Deloitte Haskins& Sells |
M P Chitale & Co. |
Chartered Accountants Wilmont Park Business Centre 1st Floor, Warriam Road Kochi - 682 016 INDIA |
Chartered Accountants First Floor, Hamam House Ambalal Doshi Marg, Fort Mumbai - 400 001 INDIA |
Tel: +91 484 2353694 Fax: +91 484 2380094 |
Tel: +91-22-22651186 Fax:+91-22-22655334 |
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REVIEW REPORT
TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE FEDERAL BANK LIMITED
1. We have reviewed the accompanying Statement of Standalone Unaudited Financial Results of THE FEDERAL BANK LIMITED ("the Bank") for the Quarter and half year ended 30th September, 2014 ("the Statement"), being submitted by the Bank pursuant to the requirement of Clause 41 of the Listing Agreements with the Stock Exchanges, except for the disclosures referred to in paragraph 6 below. This Statement is the responsibility of the Bank's Management and has been approved by the Board of Directors. Our responsibility is to issue a report on the Statement based on our review.
2. We conducted our review of the Statement in accordance with the Standard on Review Engagements (SRE) 2410'Review of Interim Financial Information Performed by the Independent Auditor of the Entity', issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. This Standard requires that we plan and perform the review to obtain moderate assurance as to whether the Statement is free of material misstatement. A review is limited primarily to inquiries of Bank personnel and analytical procedures applied to financial data and thus provides less assurance than an audit. We have not performed an audit and, accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion.
3. In the conduct of our review, 87branches have been reviewed by one of usand we have relied on the review reports in respect of returns including non-performing assets received from the branch auditors of 12branches, specifically appointed for this purpose by the bank. These review reports cover 55 percent of the advances portfolio of the bank. Apart from these review reports, in the conduct of our review, we have also relied upon various returns received from the branches of the bank.
4. Based on our review conducted as stated above, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the accompanying Statement, prepared in accordance with the Accounting Standards specified under the Companies Act, 1956 (which are deemed to be applicable as per Section 133 of the Companies Act, 2013, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 ) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, has not disclosed the information required to be disclosed in terms of Clause 41 of the Listing Agreements with the Stock Exchanges, including the manner in which it is to be disclosed, or that it contains any material misstatement or that it has not been prepared in accordance with the relevant prudential norms issued by the Reserve Bank of India in respect of income recognition, asset classification, provisioning and other related matters.
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5. Attention is drawn to Note No.4 of the Statement regarding proportionate charge of pension liability of the bank amounting to Rs.842 Lakhs and Rs.1684 Lakhs for the quarter and half year ended 30thSeptember, 2014 respectively and the balance unamortised liability of Rs.1684 Lakhs as at 30thSeptember, 2014, pursuant to the exemption granted by the Reserve Bank of India and made applicable to the Bank vide letter no. DBOD No.BP.BC.15896 / 21.04.018 / 2010-11 dated April 8, 2011, from the application of the provisions of the Accounting Standard (AS) 15, Employee Benefits.
Our conclusion is not qualified in respect of this matter.
6. Further, we also report that we have traced the number of shares as well as the percentage of shareholding in respect of the aggregate amount of public shareholding,and the number of shares as well as the percentage of shares pledged/encumbered and non-encumbered in respect of the aggregate amount of promoters and promoter group shareholding in terms of Clause 35 of the Listing Agreements with the Stock Exchanges and the particulars relating to investor complaints disclosed in the Statement,from the details furnished by the Registrars. The "Pillar 3 disclosures under Basel III Capital Regulations" disclosed on the Bank's website and in respect of which a link has been provided in the Statement have not been subjected to our review.
For DELOITTE HASKINS & SELLS |
For M P CHITALE & CO. |
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Chartered Accountants |
Chartered Accountants |
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(Firm'sRegistration No.008072S) |
(Firm's Registration No. 101851W) |
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M. Ramachandran |
Ashutosh Pednekar |
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Partner |
Partner |
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(Membership No.16399) |
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MUMBAI, 16thOctober, 2014.