This information is available in the section titled "Audited Financial
Statements" on pages 185 through 210 in our Annual Report for fiscal 2002 and is
incorporated herein by reference.
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PART III
ITEM 19. EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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*3.1 Articles of Association of Wipro Limited, as amended.
*3.2 Memorandum of Association of Wipro Limited, as amended.
*3.3 Certificate of Incorporation of Wipro Limited, as amended.
*4.1 Form of Deposit Agreement (including as an exhibit, the form of
American Depositary Receipt).
*4.2 Wipro's specimen certificate for equity shares.
*10.1 1999 Employee Stock Option Plan.
*10.2 2000 Employee Stock Option Plan.
*10.3 Wipro Equity Reward Trust.
*10.4 2000 ADS Option Plan.
*10.5 Form of Indemnification Agreement.
*10.6 Asset Credit Scheme Loan between Wipro Limited and ICICI Limited,
dated September 19, 1996, as amended.
*10.7 Share Purchase Agreement between Wipro Limited and ICICI Limited,
for shares of Wipro Net Limited, dated December 28, 1999.
*10.8 Option Agreement between Wipro Limited and ICICI Limited, dated
December 28, 1999.
*10.9 Pledge Agreement by Azim H. Premji and ICICI Limited, dated December
28, 1999.
13.1 Wipro Limited Annual Report for Fiscal 2002.
*21.1 List of Wipro's subsidiaries.
99.1 Proxy Information Statement to holders of American Depositary
Shares.
99.2 Proxy Information Statement to holders of Equity Shares.
99.3 Proxy Form to holders of American Depositary Shares.
99.4 Proxy Form to holders of Equity Shares.
* Incorporated by reference to exhibits filed with the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-46278) in the form declared
effective September 26, 2000.
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SIGNATURES
The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the
undersigned to sign this Annual Report on its behalf.
For Wipro Limited
/S/ Azim H. Premji
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Bangalore, India Azim H. Premji,
June 5, 2002 Chairman and Managing Director
/S/ Suresh C. Senapaty
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Suresh C. Senapaty,
Executive Vice President, Finance
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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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*3.1 Articles of Association of Wipro Limited, as amended.
*3.2 Memorandum of Association of Wipro Limited, as amended.
*3.3 Certificate of Incorporation of Wipro Limited, as amended.
*4.1 Form of Deposit Agreement (including as an exhibit, the form of
American Depositary Receipt).
*4.2 Wipro's specimen certificate for equity shares.
*10.1 1999 Employee Stock Option Plan.
*10.2 2000 Employee Stock Option Plan.
*10.3 Wipro Equity Reward Trust.
*10.4 2000 ADS Option Plan.
*10.5 Form of Indemnification Agreement.
*10.6 Asset Credit Scheme Loan between Wipro Limited and ICICI Limited,
dated September 19, 1996, as amended.
*10.7 Share Purchase Agreement between Wipro Limited and ICICI Limited,
for shares of Wipro Net Limited, dated December 28, 1999.
*10.8 Option Agreement between Wipro Limited and ICICI Limited, dated
December 28, 1999.
*10.9 Pledge Agreement by Azim H. Premji and ICICI Limited, dated December
28, 1999.
13.1 Wipro Limited Annual Report for Fiscal 2002.
*21.1 List of Wipro's subsidiaries.
99.1 Proxy Information Statement to holders of American Depositary
Shares.
99.2 Proxy Information Statement to holders of Equity Shares.
99.3 Proxy Form to holders of American Depositary Shares.
99.4 Proxy Form to holders of Equity Shares.
* Incorporated by reference to exhibits filed with the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-46278) in the form declared
effective September 26, 2000.
EXHIBIT 13.1
Contents
Our Values 2
Quality is a never ending journey 3
Quality in numbers 4-5
Letter to Stakeholders 6-9
Board of Directors 10
The Wipro way 11-13
Wipro Technologies
- Building relationships through Quality 14-21
Wipro Infotech
- A Customer centric vision fuelled by Quality 22-26
Wipro Healthcare and Life Science
- Building a healthy future through the convergence
of Health Science and IT based on Quality 27
Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting
- Creating consumer trust through Quality 28-29
Innovation and Digitisation for Customer satisfaction 30
Contributing to a Quality environment and society 31-32
Directors Report 33-36
Report on Corporate Governance 37-50
Financial Statements 51-210
Annual Report filed with United States Securities
and Exchange Commission (Form 20F) 211-256
Our Values
Human Values
We respect the unique needs of Customers and employees. We are sensitive to
their differing needs in our interactions with them.
Integrity
We deliver what we commit. With honesty, fairness, reliability and uprightness
in whatever we do.
Innovative Solutions
We consistently offer novel and superior solutions to satisfy the needs of the
Customer.
Value for Money
Delivering higher value to the Customer through continuous improvement in
quality, cost and speed.
Our Promise
With utmost respect to Human Values, we promise to serve our Customer with
Integrity, through Innovative, Value for Money Solutions, by Applying Thought,
day after day.
Quality is a never ending journey...
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"Applying Thought" is Wipro's way of addressing this reality. It means that we
constantly think about our Customers. And continuously attempt to provide them
with innovative and superior value for money solutions. Over the years "Applying
Thought" has become an organization-wise mission, wherein Wiproites see
themselves as catalysts to creating a better service or product. Such is the
commitment, that everyday, somewhere across the globe there's a Wiproite asking:
- Can we do it better?
- Are we satisfying a customer need?
- Is it innovative?
- Does it provide superior value?
- Are we delivering what we commit?
- Can we do it better?
All this boils down to Quality thinking and thinking about Quality. At Wipro we
approach Quality quite differently. That's because we realize that:
- Quality is perceptual. Quality is value as perceived by the customer.
Therefore, our customers define what quality is or what a quality product or
service ought to be.
Quality is measurable. It is easier to improve something that is defined. So
we constantly measure our quality against Customer expectations and attempt to
meet it.
Quality is relative. It is perpetually redefined by the market. So what
constitutes top quality today gets displaced tomorrow when someone raises the
Quality bar to the next level.
At Wipro, Quality becomes the defining factor in all that we do to move a
product or service from mind to market.
It defines our core organization values, policies, processes and systems. It
pervades our relationships and our interactions with all our stakeholders.
It trickles downs to the simplest things -- the way we answer a phone call, the
way we conduct an internal meeting or the time taken to meet a visitor. And has
a huge impact on the larger ones; eliminating defects, reducing cycle time,
increasing process efficiencies, lessening manufacturing bottlenecks, cutting
down service cost and increasing productivity.
This gives us the means to deliver a good quality product and helps us
continually find ways to improve it.
Today as an Organization we are convinced:
- Quality is what differentiates Wipro. It is the reason why our customers come
to us
- Quality is the reason why our customers pay a premium for our products and
services
- Quality is a uniting force. It binds the organization and increases its
resolve to improving Quality continuously
- Quality has a direct impact on improving our financial results.
At the end of the day, we need to ask ourselves: Is our customer satisfied? More
importantly, is he or she delighted? Will our customer come back to us for more?
Will customer delight result in getting new customers? All these questions
ensure we shall never lose sight of the fundamental truth. That the Quality
journey never ends. It's a journey with challenge and as an organization we are
committed to. It's a journey that starts every day with every Wiproite asking:
- Can we do it better?
- Are we satisfying a customer need?
- Is it innovative?
- Does it provide superior value?
- Are we delivering what we commit?
- Can we do it better?
The journey continues...
Quality in numbers- Testimony to the fact that Quality works
At Wipro, we believe that it's the strength of our Quality systems that has
resulted in saving time and costs for our customers, by completing projects on
schedule.
Our Global IT services business has gained 107 new customers. Also, 82 of our
customers in the Global IT services business have each trusted us with over one
million dollars worth of business.
We've also initiated more than 242 Customer touch projects for quality
improvement, even as our Six Sigma initiatives resulted in savings of Rs. 1095
Mn. for the company.
We thank our investors and dedicate this performance to our customers and all
Wiproites.
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Dear Stakeholder,
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The year 2001-02 tested the adaptability of strategies and business models
globally. Our initial premise was of a "profitability challenged" year for the
global businesses. The response we anticipated was of a significant shift to
offshore to meet this challenge. However, events on September 11 in United
States of America slowed the pace of this shift. In this challenging
environment, our
- Profit after tax grew from Rs.6711 million to Rs.8854 million, a growth
of 32%
- Free cash flow, i.e. after deducting net working capital increase and
investment in fixed assets, increased from Rs.3,251 million to Rs.6,119
million, a growth of 82%
- Return on average net worth was 40% for the year, well in excess of our
internal benchmark of 29%
These results were below our internal expectations, relative to our past track
record of profit growth over the last 10 years. However, in absolute terms, the
figures were satisfying especially when considered against the backdrop of a
challenging environment, compounded by the telecom equipment market decline. In
this challenging environment, we grew our price realization through a
combination of pricing discipline and climbing the value chain, sustaining our
operating margins in the Global IT business. Further, 82% increase in free cash
flow during the year provides the strength to invest for creating sustainable
business advantage for our customers.
VISION FOR 2004
We had in the calendar year 2000 formulated our Vision for the year 2004. Our
Visioning challenge is to make our thinking ambitious and serve as a turbo
charger for the organization. Vision creates an executable dream for us to
strive hard towards achieving. The Vision we have set for ourselves is:
Business Leadership: Among the top 10 Information Technology Services companies
globally and #1 Information Technology company in India
Customer Leadership: The #1 choice of customers through innovative solutions and
Six Sigma processes
People Leadership: Among the top 10 most preferred employers globally by
creating an environment of empowerment, intellectual challenge and wealth
sharing
Brand Leadership: Wipro brand to be among the 5 most admired brands in India
The year 2001-02 did not go as we envisaged. Our revenue growth and profit
growth could have been higher. This makes the Vision we have more challenging,
but challenge is something that every Wiproite relishes.
Let me pause and take stock. Today, we believe Wipro is among the top 10
Information Technology Services companies globally and the #1 Information
Technology company in India, ranked by market capitalization. The challenge is
in getting our revenues up there among the top 10 companies globally, without
diluting our profitability.
GROWING REVENUE
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The key to creating a sustainable base of revenue that grows year on year ahead
of the industry growth rate is in focusing on customer profitability. The
single-minded focus must be on enhancing competitive advantage for the customer
and thereby his profitability. We have a diverse portfolio of
value added IT services executed from offshore centers in India, company wide
initiatives to reduce cost and cycle time through Six Sigma and Quality
initiatives, and a common set of Values that allows us to develop competencies
in our team to face any environment with confidence.
Our strength in Indian IT markets has been at the base of developing our
competencies and introducing new services in the global markets, leveraging the
offshore advantage. We have the widest service range among companies from India
in enhancing our customer productivity and profitability. Our Services portfolio
of application development and maintenance, product design and realization
services, information systems outsourcing and package implementation was
significantly enhanced this year with the launch of system integration practice
in the global markets. In July 2001, we won our first global system integration
order from the Lattice group of the UK to create the infrastructure for
broadband service and within nine months, the first phase of the project went
live on schedule, reinforcing our technical depth and Quality systems. In
Services business, there is no substitute to having satisfied customers for
brand building.
To realize revenue growth, we will invest in Quality. We are what we repeatedly
do. Quality leadership is a habit that we will build on and grow. We started our
Six Sigma initiative five years back. We have trained over 6,500 people in Six
Sigma and executed over 1,000 projects in these five years. Ultimately what
matters to the customer is profitability, and superior Quality can enhance
profitability in a defined time frame.
In the race for Quality there is no finish line. As we achieve each milestone,
we have a new destination identified for progress. We are the global leaders in
Software Services Quality. In 1998, we were the first Software Services Company
to be certified at SEI-CMM level 5. In December 2001, we became the first
company globally to be assessed at PCMM Level 5. This is an absolute global
benchmark for our people process. It is our Quality initiative that
differentiates us from competition, and this is the differentiation that we will
build upon.
The sustainability of the offshore model is driven greatly by our ability to
continuously improve productivity and reduce costs for our customers.
Additionally, we must ensure that our processes guarantee the customer
protection of proprietary data and information, and also protect against
unforeseen disasters. A key driver to continuous improvement in servicing our
customers and improving their profitability is our thrust on web enabling the
customer facing and internal service processes. We began this initiative two
years ago and today, our web-enabling initiative has gained a significant
momentum. This has been greatly appreciated by our customers. We will continue
to invest in information technology to improve our revenue, margins, security
and to ensure customer facing and internal business continuity.
A key initiative to leverage the technical depth of our human resources for
customer benefit is our Innovation initiative, where we focus on developing
Intellectual Property that provides a time-to-market advantage for our clients.
We have senior business managers and a structured process to drive Innovation.
We have framed an Intellectual Property development process to screen ideas,
select specific projects, take customer input and review progress. Currently we
have over 200 people working full time on Innovation projects for specific
identified themes. We are encouraged with the results of the Innovation
initiative in the first year itself, which reaffirms our faith in this
initiative.
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We are on the edge of a significant cusp, the convergence of Information
Technology with Life Sciences. This opens up an interesting market opportunity
to companies with proven competence in Information Technology and Healthcare. In
1989, we set up the Healthcare business practice addressing the imaging
equipment market through joint venture with GE, Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited
and non-imaging equipments through Wipro Biomed business. Over the last decade,
as in most other equipment business, the business has significantly moved to
services. Our relationship with global leaders in medical equipment like GE,
Beckman Coulter, Agilent and Fujinon combined with our domain knowledge provides
us with an exciting opportunity to address a growing market.
We have combined the businesses of Wipro Biomed and the Healthcare vertical in
Wipro Technologies together to address this opportunity, by forming a new
business segment Wipro Healthcare and Lifescience. This business is headed by
DA.Prasanna, who has been appointed Vice-Chairman, to realize the potential.
ACQUISITION, AN OPTION FOR GROWTH
Acquisition to accelerate the pace of revenue growth is an option we have. We
would like this only to be an option for enhancing growth and not a substitute
for organic growth. Our search is for a good business at fair price, not a fair
business at good price or a bargain purchase. It pays to be active, interested
and open minded, which we are, but we are not in a hurry. There is a thin line
between being quick and being hurried. The distinction is purely judgmental.
Looking into our rearview mirror, we can honestly say we have not missed out on
any opportunity that we regret.
We have over Rs.14 billion in cash and cash equivalents. The objective of
maintaining this cash position is primarily for strategic acquisitions. We are
conscious that, if not used for strategic purposes for which it is intended, the
cash with us dilutes the return on equity. Our internal norm of 29% return on
average net worth is something we have achieved for over two decades and we
cherish it. Whenever we conclude that cash with us cannot be used for enhancing
the shareholder value, we will evaluate the quantum to be returned to the
shareholders.
CHALLENGE FOR THE YEAR AHEAD
Looking ahead, the key challenge will be to realize the emerging opportunities
in the global market. In our Global IT Services business, growing new high value
services offerings in terms of system integration and information systems
outsourcing is as key a priority as consolidating our Quality leadership
position. We will focus on building momentum in Healthcare and Life Science
business. We have made a good beginning in expanding our Indian IT Services and
Products business into Asia Pacific IT Market, by leveraging our leadership
position in the Indian IT market. Our challenge here is to build on this
beginning and consolidate our presence in the Asia Pacific IT market. Above all,
we will continue to work to create a strong Wipro team by creating an
environment of empowerment, intellectual challenge and wealth sharing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Mr. Hamir Visanji, who has been on our Board of Directors since 1955, retired
from the Board in December 2001. Over the last five decades, Mr. Vissanji has
been an integral part of Wipro's growth and, in his role as the Chairman of the
Audit Committee, a key contributor to Wipro's strong internal processes that
have enabled us to manage this growth. We would like to record our appreciation
and gratitude to Mr. Vissanji for his contributions.
The tragedy of September 11 shocked the world. To us in Wipro, the loss was more
personal. Four of our colleagues -- Deepika Kumar, Hemanth Kumar, Shashikiran
Kadaba and Shreyas were among the many whose lives were lost in the tragedy. We
mourn their loss.
We have entered the new millennium in a challenging environment. We are clear on
what we really want and back it with passion and commitment. We will excel in
future as we have done in the past.
I thank you all for the continuing support and the confidence you have placed in
Wipro. We have the talent and commitment required for succeeding in the current
environment. Our strategy is live to the business environment and realities of
the market place. We have demonstrated our ability to optimize between pricing
and volume play, with a strong volume growth in the last quarter of the year.
Our
team is dedicated and committed to achieving customer productivity and
profitability. We will work towards our Vision with passion and pride.
Very sincerely,
Azim H Premji
Chairman and Managing Director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Drawn from diverse industries and specializations, Wipro's Board of Directors
ensure that our stakeholders continue to repose faith and trust in us.
Azim H Premji
Chairman and Managing Director
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P S Pai
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer
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Vivek Paul
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer
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D A Prasanna
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer
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Dr. Ashok Ganguly
Chairman of ICI India Ltd., Former Director of Unilever Plc.
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B C Prabhakar
A Practitioner of Law
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Prof Eisuke Sakakibara
Professor of Economics at Keio University, Japan
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Dr. Jagdish N Sheth
Professor of Marketing at Emory University, USA
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P M Sinha
Former Chairman, Pepsico Holdings India
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Narayan Vaghul
Chairman, ICICI Ltd.
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THE WIPRO WAY
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At Wipro Quality is an investment. Customer satisfaction and trust its reward.
The two key ingredients for Quality are Processes and People Six Sigma - the way
we work.
The Six Sigma movement at Wipro was started with the aim of creating a
sustainable change that would make Wipro a truly world-class organization. Over
the years our experiences with the implementation of Six Sigma has resulted in
new methodologies and an organization wide momentum which made "Six Sigma, the
way we work".
A statistical measure that indicates how defect free a product or process is,
Six Sigma refers to an incidence of just 3.4 defects for every 1 Million
opportunities for a defect, or a process efficiency of 99.99966%.
Wipro features prominently among the companies that have successfully
implemented Six Sigma. Evident from the fact that from the year 1997, Wipro has
trained over 150 Black Belts, executed more than 1000 projects and has saved the
company in 2001-02 Rs. 1.1 billion in the process. In addition, there has been a
significant improvement in delivering value to its customers in terms of
features, price and time.
However, the success of Six Sigma hasn't been by chance, it's been the
consistent focus by every Wiproite.
The selection and scoping of projects
Projects are selected based on its link to critical business processes, which
makes it directly related to the vision of the business unit. Other factors are
the potential to contribute either to higher level of customer satisfaction,
employee satisfaction, reduction of costs or improvement in productivity.
The Quality of Black Belts
At Wipro, the quality of our Black Belts and Green Belts make these Wiproites
the most sought after breed of employees. Put through rigorous methodology and
statistical training, they view each problem logically and arrive at the optimal
solution. It would be no wonder therefore, if many of the future leaders of
Wipro would automatically come from the Black Belt or Green Belt group.
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Performance improvement through DMADV
- A case study
Customer: One of the largest communications company in the world.
Project: To improve the performance requirements of the gateway between the
Internet and the mobile subscriber.
*Pull - Request from a mobile subscriber to gateway via GSM network
**Push - Message from the gateway sent to subscriber via GSM network
The litmus test
Six Sigma has contributed to many laurels at Wipro. Wipro has the distinction of
being the first software services company to achieve SEI CMM Level 5. It has
also the distinction of being the first company to achieve PCMM Level 5.
Certifications that show that our customer, quality and process measurements are
not only defined and managed but are optimized as well.
People define Quality.
A Wipro we believe that our quality is in our people. It is their effort that
helps derive customer satisfaction.
Each and every Wiproite is an ambassador of our values and is expected to
reflect them in everything that they do. Each one of the 14,000 men and women,
is committed to enable Wipro attain a leadership position in all of the
businesses that we are in. What attracts and retains this talent is a completely
open and apolitical culture where people do not hesitate to express themselves,
focused employee development initiatives and employee ownership programmes.
Our employee development initiative includes the "Life cycle development
program" which provides valuable inputs at various stages in the employee life
cycle.
a. Entry level program for all new employees
b. New Leaders program for employees who become leaders for the first time.
c. Wipro Leaders' program for employees who start leading other leaders.
d. Business leaders program for those in business leadership roles.
e. Strategic leadership programs for top management members who are in strategic
leadership positions.
Employee ownership is ensured through our broadbased employee stock option
programme called `WESOP'.
Our continuous effort to enhance working practices and employee satisfaction has
resulted in many innovative processes. A people focus that has in the past year
seen many exciting achievements.
- Wipro Technologies was assessed as the world's First PCMM Level 5
Organization. This has helped us to integrate various HR practices such as
selection, performance management and career planning around competencies.
- Employee service delivery was revolutionized by e-enabling HR processes.
- A career management framework was established through the career grouping
initiative at Wipro Technologies.
- Wipro listens and responds - A new initiative aimed at listening to the voice
of our employees through a structured questionnaire was launched and
institutionalized.
- The number of training person days across Wipro was over 95,000.
- The year also saw the 360-degree feedback process called the Wipro Leaders
Quality survey cover over 2000 Leaders.
In addition to these initiatives, our robust performance management system,
comprehensive annual human resources planning and feedback to individual
leaders, through processes like Wipro Leaders Quality feedback, skip level
program and manager assimilation program, form the back bone of our people
development process. All of which only goes to say that for many people, Wipro
is more than an organization to work with.
It is a way of life.
Delivering Customer satisfaction using DMAIC
- A case study
Client: A US based client
Project: Web based Web page editor
Problem: (Improve the Response Time RT for web based text editor)
- RT to change the font properties was more than 44 sec for 2000 characters
- Unable to handle large amount of text (> 2000 characters)
- Measured and Analyzed 9 samples with number of characters from 100 to 5000
- Carrying out Pareto analysis for RT per character based on size, color and
style
- Used cause and effect diagram to flush causes
- Redesigned web based text editor based on 2 new design pattern identified
Results:
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Wipro Technologies -
Building relationships through Quality
Our Customers are saying this. We aren't. Be it in the US, Japan or Europe, be
it in Retail, Manufacturing, Energy and Utilities, Banking and Finance,
Insurance, Automotive, Consumer Electronics or Telecom, Infrastructure services
or e-Commerce.
Customers across the world have come to recognise Wipro Technologies as a
Quality driven and results oriented IT partner, delivering superior value that
invariably has a significant impact on their fortunes.
This has helped us deepen our relationship, not only in terms of repeat
business, but also in terms of handling larger and more strategic engagements
with clients. We believe our achievements and successes are the outcome of our
uncompromising attitude to delivering Quality and consistently meeting, if not
exceeding, customer expectation. Operating in a fiercely competitive market and
an increasingly turbulent economic environment, Wipro Technologies has made
Quality a key differentiator. Quality, not only in terms of end product but
across the entire delivery chain, be it people, processes, technology or
customer interaction. Which from a customer's perspective translates into a
powerful reason for `Why Wipro?'
Domain knowledge: Wipro has built a strong domain competency which in many cases
runs into many hundreds of man years. Enabling us to design intelligent
solutions to IT centric business problems.
Full service provider: Wipro has end-to-end capabilities in that it provides
consultancy, designs, implements and maintains seamlessly. Wipro offers a
complete array of IT solutions and services ranging from application
development, e-business and enterprise solutions to infrastructure solutions and
VLSI design.
Wipro guarantees low Total Cost of Ownership: Wipro's process methodologies and
frameworks help our clients enjoy up to 35% cost savings and 10% productivity
enhancements. Wipro assures Time-to-Market advantage: Wipro, with its vast
resources is able to offer up to 75% time-to-market advantage, crucial to many
verticals such as Telecom.
Scalability: Wipro can ramp up its resources with Quality to meet the most
stringent of client requirements, onsite and offshore, resulting in faster
implementation and cost savings.
People Quality: Wipro is the world's only PCMM Level 5 and one of the few SEI
CMM Level 5 companies. Coupled with a high degree of customer orientation and
professionalism, this has helped build greater trust in all our client
engagements.
Today Wipro is proud to say that the world recognizes Wipro Technologies as a
global practitioner with proven value delivery. Following are some of our
achievements in the various segments in which we operate.
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Enterprise Solutions
Banking and Financial Services
Having entered the financial services area only a few years ago, our focus on
building knowledge, has in a very short time frame, enabled us to build
considerable expertise in the areas of banking and financial services, foreign
exchange and commodities, capital markets and asset management.
We create value for our customers by delivering a lower Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) across the life of the solution through reduced defects in the solution's
life, increased productivity, best in class knowledge, talent and
infrastructure.
We have also developed Risk Mitigation strategies covering Business Continuity,
Financial,
Change Management, Technology, Communication and Resource risks. Our focus for
banking and financial services allows us to enjoy the agility, flexibility and
focus of a smaller organization, as well as allowing us to draw on the
scalability of Wipro as a whole. All of which has resulted in significant wins
this year, including: A world's leading securities brokerage - One of the top 5
banks in the world - Leading European Financial Services organizations - One of
the world's leading Stock Exchanges - One of the leading French Banks
Insurance
"Wipro has, solid credentials and a long history, whose vision is backed up by
very solid investment. Wipro is not only investing in their infrastructure in
terms of buildings, technology and quality management systems but also in terms
of the recruitment of high calibre graduates, education and promotion
opportunities," said Karen Forte, Head of IT, Allianz, endorsing our investment
in quality and expertise.
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At the forefront of every insurance company is a customer whose peace of mind is
paramount. And behind every smiling customer is a solution that made it
possible. Wipro's entry into insurance has seen us providing services and
solutions to the best in the industry. We have embarked on a new relationship
with Allianz, one of Ireland's leading multi-line general insurance companies. A
partnership that has us developing software for their business systems, customer
information systems and analysis.
Retail
"Within a short span of time, Wipro has provided Best Buy with complementary
skills and the relationship has been extremely successful. We are particularly
impressed by the quality of their professionals and their customer orientation.
We are excited about the future of this relationship". Rao Vellanki, IS Leader
and Director, Best Buy.
In the Retail vertical, Wipro used its expertise to maximum effect for Best Buy,
the number one speciality retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers,
entertainment software and appliances in the United States. We set up an
offshore development center to support the implementation of a corporate-wide
Enterprise Application Integration initiative of Best Buy. Wipro also set up an
exclusive Center of Excellence, to develop an enterprise integration strategy
for various applications across the organization. This enabled us to understand
the customer's needs better and develop a quality solution that was customised
to them. To prove that this was not a unique case, and in an effort to converge
technology expertise and retail business domain knowledge, we have set up
several Centers of Excellence. Key among them are:
- Customer loyalty program solutions
- Point of sale solutions
- Supply chain execution solutions
- Merchandising and pricing solutions
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Energy and Utilities
"We had chosen Wipro more than a year back due to the excellent quality
credentials and technical capability that had come across to us" said Jim Brown,
Head of IS at Thames Water. "Our experience since then has been of a partner who
has exceeded our earlier expectations and also delivered best class performance
at significantly lower costs to us. Wipro has provided us significant benefits
including reducing costs to the tune of 20% in the IT budget for Application
Support and Maintenance within this period of engagement and implementation of
world class quality processes. We have built a very positive and successful
relationship with Wipro and look forward to a rewarding partnership ahead," he
added.
In a highly deregulated environment, Information Technology was increasingly
seen to be driving many of the strategies employed by utilities to function
smarter. In such a challenging scenario, Wipro established itself as a clear
leader in providing IT/IS solutions to the energy and utilities sector. We
worked in partnership with energy and utility clients across Europe and the USA
in architecting and implementing best-of-breed packages relevant to this
industry, for meeting business needs related to customer billing, revenue
assurance and margin analysis.
Our engagements with Transco, one of the largest gas transportation companies in
Europe and with Thames Water, a global specialist in water and waste water
operations, products and services, reinforces the value delivery we provide and
the strong partnerships that Wipro has developed in this sector.
Thames Water, has in fact confirmed that Wipro Technologies' comprehensive IT
services have resulted in savings to the tune of 20% on their IT Budgets for
Support and Maintenance. They also realized annualized savings on the
applications supported by Wipro alone to the tune of 35%.
Other significant wins at companies like PinnacleWest and successful execution
of projects at companies such as nPower and Pepco Energy Services, have
adequately demonstrated our understanding of the energy and utilities industry,
and the ability to deliver measurable business results.
Manufacturing
We have shown significant progress in this area of business in the past year,
with the setting up of a dedicated development facility for 3M at Hyderabad. And
further strengthened our eight-year old relationship with Seagate with the
execution of a high-end Oracle 11i implementation project. Needless to say, the
Quality deliverables and commitment shown by Wipro Technologies throughout the
eight years of our engagement has led to a relationship that is stronger than
ever.
We have also grown in strength, with acquisitions of blue chip clients in the
automobile sector in Japan and chemical sector in Germany. To add to this, we
launched our engineering services business through an alliance with Geometric
Software Services Limited. This initiative has already started showing results
with a few client engagements in the Engineering Services division.
Media, Publishing and Entertainment
Our Innovation methodology has seen us launch a comprehensive workflow solution
for the media and publishing industry. Born out of the Innovation initiative at
Wipro Technologies, Flow-briX, the solution, has evolved out of Wipro's
experience in developing workflow solutions for some of the largest publishing
houses in Europe and US. This has helped us firmly position ourselves as a prime
solution provider in this domain.
Travel and Transportation
With early wins in the travel and transportation area, and the simultaneous
creation of a dedicated group focused on expertise and solution development, we
will be in a position to offer strong solutions to this industry. Among other
new developments, we developed a framework for Internet Booking (iBEX), set up
an SI partnership with Cognosys for offering their Travel products and
successfully developed vertical applications for Wallenius Wilhelmsen and
Stevedoring Services of America.
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Government
The expertise we gained by working for a few leading Government organizations
like the Scottish Parliament has seen us launch a new vertical focused on the
Government and Public Sector organizations. A separate business unit for
Government organizations will, we believe, lead to more focus in this area and
result in better Quality solutions in this vertical.
Technology Solutions
Telecom and Internet Service Provider
"Wipro Technologies ability to provide a long term easily adaptable solution,
its commitment to quality, the enthusiasm of its employees, its outstanding
track record, and its unparalleled success with leading telecommunications
operators were the key factors why we chose Wipro. Wipro's offer of a range of
professional services while adhering to strict budgets and timelines is enabling
us to effectively meet our strategic objectives", said Colin Orr Burns,
executive vice-president of Iqara Broadband.
As the fastest growing division of Wipro Technologies, Telecom and Internet
Service Provider had a good year. Winning our largest ever fixed price contract
order was just the beginning; our commitment to Quality led us to successfully
deliver the first phase of this highly complex $70 Mn Systems Integration
project on schedule. We also successfully powered the Cable ISP solution to
Iqara Broadband, a part of British Gas group.
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Embedded and Internet Access.
Platforms: Wipro brings its proven methodology in productization and migration
of large applications in this area. Sun Microsystems, as part of its plans to
develop an open source platform for Solaris OE, is drawing on Wipro's expertise,
and functionality developed by the GNOME community, to build a modern desktop
environment for the Solaris OE. Wipro's Platforms group, besides coordinating
the overall development effort, is providing its expertise in porting and
migration, bug fixing, accessibility-enabling and testing of the GNOME solution.
Wipro will carry out the integration of the GNOME solution with the existing
Common Desktop Environment and provide complete life-cycle maintenance in the
post-release phase. Wipro will deliver defect-free, robust and cost effective
software that will allow Solaris Software users to seamlessly integrate their
workstations into the office environment.
Automotive: In the automotive segment, Wipro has been working with several major
players in Europe and the USA. Visteon Corporation, USA selected Wipro Embedded
and Internet Access as a development partner for automotive embedded systems
after an elaborate evaluation of major vendors. This win established Embedded
and Internet Access' automotive electronics group as a name to reckon with in
the field of providing automotive solutions to leading automotive components
vendors in the world.
Visteon, headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, USA is the second largest
automotive supplier in the world dedicated to providing integrated automotive
technology systems in the area of telematics/ multimedia, powertrain systems and
climate system electronics. Wipro is extending its complete offering of
automotive solutions, especially in the area of telematics, multimedia and
instrumentation clusters.
Consumer Electronics: Thompson Multimedia selected Wipro as a major outsourcing
partner, endorsing Wipro's ability to help clients complete product realization
using state-of-the-art technologies, technology building blocks and Intellectual
Properties. Thompson Multimedia has been working with Wipro for the past 18
months and this new partnership is an endorsement of a high level of customer
satisfaction and high Quality of the deliverables and support being extended to
them. As part of this partnership, Wipro helps Thompson Multimedia develop
new generation products for the consumer electronics market. Wipro's solution
will incorporate hardware services, software services and Intellectual
Properties (802.11a, MP3, USB 1.1, etc.).
Intellectual Property: "The use of Wipro's technology will significantly improve
Indigita's time-to-market for digital content interchange and communications,
compliant with industry standards," said Mel Gable, CEO of Indigita, a leading
provider of connectivity and storage management solutions for original equipment
manufacturers and systems integrators.
Wipro's singular ability to leverage its knowledge and high quality expertise in
VLSI has earned us rich dividends. The creation of new Intellectual Properties
that fit in with existing systems and requirements of customers has seen us
achieve many successes.
Wipro has licensed its 1394 Audio/Video Link Layer Interface as well as the
AV/C Command Set Software to Indigita. This reinforces Wipro's expertise in 1394
technologies and its status as a preferred choice for buyers in the embedded
market. The technology building blocks licensed by Wipro will enable the rapid
deployment of high-speed serial communications functionality in ASIC devices to
be developed by Indigita.
Telecom and Internetworking
"We were amazed to see the depth and breadth of core telecom expertise in Wipro.
While we were aware that Indian companies were good at Software, it was an eye
opener to see the strong expertise that Wipro had in VLSI/hardware
engineering. The combination of highly skilled engineers, diversity of expertise
and a good track record convinced us to partner with Wipro," said David Heard,
CEO Santera Systems.
While Wipro's Telecom and Internetworking division was possibly the worst hit by
the slowdown in the telecom industry, it was a track record of providing Quality
solutions that helped this division hold its own in such challenging times.
Wipro Technologies became the world's first software services organization to
achieve the TL9000, a quality certification applicable to the telecommunications
industry. One of the significant wins last year was Santera Systems, a leading
provider of now- and next-generation switching equipment for the global
communications market who entrusted Wipro with their VLSI designs.
Horizontal Expertise
Technology Infrastructure Services
Technology Infrastructure Services has emerged as a clear differentiator for
Wipro Technologies. Leveraging on decades of hardware experience, Wipro
Technologies has managed to provide global clients with best-in-class services
like Infrastructure Consulting and Integration, Infrastructure Management, IT
Infrastructure Security, Remote Infrastructure Management, and Telecom
Infrastructure Services.
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Package Implementation
"Wipro has shown itself to be quality driven, something that was clearly evident
in their approach to our large application support requirements," said Ian
Londesbrough - CRM Delivery Manager, nPower. "The high quality of their CRM team
is beyond doubt."
A rapid competency build up in Enterprise Application Solutions like ERP, CRM,
SCM and B2B integration helped us witness several new milestones in large
accounts like Transco and Weyerhaeuser, particularly in the areas of core SAP
R/3 activities and new generation SAP initiatives. Wipro provided services in
Oracle e-business suite 11i implementation, as well as
Ariba Buyer implementations to Sony. Other significant wins being SCA Packaging
(Europe), Sanyo Energy (Europe), Emerson (US), Pepco Energy Services (US),
Putnam (US), and Nationwide Financial (US).
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Building on a strong start in 2000-01, the CRM practice, consisting of Siebel
and Clarify technologies, grew at a rapid pace, with several new customer
acquisitions. Wipro successfully completed a CRM project at Pepco Energy
Services, US. The Siebel/ABP integration at Pepco Energy Service, executed by
Wipro, integrates the billing system, ABP that ensures all new order information
from Siebel is created in the billing system and all the confirmations are
updated in Siebel.
Wipro Technologies won a CRM project at nPower, a leading supplier of gas and
electricity in UK. This came soon after the successful completion of projects by
Wipro with companies such as Farmers Insurance (US), where CIOs have relied on
Wipro's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) skills as a key enabler of their
large CRM initiatives.
Datawarehousing and Business Intelligence
By offering cutting edge technology services and solutions to its customers in
the business intelligence and datawarehousing segment, Wipro has entered into
strategic business and technological alliances with leading vendors like
Informatica, IBM, Brio, and SAS. We have also started services and identified
business intelligence applications like analytical CRM, ERP and SCM Analytics,
e-business intelligence, and teradata as thrust areas.
In the US, Wipro Technologies has created a good impact in providing business
intelligence consulting to the financial services segment and has managed to
architect, integrate and manage datawarehousing/business intelligence
applications like risk containment, scorecard applications, dashboard reporting,
fraud management, claims and actuarial analysis. In the UK and Europe, the
company has been working with leading energy and utilities companies for
datawarehousing/business services.
E-Commerce
"WiproWebSecure was adopted by several large enterprises and has the potential
to become a solid product," said Gartner.
After success in the global IT services space, Wipro Technologies has now made
progress in the IT product segment. WiproWebsecure, our Application Security
product, has achieved significant milestones during the year.
Gaining widespread recognition, the product saw successful implementation in
Home Depot and Lattice Group among others. Proof of its efficacy was also seen
when leading market researcher Gartner named Wipro Technologies as a niche
player in the Magic Quadrant of the extranet access management market for its
Web security product, WiproWebSecure.
Wipro Infotech -
A Customer-centric vision fuelled by Quality
The year 2001-02 saw Wipro Infotech establish itself as a comprehensive IT
services provider, with the strong success of our software solutions business.
From architecting and integrating IT solutions to managing IT infrastructure,
Wipro's customers today, recognize and appreciate Wipro's ability to deliver
high quality, reliable and cost effective IT solutions. A proposition that is by
the day, getting wider and deeper, ranging from core IT infrastructure and
value-added IT services to high-end software services.
For us at Wipro Infotech, who believe that IT is a business enabler, it was a
great challenge to provide continued business value to our customers in
difficult market conditions. This was made possible by our comprehensive range
of offerings and our single-minded devotion to Quality on all fronts - products,
services, people and processes. This powerful combination drove the company
closer to its customers. Consequently, our journey through the fiscal has seen
several prestigious customer wins, recognition by principals and the industry.
Growth in Services - a continual process
The depth and width of our services portfolio has been instrumental in growing
our services business substantially. We further strengthened our technology
integration practice this year by launching call center integration and storage
integration services thereby augmenting our existing portfolio of network
integration, telecom integration, platform integration, data center services.
With the integration of Wipro Net into our portfolio last year, we now offer a
range of remote management services in addition to our already robust managed
security services.
Our strength and leadership in integration services found its reward, when we
were awarded India's No. 1 network integrator by Voice & Data magazine for the
fourth consecutive year. What was more significant though, was the fact that
during the year, we won close to 50 infrastructure management contracts, taking
our total number to 196. This included a prestigious 2-year contract from the
Department of Registration and Stamps, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. We also won over
260 system integration contracts.
Further, our thrust on building the telecom integration practice saw us win two
of the country's largest system integration contracts from the telecom sector.
Over 1100 Availability Services contracts were signed during the year.
Successful year in Software Services
This was our first full year in the software services area in the domestic
market. Today, we offer the strength of our global best practices in India
including robust project management methodologies and quality processes. A
combination of re-usable frameworks coupled with best-of-breed solutions helps
us offer reduced cost of ownership and enhanced value on customers' total IT
investments.
We won several prestigious projects in core business areas of end-to-end ERP
implementation, transport optimization, web based dealer integration, HR
information systems, mediation implementation and IT consulting. Most of these
were won against stiff competition from global IT Services companies. We won
over 65 projects during the year including a few from multinational
organizations in India.
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"We enjoy working with the Wipro team who take care of the overall project
completion. Even though the contract is for specific project areas, we find that
Wipro's consultants have been helping us in other areas as well; a fact clearly
noticed by our chief financial officer." S.R. Balasubramanian - Vice President
(IT), HDFC Bank
Managing content for a financial portal
- A case study
The Customer: One of India's premier credit rating firms.
The Challenge: To provide real-time financial analysis, updates, automate
content and workflow processes.
The Solution: Having studied the customer's requirements, Wipro helped the
customer choose the right technology platform for content management. Backed by
domain expertise in financial services, Wipro implemented the project
end-to-end, including hardware, software and hosting. A whole host of web based
interactive tools, online payment transactions, personalization and elaborate
registration, subscription and shopping cart modules were integrated. As a
result, the portal now has a number of modules with diverse functionalities,
automated workflow processes, complex database synchronization and a dynamic and
well-defined caching to ensure speed and efficient traffic handling.
Launch of Consulting Services: moving up the services value chain
The last two decades has seen us gain significant experience in the IT domain,
both in the software and in the hardware arena, in India and worldwide. This has
put us in an ideal position to launch our IT consulting services practice. Our
consulting services are woven around four pillars. They include:
Strategic consulting services
These services facilitates clients to articulate, implement, monitor and
continuously evolve powerful strategies. This specifically comprises:
Business planning/business process improvement - This includes assisting clients
in the articulation and implementation of their strategy, which would assist
clients in business and financial modelling.
IT strategy articulation and implementation - This includes strategic IT
articulation and deployment to ensure that technology enables clients attain
their ambitious business plans.
Business technology consulting
This includes understanding underlying business architecture of the client in
the context of the dynamic business landscape to assess the need for a
technology.
IT governance and optimization consulting
Here, we assist businesses carry out an assessment of their Information
Technology Management Processes, benchmark the same with industry standard
practices and provide concrete action steps to bridge the concomitant gaps.
Process consulting
This encompasses business process improvement and change management consulting.
The services offered include organization-wide framework consulting and
application assistance for Six Sigma implementation, as well as process
improvements in specific areas using Six Sigma methodology. Our experience with
SEI CMM and PCMM would be offered as a service to our customers.
Business Continuity and Risk Management consulting
As an end-to-end consulting and solutions provider in information security,
Wipro offers services ranging from risk consulting, business continuity planning
and security solution architecting to preventive consulting services like
security solution integration, thus addressing customer needs through the entire
lifecycle.
Making a mark in Asia Pacific
Having established ourselves strongly in the domestic market over the last two
decades, we have set our sights on extending this leadership into the Asia
Pacific and the Middle East. In line with this objective, we successfully
launched our operations in the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets. Today, we
have full-fledged business offices in Dubai and Singapore with presence in
Sydney, Taipei, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. In the very first year of
operations, we received an encouraging response from customers across the region
including a prestigious project that we won from the Dubai e-Government to
provide data center management services. Our strategic alliance with IBM will
further enhance our IT services proposition to customers in the region.
Over 25 high-powered delegations from countries including Australia, New
Zealand, Bahrain, Korea, China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan and the Middle East and
Thailand visited our campus during the year. They comprised ministers,
dignitaries, senior bureaucrats, industrialists and even heads of state.
Consolidating leadership in the Enterprise Infrastructure market
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This was a challenging year in the enterprise infrastructure market with
customers downsizing or postponing IT infrastructure procurement. In such market
conditions, we emerged strong by growing our market share in the high-end PC
server market and retaining leadership position in the enterprise server and
networking market.
In addition to this, our products proposition was further augmented with the
launch of the Wipro LittleGenius range of corporate notebooks. This marked our
successful entry into the highly competitive notebook market. The year also saw
us win recognition from our enterprise partners. We were Sun Microsystems'
leading partner and were awarded `Best Distributor: Asia South-2001' by Sun
Microsystems. We continued to be lead partners for iPlanet, Citrix, Macromedia,
Computer Associates and IBM (Intel range of servers). We have been declared the
largest sales partner for Cisco and were adjudged `Outstanding Partner' for
Cisco in the high technology area including IP telephony. Wipro Infotech has
also been declared as the largest partner for HP Openview.
We announced a strategic alliance with IBM in the latter part of the year. With
this, we now have an even wider range of computing platforms to offer to our
customers in India. This has also helped us enhance our services offerings
around these platforms to customers in India.
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01markets: Cost effective procurement services to customers
01markets established itself during the year as a successful e-procurement
business with transactions of Rs. 2041 million through 104 procurement auctions
spread across 6 industry verticals.
