27 September 2029.
C. Other Commitments:
The Company has applied for benefits under Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) scheme to import capital goods by availing customs duty exemption as per terms of Notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No: 16/2015 dated 01.04.2015 under which it has an export obligation of six times the duty saved on import of capital goods on Free on Board (FOB) basis within a period of six years. In the event of failure of the export obligation as specified in the said notification and license, the Company is liable to pay duties of customs proportionate to duty saved amount on total unfulfilled Export Obligation and also interest @ 15% PA. The management believes that it will be able to comply with aforesaid regulations and hence no adjustments have been made to the financial statements.
33. Employee Benefits
A. Defined contribution plans:
Provident fund:
The Company contributed C126.33 Lakhs (Previous year: C265.88 Lakhs) to the Provident Fund Trust maintained by the Company and C610.88 Lakhs (Previous year: C469.14 lakh) to Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, which was recognised as an expense in Statement of Profit and Loss during the year.
Superannuation:
The Company recognized C11.82 Lakhs (Previous year: C12.78 Lakhs) as an expense towards contribution as superannuation in the Statement of Profit and Loss during the year.
Employee State Insurance:
The Company recognized C16.32 Lakhs (Previous year: C18.51 Lakhs) as an expense towards Employee State Insurance in the Statement of Profit and Loss during the year.
The sensitivity analysis presented above may not be representative of the actual change in the defined benefit obligation as it is unlikely that the change in assumptions would occur in isolation of one another as some of the assumptions may be correlated.
Furthermore, in presenting the above sensitivity analysis, the present value of the defined benefit obligation has been calculated using the projected unit credit method at the end of the reporting period, which is the same as that applied in calculating the defined benefit obligation liability recognised in the balance sheet.
42. Calculation of fair values
The fair values of the financial assets and liabilities are defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Methods and assumptions used to estimate the fair values are consistent with those used for the year ended March 31, 2024, except unquoted equity investment.
Financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value as at Balance Sheet date. The fair values of investments in unquoted equity investments has been estimated using a NAV method under cost approach.
43. Fair value hierarchy:
The fair value of financial instruments as referred to in Note 42 above have been classified into three categories depending on the inputs used in the valuation technique. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets for identified assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements).
The categories used are as follows:
Level 1 — Quoted prices for identified instruments in an active market.
Level 2 — Directly or indirectly observable market inputs, other than Level 1 inputs; and Level 3 — Inputs which are not based on observable market data.
This note provides information about how the Company determines fair values of various financial assets and financial liabilities.
Fair value of the Company's financial assets and financial liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis.
Some of the Company's financial assets and financial liabilities are measured at the fair value at the end of each reporting period.
Notes:
i. These investments in equity instruments are not held for trading. Instead, they are held for long term strategic purpose. Upon the application of Ind AS 109, the Company has chosen to designate these investments in equity instruments as at FVTOCI irrevocably as the Management believes that this provides a more meaningful presentation for long term strategic investments, than reflecting changes in fair value immediately in profit or loss.
44. Financial Risk Management and Capital Management
The Company's business activities are exposed to a variety of financials risks, namely Interest rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and foreign currency risk. The Company's senior management has the overall responsibility for establishing and governing the Company's risk management framework. The Company's risk management policies are established to identify and analyze the risks faced by the Company, periodically review the changes in market conditions and reflect the changes in the policy accordingly. The key risks and mitigating actions are overseen by the Board of Directors of the Company.
A. Interest rate risk
The Company is exposed to interest rate risk because Company borrow funds at both fixed and floating interest rates. The risk is managed by the Company by maintaining an appropriate mix between fixed and floating rate borrowings.
44. Financial Risk Management and Capital Management (Cont'd)
The sensitivity analysis below have been determined based on the exposure to interest rates for the non-derivative instruments at the end of the reporting period. For floating rate liabilities, the analysis is prepared assuming the amount of the liability outstanding at the end of the reporting period was outstanding for the whole year. A 50-basis point increase or decrease is used when reporting interest rate risk internally to key management personnel and represents management's assessment of the reasonably possible change in interest rates.
If interest rates had been 50 basis points higher/lower and all other variables were held constant, the Company's:
Profit for the year ended March 31, 2025 would decrease/increase by C101.46 Lakhs (for the year ended March 31, 2024: decrease/increase by C26.18 Lakhs). This is mainly attributable to the Company's exposure to interest rates on its variable rate borrowings.