01markets enabled its clients to identify procurement savings in the range of 9
to 10% for direct as well as indirect goods. Clients also benefited from
substantial reductions in their sourcing
cycle times. 01markets was awarded the Golden Peacock Award for Innovation
Management for the year 2001.
Quality: The imperative for Customer satisfaction
The Quality journey at Wipro Infotech has seen us pass newer milestones during
the year. Our application of the Six Sigma methodology enabled us to offer
higher value to customers through continuous business process improvement. We
initiated 110 new Six Sigma projects during the year, and we today have 17 Black
Belts across Wipro Infotech.
We were awarded the ISO 14000 certification for our manufacturing facility in
Pondicherry. We also acquired the ISO 9001:2000 certification for our
infrastructure management services practice during the year. Both these
certifications are a step closer to enhancing customer satisfaction through
continuous improvement of current processes.
Innovation: Key to Customer satisfaction
At Wipro Infotech, we believe it is our ability to innovate that leads to
customer satisfaction. The focus of our Innovation framework is to learn from
experience, build on expertise and create solutions and services that satisfy
the customers' stated and latent needs. Our Innovation methodology, saw early
success, with the launch of several new practices including storage consulting,
IT outsourcing and Six Sigma consulting, which today is an integral part of our
overall consulting framework.
The knowledge edge
At Wipro Infotech, we believe it is critical to stay in a mode of continuous
learning. Our Knowledge Management initiative took significant strides in the
areas of learning and knowledge extraction, enhancement and practice.
Building a virtual sales team for a leading Indian FMCG company - A case study
The Customer: A leading FMCG company with leading brands and a network of 5
factories, 28 depots, 3400 distributors and 1.4 million retail outlets. A
sales-force of 250 sales persons and a distributor sales team of 3000.
The Challenge: To create a virtual office on the web for the sales team. A
mobile workforce, the team needed to access information and data from the field,
so that sales could be monitored in real time and corrective actions taken as
and when required.
The Solution: We designed, developed and implemented the portal, and integrated
web-applications with the ERP solution. The portal captures secondary sales data
and analysis of sales and stock availability for every distributor, distributor
sales team performance, outlet monitoring, merchandising monitoring and new
product performance monitoring. It also featured employee self service modules
like loan application, leave application, employee profile, sales force reports,
community features such as chat, bulletin board, classifieds, calendar
scheduling etc.
The success of the learning initiative has brought about a structured competency
model designed for the entire organization. Implementation of e-learning has
ensured mandatory skill training and uniform competency measurement across the
organization. Over 290 engineers were certified across diverse competencies and
over 1,500 employees were trained across 200 training programs spanning 8,600
training man-days. As part of the competency certification program, around 1,700
Business Partner engineers were also certified.
A key initiative to inculcate a culture of knowledge sharing and reusing in the
organization was
`Kalpavriksha' - the Knowledge Management portal. It has enabled uniform
knowledge dissemination across the organization and has also enabled Best
Practices sharing within the organization.
`TerraNova', our Center of Excellence opened its doors to customers this year.
The center is a showcase of our solutions and integration capabilities. Multiple
technologies and their working across diverse platforms are displayed, through a
replication of the customers' business environment.
TerraNova demonstrates solutions on Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Nortel, Intel and
HP platforms with a range of enterprise applications and products.
Leveraging the power of the Internet
The year in passing saw us leverage the power of the Internet to drive external
and internal efficiencies. We moved closer to our customers and partners through
the launch of robust, content-rich community websites and portals for our
business partners and customers. We also launched a sales force automation tool
as part of sales process improvement and this tool works as an
opportunity-tracking device for all listed customer accounts.
Employee productivity was enhanced through the launch of various applications in
the areas of recruitment, human resources, administration, finance, legal,
marketing and operations, all of which translated into greater customer
satisfaction.
Vertical Solutions: Bringing us closer to the customer
To ensure that we address our customers' total IT requirements ranging from
products to highend solutions most effectively, we reorganized ourselves into
six verticals, with independent solutions, frameworks and strategies being
created for each vertical. The six verticals identified include finance, banking
and insurance, manufacturing, IT and IT enabled services, telecommunications,
healthcare and government. This initiative we believe, is key to offer business
value to our customers. We are constantly striving to leverage our domain
knowledge in each of the above verticals to offer a customized mix of products,
services and solutions that meet vertical-specific requirements.
Wipro Healthcare and Life Science - Driving the convergence of Healthscience and
IT to deliver Quality solutions to build a healthy future
Wipro has been addressing the Healthcare services market through its Wipro
Biomed division and Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd. These businesses, which focus
on the device market in India, have performed exceedingly well and are presently
market leaders in their respective fields.
Wipro in its constant quest for looking at new business opportunities where it
can add value, announced in April 2002 its new venture - Wipro Healthcare and
Life Science, which will address the requirements of the Bio-IT market, where
Information Technology converges with Life Science. The estimated addressable
market opportunity is around $25 billion, growing at over 20% annually. The key
regions of focus are USA, Europe and India. The existing business of Wipro
Biomed and the existing client base of Wipro Technologies in the Healthcare
vertical will be transferred to Wipro Healthcare and Life Sciences business
unit. This business will offer solutions in three core areas:
Healthcare Information Technology to Health Delivery System
Our focus is the complete Healthcare delivery system which includes Hospitals,
Physician Practices, HMOs and Health Insurance companies. The solutions would be
defect-free Six Sigma engineered. Our unique value proposition is the ability to
integrate the healthcare enterprise, thereby delivering a improved workflow and
reducing costs for our customers. Some of the solutions, which we are presently
offering are Hospital Information Systems, Clinical and Lab Information Systems
and web based HIPAA Compliant, Internet based Electronic Claims systems and
other custom solutions.
Discovery IT to Life Science Companies
Here, our focus is providing IT solutions to drug discovery companies where we
shall IT enable the parts of the drug discovery process, thereby crashing the
drug development times significantly. We are also entering the field of IT
enabling the filing of FDA approval process. Wipro Biomed addresses the clinical
and scientific devices market in India. It markets and services equipment of
leading companies like Beckman Coulter and Agilent, which offer leading edge
technology to medical and life science institutions.
Software Design and Engineering services to large medical device and Healthcare
Information Technology vendors
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Building on the existing strengths of Wipro in embedded devices and software
engineering excellence, we provide solutions to address large medical device
companies and Healthcare Information Technology vendors.
Wipro's domain knowledge and customer relationships will provide Wipro a
distinct advantage to address the requirements of this emerging segment. We
would leverage the technological edge, certified quality processes and people to
bring significant value to our customers by giving them timely, defect free and
value for money solutions. This would improve competitiveness of our customers
and thereby improve outcome for their patients.
Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting -
Creating consumer trust through Quality
A passion for Quality
At Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting we understand that Quality is a never ending
journey. It's our passion for Quality that ensures we are constantly enhancing
the value of our brands and continuously introducing innovative products to
enrich the lives of our customers.
Quality Brands
Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting division has strong brands addressing consumer
needs in personal wash, toiletries, personal grooming, baby care, cooking medium
and lighting categories. Our product range comprises:
Santoor Soap, Santoor Talc
Wipro Shikakai Soap
Milk & Roses Soap
Wipro Active Talc
Wipro Baby Soft Range
Wipro Brand Domestic lighting,
Commercial and Institutional lighting
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Insights into Quality
At the heart of each of our brands and strategies are key customer insights. An
extensive use of market research helps us understand the changes taking place in
our customer's lives and how their needs are evolving. Proprietary research
methodologies help us develop innovative offerings and products to meet these
changing needs and therefore deliver satisfaction.
With the inherent belief that the customer is the final judge of our product
Quality, we have undertaken a number of steps to ensure that all the customer
defined parameters of our Quality are monitored, constantly benchmarked and
improved upon. These include factors like defect free manufacturing, easy
availability and product attribute ratings. Here, Six Sigma tools have helped us
develop robust processes to eliminate defects in manufacturing. Similarly, our
extensive distribution network, ensures our division's consumer product is
available in more than one million retail outlets across the country. In
addition, our distribution and servicing are also benchmarked against
competition and constantly monitored to ensure improvements are taking place.
Creating value for the Customer
"Wipro Baby Soft nappies and diapers are a big help...no need to wash clothes,
just change the nappy...the baby is happy because it is softer than cloth and
keeps him dry...it also gives me the freedom to do all the things I want without
spending time on changing wet clothes." Mrs. Sindhu Menon, mother, Cochin.
In the Baby Care category for example, customers talked of how doctors routinely
prescribed medicinal tablets for babies at dosage levels like half a tablet or
quarter of a tablet. But attempts to split the tablet normally led to a powdered
tablet and the mother unsure of whether the child had got the right dosage. This
insight led to the development of the `Wipro Baby Soft Tablet Cutter' - designed
to hygienically solve this dilemma. This product has had an ecstatic response
amongst mothers across the country.
In the lighting category, where consumers were looking for an assured life of
the light bulbs they purchased, Wipro Longlite bulbs were designed to last 30%
longer than normal bulbs. Similarly
in lighting fittings, where customers were worried about products turning
defective very soon, we launched a new product - Wipro Prima with a 5 year
guarantee, a first for the category. Both innovations have been well appreciated
by consumers.
"Your Fantasy range is excellent in form and function...a beauty with brains."
Raju Mahagaonkar, Chairman, Indian Institute of Interior Designers, Pune.
To continue our story of creating value, in our Commercial and Institutional
lighting business we developed special products for the Pharma and Software
industries which have helped us dominate these segments. These include lighting
designed to be free of glare and free from electromagnetic interference for the
software industry and special lighting for operation theatres in hospitals.
All of these insights leading to innovation only illustrate our approach to
constantly enhance value in each and every one of our offerings.
Building consumer trust
"See, how my skin glows. Using Santoor makes me look and feel younger. I trust
only Santoor." Jayshree, housewife, Vijayawada
The Indian woman is constantly evolving and expects her brands to do the same.
Advanced qualitative and quantitative research tools were used to develop the
marketing mix for the re-launch of our lead brand Santoor. The brand's new
communication showed the Santoor protagonist as being spontaneous, caring,
nurturing and a role model for her child. All the values that our consumers
instantly identified with and which in turn helped strengthen and heighten the
emotional bond of our customers with Santoor.
Milestones in the Quality journey
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Customers acknowledge and reward our brand and product Quality. Santoor is one
of the leading brands in South and West India and the number one brand in Andhra
Pradesh.
Wipro Shikakai, a hair care soap is a leader in its category.
Our brand offerings in talc make Wipro the second largest player in the talc
category.
Wipro Baby Soft is among the top two brands in the baby care segment.
In Lighting, we have made tremendous strides in South and West India and are
amongst the top brands here.
In Institutional Lighting we have been growing at a good pace and dominating our
focus segments.
But in the same breath, we aren't resting on our laurels, because we know that
the Quality journey is a never ending one.
Innovation and Digitization
for Customer satisfaction
At Wipro, Innovation is a means to provide value add to our Customers, and it is
so integral to us, that we articulated it in our Promise statement in 1998.
Innovation is one of our four Values. While we have always worked on providing
innovative solutions to the customer, we wanted to give Innovation a specific
thrust.
We have defined Innovation as the "implementation of a new idea resulting in a
marketable product or service". The objective is to drive revenues through the
development of Intellectual Properties that yield new products and services.
A team is set up directly under the Chairman's office to give it the required
thrust and attention. Similarly, in both Wipro Infotech and Wipro Technologies
we have set up teams to oversee the Innovation initiative. We have studied the
best practices on Innovation and have formulated a structured process to capture
ideas, fund potential ideas, have structured periodic reviews, and develop a
`go-to-market strategy'. An important aspect is to be able to drop ideas and
projects early enough, and to ensure that we capture what we learned from these
projects. We have a formal reward and recognition process for idea generators
and the core members who work on the development of these Innovation projects.
We have defined three themes under which we have taken up the projects - Home
Networking, Content Commerce and Collaboration and Knowledge Management.
Customer inputs and Customer buy-in is an integral part of our process. This has
helped us to screen and shape the ideas into viable marketable products. We have
had revenues in the first year of implementation for each of these themes.
Currently, we have over 200 people working on 10 innovation projects. We are
encouraged with the results of the Innovation initiative, which reaffirms our
faith in this initiative.
Digitization for the future
Over the past two years, we have been rapidly digitizing all our critical
business processes, thereby touching employees, clients, business partners,
vendors and stakeholders. We began by building a suite of employee self-service
applications that would help our employees transact easier and faster. Not only
did this eliminate almost all paperwork in Wipro, but has also improved the
productivity of our operations support staff by 25%.
Today, Wipro's private network connects all locations of Wipro for data, video
and voice, thus transforming Wipro into a truly global company. Our multi-point
audio and video conferencing facilities have bridged the oceans and cut down the
need for travel. Our overseas clients rely on this for project reviews.
Our employee portal, designed by the employee for the employee, has become an
arena for learning, fun and employee bonding. It has brought quality processes,
knowledge management systems, and project management systems to the employee
desktop, thus enriching the work environment at Wipro and improving employee
productivity and work Quality.
While our web enabled billing and collection process is providing transparency
to our customers, our dealer portals provide the convenience of on-line
configuration and anytime order booking. Even our procurement process has become
more transparent to our vendors, as we use the digitized reverse auction process
to get the best prices. With bandwidth prices falling, we expect our
digitization initiative to gather even greater momentum, as more of our
stakeholders connect
Contributing to a Quality environment and society
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At Wipro, we are highly sensitive to the impact of our business activities on
environment and society. This is reflected in the measures taken to monitor and
control resources and activities that interact with nature and people.
Wipro's environment, health and safety policy
At Wipro, we are committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment to
all the employees and associates. This is done with the help of suitable
management systems that are aimed at:
Prevention of accidents - through fire, security losses, damages to property,
personal injuries and loss of life
- Conservation of natural resources - by efficient use of energy, water and
effective utilization of waste
- Prevention of pollution and hazards
- Compliance with legislation and regulations that are relevant to our
organization
- Development of safe work practices by regular training to employees and
support staff
- Periodic review of systems and processes aimed at continual improvement
Our efforts to improve our standards continuously and an effective Environmental
Management System (EMS) in place has resulted in us being awarded the ISO 14001
certification.
This in effect certifies that Wipro as an organisation has a series of
International Standards for EMS, voluntary standards that establish and
objectively evaluate EMS, `Process Standards' and not just `Performance
Standards', a standardized and internationally recognized blue print for
effective EMS and a frame work for setting and establishing EMS. Wipro's EMS
initiatives are designed for optimum utilization of natural resources and
constant monitoring of environmental impact while providing service.
Some of the initiatives under this umbrella include:
Energy audit - Energy conservation - Water management - Land contamination
management - Waste management - Employee health and safety - Adoption of parks -
Effective stationery usage - Overcoming resource depletion
The benefits of these initiatives are:
- Products/services are processed under a controlled environment
- Reduction of energy consumption by 10%
- Better monitoring and control systems
- Increased awareness among employees resulting in 38% reduction in food
wastage
- Quarter on quarter reduction of 10% in water consumption from conservation
measures
Wipro Applying Thought in Schools
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To Wipro, the future of the society depends on the ability of its children to
think analytically and creatively, and be a lifelong learner. Wipro believes
that the conventional education system is not equipping children with such
abilities. Children must acquire the skill of how to learn, rather than being
overwhelmed with a large amount of information, and must enjoy the process of
learning, so that what is learnt is retained.
We believe that the factors, which have led to the current state of education
are: examination boards test only the child's ability to recall facts, thus
reinforcing rote learning; curriculum is
designed to transfer maximum amount of information to the child, disregarding
the fact that it is impossible to do so given the rate at which "knowledge" is
growing; school managements are focused on delivering best results on board
examinations; teacher does not have an option but to focus on completing the
syllabus; parents want the child to get maximum marks so that more doors are
opened for the child. In the process, the real purpose of education is getting
lost. Therefore, we must influence changes with every stakeholder in the
education system.
The mission of the `Wipro Applying Thought in Schools' program is enhancing
creativity and problem solving skills among children by catalyzing systemic
changes. Recognizing that the teacher has the most profound influence on a
child's learning ability, at the heart of our program is teacher empowerment and
re-skilling. The teacher re-skilling program was launched in May 2001, to
provide comprehensive training on innovative teaching and assessment methods,
and support their active implementation within the classroom. Begun first in
Bangalore, its success has enabled us to take it forward to other cities in
India.
We are reaching out to parents in an attempt to change their world-view of the
purpose of education. A program to train parents is being put together, to
enable them to help their children acquire life skills, and support the changes
being brought about in the school.
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The School management, including the Principal, is the integral part of the
program to bring about systemic changes within the school to create an
environment for quality education. Wipro is helping the school management
recognize specific systemic changes and assist in its implementation. As the
program scales up, Wipro would lead changes in the curriculum and examination
system. For accelerating the systemic changes at the national level, we have
launched the Wipro Forum on Quality in Education. The Forum is intended to work
as a platform for sharing ideas and as a pressure group to bring about systemic
changes.
Wipro Applying Thought in promoting mind leaders
At Wipro, a natural extension of Applying Thought was to promote the many
talented youngsters in India, in the field of chess. While we took many
promising youngsters under our wing, our ambition saw fruition when P
Harikrishna, at 15, became India's youngest chess Grandmaster. His victory bore
testimony to the fact that `Applying Thought' is not just a business philosophy,
but also an approach to success in all human endeavor, be it at work or play.
This has further strengthened our resolve to make India a chess superpower. And
thus, we are nurturing five more budding talents in the future.
The Quality minds that lead Wipro -
Corporate Executive Council
Azim H Premji
Chairman and Managing Director
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Vivek Paul
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer - Wipro Technologies
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P S Pai
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting
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D A Prasanna
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, Wipro Healthcare and Life Science
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Ranjan Acharya
Corporate Vice President, Corporate Human Resources Development
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Vineet Agrawal Corporate Executive Vice President, Mission: Quality, Innovation,
Brand and Corporate Communication
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Sudip Banerjee
President Enterprise Solutions, Wipro Technologies
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Tamal Das Gupta
Chief Information Officer
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Pratik Kumar
Corporate Vice President, Human Resources
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Girish S Paranjpe
President Finance Solutions Wipro Technologies
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Dr. A L Rao
President, Telecom and Internetworking Group Wipro Technologies
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M Seethapathy Rao
Managing Director, Wipro Fluid Power Limited
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Suresh C Senapaty
Corporate Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Finance Officer
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WIPRO GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS LIMITED
4, Kadugodi Industrial Area
Sadaramangala, Bangalore - 560 067
Tel: 91-80-8452923 Fax: 91-80-8452924
Visit us at
www.wiprocorporate.com
www.wipro.com
www.wipro.co.in
WIPRO LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
Dear Shareholders,
The Directors present the Annual Report together with the audited Balance Sheet
and Profit and Loss Account of Wipro Limited for the year ended March 31, 2002.
AMALGAMATION/TRANSFER OF BUSINESS
The Scheme of Amalgamation of Wipro Net Limited with your Company has been
approved by the Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka on April 5, 2002. The erstwhile
Wipro Net Limited stands merged with your Company with retroactive effect from
April 1, 2001.
The shareholders of the Company had approved Ordinary Resolutions for transfer
of the Company's Fluid Power Business to Netkracker Limited with effect from the
opening hours of March 1, 2002 under Section 293(1)(a) of the Companies Act,
1956, by means of a Postal Ballot in accordance with the provisions contained in
Section 192A of the Companies Act, 1956 read with the Companies (Passing of the
Resolution by Postal Ballot) Rules, 2001. The name of Netkracker Limited has
since been changed to Wipro Fluid Power Limited.
The Annual Report of Wipro Limited for the year 2001-2002 has been prepared
after giving effect to the amalgamation of Wipro Net Limited as well as the
transfer of its Fluid Power Business.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. in Millions)
--------------------
2002 2001
------ ------
SALES AND OTHER INCOME 34,677 30,863
PROFIT BEFORE TAX 9,501 7,656
Provision for tax 840 992
PROFIT AFTER TAX BEFORE EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS 8,661 6,664
Extraordinary gains -- 16
PROFIT FOR THE YEAR 8,661 6,680
Appropriations:
Interim dividend on preference shares -- 18
Proposed dividend on equity shares 232 116
Corporate tax on distributed dividend -- 14
Transfer to Capital Redemption Reserve -- 250
Transfer to General Reserve 8,428 6,282
Sales of the Company for the year ended March 31, 2002 were Rs. 34,677 mns up by
12% and Profit after Tax before extraordinary items was Rs. 8,661 mns up by 30%
over the previous year. Over the last 10 years, the sales have grown at an
average annual rate of 22% and Profit after Tax at 53%. The Company's earnings
in foreign exchange of Rs. 23,495 million has recorded a growth of 30% over the
previous year.
DIVIDEND
The Directors recommend a dividend of Re. 1/- per equity share to be
appropriated from the profits of the year 2001-2002 subject to the approval by
the shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. After the approval of
the shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting, the dividend will be
paid in line with the applicable regulations.
DIRECTORS
Mr. Hamir K. Vissanji, retired as a Director of the Company with effect from
January 15, 2002. During the year, the nomination of Dr. Nachiket Mor, Nominee
Director on behalf of a Financial Institution was withdrawn by the Financial
Institution as per the Reserve Bank of India guidelines, consequent to his
appointment as a Director of ICICI Bank Limited. The Directors place on record
their appreciation of the invaluable contributions made by Mr. Hamir K. Vissanji
and Dr. Nachiket Mor during their tenure as Directors on the Board of Directors
of the Company.
Dr. Ashok Ganguly, Mr. B.C. Prabhakar and Mr. N. Vaghul, retire by rotation and
being eligible offer themselves for re-appointment.
Prof. Eisuke Sakakibara and Mr. P.M. Sinha were appointed as Additional
Directors of the Company with effect from January 1, 2002 till the conclusion of
the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
Mr. D.A. Prasanna was appointed as Additional Director of the Company with
effect from April 15, 2002 till the conclusion of the ensuing Annual General
Meeting. Mr. D.A. Prasanna was also appointed as a whole-time Director of the
Company designated as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's
Health Care & Life Science business with effect from April 19, 2002.
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Shareholders' consent is requested for re-appointment of Prof. Eisuke
Sakakibara, Mr. P.M. Sinha and Mr. D.A. Prasanna as Directors of the Company as
per the resolutions contained in the Notice convening the Annual General
Meeting.
FIXED DEPOSITS
Fixed deposits from the public as at March 31, 2002 were Rs. 0.84 mns and the
unclaimed deposits as on that date were Rs. 0.84 mns.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
As required under Section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956, the Annual Reports
together with Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account for the year ended
2001-2002, of the subsidiary companies, Wipro Trademarks Holding Limited, Wipro
Prosper Limited, Wipro Fluid Power Limited, Wipro Welfare Limited, Wipro Inc.,
Enthink Inc., and Wipro Japan KK are attached.
AUDITORS
The auditors M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the conclusion of ensuing Annual
General Meeting. The Audit Committee of the Board recommends the re-appointment
of M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co. as Auditors for a further period of one year.
PERSONNEL
Information as per Section 217(2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the
Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975 is given in the Annexure
forming part of this report.
WIPRO EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (WESOP)
The Wipro Employee Stock Option Plan 1999 and 2000 were successful in enhancing
employee commitment. The details of options granted under WESOP 1999 and 2000
are given below:
SL. NO. DESCRIPTION WESOP 1999 WESOP 2000
------- --------------- ---------- -----------
a. Options granted 5,230,150 9,266,144
b. Pricing formula Fair Market Value i.e., the market Fair Market Value i.e., the
price as defined by Securities and market price as defined by
Exchange Board of India from Securities and Exchange Board
time to time. of India from time to time.
c. Options vested 816,571 411,414
d. Options exercised 146,839 --
e. Total number of shares 146,839 --
arising as a result of
exercise of option
f. Options lapsed* -- --
g. Variation of terms of options NIL NIL
h. Money realized by exercise Rs. 160,120,926 --
of options
i. Total number of options in force 3,885,958 8,472,514
Employee wise details of options
granted to:
(i) Senior Management No. of Options
Vivek Paul 55,000 --
P.S. Pai 25,000 --
Dileep K. Ranjekar 16,000 --
Suresh C. Senapaty 16,000 12,500
Suresh Vaswani 13,500 12,500
M.S. Rao 4,000 --
Vineet Agrawal 9,000 12,500
(ii) Employees holding 5% or more NIL NIL
of the total number of options
granted during the year
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SL. NO. DESCRIPTION WESOP 1999 WESOP 2000
------- --------------- ---------- -----------
(iii) Identified employees who were NIL NIL
granted option, during any one
year, equal to or exceeding 1%
of the issued capital (excluding
outstanding warrants and
conversions) of the Company
at the time of grant
AS OF MARCH 31, 2002
j. Diluted Earnings Per Share pursuant
to issue of shares on exercise of
option calculated in accordance with
International Accounting
Standard (IAS) 33. 37.41
* As per the Plan, options lapse only on termination of the Plan. If an Option
expires or becomes unexercisable without having been exercised in full, the
unpurchased shares, which were subject thereto, shall become available for
future grant or sale under the Plan.
ADS 2000 STOCK OPTION PLAN
Under the ADS 2000 Stock Option Plan, 677,450 stock options representing 677,450
American Depository Shares each representing one equity share of Rs. 2/- each
were granted to the employees. The details of options granted under the ADS 2000
Stock Option Plan to Senior Management are given below:
OPTIONS GRANTED TO SENIOR MANAGEMENT
NAME OPTIONS
---- -------
Vivek Paul 160,000
Suresh C. Senapaty 3,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Our R&D efforts continued in the area of Routing and QoS protocols for the Edge
Routers. (Mpls, Ospf, Bgp4, Rsvp-TE, Cops and Sip). We have set up a lab for the
testing and integration of the above protocols, their inter-working and a lab
for Enterprise application testing with Rational under Interop.
We also built capabilities in 3G Core Networks (UMTS), 3G Testing, NGN
Applications, Management of Convergent Neworks, Metro Optical Networks and
Gigabit Ethernet by Standards body participation, reference solution building
and creating internal technology forums.
We have also envisioned and conceptualized a workflow solution "Flow-briX" to
address the comprehensive need for Publishing and Media segment.
The total expenditure on R&D during the year was Rs. 150 million including
capital expenditure of Rs. 23 million.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGOINGS
The foreign exchange earnings of the Company during the year were Rs. 23,495
million while the outgoings were Rs. 11,963 million (including materials
imported).
REPORT ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
A detailed report on Corporate Governance has been included separately in the
Annual Report.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give true and fair view of the state of affairs of the
Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss of the
Company for that period;
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c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting
fraud and other irregularities; and
d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Directors thank the Company's customers, suppliers, bankers, financial
institutions, Central and State Governments and shareholders for their
consistent support to the Company. The Directors also sincerely acknowledge the
significant contributions made by all the employees for their dedicated services
to the Company.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
AZIM H. PREMJI
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Chairman
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REPORT ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
INTRODUCTION
"Good Corporate Governance" is governance with the highest standards of
professionalism, integrity, accountability, fairness, transparency, social
responsiveness and business ethics. Good Corporate Governance, is a critical
doctrine to the global economic system, enabling the business to not only
effectively and efficiently achieve its corporate objectives but also provides
it the structure and methodology to sustain its survival in a globally
competitive environment. Your Company has always been managed with the
principles of "Good Corporate Governance".
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AT WIPRO
In 1999-2000, your Company initiated the process of making substantial
disclosures on the Company and its Board of Directors in the Annual Report and
strengthened it further during 2000-2001. While continuing to make similar
disclosures, we have benchmarked your Company's corporate practices with the
guidelines recommended by the SEBI Committee on Corporate Governance. We are
glad to inform you that the Company adheres to all the mandatory recommendations
made by the SEBI Committee.
I BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY SHALL HAVE AN OPTIMUM COMBINATION OF
EXECUTIVE AND NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WITH NOT LESS THAN FIFTY PER CENT OF
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMPRISING OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS. IN CASE THE
COMPANY HAS AN EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, AT LEAST HALF OF THE BOARD SHOULD
COMPRISE OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS.
The details of the Directors on the Board of your Company for the year
2001-2002 are given below:
NUMBER OF
MEMBERSHIP IN
DATE OF BOARDS OF OTHER
NAME CATEGORY DESIGNATION APPOINTMENT PUBLIC COMPANIES
---- -------- ----------- ----------- ----------------
Azim H. Premji Promoter Chairman & 01.09.1968 11
Director Managing Director
P.S. Pai Executive Director Vice Chairman 01.12.1998 Nil
Vivek Paul Executive Director Vice Chairman 26.07.1999 1
Hamir K. Vissanji* Non-Executive Director 21.09.1956 4
Director
N. Vaghul Non-Executive Director 09.06.1997 12
Director
B.C. Prabhakar Non-Executive Director 20.02.1997 Nil
Director
Jagdish N. Sheth Non-Executive Director 01.01.1999 2
Director
Ashok Ganguly Non-Executive Director 01.01.1999 7
Director
Eisuke Sakakibara** Non-Executive Additional Director 01.01.2002 Nil
Director
P.M. Sinha** Non-Executive Additional Director 01.01.2002 4
Director
Nachiket Mor*** Nominee Director 27.11.1996 3
Director
* resigned from the Board effective January 15, 2002.
** appointed as Additional Directors with effect from January 1, 2002.
*** resigned from the Board effective July 19, 2001.
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B ALL PECUNIARY RELATIONSHIP OR TRANSACTIONS OF THE NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
VIS A VIS THE COMPANY SHOULD BE DISCLOSED IN THE ANNUAL REPORT.
None of the non-executive directors have any pecuniary relationship or
transaction with the Company.
II AUDIT COMMITTEE
A QUALIFIED AND INDEPENDENT AUDIT COMMITTEE SHALL BE SET UP HAVING A MINIMUM
OF THREE INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AS MEMBERS. THE ROLE OF THE
AUDIT COMMITTEE SHALL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
- OVERSIGHT OF THE COMPANY'S FINANCIAL REPORTING PROCESS AND THE
DISCLOSURE OF ITS FINANCIAL INFORMATION TO ENSURE THAT THE FINANCIAL
STATEMENT IS CORRECT, SUFFICIENT AND CREDIBLE
- RECOMMENDING THE APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF EXTERNAL AUDITOR, FIXATION
OF AUDIT FEE AND ALSO APPROVAL FOR REPAYMENT FOR ANY OTHER SERVICES
- REVIEWING WITH MANAGEMENT THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS BEFORE
SUBMISSION TO THE BOARD
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors reviews, acts and reports to
the Board of Directors with respect to various auditing and accounting
matters, including the recommendation for appointment of our independent
auditors, the scope of the annual audits, fees to be paid to the independent
auditors, the performance of our independent auditors and our accounting
practices.
The Audit Committee also reviews audit observations of Wipro's Internal
Audit department pertaining to various Business Units (BU) and discusses the
same with BU Management. Wipro's Internal Audit is an ISO 9001:2000
certified function.
The Audit Committee comprises of the following three non-executive
directors. The Audit Committee reviews the audited quarterly and yearly
financial results with the Management before being submitted to the Board
for its consideration and approval.
Mr. N. Vaghul - Chairman
Messrs B.C. Prabhakar and P.M. Sinha - Members
NUMBER OF MEETINGS HELD NUMBER OF MEETINGS ATTENDED
NAME DURING THE YEAR DURING THE YEAR
---- ----------------------- ---------------------------
N. Vaghul 4 4
Nachiket Mor* 4 1
Hamir K. Vissanji** 4 2
B.C. Prabhakar*** 4 3
P.M. Sinha**** 4 1
* resigned with effect from July 19, 2001 and attended the meeting held up
to that date.
** resigned with effect from January 15, 2002.
*** co-opted with effect from July 19, 2001 and attended all the meetings
held after that date.
**** co-opted with effect from January 1, 2002 and attended all the meetings
held after that date.
III REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS
A. THE REMUNERATION OF THE NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS SHALL BE DECIDED BY THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Non-executive directors were paid professional fees for the services
rendered by them to the Company during the year 2001-02 which was approved
by the Board of Directors of the Company at their meetings held on April 19,
2001 and September 3, 2001.
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B. APPROPRIATE DISCLOSURES ON THE REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS HAVE TO BE MADE IN
THE SECTION ON THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT;
The details of actual payments made during the financial year 2001-02 to the
directors of the Company are given below:
a) REMUNERATION PAID TO PROMOTER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
(Rs. in 000s)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OTHER NO. OF NO. OF ADS
BASIC COMMISSION/ ANNUAL DEFERRED OPTIONS OPTIONS EXPIRATION
NAME SALARY INCENTIVES ALLOWANCE COMPENSATION* BENEFITS GRANTED GRANTED DATE
---- ------- ----------- --------- -------------- -------- -------- ---------- ---------
Azim H. Premji 2,100 9,717 -- 2,172 2,883 -- -- --
Vivek Paul ** 15,463 29,152 -- 1,533 2,319 55,000 160,000 Feb. 2009
P.S. Pai 2,280 9,717 1,500 1,509 616 25,000 -- June 2006
* In addition, the above directors were entitled to rent free furnished
residential accommodation or house rent allowance, leave travel concession,
reimbursement of medical expenses, personal accident insurance, fully
maintained Company car with driver, interest subsidy on housing loan,
gardener, watchman, electricity, servant and gratuity as per Company
policy. Deferred benefits in the case of Mr. Vivek Paul was Company's
contribution to Deferred Compensation Plan. In the case of others, it was
Company's contribution to Pension and Provident Fund.
** Figures mentioned are rupee equivalent - as amounts were paid in US
Dollars.
b) PROFESSIONAL FEES PAID TO NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Six of our non-executive directors were paid professional fees as detailed
hereunder:
Professional fees paid for the full year (2001-02)
(Rs. in 000s)
ASHOK GANGULY B.C. PRABHAKAR N. VAGHUL DR. JAGDISH N. SHETH *
------------- -------------- --------- ----------------------
Professional fees 800 400 800 1,221
* Figures mentioned above are Rupee equivalent - as amounts were paid in US
Dollars.
Professional fees paid for part of the year (2001-02) **
PROF. EISUKE SAKAKIBARA *** P.M. SINHA
---------------------------- ----------
Professional fees 486 250
** Professional fees paid only with effect from date of appointment i.e.
January 1, 2002.
*** Figures mentioned above are Rupee equivalent - as amounts were paid in
Yen.
IV COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS COMMITTEE
The Compensation and Benefit Committee of the Board of Directors, which was
formed in 1987, determines the salaries, benefits and stock option grants
for our employees, directors and other individuals compensated by our
Company. The Compensation Committee also administers our compensation
plans. The Compensation & Benefits Committee comprises of the following
three non-executive directors:
Mr. N. Vaghul - Chairman
Messrs B.C. Prabhakar and P.M. Sinha - Members
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NUMBER OF MEETINGS HELD NUMBER OF MEETINGS ATTENDED
NAME DURING THE YEAR DURING THE YEAR
---- ----------------------- ---------------------------
N. Vaghul 4 4
Hamir K. Vissanji * 4 2
B.C. Prabhakar 4 4
P.M. Sinha** 4 1
* resigned with effect from January 15, 2002.
** co-opted with effect from January 1, 2002 and attended all the meetings
held after that date.
V BOARD PROCEDURE
A. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A COMPANY SHALL MEET AT LEAST FOUR TIMES A YEAR,
WITH A MAXIMUM TIME GAP OF FOUR MONTHS BETWEEN ANY TWO MEETINGS.
During the last financial year, our Board met at four meetings held on
April 19, 2001, July 19, 2001, October 17, 2001 and January 17, 2002. All
the Board meetings were held at our Registered Office at Bangalore.
Agenda papers along with explanatory statements were circulated to the
Directors in advance for each of these meetings. All relevant information,
as recommended by the SEBI Committee on Corporate Governance as well as
items required under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement were placed before
the Board from time to time. The details of Board meetings held during
2001-02 and attendance record of each of the Directors are given below:
NAME OF THE DIRECTOR NUMBER OF MEETINGS HELD NUMBER OF MEETINGS ATTENDED
-------------------- ----------------------- ---------------------------
Azim H. Premji 4 4
P.S. Pai 4 4
Vivek Paul 4 4
Hamir K. Vissanji * 4 2
N. Vaghul 4 4
B.C. Prabhakar 4 4
Jagdish N. Sheth 4 3
Ashok Ganguly 4 4
Eisuke Sakakibara ** 4 1
P.M. Sinha** 4 1
Nachiket Mor*** 4 1
* resigned with effect from January 15, 2002.
** appointed with effect from January 1, 2002 and attended all meetings held
after that date. (***) resigned with effect from July 19, 2001 and attended
all meetings up to that date.
B. COMPANY FURTHER AGREES THAT A DIRECTOR SHALL NOT BE A MEMBER IN MORE THAN
10 COMMITTEES OR ACT AS CHAIRMAN OF MORE THAN FIVE COMMITTEES ACROSS ALL
COMPANIES IN WHICH HE IS A DIRECTOR.
None of the Directors of our Company were members in more than 10
committees nor acted as chairman of more than five committees across all
companies in which they were directors. Details of Board memberships
positions occupied by the Directors, across all companies, have been given
at the beginning of the section.
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VI MANAGEMENT
A MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS REPORT SHALL FORM PART OF THE ANNUAL
REPORT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS
The Company has provided a detailed Management Discussion and Analysis in
its Annual Report for the year 2001-02 in pages 82 through 89.
B DISCLOSURES MUST BE MADE BY THE MANAGEMENT TO THE BOARD RELATING TO ALL
MATERIAL FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS, WHERE THEY HAVE PERSONAL
INTEREST, THAT MAY HAVE A POTENTIAL CONFLICT WITH THE INTEREST OF THE
COMPANY AT LARGE.
During 2001-02, no transactions of material nature had been entered into by
the Company with the Management or their relatives that may have a
potential conflict with interests of the Company.
VII SHAREHOLDERS
A IN THE CASE OF APPOINTMENT OF A NEW DIRECTOR OR RE-APPOINTMENT OF A
DIRECTOR, THE SHAREHOLDERS MUST BE PROVIDED WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
- A BRIEF RESUME OF THE DIRECTOR
- NATURE OF HIS EXPERTISE IN SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL AREAS
- NAMES OF COMPANIES IN WHICH THE PERSON ALSO HOLDS THE DIRECTORSHIP AND
THE MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD
The notice for the Annual General Meeting held on July 19, 2001 complied
with this requirement.
B ALL INFORMATION LIKE QUARTERLY RESULT, PRESENTATION MADE BY COMPANIES TO
ANALYST SHALL BE PUT ON COMPANY'S WEBSITE
Our Quarterly and Annual results as well as copies of the Press Releases
and Company Presentations were displayed on the following web-sites i.e.
www.wiproindia.com and www.wipro.com
Apart from the above, we also regularly provided the information to the
stock exchanges as per the requirements of the Listing Agreements and
updated our websites periodically to include information on new
developments and business opportunities of the Company.
C A BOARD COMMITTEE UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF A NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SHALL
BE FORMED TO SPECIFICALLY LOOK INTO THE REDRESSING OF SHAREHOLDERS' AND
INVESTORS' COMPLAINTS LIKE TRANSFER OF SHARES, NON RECEIPT OF BALANCE
SHEET, NON RECEIPT OF DECLARED DIVIDENDS, ETC. THIS COMMITTEE SHALL BE
DESIGNATED AS 'SHAREHOLDERS/INVESTORS GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE'
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SHAREHOLDERS'/INVESTORS' GRIEVANCES COMMITTEE
The Administrative and Shareholders/Investors Grievance Committee
administered the following:
a. redress shareholder and investor's compliants etc. relating to transfer
of shares, non receipt of balance sheet, non receipt of declared
dividends
b. consolidate and sub-divide share certificates
c. approve transmission and issue of duplicate/fresh share certificate
d. open and close Bank accounts
e. grant and revoke general, specific and banking powers of attorney
The composition of the Administrative and Shareholders/Investors Grievances
Committee is as follows:
Mr. B.C. Prabhakar - Chairman
Mr. Azim H. Premji - Member
D THE BOARD OF THE COMPANY SHALL DELEGATE THE POWER OF SHARE TRANSFER TO AN
OFFICER OR A COMMITTEE OR TO THE REGISTRAR AND SHARE TRANSFER AGENTS SO AS
TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS OF SHARE TRANSFERS.
The Board has delegated the power of share transfer to Registrar and Share
Transfer Agents who processes share transfers in less than 7 days from the
date of lodgement in the case of shares held in physical form.
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VIII COMPLIANCE
A CERTIFICATION SHALL BE OBTAINED FROM THE AUDITORS OF THE COMPANY
REGARDING COMPLIANCE OF CONDITIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AS STIPULATED
AND THE SAME SENT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS ALONG WITH THE DIRECTORS' REPORT
WHICH IS SENT ANNUALLY TO ALL THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY.
The certificate obtained from our statutory Auditors M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co.,
dated April 19, 2002 appears at page 50 of the Annual Report.
IX COMPLIANCE OFFICER AND ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE
The name and designation of the Compliance Officer of the Company is Mr.
Suresh C. Senapaty, Corporate Executive Vice President - Finance.
In addition, shareholders/ADR holders can contact Mr. J. Shankar, Corporate
Treasurer in India and Mr. R. Sridhar in USA on financial matters and Mr.
Satish Menon, Corporate Vice President-Legal & Company Secretary on all
legal and secretarial matters.
Their contact details are given below:
NAME TELEPHONE NUMBER EMAIL ID FAX NO.
---- ---------------- -------- -------
S.C. Senapaty 91-080-8440011-Extn 113
91-080-8440055 (Direct) suresh.senapaty@wipro.com 91-080-8440104
J. Shankar 91-080-8440011-Extn 170
91-080-8440079 (Direct) shankar.jaganathan@wipro.com 91-080-8440051
Satish Menon 91-080-8440011-Extn 180
91-080-8440078 (Direct) satish.menon@wipro.com 91-080-8440051
R. Sridhar 001-408 557 4402 sridhar.ramabsubbu@wipro.com 001 408 615 7178
X GENERAL BODY MEETINGS
1. DETAILS ON ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS (AGM):
1.1 Location and time, where last three AGMs held:
YEAR LOCATION DATE TIME
---- -------- ---- ----
1998-99 Taj Residency, Bangalore July 29, 1999 4.30 pm
1999-00 Taj Residency, Bangalore July 27, 2000 4.30 pm
2000-01 Doddakannelli, July 19, 2001 4.30 pm
Sarjapur Road, Bangalore
1.2 Whether special resolutions were put through postal ballot last year?
No
Generally, all the resolutions in the AGM are passed through show of hands.
Attendance at AGMs and EGMs during the last financial year:
July 19, 2001 At the Annual General Meeting, all the Directors were
present.
July 19, 2001 At the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting, all the
Directors were present.
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2. DETAILS ON EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETINGS (EGM):
2.1 Location and time, where last three EGMs held:
YEAR LOCATION DATE TIME
---- -------- ---- ----
1998-99 Ganesha Complex, December 13, 1999 11.00 am
Madiwala, Bangalore
1999-00 Taj Residency, Bangalore April 26, 2000 4.30 pm
2000-01 Doddakannelli, July 19, 2001 5.30 pm
Sarjapur Road, Bangalore
3. DETAILS ON RESOLUTIONS PASSED THROUGH POSTAL BALLOT:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 192A of the Companies Act, 1956 read
with the Companies (Passing of the Resolution by Postal Ballot) Rules,
2001, consent of the shareholders was obtained by way of Ordinary
Resolutions passed under Section 293(1)(a) of the Companies Act, 1956, for
transfer of one of the Company's undertaking engaged in the business of
Fluid Power to Netkracker Limited with effect from opening hours of March
1, 2002. The name of Netkracker Limited has since been changed to Wipro
Fluid Power Limited.
The Scrutinizer appointed for the purpose of conducting the Postal Ballot
exercise was Mr. T.S. Suresh, Partner, King & Partridge, Advocates &
Solicitors.