B. Credit risk management
Credit risk refers to the risk that a counterparty will default on its contractual obligations resulting in financial loss to the Company. The Company is exposed to credit risk from its operating activities (primarily trade receivables) and from its financing activities, including deposits with banks and financial institutions, foreign exchange transactions and other financial instruments.
Customer credit risk is managed by the Company's established policy, procedures and control relating to the customer credit risk management. The Company uses financial information and past experience to evaluate credit quality of majority of its customers and individual credit limits are defined in accordance with this assessment. Outstanding receivables and the credit worthiness of its counterparties are periodically monitored and taken up on case to case basis. Considering the historical experience of collecting trade receivables, the Company evaluates the concentration of risk with respective trade receivables as low.
The credit risk on cash and bank balances and deposits with financial institutions is limited because the counterparties are banks with high credit ratings assigned by international credit rating agencies.
C. Liquidity risk management
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they become due. The Company manages its liquidity risk by ensuring, as far as possible, that it will always have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when due. Also, the Company has un-utilised credit limits with banks. The Company maintained a cautious liquidity strategy, with a positive cash balance throughout the year ended March 31,2025 and March 31,2024. Cash flow from operating activities provides the funds to service the financial liabilities on a day to day basis.
The Company regularly maintains the rolling forecasts to ensure it has sufficient cash on an on-going basis to meet operational needs. Any short-term surplus cash generated, over and above the amount required for working capital management and other operational requirements, is retained as cash and cash equivalents (to the extent required) and any excess is invested in interest-bearing short-term deposits with appropriate maturities to optimise the cash returns on investments while ensuring sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities.
The table below provides details regarding the contractual maturities of significant financial liabilities as of March 31, 2025 and March 31,2024:
*Other financial liabilities include deposits received from customers amounting to C2,766.48 Lakhs (March 31,2024: C3,086.66 Lakhs). These deposits do not have a contractual re-payment term but are repayable on demand. Since, the Company does not have an unconditional right to defer the payment, these deposits have been classified as current balances. For including these amounts in the above mentioned maturity analysis, the Company has assumed that these deposits, including interest thereon, will be repayable at the end of the reporting period. The actual maturity period for the deposit amount can differ based on the date on which these deposits are settled to customers.
D. Financing facilities
The Company has access to financing facilities (Fund and non-fund based) of which C8,237.12 Lakhs (March 31, 2024: C11,077.00 Lakhs) were unused at the end of the reporting period. The Company expects to meet its other obligations from operating cash flows and proceeds of maturing financial assets.
E. Foreign currency risk management
The Company undertakes transactions denominated in foreign currencies; consequently, exposures to exchange rate fluctuations arise.
The carrying amounts of the Company's foreign currency denominated monetary assets and monetary liabilities at the end of the reporting period are as follows:
Foreign currency sensitivity analysis
Considering the countries and economic environment in which the Company operates, its operations are subject to risks arising from fluctuations in exchange rates in those countries. The risks primarily relate to fluctuations in US Dollar, Great Britain Pound and Euro against the functional currency of the Company.
C1 strengthening of INR against US Dollar, to which the Company is majorly exposed, would have led to approximately C62.91 Lakhs profit in the Statement of Profit and Loss (Year ended March 31, 2024 - C75.22 Lakhs profit). A C1 weakening of the INR against US Dollar would have led to an equal but opposite effect.
The sensitivity analysis includes only outstanding foreign currency denominated monetary items.
Derivative financial instruments
The Company holds derivative financial instruments such as foreign currency forward to mitigate the risk of changes in exchange rate on foreign currency exposure. The counterparty for these contracts is generally a Bank. These derivative financial instruments are valued based on quoted prices for similar asset and liabilities in active markets or inputs that is directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.
Capital management
The Company's capital management objective is to maximise the total shareholder return by optimizing the cost of capital through flexible capital structure that supports growth. Further, the Company ensures optimal credit risk profile to maintain/enhance credit rating.
The Company determines that amount of capital on the basis of annual operating plan and long-term strategic plans. The funding requirements are met through internal accruals and long-term/short-term 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.
For the purpose of Capital management, capital includes equity capital, securities premium and all other reserves. Net debt includes all long and short-term borrowings as reduced by cash and cash equivalents.
The following table summarises the net debt to equity ratio of the Company:
45. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Andhra Paper Foundation, carries out Corporate Social Responsibilities activities. The same is not considered for the purpose of consolidation during the year ended March 31, 2025, as the objective of control over this entity is not to obtain economic benefits from its activities. During the year, Andhra Paper Foundation converted into Andhra Paper Private Limited on November 11, 2024 and the application for strike off has been filed with Registrar of Companies, Hyderabad on March 28, 2025, and it is in the process of striking off.