The Company complied with all the procedural formalities for the conduct of
Postal Ballot.
XI GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS INFORMATION
The following information would be useful to our shareholders:
Sl. No. Information
1. Annual General Meeting
- Date and Time July 18, 2002 at 4.30 pm
- Venue Wipro Limited
Doddakannelli
Sarjapur Road
Bangalore 560 035
2. Financial Calendar (Tentative schedule)
- Financial reporting for the quarter ended June 30, 2002 Second fortnight of July 2002
- Financial reporting for the half year ending
September 30, 2002 Second fortnight of October 2002
- Financial reporting for the half year ending
December 31, 2002 Second fortnight of January 2003
- Financial reporting for the year ending
March 31, 2003 Second fortnight of April 2003
- Annual General Meeting for the year ending
March 31, 2003 Second fortnight of July 2003
3. Book Closure Date
(Both days inclusive) July 3-July 18, 2002
4. Dividend Payment Date Dividend as recommended by the Board of
Directors, if declared at the meeting, will
be payable on or after July 18, 2002, subject
to deduction of tax, if any.
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5. Listing on Stock Exchanges at:
EQUITY SHARES
Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited Stock Exchange, Ahmedabad
No. 51, First Cross, J.C. Road, Bangalore 560 027 Opp. Sahajanand College
Kamadhenu Complex
The Stock Exchange, Mumbai Panjara Pole
Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Dalal Street Ahmedabad 380 015
Mumbai 400 023
The Kolkatta Stock Exchange Association Ltd.
National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. 7, Lyons Range
Exchange Plaza, 5th Floor, Plot No. C/1, G Block Kolkatta 700 001
Bandra East, Mumbai 400 051
Cochin Stock Exchange Ltd.
The Delhi Stock Exchange Association Ltd. 36/165, 4th Floor, MES Building
3/1, Asaf Ali Road, DSE House Judges Avenue, Kaloor
New Delhi 110 002 Cochin 682 017
AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS (ADRS)
New York Stock Exchange
60 Wall Street
New York
Listing fees for the year 2001-02 and 2002-03 have been paid to the Indian
Stock Exchanges Listing fees to New York Stock Exchange for listing of ADRs
has been paid for the calendar year 2002.
6. Stock Code:
The Stock Exchange, Mumbai Wipro
National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. Wipro
New York Stock Exchange (ADRs) WIT
7. Stock Market Data:
PRICE IN NSE S&P CNX NIFTY INDEX
DURING EACH MONTH DURING EACH MONTH WIPRO PRICE NIFTY INDEX
----------------- ------------------- MOVEMENT % MOVEMENT %
HIGH LOW HIGH LOW ---------------- ---------------
MONTH Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. HIGH LOW HIGH LOW
----- ----- ----- ------ ------ ---- --- ---- ---
April '01 1,588 759 1,172 1,000
May '01 1,868 1,451 1,226 1,096 18 91 5 10
June '01 1,774 1,221 1,176 1,060 -5 -16 -4 -3
July '01 1,459 1,367 1,127 1,047 -18 12 -4 -1
Aug '01 1,565 1,362 1,084 1,052 7 0 -4 0
Sept '01 1,525 802 1,059 849 -3 -41 -2 -19
Oct '01 1,199 812 1,000 884 -21 1 -6 4
Nov '01 1,564 1,010 1,098 974 30 24 10 10
Dec '01 1,974 1,421 1,133 1,010 26 41 3 4
Jan '02 1,875 1,461 1,122 1,052 -5 3 -1 4
Feb '02 1,785 1,562 1,206 1,069 -5 7 8 2
Mar '02 1,894 1,550 1,201 1,118 6 -1 0 5
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RELATIVE PERFORMANCE OF WIPRO SHARE PRICE VS. S&P CNX NIFTY INDEX
[PERFORMANCE GRAPH]
8. Registrar & Share Transfer Agents : Karvy Consultants Limited
51/2, Vanivilas Road
T.K.N. Complex
Opp. National College
Basavangudi
Bangalore
Tel: 080-6613400/6621192/93
Fax: 080-6621169
9. Share Transfer System : The turnaround time for completion of
transfer of shares in physical form
is generally less than 7 days from
the date of receipt, if the
documents are clear in all respects.
We have internally fixed turnaround
time for closing the queries/
complaints received from the
shareholders.
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10. Details of queries/complaints received and resolved during the year
2001-2002.
NAME OF QUERIES/COMPLAINTS RECEIVED RESOLVED UNRESOLVED
-------------------------- -------- -------- ----------
No. of requests for change of address 122 122 --
No. of requests for transmission 9 9 --
Non receipt of share certificates/bonus shares 13 13 --
Non receipt of Dividend/Revalidation of
Dividend Warrants 131 131 --
Letters from SEBI & Stock Exchanges 3 3 --
Issue of duplicate share certificates 6 5 1*
Splitting of shares 17 17 --
* Pending completion of formalities by the shareholder. Duplicate share
certificate would be issued thereafter.
11. Distribution of Shareholding as of March 31, 2002:
12. Categories of Shareholding as on March 31, 2002:
NO. OF % OF
Sl. NO. CATEGORY SHARES HELD SHAREHOLDING
------- -------- ------------- ------------
A PROMOTERS HOLDING
1. Promoters
- Promoter in his capacity as partner of Partnership firms 162,586,800 69.94
- Promoter in his capacity as director of Private Limited
Companies 22,746,300 9.78
- Promoter in his individual capacity 9,340,510 4.02
- Promoter Directors' Relatives 453,500 0.20
B NON PROMOTER HOLDING
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
Mutual Funds and UTI 1,713,774 0.74
Banks, Financial Institutions, Insurance Companies
(Central/State Government Institutions/Non Government
Institutions) 1,210,715 0.52
FIIs* 6,806,985 2.93
C OTHERS
Private Corporate Bodies 4,007,959 1.72
Indian Public 16,549,183 7.11
NRIs/OCBs 5,083,140 2.19
Directors and Relatives 617,875 0.27
Trusts 1,348,948 0.58
TOTAL 232,465,689 100.00
* includes 2,587,080 shares traded as ADRs.
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13. Dematerialisation of Shares and Liquidity : Over 96% of our outstanding
equity shares have been
dematerialized upto March 31,
2002.
14. Outstanding convertible instruments : As of March 31, 2002, there are
no outstanding convertible
instruments.
15. Outstanding ADRs as of March 31, 2002 : Outstanding ADRs as of March
31,2002 are 2,587,080.
Each ADR represents one
underlying Equity Share.
16. Address of our depository for ADS : Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
of New York
60, Wall Street
New York, NY 10260
Tel: 001-(212) 648-3208
Fax: 001-(212) 648-5576
17. Name and address of the custodian : ICICI Limited
for ADS in India ICICI Towers
Bandra Kurla Complex
Bandra East
Mumbai 400 051.
Tel: 91-22-6531414
Fax: 91-22-6531165
18. Plant locations :
a. Our Software Development Facilities are located at:
Sl. NO. ADDRESS CITY
------- ------- ----
1 S B Towers, 88, M G Road Bangalore 560 001
2 Information Technology Park, Whitefield Bangalore 560 066
3 8, 7th Main Block, Koramangala Bangalore 560 095
4 K-312, Koramangala Industrial Layout, V Block, Koramangala Bangalore 560 095
5 271-271A, Sri Ganesh Complex, Hosur Main Road, Madiwala I Bangalore 560 068
6 26, Sri Chamundi Complex, Madiwala II, Bommanahalli,
Hosur Main Road Bangalore 560 068
7 Madiwala Village, Bangalore-Hosur Road, Madiwala III Bangalore 560 068
8 111, Mount Road, Guindy Chennai 600 032
9 138, Shollinganallur, Old Mahabalipuram Road Chennai 600 019
10 A314, Block III, KSSIDC Multistoried Complex,
Keonics Electronic City Bangalore 561 229
11 1-8-448, Lakshmi Buildings, S P Road, Begumpet Secunderabad 500 016
12 Survey Nos. 64, Serilingampali Mandal, Madhapur Hyderabad 500 033
13 Sharada Arcade, 685/2B & 685/2C, Satara Road Pune 411 037
14 Plot No. 2, MIDC, Infotech Park, Hingewadi Pune 411 027
15 3rd Floor, International Technology Centre,
Belapur, Navi Mumbai Mumbai 400 614
16 Plot No. 480-481, Section 20, Udyog Vihar
Phase II Gurgaon 122 015
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b. Our manufacturing facilities are located at:
Sl. NO. ADDRESS CITY
------- ------- ----
1 P O Box No.12, Dist. Jalgaon Amalner 425 401
2 L-8, MIDC, Waluj Aurangabad 431 136
3 105, Hootagalli Industrial Area Mysore 571 186
4 A-28, Thattanchavady Industrial Estate Pondicherry 605 102
5 10, Thiruvandar Koil Village, Thirubhuvanai, Villainur Taluk Pondicherry 605 102
6 120/1, Vellancheri Guduvanchery 603 202
7 Plot No. 4, Anthrasanahalli Industrial Area Tumkur 572 106
19 Members can contact us at our registered office:
We have examined the compliance of conditions of Corporate Governance by Wipro
Limited (the Company) for the year ended on March 31, 2002, as stipulated in
Clause 49 of the Listing Agreements of the Company with the stock exchanges.
The compliance of conditions of Corporate Governance is the responsibility of
the Management. Our examination was limited to procedures and implementation
thereof, adopted by the Company for ensuring the compliance of the conditions of
Corporate Governance. It is neither an audit nor an expression of opinion on the
financial statement of the Company.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, we certify that the Company has complied with the
conditions of Corporate Governance as stipulated in the above mentioned Listing
Agreements.
We have been explained that no investor grievances are pending for a period
exceeding one month against the Company as per the records maintained by the
Company.
We further state that such compliance is neither an assurance as to the future
viability of the Company nor the efficiency or effectiveness with which the
Management has conducted the affairs of the Company.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
INDIAN GAAP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Financial Statements - Wipro Limited
Auditors' Report 53-55
Financial Statements 56-81
Management Discussion & Analysis 82-89
Reconciliation of Profits between
Indian GAAP and US GAAP 90-91
Information about Subsidiaries 92
Consolidated Financial Statements (Indian GAAP) 93-100
Financial Statements of Subsidiaries 101-161
US GAAP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Summary of Selected Consolidated Financial Data 163
Management Discussion & Analysis 164-178
Risk Factors 179-184
Financial Statements 185-210
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WIPRO LIMITED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
(IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES IN INDIA)
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO LIMITED
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Limited, as at March 31,
2002 and also the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date
annexed thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
mis-statement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept
by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account and with the audited returns
from the branches;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information required
by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give a true and
fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted
in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the year
ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO LIMITED
(i) The Company has maintained proper records showing quantitative details
and the situation of its fixed assets. A major portion of fixed assets
have been physically verified by the management during the year. In our
opinion, the frequency of verification of fixed assets by the management
is reasonable, having regard to the size of the Company and the nature
of its assets. No material discrepancy has been noticed between the book
records and the assets physically verified.
(ii) None of the fixed assets of the Company have been revalued during the
year.
(iii) Stocks of finished goods, stores, spare parts and raw materials other
than with the third parties have been physically verified by the
management at reasonable intervals. There is a process of obtaining
confirmation in respect of stocks with third parties.
(iv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given
to us, the procedures for physical verification of stocks followed by
the management are reasonable and adequate in relation to the size of
the Company and the nature of its business.
(v) The discrepancies between the physical stocks and the book stocks were
not material and have been properly dealt within the books of account.
(vi) In our opinion, the valuation of stocks is fair and proper in accordance
with the normally accepted accounting principles, and is on the same
basis as in the preceding year.
(vii) The Company has not taken any loans secured or unsecured from companies,
firms or other parties listed in the register maintained under Section
301 of the Companies Act, 1956. We have been informed that there are no
companies under the same management as defined under Section 370(1-B) of
the Companies Act, 1956.
(viii) The Company has granted unsecured interest free/interest-bearing loans
to its subsidiaries and to companies which are listed in the register
maintained under Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956. The terms and
conditions of such loans are, prima facie, not prejudicial to the
interest of the Company.
(ix) In respect of loans and advances in the nature of loans given by the
Company, the parties/employees have generally repaid the principle
amount and interest as per terms, wherever stipulated.
(x) The Company has adequate internal control procedures commensurate with
its size and nature of its business for the purchase of stores, raw
materials including components, plant and machinery, equipment and other
assets and for the sale of goods.
(xi) The transactions for purchase of goods and materials and sale of goods,
materials and services, made in pursuance of contracts or agreements
entered in the register maintained under Section 301 of the Companies
Act, 1956, as aggregating during the year to Rs. 50,000/- or more in
respect of each party, have been made at prices which are generally
reasonable having regard to prevailing market prices for such goods,
materials, or services or the prices at which transactions for similar
goods or services have been made with other parties.
(xii) As explained to us, the Company has a regular procedure for
determination of unserviceable or damaged stores and raw material. In
our opinion, adequate provision has been made in the accounts for the
estimated loss on the items so determined.
(xiii) The Company has not accepted any public deposits during the year. The
amount outstanding as on the balance sheet date is only in respect of
unclaimed deposits accepted in earlier years. On account of this no
comment is called for in respect of the compliance of Section 58A of the
Companies Act, 1956 and the Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules,
1975.
(xiv) In our opinion, the Company has maintained reasonable records for the
sale and disposal of realisable by-products and scrap.
(xv) The Company has a system of internal audit which, in our opinion, is
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
(xvi) We have broadly reviewed the books of account maintained by the
Company pursuant to the rules made by the Central Government under
Section 209(1)(d) of the Companies Act, 1956 for maintenance of Cost
records in respect of the Vanaspati, Soaps, Lighting and Electronic
products and are of opinion that, prima facie, the prescribed accounts
and records have been maintained. We have not, however, made a detailed
examination of the records with a view to determining whether they are
accurate or complete.
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(xvii) The Company has been generally regular in depositing Provident Fund and
Employees State Insurance dues with the appropriate authorities, except
that in a few cases there were minor delays in depositing the dues.
(xviii) There are no undisputed amounts in respect of Income Tax, Wealth Tax,
Sales Tax, Customs Duty and Excise Duty which, as at the Balance Sheet
date, were outstanding for a period of more than six months from the
date they became payable.
(xix) On the basis of our examination of the books of account and the
information and explanations given to us, there are no personal expenses
which have been charged to the revenue account other than those incurred
in terms of contractual obligations or in accordance with generally
accepted business practice.
(xx) The Company is not a sick industrial company within the meaning of
Section 3 (1) (o) of the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions)
Act, 1985.
(xxi) In respect of service activities, the Company has a reasonable system,
commensurate with its size and nature of business for:
(a) recording receipts, issues and consumption of materials and
allocating materials consumed to the relative jobs/projects.
(b) allocating man-hours utilised to the respective jobs/projects.
(c) authorisation at appropriate levels and an adequate system of
internal control on issue of stores and allocation of stores and man
power to jobs/projects.
(xxii) The business activity carried on by the Company includes letting out
immovable property on rental basis. For such activities, maintenance of
records of materials, stores, man-hours etc., is not considered
necessary.
(xxiii) As regards the trading activity of the Company, during the year the
damaged goods have been determined and suitable value adjustment has
been made in the books of account.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
----------------------------
AS OF MARCH 31,
----------------------------
SCHEDULE 2002 2001
-------- ---------- ----------
SOURCES OF FUNDS
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS
Share Capital 1 464,931 464,866
Share application money pending allotment (refer note 11) 2,399 2,345
Reserves and Surplus 2 24,860,451 19,184,623
---------- ----------
25,327,781 19,651,834
---------- ----------
LOAN FUNDS
Secured loans 3 254,872 400,644
Unsecured loans 4 13,659 47,397
---------- ----------
268,531 448,041
---------- ----------
TOTAL 25,596,312 20,099,875
========== ==========
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
FIXED ASSETS
Gross block 5 9,615,514 9,020,225
Less: Depreciation 4,503,870 3,793,678
---------- ----------
Net Block 5,111,644 5,226,547
Capital work-in-progress and advances 1,162,642 797,958
---------- ----------
6,274,286 6,024,505
---------- ----------
INVESTMENTS 6 4,784,557 1,636,443
DEFERRED TAX ASSETS 238,822 --
CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS AND ADVANCES
Inventories 7 748,364 1,152,530
Sundry Debtors 8 6,434,866 6,176,657
Cash and Bank balances 9 2,935,434 4,463,421
Loans and advances 10 10,177,581 5,992,691
---------- ----------
20,296,245 17,785,299
---------- ----------
CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS
Liabilities 11 5,366,645 4,813,400
Provisions 12 630,953 532,972
---------- ----------
5,997,598 5,346,372
---------- ----------
NET CURRENT ASSETS 14,298,647 12,438,927
---------- ----------
TOTAL 25,596,312 20,099,875
========== ==========
Significant accounting policies and notes to accounts 19
As per our report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
Partner Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
(Rs. in 000s)
-----------------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------
SCHEDULE 2002 2001
-------- ---------- ---------
INCOME
Sales and Services 34,161,515 30,512,350
Other Income 13 1,553,060 695,463
---------- ---------
35,714,575 31,207,813
========== =========
EXPENDITURE
Cost of goods sold 14 20,779,161 18,076,507
Selling, general and administrative expenses 15 5,405,675 5,406,929
Interest 16 28,941 68,890
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26,213,777 23,552,326
========== =========
PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION AND NON-
RECURRING / EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS 9,500,798 7,655,487
========== =========
Provision for taxation (refer note 15) 839,707 992,000
PROFIT AFTER TAX BEFORE NON-
RECURRING / EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS 8,661,091 6,663,487
---------- ---------
Non recurring / extraordinary items 18 -- 16,036
========== =========
PROFIT FOR THE PERIOD 8,661,091 6,679,523
========== =========
APPROPRIATIONS
Interim Dividend on Preference Shares -- 18,043
Proposed Dividend on Equity Shares 232,466 116,217
Corporate tax on dividend -- 13,839
Transfer to Capital Redemption Reserve -- 250,000
TRANSFER TO GENERAL RESERVE 8,428,625 6,281,424
Significant accounting policies and notes to accounts 19
As per our report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
Partner Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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AS OF MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AUTHORISED
375,000,000 (2001: 375,000,000) Equity shares of Rs. 2 each 750,000 750,000
2,500,000 (2001: 2,500,000) 10.25% Redeemable Cumulative Preference 250,000 250,000
Shares of Rs. 100 each --------- ---------
1,000,000 1,000,000
--------- ---------
ISSUED, SUBSCRIBED AND PAID-UP
232,465,689 (2001: 232,433,019) equity shares of Rs. 2 each 464,931 464,866
--------- ---------
464,931 464,866
========= =========
Notes:
1. Of the above equity shares :
i) 226,905,825 equity shares (2001: 226,905,825), have been allotted as
fully paid bonus shares by capitalisation of Share Premium of Rs.
32,639 and General Reserves of Rs. 421,173.
ii) 1,325,525 equity shares (2001: 1,325,525) have been allotted as fully
paid-up, pursuant to a scheme of amalgamation, without payment being
received in cash.
iii) 3,162,500 shares representing 3,162,500 American Depository Receipts
issued during 2000-2001 pursuant to American Depository offering by
the Company.
Corresponding figures for 2000-2001 are given below current year's figures
a) Capital subsidy received.
b) Refer note 2 of schedule 19.
c) Transfers from Profit and Loss account.
d) Rs. 35,414 (2001: 123,759) pursuant to issue of shares under Employee Stock
Option Plan and Rs. Nil (2001: Rs. 5,796,449) on account of American
Depository Offering by the Company, net of offering expenses of Rs. Nil
(2001: Rs. 273,429) and Rs. 430,613 on account of amalgamation of Wipro Net
Limited with Wipro Limited.
e) Transfer to Profit and Loss account Rs. 39,388 (2001: Rs. 58,843) and
reduction on account of sale of revalued assets and other adjustments Rs.
Nil (2001: Rs. 98,195). The net amount of Rs. 850,684 is adjusted against
revaluation reserve (refer note 5 of schedule 19).
f) Transfer to General Reserve Rs. 14,500 (2001: Rs. Nil).
g) Transfer from Profit and Loss account Rs. 8,428,625 (2001: Rs. 6,281,424).
h) Deficit arising on account of amalgamation of Wipro Net Limited with Wipro
Limited (refer note 6 of Schedule 19).
i) Benefits arising on employee stock incentive plans Rs. 55,646 (2001: Nil)
and deferred tax assets arising on temporary differences Rs. 47,647 (2001:
Nil).
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AS OF MARCH 31,
Note --------------------------
SCHEDULE 3 SECURED LOANS Reference 2002 2001
------- -------
FROM BANKS
Cash credit facility a 204,997 203,187
EXTERNAL COMMERCIAL BORROWINGS b -- 127,582
FROM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Asset Credit Scheme c 48,200 68,200
DEVELOPMENT LOAN FROM
GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA d 1,675 1,675
------- -------
254,872 400,644
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NOTES:
a. Secured by hypothecation of stock-in-trade, book debts, stores and spares,
and secured/to be secured by a second mortgage over certain immovable
properties.
b. Foreign currency loan secured by hypothecation of movable fixed assets in
certain software development centres at Bangalore and specific plant and
machinery of erstwhile Fluid Power unit.
c. Secured by hypothecation of specific machinery/assets.
d. Secured by a pari-passu second mortgage over immovable properties at Mysore
and hypothecation of movable properties other than inventories, book debts
and specific equipments referred to in Note a above.
AS OF MARCH 31,
------------------------
SCHEDULE 4 UNSECURED LOANS 2002 2001
------ ------
FIXED DEPOSITS 843 886
OTHER LOANS AND ADVANCES
Interest free loan from government 11,566 45,261
Loans from state financial institutions 1,250 1,250
------ ------
13,659 47,397
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SCHEDULE 5 FIXED ASSETS (Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PARTICULARS GROSS BLOCK PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------
As on AS ON As on Depreciation
April 1, Deductions/ MARCH 31, April 1, for the
2001 Additions adjustments 2002 2001 period
---------- ----------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ------------
Land 513,285 231,676 160,045 584,916 241 5,269
Buildings 1,713,059 375,983 630,423 1,458,619 154,923 35,548
Railway siding 4,000 -- 3,988 12 3,800 --
Plant and Machinery 5,453,816 1,599,553 1,167,848 5,885,521 3,078,388 1,098,352
Furniture, fixture and
equipment 1,016,421 287,421 41,250 1,262,592 405,258 205,873
Vehicles 316,568 149,742 52,834 413,476 148,881 73,391
Technical Know-how 3,076 -- (7,302) 10,378 2,187 464
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
TOTAL 9,020,225 2,644,375 2,049,086 9,615,514 3,793,678 1,418,897
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
March 31, 2001 6,757,891 2,576,521 314,187 9,020,225 2,928,679 1,038,267
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
(Rs. in 000s)
----------------------------------------------------------------
PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION NET BLOCK
--------------------------- -----------------------------
AS ON AS ON As on
Deductions/ MARCH 31, MARCH 31, March 31,
adjustments 2002 2002 2001
----------- ---------- ---------- ----------
Land -- 5,510 579,406 513,044
Buildings 99,505 90,966 1,367,653 1,558,136
Railway siding 3,788 12 -- 200
Plant and Machinery 554,649 3,622,091 2,263,430 2,375,428
Furniture, fixture and
equipment 20,910 590,221 672,371 611,163
Vehicles 37,151 185,121 228,355 167,687
Technical Know-how (7,298) 9,949 429 889
-------- ---------- ---------- ----------
TOTAL 708,705 4,503,870 5,111,644 5,226,547
-------- ---------- ---------- ----------
March 31, 2001 173,268 3,793,678 5,226,547
-------- ---------- ----------
a. Revaluation:
The fixed assets of the Company were revalued as at March 31, 1997, at
depreciated replacement values based on valuation by an independent firm of
chartered surveyors and valuers. The depreciated replacement values were
arrived on the basis of market values, present condition and balance
expected useful life of the asset. Where relevant, Indices published by the
Reserve Bank of India and Confederation of Indian Industry were used in the
valuation. The following amounts were added to the fixed assets on
revaluation.
GROSS DEPRECIATION REVALUED
BLOCK BLOCK NET BLOCK NET BLOCK
---------- ------------ ---------- ----------
Land 123,532 -- 123,532 166,097
Buildings (including tenancy rights) 685,341 37,541 647,800 791,034
Railway siding 3,988 2,988 1,000 1,000
Plant and Machinery 771,697 245,576 526,121 1,644,994
Furniture, fixture and equipment 128,543
Vehicles 84,405
Technical Know-how (7,302) (7,360) 58 2,808
Patents and trade marks 1
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
TOTAL 1,577,256 278,745 1,298,511 2,818,882
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
b. Land includes leasehold land Rs. 9,978 (2001: Rs. 9,978)
c. Buildings:
i) includes shares worth Rs. 2 (2001: Rs. 2)
ii) includes leasehold land/property Rs. 4,241 (2001: Rs. 4,241)
iii) is net of depreciation during construction period.
d. Additions to gross block and provision for depreciation includes Rs. 573,272
and Rs. 143,019 respectively on account of assets transferred on
amalgamation of Wipro Net.
e. Deduction/adjustment in value of land Rs. 10,302 and building Rs. 5,597
represents refund of stamp duty paid on acquisition, by the Government of
Tamil Nadu.
f. Deduction to gross block and provision for depreciation includes Rs. 449,603
and Rs. 241,210 on account of sale of Wipro Fluid Power business (refer note
10)
g. Deduction/adjustment in Gross Block and in provision for depreciation
includes Rs. Nil (2001: Rs. 123,818) pertaining to increased value of
revalued assets sold/ discarded. The net amount of Rs. Nil (2001: Rs.
98,195) has been adjusted from revaluation reserve.
h. Deduction/adjustment in gross block and provision for depreciation is net of
Rs. 850,684 of the amounts added on revaluation adjusted against the
revaluation reserve. (refer note 5).
i. Deductions to gross block and deductions/adjustments of provision for
depreciation of the previous year ended March 31, 2001 include Rs. 203,911
and Rs. 114,884 respectively on account of assets of erstwhile Peripherals
Division transferred to Wipro e-Peripherals Limited (refer note 9).
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SCHEDULE 6 INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31,
(Rs. in 000s except share numbers and face value -----------------------
All shares are fully paid up unless otherwise stated NUMBER FACE VALUE 2002 2001
------ ---------- ---------- ----------
INVESTMENTS - LONG TERM (AT COST)
INVESTMENTS IN SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
UNQUOTED
EQUITY SHARES
Wipro Prosper Ltd. 200 Rs. 10 2 2
Wipro Trademarks Holding Ltd. 200 Rs. 10 2 2
Wipro Inc, USA 1,200 US $ 2,500 129,270 129,270
Wipro Japan KK, Japan 650 JPY 50,000 9,738 9,738
Wipro Net Ltd. (refer note 6) 20,600,927 Rs. 10 -- 1,192,460
Wipro Welfare Ltd. 66,171 Rs. 10 662 662
Wipro Fluid Power Ltd. (2001: 1,863,520 shares) 7,296,520 Rs. 10 72,965 18,635
---------- ----------
212,639 1,350,769
---------- ----------
PREFERENCE SHARES
9% cumulative redeemable preference shares held in
Wipro Trademarks Holding Ltd. 1,800 Rs. 10 18 18
---------- ----------
18 18
---------- ----------
INVESTMENTS IN EQUITY SHARES OF OTHER COMPANIES
UNQUOTED
Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd. # 4,900,000 Rs. 10 49,000 49,000
Spectramind eServices Pvt. Ltd. (Partly paid of Rs. 7.5) 6,221,741 Rs. 10 144,299 --
Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. 5,460,000 Rs. 10 54,600 54,600
247,899 103,600
QUOTED
TRADE INVESTMENTS
Dynamatic Technologies Ltd. 100 Rs. 10 1 1
HDFC Bank Ltd. 100 Rs. 10 1 1
---------- ----------
2 2
---------- ----------
INVESTMENTS IN PREFERENCE SHARES/DEBENTURES OF OTHER COMPANIES
UNQUOTED
Convertible preference shares in Wipro Fluid Power Ltd. 543,300 Rs. 100 -- 54,330
12.5% unsecured Non convertible debentures of
Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. 400,000 Rs. 100 40,000 40,000
Convertible preference shares in Spectramind eServices Pvt. Ltd. 28,760,140 Rs. 10 215,701 --
---------- ----------
(Partly paid of Rs. 7.5)
255,701 94,330
---------- ----------
OTHER INVESTMENTS (UNQUOTED)
Redeemable floating rate bonds of State Bank of India 2,500 Rs. 1,000 2,500 2,500
Indira Vikas Patra (maturity value Rs. 66,003) 47,952 47,952
Bonds of GE Capital Services India (refer note 12) -- 145,468
---------- ----------
50,452 195,920
---------- ----------
INVESTMENTS - SHORT TERM (AT MARKET VALUE):
IN MONEY MARKET LIQUID MUTUAL FUNDS
Alliance Capital Mutual Fund (39,960 units redeemed during the year) 265,857 265,910 --
Pioneer ITI Mutual Fund (103,376 units redeemed during the year) 389,279 452,168 --
Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund (9,306,496 units redeemed 78,253,001 924,966 --
during the year)
HDFC Mutual Fund (48,970,580 units redeemed during the year) 52,169,137 521,910 --
Standard Chartered Mutual Fund (47,000,000 units redeemed 23,032,046 230,320 --
during the year)
Reliance Mutual Fund 50,054,397 505,064 --
Zurich India Mutual Fund (4,973,145 units redeemed during the year) 39,832,390 400,499 --
Templeton India Mutual Fund (12,490,008 units redeemed 9,875,923 98,842 --
during the year)
Cholamandalam Mutual Fund (11,000,000 units redeemed 14,738,939 147,389 --
during the year)
Kotak Mutual Fund ( 8,694,609 units redeemed during the year) 22,490,420 225,154 --
Birla Mutual Fund (11,935,073 units redeemed during the year) 35,080,266 353,820 --
---------- ----------
4,126,042 --
---------- ----------
TOTAL 4,892,753 1,744,639
---------- ----------
Less: Provision for diminution in value of long term investments 108,196 108,196
---------- ----------
TOTAL 4,784,557 1,636,443
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(Rs. in 000s)
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AS OF MARCH 31,
-----------------------
2002 2001
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Aggregate book value of quoted investments 2 2
Aggregate book value of unquoted investments (net of provision) 766,709 1,636,441
Aggregate market value of quoted investments and investments in
money market mutual funds 4,126,068 25
NOTES:
# Equity investments in this Company carry certain restrictions on transfer of
shares that are normally provided for in joint venture/venture funding
agreement.
Investment in equity and Preference shares of Wipro Finance Limited,
erstwhile subsidiary of the Company have been fully provided. The
investments and the provision for diminution is outlined below:
Redeemable preference shares -- 300,000
--------- ---------
-- 300,000
--------- ---------
Less: Provision for diminution in value of investments -- 300,000
========= =========
SCHEDULE 7 INVENTORIES
Stores and Spares 23,083 44,689
Raw Materials 400,569 499,536
Stock-in-process 21,344 121,190
Finished goods 303,368 487,115
--------- ---------
748,364 1,152,530
========= =========
Basis of stock valuation:
Raw materials, stock-in-process and stores and spares at or below cost.
Finished products at cost or net realisable value, whichever is lower
SCHEDULE 8 SUNDRY DEBTORS
(UNSECURED)
OVER SIX MONTHS
Considered good 675,017 448,945
Considered doubtful 483,200 292,593
--------- ---------
1,158,217 741,538
--------- ---------
OTHERS
Considered good 5,759,849 5,727,712
Considered doubtful 5,737 5,291
--------- ---------
5,765,586 5,733,003
--------- ---------
Less: Provision for doubtful debts 488,937 297,884
--------- ---------
6,434,866 6,176,657
========= =========
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AS OF MARCH 31,
-------------------------
2002 2001
---------- ----------
SCHEDULE 9 CASH AND BANK BALANCES
CASH AND CHEQUES ON HAND 299,390 661,678
BALANCES WITH SCHEDULED BANKS
On Current account 587,578 527,989
In Deposit account 100,295 84,091
BALANCES WITH OTHER BANKS IN CURRENT ACCOUNT
Inkom Bank -- 43
Midland Bank 146,146 52,122
Wells Fargo 986,037 597,294
Nations Bank 97,627 --
Deutsche Bank 487,942 --
Societe General 198,324 460,378
Bank of America 27,142 10
First Chicago 976 390,806
Citibank 1,952 875,432
FCC National Bank 976 391,739
Chase Manhattan 1,025 421,815
Great Western Bank 24 24
---------- ----------
2,935,434 4,463,421
========== ==========
Maximum balances during the year
Inkom Bank -- 43
Midland Bank 387,177 362,362
Wells Fargo 986,037 770,615
Nations Bank 97,627 13
Deutsche Bank 487,942 --
Socite General 460,378 460,378
Bank of America 36,958 10
First Chicago 390,806 390,806
Citibank 875,432 875,432
FCC National Bank 391,739 391,739
Chase Manhattan 421,815 421,815
Great Western Bank 24 24
SCHEDULE 10 LOANS AND ADVANCES
(Unsecured, considered good unless otherwise stated)
Advances recoverable in cash or in kind or for value to be received
Considered good 857,413 1,089,193
Considered doubtful 70,193 125,483
---------- ----------
927,606 1,214,676
---------- ----------
Less: Provision for doubtful advances 70,193 125,483
---------- ----------
857,413 1,089,193
---------- ----------
Share application money pending allotment (refer note 10) 360,000 --
Certificate of deposits with foreign banks 5,287,219 3,326,108
Inter Corporate Deposits:
GE Capital Services India 770,100 367,500
ICICI Limited 1,245,200 684,500
---------- ----------
2,015,300 1,052,000
---------- ----------
Other Deposits 544,966 490,329
Advance income-tax (net of provision) 155,240 19,067
Balances with excise and customs 35,170 15,994
Unbilled Services 922,273 --
---------- ----------
10,177,581 5,992,691
========== ==========
Note:
a) Other Deposits include Rs. 25,000 (2001: Rs. 25,000) security deposits for
premises with a firm in which a director is interested.
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AS OF MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------
2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 11 LIABILITIES
Sundry Creditors 2,148,315 1,607,681
Unclaimed dividends 1,588 180
Advances from customers 866,006 847,732
Other liabilities 2,009,452 2,016,355
Interest accrued but not due on loans 301 469
Other deposits 340,983 340,983
----------- -----------
5,366,645 4,813,400
=========== ===========
SCHEDULE 12 PROVISIONS
Employee retirement benefits 398,487 404,901
Proposed dividend 232,466 116,217
Tax on proposed dividend -- 11,854
----------- -----------
630,953 532,972
=========== ===========
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------
SCHEDULE 13 OTHER INCOME 2002 2001
----------- -----------
Dividend from mutual funds 279,549 --
Dividend from companies 5,096 31,853
Interest on debt instruments 753,287 313,005
Rental Income 19,227 15,610
Profit on Sale of Investments -- 4,000
Profit on disposal of fixed assets 36,251 49,162
Difference in exchange 214,187 86,399
Royalty & Brand fees 92,360 30,789
Provision no longer required written back 115,354 53,662
Miscellaneous Income 37,749 110,983
----------- -----------
1,553,060 695,463
=========== ===========
Notes: Tax deducted at source Rs. 130,897 (2001: Rs. 65,183)
SCHEDULE 14 COST OF GOODS SOLD
Raw materials, Finished and Process Stocks (refer Schedule 17) 7,930,913 8,180,176
Stores & Spares 182,674 174,555
Power and Fuel 321,028 310,441
Salaries, wages and bonus 3,497,485 2,733,429
Contribution to provident and other funds 133,385 103,362
Gratuity and pension 120,595 78,239
Workmen and Staff welfare 139,054 188,220
Insurance 16,631 6,660
Repairs to Factory Buildings 10,773 38,554
Repairs to Plant & Machinery 115,919 73,655
Rent 201,944 196,129
Rates & Taxes 11,667 13,450
Packing 15,436 28,669
Travelling and allowances 5,831,446 4,956,452
Depreciation 1,106,297 738,582
Miscellaneous 1,220,182 373,812
Less: Capitalized (refer note 14) (76,268) (117,878)
----------- -----------
20,779,161 18,076,507
=========== ===========
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
---------------------------------
2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 15 SELLING GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Salaries, wages and bonus 995,591 924,346
Contribution to provident and other funds 34,934 40,131
Gratuity and pension 33,510 27,609
Workmen and Staff welfare 129,173 123,640
Insurance 6,108 20,676
Repairs to buildings 3,781 4,596
Rent 118,079 80,889
Rates and taxes 12,785 90,141
Carriage and freight 212,278 223,745
Commission on sales 489,545 659,432
Auditors' remuneration and expenses
Audit fees 3,430 3,150
For certification including tax audit 969 1,162
Reimbursement of expenses 885 508
Advertisement and sales promotion 316,203 471,824
Loss on sale of fixed assets 10,648 803
Directors' fees 800 922
Depreciation 312,601 240,841
Travelling and allowances 1,571,629 1,075,868
Communication 112,213 326,311
Provision/write off of bad debts 248,442 266,516
Diminution in value of investments (mutual fund units) 163,147 --
Miscellaneous 628,924 823,819
---------- ----------
5,405,675 5,406,929
========== ==========
SCHEDULE 16 INTEREST
On fixed loans 9,124 16,354
Other 19,817 52,536
---------- ----------
28,941 68,890
========== ==========
SCHEDULE 17 RAW MATERIALS, FINISHED AND PROCESS STOCKS
CONSUMPTION OF RAW MATERIALS AND BOUGHT OUT COMPONENTS
Opening stocks 499,536 497,545
Add: Purchases 3,539,152 3,873,857
Less: Transfer on sale of undertaking 46,496 136,772
Less: Closing stocks 400,569 499,536
---------- ----------
3,591,623 3,735,094
---------- ----------
PURCHASE OF FINISHED PRODUCTS FOR SALE 4,200,978 4,466,964
---------- ----------
(INCREASE)/DECREASE IN FINISHED AND PROCESS STOCKS
Opening stock : In process 121,190 92,970
: Finished products 487,115 581,730
Less: Transfer on sale of undertaking: In Process 81,002 12,200
: Finished Products 64,279 95,780
Less: Closing stocks : In process 21,344 121,190
: Finished products 303,368 487,115
---------- ----------
138,312 (41,585)
---------- ----------
(INCREASE)/DECREASE IN STOCK-IN-TRADE: LAND
Opening Stock -- 125,000
Less: Closing stock -- --
Less: Drawn from Capital Reserve (refer note 2) -- 105,297
---------- ----------
-- 19,703
---------- ----------
7,930,913 8,180,176
========== ==========
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
---------------------------------
2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 18 NON-RECURRING/EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS
Gain/(Loss) on Sale of shares -- 55
Gain on transfer of business (refer note 9) -- 15,981
---------- ----------
-- 16,036
========== ==========
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SCHEDULE - 19 SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
ACCOUNTING CONVENTION
Accounts are maintained on an accrual basis under the historical cost
convention.
REVENUE RECOGNITION
- Sales include applicable sales tax unless separately charged, and are net of
discounts.
- Sales are recognized on despatch, except in the following cases:
- Consignment sales are recognized on receipt of statement of account from
the agent
- Sales, which are subject to detailed acceptance tests, revenue is
reckoned based on milestones for billing, as provided in the contracts
- Revenue from software development services includes revenue from time
and material and fixed price contracts. Revenue from time and material
contracts are recognized as related services are performed. Revenue on
fixed price contracts is recognized in accordance with percentage of
completion method of accounting
- Export incentives are accounted on accrual basis and include estimated
realizable values/benefits from special import licenses and Advance
licenses.
- Agency commission is accrued on shipment of consignment by principal.
- Maintenance revenue is considered on acceptance of the contract and is
accrued over the period of the contract.
- Other income is recognized on accrual basis.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Revenue expenditure on research and development is charged to Profit and Loss
account and capital expenditure is shown as addition to fixed assets.
PROVISION FOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS
For employees covered under group gratuity scheme of LIC, gratuity charged to
Profit and Loss account is on the basis of premium demanded by LIC. Provision
for gratuity (for certain category of employees) and leave benefit for
employee's is determined as per actuarial valuation at the year end. Defined
contributions for provident fund and pension are charged to the Profit and Loss
account based on contributions made in terms of applicable schemes, after
netting off the amounts rendered surplus on account of employees separated from
the Company.
FIXED ASSETS AND DEPRECIATION
Fixed assets were revalued in March 1997 and stated at revalued cost less
depreciation. Depreciation was provided on revalued amounts. The additional
depreciation charge on amounts added on revaluation was drawn out of revaluation
reserves. In January 2002 the revaluation reserves were reversed out against the
carrying value of fixed assets. Consequently fixed assets are now stated at
historical costs less depreciation.
Interest on funds borrowed and allocated for acquiring fixed assets, pertaining
to the period up to the date of capitalization and other revenue expenditure
incurred on new projects is capitalized. Assets acquired on hire purchase are
capitalized at the gross value and interest thereon is charged to Profit and
Loss account. Renewals and replacement are either capitalized or charged to
revenue as appropriate, depending upon their nature and long term utility.
In respect of leased assets, lease rentals payable during the year is charged to
Profit and Loss account.
Depreciation is provided on straight line method at rates specified in Schedule
XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, except on data processing equipment and
software, furniture and fixture, office equipment, electrical installations
(other than those at factories) and vehicles for which commercial rates are
applied. Technical know-how is amortized over six years.
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
Foreign currency transactions are recorded at the spot rate prevailing at the
beginning of the concerned month. Year end balances of foreign currency assets
and liabilities are restated at the closing rate/forward contract rate, as
applicable. Resultant differences in respect of liabilities relating to
acquisition of fixed assets are capitalized. Other differences on restatement or
payment are adjusted to revenue account.
Forward premiums in respect of forward exchange contracts are recognized over
the life of the contract, except that premiums relating to foreign currency
loans for the acquisition of fixed assets are capitalized.
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DEFERRED TAX
Tax expenses charged to Profit and Loss account is after considering deferred
tax impact for the timing difference between accounting income and tax income.
INVENTORIES
Finished goods are valued at cost or net realizable value, whichever is lower.
Other inventories are valued at cost less provision for obsolescence. Small
value tools and consumables are charged to consumption on purchase.
INVESTMENTS
Long term Investments are stated at cost and short term investments are valued
at lower of cost and net realizable value. Diminution in value is provided for
where the management is of the opinion that the diminution is of permanent
nature.
NOTES TO ACCOUNTS
(All figures are reported in rupees thousands, except data relating to share or
unless stated otherwise)
1. i) The Company has provided depreciation at the rates specified in
Schedule XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, except in cases of the
following assets which are depreciated at commercial rates which are
higher than the rates specified in Schedule XIV. Depreciation over the
years is provided up to total cost of assets.
Depreciation rate
applied Per Schedule
Class of Asset % XIV
--------------- ------------------ ------------
Data Processing equipment & Software 50.00 16.21
Plant & Machinery of ISP business 20.00 16.21
Furniture and fixtures 19.00 6.33
Electrical Installations 19.00 4.75
Office equipment 19.00 4.75
Vehicles 24.00 9.50
Plant and Machinery 4.75 4.75
ii) Depreciation at 100% have been provided on assets costing less
than Rs. 5.
2. (i) In fiscal 1995, the Company had converted a fixed asset (consisting
of land) into stock-in-trade at the then fair market value. The surplus
(market price less original cost) arising on such conversion was
credited to Capital Reserve. In fiscal 2000, there was a further
reduction of Rs. 52,000 in the value of said land compared to carrying
value at the beginning of the previous year. This reduction in value was
recognized in the Profit and Loss account and an equivalent amount was
drawn from the Capital Reserve created on the conversion, to offset the
impact of such reduction on the Profit and Loss account.
(ii) In fiscal 2001 the aforesaid land has been sold and realized
profit on sale of land of Rs. 105,297, considering its original
cost, as represented by the residual amount in Capital Reserve
is transferred to the Profit and Loss account.
3. Estimated amount of contracts remaining to be executed on Capital
account and not provided for is Rs. 241,338 (2001: Rs. 400,280)
4. Contingent liabilities in respect of:
i) Uncalled liability on partly paid equity shares is Rs. 48,100
(2001: Rs. Nil) and on convertible preference shares is Rs.
71,900 (2001: Rs. Nil)
ii) Disputed demands for excise, customs, income tax, sales tax and
other matters Rs. 199,530 (2001: Rs. 221,060)
iii) Guarantees given by Banks on behalf of the Company Rs. 361,058
5. Depreciation for the year on revalued assets has been provided up to
31st December, 2001. However, depreciation of Rs. 39,388 (2001: Rs.
58,843) provided on increase in value on account of revaluation and the
net amount has been charged to the Profit and Loss Account. In January
2002 the Company decided to reverse the revaluation reserve by reducing
the carrying value of the fixed assets by the amount of revaluation
reserve. Consequently net amount of Rs. 850,684 has been adjusted
against the gross block/provision for depreciation of fixed assets. On
account of this from 1st January, 2002, depreciation is provided on
original cost of fixed assets.
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6. During the year, the Company acquired 1,791,385 shares, representing 8% of
the equity capital of Wipro Net Limited (WNL). Consequent to this
investment, WNL has become a fully owned subsidiary of the Company. The
Board of Directors of both the companies decided to amalgamate WNL into
the Company with effect from April 2001. Accordingly, the Karnataka High
Court approved the scheme of amalgamation. The scheme of amalgamation has
been given effect to in the accounts of the Company for the year ended
March 31, 2002, on the pooling of interest method. The share premium of
Wipro Net Limited is credit to Wipro Limited. The deficit of Rs. 2,432,045
arising on amalgamation as detailed below is transferred to General
Reserve:
(Rs. in 000s)
----------------------------
Fixed Assets 433,507 --
Net Current Assets 71,753 --
Less: Loans 90,000 --
Net Tangible assets as of March 31, 2001 -- 415,260
Less: Investments in WNL by the Company -- 2,416,692
Less: Share premium -- 430,613
Deficit transferred to General Reserve -- 2,432,045
7. In fiscal 2001 the Company acquired 10,076,542 equity shares of Wipro Net
Limited representing 45% of interest held by KPN Group for Rs. 1,087,216.
Contemporaneously, equity of Wipro Net Limited (WNL) was restructured by
spinning off its retail ISP segment into a separate company Net Kracker
Limited. The Company has invested Rs. 18,635 in equity shares and Rs.
54,330 in convertible preference shares of Net Kracker Limited and the
same has been converted into 5,433,000 equity shares during the year.
8. In fiscal 2000, the Company sold 4,694,795 equity shares in Wipro Net
Limited (WNL) resulting in an extraordinary income of Rs. 1,095,449. Of
the total shares sold, on 1,791,385 shares, the buyer had a put option and
the Company had call option for a specified period. In June 2001 the buyer
exercised the put option at Rs. 680 per equity share.
9. With effect from 1st September, 2000, the Company transferred the business
of manufacturing and distribution of Computer Peripherals to Wipro
ePeripherals Limited (WeP) for a consideration of Rs. 270,880 received by
way of - 5,460,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each in Wipro ePeripherals
Limited, 1,000,000 12.5% unsecured non-convertible debentures of Rs. 100
each in WeP and cash of Rs. 116,280. The transaction resulted in a gain of
Rs. 15,981 which has been shown as extraordinary item during the year
ended March 31, 2001.
10. In March 2002 the Company transferred the Fluid Power business to Wipro
Fluid Power Limited (formerly known as Netkracker Limited) for Rs.
363,137. In consideration of this transfer the Company will receive
3,600,000, 1% redeemable Preference Shares of Rs. 100 each of Wipro Fluid
Power Limited. The balance has been received in cash in March 2002.
11. Amount received from employees on exercise of stock option, pending
allotment of shares is shown as share application money pending allotment.
12. Company had, in October 1999, an ECB of USD 8,150 ('000s) equivalent to
Rs. 354,364. At that time, the Company entered into an arrangement with a
Bank (counter party) for the structured repayment of this loan. As per the
agreement, Company made an investment in deep discount bonds of a
corporate, with highest credit rating. The maturity value of such bonds
have been assigned to the counter party which has, in turn, agreed to
discharge the Company's ECB liability on the scheduled due dates.
Consequent to this, exchange risk of the ECB liability was crystallized in
the hands of the Company and the premium paid at the time of structured
payment has been amortized in the books of account over the balance tenure
of ECB loan. The bonds in which the Company has invested have varying
maturity dates. The amount due on maturity is offset against ECB loan
liabilities. During the year all the bonds have matured and have been
offset against ECB loan liability.
13. Company has instituted various Employee Stock Option Plans. The
compensation committee of the board evaluates the performance and other
criteria of employees and approves the grant of options. These options
vest with employees over a specified period subject to fulfillment of
certain conditions. Upon vesting, employees are eligible to apply and
secure allotment of Company's shares at a price determined on the date of
grant of options. The particulars of options granted under various plans
is tabulated below.
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Stock option activity under the 1999 plan is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
-------------------------------------------------------------------
WEIGHTED WEIGHTED
RANGE OF AVERAGE AVERAGE
EXERCISE PRICES EXERCISE PRICE REMAINING
AND GRANT DATE AND GRANT DATE CONTRACTUAL LIFE
SHARES ARISING FAIR VALUES FAIR VALUES
OUT OF OPTIONS RS. RS. (MONTHS)
-------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period 4,564,431 1,024 to 2,522 1,542 59
Granted during the period --
Forfeited during the period (645,803) 1,086 to 1,853 1,542
Exercised during the period (32,670) 1,086 1,086
Outstanding at the end of the period 3,885,958 1,024 to 2,522 1,550 47
Exercisable at the end of the period 637,062 1,024 to 2,522 1,385 46
Stock option activity under the 2000 Plan is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
-------------------------------------------------------------------
WEIGHTED WEIGHTED
RANGE OF AVERAGE AVERAGE
EXERCISE PRICES EXERCISE PRICE REMAINING
AND GRANT DATE AND GRANT DATE CONTRACTUAL LIFE
SHARES ARISING FAIR VALUES FAIR VALUES
OUT OF OPTIONS RS. RS. (MONTHS)
-------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period 3,214,350 2,382 to 2,746 2,397 67
Granted during the period 5,745,844 1,032 to 1,670 1,582 60
Forfeited during the period (487,680) 1,032 to 2,651 2,397
Exercised during the period --
Outstanding at the end of the period 8,472,514 1,032 to 2,746 1,846 58
Exercisable at the end of the period 411,414 2,375 to 2,651 2,397 55
Stock option activity under the 2000 ADS Plan is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
-------------------------------------------------------------------
WEIGHTED WEIGHTED
RANGE OF AVERAGE AVERAGE
EXERCISE PRICES EXERCISE PRICE REMAINING
AND GRANT DATE AND GRANT DATE CONTRACTUAL LIFE
SHARES ARISING FAIR VALUES FAIR VALUES
OUT OF OPTIONS $ $ (MONTHS)
-------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period 264,750 41.375 41.375 67
Granted during the period 409,200 20.75 to 36.400 35.490 61
Forfeited during the period (26,500) 41.375 41.375 --
Outstanding at the end of the period 647,450 20.75 to 41.375 37.660 55
Exercisable at the end of the period 35,738 41.375 41.375 44
------- --------------- ------ --
14. Amount capitalized comprise following revenue expenditure incurred during
the construction period.
(Rs. in 000s)
-------------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-------------------------------
2002 2001
------ -------
Raw material, finished goods (including 76,268 104,461
manufactured products) and process stock
Pre-operative expenses
Power and Fuel -- 10,995
Conveyance expenses -- 233
Professional expenses -- 2,189
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76,268 117,878
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15. Provision for taxation comprises of following:
(i) Rs. 392,831(2001: Rs. 377,676) in respect of foreign taxes, net of
deferred tax of Rs. 6,049 and write back of provision of Rs. 87,189
(2001: Rs. 18,000) in respect of earlier year.
(ii) Rs. 443,876 (2001: Rs. 611,324) in respect of Indian Income Tax, net
of deferred tax of Rs. 129,480 and write back of provision of Rs.
19,921 (2001: Rs. 60,000) in respect of earlier years.
(iii) Rs. 3,000 (2001: Rs. 3,000) in respect of Wealth Tax.
16. To comply with the newly introduced Accounting Standard 22 - Taxes on
Income issued by the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of India which
is mandatory with effect from April 1, 2001, the Company has made
provision for taxation after considering deferred tax to recognize timing
difference in tax. As per the requirement of the standard, the effect of
deferred tax upto March 31, 2001 has been worked out at Rs. 103,293 and
has been adjusted from the balance in General Reserve. The Company has
also created net deferred tax for the period of Rs. 135,529 on account of
which the profit for the period is higher by the equivalent amount.
17. Deferred tax comprise of:
Deferred tax assets: (Rs. in 000s)
-------------------- -------------
Allowance for doubtful debts 76,761
Employee stock incentive plan 61,695
Provision for diminution of investments 58,333
Accrued expenses 48,842
-------
245,631
-------
Less: Deferred tax liability - Depreciation differential 6,809
-------
238,822
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18. Sundry creditors include an amount of Rs. 20,310 (2001: 36,801) being
amount payable to suppliers, who are Small Scale Industrial Undertakings
(SSI) as defined under the Industrial (Development and Regulation) Act,
1951, exceeding Rs. 100 in aggregate and outstanding for a period in
excess of 30 days as at the date of Balance Sheet. The list of such SSI's
is attached.
19. Computation of net profit in accordance with Section 198 read with Section
349 of the Companies Act, 1956
(Rs. in 000s)
---------------------------------------------------------------
MARCH 31, 2002 March 31, 2001
-------------- --------------
PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 9,500,798 7,655,487
-------------- --------------
ADD: Depreciation as per accounts (*)
Managerial Remuneration 78,170 107,431
Provision for doubtful debts/Advances 247,122 325,292 278,021 385,452
LESS: Bad debts written off 109,077 122,189
Amount drawn from Capital Reserve -- 109,077 -- 122,189
Net profit for Section 198 of the Companies Act, 1956 9,717,013 7,918,750
COMMISSION PAYABLE:
@ 0.10% (2001: 0.40%) of the above profits to the
Chairman & Managing Director 9,717 31,675
@ 0.30% to Vice Chairman and 29,152 23,756
@ 0.10% to Vice Chairman and 9,717 7,919
@ 0.10% pro rata to a Vice Chairman -- 5,279
MANAGERIAL REMUNERATION COMPRISES:
Salaries and allowances 23,000 20,378
Commission 48,586 68,628
Pension Contribution 2,973 11,991
Contribution to Provident Fund 526 640
Perquisites 3,085 5,794
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TOTAL 78,170 107,431
--------- ---------
(*)For the year 2001-02, net profit is computed on book depreciation
which is lower than depreciation computed under Section 350 of
Companies Act, 1956.
Fees paid to the Non-executive directors in the professional capacity is
subject to approval of the Central Government and has not been considered
in the Managing Director remuneration.
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20. Related Party Transactions
The following are related parties where control exists:
Entities controlled by
Subsidiaries Affiliates Directors
------------ ---------- ----------------------
Wipro Japan KK Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd. Azim Premji Foundation Pvt. Ltd.(*)
Enthink Inc. Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. Hasham Premji
Wipro Inc. (Partnership firm)(*)
Wipro Prosper Ltd.
Wipro Trademarks Holding Ltd.
Wipro Welfare Ltd.
Wipro Fluid Power Ltd.
(*) Major shareholder or director has control over these entities.
The Company has the following transactions with related parties.
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------------
AS OF MARCH 31,
--------------------------------
2002 2001
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Wipro Japan KK:
Revenues from services 383,950 394,054
Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd.:
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and administrative
and management support services 26,208 17,396
Fees for usage of trade mark 39,344 8,820
Wipro Net Ltd.:
Fees for consultancy services -- 13,100
Fees for computer and network maintenance support -- 10,452
Revenues from sale of computer equipment -- 109,871
Wipro ePeripherals Ltd.:
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and services 9,230 13,984
Fees for usage of Brand/trade mark 53,016 30,789
Interest received on debentures 5,000 4,704
Payments for services 1,160 --
Purchase of printers 138,676 169,000
Wipro Fluid Power Ltd.:
Fees for technical and infrastructure support services 96,155 37,018
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and services 987 --
Azim Premji Foundation Pvt. Ltd.:
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and services 1,442 --
Chairman and Managing Director:
Payment of lease rentals 1,200 1,200
Payment to non-executive directors:
Dr. Ashok Ganguly 800 800
Narayan Vaghul 800 800
Prof. Eisuke Sakakibara $ 10 (*) --
Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth $ 25 $ 25
P.M. Sinha 250 (*) --
B.C. Prabhakar 400 400
(*) appointed effective January 1, 2002
The following is the listing of receivables and payables of
related party transactions
Receivables:
Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd. 56,181 13,295
Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. 17,037 --
Azim Premji Foundation Pvt. Ltd. 348 --
Hasham Premji 25,000 25,000
Payables:
Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. 25,875 2,297
Wipro Fluid Power Ltd. -- 10,000
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The following table represents the annual and long term compensation
earned by our executive directors and members of our administrative, supervisory
or management bodies for the year ended March 31, 2002.
(Rs. in 000s)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Salary/Allowance Commission and Incentive Deferred benefits
---------------- ------------------------ -----------------
Azim H. Premji 2,100 9,717 2,883
Vivek Paul 17,120 29,152 --
P.S. Pai 3,780 9,717 616
Dileep K. Ranjekar 3,231 1,650 439
S.C. Senapaty 1,940 1,788 405
Vineet Agrawal 1,511 1,057 211
M.S. Rao 2,482 327 311
Suresh Vaswani 2,206 931 253
----- ------ -----
21. Corresponding figures for previous periods presented have been regrouped,
where necessary, to confirm to this year classification. Current period
figures are not comparable with the previous periods to the extent of
amalgamation of Wipro Net Limited with effect from April 2001, transfer of
peripherals business with effect from 1st September, 2000 and sale of
Fluid Power business with effect from 1st March, 2002.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PART II OF SCHEDULE VI TO
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
i) LICENSED/REGISTERED/INSTALLED CAPACITIES
REGISTERED CAPACITY INSTALLED CAPACITY @
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MARCH 31, March 31, MARCH 31, March 31,
Unit 2002 2001 2002 2001
------------------------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
Vanaspati/Hydrogenated oils T P A (*) 144,000 144,000 56,250 56,250
Toilet Soaps T P A (*) 42,750 42,750 28,000 28,000
Leather shoe uppers, leather shoes Pairs/Nos. (1000's) p.a 750 750 750 750
and allied articles in lakhs
Fatty acids T P A (*) 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
Glycerine T P A (*) 2,000 2,000 1,800 1,800
GLS lamps 000s 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
TL Shells 000s 12,694 12,694 12,694 12,694
Fluorescent tubelights 000s 10,694 10,694 10,694 10,694
Mini computers/micro processor based systems
and data communication systems N P A # 244,000 64,000 244,000 244,000
Micro processor based computers and peripherals
and communication boards N P A # 72,500 72,500 72,500 72,500
@ Installed capacities are as per certificate
given by management on which auditors have relied.
(*) TPA indicates tons per annum # NPA indicates nos. per annum
ii) PRODUCTION AND SALES
PRODUCTION # SALES
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MARCH 31, March 31, MARCH 31, March 31,
2002 2001 2002 2001
Unit QUANTITY # Quantity # QUANTITY RS. IN 000s Quantity Rs. in 000s
---- ---------- ---------- -------- ----------- -------- -----------
Software services 22,509,262 17,540,755
Mini computers/micro processor based
Systems and data communication systems Nos. 61,652 62,779 87,719 4,985,869 62,321 6,368,530
Serial printers Nos. -- 28,422 -- -- 39,974 837,846
Toilet soaps Tons 19,353 23,274 19,795 1,420,831 23,853 1,738,022
Toiletries 299,512 226,189
Post sales support and related IT services 1,763,607 1,182,747
Corporate ISP Services 508,018 --
Vanaspati/hydrogenated oils Tons 11,722 16,098 11,897 407,602 15,918 488,464
Lighting products & -- & -- 929,929 -- 902,785
Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment Nos. 35,794 51,177 37,451 466,989 50,552 639,953
Tipping gear systems Nos. 4,289 3,788 4,289 148,110 3,788 148,278
Shoe uppers and full shoes (pairs) 000s 613 511 613 166,408 508 144,901
Fatty acids Tons 12,653$ 13,104$ 13,242 339 10,025
Glycerine Tons 594% 426% 492 28,074 459 32,076
Reagent kits/spares of analytical
instruments Nos. 2,338 6,722 44,677 407,706 31,539 377,519
Spares/components for cylinders/tippers & 91,306 83,041
Agency commission 182,355 346,216
Software products 444,283 146,270
Stock in trade Land -- 125,000
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TOTAL 34,773,103 31,338,617
---------- -----------
LESS:EXCISE DUTY 611,588 826,267
---------- -----------
TOTAL 34,161,515 30,512,350
---------- -----------
# includes samples and shortages
$ includes 12,668 tons (2001: 12,715) used for own consumption
% includes 111 tons (2001: Nil) used for own consumption
& it is not practicable to give quantitative information in the absence of
common expressible unit.
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iii) CLOSING STOCKS
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------------------------------------------
MARCH 31, 2002 March 31, 2001
-------------------------------- ------------------------
Unit QUANTITY RS. 000s Quantity Rs. 000s
---- -------- -------- -------- --------
Mini computers/micro processor Nos 1,135 61,985 556 165,771
based systems and data
communication systems(*)
Toilet Soaps Tons 531 24,959 973 40,674
Vanaspati/hydrogenated oils Tons 471 15,738 646 15,605
Lighting Products(*) 58,228 88,375
Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment Nos -- -- 4,322 71,793
Shoe Uppers and full shoes (pairs) 000s 8 207 8 109
Fatty acids Tons 105 2,540 121 1,997
Glycerine Tons 37 1,864 45 2,711
Others 67 3,245
165,588 390,280
CLOSING STOCK OF TRADED GOODS
Reagent Kits/Spares of Nos. 16,346 110,675 18,468 72,975
Analytical instruments
Others 27,105 23,860
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303,368 487,115
======= =======
(*) includes traded products; bifurcation between manufactured and traded
products not practicable
iv) PURCHASES FOR TRADING
MARCH 31, 2002 March 31, 2001
--------------------------------- -----------------------
Unit QUANTITY RS. 000s Quantity Rs. 000s
---- -------- --------- -------- ---------
Computer units /printers Nos 26,646 3,271,440 15,725 3,280,453
Lighting Products(*) 418,437 455,167
Reagent kits/Spares of
analytical instruments Nos. 40,217 324,547 23,891 299,564
Spares/Components for
tippers/cylinders(*) 30,294 35,218
Others(*) 156,260 396,562
--------- ---------
4,200,978 4,466,964
========= =========
(*) It is not practicable to give quantitative information in the absence of
common expressible unit.
v) RAW MATERIALS CONSUMED
MARCH 31, 2002 March 31, 2001
----------------------------------------- -------------------------
Unit QUANTITY RS. 000s Quantity Rs. 000s
------------- -------- --------- -------- ---------
Peripherals/Components for computers # 2,348,057 2,297,597
Oils and fats Tons 19,310 426,127 32,117 548,277
Components for cylinders # 271,620 327,633
Tinplates Tons -- -- 41 1,484
Components for lighting products # 176,705 176,439
Leather Sq.ft. (000s) 642 70,352 538 59,388
Others # 298,762 324,276
--------- ---------
3,591,623 3,735,094
========= =========
# It is not practicable to give quantitative information in the absence of
common expressible unit.
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vi) VALUE OF IMPORTED AND INDIGENOUS MATERIALS CONSUMED
(does not include value of imported items locally purchased)
MARCH 31, March 31,
2002 2001
--------- ---------
Raw materials, components and peripherals 2,993,699 2,022,651
Stores and spares 237,480 218,763
Capital goods 12,696 366
Others -- --
--------- ---------
3,243,875 2,241,780
========= =========
viii) EXPENDITURE IN FOREIGN CURRENCY
MARCH 31, March 31,
2002 2001
--------- ---------
Travelling 6,687,444 5,572,870
Interest 506 --
Royalty 135,887 85,848
Professional fees 446,529 214,825
Others 1,448,156 214,591
--------- ---------
8,718,522 6,088,134
========= =========
ix) EARNINGS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE
MARCH 31, March 31,
2002 2001
---------- ----------
Export of goods on F.O.B. basis 154,896 143,297
Services 22,626,917 17,608,373
Interest on deposits/investments outside India 520,052 38,552
Agency commission 192,885 343,738
---------- ----------
23,494,750 18,133,960
========== ==========
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PART IV OF SCHEDULE VI TO
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
BALANCE SHEET ABSTRACT AND THE COMPANY'S GENERAL BUSINESS PROFILE
I REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration No. 20800 State Code 08
Balance Sheet Date 31st March 2002
II CAPITAL RAISED DURING THE YEAR (Rs. in 000s)
Public issue Nil
Rights issue Nil
Bonus issue Nil
Issue of shares on exercise of
Employee Stock Options 35,479
American Depository Offering Nil
III POSITION OF MOBILISATION OF AND
DEPLOYMENT OF FUNDS (Rs. in 000s)
TOTAL LIABILITIES 25,596,312 TOTAL ASSETS 25,596,312
SOURCES OF FUNDS APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Paid-up capital 464,931 Net Fixed Assets 6,274,286
Share application money pending
allotment 2,399 Deferred tax assets 238,822
Reserves and Surplus 24,860,451 Investments 4,784,557
Secured Loans 254,872 Net Current Assets 14,298,647
Unsecured Loans 13,659
IV PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY (Rs. in 000s)
Turnover 35,714,575
Total Expenditure 26,213,777
Profit before Tax 9,500,798
Profit after Tax 8,661,091
Earnings per share (basic) 37.47
Dividend 50%
V Generic names of three principal products/services of the Company (as per monetary terms)
i) Item code no (ITC Code) 84714900.10
Product description Computer systems including personal computer and
units thereof
ii) Item code no (ITC Code) 85245309.10
Product description Computer software
iii) Item code no (ITC Code) 15162009.10
Product description Hydrogenated Vegetable oils
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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CASH FLOW STATEMENT
(Rs. in 000s)
----------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
---------------------------
2002 2001
---------- ----------
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net profit before tax and non recurring items 9,500,798 7,655,487
Adjustments to reconcile Net profit before tax and non
recurring items to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 1,378,945 979,424
Foreign currency translation gains (115,088) (86,399)
Retirement benefits provision (6,413) 138,986
Interest accrued on discount bonds (71,653) (27,345)
Interest on borrowings 28,941 68,890
Dividend/interest (873,941) (342,310)
Loss/(Gain) on sale of short-term investments -- (4,000)
Loss/(Gain) on sale of property, plant and equipment (25,603) (49,162)
Realised Gain on sale of Stock-in-trade: Land -- (105,297)
---------- ----------
OPERATING CASH FLOW BEFORE CHANGES IN WORKING CAPITAL 9,815,986 8,228,274
Changes in operating assets and liabilities
Trade and other receivable (149,398) (1,770,267)
Loans and advances (673,121) (401,062)
Inventories ( other than stock-in-trade land ) 188,698 (51,958)
Trade and other payables 435,764 1,097,961
---------- ----------
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATIONS 9,617,929 7,102,948
Direct taxes paid (1,039,758) (1,095,813)
Non recurring/extraordinary items -- 16,036
---------- ----------
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES 8,578,171 6,023,171
---------- ----------
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Expenditure on property, plant and equipment (including advances) (2,432,540) (2,772,425)
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment 194,650 91,886
Purchase of investments (5,350,271) (1,231,465)
Inter Corporate deposits placed (963,300) (1,152,000)
Certificate of Deposits with foreign banks (1,961,111) (3,326,108)
Proceeds from sales and maturities of investments 145,468 243,000
Proceeds from divestment of ePeripherals -- 116,281
Purchase of investment in Spectramind eServices Pvt. Ltd. (360,000) --
Dividends received 284,645 31,853
Interest received 560,355 310,457
---------- ----------
NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES (9,882,104) (7,688,521)
---------- ----------
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Capital subsidy received -- 750
Proceeds from American Depository Offering -- 5,802,774
Proceeds from exercise of Stock Option Plan grants 33,080 123,987
Share application monies received pending allotment 2,399 2,345
Proceeds from issue redemption) of preference shares -- (250,000)
Proceeds from issuance/(repayment) of borrowings (136,744) (130,947)
Interest on borrowings -- (69,844)
Payment of cash dividends (116,217) (87,913)
Corporate tax on Dividend (11,854) (9,671)
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NET CASH PROVIDED BY/(USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES (229,336) 5,381,481
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NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS DURING THE YEAR (1,533,269) 3,716,131
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 4,468,703 747,290
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CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE END OF THE YEAR 2,935,434 4,463,421
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Notes:
i) Opening cash and bank balances include cash balances of Wipro Net
Limited of Rs. 5,282.
i) Purchase of investments include Rs. 1,218,142 on acquisition of
minority interest of 8% in Wipro Net Limited.
iii) Figures for previous periods presented, have been regrouped wherever
necessary, to confirm to this period classification.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Bangalore, April 19, 2002
AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE
We have examined the above cash flow statement of Wipro Limited for the year
ended March 31, 2002. This statement has been prepared by the Company in
accordance with the requirement under clause 32 of the listing Agreement with
the Stock Exchanges and is based on and in agreement with the corresponding
Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet of the Company for the Year Ended
March 31, 2002.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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ANNEXURE TO THE DIRECTORS' REPORT
FORM A
DISCLOSURE OF PARTICULARS WITH RESPECT
TO CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
A. POWER AND FUEL CONSUMPTION
2001-2002 2000-2001
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1 ELECTRICITY
a) PURCHASED
Unit KWH 12,064,570 13,988,200
Total amount Rs. 52,676,133 60,188,828
Rate/Unit Rs. 4.37 4.3
b) OWN GENERATION
Through diesel generator
Unit KWH 693,567 1,426,906
Unit/litre of diesel oil Units 2.20 2.67
Cost/Unit Rs. 8.06 8.38
2 COAL (INCLUDING COCONUT SHELLS)
Quantity Tonnes 11,578 7,405
Total cost Rs. 17,069,027 15,919,792
Average rate Rs. 1,474.24 2,149.87
3 FURNACE OIL
Quantity - LDO Lts. 1,828,979 4,056,213
Total cost Rs. 22,187,370 47,264,083
Average rate Rs. 12.13 11.65
4 FURNACE OIL
Quantity - HSD Lts. 83,955 --
Total cost Rs. 1,442,856 --
Average rate Rs. 17.19 --
5. L.P.G.
Quantity Kgs. 575,964 972,374
Total cost Rs. 9,801,824 18,604,060
Average Rs. 17.02 19.13
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
1.0 INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENTS
Please refer to our discussions in the section titled "Management
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
- US GAAP" in pages 164 through 178 of this report.
1.01 OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS
Please refer to our discussions in the section titled "Management
Discussion and analysis of Financial condition and Results of operations
- US GAAP" in pages 164 through 178 of this report and in the section
titled "Risk Factors" in pages 179 through 184 of this report.
1.02 SEGMENT-WISE OR PRODUCT-WISE PERFORMANCE
Please refer the "Segment Wise Business performance" report in pages 4
through 5 of this report.
1.03 OUTLOOK
Please refer to our discussions in the section titled "Management
Discussion and analysis of Financial condition and Results of operations
- US GAAP" in pages 164 through 178 of this report.
1.04 RISKS AND CONCERNS
Please refer to our discussions in the section titled "Risk Factors" in
pages 179 through 184 of this report.
2.0 INTERNAL CONTROL
Management maintains internal control systems designed to provide
reasonable assurance that assets are safeguarded, transactions are
executed in accordance with management's authorization and properly
recorded, and accounting records are adequate for preparation of
financial statements and other financial information. The internal audit
function performs internal audit periodically to ascertain their adequacy
and effectiveness. The internal audit function also carries out
Operations Review Audits. The "Quality System" of the audit function has
been certified under ISO 9001:2000. The audit committee periodically
reviews the functions of internal audit.
3.0 DISCUSSION ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
3.1 The financial statements are prepared in compliance with the requirements
of the Companies Act, 1956, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
in India. The management of Wipro accepts the responsibility for the
integrity and objectivity of these financial statements and the basis for
various estimates and judgments used in preparing the financial
statements.
3.2 BALANCE SHEET AS AT MARCH 31, 2002
3.2.1 SHARE CAPITAL
The Company has an Authorised capital of Rs. 1,000 mn comprising 375
million Equity shares of Rs. 2 each and 2.5 million redeemable cumulative
preference shares of Rs. 100 each as of March 31, 2002.
EQUITY SHARES
- The Company has instituted various Employee Stock Option Plans
(ESOP), these options vest with the employees over a specified
period subject to employee fulfilling certain conditions. Upon
vesting, the employees are eligible to apply and secure allotment of
the Company's shares at a price determined on the date of grant of
options. During the year 32,670 shares were allotted on exercise of
the options, granted under 1999 Wipro Employee Stock Option Plan
(ESOP), by the eligible employees.
3.2.2 SHARE APPLICATION PENDING ALLOTMENT
Eligible employees have applied for allotment of 2,209 shares of Rs. 2
each. Pending allotment, amounts received from the employees are
reflected as share application money pending allotment.
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3.2.3 RESERVES AND SURPLUS
SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT:
- Under the employee stock option plan, eligible employees have
exercised their right to equity shares upon expiry of the vesting
period. Share premium includes premium received on exercise of stock
options, amounting to Rs. 34 million and the share premium of Wipro
Net of Rs. 431 million. Share premium of Wipro Net has been added to
share premium of Wipro Limited on amalgamation of Wipro Net Limited
with Wipro Limited.
REVALUATION RESERVE:
The fixed assets of the Company were revalued as at March 31, 1997.
- Depreciation for the year on revalued assets has been provided up to
31st December, 2001. Depreciation provided on the revalued portion
of the asset amounting to Rs. 39 million is drawn out of revaluation
reserve.
- Fixed assets were revalued to ensure that business units of Wipro
deliver return on capital employed based on the replacement value of
assets. The return on capital employed generated by the business
units has exceeded internal norms. The value drivers now are
operating margins and growth in operating income. Further, the
benefits from the revaluation exercise is not commensurate with the
additional costs and efforts required to perform the revaluation
exercise.
- Consequently, in January 2002, the Company decided to reverse the
revaluation reserve. The carrying value of the fixed assets was
reduced by the amount of revaluation reserves.
3.2.4 SECURED LOANS
- The Company has availed cash credit facilities of Rs. 205 million
from consortium of banks to bridge temporary mismatches in cash
flows.
- The Company had availed foreign currency denominated loans under the
external commercial borrowing scheme. This loan was fully repaid in
February 2002.
- The Company had availed a loan of Rs. 48 million from a financial
institution. This is secured by hypothecation of specific assets and
machinery. The Company has repaid Rs. 20 million during the fiscal
year and the balance would be repaid in fiscal 2003.
3.2.5 UNSECURED LOANS
- Fixed deposits which have matured but have not yet been claimed by
the depositors are reflected as fixed deposits. The Company has sent
communications to the depositors requesting them to claim these
deposits.
- The Company has availed certain incentives provided by the State
Governments. The Company collects sales tax on sales but is required
to remit it after a specified time period. Further, the Company has
also received certain interest free/nominal interest bearing loans
from State Financial Institutions.
3.2.6 FIXED ASSETS
During the year the Company invested Rs. 2,433 million on fixed assets.
These investments were primarily on creating software development
facilities for Global IT Services and Products. The unit wise spends are
outlined below:
(Rs. in millions)
BUSINESS UNIT AMOUNT
-----
Global IT Services and Products 1,896
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products 165
Consumer Care & Lighting 46
Others 326
-----
TOTAL 2,433
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The capital expenditure of Global IT Services and Products, project/asset
category wise, is outlined below:
(Rs. in millions)
PROJECT/ASSET CATEGORY AMOUNT
------
COMMISSIONED DURING THE YEAR
Electronic City Tower 5 193
Belapur 160
Chennai, Sholinganallur 55
Pune, Hinjewadi 1 55
Madivala 3 155
Electronic City Tower 6 191
Vashi, Mumbai 190
Electronic City 2 65
M G Road 92
Koramangala 2 44
Madivala 1 57
Sarjapur 43
Electronic City 1 164
Madhapur 29
United Kingdom 38
United States of America 26
Others 104
IN PROCESS
Chennai, Sholinganallur 187
Electronic city 48
-----
TOTAL 1,896
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DEPRECIATION
- The Company has provided depreciation either at the rates specified
in Schedule XIV of the Companies Act, 1956, or at commercial rates
which are higher than the rates specified by Schedule XIV.
- Depreciation is provided on the revalued amount up to 31st December,
2001. The depreciation provided on the amount added on revaluation
is drawn from revaluation reserve.
3.2.7 INVESTMENTS
PURCHASE OF INVESTMENTS DURING THE YEAR
- During the year the Company acquired 17% of Spectramind eServices
Pvt. Ltd. As of March 31, 2002 the Company held Rs. 144 million
(partly paid of Rs. 7.5) in the form of equity and Rs. 216 million
(partly paid of Rs. 7.5) in the form of convertible preference
shares.
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- During the year the Company transferred the business of Fluid Power
to Wipro Fluid Power Ltd. (formerly known as Netkracker Ltd.) for
Rs. 363 million. The name of Netkracker Limited has since been
changed to Wipro Fluid Power Limited. In consideration of this
transfer the Company will receive 3,600,000, 1% redeemable
Preference shares of Rs. 100 each of Wipro Fluid Power Limited. The
balance was received in cash in March 2002.
- During the year, the Company acquired 1,791,385 shares, representing
8% of the equity capital of Wipro Net Limited (WNL). Consequent to
this investment, WNL has become a fully owned subsidiary of the
Company. The board of directors of both the companies decided to
amalgamate WNL into the Company with effect from April 2001.
Accordingly, the Karnataka High Court approved the scheme of
amalgamation. The scheme of amalgamation has been given effect to in
the accounts of the Company for the year ended March 31, 2002, on
the pooling of interest method.
- During the year Company invested Rs. 4,126 million in short term
liquid money market instruments.
SALE OF INVESTMENTS DURING THE YEAR
- The Company had assigned the proceeds of certain investments to a
third party who had assumed the obligation of discharging our ECB
loan liability. During the year the proceeds from sale, on maturity,
of these investments has been offset against the ECB loan liability.
3.2.8 INVENTORIES
The Inventories comprise mainly computers, upgrades and spares of India
and AsiaPac IT Services and Products and raw material and finished stocks
of Consumer Care and Lighting. Stock of inventory has reduced from Rs.
1,153 million as of March 31, 2001 to Rs. 748 as of March 31, 2002.
The reduction in inventory is primarily due to the transfer of
inventories of Rs. 301 million of Fluid Power business to Wipro Fluid
Power Limited. In addition, inventories of India and AsiaPac IT Services
and Products has reduced by Rs. 94 million due to a 14% decline in
revenues.
3.2.9 SUNDRY DEBTORS
Sundry debtors (net of provision) for the current year is at 6,434
million as against 6,177 million in the previous year. Segment wise break
up of sundry debtors is outlined below:
(Rs. in millions)
BUSINESS UNIT 2002 2001 INCREASE
----- ----- ---
Global IT Services 3,730 3,540 190
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products 2,311 2,089 222
Consumer Care and Lighting 181 159 22
Others 212 389 (177)
----- ----- ---
TOTAL 6,434 6,177 257
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In Global IT Services and Products days of sales outstanding have
decreased from 61 days in fiscal 2001 to 57 days in fiscal 2002. In India
and AsiaPac IT Services and Products, days-of-sales outstanding has
increased from 62 days to 86 days.
Provision for doubtful debts has increased from 1% of sales in fiscal
2001 to 1.4% of sales in fiscal 2002. In absolute terms provision for
doubtful debts has increased from Rs. 298 million in fiscal 2001 to Rs.
489 million in fiscal 2002.
3.2.10 CASH AND BANK BALANCE
- Cash and cheques on hand of Rs. 299 million includes collections in
overseas branches which has been banked the first working day
following the date of receipt.
- Balances with foreign banks in current accounts are interest
bearing.
- In fiscal 2001 the Company made equity offering in overseas capital
markets. The proceeds of the offering are invested in highly liquid
money market instruments. Deposits with other banks include Rs.
1,179 million of such investments.
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3.2.11 LOANS AND ADVANCES
- In fiscal 2001 the year the Company made equity offering in overseas
capital markets. The proceeds of the offering are invested in highly
liquid money market instruments. Loan and advances include Rs. 5,287
million of such investments.
- Cash surplus generated by operations has been invested in Inter
Corporate deposits. These deposits are placed with financial
institutions/corporates with highest credit rating.
- Advances recoverable in cash or in kind have decreased from Rs.
1,089 million to Rs. 857 million. The decrease is primarily in
others. Interest accrued, at the beginning of the year, on certain
investments have been received in fiscal 2002. Certain advances
which were earlier grouped in other advances have now been
reclassified as capital advances and grouped under capital
work-in-progress.
3.2.12 CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Sundry creditors have increased to Rs. 2,148 million from Rs. 1,607
million in line with the increase in operating expenses.
Other liabilities has decreased marginally from 2,016 million to 2,009
million.
PROVISIONS
- Provisions of Rs. 398 million for employee retirement benefit
represents Company's liability towards leave encashment and
gratuity, valued on an actuarial basis. Gratuity entitlement of most
of the employees and pension benefits are funded through
contribution to applicable schemes of LIC.
- For fiscal 2002, the Directors of the Company have proposed a
dividend of 50% on equity shares.
3.3 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
3.3.1 INCOME FROM SALES AND SERVICES
Sales have grown by 12%. The increase was attributable to increases of
28% in revenues of Global IT Services and Products and decreases of 14%
and 9% in revenues of India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products and
Consumer Care & Lighting respectively.
GLOBAL IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
Global IT Services and Products accounts for 66% of the total revenue of
Wipro Limited. During the year revenues grew by 28% from Rs. 17,840
million to Rs. 22,909 million. Revenues from technology services grew by
28%. This was primarily driven by growth in revenues from the practice
addressing the requirements of telecom and internet service providers.
Revenues from Telecom and Internetworking practice, addressing the
requirements of telecom equipment manufacturers declined by 6% reflecting
the softness in demand from telecom equipment manufacturers. Revenues
from enterprise services grew by 28% primarily driven by growth in
revenues from practices addressing the requirements of financial services
and retail and utility companies.
We added over 107 new clients during the year, new clients accounted for
over 15% of the total revenues. The total number of clients who accounted
for over US $ 5 million in revenues increased from 15 in fiscal 2001 to
23 for fiscal 2002.
INDIA AND ASIAPAC IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products accounted for 21% of the total
revenues of Wipro Limited. The decrease in revenue was primarily due to a
6% decline in revenues from manufactured products and a 29% decline in
revenues from traded products. This was partially offset by 2% growth in
Services revenue.
CONSUMER CARE AND LIGHTING
Consumer Care and Lighting accounts for 9% of total revenue. Sales of
Consumer Care and Lighting decreased by 9%. This was primarily
attributable to decline in revenues from soap products.
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3.3.2 OTHER INCOME
Other income of Rs. 1,553 million has increased by 123% as compared to last
year.
(Rs. in millions)
AMOUNT GROWTH
-----------------------------------------
PARTICULARS MARCH 31, 2002 March 31, 2001
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Dividend 285 32 791%
Interest 753 313 141%
Rental Income 19 16 19%
Profit on Sale of Investments -- 4 --
Profit on disposal of fixed assets 36 49 --
Difference in exchange 214 86 149%
Royalty 92 31 197%
Provision no longer required 115 54 113%
Miscellaneous Income 38 111 -65%
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TOTAL 1,553 696 123%
----- --- ---
- Dividends primarily comprise returns from investments in money
market mutual funds. A significant portion of our domestic
investments are in money market mutual funds. Returns received as
dividends are more tax efficient than returns received in the form
of interest.
- The interest income has increased from Rs. 313 million in fiscal
2001 to Rs. 753 million in fiscal 2002. The increase is primarily on
account of increase in absolute quantum of investments. The proceeds
from equity offering of the Company of Rs. 5,814 million and cash
surplus generated by operations has been invested in highly liquid
money market instruments or lent to corporate/financial institutions
of highest credit rating. The proceeds from equity offering has been
invested for the entire year in fiscal 2002 while it was invested
only for a portion of the year in fiscal 2001.
- Amounts received from Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. and Wipro GE Medical
Systems Ltd. for the use of proprietary intangible assets of the
Company is reflected as royalty income.
3.3.3 COST OF GOODS SOLD
(Rs. in millions)
PARTICULARS MARCH 31, 2002 MARCH 31, 2001 INCREASE
---------------------- ---------------------- --------
AMOUNT % AMOUNT %
------ ----- ------ ----- --
Raw materials, Finished and Process Stocks 7,931 23.22% 8,180 26.81% -3%
Stores & Spares 183 0.53% 175 0.57% --
Power and Fuel 321 0.94% 310 1.02% --
Salaries, wages and bonus 3,497 10.24% 2,733 8.96% 28%
Contribution to provident and other funds 133 0.39% 103 0.34% --
Gratuity and pension 121 0.35% 78 0.26% --
Workmen and Staff welfare 139 0.41% 188 0.62% --
Insurance 17 0.05% 7 0.02% --
Repairs to factory buildings 11 0.03% 39 0.13% --
Repairs to Plant & Machinery 116 0.34% 74 0.24% --
Rent 202 0.59% 196 0.64% --
Rates & Taxes 12 0.03% 13 0.04% --
Packing 15 0.05% 29 0.09% --
Travelling and allowance 5,831 17.07% 4,956 16.24% 18%
Depreciation 1,106 3.24% 739 2.42% 50%
Miscellaneous 1,220 3.57% 374 1.23% 226%
Capitalised (76) -0.22% (118) -0.39% --
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TOTAL 20,779 60.83% 18,077 59.24% 15%
------ ----- ------ ----- --
INCOME FROM SALES AND SERVICES 34,162 100.00% 30,512 100.00%
------ ----- ------ ----- --
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CONSUMPTION OF RAW MATERIALS, FINISHED AND PROCESS STOCKS
The decrease in consumption of raw materials, finished and process stocks
is primarily due to 18% decline in Indian IT Services and Products which
is partially offset by the bought out products in Global IT Services and
Products.
SALARIES AND OTHER MANPOWER RELATED COSTS
The compensation expenses has increased by 28% primarily due to the
annual compensation review in October 2000 and the increase in onsite
allowances effective October 2001. The impact of annual compensation
review is for the entire year in fiscal 2002 while the impact was only
for a portion of the year in fiscal 2001.
TRAVELLING AND ALLOWANCES
Travel and allowance has increased by 18% during the year to Rs. 5,381
million. This increase is primarily due to increase in number of
employees who have been deployed at customer premises, higher frequency
of travel and increase in travel allowances.