46. In the year ended March 31,2017, the Hon'ble High Court for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh upheld the validity of levy of electricity duty @ 25 paisa per unit by the State Government on consumption of electricity by captive generating units relating to earlier years. The Company (along with other petitioners) filed a Special Leave Petition in the Hon'ble Supreme Court, which in the interim, directed the petitioners to pay partial amount without prejudice to the rights and contentions of the petitioners, pursuant to which the Company had paid C1,502.05 Lakhs under protest in the year ended March 31,2017. The matter is pending hearing.
In view of the inherent uncertainty in predicting the final outcome of the above litigation, the Management has, on grounds of prudence and abundant caution, made a provision amounting to C2,357.43 Lakhs during the year ended March 31, 2017 towards the potential liability in the event of an un-favourable verdict in this matter. Additionally, an amount of C1,571.62 Lakhs has been disclosed as a contingent liability. On the basis of the legal advice obtained, in the opinion of the Management no further provision would be required in relation to this disputed matter.
47. The Code on Social Security, 2020 ('Code') relating to employee benefits during employment and post-employment benefits received Presidential assent in September 2020. The Code has been published in the Gazette of India. However, the date on which the Code will come into effect has not been notified. The Company will assess the impact of the Code when it comes into effect and will record any related impact in the period the Code becomes effective.
48. As per Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 ('Act), a company, meeting the applicability threshold, needs to spend at least 2% of its average net profit for the immediately preceding three financial years on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. The focus areas of Company's CSR activities are Education, Health & Wellness and Community Engagement. The CSR activities of the Company are in line with the Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013. A CSR committee has been formed by the company as per the Act.
* The Company has transferred the unspent amount to a separate bank account of C554.06 Lakhs on 29.04.2025 for the year ended March 31, 2025 in compliance with Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules, 2021 vide MCA notification dated January 22, 2021.
During the previous year the company has set off the excess CSR amount of C24.71 Lakhs spent in the FY 2022-2023 against CSR obligation of FY 2023-2024.
49. Investments and Loans & Advances:
No funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”) with the understanding that the Intermediary shall lend or invest in party identified by or on behalf of the Company (Ultimate Beneficiaries). The Company has not received any fund from any party(s) (Funding Party) with the understanding that the Company shall whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified by or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
51. Other Statutory Information:
a) The Company does not have any Benami property, where any proceeding have been initiated or pending against the Company for holding any Benami property.
b) The Company has not traded or invested in Crypto currency or Virtual currency during the financial year.
c) The Company does not have any such transaction which is not recorded in the books of accounts that has been surrendered or disclosed as income during the year in the tax assessments under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (Such as, search or survey or any other relevant provision of the Income Tax Act, 1961).
d) The Company has complied with the number of layers prescribed under clause (87) of Section 2 of the Act read with the Companies (Restriction on number of layers) Rules, 2017.
e) The Company has not been declared wilful defaulter by any bank or financial institution or government or any government authority.
f) The Company does not have any charges or satisfaction which is yet to be registered with ROC beyond the statutory period.
g) The Company does not have any transactions with companies struck off.
h) The title deeds of all the immovable properties (other than properties where the company is the lessee and the lease agreements are duly executed in favour of the lessee) to the financial statements, are held in the name of the company.
i) Quarterly returns or statements of current assets filed by the Company with banks are in agreement with the books of accounts.
j) The company has not entered into any scheme of arrangement which has an accounting impact on current or previous financial year.
k) The Company has not revalued its property, plant and equipment (including right-of-use assets) and intangible assets during the current year and previous year.
l) The company has utilised the Borrowings for the purpose for which it has obtained as mentioned in the agreement.
52. The Board of Directors approves the financial statements for issue on May 08, 2025.
As per our report of even date For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
For M S K A & Associates of Andhra Paper Limited
Chartered Accountants CIN: L21010AP1964PLC001008
Firm Registration No.:105047W
S. K. Bangur
Chairman and Non-Executive Director (DIN: 00053237)
Prakash Chandra Bhutada Saurabh Bangur Mukesh Jain
Partner Managing Director Executive Director
Membership No:404621 (DIN:00236894) (DIN: 09380039)
Rajesh Bothra Bijay Kumar Sanku
Chief Financial Officer Company Secretary
Membership No: 15449
Place: Hyderabad Place: Rajahmundry / Kolkata
Date : May 08, 2025 Date : May 08, 2025
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