3.3.4 SELLING, GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE
(Rs. in millions)
PARTICULARS MARCH 31, 2002 MARCH 31, 2001 INCREASE
--------------------- --------------------- --------
AMOUNT % AMOUNT %
------ ------ ------ ------ --
Salaries, wages and bonus 996 2.91% 924 3.03% 8%
Contribution to provident and other funds 35 0.10% 40 0.13% --
Gratuity and pension 34 0.10% 28 0.09% --
Workmen and Staff welfare 129 0.38% 124 0.41% --
Insurance 6 0.02% 21 0.07% --
Repairs to buildings 4 0.01% 5 0.02% --
Rent 118 0.35% 81 0.27% --
Rates and taxes 13 0.04% 90 0.30% --
Carriage and freight 212 0.62% 224 0.73% --
Commission on sales 490 1.43% 659 2.16% -26%
Auditors' remuneration and expenses
Audit fees 3 0.01% 3 0.01% --
For certification including tax audit 1 0.00% 1 0.00% --
Reimbursement of expenses 1 0.00% 1 0.00% --
Advertisement and sales promotion 316 0.93% 472 1.55% 33%
Loss on sale of fixed assets 11 0.03% 1 0.00% --
Directors' fees 1 0.00% 1 0.00% --
Depreciation 313 0.92% 241 0.79% --
Travelling and allowances 1,572 4.60% 1,076 3.53% 46%
Communication 112 0.33% 326 1.07% --
Provision/write off of bad debts 248 0.73% 267 0.87% --
Diminution in value of investments 163 0.48% -- 0.00%
(mutual fund units)
Miscellaneous 629 1.84% 824 2.70% -24%
------ ------ ------ ------ --
TOTAL 5,406 15.82% 5,407 17.72% 0%
------ ------ ------ ------ --
INCOME FROM SALES AND SERVICES 34,162 100.00% 30,512 100.00%
------ ------ ------ ------ --
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SALARIES AND OTHER MANPOWER RELATED COSTS
The increase is primarily due to annual compensation review in October
2000 and the increase in support staff head count. The impact of annual
compensation review is for the entire year in fiscal 2002 while the
impact was only for a portion of the year in fiscal 2001.
ADVERTISEMENT AND SALES PROMOTION
Advertisement and sales promotion have decreased by 33% during the year
to Rs. 316 million. The decrease is primarily due to reduction of
advertisement spends in Wipro Consumer Care.
TRAVELLING AND ALLOWANCES
Travel and allowance has increased by 46% during the year to Rs. 1,572
million. This is primarily due to increase in the Global IT Services and
Products Sales and Marketing Team from 67 in fiscal 2001 to 99 in fiscal
2002. Expenses of overseas sales and marketing team are included in
travel and allowances.
COMMISSION ON SALES
Commission on sales has declined by 26% to Rs. 490 million. The decline
is primarily in Global IT Services and Products. In Global IT Services
and Products we have discontinued certain sales channels and supplemented
them with our own sales efforts. This has facilitated the reduction in
commission expenses in Global IT Services and Products from Rs. 213
million in fiscal 2001 to Rs. 48 million in fiscal 2002.
3.3.5 INTEREST
Interest expense has reduced from Rs. 69 million in previous year to Rs.
29 million in the current year. The decrease is primarily on account of
reduction in absolute quantum of borrowings and partly due to reduction
in interest rates. Average borrowings in the current year are nearly 40%
lower than the average borrowings in the previous year.
3.3.6 INCOME TAXES
Effective tax rate has reduced to 9% from 13% in the previous year. The
reduction in the effective tax rate was primarily due to the following:
a) Increase in the proportion of revenues from Global IT Services and
Products.
b) Increase in the proportion of Global IT Services and Products
revenues from geographies having lower tax rates.
c) A significant portion of the income from domestic investments being
realised in a tax-free manner.
d) Write-back of tax provision of earlier periods on completion of
assessments.
3.3.7 APPROPRIATIONS FROM PROFIT
The Profit after tax of Rs. 8,661 million is appropriated as follows:
- Proposed dividend on equity shares Rs. 232 million
- Transfer to general reserve Rs. 8,429 million
4.0 MATERIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN RESOURCES
Please refer to our discussions in the sub section titled "Human
Resources" in the section titled "Management Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations - US GAAP" in pages 164
through 178 of this report.
5.0 TRANSACTIONS IN WHICH THE MANAGEMENT IS INTERESTED IN THEIR PERSONAL
CAPACITY
Refer note 20 in Notes to Accounts.
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RECONCILIATION OF PROFITS BETWEEN INDIAN GAAP AND US GAAP
(Rs. in million)
PARTICULARS NOTES MARCH 31, 2002 MARCH 31, 2001
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PROFITS BEFORE EXTRAORDINARY/NON-RECURRING ITEMS 8,854 6,664
Net extraordinary/non-recurring items - 16
----- -----
PROFIT FOR THE YEAR 8,854 6,680
----- -----
Adjustments to reconcile profits for the year as per Indian
GAAP with net income as per US GAAP
Stock compensation expense A (79) (87)
Deferred tax expense B (200) (56)
Goodwill amortization C (175) (45)
Consolidation of subsidiaries D - 202
Share in Profit/(loss) of affiliates E 130 (54)
Deferral of revenue F (88) 41
Unrealised restatement gains G (52) -
Interest on secured borrowings H (40) (149)
Others I (20) (18)
Tax liability on sale of real estate property J - (78)
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Total (524) (244)
----- -----
INCOME FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS 8,330 6,436
----- -----
Income tax benefits on sale of investments in
discontinued operations J - 78
Cumulative effect of change in accounting policy F - (59)
TOTAL - 19
----- -----
NET INCOME AS PER US GAAP 8,330 6,455
----- -----
NOTES:
A. Under US GAAP, compensation cost is recognized for shares granted to
employees as the excess of the quoted market price of the stock at the
date of grant over the amount to be paid by the employee. Such
compensation cost is amortized over the vesting period. Accordingly, Wipro
has recorded compensation cost for shares granted to employees from the
Wipro Equity Reward Trust set up in 1984. No such accounting is required
under Indian GAAP.
B. Under US GAAP, Income taxes are accounted using the asset liability
method. This method requires recognition of future tax consequences of
temporary differences between the book-base and the tax-base of assets and
liabilities and operating loss carry forwards. Under Indian GAAP income
taxes were accounted using the taxes payable method and the impact of
temporary differences was not recognized. From April 1, 2001, income taxes
are accounted using the asset liability method. In US GAAP, a deferred tax
asset of Rs. 200 million was recognized in the year ended March 31, 2000
for the difference between the tax basis carrying value of investments in
Wipro Net and the amounts for financial reporting. The deferred tax asset
has been reversed during the year ended March 31, 2002, on legal
re-organisation of Wipro Net as a result of which the benefit of the
deferred tax asset will no longer be available.
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C. In fiscal 2001, the Company recorded goodwill of Rs. 868 million on
acquisition of minority interest held by KPN group in Wipro Net. In fiscal
2000, the Company had also recorded goodwill of Rs. 10.5 million on
acquisition of minority interest in Wipro Computers Limited. Goodwill
resulting from these acquisitions is amortized over a period of 5 years.
In Indian GAAP, from April 1, 2001, cost of investments in excess of share
in the underlying assets will be recorded as goodwill.
D. Under US GAAP, the financial statements of all subsidiaries, which are
more than 50% owned and controlled are consolidated with the financial
statements of the parent. Accordingly, Wipro has consolidated the
financial statements of subsidiaries. In Indian GAAP financial statements
of subsidiaries have been consolidated from April 1, 2001.
E. Under US GAAP, the financial statements of affiliates (entities where the
investor has ability to exercise significant influence) are accounted by
the equity method whereby the share of the investor in the profits/losses
of the investee are recorded in the year such profits are earned or losses
incurred. Accordingly, Wipro has recorded it's share of profit/loss of
Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd., Wipro Net Ltd., Netkracker Ltd. and Wipro
ePeripherals Ltd. Under Indian GAAP, dividends from affiliates are
recognized as income when received.
F. The Company has adopted the provisions of the Staff Accounting Bulletin
No. 101 (SAB 101) issued by the Securities Exchange Commission.
Accordingly, revenues from sale of goods, where a customer is not
obligated to pay a portion of contract price until the completion of
installation, is recognized only on completion of installation. The
cumulative effect of the applying this change to all prior years is
reflected separately as the cumulative effect of change in accounting
policy. In Indian GAAP revenue is recognized on dispatch. In addition, in
Indian GAAP, revenue has been recognised in respect of work performed in a
certain fixed price, fixed time frame arrangement where the discussions
with the customer on expanding the scope of work has not yet been
concluded. In US GAAP revenues on this arrangement will be recognized when
the final terms of the arrangement is contractually agreed upon with the
customer.
G. In US GAAP, unrealised foreign exchange restatement gains on certain
foreign currency denominated assets have been recognized directly in
Stockholders' equity.
H. In fiscal 2000 the Company transferred equity shares in Wipro Net to a
financial institution. The terms of the transfer provide Wipro with a call
option and the transferee with a put option. Further, the transferee is
restricted from selling the shares during the period of the option. Under
US GAAP, this transfer is not recorded as a sale but as a secured
borrowing. Interest is recognized at the effective yield on the put
option. A deferred tax asset of Rs 200 million was recognized in the year
ended March 31, 2000 for the difference between the tax basis carrying
value of investments in Wipro Net and the amounts for financial reporting.
In Indian GAAP the transfer of shares is recognized as sale.
I. Others include differences arising from accounting for interest
capitalization and exchange rate fluctuations of foreign currency liability
for capital goods. Under Indian GAAP, exchange rate fluctuations on foreign
currency liability for capital goods are included in the cost of the
relevant asset. Under US GAAP, such exchange rate fluctuations are charged
to income statement.
J. The tax liability arising on sale of certain real estate property is offset
against tax benefits arising on sale of investments in discontinued
operations. In Indian GAAP income tax expense is accounted using the taxes
payable method. The tax liability and tax benefit offset each other and is
not reported separately. Under US GAAP, tax liability arising on sale of
real estate property is reflected in income tax expense and tax benefits
arising from sale of investments in discontinued operations are reflected
separately after income from continuing operations.
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STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 212 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956 as at March 31,
2002
FOR FINANCIAL YEAR OF THE
SUBSIDIARY
------------------ ------------------
Name of the Subsidiary Financial Number of Extent of Profits/(losses) Profits/(losses)
Company year ending shares held holding so far it concerns so far it
of the the members concerns the
Subsidiary of the Holding members of the
Company and Holding Company
not dealt with and dealt with in
in the books of the books of
Accounts of Accounts of
Holding Company Holding
(Except to the extent Company
dealt with in F)
---------------------- -------------- ---------- --------- ----------------- ------------------
A B C D E F
---------------------- -------------- ---------- --------- ----------------- ------------------
Wipro Inc, USA March 31, 2002 1,200 100% 299 Nil
Enthink Inc, USA* March 31, 2002 - 0% (5,108) Nil
Wipro Japan KK, Japan March 31, 2002 650 100% 38,576 Nil
Wipro Prosper Limited March 31, 2002 200 100% 26 Nil
Wipro Trademarks
Holding Limited March 31, 2002 200 100% (217) Nil
Wipro Welfare Limited March 31, 2002 66,171 100% Nil Nil
Wipro Fluid Power Limited March 31, 2002 7,296,520 79% 94,728 Nil
(Rs. in 000s)
FOR PREVIOUS FINANCIAL
YEAR SINCE IT BECAME
A SUBSIDIARY
----------------- ------------------
Name of the Subsidiary Profits/(losses) Profits/(losses)
Company so far it so far it concerns
concerns the the members
members of of the Holding
the Holding Company and
Company and dealt with in the
not dealt with books of
in the books Accounts
of Accounts of of Holding
Holding Company Company
(Except to the
extent dealt with
in H)
---------------------- ----------------- ------------------
A G H
---------------------- ----------------- ------------------
Wipro Inc, USA (13,428) (108,122)
Enthink Inc, USA* (123,415) NA
Wipro Japan KK, Japan 39,032 NA
Wipro Prosper Limited 697 Nil
Wipro Trademarks
Holding Limited (363) Nil
Wipro Welfare Limited Nil Nil
Wipro Fluid Power Limited Nil Nil
* Wipro Inc, USA holds all the shares of Enthink Inc.
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The Board of Directors
Wipro Limited
Bangalore.
AUDITORS' REPORT ON CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
We have examined the attached Consolidated Balance Sheet of Wipro Limited (the
Company) and its subsidiaries (the Wipro Group) as at March 31, 2002 and also
the Profit and Loss Account of the Group for the year ended on that date.
These financial statements are the responsibility of the management of Wipro
Limited. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards in India. These standards require that we
plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial
statements are prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with Accounting
Principles Generally Accepted in India and are free of material mis-statements.
An audit includes, examining on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing
the accounting principles issued and significant estimates made by management,
as well as evaluating the overall financial statements. We believe that our
audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
We report that:
1. We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best of
our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit.
2. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared by the Company in
accordance with the requirements of Accounting Standard-21, consolidated
financial statements issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India and on the basis of the separate audited financial statements of Wipro
Limited and its subsidiaries.
3. In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts, read together with the note
thereon give a true and fair view:
a. in the case of the balance sheet, of the state of affairs of the Wipro
Group as at March 31, 2002.
b. in the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the profit of the Wipro
Group for the year ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
AS OF MARCH 31,
--------------------------
SOURCES OF FUNDS 2002 2001
---------- ----------
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS
Share Capital 464,931 464,866
Share application money pending allotment 2,399 4,797
Minority Interest 27,542 --
Reserves and Surplus 25,460,163 18,500,175
---------- ----------
25,955,035 18,969,838
---------- ----------
LOAN FUNDS
Secured Loans 254,872 400,644
Unsecured Loans 60,563 48,087
---------- ----------
315,435 448,731
---------- ----------
TOTAL 26,270,470 19,418,569
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APPLICATION OF FUNDS
FIXED ASSETS
Goodwill 12,670 --
Gross block 10,069,036 9,488,812
Less: Depreciation 4,770,280 3,818,627
---------- ----------
Net Block 5,311,426 5,670,185
Capital work-in-progress and advances 1,164,327 797,958
---------- ----------
6,475,753 6,468,143
---------- ----------
INVESTMENTS 4,680,822 499,474
DEFERRED TAX ASSETS 421,803 --
CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS AND ADVANCES
Inventories 934,600 1,152,530
Sundry Debtors 6,546,160 6,198,589
Cash and Bank balances 3,031,909 4,588,365
Loans and advances 10,055,275 6,117,725
---------- ----------
20,567,944 18,057,209
---------- ----------
CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS
Liabilities 5,223,455 5,052,456
Provisions 653,156 554,550
---------- ----------
5,876,611 5,607,006
========== ==========
NET CURRENT ASSETS 14,691,333 12,450,203
---------- ----------
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURE (to the extent not written off or adjusted) 759 749
---------- ----------
TOTAL 26,270,470 19,418,569
---------- ----------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
J.M. GANDHI Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
Partner
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
(Rs. in 000s)
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
----------------------------
2002 2001
----------- -----------
INCOME
Sales and Services 34,405,086 30,813,117
Other Income 1,558,236 697,111
----------- -----------
35,963,322 31,510,228
----------- -----------
EXPENDITURE
Cost of goods sold 20,831,431 18,076,391
Selling, general and administrative expenses 5,519,512 5,638,956
Interest 29,697 71,877
----------- -----------
26,380,640 23,787,224
----------- -----------
PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 9,582,682 7,723,003
----------- -----------
Provision for taxation (refer note 4) 729,000 1,012,000
Add: Minority Interest 808 --
----------- -----------
PROFIT AFTER TAX 8,854,490 6,711,003
----------- -----------
Earnings per share (in Rs.)
Basic 38.31 29.26
Diluted 38.24 29.02
Number of shares
Basic 231,132,500 229,325,989
Diluted 231,534,876 231,254,523
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
J.M. GANDHI Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
Partner
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Bangalore, April 19, 2002
Mumbai, April 19, 2002
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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
ACCOUNTING CONVENTION
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with Indian
generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates
and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities,
revenues and expenses and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
Actual results could differ from these estimates.
Basis of preparation of financial statements -
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in
accordance with Indian generally accepted accounting principles.
Principles of consolidation -
The consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of Wipro
and all of its subsidiaries, which are more than 50% owned and controlled. All
material inter-Company accounts and transactions are eliminated on
consolidation. The Company accounts for investments by the equity method where
its investment in the voting stock gives it the ability to exercise significant
influence over the investee.
REVENUE RECOGNITION
- Sales include applicable sales tax unless separately charged and are net of
discounts.
- Sales are recognized on despatch, except in the following cases:
- Consignment sales are recognized on receipt of statement of account from
the agent.
- Sales, which are subject to detailed acceptance tests, revenue is
reckoned based on milestones for billing, as provided in the contracts.
- Revenue from software development services includes revenue from time
and material and fixed price contracts. Revenue from time and material
contracts are recognized as related services are performed. Revenue on
fixed price contracts is recognized in accordance with percentage of
completion method of accounting.
- Export incentives are accounted on accrual basis and include estimated
realizable values/benefits from special import licenses and Advance
licenses.
- Agency commission is accrued on shipment of consignment by principal.
- Maintenance revenue is considered on acceptance of the contract and is
accrued over the period of the contract.
- Other income is recognized on accrual basis.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Revenue expenditure on research and development is charged to Profit and Loss
account and capital expenditure is shown as addition to fixed assets.
PROVISION FOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS
For employees covered under group gratuity scheme of LIC, gratuity charged to
Profit and Loss account is on the basis of premium demanded by LIC. Provision
for gratuity (for certain category of employees) and leave benefit for
employee's is determined as per actuarial valuation at the year end. Defined
contributions for provident fund and pension are charged to the Profit and Loss
account based on contributions made in terms of applicable schemes, after
netting off the amounts rendered surplus on account of employees separated from
the Company.
FIXED ASSETS AND DEPRECIATION
Fixed assets were revalued in March 1997 and stated at revalued cost less
depreciation. Depreciation was provided on revalued amounts. The additional
depreciation charge on amounts added on revaluation was drawn out of revaluation
reserves. In January 2002 the revaluation reserves were reversed out against the
carrying value of fixed assets. Consequently fixed assets are now stated at
historical costs less depreciation.
Interest on borrowed money allocated to and utilized for fixed assets,
pertaining to the period up to the date of capitalization and other revenue
expenditure incurred on new projects is capitalized. Assets acquired on hire
purchase are capitalized at the gross value and interest thereon is charged to
Profit and Loss account. Renewals and replacement are either capitalized or
charged to revenue as appropriate, depending upon their nature and long term
utility.
In respect of leased assets, lease rentals payable during the year is charged to
Profit and Loss account.
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Depreciation is provided on straight line method at rates specified in Schedule
XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, except on data processing equipment and
software, furniture and fixture, office equipment, electrical installations
(other than those at factories) and vehicles for which commercial rates are
applied. Technical know-how is amortized over six years. In Wipro Inc, Enthink
Inc and Wipro Japan KK the depreciation is provided on Written Down Value
method.
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
Foreign currency transactions are recorded at the spot rate prevailing at the
beginning of the concerned month. Year end balances of foreign currency assets
and liabilities are restated at the closing rate/forward contract rate, as
applicable. Resultant differences in respect of liabilities relating to
acquisition of fixed assets are capitalized. Other differences on restatement or
payment are adjusted to revenue account.
Forward premiums in respect of forward exchange contracts are recognized over
the life of the contract, except that premiums relating to foreign currency
loans for the acquisition of fixed assets are capitalized.
DEFERRED TAX
Tax expenses charged to Profit and Loss account is after considering deferred
tax impact for the timing difference between accounting income and tax income.
INVENTORIES
Finished goods are valued at cost or net realizable value, whichever is lower.
Other inventories are valued at cost less provision for obsolescence. Small
value tools and consumables are charged to consumption on purchase. Cost is
computed on weighted average basis.
INVESTMENTS
Long term investments are stated at cost and short term investments are valued
at lower of cost and net realizable value. Diminution in value is provided for
where the management is of the opinion that the diminution is of permanent
nature.
NOTES TO ACCOUNTS
1. In accordance with Accounting Standard 21 "Consolidated Financial
Statements" issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the
Consolidated Financial Statements of Wipro Limited include the financial
statements of all subsidiaries which are more than 50% owned and controlled.
2. Accounting Standard 21 does not deal with investments in associates and
joint ventures. At present such investment is accounted at cost as required
under Accounting Standard - 13. It means that the Company's proportionate
share in Profit or Loss of such companies are not recognized and only
dividend income is recognized. Consequently, Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd.
has not been considered for consolidation.
3. During the year, the Company acquired 1,791,385 shares, representing 8% of
the equity capital of Wipro Net Limited (WNL). Consequent to this
investment, WNL has become a fully owned subsidiary of the Company. The
board of directors of both the companies decided to amalgamate WNL into the
Company with effect from April 2001. Accordingly, the Karnataka High Court
approved the scheme of amalgamation. The scheme of amalgamation has been
given effect to in the accounts of the Company for the year ended March 31,
2002, on the pooling of interest method. The share premium of Wipro Net
Limited is credited to Wipro Limited. The deficit of Rs. 2,432,045 arising
on amalgamation as detailed below is transferred to General Reserve:
(Rs. in 000s)
-------------
Fixed Assets 433,507
Net Current Assets 71,753
Less: Loans 90,000
Net Tangible Assets as of March 31, 2001 415,260
Less: Investments in WNL by the Company 2,416,692
Less: Share premium 430,613
Deficit transferred to General Reserve 2,432,045
4. Provision for taxation comprises of following:
(i) Rs. 388,837 in respect of foreign taxes, net of deferred tax of Rs.
53,967 and write back of provision of Rs. 87,189 in respect of earlier
year.
(ii) Rs. 337,163 in respect of Indian Income Tax, net of deferred tax
benefits of Rs. 236,130 and net of write back of provision of Rs.
19,921 in respect of earlier years.
(iii) Rs. 3,000 in respect of Wealth Tax.
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5. The details of subsidiaries are as follows:
a) NAME OF THE SUBSIDIARY COUNTRY OF INCORPORATION % HOLDING
Wipro Fluid Power Limited India 79%
Wipro Inc USA 100%
Enthink Inc USA - (*)
Wipro Japan KK Japan 100%
Wipro Prosper Limited India 100%
Wipro Trademarks Holding Limited India 100%
Wipro Welfare Limited India 100%
b) Wipro Equity Reward Trust India Fully controlled trust
(*) Fully owned by Wipro Inc.
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CASH FLOW STATEMENT
(Rs. in 000s)
-------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
-------------------------
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: 9,582,682
Net profit before tax and non recurring items
Adjustments to reconcile Net profit before tax and non recurring
items to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 1,378,945
Foreign currency translation gains (119,637)
Retirement benefits provision (6,413)
Others (12,676)
Interest on borrowings 28,941
Dividend/interest (873,941)
Loss/(Gain) on sale of property, plant and equipment (25,603)
----------
OPERATING CASH FLOW BEFORE CHANGES IN WORKING CAPITAL 9,952,298
Trade and other receivable (236,983)
Loans and advances (745,340)
Inventories (other than stock-in-trade land) 217,929
Trade and other payables 519,631
----------
Net cash provided by operations 9,707,535
Direct taxes paid (1,155,393)
----------
NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES 8,552,142
----------
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Expenditure on property, plant and equipment (including advances) (2,433,022)
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment 194,650
Purchase of investments (5,709,805)
Inter Corporate deposits placed (963,300)
Certificate of Deposits with foreign banks (1,961,111)
Sale/maturities on Investments 145,468
Divided received 284,645
Interest received 560,355
----------
NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES (9,882,120)
----------
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from exercise of Stock Option Plan grants 35,479
Dividends paid (128,071)
Proceeds from issuance/(repayment) of borrowings (133,886)
----------
NET CASH PROVIDED BY/(USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES (226,478)
----------
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents during the year (1,556,456)
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period 4,588,365
----------
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE END OF THE PERIOD 3,031,909
----------
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Notes:
i) Opening cash and bank balances include cash balances of subsidiaries of
Rs. 115,113 and Rs. 5,282 of Wipro Net Limited.
ii) Purchase of investments include Rs. 1,218,142 on acquisition of minority
interest of 8% in Wipro Net Limited.
iii) Figures for previous periods presented, have been regrouped wherever
necessary, to confirm to this period classification.
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
AZIM HASHAM PREMJI N. VAGHUL B.C. PRABHAKAR
J.M. Gandhi Chairman and Managing Director Director Director
Partner
SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Corporate Executive Corporate Vice President -
Vice President - Finance Legal & Company Secretary
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF SUBSIDIARIES OF WIPRO LIMITED
FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
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WIPRO FLUID POWER LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS NETKRACKER LIMITED)
DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Wipro Fluid Power Limited for the
year ended March 31, 2002.
PURCHASE OF BUSINESS
The Company has purchased Wipro Limited's Fluid Power Business with effect from
the opening hours of March 1, 2002.
The Annual Report of Wipro Fluid Power Limited for the year 2001-2002 has been
prepared after giving effect to the said purchase of the Fluid Power Business.
The Company has obtained the approval for change of name from Netkracker Limited
to Wipro Fluid Power Limited as well as the fresh certificate of incorporation
dated April 16, 2002, consequent to change of name, from the Registrar of
Companies, Karnataka, Bangalore pursuant to an application made by the Company.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. in Mns)
---------------------------
2002 2001
------- ------
Sales and Services 154.78 6.8
Loss (174.22) (229.3)
------- ------
The Profit and Loss account shows a loss of Rs. 174.22 Mns for the year.
DIRECTORS
Mr. M.S. Rao was appointed as Additional Director of the Company with effect
from March 1, 2002 till the conclusion of the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
Mr. M.S. Rao was also appointed as a whole-time Director of the Company
designated Managing Director of the Company with effect from March 1, 2002. Mr.
D.A. Prasanna and Mr. S.C. Senapaty were appointed as Additional Directors of
the Company with effect from April 15, 2002 till the conclusion of the ensuing
Annual General Meeting. Mr. D.A. Prasanna was also appointed as a whole-time
Director and Chairman with effect from April 15, 2002.
Mr. B.S. Shankaranarayanan retire by rotation and being eligible offers himself
for re-appointment.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and offer themselves for re-appointment.
PERSONNEL
Information as per Section 217(2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the
Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975 is given in the Annexure
forming part of this report.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the
Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss of the
Company for that period;
(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting
fraud and other irregularities;
(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
D.A. PRASANNA
Bangalore, April 18, 2002 Chairman
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AUDITORS' REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO FLUID POWER LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS NETKRACKER
LIMITED)
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Fluid Power Limited,
(formerly known as Netkracker Limited) as at 31st March, 2002 and also the
Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date annexed thereto. These
financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on
our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates
made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been
kept by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those
books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information
required by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give
a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at 31st March, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the loss for the year
ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 18, 2002 Partner
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ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO FLUID POWER
LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS NETKRACKER LIMITED)
(i) The Company has maintained proper records showing quantitative details
and the situation of its fixed assets. A major portion of fixed assets
have been physically verified by the management during the year. In our
opinion, the frequency of verification of fixed assets by the management
is reasonable, having regard to the size of the Company and the nature
of its assets. No material discrepancy has been noticed between the book
records and the assets physically verified.
(ii) None of the fixed assets of the Company have been revalued during the
year.
(iii) Stocks of finished goods, stores, spare parts and raw materials other
than with the third parties have been physically verified by the
management at reasonable intervals. There is a process of obtaining
confirmation in respect of stocks with third parties.
(iv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given
to us, the procedures for physical verification of stocks followed by
the management are reasonable and adequate in relation to the size of
the Company and the nature of its business.
(v) The discrepancies between the physical stocks and the book stocks were
not material and have been properly dealt within the books of account.
(vi) In our opinion, the valuation of stocks is fair and proper in accordance
with the normally accepted accounting principles.
(vii) The Company has not taken any loans secured or unsecured from companies,
firms or other parties listed in the register maintained under Section
301 of the Companies Act, 1956 and/or from the companies under the same
management as defined under sub-section (1-B) of Section 370 of the
Companies Act, 1956.
(viii) The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured, to
companies, firms or other parties listed in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956 or to the companies under
the same management as defined under sub-section (1-B) of Section 370 of
the Companies Act, 1956.
(ix) In respect of loans and advances in the nature of loans given by the
Company, the parties/employees have generally repaid the principle
amount and interest as per terms, wherever stipulated.
(x) The Company has adequate internal control procedures commensurate with
its size and nature of its business for the purchase of stores, raw
materials including components, plant and machinery, equipment and other
assets and for the sale of goods.
(xi) The transactions for purchase of goods and materials and sale of goods,
materials and services, made in pursuance of contracts or agreements
entered in the register maintained under Section 301 of the Companies
Act, 1956, as aggregating during the year to Rs. 50,000/- or more in
respect of each party, have been made at prices which are generally
reasonable having regard to prevailing market prices for such goods,
materials or services or the prices at which transactions for similar
goods or services have been made with other parties.
(xii) As explained to us, the Company has a regular procedure for
determination of unserviceable or damaged stores and raw material. In
our opinion, adequate provision has been made in the accounts for the
estimated loss on the items so determined.
(xiii) The Company has not accepted any public deposits to which the provisions
of Section 58A of Companies Act, 1956 and the rules made thereunder
would apply.
(xiv) In our opinion, the Company has maintained reasonable records for the
sale and disposal of realisable by-products and scrap.
(xv) The Company has a system of internal audit which, in our opinion, is
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
(xvi) The Central Government has not prescribed the maintenance of Cost
records under Section 209 (1)(d) of the Companies Act, 1956.
(xvii) The Company has been generally regular in depositing Provident Fund and
Employees State Insurance dues with the appropriate authorities, except
that in a few cases there were minor delays in depositing the dues.
(xviii) There are no undisputed amounts in respect of Income Tax, Wealth Tax,
Sales Tax, Customs Duty and Excise Duty which, as at the Balance Sheet
date, were outstanding for a period of more than six months from the
date they became payable.
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(xix) On the basis of our examination of the books of account and the
information and explanations given to us, there are no personal expenses
which have been charged to the revenue account other than those incurred
in terms of contractual obligations or in accordance with generally
accepted business practice.
(xx) The Company is not a sick industrial company within the meaning of
Section 3(1)(o) of the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions)
Act, 1985.
(xxi) The business activity carried on by the Company includes providing
internet access on rental basis. For such activities, records for
allocation of manpower, stores and other material is not considered
necessary. There is proper authorisation for issuance of material.
(xxii) As regards the trading activity of the Company, during the year the
damaged goods have been determined and suitable value adjustment has
been made in the books of account.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 18, 2002 Partner
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BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
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SCHEDULE AS AT MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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SOURCES OF FUNDS
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS
Share Capital 1 92,361 92,361
Share application money pending allotment 360,000 --
Reserves and surplus 2 280,618 280,618
LOAN FUNDS
Unsecured Loans 3 46,904 --
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TOTAL 779,883 372,979
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APPLICATION OF FUNDS
FIXED ASSETS
Gross block 4 434,825 77,595
Less: Depreciation 252,610 4,144
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Net block 182,215 73,451
Capital work-in-progress and advances 1,685 663
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183,900 74,114
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INVESTMENTS -- --
Deferred Tax 134,515 --
CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS AND ADVANCES
Inventories 5 186,236 --
Sundry debtors 6 115,342 2,275
Cash and bank balances 7 253 1,770
Loans and advances 8 60,957 98,875
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362,788 102,920
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LESS: CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS
Liabilities 9 159,778 41,190
Provisions 10 10,523 485
--------- ---------
170,301 41,675
--------- ---------
NET CURRENT ASSETS 192,487 61,245
--------- ---------
Miscellaneous Expenditure -- 8,346
Debit Balance in Profit and Loss Account 268,980 229,274
--------- ---------
TOTAL 779,883 372,979
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Significant accounting policies and notes to accounts 16
The Schedule referred to above and notes thereon form an integral part of the
Balance Sheet
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI D.A. PRASANNA M.S. RAO
Partner Chairman Managing Director
Bangalore, April 18, 2002 Bangalore, April 18, 2002
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PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
(Rs. in 000s)
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SCHEDULE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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INCOME
Sales and Services 139,358 6,808
Other Income 11 4,173 2,056
--------- ---------
143,531 8,864
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EXPENDITURE
Cost of Goods Sold 12 156,153 38,674
Operating, administrative and marketing expenses 13 83,285 26,896
Depreciation 18,501 4,144
Interest 14 754 --
--------- ---------
258,693 69,714
--------- ---------
PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS (115,162) (60,850)
Extraordinary/Non-Recurring Items 15 59,060 168,424
--------- ---------
PROFIT/(LOSS) AFTER EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS (174,221) (229,274)
--------- ---------
PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAXATION (174,221) (229,274)
Provision for Taxation (refer note 10) (134,515) --
--------- ---------
PROFIT/(LOSS) AFTER TAXATION (39,706) (229,274)
Balance brought forward (refer note 10) (229,274) --
--------- ---------
BALANCE CARRIED TO BALANCE SHEET (268,980) (229,274)
--------- ---------
Significant accounting policies and notes to accounts 16
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI D.A. PRASANNA M.S. RAO
Partner Chairman Managing Director
Bangalore, April 18, 2002 Bangalore, April 18, 2002
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SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
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SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL AS AT MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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AUTHORISED CAPITAL
94,30,000 Equity shares of Rs. 10 each 94,300 40,000
(2001: 40,00,000 Equity shares of Rs. 10 each)
570,000, 0% Fully Convertible cumulative preference shares of Rs. 10 each 5,700 60,000
(2001: 60,00,000, 0% Fully Convertible cumulative preference
shares of Rs. 10 each)
ISSUED, SUBSCRIBED AND PAID-UP
92,36,100 (2001: 3,803,100) Equity shares of Rs. 10 each 92,361 38,031
Of the above Equity shares 72,96,520 (2001: 1,863,520)
shares are held by the holding Company Wipro Limited
PREFERENCE SHARE CAPITAL
(54,33,000 shares converted into equity shares during the year) -- 54,330
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92,361 92,361
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SCHEDULE 2 RESERVES & SURPLUS
Share Premium 280,618 280,618
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280,618 280,618
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SCHEDULE 3 UNSECURED LOANS
Sales Tax Loan 46,904 --
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46,904 --
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SCHEDULE 4 FIXED ASSETS GROSS BLOCK
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PARTICULARS AS ON AS ON
APRIL 1, MARCH 31,
2001 ADDITIONS DELETION 2002
-------- --------- -------- ---------
Building -- 11,960 -- 11,960
Plant & Machinery 63,960 380,687 47,158 397,487
Licence 9,976 -- 7,764 2,211
Dies, Jigs & Fixtures -- 4,310 -- 4,310
Furniture & Equipment 2,301 11,675 2,486 11,489
Vehicles 1,359 8,210 2,202 7,366
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TOTAL 77,595 416,841 59,611 434,825
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March 31, 2001 -- 77,595 -- 77,595
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SCHEDULE 4 FIXED ASSETS (CONTD.) PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION NET BLOCK
--------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------
PARTICULARS AS ON DEPRECIATION AS ON AS ON AS ON
APRIL 1, FOR THE MARCH 31, MARCH 31, MARCH 31,
2001 PERIOD DELETIONS 2002 2002 2001
-------- ------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
Building -- 2,482 -- 2,482 9,478 --
Plant & Machinery 3,350 231,658 729 234,279 163,209 60,611
Licence 474 1,737 -- 2,211 -- 9,502
Dies, Jigs & Fixtures -- 1,806 -- 1,806 2,504 --
Furniture & Equipment 240 7,286 404 7,123 4,366 2,061
Vehicles 80 5,048 418 4,710 2,656 1,278
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TOTAL 4,144 250,017 1,551 252,610 182,214 73,451
------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
March 31, 2001 -- 4,144 -- 4,144 -- --
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Note:
Deletions includes assets written off during the year - Rs. 45,214
Addition for the period includes Rs. 412,798 being the gross value of assets of
Fluidpower division.
Depreciation for the period includes Rs. 231,516 being the accumulated
depreciation on assets taken over.
(Rs. in 000s)
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AS AT MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 5 INVENTORIES
Stores and spares 8,342 --
Raw materials 39,361 --
Stock-in-process 63,378 --
Finished goods 62,067 --
Traded stock 13,088 --
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186,236 --
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SCHEDULE 6 SUNDRY DEBTORS
(Unsecured, unless otherwise stated)
Over six months
Considered good 14,550 174
Considered doubtful 3,794 --
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18,344 174
Others
Considered good 100,793 2,101
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119,136 2,275
Less: Provision for doubtful debts 3,794 --
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115,342 2,275
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(Rs. in 000s)
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AS AT MARCH 31,
-----------------------
2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 7 CASH AND BANK BALANCES
Cash and cheques on hand 60 956
Balances with scheduled banks
In current account 193 814
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253 1,770
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SCHEDULE 8 LOANS AND ADVANCES
(Unsecured, considered good unless otherwise stated)
Sundry deposits 3,933 96,979
Balance with Excise and Customs 3,651 --
Advances recoverable in cash or in kind or for
value to be received
Considered good 52,903 1,817
Considered doubtful 1,257 --
Less: Provision for doubtful advances 1,257 --
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52,903 1,817
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Advance Income Tax 470 79
------- -------
60,957 98,875
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SCHEDULE 9 LIABILITIES
Sundry creditors
Due to SSI Undertakings 33,600 --
Others 72,097 --
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105,697 15,762
======= =======
Income received in advance 11,967 20,752
Advance from Customers 3,992 --
Other Liabilities 38,122 5,143
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159,778 41,657
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SCHEDULE 10 PROVISIONS
Retirement Benefits 10,523 18
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10,523 18
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-----------------------
2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 11 OTHER INCOME
Interest on deposits with companies 1,698 2,056
(Tax deducted at source: 2002: Rs. 392; 2001: Rs. 79)
Miscellaneous Income 2,475 --
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4,173 2,056
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(Rs. in 000s)
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 12 COST OF GOODS SOLD
Consumption of raw materials and brought out components
Opening stocks 46,496 --
Add: Purchases 26,215 --
-------
72,711 --
Less: Closing stocks 39,361 --
-------
33,350 --
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Purchase of finished products for sale 5,688 --
Opening stock: In process 81,002 --
: Finished products 64,279 --
Less : Closing stocks : In process 63,378 --
: Finished products 62,067 --
-------
19,836 --
-------
58,874 --
Cost of Internet Services 97,279 38,674
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156,153 38,674
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SCHEDULE 13 OPERATING, ADMINISTRATIVE
AND MARKETING EXPENSES
Stores and spares 2,284 --
Sub contracting charges 7,190 --
Power and fuel 1,469 50
Salaries, wages and bonus 18,250 3,432
Contribution to Provident Fund 704 131
Gratuity and Leave Encashment 166 485
Workmen and Staff welfare 416 11
Insurance 327 6
Repairs to Buildings 17 --
Repairs to Machinery 2,417 95
Rent 2,872 1,126
Rates and Taxes 367 6
Carriage and Freight 4,120 1,228
Auditors' remuneration and expenses
Audit fees 100 100
Advertisement and sales promotion 18,413 14,545
Communication Expenses 4,895 1,141
Travelling and Conveyance 2,148 803
Office maintenance 180 86
Provision/write off of Bad debts 43 --
Manpower outside services 575 242
Selling and Distribution Expenses 5,375 1,337
Consultancy Charges 4,814 1,369
Loss on Sale/discarding of fixed assets 1,073 --
Miscellaneous 5,070 704
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83,285 26,897
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(Rs. in 000s)
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
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SCHEDULE 14 INTEREST
Others 754 --
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754 --
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SCHEDULE 15 EXTRAORDINARY/
NON-RECURRING ITEMS
Assets Written Off 45,214 --
Deferred Expenditure Written Off 8,346 1,067
Roc Fee and Stamp Fee for increase in Authorised Capital 5,500 --
Reimbursement of losses as per contractual obligations -- 166,767
Preliminary Expenses -- 590
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59,060 168,424
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SCHEDULE 16 SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
1. ACCOUNTING CONVENTION
The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost
convention, on the accrual basis of accounting and comply with the
mandatory accounting standards and statements issued by the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India.
2. The significant accounting policies followed by the Company are as
stated below.
REVENUE RECOGNITION
- Sales does not include sales tax as the same is separately charged and
are net of discounts.
- Sales are recognised on despatch.
- Export incentives are accounted on accrual basis and include estimated
realizable values/benefits from special import licenses and Advance
licenses.
- Internet access is sold to customers for both limited and unlimited
number of hours, which is to be utilized within a specified period of
time. Revenue for limited hour pack is recognized based on usage by the
customer over the specified period. At the end of the specified time
frame, the remaining unutilized hours, if any, are recognized as revenue
thereon. In case for unlimited hour pack revenue is recognized based on
time elapsed and the total time for which it is valid.
- Agency commission is accrued on shipment of consignment by principal.
- Other income is recognized on accrual basis.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Revenue expenditure on research and development is charged to Profit and Loss
Account and capital expenditure is shown as addition to fixed assets.
PROVISION FOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS
For employees covered under group gratuity scheme of LIC, gratuity charged to
Profit and Loss Account is on the basis of premium demanded by LIC. Provision
for gratuity (for certain category of employees) and leave benefit for employees
is determined as per actuarial valuation at the year-end. Defined contributions
for provident fund and pension are charged to the Profit and Loss Account based
on contributions made in terms of applicable schemes, after netting off the
amounts rendered surplus on account of employees separated from the Company.
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FIXED ASSETS AND DEPRECIATION
Fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation.
Interest on borrowed money allocated to and utilized for fixed assets,
pertaining to the period upto the date of capitalization and other revenue
expenditure incurred on new projects is capitalized. Assets acquired on hire
purchase are capitalized at the gross value and interest thereon is charged to
Profit and Loss Account. Renewals and replacement are either capitalized or
charged to revenue as appropriate, depending upon their nature and long term
utility.
In respect of leased assets, lease rentals payable during the year is charged to
Profit and Loss Account.
Depreciation is provided on straight line method at rates specified in Schedule
XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, except on computers, furniture and fixture,
office equipment, electrical installations (other than those at factories),
vehicles and machinery used for providing internet services, for which
commercial rates are applied.
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS
Foreign currency transactions are recorded at the spot rate prevailing at the
beginning of the concerned month. Year-end balances of foreign currency assets
and liabilities are restated at the closing rate/forward contract rate, as
applicable. Resultant differences in respect of liabilities relating to
acquisition of fixed assets are capitalized other differences on restatement or
payment are adjusted to revenue account.
Forward premiums in respect of forward exchange contracts are recognized over
the life of the contract, except that premiums relating to foreign currency
loans for the acquisition of fixed assets are capitalized.
INVENTORIES
Finished goods are valued at cost or net realizable value, whichever is lower.
Other inventories are valued at cost less provision for obsolescence. Small
value tools and consumables are charged to consumption on purchase. Cost is
computed on weighted average basis. Inventories of compact discs are written off
in the year of purchase.
DEFERRED TAXES
Deferred Tax asset is recognised in the books of account for the accumulated
losses incurred by the Company on the basis of the management view that, the
losses will get offset in the future by way of profit earned by the fluid power
business which has been purchased on 1st March, 2002.
NOTES TO ACCOUNTS
(All figures are reported in rupees thousands, except data relating to equity
share or unless stated otherwise)
1. The Company has provided depreciation at the rates specified in Schedule
XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, except in cases of the following assets
which are depreciated at commercial rates which are higher than the
rates specified in Schedule XIV. Depreciation over the years is provided
upto total cost of assets.
DEPRECIATION PER SCHEDULE
CLASS OF ASSET RATE APPLIED (%) XIV (%)
-------------- ---------------- -------------
Data processing equipment & software 50.00 16.21
Furniture and fixtures 19.00 6.33
Electrical Installations (other than Factories) 19.00 4.75
Office equipment 19.00 4.75
Vehicles 24.00 9.50
Plant and Machinery (*) 20.00 4.75
License 20.00 Not Specified
(*) On assets used for internet services.
Depreciation at 100% have been provided on assets costing less than Rs. 5
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2. Services outsourced
The Company has outsourced the entire back end activities, which
includes bandwidth, infrastructure (2 mb lines, e1r2 lines), colocation
of servers and customer care activities.
3. Deferred Revenue Expenditure
Considering the future benefit from the expenditure incurred during the
previous year 2000-2001 for Web development/Product launch, which is
below expectation, it has been decided to charge off the balance of the
unamortized amount at the beginning of the year of Rs. 2,828 and Rs.
5,518 being the expenses towards Web development and Product launch.
4. Fixed Assets
Assets writeoff of Rs. 45,214 comprises of assets scrapped during the
year, since the management feels that these assets have no realizable
value.
5. Estimated amount of contracts remaining to be executed on Capital
account and not provided for is Rs. NIL (2001: Rs. Nil)
6. Contingent liabilities in respect of:
i. Claims against the Company not acknowledged as debts Rs. Nil.
(2001: Rs. NIL)
ii. Disputed demands for excise, customs, income tax, sales tax and
other matters Rs. Nil. (2001: Rs. NIL)
iii. Guarantees given by Banks on behalf of the Company Rs. 24,717.
(2001: Rs. 20,000)
7. No provision for income tax has been made during the period, as the
Company does not have any taxable income.
8. Auditor's remuneration
Statutory audit fees Rs. 100
(2001: Rs. 100)
9. To comply with the newly introduced Accounting Standard 22 - Taxes on
Income issued by the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of India
which is mandatory with effect from April 1, 2001, the Company has made
provision for taxation after considering deferred tax to recognize
timing difference in tax. The Company has created net deferred tax for
the period of Rs. 134,515 on account of which the loss for the period is
lower by an equivalent amount.
10. Deferred tax comprise of:
DEFERRED TAX ASSETS:
Depreciation differential 11,619
Brought forward business loss U/s. 72 122,896
Deferred tax liability NIL
Total 134,515
11. Sundry creditors include an amount of Rs. 17,805 being amount payable to
suppliers, who are Small Scale Industrial Undertakings (SSI) as defined
under the Industrial (Development and Regulation) Act 1951, exceeding
Rs. 100 in aggregate and outstanding for a period in excess of 30 days
as at the date of Balance Sheet. The list of such SSI's is attached.
12. Share application money pending allotment represents purchase
consideration payable to Wipro Limited on acquisition of Fluid Power
business from the said company.
13. Corresponding figures for previous periods have been regrouped wherever
necessary, to confirm to this year's classification. Current period
figures are not comparable with the previous period to the extent of
purchase of Wipro Fluid Power Division from Wipro Limited with effect
from March 1, 2002.
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SSI DUES EXCEEDING RS. 100 IN AGGREGATE AND OUTSTANDING FOR A PERIOD IN EXCESS
OF 30 DAYS AS AT A DATE OF BALANCE SHEET:
WIPRO FLUID POWER LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS NETKRACKER LIMITED)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PART II OF SCHEDULE VI TO
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
ALL DETAILS ARE FOR YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
Unit
-----
1 REGISTERED CAPACITY
Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment NPA # 40,000
Tipping gear systems NPA # 2,000
2 INSTALLED CAPACITY
Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment NPA # 40,000
Tipping gear systems NPA # 5,000
# NPA indicates numbers per annum
3 PRODUCTION AND SALES PRODUCTION SALES
----------------------- ---------------------------
UNIT QUANTITY # QUANTITY RS. IN 000S
---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment Nos 5,734 5,815 80,915
Tipping gear systems Nos 703 766 23,300
Spares/components for tippers/cylinders 15,500
ISP services 35,042
Agency commission 983
Processing and service charges 25
Miscellaneous Income 3,190
Less: Excide Duty 15,424
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143,531
=======
4 CLOSING STOCK NOS
Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment 1,562 62,067
----- -------
1,562 62,067
===== =======
5 TRADED ITEM CONSUMED
Spares/components for tippers/cylinders 5,688
-------
5,688
=======
6 RAW MATERIAL CONSUMED
Components for cylinders 33,350
-------
33,350
=======
7 VALUE FOR IMPORTED AND INDIGENOUS MATERIAL CONSUMED
Raw materials
Imported 9,504
Indigenous 23,846
-------
33,350
=======
8 STORES AND SPARES CONSUMED
Imported 733
Indigenous 1,551
-------
2,284
=======
9 VALUE OF IMPORTS ON CIF BASIS
(excludes value of imported items locally purchased)
Raw materials, components and peripherals 5,332
Stores and Spares 145
-------
5,477
=======
10 EARNINGS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY
Export of goods on FOB basis 1,161
Agency commission 983
-------
2,144
=======
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PART IV OF SCHEDULE VI TO
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
BALANCE SHEET ABSTRACT AND THE COMPANY'S GENERAL BUSINESS PROFILE
I REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration No. 27551 State Code 08
Balance Sheet Date 31st March 2002
II CAPITAL RAISED DURING THE YEAR (Rs. in 000s)
Public issue Nil
Rights issue Nil
Bonus issue Nil
III POSITION OF MOBILISATION OF AND
DEPLOYMENT OF FUNDS (Rs. in 000s)
TOTAL LIABILITIES 779,883 TOTAL ASSETS 779,883
SOURCES OF FUNDS APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Paid-up capital 92,361 Net Fixed Assets 183,900
Share application money pending
allotment 360,000 Deferred Tax Assets 134,515
Reserves and Surplus 280,618 Net Current Assets 192,487
Secured Loans -- Debit balance in Profit and Loss Account 268,980
Unsecured Loans 46,904
IV PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY (Rs. in 000s)
Turnover 143,531
Total Expenditure 258,693
Loss before Tax 174,221
Loss after Tax 39,706
Earnings per share (basic) --
Dividend --
V Generic names of two principal products/services of the Company (as per
monetary terms)
i) Item code no (ITC Code) 357000000
Product description Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment
ii) Item code no (ITC Code) 374840000
Product description Tipping system
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
D.A. PRASANNA
Chairman
M.S. RAO
Managing Director
Bangalore, April 18, 2002
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DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Wipro Inc. for the year ended March
31, 2002.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. in Mns)
-----------------------------
2002 2001
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Sales and services 58.43 24.38
Profit/(Loss) before tax 0.30 (7.86)
Profit/(Loss) after tax 0.30 (7.86)
Extraordinary items/Prior period items -- --
Profit/(Loss) for the year 0.30 (7.86)
OPERATIONS
Wipro Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited, incorporated with the
object of investing in various technology segments in USA.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and offer themselves for re-appointment.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of
the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss
of the Company for that period;
(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance
of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this
Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and
detecting fraud and other irregularities;
(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
VIVEK PAUL
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Director
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO INC
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Inc, as at March 31, 2002
and also the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date annexed
thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
mis-statement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been
kept by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those
books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information
required by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give
a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
119
WIPRO INC.
ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO INC
(i) The Company has not granted any loans or advances in the nature of
loans.
(ii) The Company is yet to introduce a system of internal audit.
(iii) On the basis of our examination of the books of account and the
information and explanations given to us, there are no personal expenses
which have been charged to the revenue account other than those incurred
in terms of service contract obligations with employees and accepted
business practices.
(iv) In our opinion, clauses of Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's
Report) Order,1988 numbering (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii),
(viii), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii) and (xx)
are not applicable for the current year.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
120
WIPRO INC.
BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
-----------------------------
SCHEDULE AS AT MARCH 31,
-----------------------------
2002 2001
------- -------
SOURCES OF FUNDS
Shareholders' Funds
Share Capital 1 129,270 129,270
Translation Reserve 2,930 2,449
------- -------
TOTAL 132,200 131,719
------- -------
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Investments 3 488 466
Current Assets, Loans and Advances:
Sundry Debtors 4 12,143 3,682
Cash and Bank Balances 5 12,700 23,035
Loans and Advances 6 -- 437
------- -------
24,843 27,154
------- -------
Less: Current Liabilities and provisions
Liabilities 7 14,441 17,508
------- -------
14,441 17,508
------- -------
Net Current Assets 10,401 9,645
Miscellaneous Expenditure 60 58
Debit in Profit & Loss Account 2 121,250 121,550
------- -------
TOTAL 132,200 131,719
------- -------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI VIVEK PAUL GIRISH S. PARANJPE
Partner Chairman Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
121
WIPRO INC.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
(Rs. in 000s)
------------------------------
SCHEDULE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
------------------------------
2002 2001
-------- --------
INCOME
Sales and Services 54,567 24,146
Other Income 8 3,867 232
-------- --------
58,435 24,378
-------- --------
EXPENDITURE
Software Development charges 53,926 --
Administration & Marketing Expenses 9 4,185 32,095
Audit Fees 25 25
Interest -- 114
-------- --------
58,136 32,234
-------- --------
PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE YEAR 299 (7,856)
LOSS BROUGHT FORWARD (121,550) (113,694)
-------- --------
BALANCE CARRIED TO BALANCE SHEET (121,250) (121,550)
-------- --------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI VIVEK PAUL GIRISH S. PARANJPE
Partner Chairman Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
122
WIPRO INC.
(Rs. in 000s)
-------------------------------
AS AT MARCH 31,
-------------------------------
2002 2001
--------- ---------
SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AUTHORISED
Issued, Subscribed and paid-up
1,200 equity shares of USD 2,500 each 129,270 129,270
--------- ---------
129,270 129,270
========= =========
SCHEDULE 2 DEBIT BALANCE IN
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
Loss carried forward from Profit and Loss Account 121,250 121,550
--------- ---------
121,250 121,550
========= =========
SCHEDULE 3 INVESTMENTS
Investment in Sylantro 488 466
--------- ---------
488 466
========= =========
SCHEDULE 4 SUNDRY DEBTORS
(Unsecured)
Over six months -- --
Other considered good 12,143 3,682
--------- ---------
12,143 3,682
========= =========
SCHEDULE 5 CASH AND BANK BALANCES
Balances With Banks
Wells Fargo 12,700 23,035
--------- ---------
12,700 23,035
========= =========
SCHEDULE 6 LOANS AND ADVANCES
Salary Advance -- 437
--------- ---------
-- 437
========= =========
SCHEDULE 7 LIABILITIES
Trade Payables 13,865 17,418
Outstanding Liabilities 120 90
Advance from Customers 457
--------- ---------
14,441 17,508
========= =========
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-------------------------------
2002 2001
--------- ---------
SCHEDULE 8 OTHER INCOME
Service fee 3,867 232
--------- ---------
3,867 232
========= =========
SCHEDULE 9 ADMINISTRATION
& MARKETING EXPENSES
Salaries, wages and bonus 3,516 --
Rates and taxes 2 12
Professional & Consultancy Charges 570 26,374
Bank Charges -- 1
Miscellaneous 96 5,708
--------- ---------
4,185 32,095
========= =========
123
WIPRO INC.
ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
1. Accounts are maintained on accrual basis. The transactions are in local
currency, which has been converted for reporting in Indian Currency on
the following basis.
2. CONVERSION INTO INDIAN RUPEES:
For the purpose of the accounts during the period all Income and expense
items are converted at the average rate of exchange applicable for the
period. All assets and liabilities are translated at the closing rate as
on the Balance Sheet date. The exchange difference arising out of the
year-end conversion is being debited or credited to Translation Reserve.
The Equity Share Capital is carried forward at the rate of exchange
prevailing on the transaction date. The resulting exchange difference on
account of translation at the year-end are transferred to Translation
Reserve account and the said account is being treated as "Reserve and
Surplus".
3. REVENUE RECOGNITION:
Revenue from software development services includes revenue from time
and material and fixed price contracts. Revenue from time and material
contracts are recognized as related services are performed. Revenue on
fixed price contracts is recognized in accordance with percentage of
completion method of accounting.
4. INVESTMENTS:
Investments are stated at cost. Diminution in value is provided for
where the management is of the opinion that the diminution is of a
permanent nature.
5. CORPORATE TAX:
Though Wipro Inc has reported a profit during this year, the Company is
not liable to any corporate tax, because of accumulated losses in the
previous years. Since Wipro Inc has reported a loss, no corporate tax
provision has been made.
6. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION:
The related party transaction includes the billing raised by the Holding
Company of Rs. 53.925 Million and service fee billing raised by the
Holding Company is Rs. 3.515 Million.
NOTES TO ACCOUNTS:
1. The Company is a 100% Subsidiary of Wipro Limited. The accounts have
been prepared and audited for the purpose of attachment to the accounts
of the Holding Company to comply with the provisions of the Indian
Companies Act.
2. For the Purpose of conversion of the local currency (USD) into Indian
Currency (Indian Rupees) the exchange rate applied is as per para 2 of
the accounting policies.
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ENTHINK INC
DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Enthink Inc. for the year ended March
31, 2002
FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. in Mns)
-------------------------------
2002 2001
--------- ---------
Sales and services 0.47 45.03
Profit/(loss) before tax (5.10) 16.04
Profit/(loss) after tax (5.10) 16.04
OPERATIONS
Enthink Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Inc. and is a leading
provider of ready for use communication technologies to enable companies
building Intelligent Internet applications. Enthink Inc., incorporated with the
object of investing in various technology segments in USA, develops and sells
Semiconductor and Software based Intellectual Property and provides Integration
Services for enabling makers of Internet applications, to release their products
faster.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and offer themselves for re-appointment.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of
the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss
of the Company for that period;
(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance
of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this
Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and
detecting fraud and other irregularities;
(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
VIVEK PAUL
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Director
125
ENTHINK INC
AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF ENTHINK INC
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Enthink Inc, as at March 31, 2002
and also the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date annexed
thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates
made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been
kept by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those
books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information
required by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give
a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the loss for the year
ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
126
ENTHINK INC
ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF ENTHINK INC
(i) The Company has maintained proper records to show full particulars
including quantitative details of its fixed assets. The fixed assets
have not been physically verified by the management during the year.
(ii) None of the fixed assets have been revalued during the year.
(iii) The Company has not granted any loans or advances in the nature of loans
or advances other than to employees.
(iv) In our opinion, there is an adequate internal control procedure
commensurate with the size of the Company and the nature of its
business, for purchase and sale of assets and services.
(v) The Company is yet to introduce internal audit system.
(vi) On the basis of our examination of the books of account and the
information and explanations given to us, there are no personal expenses
which have been charged to the revenue account other than those incurred
in terms of service contract obligations with employees and accepted
business practices.
(vii) In respect of services activities:
a. there are no materials used for the project
b. the Company has a reasonable system, commensurate with its size
and nature of business for allocating man hours utilised to the
respective jobs/projects.
(viii) In our opinion, clauses of Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's
Report) Order, 1988, numbering (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii),
(x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii) and (xx) are not
applicable for the current year.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
127
ENTHINK INC
BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
---------------------------------
SCHEDULE AS AT MARCH 31,
---------------------------------
2002 2001
--------- ---------
SOURCES OF FUNDS
Shareholders' Funds
Share Capital 1 105,254 105,254
Reserves and Surplus
Translation Reserve 2,079 (1,414)
--------- ---------
TOTAL 107,333 103,840
--------- ---------
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Fixed Assets
Gross Block 3 24,980 23,869
Less: Depreciation 24,950 19,105
--------- ---------
Net Block 30 4,764
Current Assets, Loans and Advances:
Sundry Debtors 4 16,643 16,087
Cash and Bank Balances 5 21,612 20,905
Loans and Advances 6 400 382
--------- ---------
38,654 37,374
--------- ---------
Less: Current Liabilities and provisions
Liabilities 7 59,873 61,713
--------- ---------
59,873 61,713
--------- ---------
Net Current Assets (21,219) (24,339)
Debit Balance in P & L Account 2 128,522 123,415
--------- ---------
TOTAL 107,333 103,840
--------- ---------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., VIVEK PAUL
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI GIRISH S. PARANJPE
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
128
ENTHINK INC
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------------
SCHEDULE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
--------------------------------
2002 2001
-------- --------
INCOME
Sales and Services -- 37,683
Other Income 8 465 7,347
-------- --------
465 45,030
-------- --------
EXPENDITURE
Administration & Marketing Expenses 9 724 21,220
Audit Fees 25 25
Depreciation 4,825 7,744
-------- --------
5,574 28,989
-------- --------
PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE YEAR (5,108) 16,040
LOSS BROUGHT FORWARD (123,415) (139,455)
-------- --------
BALANCE CARRIED TO BALANCE SHEET (128,523) (123,415)
-------- --------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., VIVEK PAUL
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI GIRISH S. PARANJPE
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
129
ENTHINK INC
(Rs. in 000s)
-----------------------------------------
AS AT MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------------
2002 2001
---------- ---------
SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AUTHORISED CAPITAL:
Issued, Subscribed and Paid-up 105,254 105,254
Preference Shares - 6,000,000 @ US $ 0.40 each and
(All the shares have been held by Wipro Inc.)
Common Shares - 1,669,540 @ US $0.05 each
(All the shares have been held by Wipro Inc.)
---------- ---------
105,254 105,254
========== =========
SCHEDULE 2 DEBIT BALANCE IN
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
Loss carried forward from Profit and Loss Account 128,523 123,415
---------- ---------
128,523 123,415
========== =========
SCHEDULE 3 FIXED ASSETS
GROSS BLOCK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AS ON ADDITIONS DELETIONS AS ON
PARTICULARS APRIL 1, 2001 DURING THE YEAR DURING THE YEAR MARCH 31, 2002
------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------
Computers 23,798 1,103 -- 24,901
Office Equipment 37 4 -- 41
Furniture 34 4 -- 38
------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------
TOTAL 23,869 1,111 -- 24,980
------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------
PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION ACCUMULATED NET BLOCK
PARTICULARS DEP. AS ON DURING THE DEP. AS ON AS ON
APRIL 1, 2001 YEAR MARCH 31, 2002 MARCH 31, 2002
------------- ------------ -------------- ---------------
Computers 19,074 4,810 24,901 --
Office Equipment 18 8 21 20
Furniture 13 7 28 10
------------- ------------ -------------- ---------------
TOTAL 19,105 4,825 24,950 30
------------- ------------ -------------- ---------------
Note:
1. Fixed Assets includes Translation Reserve of Rs. 1,111.
2. Depreciation for the year includes Translation Reserve of Rs. 1,021.
AS AT MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------
2002 2001
-------- --------
SCHEDULE 4 SUNDRY DEBTORS
(Unsecured)
Over six months Considered good 16,643 16,087
Over six months Considered doubtful 3,429 3,315
Less: Provision (3,429) (3,315)
-------- --------
16,643 16,087
======== ========
130
ENTHINK INC
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------------
AS AT MARCH 31,
--------------------------------
2002 2001
-------- --------
SCHEDULE 5 CASH AND BANK BALANCES
Balances with Banks
Bank of Tokyo 440 420
Wells Fargo 21,172 20,485
-------- --------
21,612 20,905
======== ========
SCHEDULE 6 LOANS AND ADVANCES
Sundry Deposits 366 350
Travel Advances 98 93
Salary Advance 34 32
Total of Loans and Advances 497 475
Less: Provision made (98) (93)
-------- --------
400 382
======== ========
SCHEDULE 7 LIABILITIES
Trade Payables 59,791 61,660
Outstanding Liabilities 82 53
-------- --------
59,873 61,713
======== ========
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
--------------------------------
2002 2001
-------- --------
SCHEDULE 8 OTHER INCOME
Interest Income 465 932
Excess provision reversed -- 6,414
-------- --------
465 7,347
======== ========
SCHEDULE 9 ADMINISTRATION
& MARKETING EXPENSES
Salaries, wages and bonus -- 6,115
Rates and taxes 40 47
Brokerage and commission 143 1,245
Advertisement and sales promotion -- 7
Provision for Doubtful Debts -- 3,322
Travelling -- 382
Communications -- 109
Books & Periodicals -- 455
Professional & Consultancy Charges 475 8,987
Bank Charges 5 2
Miscellaneous 61 436
Exchange Rate Fluctuation A/c -- 113
-------- --------
724 21,220
======== ========
131
ENTHINK INC
ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
1. Accounts are maintained on accrual basis. The transactions are in local
currency, which has been converted for reporting in Indian Currency on the
following basis.
2. CONVERSION INTO INDIAN RUPEES:
For the purpose of the accounts during the period all Income and expense
items are converted at the average rate of exchange applicable for the
period. All assets and liabilities are translated at the closing rate as on
the Balance Sheet date. The exchange difference arising out of the year-end
conversion is being debited or credited to Translation Reserve.
The Equity Share Capital is carried forward at the rate of exchange
prevailing on the transaction date. The resulting exchange difference on
account of translation at the year-end are transferred to Translation
Reserve account and the said account is being treated as "Reserve and
Surplus".
3. REVENUE RECOGNITION:
Revenue from software development services includes revenue from time and
material and fixed price contracts. Revenue from time and material
contracts are recognized as related services are performed. Revenue on
fixed price contracts is recognized in accordance with percentage of
completion method of accounting.
4. DEPRECIATION:
Fixed assets are stated net of depreciation provision. Depreciation has
been provided on Written Down Value method at the following rates which are
equal or higher than the rates specified as per the Schedule XIV of the
Indian Companies Act. Such rates are fixed after considering applicable
laws of United States of America and management estimation of the useful
life of the asset.
DESCRIPTION OF ASSETS LIFE OF ASSET
Software 36 months
5. EMPLOYEES RELATED COSTS:
There are no employees related costs.
6. CORPORATE TAX:
Since Enthink Inc has reported a loss, no corporate tax provision has been
made.
NOTES TO ACCOUNTS:
1. The Company is a 100% Subsidiary of Wipro Inc. The accounts have been
prepared and audited for the purpose of attachment to the accounts of the
Holding Company to comply with the provisions of the Indian Companies Act.
2. For the Purpose of conversion of the local currency (USD) into Indian
Currency (Indian Rupees) the exchange rate applied is as per para 2 of the
accounting policies.
132
WIPRO JAPAN KK
DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Wipro Japan KK for the year ended
March 31, 2002
FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. in Mns)
--------------------
2002 2001
---- ----
Sales and services 463 354
Profit before tax 83 55
Profit after tax 39 30
OPERATIONS
Wipro Japan KK is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited pursuing the
marketing of services provided by Wipro Limited.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N M Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General Meeting
and offer themselves for re-appointment.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the
Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss of the
Company for that period;
(c) The Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting
fraud and other irregularities;
(d) The Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
VIVEK PAUL
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Director
133
WIPRO JAPAN KK
AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO JAPAN KK
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Japan KK, as at March 31,
2002 and also the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date
annexed thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept
by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information required
by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give a true and
fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted
in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the year
ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
134
WIPRO JAPAN KK
ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO JAPAN KK
(i) The Company has maintained proper records to show full particulars
including quantitative details of its fixed assets. The fixed assets have
not been physically verified by the Management during the year.
(ii) None of the fixed assets have been revalued during the year.
(iii) The Company has not granted any loans or advances in the nature of loans
and advances other than to employees, who have generally repaid the
principle amounts and interest as per the terms, wherever stipulated.
(iv) In our opinion, there is an adequate internal control procedure
commensurate with the size of the Company and the nature of its business,
for purchase and sale of assets and services.
(v) A review of internal control systems and procedures was conducted by
internal audit department of Wipro Limited the parent company.
(vi) On the basis of our examination of the books of account and the
information and explanations given to us, there are no personal expenses
which have been charged to the revenue account other than those incurred
in terms of service contract obligations with employees or accepted
business practices.
(vii) In respect of services activities:
(a) there are no materials used in the project
(b) the Company has reasonable system, commensurate with its size and
nature of business for allocating man hours utilised to the
respective jobs/projects.
(viii) In our opinion, clauses of Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's
Report) Order, 1988, numbering (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii),
(x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii) and (xx) are not
applicable for the current year.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. Gandhi
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
135
WIPRO JAPAN KK
BALANCE SHEET
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------
AS AT MARCH 31,
--------------------------
SCHEDULE 2002 2001
-------- ------- -------
SOURCES OF FUNDS
Shareholders' Funds
Share Capital 1 9,738 9,738
Reserves and Surplus 2 77,607 39,032
Translation Reserves (4,108) (351)
------- -------
TOTAL 83,238 48,419
------- -------
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Fixed Assets
Gross Block 3 10,950 9,343
Less: Depreciation 6,607 5,224
------- -------
Net Block 4,343 4,119
------- -------
Current Assets, Loans and Advances
Sundry Debtors 4 41,572 69,838
Cash and Bank Balances 5 61,459 70,558
Loans and Advances 6 45,486 7,402
------- -------
148,517 147,798
Less: Current Liabilities and provisions
Liabilities 7 25,798 85,252
Provisions 8 43,924 18,246
------- -------
69,722 103,498
------- -------
Net Current Assets 78,795 44,300
Miscellaneous Expenditure 100
------- -------
TOTAL 83,238 48,419
------- -------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., VIVEK PAUL
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI V. BALAKRISHNAN
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
--------------------------
SCHEDULE 2002 2001
-------- ------- -------
INCOME
Sales and Services 408,877 299,327
Other Income 9 54,492 54,990
------- -------
463,369 354,317
------- -------
EXPENDITURE
Software Development charges 275,991 214,791
Administration & Marketing Expenses 10 103,053 81,947
Audit fee 25 25
Depreciation 1,800 2,873
------- -------
380,870 299,636
------- -------
PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 82,500 54,681
Provision for Taxation 43,924 25,076
------- -------
PROFIT AFTER TAXATION 38,576 29,605
Profit Brought Forward 39,032 9,427
------- -------
BALANCE CARRIED TO BALANCE SHEET 77,607 39,032
------- -------
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., VIVEK PAUL
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI V. BALAKRISHNAN
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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WIPRO JAPAN KK
(Rs. in 000s)
------------------------
AS AT MARCH 31,
------------------------
2002 2001
------ ------
SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AUTHORISED CAPITAL:
1800 equity shares of Jap. Yen 50,000 each
Issued, Subscribed and paid-up 9,738 9,738
650 equity shares of Jap. Yen 50,000 each
9,738 9,738
SCHEDULE 2 RESERVES AND SURPLUS
Balance carried from Profit and Loss Account 77,607 39,032
------ ------
77,607 39,032
====== ======
SCHEDULE 3 FIXED ASSETS
Gross Block
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADDITIONS DELETIONS
AS ON DURING THE DURING THE AS ON
DESCRIPTION APRIL 1, 2001 YEAR YEAR MARCH 31, 2002
----------- ------------- ---------- ---------- ---------------
Computers 3,083 1,332 -- 4,345
Office Equipment 4,396 321 -- 4,809
Furniture 1,864 133 -- 1,797
----- ----- ------ ------
TOTAL 9,343 1,786 -- 10,950
----- ----- ------ ------
Provision for Depreciation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION ACCUMULATED NET BLOCK
DEP. AS ON DURING THE DEP. AS ON AS ON
DESCRIPTION APRIL 1, 2001 YEAR MARCH 31, 2002 MARCH 31, 2002
----------- ------------- ------------ -------------- --------------
Computers 2,170 681 2,772 1,573
Office Equipment 2,352 871 2,878 1,931
Furniture 703 249 957 840
----- ----- ----- -----
TOTAL 5,224 1,800 6,607 4,343
----- ----- ----- -----
Note:
1. Fixed Assets includes Translation Reserve of Rs. (179).
2. Depreciation for the year includes Translation Reserve of Rs. (418).
AS AT MARCH 31,
------------------------
2002 2001
------ ------
SCHEDULE 4 SUNDRY DEBTORS
(Unsecured)
Over six months
Considered good 1,634 --
Considered doubtful 16,206 --
Other
Considered good 39,938 69,838
Less Provision 16,206 --
------ ------
41,572 69,838
====== ======
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WIPRO JAPAN KK
(Rs. in 000s)
------------------------------
As at March 31,
------------------------------
2002 2001
------ ------
SCHEDULE 5 CASH AND BANK BALANCES
Cash 35 22
Balances with other Banks
Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi 61,424 67,713
Cheques on Hand -- 2,823
------ ------
61,459 70,558
====== ======
SCHEDULE 6 LOANS AND ADVANCES
(Unsecured, considered good unless otherwise stated)
Salary Advance -- 186
Prepaid Expenses 1,264 1,150
Tax deducted at source (Bank Interest)/Advance Tax paid 20,383 --
Advances recoverable in Cash/Kind considered good 17,500 --
Other Deposits 6,339 6,066
------ ------
45,486 7,402
====== ======
SCHEDULE 7 LIABILITIES
Employee Travel Payable 228 --
Consumption tax 18,428 12,651
Salary & incentives -- 3,182
Withholding-tax 26 94
Social Insurance 1,035 916
Intercompany -- 67,339
Outstanding Liabilities 1,536 1,070
Other Liabilities 4,544 --
------ ------
25,798 85,252
====== ======
SCHEDULE 8 PROVISIONS
Provision for corporate tax 43,924 18,246
------ ------
43,924 18,246
====== ======
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
------------------------------
2002 2001
------ ------
SCHEDULE 9 OTHER INCOME
Service fee 54,033 52,895
Interest income 47 2,095
Provision No Longer Required (Consumption Tax) 412 --
------ ------
54,492 54,990
====== ======
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WIPRO JAPAN KK
(Rs. in 000s)
--------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
--------------------------
2002 2001
------- ------
SCHEDULE 10 ADMINISTRATION & MARKETING EXPENSES
Salaries, Wages and Bonus 60,354 59,567
Workman and staffwelfare 631 595
Insurance 73 2,772
Repairs and Maintenance 321 374
Rent 3,123 4,107
Rates and Taxes 165 182
Legal and Professional Charges 3,477 2,371
Travelling 4,834 3,847
Communications 4,052 4,747
Provision for Doubtful Debts 16,782 --
Miscellaneous 9,242 3,386
------- ------
103,053 81,947
======= ======
ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
1. Accounts are maintained on accrual basis. The transactions are in local
currency, which has been converted for reporting in Indian Currency on the
following basis.
2. CONVERSION INTO INDIAN RUPEES:
For the purpose of the accounts during the period all Income and expense
items are converted at the average rate of exchange applicable for the
period. All assets and liabilities are translated at the closing rate as on
the Balance Sheet date. The exchange difference arising out of the year-end
translation is being debited or credited to Translation Reserve.
The Equity Share Capital is carried forward at the rate of exchange
prevailing on the transaction date. The resulting exchange difference on
account of translation at the year-end are transferred to Translation
Reserve account and the said account is being treated as "Reserve and
Surplus".
3. REVENUE RECOGNITION:
Revenue from software development services includes revenue from time and
material and fixed price contracts. Revenue from time and material
contracts are recognized as related services are performed. Revenue on
fixed price contracts is recognized in accordance with percentage of
completion method of accounting.
4. DEPRECIATION:
Fixed assets are stated net of depreciation provision. Depreciation has
been provided on Written down Value method. Depreciation rates are fixed
after considering applicable laws of Japan and Management estimation of the
useful life of the asset.
Depreciation of Assets Value of Asset Estimate life
---------------------- -------------- -------------
Software From 100,000 to 200,000 Yen 3 Years
Above 200,000 Yen 6 Years
Office Equipment From 100,000 to 200,000 Yen 3 Years
Above 200,000 Yen 6 Years
Iron Make 15 Years
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5. EMPLOYEES RELATED COSTS:
The Company's obligation of social insurance payment is accounted on
accrual basis. There are no retirement benefits given to employees.
6. CONSUMPTION TAX:
As per local laws in Japan, consumption tax @ 5% is payable on all
purchases and the Company charges such tax on the customers at the time of
billing. The net amount is shown as recoverable or payable.
NOTES TO ACCOUNTS:
1. The Company is a wholly owned Subsidiary of Wipro Limited. The accounts
have been prepared and audited to attach with the accounts of the Wipro
Limited, the Holding Company to comply with the provisions of the Indian
Companies Act.
2. For the Purpose of conversion of the local currency (Japanese Yen) into
Indian Currency (Indian Rupees) the exchange rate applied is as per para 2
of the accounting policies given below.
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WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Wipro Trademarks Holding Limited for
the year ended March 31, 2002.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
The Profit and Loss account shows a loss of Rs. 217,302 for the year.
DIRECTORS
Mr. Suresh C. Senapaty and Mr. Satish Menon retire by rotation and being
eligible offer themselves for re-appointment.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and offer themselves for re-appointment.
PERSONNEL
The Company has no employees in the category specified under Section 217(2A) of
the Companies Act, 1956.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT/FOREIGN
EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGOINGS
The Company has nothing to report on the particulars required under Section
217(1)(a) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with Rule 2 of the Companies
(Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules 1988.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the
Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss of the
Company for that period.
(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting
fraud and other irregularities;
(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
SURESH C. SENAPATY
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Chairman
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WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
AUDITORS' REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Trademarks Holding Limited,
as at March 31, 2002 and also the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on
that date annexed thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of
the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates
made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept
by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information required
by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give a true and
fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted
in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the loss for the year
ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO TRADEMARKS
HOLDING LIMITED
(i) The Company is an investment company. It owns fixed assets in the form of
Trademarks, which are not physically verifiable. The Company has not
revalued its fixed assets. The Company does not have any employees.
Hence, in our opinion no comment under paragraph 4 of the Order are
called for in the case of items (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (ix), (x), (xi),
(xii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi) and (xx) of clause (A) and item (iii) of clause
D.
(ii) The Company has taken interest free loans from the holding company and
from the companies, listed in the register maintained under Section 370
(1B) of the Companies Act, 1956. The terms and conditions of the loan are
not prima facie prejudicial to the interest of the Company.
(iii) The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured, to the
companies, firms or other parties listed in the register maintained under
Section 301 or the companies under the same management as defined under
Section 370 (1B) of the Companies Act, 1956.
(iv) The Company has not given any loans or advances in the nature of loan.
(v) Directives issued by the Reserve Bank of India and the provisions of
Section 58A of the Companies Act, 1956 and the Rules framed thereunder
are not applicable, as the Company has not accepted deposits.
(vi) We have no comments to offer under paragraph 4A(XV) of the Order
regarding internal audit as paid up capital of the Company is less than
Rs. 2.5 million and the average annual turnover of the Company is less
than the stipulated limit.
(vii) There are no undisputed amounts payable as at March 31, 2002, in respect
of income tax, wealth tax, customs duty, excise duty and sales tax.
(viii) No personal expenses have been charged to revenue account.
(ix) We have no comments to offer under paragraph 4D(ii) as the Company has
not granted loans and advance on the basis of security by way of pledge
of shares, debentures and other securities.
(x) During the year no securities were held by the Company.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT MARCH 31,
---------------------------------
2002 2001
---------- ---------
SCHEDULE RUPEES RUPEES
-------- ---------- ---------
SOURCE OF FUNDS
Shareholder's funds
Share Capital 1 20,000 20,000
Loan funds
Unsecured loan 2 690,000 690,000
---------- ---------
TOTAL 710,000 710,000
---------- ---------
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Fixed Assets
Trade marks 2,033,836 1,837,584
Less: Amortization 889,671 620,414
---------- ---------
1,144,165 1,217,170
---------- ---------
Current Assets, Loans and Advances 3 993,528 925,778
Less: Current Liabilities and Provisions 4 2,007,638 1,795,590
---------- ---------
Net Current Assets (1,014,110) (869,812)
Profit and Loss account 579,945 362,643
---------- ---------
TOTAL 710,000 710,000
---------- ---------
Notes to accounts 5
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., SURESH C. SENAPATY
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI SATISH MENON
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
--------------------------------
2002 2001
SCHEDULE RUPEES RUPEES
-------- -------- --------
INCOME
Licence fees 100,000 100,000
-------- --------
100,000 100,000
-------- --------
EXPENDITURE
Professional Charges 36,745 22,413
Miscellaneous Expenses 4,700 9,300
Amortisation 269,257 241,331
Auditor's remuneration - Audit Fees 6,600 6,600
-------- --------
317,302 279,644
-------- --------
LOSS FOR THE YEAR (217,302) (179,644)
Balance brought forward (362,643) (182,999)
-------- --------
BALANCE CARRIED TO BALANCE SHEET (579,945) (362,643)
-------- --------
Notes to accounts 5
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., SURESH C. SENAPATY
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI SATISH MENON
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AS AT MARCH 31,
------------------------------
2002 2001
RUPEES RUPEES
--------- ---------
AUTHORISED
8,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each 80,000 80,000
2,000 9% cumulative redeemable preference shares of Rs. 10 each 20,000 20,000
--------- ---------
100,000 100,000
========= =========
ISSUED, SUBSCRIBED AND PAID-UP
200 equity shares of Rs. 10 each 2,000 2,000
1,800 9% cumulative redeemable preference share of Rs. 10 each 18,000 18,000
--------- ---------
20,000 20,000
========= =========
Note:
a) All the above shares are held by Wipro Limited, the Holding Company
b) The preference shares are redeemable at par at any time before the
expiry of ten years from the date of allotment, at the discretion of
the Company
SCHEDULE 2 UNSECURED LOANS
From Wipro Limited 600,000 600,000
From Wipro Prosper Limited 90,000 90,000
--------- ---------
690,000 690,000
========= =========
SCHEDULE 3 CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS
AND ADVANCES
Debtors (Unsecured and considered good) more than 6 months 25,000 25,000
Debtors receivable 100,000 100,000
Cash in hand 50 50
Balance with schedule bank in current account 200,678 200,728
Advance for purchase of shares 667,800 600,000
--------- ---------
993,528 925,778
========= =========
SCHEDULE 4 CURRENT LIABILITIES
AND PROVISIONS
Sundry Creditors 12,525 12,525
Amount due to holding Company 1,975,512 1,763,464
Provision for taxation 19,601 19,601
--------- ---------
2,007,638 1,795,590
========= =========
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Trademarks are amortized over the life of the trademark.
SCHEDULE 5 NOTES TO ACCOUNTS
2. Arrears of dividend on preference share not provided for Rs. 30,604 (2001:
28,984).
3. Additional information pursuant to part II of Schedule VI to the Companies
Act, 1956 - Not Applicable.
4. Figures of previous year have been regrouped, wherever necessary to confirm
to current year's classification.
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WIPRO TRADEMARKS HOLDING LIMITED
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PART IV OF SCHEDULE VI OF
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
BALANCE SHEET ABSTRACT AND THE COMPANY'S GENERAL BUSINESS PROFILE
I REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration No. 21795 State Code 08
Balance Sheet Date 31st March 2002
II Capital raised during the year
Public issue Nil
Rights issue Nil
Bonus issue Nil
Private placement Nil
III POSITION OF MOBILISATION OF AND
DEPLOYMENT OF FUNDS (RUPEES)
TOTAL LIABILITIES 710,000 TOTAL ASSETS 710,000
SOURCES OF FUNDS APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Paid-up capital 20,000 Net Fixed Assets 1,144,165
Reserves and Surplus Nil Investments Nil
Secured Loans Nil Net Current Assets (1,014,110)
Unsecured Loans 690,000 Miscellaneous Expenditure Nil
Accumulated Losses 579,945
IV PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY (RUPEES)
Turnover 100,000
Total Expenditure 317,302
Profit before Tax (217,302)
Profit after Tax (217,302)
Earnings per share --
Dividend --
V Generic names of three principal
products/services of the Company Not
(as per monetary terms) Applicable
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
SURESH C. SENAPATY
Chairman
SATISH MENON
Director
Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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WIPRO PROSPER LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Wipro Prosper Limited for the year
ended March 31, 2002.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
The Profit and Loss account shows a profit of Rs. 26,182 for the year.
DIRECTORS
Mr. Suresh C. Senapaty and Mr. Satish Menon retire by rotation and being
eligible offer themselves for re-appointment.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and offer themselves for re-appointment.
PERSONNEL
The Company has no employees in the category specified under Section 217(2A) of
the Companies Act, 1956.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT/FOREIGN
EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGOINGS
The Company has nothing to report on the particulars required under Section
217(1)(a) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with Rule 2 of the Companies
(Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules 1988.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the
Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss of the
Company for that period;
(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting
fraud and other irregularities;
(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
SURESH C. SENAPATY
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Chairman
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WIPRO PROSPER LIMITED
AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO PROSPER LIMITED
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Prosper Limited, as at March
31, 2002 and also the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date
annexed thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept
by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those books;
(iii) The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with by this report
are in agreement with the books of account;
(iv) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account dealt with
by this report comply with the accounting standards referred to in
sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) On the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information required
by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give a true and
fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted
in India:
(a) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2002; and
(b) in the case of Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the year
ended on that date.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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WIPRO PROSPER LIMITED
ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO PROSPER
LIMITED
(i) The Company is an investment company. It does not own any fixed assets
nor does it have any employees. Hence, in our opinion no comments under
paragraph 4 of the Order is called for in the case of items (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiv), (xv), (xvii), (xx)
of Clause (A) and item (iii) of Clause D.
(ii) The Company has taken interest free advances from the holding company for
which repayment schedule is not stipulated. The terms and conditions of
the loan are not prima facie prejudicial to the interest of the Company.
(iii) The Company has granted interest free loans to the companies under the
same management as defined under Section 370 (1B) of the Companies Act,
1956, for which the repayment schedule is not stipulated. The Company has
not granted any other loan to the companies listed in the register
maintained under Section 301 of the Companies Act, 1956.
(iv) As explained to us, the Company has not given any loans or advances in
the nature of the loan.
(v) Directives issued by the Reserve Bank of India and the provisions of
Section 58A of the Companies Act, 1956 and the Rules framed thereunder
are not applicable as the Company has not accepted deposits.
(vi) We have no comments to offer under paragraph 4A(XV) of the Order
regarding internal audit as paid up capital of the Company is less than
Rs. 2.5 million and the average annual turnover of the Company is less
than the stipulated limit.
(vii) There are no undisputed amount payable as at March 31, 2001, in respect
of income tax, wealth tax, customs and excise duties and sales tax.
(viii) No personal expenses have been charged to revenue account.
(ix) We have no comments to offer under paragraph 4D(ii) as the Company has
not granted loans and advance on the basis of security by way of pledge
of shares, debentures and other securities.
(x) The Company has maintained proper records of transactions and contracts
in respect of the share and has also made timely entries therein. Expect
for certain shares referred to in Note 2 to accounts, all the securities
have been held by the Company in its own name.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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WIPRO PROSPER LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT MARCH 31,
------------------------------
2002 2001
SCHEDULE RUPEES RUPEES
-------- --------- ---------
SOURCE OF FUNDS
Shareholder's funds
Share Capital 1 2,000 2,000
Reserves and Surplus 2 1,105,695 1,079,513
--------- ---------
TOTAL 1,107,695 1,081,513
--------- ---------
APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Investments 3 237,788 237,788
Current Assets, Loans and Advances 4 1,084,360 960,977
Less: Current Liabilities and Provisions 5 214,453 117,251
--------- ---------
Net Current Assets 869,907 843,727
--------- ---------
TOTAL 1,107,695 1,081,513
--------- ---------
Notes to accounts 6
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., SURESH C. SENAPATY
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI SATISH MENON
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
---------------------------
2002 2001
SCHEDULE RUPEES RUPEES
-------- ------- -------
INCOME
Dividend - gross 36,482 14,260
Interest on debentures - gross [tax deducted at source
Rs. NIL; (2001: Rs. 77)] -- 421
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36,482 14,681
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EXPENDITURE
General Expenses 3,700 17,880
Auditor's remuneration - Audit Fees 6,600 6,600
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10,300 24,480
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PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAXATION 26,182 (9,800)
------- -------
PROFIT/(LOSS) AFTER TAXATION 26,182 (9,800)
Balance brought forward 696,513 706,313
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BALANCE CARRIED TO BALANCE SHEET 722,695 696,513
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Notes to accounts 6
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO., SURESH C. SENAPATY
Chartered Accountants Chairman
J.M. GANDHI SATISH MENON
Partner Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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AS AT MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
RUPEES RUPEES
--------- ---------
SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AUTHORISED
8,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each 80,000 80,000
2,000 9% cumulative redeemable preference shares of Rs. 10 each 20,000 20,000
--------- ---------
100,000 100,000
--------- ---------
ISSUED, SUBSCRIBED AND PAID-UP
200 equity shares of Rs. 10 each 2,000 2,000
--------- ---------
2,000 2,000
========= =========
All the above shares are held by Wipro Limited, the Holding Company
SCHEDULE 2 RESERVES AND SURPLUS
GENERAL RESERVE
As per last Balance Sheet 365,000 365,000
Add: Transfer from Profit and Loss account -- --
--------- ---------
365,000 365,000
Capital Redemption Reserve 18,000 18,000
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 722,695 696,513
--------- ---------
1,105,695 1,079,513
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AS AT MARCH 31,
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FACE VALUE 2002 2001
NUMBER RUPEES RUPEES RUPEES
----- ---------- --------- ---------
KSB Pumps Ltd. 50 10 11,425 11,425
Britannia Industries Ltd. 150 10 23,450 23,450
Exide Industries Ltd. 200 10 14,500 14,500
Amrit Banaspati Co. Ltd. 100 10 8,250 8,250
Procter & Gamble India Ltd. 50 10 12,700 12,700
Crompton Greaves Ltd. 50 10 6,600 6,600
Phillips (India) Ltd. 100 10 12,750 12,750
Velvette International Pharma Products Ltd. 100 10 2,500 2,500
Non-Trade (Unquoted)
All Seasons Foods Ltd. 100 10 1,900 1,900
International Best Foods Ltd. 240 10 12,357 12,357
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237,788 237,788
========= =========
Aggregate cost of quoted investments 235,888 235,888
Aggregate cost of unquoted investments 1,900 1,900
Market value of quoted investments 1,855,792 1,828,884
SCHEDULE 4 CURRENT ASSETS,
LOANS AND ADVANCES
Balance with a scheduled bank in current account 425,109 388,726
Cash in hand 50 50
Loan 90,000 90,000
Advances recoverable in cash or kind or for value to be
received (considered good) 549,375 462,375
Advance Income Tax (net of provision) 19,826 19,826
--------- ---------
1,084,360 960,977
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SCHEDULE 5 CURRENT LIABILITIES
AND PROVISIONS
Sundry Creditors 26,932 20,330
Amount due to holding Company 187,521 96,921
--------- ---------
214,453 117,251
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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Investments -
Investments are accounted at cost plus transfer charges, Diminution in
value is provided for where the management is of the opinion that the
diminution is of a permanent nature.
Income on investment -
Income on investment is recognized on accrual basis
SCHEDULE 6 NOTES TO ACCOUNTS
2. As at the date of audit, 3451 equity shares of Dynamatic Technologies Ltd.,
purchased by the Company has remained to be transferred in the name of the
Company pending disposal of the appeal of the Company before the Hon'ble
Madras High Court in this regard.
3. Additional information pursuant to part II of Schedule VI to the Companies
Act, 1956 - Not Applicable
4. Figures of previous year have been regrouped, wherever necessary to confirm
to current year's classification.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PART IV OF SCHEDULE VI OF
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
BALANCE SHEET ABSTRACT AND THE COMPANY'S GENERAL BUSINESS PROFILE
I REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration No. 21796 State Code 08
Balance Sheet Date 31st March 2002
II CAPITAL RAISED DURING THE YEAR
Public issue Nil
Rights issue Nil
Bonus issue Nil
Private placement Nil
III POSITION OF MOBILISATION OF AND
DEPLOYMENT OF FUNDS (RUPEES)
TOTAL LIABILITIES 1,107,695 TOTAL ASSETS 1,107,695
SOURCES OF FUNDS APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Paid-up capital 2,000 Net Fixed Assets Nil
Reserves and Surplus 1,105,695 Investments 237,788
Secured Loans Nil Net Current Assets 869,907
Unsecured Loans Nil Miscellaneous Expenditure Nil
IV PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY (RUPEES)
Turnover 36,482
Total Expenditure 10,300
Profit before Tax 26,182
Profit after Tax 26,182
Earnings per share 130.91
Dividend --
V Generic names of three principal
products/services of the Company Not
(as per monetary terms ) Applicable
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
SURESH C. SENAPATY
Chairman
SATISH MENON
Director
Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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DIRECTORS' REPORT
The Directors present the Annual Report of Wipro Welfare Limited for the year
ended March 31, 2002.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
As the Company is yet commence its operations, no Profit and Loss account is
prepared. All expenditure incurred has been classified as pre-operative expenses
which now stands at Rs. 699,020.
DIRECTORS
Mr. Suresh C. Senapaty and Mr. Satish Menon retire by rotation and being
eligible offer themselves for re-appointment.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and offer themselves for re-appointment.
PERSONNEL
The Company has no employees in the category specified under Section 217(2A) of
the Companies Act, 1956.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT/FOREIGN
EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGOINGS
The Company has nothing to report on the particulars required under Section
217(1)(a) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with Rule 2 of the Companies
(Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules 1988.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
As required under Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, it is hereby
stated that:
(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting
standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures;
(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them
consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the
Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit or loss of the
Company for that period.
(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act
for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting
fraud and other irregularities;
(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
SURESH C. SENAPATY
Bangalore, April 19, 2002 Chairman
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO WELFARE LIMITED
We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Wipro Welfare Limited, as at March
31, 2002. No profit and loss account has been prepared, as the Company has not
commenced commercial activity. These financial statements are the responsibility
of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on
these financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Auditing Standards generally accepted
in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As required by the Manufacturing and Other Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,
1988 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A) of
Section 227 of the Companies Act, 1956, we enclose in the Annexure a statement
on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said Order.
Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to above, we report that:
(i) we have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit;
(ii) in our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been
kept by the Company so far as appears from our examination of those
books;
(iii) the Balance Sheet dealt with by this report are in agreement with the
books of account;
(iv) in our opinion, the Balance Sheet dealt with by this report comply with
the Accounting Standards referred to in sub-section (3C) of Section 211
of the Companies Act, 1956;
(v) on the basis of written representations received from the directors, we
report that none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2002
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-section
(1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(vi) in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the
explanations given to us, the said accounts give the information
required by the Companies Act, 1956, in the manner so required and give
a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles
generally accepted in India in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the
state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2002.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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ANNEXURE TO AUDITOR'S REPORT OF EVEN DATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF WIPRO WELFARE
LIMITED
(i) The Company has neither taken nor granted any loans, secured or
unsecured, from/to companies, firms or other parties listed in the
register maintained under Section 301 and/or from the companies under
the same management as defined under sub-section (1B) of Section 370 of
the Companies Act, 1956.
(ii) The Company has not given any loans or advances in the nature of loans
to any party.
(iii) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given
to us, no undisputed amounts in respect of income tax, wealth tax, sales
tax, customs duty and excise duty were outstanding as on March 31, 2002
for a period of more than six months from the date they become payable.
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Partner
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BALANCE SHEET
AS AT MARCH 31,
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SCHEDULE 2002 2001
-------- -------- --------
RUPEES RUPEES
-------- --------
SOURCES OF FUNDS
SHAREHOLDER'S FUNDS
(a) Share Capital 1 661,710 661,710
(b) Advance against equity 2,500 2,500
-------- --------
TOTAL 664,210 664,210
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APPLICATION OF FUNDS
CURRENT ASSETS LOANS AND ADVANCES 2 76,200 25,200
LESS: CURRENT LIABILITIES
Sundry Creditors 111,010 52,010
-------- --------
NET CURRENT ASSETS (34,810) (26,810)
-------- --------
Miscellaneous expenditure 3 699,020 691,020
-------- --------
(to the extent not written off or adjusted)
TOTAL 664,210 664,210
======== ========
Notes to accounts 4
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Partner Chairman Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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AS AT MARCH 31,
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2002 2001
----------- -----------
RUPEES RUPEES
----------- -----------
SCHEDULE 1 SHARE CAPITAL
AUTHORISED
10,000,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each 100,000,000 100,000,000
----------- -----------
ISSUED, SUBSCRIBED AND PAID-UP
66,171 equity shares of Rs. 10 each 661,710 661,710
66,171 equity shares of Rs. 10 each held by Wipro Limited, =========== ===========
the holding Company
SCHEDULE 2 CURRENT ASSETS LOAN
AND ADVANCES
Cash on hand 200 200
Balance with schedule bank in current account 25,000 25,000
Other Advances 51,000
----------- -----------
76,200 25,200
=========== ===========
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
------------------------------
2002 2001
----------- -----------
SCHEDULE 3 MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURE
(to the extent not written off or adjusted)
PRELIMINARY EXPENSES 16,245 16,245
PRE-OPERATIVE EXPENSES
Advertisement 79,339 79,339
Membership and subscription 19,134 19,134
Legal and professional charges 56,150 48,650
Printing and Stationary 3,980 3,980
Rate and Taxes 524,172 523,672
----------- -----------
699,020 691,020
=========== ===========
SCHEDULE 4 NOTES TO ACCOUNTS
1. The Company has not yet commenced its operations and
hence no Profit and Loss account is Prepared.
Expenditure incurred during the period is classified
as pre-operative expenses.
2. The accounts are prepared under the historical cost
convention. ----------- -----------
3. Legal and professional charges includes
Audit fees 6,300 6,300
As per our Report attached For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
FOR N.M. RAIJI & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
J.M. GANDHI SURESH C. SENAPATY SATISH MENON
Partner Chairman Director
Mumbai, April 19, 2002 Bangalore, April 19, 2002
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MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS, RISK FACTORS AND
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
(IN ACCORDANCE WITH UNITED STATES GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES)
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SUMMARY OF SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
(IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1999 2000 2001 2002 2002
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Consolidated statements of Income Data:
Revenue:
Global IT Services
Services Rs. 6,359 Rs. 10,206 Rs. 17,670 Rs. 21,457 $ 439
Products 955 20
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products
Services 1,137 1,513 1,873 1,914 39
Products 6,028 6,577 6,771 5,037 103
Consumer Care and Lighting 3,402 3,151 3,144 2,938 60
Others 806 1,381 1,329 1,680 34
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Total 17,732 22,828 30,787 33,981 696
Cost of Revenues:
Global IT Services
Services 4,057 6,220 9,205 11,506 236
Products -- -- -- 891 18
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products
Services 680 901 984 862 18
Products 4,901 5,640 5,457 4,234 87
Consumer Care and Lighting 2,585 2,251 2,215 2,021 41
Others 582 1,070 962 1,354 28
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Total 12,805 16,082 18,823 20,868 427
Gross Profit 4,927 6,746 11,964 13,113 269
Operating expenses:
Selling, general and administrative expenses (3,119) (3,252) (4,835) (4,873) (100)
Research and development expenses -- -- -- (127) (3)
Amortization of goodwill -- (1) (45) (176) (4)
Foreign exchange gains/(loss), net 34 52 120 219 4
Others, net 103 73 349 158 3
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Operating Income 1,945 3,618 7,553 8,314 170
Gain/(loss) on sale of stock of affiliates,
including direct issue of stock by affiliate -- 412 -- -- --
Other income/(expense) ( net) (282) (284) 87 839 17
Income taxes (179) (525) (1,150) (971) (20)
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Income before share of equity in earnings
of affiliates 1,484 3,221 6,490 8,182 168
Equity in earnings of affiliate 96 113 (53) 147 3
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Income from continuing operations Rs. 1,580 Rs. 3,334 Rs. 6,437 Rs. 8,329 $ 171
========= ========== ========== =========== ========
Earnings per share from continuing operations:
Basic 6.94 14.63 28.07 36.04 0.74
Diluted 6.94 14.58 27.83 35.98 0.74
Additional data:
Operating Income
Global IT Services Rs. 1,493 Rs. 2,909 Rs. 6,038 Rs. 7,609 $ 156
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products 283 460 825 578 12
Consumer Care and Lighting 442 485 451 404 8
Others (108) 92 215 (86) (2)
Reconciling items (165) (328) 24 (191) (4)
--------- ---------- ---------- ----------- --------
Total Rs. 1,945 Rs. 3,618 Rs. 7,553 Rs. 8,314 $ 170
========= ========== ========== =========== ========
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents Rs. 637 Rs. 784 Rs. 5,623 Rs. 7,377 $ 151
Working Capital (210) 1,925 11,216 18,415 377
Total assets 10,702 12,678 26,187 33,755 691
Total debt, including preferred stock 3,252 1,804 1,768 291 6
Total stockholders equity 2,648 6,687 19,081 27,457 562
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MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS
Investors are cautioned that this discussion contains forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties. When used in this discussion,
the words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "intend", "will" and "expect" and
other similar expressions as they relate to the company or its business are
intended to identify such forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result
of new information, future events, or otherwise. Actual results, performances or
achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such
differences include those described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the
prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the
factors discussed in the Form 20-F, included in this report. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward- looking statements that
speak only as of their dates. The following discussion and analysis should be
read in conjunction with our financial statements included herein and the notes
thereto.
Overview
We are a leading India based provider of IT Services globally. We
provide high-end IT solutions to leading companies worldwide and have other
profitable businesses in niche markets in India. Our objective is to be a world
leader in providing comprehensive IT Services by continuing to provide
world-class quality Services and building on the Wipro brand name. We have three
primary business segments we operate through independent divisions.
- Global IT Services and Products. We provide research and development
services for hardware and software design to technology and telecommunication
companies, software application development, package implementation and system
integration services to corporate enterprises. In large system integration
projects, we also supply the hardware and software products. These services are
marketed and delivered through our Wipro Technologies division.
- India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products. We are a leader in the
Indian IT market and focus primarily on meeting all the IT and e-commerce
requirements of companies in India and the AsiaPacific region through our Wipro
Infotech division.
- Consumer Care and Lighting. We leverage our brand name and
distribution strengths to sustain a profitable presence in niche markets in the
areas of soaps, toiletries, lighting products and hydrogenated cooking oils for
the Indian market. We have been in the consumer care business since our
inception in 1945 and the lighting business since 1992.
- Healthcare and Life Sciences. In April 2002, we established a new
business segment named Wipro Healthcare and Life Sciences, to address the IT
requirements of the emerging Healthcare and Life Sciences market. Our business
division, Wipro Biomed, which is currently included in Others, will now become
part of the Wipro Healthcare and Life Sciences segment. The business segment
information presented here does not reflect the establishment of the new
business segment.
Our revenue and net income for the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and
2002 are provided below:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
---------- ---------- ----------
(in millions)
Revenue ...............................Rs. 22,827 Rs. 30,787 Rs. 33,981
Cost of revenue ....................... 16,082 18,823 20,868
Gross profit .......................... 6,745 11,964 13,113
Gross margins ......................... 30% 39% 39%
Operating income ...................... 3,617 7,553 8,315
Income from continuing operations ..... 3,333 6,437 8,330
Net income ............................ 3,552 6,455 8,330
Earnings per share
Basic ................................. 15.59 28.15 36.04
Diluted ............................... 15.54 27.91 35.98
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Our revenue and operating income by business segment are provided below
for the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002.
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------
2000 2001 2002
---- ---- ----
REVENUE:
Global IT Services and Products ................... 46% 58% 67%
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products ........ 35 28 20
Consumer Care and Lighting ........................ 14 10 9
Others ............................................ 5 4 4
---- ---- ----
100% 100% 100%
==== ==== ====
OPERATING INCOME:
Global IT Services and Products ................... 80% 80% 92%
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products ........ 13 11 7
Consumer Care and Lighting ........................ 13 6 5
Others ............................................ 3 3 (1)
Reconciling items ................................. (9) -- (3)
---- ---- ----
100% 100% 100%
==== ==== ====
The Others category in the table above includes our other lines of
business such as Wipro Net, Wipro Biomed and Wipro Fluid Power. Corporate
activities such as treasury, legal, accounting and human resources which do not
qualify as operating segments under SFAS No. 131, have been considered as
reconciling items. Reconciling items are net of common costs allocated to other
business segments.
GLOBAL IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
--------------------------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
--------------------------------------------
2000 2001 2002
---------- ---------- ----------
(in millions)
Revenue
Services .............................. Rs. 10,459 Rs. 17,797 Rs. 21,701
Products .............................. -- -- 967
Total ............................... 10,459 17,797 22,668
Cost of Revenue
Services .............................. (6,220) (9,205) (11,506)
Products .............................. -- -- (891)
Total ............................... (6,220) (9,205) (12,397)
Selling, general and administrative expenses (1,345) (2,575) (2,533)
Research and Development expenses .......... -- -- (127)
Others, net ................................ 15 20 (2)
Operating Income ........................... 2,909 6,037 7,609
Revenue growth rate over prior period ...... 58% 70% 27%
Operating margin ........................... 28% 34% 34%
Global IT Services and Products revenue from Services is derived from
technology and software services provided on either a time and materials or
fixed-price, fixed-time frame basis. Our business segment revenue includes the
impact of exchange rate fluctuations. Revenue from Services provided on a time
and materials basis is recognized in the period that services are provided and
costs incurred. Revenue from fixed-price, fixed-time frame projects is
recognized on a percentage of completion basis. Provisions for estimated losses
on projects in progress are recorded in the period in which we determine such
losses to be probable. To date, a substantial majority of our Services revenue
has been derived from time and materials projects. For the year ended March 31,
2002,
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time and materials projects generated 73% of Global IT Services and Products,
Services revenue, while fixed-price, fixed-time frame projects generated 27% of
Global IT Services and Products revenue. The proportion of revenue from fixed
price, fixed-time frame projects may increase. Our operating results could be
adversely affected by factors such as cost overruns due to delays, unanticipated
costs, and wage inflation.
Global IT Services and Products revenue from Products is derived from
the sale of third-party hardware and software products.
The cost of revenue for Services, in Global IT Services and Products,
consists primarily of compensation expenses for our IT professionals, data
communication expenses, computer maintenance, travel expenses and occupancy
expenses associated with services rendered. We recognize these costs as
incurred. Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of
sales and marketing expenses and allocated corporate overhead expenses
associated with management, human resources, corporate marketing, information
management systems, quality assurance and finance. The cost of revenue for
Products, in Global IT Services and Products, consists of the cost of products
procured from third party manufacturers.
The Services component of our Global IT Services and Products revenue
and profits for any period are significantly affected by the proportion of work
performed at our facilities in India and at client sites overseas and by the
utilization rates of our IT professionals. Services performed in India generally
yield better profit margins because the higher costs of performing overseas work
more than offset the higher rates we charge. For this reason, we seek to move a
project as early as possible from overseas locations to our Indian development
centers. As of March 31, 2002, 79% of our professionals in the Services
components of our Global IT Services and Products were located in India. For the
year ended March 31, 2002, 48% of the Services component of our Global IT
Services and Products revenues was generated from work performed at our
facilities in India.
In our segment reporting only, management included the impact of
exchange rate fluctuations and net interest income on inter-segment business
loans in its revenue. As of April 1, 2000, management started excluding net
interest income received on inter-business segment loans in segment revenue.
Excluding the impact of these items, revenue, as reported in our statements of
income, is Rs. 10,206 million, Rs. 17,670 million and Rs. 22,412 million for the
years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002 respectively.
INDIA AND ASIAPAC IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
------------------------------------------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
------------------------------------------
2000 2001 2002
------ ------ ------
(in millions)
Revenue
Services .............................. Rs. 1,513 Rs. 1,873 Rs. 1,914
Products .............................. 6,563 6,725 5,037
Total ................................. 8,076 8,598 6,951
Cost of revenue
Services .............................. (901) (984) (863)
Products .............................. (5,640) (5,457) (4,234)
Total ................................. (6,541) (6,441) (5,097)
Selling, general and administrative expenses (1,098) (1,392) (1,278)
Amortization of goodwill ................... (1) (1) (2)
Others, net ................................ 25 61 5
Operating income ........................... 461 825 579
Revenue growth rate over prior period ...... 13% 6% (19%)
Operating margin ........................... 6% 10% 8%
Our India and AsiaPac IT Services revenue is derived principally from
hardware and software support, maintenance and consulting services. Our India
and AsiaPac IT Products revenue is derived primarily from the sale of computers,
networking equipment and related hardware products. Our business segment revenue
includes the impact of exchange rate fluctuations. We recognize revenue from
services, depending on the contract terms, over the contract period. Revenue on
products is recognized on dispatch of the products to the customer.
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Effective January 1, 2001, we adopted the provisions of Staff Accounting
Bulletin No. 101 (SAB 101) issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission
which provides guidelines in applying generally accepted accounting principles
to selected revenue recognition issues. Revenue continues to be recognized on
dispatch, however, where the client is not obligated to pay a portion of the
contract price until completion of installation, revenue is recognized only on
completion of installation. Financial information for the year ended March 31,
2001 has been restated by applying the newly adopted accounting principle.
The cost of revenue for India and AsiaPac IT Services consists primarily
of compensation expenses and replacement parts for our maintenance services. We
recognize these costs as incurred. The cost of revenue for India and AsiaPac IT
Products consists of manufacturing costs for products, including materials,
labor and facilities. In addition, a portion of the costs reflects products
manufactured by third parties and sold by us. We recognize these costs at the
time of sale.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our India and AsiaPac
IT Services and Products business segment are similar in type to those for our
Global IT Services and Products business segment.
Historically, our India and AsiaPac IT Products revenue has accounted
for a substantial majority of revenue and a much smaller portion of operating
income of our India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products business segment. Our
strategy in the IT market in India and AsiaPacific region is to improve our
profitability by focusing on IT Services, including systems integration, support
services, software and networking solutions, Internet and e-commerce
applications.
In our segment reporting only, management included the impact of
exchange rate fluctuations and net interest income on inter-segment business
loans in its revenue. As of April 1, 2000, management started excluding net
interest income received on inter-business segment loans in segment revenue.
Excluding the impact of these items, revenue, as reported in our statements of
income, is Rs. 8,090 million, Rs. 8,645 million and Rs. 6,950 millions for the
years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002 respectively.
CONSUMER CARE AND LIGHTING
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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(in millions)
Revenue .................................... Rs. 3,192 Rs. 3,144 Rs. 2,939
Cost of revenue ............................ (2,251) (2,215) (2,021)
Selling, general and administrative expenses (462) (539) (518)
Others, net ................................ 6 61 3
Operating income ........................... 485 451 403
Revenue growth rate over prior period ...... (7%) (2%) (7%)
Operating margin ........................... 15% 14% 14%
We have been in the Consumer Care business since 1945 and the lighting
business since 1992. The Consumer Care business has historically generated
surplus cash. Our strategy is to sustain operating margins and continue
generating positive operating cash flows. Revenue in this segment may fluctuate
as commodity prices change and as we emphasize profitability and cash generation
over volume sales.
We recognize revenue from product sales at the time of shipment. Cost of
products consists primarily of raw materials and other manufacturing expenses
such as overheads for factories. Selling, general and administrative expenses
are similar in type to those for our other business segments.
In our segment reporting only, management included the impact of
exchange rate fluctuations and net interest income on inter-segment business
loans in its revenue. As of April 1, 2000, management started excluding net
interest income received on inter-business segment loans in segment revenue.
Excluding the impact of these items, revenue, as reported in our statements of
income, is Rs. 3,151 million, Rs. 3,144 million and Rs. 2,939 millions for the
years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002 respectively.
AMORTIZATION OF DEFERRED STOCK COMPENSATION
We have amortized deferred stock compensation expenses of Rs. 97
million, Rs. 87 million and Rs. 79 million, for the years ended March 31, 2000,
2001 and 2002, respectively, in connection with equity shares issued to our
employees pursuant to our Wipro
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Equity Reward Trust. We use the intrinsic value based method of APB Opinion No.
25 and record a deferred stock compensation expense for the difference between
the sale price of equity shares and the fair value as determined by quoted
market prices of our equity shares on the date of grant. The deferred stock
compensation is amortized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period of
the equity shares, which ranges from six months to five years.
The stock compensation charge has been allocated to cost of revenue and
selling, general and administrative expenses in line with the nature of the
service rendered by the employee who received the benefit. The amortization is:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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(in millions)
Cost of revenue ............................... Rs. 36 Rs. 32 Rs. 30
Selling, general and administrative expenses .. 61 55 49
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Total ....................................... Rs. 97 Rs. 87 Rs. 79
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AMORTIZATION OF GOODWILL
In December 2000, we acquired the 45% minority interest held by KPN
Telecom in Wipro Net, our subsidiary. This acquisition resulted in goodwill of
Rs. 868 million. Goodwill is currently being amortized over a period of 5 years.
Please refer to the discussions on "Recent accounting pronouncements" in Note 2
of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements about the impact of our
adoption of SFAS 141 and SFAS 142 on unamortized goodwill.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE GAINS (NET)
Exchange rate fluctuation consists of the difference between the rate of
exchange at which a transaction is recorded and the rate of exchange on the date
the transaction is settled, and the gains and losses on revaluation of foreign
currency assets and liabilities outstanding at the end of a period.
OTHERS, NET
Others, net includes net gains on the sale of property, plants,
equipment, royalty and other operating income.
OTHER INCOME/(EXPENSE) (NET)
Our other income includes interest income on short-term investments net
of interest expense on short term and long-term debt and realized gains on the
sale of investment securities.
EQUITY IN EARNINGS OF AFFILIATE
Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd. (Wipro GE). We hold a 49% equity interest
in Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited, a joint venture with General Electric.
Wipro ePeripherals Ltd. (WeP). On September 1, 2000, we spun off our
peripherals services division into a new legal entity Wipro ePeripherals Ltd.,
or WeP. In consideration of the transfer, we received a 38.7% equity interest,
non-convertible debentures bearing a 12.5% interest rate and cash of Rs. 156
million. WeP has equity participation from certain strategic investors and
employees. In March 2002, WeP issued additional equity shares to certain
investors, which resulted in reduction of our equity interest to 33.8%. Our
share of the income generated by WeP is accrued in proportion to our equity
interest.
Wipro Net Ltd. As of March 31, 1999, we held a 100% equity interest in
Wipro Net. In December 1999, we decreased our interest in Wipro Net Ltd. from
100% to 55%. Since the minority shareholder also held substantive stockholder
participating rights in Wipro Net Ltd. since December 1999, we did not
consolidate Wipro Net in our financial statements. Historically, the results of
operations of Wipro Net Ltd. have not been material in relation to our
consolidated financial statements. Consequently, the decrease in our interest in
Wipro Net Ltd. did not significantly impact our revenues and operating income.
In December 2000, we acquired the 45% minority interest in Wipro Net
held by KPN Telecom for Rs. 1,087 million resulting in goodwill of Rs. 868
million. Subsequent to the acquisition, we have been consolidating Wipro Net in
our financial statements. Our equity in the loss of Wipro Net prior to the
acquisition of the minority interest of Rs. 136 million in fiscal 2001 is
reported by the equity method.
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In May 2001, we decided to merge Wipro Net into Wipro Limited. The
merger was completed in April 2002 after obtaining regulatory approvals.
Netkracker Ltd. In December 2000, we established Netkracker by
transferring our retail Internet business into a newly formed Company in which a
strategic investor invested Rs. 300 million to acquire a 51% equity share
interest. We retained a 49% equity share interest and also acquired additional
convertible preference shares in Netkracker for an aggregate amount of Rs. 54
million. In March 2002, we converted such preference shares to equity shares and
increased our equity interest in Netkracker to 79%. In March 2002, we agreed to
acquire an additional 19% equity share interest in Netkracker from the strategic
investor for Rs. 30 million in cash and a contingent cash consideration that is
payable on the occurrence of certain specified events. We believe that the
occurrence of such specified events are within our control and as a result have
determined that the contingent consideration is not payable. Accordingly, the
transaction was accounted for as a purchase business combination. The amounts
assigned to the net assets of Netkracker exceed the cost of acquisition and this
excess was initially used to reduce the amounts allocated to certain eligible
assets. Since the remaining excess of Rs. 96 million is not material we have
reported it as a component of other income and not as an extraordinary gain.
GAIN ON SALE OF STOCK OF AFFILIATES
Pursuant to a joint venture agreement in the year ended March 31, 2000,
our affiliate, Wipro Net Ltd., issued equity shares to KPN Telecom which
increased the carrying value of our equity interest by Rs. 266 million. Further,
we sold equity shares of Wipro Net Ltd., to KPN Telecom for a gain of Rs. 146
million.
INCOME TAXES
Our net income earned from providing services in client premises outside
India is subject to tax in the country where we perform the work. Most of our
tax paid in countries other than India can be applied as a credit against our
Indian tax liability to the extent that the same income is subject to tax in
India.
Currently, we benefit from tax holidays the Government of India gives to
the export of information technology services from specially designated
"Software Technology Parks" in India. As a result of these incentives, our
operations have been subject to relatively insignificant Indian tax liabilities.
These tax incentives currently include a 10-year tax holiday from
payment of Indian corporate income taxes for the operation of our Indian
facilities, all of which are "Export Oriented Undertakings" or located in
"Software Technology Parks" or "Export Processing Zones;" and an income tax
deduction of 100% for profits derived from exporting information technology
services. We can use either of these two tax incentives. As a result of these
two tax incentives, a substantial portion of our pre-tax income has not been
subject to significant tax in recent years. For the years ended March 31, 2000,
2001 and 2002, without accounting for the double taxation treaty set-offs, our
tax benefits were Rs. 1,104 million, Rs. 2,389 million and Rs. 2,862 million,
respectively, from such tax incentives.
The Finance Act, 2000 phases out the 10-year tax holiday over a ten year
period from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2009. Accordingly, facilities set up on
or before March 31, 2000, have a 10-year tax holiday, new facilities set up on
or before March 31, 2001, have a 9-year tax holiday and so forth until March 31,
2009, after which the tax holiday will no longer be available to new facilities.
Our current tax holidays expire in stages by 2009. Additionally, the Finance
Act, 2002 has subjected ten percent of all income derived from services located
in "Software Technology Parks" to income tax for a one-year period ending March
31, 2003.
The Finance Act, 2000 also restricts the scope of the tax exemption to
export income earned by software development centers that are "Export Oriented
Undertakings" or located in "Software Technology Parks" or "Export Processing
Zones" as compared to the earlier exemption which was available to business
profits earned by them. For companies opting for the 100% tax deduction for
profits derived from exporting information technology services, the Finance Act,
2000 phases out the income tax deduction over the next five years beginning on
April 1, 2000.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
YEARS ENDED MARCH 31, 2002 AND 2001
Revenue. Our total revenue increased 10% from Rs. 30,787 million for the
year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 33,981 million for the year ended March 31,
2002. Revenue growth was driven primarily by a 27% increase in revenue from
Global IT Services and Products. Revenues of India and AsiaPac IT Services and
Products and Consumer Care & Lighting declined by 19% and 7%, respectively,
partially offsetting the revenue increase of Global IT Services and Products.
Global IT Services & Products revenue increased 27% from Rs. 17,797
million for the year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 22,668 million for the year
ended March 31, 2002. Revenue from technology services increased by 22%. This
increase is attributable to increased services provided to telecommunications
and Internet service providers. Revenue from Telecom and Internetworking
declined 6%, reflecting the softness in demand from telecom equipment
manufacturers. Revenue from enterprise services increased 22%. This was
primarily driven by increased revenues we received from services provided to
financial services,
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retail and utility companies. We added over 107 new clients during the year,
accounting for over 14% of our total Global IT Services and Products revenue for
the year. The total number of clients that individually accounted for over $5
million in revenues increased from 15 to 23. Revenue from products were
primarily from the sale of hardware and software products along with services in
a system integration project.
India and AsiaPac IT Services & Products revenue declined 19% from Rs.
8,598 million for the year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 6,951 million for the
year ended March 31, 2002. The current weak economic environment has reduced the
demand for IT products in the Indian markets. The decrease in revenue from
products was primarily due to a 15% decline in revenue from manufactured
products and a 31% decline in revenue from traded products. These decreases were
partially offset by a 2% growth in revenue from Services.
Consumer Care and Lighting revenues declined 7% from Rs. 3,144 million
for the year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 2,939 million for the year ended March
31, 2002. This was primarily attributable to a decline in revenue from soap
products.
Revenue from Others increased by 26%, from Rs. 1,329 million for the
year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 1,680 million for the year ended March 31,
2002. Most of this increase is attributable to revenue from Wipro Net which has
been included to Others since December 2000. Prior to December 2000, Wipro Net
was an affiliate of Wipro Limited. In December 2000 we acquired the minority
interest held by KPN Telecom and Wipro Net became a wholly owned subsidiary of
Wipro. On a comparable basis, revenues of Others declined by 1%.
Cost of Revenue. As a percentage of total revenue, cost of revenue
remained at 61% for the year ended March 31, 2002.
As a percentage of Global IT Services revenue, cost of Global IT
Services revenue increased by 1% from 52% in the year ended March 31, 2001 to
53% in the year ended March 31, 2002. This increase is primarily due to a 5%
decline in IT professional utilization rates from 65% in fiscal 2001 to 60% in
fiscal 2002 and a modest increase in compensation for overseas onsite employees.
This is partially offset by a 12% increase in our offshore billing rates and a
15% increase in our onsite billing rates.
As a percentage of Global IT Products revenue, cost of Global IT
Products revenue was 92% in the year ended March 31, 2002. There was no revenue
from sale of products in the year ended March 31, 2001.
As a percentage of India and AsiaPac IT Products revenue, cost of India
and AsiaPac IT Products revenue, increased by 3% from 81% for the year ended
March 31, 2001 to 84% for the year ended March 31, 2002. This was primarily due
to an increase in the sales of lower margin products.
As a percentage India and AsiaPac IT Services revenue, cost of India and
AsiaPac IT Services revenue declined by 8% from 53% for the year ended March 31,
2001 to 45% for the year ended March 31, 2002. This decrease was primarily due
to an increase in the sales of higher margin services.
As a percentage of Consumer Care and Lighting revenue, cost of Consumer
Care and Lighting revenue decreased marginally by 1% from 70% for the year ended
March 31, 2001 to 69% for the year ended March 31, 2002. Most of this decrease
resulted from an improvement in operating efficiencies, which was partially
offset by lower margins on soap products.
As a percentage of revenues, cost of revenues of Others increased by 9%
from 72% for the year ended March 31, 2001 to 81% for the year ended March 31,
2002. This increase was primarily attributable to the inclusion of Wipro Net in
Others since December 2000. On a comparable basis, cost of revenues of Others
decreased by 2% from 81% in the year ended March 31, 2001 to 79% in the year
ended March 31, 2002.
Selling, general and administrative expenses. Selling, general and
administrative expenses increased 1% from Rs. 4,835 million for the year ended
March 31, 2001, to Rs. 4,873 million for the year ended March 31, 2002. The
total increase in selling, general and administrative expenses of Rs. 38 million
was attributable to decrease of Rs. 42 million in Global IT Services and
Products, Rs. 114 million in India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products, Rs. 21
million in Consumer Care and Lighting, Rs. 54 million in Reconciling items, and
an increase of Rs. 269 million in Others.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for Global IT Services and
Products declined by 2% from Rs. 2,575 million for the year ended March 31, 2001
to Rs. 2,533 million for the year ended March 31, 2002. This decrease is
primarily due to cost control measures and lower advertisement expenditure.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for India and AsiaPac IT
Services and Products declined by 8% from Rs. 1,392 million for the year ended
March 31, 2001 to Rs. 1,278 million for the year ended March 31, 2002. This
decrease was primarily due to cost control measures and lower travel related
expenditure.
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Selling, general and administrative expenses for Consumer Care and
Lighting declined by 4% from Rs. 539 million for the year ended March 31, 2001
to Rs. 518 million for the year ended March 31, 2002. Most of this decrease
resulted from the reduction of sales promotion expenses.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for Others increased by
167% from Rs. 161 million for the year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 430 million
for the year ended March 31, 2002. This was primarily attributable to the
inclusion of Wipro Net in Others since December 2000. On a comparable basis,
Selling general and administrative expenses of Others increased by 23% from Rs.
184 million for the year ended March 31, 2002 to Rs. 226 million for the year
ended March 31, 2002.
Foreign exchange gains. Foreign exchange gains increased to Rs. 219
million for the year ended March 31, 2002, from Rs. 120 million for the year
ended March 31, 2001. This was primarily due to the depreciation of Indian rupee
against the United States dollar and an increase in our export revenues. During
fiscal 2002, the Indian Rupee declined by over 4% against the U.S. dollar.
Revenues from exports of our products and services increased 20% to Rs. 21,912
million from Rs. 18,323 million in the year ended March 31, 2001.
Operating Income. As a result of foregoing factors, operating income
increased 10% from Rs. 7,553 million for the year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs.
8,315 million for the year ended March 31, 2002. Operating income of Global IT
Services and Products increased by 26% to Rs. 7,609 million offsetting a 30% and
11% decline in operating income of India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products
and Consumer Care and Lighting to Rs. 579 million and Rs. 403 million,
respectively.
Other income (net). Other income (net) increased to Rs. 839 million for
the year ended March 31, 2002 from Rs. 87 million for the year ended March 31,
2001. The cash surpluses generated by our operations and the proceeds from our
ADR offering have been invested in money market instruments. The increase in
other income is primarily due to interest income and realized gains on these
short-term investments.
Income Taxes. Income taxes declined by 16% from Rs. 1,150 million for
the year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 971 million for the year ended March 31,
2002. Our effective tax rate decreased by 5% to 10%. The reduction in the
effective tax rate was primarily due to the following:
- An increase in the proportion of total revenue from Global IT
Services and Products;
- An increase in the proportion of Global IT Services and Products
revenue from geographies having lower tax rates;
- An increase in the proportion of the income from domestic
investments being realized in a tax-free manner; and
- Favourable tax assessments.
Equity in earnings of affiliates. Equity in earnings of affiliates was
Rs. 147 million for the year ended March 31, 2002. For the year ended March 31,
2001 equity in losses of affiliates was Rs. 53 million for the year ended March
31, 2001. Most of this increase is attributable to the consolidation of Wipro
Net since December 2000. Equity in losses of Wipro Net for the year ended March
31, 2001 was Rs. 136 million. Equity in earnings of Wipro GE increased to Rs.
234 million for the year ended March 31, 2002 from Rs. 184 million in the year
ended March 31, 2001.
Income from continuing operations. As a result of the foregoing factors,
income from continuing operations increased 29% from Rs. 6,437 million for the
year ended March 31, 2001 to Rs. 8,330 million for the year ended March 31,
2002.
YEARS ENDED MARCH 31, 2001 AND 2000
Revenue. Our total revenue increased by 35% from Rs. 22,827 million for
the year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 30,787 million for the year ended March 31,
2001. The increase in total revenue was attributable to increases of 70% and 6%
from Global IT Services and Products and Indian IT Services and Products
respectively and a decrease of 2% in revenue of Consumer Care & Lighting and 4%
decrease in revenue in Others.
Global IT Services and Products revenue increased 70% from Rs. 10,459
million for the year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 17,797 million for the year
ended March 31, 2001. The increase resulted from the growth in the number and
the size of projects performed for clients. The total number of clients who
accounted for over $1 million in revenue for the year increased from 39 during
the year ended March 31, 2000 to 65 during the year ended March 31, 2001. The
total number of clients who individually accounted for over $5 million in
revenues increased from 11 in year ended March 31, 2000 to 15 for the year ended
March 31, 2001. Over 114 new clients were added during the year ended March 31,
2001, accounting for 9% of our Global IT Services and Products revenues for the
year.
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products revenues increased 6% from
Rs. 8,076 million for the year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 8,598 million for the
year ended March 31, 2001. This increase resulted from a 32% increase in the
sale of computers and networking equipment, a 24% increase in Services, and a
64% decrease in revenues as a result of the sale of our Peripherals Services
Division as a separate legal entity effective September 1, 2000.
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Consumer Care and Lighting revenue declined 2% from Rs. 3,192 million
for the year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 3,144 million for the year ended March
31, 2001.
Revenue from Others decreased by 4% from Rs. 1,381 million for the year
ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 1,329 million for the year ended March 31, 2001.
This decrease was attributable to the sale of a 45% interest in Wipro Net,
effective December, 1999, subsequent to which our interest in Wipro Net has been
accounted for under the equity method, and the acquisition in December, 2000, of
the minority interest held by KPN Telecom after which revenues of Wipro Net are
included in Others.
Cost of Revenue. As a percentage of total revenue, cost of revenue
decreased from 70% for the year ended March 31, 2000 to 61% for the year ended
March 31, 2001. This decrease was primarily attributable to an increase in the
proportion of Global IT Services revenue from 46% to 58% of total revenues. Our
Global IT Services and Products business segment typically has a higher gross
margin than our other lines of business.
As a percentage of Global IT Services and Products revenue, cost of
Global IT Services and Products revenue decreased from 59% for the year ended
March 31, 2000 to 52% for the year ended March 31, 2001. This decrease as a
percentage of revenue resulted from increased billing rates and increase in
composition of revenues from R&D services to 50% of revenues during the year
ended March 31, 2001 from 46% in the year ended March 31, 2000. Billing rates
increased on average by over 15% during the year ended March 31, 2001 compared
to rates during the previous year.
As a percentage of India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products revenues,
cost of of India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products revenue decreased from 81%
for the year ended March 31, 2000 to 75% for the year ended March 31, 2001. Our
Peripherals Services Division was spun off as a separate legal entity effective
September 1, 2000. Our Peripherals Services Division historically had a higher
percentage of product revenues and consequently a higher cost of revenues. The
decrease was also due to an increase in percentage of services revenue up from
19% for the year ended March 31, 2000, to 22% for the year ended March 31, 2001.
As a percentage of Consumer Care and Lighting revenue, cost of Consumer
Care and Lighting revenue decreased from 71% for the year ended March 31, 2000
to 70% for the year ended March 31, 2001. Most of the decrease as a percentage
of revenues resulted from an increase in the proportion of revenue from soaps
and lighting products, which typically have a higher gross margin than
hydrogenated vegetable oils. This decrease was partly offset by increased
reliance on outsourcing a portion of the manufacturing of our lighting products.
As a percentage of revenues, cost of revenues of Others decreased from
78% for the year ended March 31, 2000 to 72% for the year ended March 31, 2001.
This decrease was attributable to the sale of a 45% interest in Wipro Net,
effective December, 1999, subsequent to which our interest in Wipro Net has been
accounted for under the equity method, and the acquisition in December, 2000, of
the minority interest held by KPN Telecom after which revenues of Wipro Net are
included in Others.
Selling, general and administrative expenses. Selling, general and
administrative expenses increased 49% from Rs. 3,251 million for the year ended
March 31, 2000, to Rs. 4,835 million for the year ended March 31, 2001. The
total increase in selling, general and administrative expenses of Rs. 1,584
million was attributable to increase of Rs. 1,230 million, Rs. 294 million, Rs.
77 million, Rs. 46 million in Global IT Services and Products, India and AsiaPac
IT Services and Products, Consumer Care and Lighting and Reconciling items
respectively and a decline of Rs. 63 million in Others.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for Global IT Services and
Products increased 91% from Rs. 1,345 million for the year ended March 31, 2000
to Rs. 2,575 million for the year ended March 31, 2001. The increase was
primarily due to an increase in the number of sales and marketing personnel from
49 to 67, increased compensation and, increased marketing expenses.
Selling, general and administrative expenses of India and AsiaPac IT
Services and Products increased 27% from Rs. 1,098 million for the year ended
March 31, 2000 to Rs. 1,392 million for the year ended March 31, 2001. This
increase resulted from an increase in advertising and marketing expenses,
traveling expenses and a higher depreciation charge.
Selling, General and Administrative expenses for Consumer Care and
Lighting increased 17% from Rs. 462 million for the year ended March 31, 2000 to
Rs. 539 million for the year ended March 31, 2001. Most of the increase resulted
from increased advertising and sales promotion expenses.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for Others decreased 28%
from Rs. 224 million for the year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 161 million for
the year ended March 31, 2001.
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Operating Income. As a result of foregoing factors, operating income
increased 109%, from Rs. 3,617 million for the year ended March 31, 2000, to Rs.
7,553 million for the year ended March 31, 2001.
Other income (net) increased to Rs. 87 million for the year ended March
31, 2001, from Other expense (net) of Rs. 284 million for the year ended March
31, 2000. The increase in other income is primarily due to interest income
received on the investments made out of the cash surpluses generated by our
operations and the proceeds from our ADR offering.
Income taxes. Income taxes increased 119%, from Rs. 525 million for the
year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 1,150 million for the year ended March 31,
2001. Our effective tax rate increased to 15% for the year ended March 31, 2001
from 14% for the year ended March 31, 2000. The increase in the effective tax
rate, resulted from an increased proportion of revenues of Global IT Services
business from Europe and Japan where our income is subject to higher taxation.
The tax rates applicable to domestic income increased from 38.5% in the year
ended March 31, 2000 to 39.6% in the year ended March 31, 2001.
Income from continuing operations. As a result of the foregoing factors,
income from continuing operations increased 93% from Rs. 3,333 million for the
year ended March 31, 2000 to Rs. 6,437 million for the year ended March 31,
2001.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Our capital requirements relate primarily to financing the growth of our
Global IT Services and Products and India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products
businesses. We have historically financed the majority of our working capital,
capital expenditure and other requirements through our operating cash flow, and
to a limited extent through bank loans.
Investments in inter-corporate deposits technically do not meet the
definition of investment securities and hence are included in other current
assets. Excluding the impact of these investments, cash flow from operations for
the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002 was Rs. 3,515 million, Rs. 5,941
million and Rs. 9,075 million, respectively. For the years ended March 31, 2000,
2001 and 2002, capital expenditure was Rs. 1,318 million, Rs. 2,626 million and
Rs. 2,485 million, respectively. This expenditure was financed primarily through
cash generated from our operations.
As of March 31, 2002, we had total debt of Rs. 291 million comprised
borrowings from a consortium of banks of Rs. 182 million, under a line of credit
of Rs. 2,650 million, secured by inventory and accounts receivable and other
borrowings of Rs. 109 million, secured by liens over our property, plant and
equipment and certain investments.
We expect that our primary financing requirements in the future will be
capital expenditures and working capital requirements in connection with growing
our business. We believe that cash generated from operations, along with the net
proceeds of our initial U.S. public offering in October 2000 of 3,162,500
American Depositary Shares (including the exercise of the underwriter's
overallottment option to purchase 412,500 ADSs) representing 3,162,500 Equity
Shares, will be sufficient to satisfy our currently foreseeable working capital
and capital expenditure requirements. However, our liquidity and capital
requirements are affected by many factors, some of which are based on the normal
ongoing operations of our businesses and some of which arise from uncertainties
related to global economies and the sectors that we target for our services. In
the future, we may require or choose to obtain additional debt or equity
financing. We cannot be certain that additional financing, if needed, will be
available on favorable terms. We routinely review potential acquisitions,
however currently we have no agreements to enter into any material acquisition.
TREND INFORMATION
Our Global IT Services and Products business segment is subject to
fluctuations primarily resulting from factors such as:
- The effect of seasonal hiring which occurs in the quarter ended
September 30;
- The time required to train and productively utilize new employees;
- The proportion of services we perform at client sites;
- Exchange rate fluctuations; and
- The size, timing and profitability of new projects.
Our India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products business segment is also
subject to seasonal fluctuations. Our product revenue is driven by capital
expenditure budgets and the spending patterns of our clients who often delay or
accelerate purchases in reaction to tax depreciation benefits on capital
equipment. As a result, our India and AsiaPac IT Services and products revenues
for the quarters ended March 31 and September 30 are typically higher than other
quarters of the year. We believe the impact of this fluctuation on our revenues
will decrease as the proportion of services revenue increases.
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Our Consumer Care and Lighting business segment is also subject to
seasonal fluctuations. Demand for hydrogenated cooking oil is greater during the
Indian festival season and has increased revenues from our Consumer Care
business for the quarters ended September 30 and December 31. Our revenues in
this segment are also subject to commodity price fluctuations. In the twelve
quarters ended March 31, 2002, the price of the commodity component of our
hydrogenated oil products decreased significantly which resulted in
significantly lower revenues from hydrogenated oil products, however growth in
revenues from soaps and lighting products has offset this decline in revenue.
Our quarterly revenue, operating income and net income have varied
significantly in the past and we expect that they are likely to vary in the
future. You should not rely on our quarterly operating results as an indication
of future performance. Such quarterly fluctuations may have an impact on the
price of our equity shares and ADSs.
Recent accounting pronouncements: In June 2001, the Financial Accounting
Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS No.141, Business Combinations, and SFAS No.
142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. SFAS No.141 requires that the
purchase method of accounting be used for all business combinations initiated
after June 30, 2001 as well as all purchase method business combinations
completed after June 30, 2001. SFAS No. 141 also specifies the criteria
intangible assets acquired in a purchase method business combination must meet
to be recognized and reported apart from goodwill, noting that any purchase
price allocated to an assembled workforce may not be accounted for separately.
SFAS No. 142 will require that goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite
useful lives no longer be amortized, but instead be tested for impairment at
least annually in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 142. SFAS No. 142
will also require that intangible assets with definite useful lives be amortized
over their respective estimated useful lives to their estimated residual values
and reviewed for impairment in accordance with SFAS No. 121 and SFAS No. 144,
Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.
We are required to adopt the provisions of SFAS No. 141 immediately, and
SFAS No. 142 effective April 1, 2002. Furthermore, any goodwill and any
intangible assets determined to have an indefinite useful life that are acquired
in a purchase business combination completed after June 30, 2001, will not be
amortized, but will continue to be evaluated for impairment in accordance with
the relevant accounting literature that is applicable until the adoption of SFAS
No. 142. Goodwill and intangible assets acquired in business combinations
completed before July 1, 2001, will continue to be amortized prior to the
adoption of SFAS No. 142.
Upon adoption of SFAS No. 142, SFAS No. 141 will require us to evaluate
its existing intangible assets and goodwill that were acquired in prior purchase
business combinations, and to make any necessary reclassifications in order to
conform with the new criteria in SFAS No. 141 for recognition apart from
goodwill. Upon adoption of SFAS No. 142, we will be required to reassess the
useful lives and residual values of all intangible assets acquired in purchase
business combinations, and make any necessary amortization period adjustments by
the end of the first interim period after adoption. In addition, to the extent
an intangible asset is identified as having an indefinite useful life, we will
be required to test the intangible asset for impairment in accordance with the
provisions of SFAS No. 142 within the first interim period. Any impairment loss
will be measured as of the date of adoption and recognized as the cumulative
effect of a change in accounting principle in the first interim period.
In connection with the transitional goodwill impairment evaluation, SFAS
No. 142 will require us to perform an assessment of whether there is an
indication that goodwill is impaired as of the date of adoption. To accomplish
this we must identify our reporting units and determine the carrying value of
each reporting unit by assigning the assets and liabilities, including the
existing goodwill and intangible assets, to those reporting units as of the date
of adoption. We will then have up to six months from the date of adoption to
determine the fair value of each reporting unit and compare it to the reporting
unit's carrying amount. To the extent a reporting unit's carrying amount exceeds
its fair value, an indication exists that the reporting unit's goodwill may be
impaired and we must perform the second step of the transitional impairment
test. In the second step, we must compare the implied fair value of the
reporting unit's goodwill, determined by allocating the reporting unit's fair
value to all of its assets (recognized and unrecognized) and liabilities in a
manner similar to a purchase price allocation in accordance with SFAS No. 141,
to its carrying amount, both of which must be measured as of the date of
adoption. This second step is required to be completed as soon as possible, but
no later than the end of the year of adoption. Any transitional impairment loss
will be recognized as the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle
in our statement of income.
As of the date of adoption, we will have unamortized goodwill in the
amount of Rs. 656 million which will be subject to the transition provisions of
SFAS No. 141 and 142. Amortization expense related to goodwill was Rs. 1
million, Rs. 45 million and Rs. 176 million for the years ended March 31, 2000,
2001 and 2002, respectively. Adoption of SFAS Nos. 141 and 142, will not have a
significant impact on our financial statements.
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In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 143, Accounting for Asset
Retirement Obligations. SFAS No. 143 requires entities to record the fair value
of a liability for an asset retirement obligation in the period in which it is
incurred. When the liability is initially recorded, the entity capitalizes a
cost by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. Over
time, the liability is accreted to its present value each period, and the
capitalized cost is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. Upon
settlement of the liability, an entity either settles the obligation for its
recorded amount or incurs a gain or loss upon settlement. The standard is
effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2002.
In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 144, which requires that
specified long-lived assets be measured at the lower of carrying amount or fair
value less cost to sell, whether reported in continuing operations or in
discontinued operations. Under SFAS No. 144, discontinued operations will no
longer be measured at net realizable value or include amounts for operating
losses that have not yet been incurred. The provisions of SFAS No. 144 are
effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2001.
Adoption of SFAS No. 143 and 144, will not have a significant impact on
our financial statements.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
GENERAL
Market risk is the risk of loss of future earnings, to fair values or to
future cash flows that may result from a change in the price of a financial
instrument. The value of a financial instrument may change as a result of
changes in the interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, commodity
prices, equity prices and other market changes that affect market risk sensitive
instruments. Market risk is attributable to all market risk sensitive financial
instruments including foreign currency receivables and payables and long-term
debt.
Our exposure to market risk is a function of our investment and
borrowing activities and our revenue generating activities in foreign currency.
The objective of market risk management is to avoid excessive exposure of our
earnings and equity to loss. Most of our exposure to market risk arises out of
our foreign currency account receivables and our investments in foreign currency
denominated securities.
RISK MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES
We manage market risk through a corporate treasury department, which
evaluates and exercises independent control over the entire process of market
risk management. Our corporate treasury department recommends risk management
objectives and policies which are approved by senior management and our audit
committee. The activities of this department include management of cash
resources, implementing hedging strategies for foreign currency exposures,
borrowing strategies, and ensuring compliance with market risk limits and
policies on a daily basis.
COMPONENTS OF MARKET RISK
Our exposure to market risk arises principally from exchange rate risk.
Interest rate risk is the other component of our market risk.
Exchange rate risk. Our exchange rate risk primarily arises from our
foreign exchange revenues, receivables and payables, investments in foreign
currency denominated securities and foreign currency debt. We evaluate our
exchange rate exposure arising from these transactions and enter into foreign
currency forward contracts to mitigate such exposure. We have approved risk
management policies that require us to hedge a significant portion of our
exposure. Current Indian regulations do not permit us to hedge the exposure on
foreign currency denominated securities. Our net exchange rate exposure for the
years ended March 31, 2001 and 2002, was $37.5 million and $15.5 million,
respectively.
The forward contracts typically mature between one through six months.
The counter parties for our exchange contracts are banks and we consider the
risk of non-performance by the counter parties as non-material. These forward
contracts are effective hedges from an economic perspective, however they do not
qualify for hedge accounting under SFAS No. 133, as amended. We estimate that
changes in exchange rates will not have a material impact on our operating
results or cash flow.
Interest rate risk. Our interest rate risk primarily arises from our
long-term debt. We adopt appropriate borrowing strategies to manage our interest
rate risk. Additionally, we enter into interest rate swap agreements to hedge
interest rate risk.
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A maturity profile as of March 31, 2002 of our debt is set forth below:
MATURING IN YEAR ENDING MARCH 31: TOTAL
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(in millions)
2003 RS. 79
2004 28
2005 1
2006 --
Thereafter --
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Total RS. 108
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As of March 31, 2001, and 2002, we had interest rate swap agreements
outstanding in the notional principal amount of $3.3 million and $Nil, which
represent hedges of interest rate risk on our foreign currency debt. The counter
parties for our interest rate agreements are banks, and we consider the risk of
non-performance by the counter parties as non-material.
Based on the maturity profile and composition of our debt portfolio, we
estimate that changes in interest rates will not have a material impact on our
operating results or cash flows.
Our temporary resources are generally invested in short-term
investments, which generally do not expose us to significant interest rate risk.
Fair value. The fair value of our market rate risk sensitive instruments
closely approximates their carrying value.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Critical accounting policies are defined as those in our view, most
important to the portrayal of the Company's financial condition and results and
that are most demanding on our calls on judgment. We believe that the accounting
policies discussed below are the most critical accounting policies. For a
detailed discussion on the application of these and other accounting policies,
please refer to Note 2 in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
REVENUE RECOGNITION
We derive our revenues primarily from two sources: (i) product revenue;
and (ii) service revenue.
PRODUCT REVENUE
Product revenue is recognized when there is persuasive evidence of a
contract, the product has been delivered, the sales price is fixed or
determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured. The product is
considered delivered to the customer once it has been shipped, and title and
risk of loss has been transferred. If we are obligated to perform installation
services and a portion of the sales consideration is payable only on the
completion of installation services, then the entire revenue is deferred and
recognized on the completion of the installation services.
We consider a binding purchase order or a signed contract as persuasive
evidence of an arrangement. Persuasive evidence of an arrangement may take
different forms depending upon the customary practices of a specific class of
customers.
SERVICE REVENUE
Service revenue is recognized when there is persuasive evidence of a
contract, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is
reasonably assured. Time and material service contract revenue is recognized as
the services are rendered. Fixed price service contract revenue is recognized
using the percentage-of-completion method of accounting. Percentage of
completion method accounting relies on estimates of total expected contract
revenue and costs. We follow this method when reasonably dependable estimates of
the revenues and costs applicable to various elements of the contract can be
made. Since the financial reporting of these contracts depends on estimates,
which are assessed continually during the term of these contracts, recognized
revenue and profit are subject to revisions as the contract progresses to
completion. When estimates indicate that a loss will be incurred, the loss is
provided for in the period in which the loss becomes evident. Maintenance
revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the agreement. Revenue from
customer training, support and other services is recognized as the related
services are performed.
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REVENUE ARRANGEMENTS WITH MULTIPLE DELIVERABLES
In revenue arrangements with multiple deliverables we allocate the total
revenues to be earned under the arrangement among the various elements based on
their relative fair values. We recognize revenues on the delivered products or
services only if:
- The above product or service revenue recognition criteria are met;
- Undelivered products or services are not essential to the
functionality of the delivered products or services;
- Payment for the delivered product or services is not contingent upon
delivery of the remaining products or services; and
- There is evidence of the fair value for each of the deliverables.
Assessments regarding impact of the undelivered element on functionality
of the delivered element, impact of forfeiture and similar contractual
provisions and determination of fair value of each element, would affect the
timing of revenue recognition and would impact our results of operation.
PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION AND APPLICATION OF EQUITY METHOD OF
ACCOUNTING
Our financial statements include the accounts of our controlled
affiliates. Our assessment of control considers the existence of substantive
participating rights with the minority holders in majority owned affiliates and
the existence of control through contract or other means.
We consolidate the Wipro Equity Reward Trust (WERT). From December 1999
to December 2000 we did not consolidate Wipro Net Limited, a 55% owned
affiliate, as the minority shareholder had substantive participating rights.
Investments in affiliates, over which we exercise significant influence,
but not control, are accounted for by the equity method. In addition to our
percentage ownership of the voting interest, we consider the following to
determine the existence of significant influence:
- Inter-company transactions, exchange of personnel, sharing of
resources and technological dependence;
- Board representation;
- Unilateral ability to acquire additional equity interest; and
- The amount of funding provided by us to the affiliate.
ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
While preparing financial statements we make estimates and assumptions
that affect the reported amount of assets, liabilities, disclosure of contingent
liabilities at the date of financial statements and the reported amount of
revenues and expenses for the reporting period. Specifically we make estimates
of the uncollectability of our accounts receivable by analyzing historical
payment patterns, customer concentrations, customer credit-worthiness and
current economic trends. If the financial condition of the customers
deteriorates, additional allowances may be required.
Our estimate of liability relating to pending litigation is based on
currently available facts and our assessment of the probability of an
unfavorable outcome. Considering the uncertainties about the ultimate outcome
and the amount of losses we re-assess our estimates as additional information
becomes available. Such revisions in our estimates could materially impact our
results of operations and our financial position.
We provide for inventory obsolescence, excess inventory and inventories
with carrying values in excess of realizable values based on our assessment of
the future demands, market conditions and our specific inventory management
initiatives. If the market conditions and actual demands are less favourable
than our estimates, additional inventory write-downs may be required. In all
cases inventory is carried at the lower of historical costs or realizable value.
ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME TAXES
As part of the process of preparing our consolidated financial
statements we are required to estimate our income taxes in each of the
jurisdictions in which we operate. We are subject to tax assessments in each of
these jurisdictions. A tax assessment can involve complex issues, which can only
be resolved over extended time periods. Though we have considered all these
issues in estimating our income taxes, there could be an unfavourable resolution
of such issues that may affect our results of operations.
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We also assess the temporary differences resulting from differential
treatment of certain items for tax and accounting purposes. These differences
result in deferred tax assets and liabilities, which are recognized in our
consolidated financial statements. We assess our deferred tax assets on an
ongoing basis by assessing our valuation allowance and adjusting the valuation
allowance appropriately. In calculating our valuation allowance we consider the
future taxable incomes and the feasibility of tax planning initiatives. If we
estimate that the deferred tax asset cannot be realized at the recorded value, a
valuation allowance is created with a charge to the statement of income in the
period in which such assessment is made.
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS, GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS
We adopted SFAS No. 141 in fiscal 2002, we will adopt SFAS No. 142
effective April 1, 2002. Upon adoption, we will be required to allocate the
existing goodwill to reporting units. Goodwill will not be amortized but will be
subject to impairment review. We are required to perform an initial impairment
review of our goodwill in fiscal 2003 and an annual impairment review
thereafter. We currently do not expect to record an impairment charge upon
completion of our initial impairment review.
The process of identifying reporting units, identifying intangible
assets separate from goodwill, allocating goodwill to reporting units and
reviewing goodwill for impairment is complex. We are required to make
significant assumptions and subjective estimates. If any of our assumptions or
estimates are revised it may impact our results of operations and financial
position.
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RISK FACTORS
RISKS RELATED TO OUR COMPANY
OUR REVENUES ARE DIFFICULT TO PREDICT BECAUSE THEY CAN FLUCTUATE
SIGNIFICANTLY GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE MARKETS IN WHICH WE OPERATE. THIS
INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD THAT OUR RESULTS COULD FALL BELOW THE EXPECTATION OF
MARKET ANALYSTS, WHICH COULD CAUSE THE PRICE OF OUR EQUITY SHARES AND ADSS TO
DECLINE.
Our revenues historically have fluctuated and may fluctuate in the future
depending on a number of factors, including:
- the size, timing and profitability of significant projects or
product orders;
- the proportion of services we perform at our clients' sites rather
than at our offshore facilities;
- seasonal changes that affect the change in the mix of services we
provide to our clients or in the relative proportion of services and
product revenues;
- seasonal changes that affect purchasing patterns among our consumers
of computer peripherals, personal computers, consumer care and other
products;
- the effect of seasonal hiring patterns and the time we require to
train and productively utilize our new employees; and
- currency exchange fluctuations.
Approximately 59% of our total operating expenses in our Services
business of Global IT Services and Products business, particularly personnel and
facilities, are fixed in advance of any particular quarter. As a result,
unanticipated variations in the number and timing of our projects or employee
utilization rates may cause significant variations in operating results in any
particular quarter. We believe that period-to-period comparisons of our results
of operations are not necessarily meaningful and should not be relied upon as
indications of future performance. Thus, it is possible that in the future some
of our quarterly results of operations may be below the expectations of public
market analysts and investors, and the market price of our equity shares and
ADSs could decline.
IF WE DO NOT CONTINUE TO IMPROVE OUR ADMINISTRATIVE, OPERATIONAL AND
FINANCIAL PERSONNEL AND SYSTEMS TO MANAGE OUR GROWTH, THE VALUE OF OUR
SHAREHOLDERS' INVESTMENT MAY BE HARMED.
We have experienced significant growth in our Global IT Services and
Products business. We expect our growth to place significant demands on our
management and other resources. This will require us to continue to develop and
improve our operational, financial and other internal controls, both in India
and elsewhere. Our continued growth will increase the challenges involved in:
- recruiting and retaining sufficiently skilled technical, marketing
and management personnel;
- providing adequate training and supervision to maintain our high
quality standards; and
- preserving our culture, values and entrepreneurial environment.
If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, the quality of our
services and products may decline, and our ability to attract clients and
skilled personnel may be negatively affected. These factors in turn could
negatively affect the growth of our Global IT Services and Products business and
harm the value of our shareholders' investment.
INTENSE COMPETITION IN THE MARKET FOR IT SERVICES COULD AFFECT OUR COST
ADVANTAGES, WHICH COULD DECREASE OUR REVENUES.
The market for IT Services is highly competitive. Our competitors
include software companies, IT companies, large international accounting firms
and their consulting affiliates, systems consulting and integration firms, other
technology companies and client in-house information services departments, both
international and domestic. Many of our competitors have significantly greater
financial, technical and marketing resources and generate greater revenue than
we do. We cannot be reasonably certain that we will be able to compete
successfully against such competitors, or that we will not lose clients to such
competitors. Additionally, we believe that our ability to compete also depends
in part on factors outside our control, such as our ability to attract, motivate
and retain skilled employees, the price at which our competitors offer
comparable services, and the extent of our competitors' responsiveness to their
clients' needs.
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WAGES IN INDIA HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN LOWER THAN WAGES IN THE UNITED
STATES AND EUROPE, WHICH HAS BEEN ONE OF OUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES. WAGE
INCREASES IN INDIA MAY PREVENT US FROM SUSTAINING THIS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND
MAY REDUCE OUR PROFIT MARGINS.
Our wage costs in India have historically been significantly lower than
wage costs in the United States and Europe for comparably skilled professionals,
which has been one of our competitive advantages. However, wage increases in
India may prevent us from sustaining this competitive advantage and may
negatively affect our profit margins. We may need to increase the levels of our
employee compensation more rapidly than in the past to remain competitive.
Unless we are able to continue to increase the efficiency and productivity of
our employees, wage increases in the long term may reduce our profit margins.
THE RECENT RAPID ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AND TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE UNITED
STATES COULD DELAY OR REDUCE THE NUMBER OF NEW PURCHASE ORDERS WE RECEIVE AND
DISRUPT OUR OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH COULD AFFECT OUR FINANCIAL
RESULTS AND PROSPECTS.
Approximately 57% of our Global IT Services and Products revenues are
from the United States. During an economic slowdown our clients may delay or
reduce their IT spending significantly, which may in turn lower the demand for
our services and affect our financial results. Recent terrorist attacks in the
United States have disrupted normal business practices for extended periods of
time, reduced business confidence and have generally increased performance
pressures on U.S. companies. As a result several clients have delayed purchase
orders with us. Continued, or more severe, terrorist attacks in the United
States could cause clients in the U.S. to further delay their decisions on IT
spending, which could affect our financial results. Although we continue to
believe that we have a strong competitive position in the United States, we have
increased our efforts to geographically diversify our clients and revenue.
OUR SUCCESS DEPENDS IN LARGE PART UPON OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM AND OTHER
HIGHLY SKILLED PROFESSIONALS. IF WE FAIL TO RETAIN AND ATTRACT THESE PERSONNEL,
OUR BUSINESS MAY BE UNABLE TO GROW AND OUR REVENUES COULD DECLINE, WHICH MAY
DECREASE THE VALUE OF OUR SHAREHOLDERS' INVESTMENT.
We are highly dependent on the senior members of our management team,
including the continued efforts of our Chairman and Managing Director. Our
ability to execute project engagements and to obtain new clients depends in
large part on our ability to attract, train, motivate and retain highly skilled
professionals, especially project managers, software engineers and other senior
technical personnel. If we cannot hire and retain additional qualified
personnel, our ability to bid on and obtain new projects, and to continue to
expand our business will be impaired and our revenues could decline. We believe
that there is significant competition for professionals with the skills
necessary to perform the services we offer. We may not be able to hire and
retain enough skilled and experienced employees to replace those who leave.
Additionally, we may not be able to re-deploy and retrain our employees to keep
pace with continuing changes in technology, evolving standards and changing
client preferences.
OUR GLOBAL IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS SERVICE REVENUES DEPEND TO A LARGE
EXTENT ON A SMALL NUMBER OF CLIENTS, AND OUR REVENUES COULD DECLINE IF WE LOSE A
MAJOR CLIENT.
While we currently derive, and believe we will continue to derive, a
significant portion of our Global IT Services and Products service revenues from
a limited number of corporate clients we continue to reduce our dependence on
any revenues from service rendered to any one client. The loss of a major client
or a significant reduction in the service performed for a major client could
result in a reduction of our revenues. General Electric our largest client for
the year ended March 31, 2001 and Lattice group our largest client in the year
ended March 31, 2002, accounted for 8% and 7% of our Global IT Services and
Products revenues, respectively. For the same periods, our ten largest clients
accounted for 45% and 42% of our Global IT Services and Products revenues. The
volume of work we perform for specific clients may vary from year to year,
particularly since we typically are not the only outside service provider for
our clients. Thus, a major client in one year may not provide the same level of
revenues in a subsequent year.
RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRATION MAY AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO COMPETE FOR AND
PROVIDE SERVICES TO CLIENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH COULD HAMPER OUR GROWTH
AND CAUSE OUR REVENUES TO DECLINE.
If U.S. immigration laws change and make it more difficult for us to
obtain H-1B and L-1 visas for our employees, our ability to compete for and
provide services to clients in the United States could be impaired. In response
to recent terrorist attacks in the United States, the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service has increased the level of scrutiny in granting visas to
people of South-East Asian origin. This restriction and any other changes in
turn could hamper our growth and cause our revenues to decline.
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Our employees who work on site at client facilities or at our facilities in the
United States on temporary and extended assignments typically must obtain visas.
As of March 31, 2002, the majority of our personnel in the United States held
H-1B visas (721 persons) or L-1 visas (510 persons). An H-1B visa is a temporary
work visa, which allows the employee to remain in the U.S. while he or she
remains an employee of the sponsoring firm, and the L-1 visa is an intra-company
transfer visa, which only allows the employee to remain in the United States
temporarily. Although there is no limit to new L-1 petitions, there is a limit
to the aggregate number of new H-1B petitions that the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service may approve in any government fiscal year. We may not be
able to obtain the H-1B visas necessary to bring critical Indian professionals
to the United States on an extended basis during years in which this limit is
reached. This limit was reached in March 2000 for the U.S. Government's fiscal
year ended September 30, 2000. While we anticipated that this limit would be
reached before the end of the U.S. Government's fiscal year, and made efforts to
plan accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will continue to be able to
obtain a sufficient number of H-1B visas on the same time schedule as we have
previously, or at all.
OUR COSTS COULD INCREASE IF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA REDUCES OR WITHHOLDS
TAX BENEFITS AND OTHER INCENTIVES IT PROVIDES TO US.
Currently, we benefit from certain tax incentives under Indian tax laws.
As a result of these incentives, our operations have been subject to relatively
insignificant Indian tax liabilities. These tax incentives currently include a
10-year tax holiday from payment of Indian corporate income taxes for our Global
IT Services and Products business operated from specially designated "Software
Technology Parks" in India and an income tax deduction of 100% for profits
derived from exporting information technology services. As a result, a
substantial portion of our pre-tax income has not been subject to significant
tax in recent years. For the years ended March 31, 2001 and 2002, without
accounting for double taxation treaty set-offs, our tax benefits were Rs. 2,389
million, and Rs. 2,862 million, from such tax incentives. We are currently also
eligible for exemptions from other taxes, including customs duties. The Finance
Act, 2000 phases out the ten year tax holiday over a ten year period from the
financial year 1999-2000 to financial year 2008-2009. Our current tax holidays
expire in stages by 2009. Additionally, the recently enacted Finance Act, 2002
subjects ten percent of all income derived from services located in " Software
Technology Parks" to income tax for the one-year period ending March 31, 2003.
For companies opting for the 100% tax deduction for profits derived from
exporting information technology services, the Finance Act, 2000 phases out the
income tax deduction over the next five years beginning on April 1, 2000. When
our tax holiday and income tax deduction exemptions expire or terminate, our
costs will increase. Additionally, the government of India could enact similar
laws in the future, which could further impair our other tax incentives.
WE FOCUS ON HIGH-GROWTH INDUSTRIES, SUCH AS NETWORKING AND
COMMUNICATIONS. ANY DECREASE IN DEMAND FOR TECHNOLOGY IN SUCH INDUSTRIES MAY
SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE THE DEMAND FOR OUR SERVICES, WHICH MAY IMPAIR OUR GROWTH
AND CAUSE OUR REVENUES TO DECLINE.
Approximately 50% of our Global IT Services and Products business is
derived from clients in high growth industries who use our IT Services for
networking and communications equipment. The recent rapid economic slowdown in
U.S. may adversely affect the growth prospects of these companies. Any
significant decrease in the growth of these industries will decrease the demand
for our services and could reduce our revenue.
OUR FAILURE TO COMPLETE FIXED-PRICE, FIXED-TIME FRAME CONTRACTS ON
BUDGET AND ON TIME MAY NEGATIVELY AFFECT OUR PROFITABILITY, WHICH COULD DECREASE
THE VALUE OF OUR SHAREHOLDERS' INVESTMENT.
We offer a portion of our services on a fixed-price, fixed-time frame
basis, rather than on a time-and-materials basis. Although we use specified
software engineering processes and our past project experience to reduce the
risks associated with estimating, planning and performing fixed-price, fixed-
time frame projects, we bear the risk of cost overruns, completion delays and
wage inflation in connection with these projects. If we fail to accurately
estimate the resources and time required for a project, future rates of wage
inflation and currency exchange rates, or if we fail to complete our contractual
obligations within the contracted time frame, our profitability may suffer.
DISRUPTIONS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COULD HARM OUR SERVICE MODEL, WHICH
COULD RESULT IN A REDUCTION OF OUR REVENUES.
A significant element of our business strategy is to continue to
leverage and expand our software development centers in Bangalore, Chennai,
Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Pune, India, as well as overseas. We believe that the use
of a strategically located network of software development centers will provide
us with cost advantages, the ability to attract highly skilled personnel in
various regions of the country and the world, the ability to service clients on
a regional and global basis, and the ability to provide services to our clients
24 hours a day, seven days a week. Part of our service model is to maintain
active voice and data communications
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between our main offices in Bangalore, our clients' offices, and our other
software development and support facilities. Although we maintain redundancy
facilities and satellite communications links, any significant loss in our
ability to transmit voice and data through satellite and telephone
communications would result in a reduction of our revenues.
OUR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS SUBJECT US TO RISKS INHERENT IN DOING
BUSINESS ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL THAT COULD HARM OUR OPERATING RESULTS.
While to date most of our software development facilities are located in
India and in the United States, we intend to establish new development
facilities, including potentially in Southeast Asia and Europe. We have not yet
made substantial contractual commitments to establish any new facilities and we
cannot assure you that we will not significantly alter or reduce our proposed
expansion plans. Because of our limited experience with facilities outside of
India, we are subject to additional risks including, among other things,
difficulties in regulating our business globally, export requirements and
restrictions, and multiple and possibly overlapping tax structures. Any of these
events could harm our future performance.
WE MAY ENGAGE IN FUTURE ACQUISITIONS, INVESTMENTS, STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIPS OR OTHER VENTURES THAT MAY HARM OUR PERFORMANCE, DILUTE OUR
SHAREHOLDERS AND CAUSE US TO INCUR DEBT OR ASSUME CONTINGENT LIABILITIES.
We may acquire or make investments in complementary businesses,
technologies, services or products, or enter into strategic partnerships with
parties who can provide access to those assets. We may not identify suitable
acquisition, investment or strategic partnership candidates, or if we do
identify suitable candidates, we may not complete those transactions on terms
commercially acceptable to us or at all. If we acquire another company, we could
have difficulty in assimilating that company's personnel, operations, technology
and software. In addition, the key personnel of the acquired company may decide
not to work for us. If we make other types of acquisitions, we could have
difficulty in integrating the acquired products, services or technologies into
our operations. These difficulties could disrupt our ongoing business, distract
our management and employees and increase our expenses. As of the date of this
report, we have no agreement to enter into any material investment or
acquisition transaction.
WE MAY BE LIABLE TO OUR CLIENTS FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY SYSTEM FAILURES,
WHICH COULD DAMAGE OUR REPUTATION AND CAUSE US TO LOSE CUSTOMERS.
Many of our contracts involve projects that are critical to the
operations of our clients' businesses, and provide benefits that may be
difficult to quantify. Any failure in a client's system could result in a claim
for substantial damages against us, regardless of our responsibility for such
failure. Although we attempt to limit our contractual liability for damages
resulting from negligent acts, errors, mistakes or omissions in rendering our
services, we cannot be assured that the limitations on liability we provide for
in our service contracts will be enforceable in all cases, or that it will
otherwise protect us from liability for damages.
RISKS RELATED TO INVESTMENTS IN INDIAN COMPANIES
We are incorporated in India, and substantially all of our assets and
our employees are located in India. Consequently, our financial performance and
the market price of our ADSs will be affected by political, social and economic
developments affecting India, Government of India policies, including taxation
and foreign investment policies, government currency exchange control, as well
as changes in exchange rates and interest rates.
REGIONAL CONFLICTS IN SOUTH ASIA COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE INDIAN
ECONOMY, DISRUPT OUR OPERATIONS AND CAUSE OUR BUSINESS TO SUFFER.
South Asia has from time to time experienced instances of civil unrest
and hostilities among neighboring countries, including between India and
Pakistan. In recent years there have been military confrontations between India
and Pakistan that have occurred in the region of Kashmir. The potential for such
hostilities has recently increased as a result of terrorist attacks in the U.S.
and the recent attack on the Indian Parliament has increased tensions between
India and Pakistan. Events of this nature in the future could influence the
Indian economy and could have a material adverse effect on the market for
securities of Indian companies, including our ADSs, and on the market for our
services.
POLITICAL INSTABILITY OR CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENT IN INDIA COULD DELAY
THE LIBERALIZATION OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY AND ADVERSELY AFFECT ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS IN INDIA GENERALLY, WHICH COULD IMPACT OUR FINANCIAL RESULTS AND
PROSPECTS.
Since 1991, successive Indian governments have pursued policies of
economic liberalization, including significantly relaxing restrictions on the
private sector. Nevertheless, the role of the Indian central and state
governments in the Indian economy as producers, consumers and regulators has
remained significant. The Government of India has changed five times since 1996.
The current Government of India, formed in October 1999, has announced policies
and taken initiatives that support the continued economic liberalization
policies that have been pursued by previous governments. We cannot assure you
that these liberalization
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policies will continue in the future. The rate of economic liberalization could
change, and specific laws and policies affecting technology companies, foreign
investment, currency exchange and other matters affecting investment in our
securities could change as well. A significant change in India's economic
liberalization and deregulation policies could adversely affect business and
economic conditions in India generally and our business in particular.
INDIAN LAW LIMITS OUR ABILITY TO RAISE CAPITAL OUTSIDE INDIA AND MAY
LIMIT THE ABILITY OF OTHERS TO ACQUIRE US, WHICH COULD PREVENT US FROM OPERATING
OUR BUSINESS OR ENTERING INTO A TRANSACTION THAT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR
SHAREHOLDERS.
Indian law constraints our ability to raise capital outside India
through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities. Generally, any
foreign investment in, or an acquisition of, an Indian company requires approval
from relevant government authorities in India including the Reserve Bank of
India. However, the Government of India currently does not require prior
approvals for IT companies, subject to certain exceptions. Under any such
exception, if the Government of India does not approve the investment or
implements a limit on the foreign equity ownership of IT companies, our ability
to seek and obtain additional equity investment by foreign investors will be
constrained. In addition, these restrictions, if applied to us, may prevent us
from entering into a transaction, such as an acquisition by a non-Indian
company, which would otherwise be beneficial for our company and the holders of
our equity shares and ADSs.
INDIAN LAW IMPOSES FOREIGN INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS THAT LIMIT A HOLDER'S
ABILITY TO CONVERT EQUITY SHARES INTO ADSS, WHICH MAY CAUSE OUR EQUITY SHARES TO
TRADE AT A DISCOUNT OR PREMIUM TO THE MARKET PRICE OF OUR ADSS.
Recently the government of India has permitted two-way fungibility of
ADRs, subject however to sectoral caps and certain conditions. Additionally,
investors who exchange ADSs for the underlying equity shares and are not holders
of record will be required to declare to us details of the holder of record, and
the holder of record will be required to disclose the details of the beneficial
owner. Any investor who fails to comply with this requirement may be liable for
a fine of up to Rs. 1,000 for each day such failure continues. Such restrictions
on foreign ownership of the underlying equity shares may cause our equity shares
to trade at a discount or premium to the ADSs.
Except for limited circumstances, the Reserve Bank of India must approve
the sale of equity shares underlying ADSs by a non-resident of India to a
resident of India. Since currency exchange controls are in effect in India, the
Reserve Bank of India will approve the price at which equity shares are
transferred based on a specified formula, and a higher price per share may not
be permitted. Additionally, except in certain limited circumstances, if an
investor seeks to convert the rupee proceeds from a sale of equity shares in
India into foreign currency and then repatriate that foreign currency from India
he or she will have to obtain an additional Reserve Bank of India approval for
each transaction. We cannot assure our ADS holders that any required approval
from the Reserve Bank of India or any other government agency can be obtained on
any terms or at all.
OUR ABILITY TO ACQUIRE COMPANIES ORGANIZED OUTSIDE INDIA DEPENDS ON THE
APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. OUR FAILURE TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FROM THE
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA FOR ACQUISITIONS OF COMPANIES ORGANIZED OUTSIDE INDIA MAY
RESTRICT OUR INTERNATIONAL GROWTH, WHICH COULD NEGATIVELY AFFECT OUR REVENUES.
The Ministry of Finance of the Government of India and/or the Reserve
Bank of India must approve our acquisition of any company organized outside of
India. The Government of India has recently issued a policy statement permitting
acquisitions of companies organized outside India with a transaction value:
- if in cash, effective April 28, 2001 up to 100% of the proceeds from
an ADS offering; and
- if in stock, the greater of $100 million or ten times the acquiring
company's previous fiscal year's export earnings.
- in addition, up to US $100 million can be invested under the
automatic approval route.
We cannot assure you any required approval from the Reserve Bank of
India and/or the Ministry of Finance or any other government agency can be
obtained. Our failure to obtain approval from the Government of India for
acquisitions of companies organized outside India may restrict our international
growth, which could negatively affect our revenues.
THE LAWS OF INDIA DO NOT PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS TO THE
SAME EXTENT AS THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND WE MAY BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN
PROTECTING OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. UNAUTHORIZED USE OF OUR
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MAY RESULT IN DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCTS OR
SERVICES WHICH COMPETE WITH OUR PRODUCTS.
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Our intellectual property rights are important to our business. We rely
on a combination of copyright and trademark laws, trade secrets, confidentiality
procedures and contractual provisions to protect our intellectual property.
However, the laws of India do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent
as laws in the United States. Therefore, our efforts to protect our intellectual
property may not be adequate. Our competitors may independently develop similar
technology or duplicate our products or services. Unauthorized parties may
infringe upon or misappropriate our products, services or proprietary
information.
The misappropriation or duplication of our intellectual property could
disrupt our ongoing business, distract our management and employees, reduce our
revenues and increase our expenses. We may need to litigate to enforce our
intellectual property rights or to determine the validity and scope of the
proprietary rights of others. Any such litigation could be time-consuming and
costly. As the number of patents, copyrights and other intellectual property
rights in our industry increases, and as the coverage of these rights increases,
we believe that companies in our industry will face more frequent patent
infringement claims. Defending against these claims, even if not meritorious,
could be expensive and divert our attention and resources from operating our
company. Although there are no pending or threatened intellectual property
lawsuits against us, if we become liable to third parties for infringing their
intellectual property rights, we could be required to pay a substantial damage
award and forced to develop non-infringing technology, obtain a license or cease
selling the applications or products that contain the infringing technology. We
may be unable to develop non-infringing technology or to obtain a license on
commercially reasonable terms, or at all.
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REPORT OF MANAGEMENT
Management of Wipro is responsible for the integrity and objectivity of the
consolidated financial statements and related notes. The consolidated financial
statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally
accepted accounting principles (US GAAP) and include amounts based on judgments
and estimates by management. Management is also responsible for the accuracy of
the related data in the annual report and its consistency with the financial
statements.
Management maintains internal control systems designed to provide reasonable
assurance that assets are safeguarded, transactions are executed in accordance
with management's authorization and properly recorded, and accounting records
are adequate for preparation of financial statements and other financial
information. These are reviewed at regular intervals to ascertain their adequacy
and effectiveness.
In addition to the system of internal controls, the Company has articulated its
vision and core values which permeate all its activities. It also has corporate
policies to ensure highest standards of integrity in all business transactions,
eliminate possible conflicts of interest, ensure compliance with laws, and
protect confidentiality of proprietary information. These are reviewed at
periodic intervals.
The consolidated financial statements have been audited by the Company's
independent auditors, KPMG. Their responsibility is to audit these statements in
accordance with generally accepted auditing standards in the United States and
express their opinion on the fairness of presentation of the statements.
The Audit Committee of the board comprising entirely of independent directors
conducts an ongoing appraisal of the independence and performance of the
Company's internal and external auditors and monitors the integrity of Company's
financial statements. The Audit Committee meets several times during the year
with management, internal auditors and the independent auditors to discuss audit
activities, internal controls and financial reporting matters.
AZIM H. PREMJI
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
S.C. SENAPATY
Corporate Executive Vice President - Finance
Bangalore, April 17, 2002 and Chief Financial Officer
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Wipro Limited
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Wipro Limited
and subsidiaries as of March 31, 2002 and 2001, and the related consolidated
statements of income, stockholders' equity and comprehensive income, and cash
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended March 31, 2002. These
consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of our management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial
statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted
in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and
significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present
fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Wipro Limited and
subsidiaries as of March 31, 2002 and 2001, and the results of their operations
and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended March
31, 2002, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America.
KPMG
Bangalore, India
April 17, 2002
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
AS OF MARCH 31,
----------------------------------------------------
2001 2002 2002
-------------- -------------- ----------------
CONVENIENCE
TRANSLATION INTO
US $
(UNAUDITED)
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents (Note 4) .......................... Rs. 5,622,681 Rs. 7,377,200 $ 151,079
Accounts receivable, net of allowances (Note 5) ............. 5,878,285 5,980,903 122,484
Costs and earnings in excess of billings on contracts
in progress ............................................... 65,334 1,009,795 20,680
Inventories (Note 6) ........................................ 1,467,097 1,402,146 28,715
Investment securities (Note 8) .............................. 2,562,511 5,043,334 103,284
Deferred income taxes (Note 21) ............................. 147,798 179,088 3,668
Other current assets (Note 7) ............................... 2,356,261 3,481,308 71,294
-------------- -------------- -----------
Total current assets ..................................... 18,099,967 24,473,774 501,204
-------------- -------------- -----------
Investment securities (Note 8) .............................. 144,105 450,833 9,233
Property, plant and equipment, net (Note 9) ................. 5,479,325 6,261,857 128,238
Investments in affiliates (Note 13) ......................... 689,693 898,319 18,397
Deferred income taxes (Note 21) ............................. 221,982 265,149 5,430
Intangible assets, net (Note 10) ............................ 833,305 656,571 13,446
Other assets (Note 7) ....................................... 719,084 748,084 15,320
-------------- -------------- -----------
Total assets ............................................. Rs. 26,187,461 Rs. 33,754,587 $ 691,267
============== ============== ===========
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Borrowings from banks (Note 15) ............................. Rs. 346,650 Rs. 182,260 $ 3,733
Current portion of long-term debt (Note 16) ................. 1,326,196 78,993 1,618
Accounts payable ............................................ 1,847,243 2,238,900 45,851
Accrued expenses ............................................ 1,899,389 1,943,647 39,804
Advances from customers ..................................... 970,971 1,121,107 22,959
Other current liabilities (Note 11) ......................... 493,547 493,950 10,116
-------------- -------------- -----------
Total current liabilities ................................ 6,883,996 6,058,857 124,081
-------------- -------------- -----------
Long-term debt, excluding current portion (Note 16) ............. 95,031 29,770 610
Deferred income taxes (Note 21) ................................. 90,642 115,453 2,364
Other liabilities ............................................... 37,179 93,240 1,909
-------------- -------------- -----------
Total liabilities ........................................ 7,106,848 6,297,320 128,964
-------------- -------------- -----------
Stockholders' equity:
Equity shares at Rs. 2 par value: 375,000,000 shares
authorized as of March 31, 2001 and 2002; Issued
and outstanding: 232,433,019 shares and 232,465,689
shares as of March 31, 2001 and 2002, respectively
(Note 17) ................................................... 464,866 464,932 9,521
Additional paid-in capital ...................................... 6,696,295 6,727,806 137,780
Deferred stock compensation (Note 22) ........................... (97,047) (3,844) (79)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (Note 8) ................. 1,431 51,861 1,062
Retained earnings (Note 18) ..................................... 12,015,143 20,216,587 414,020
Equity shares held by a controlled Trust: 1,280,885
shares and 1,321,335 shares as of March 31, 2001 and
2002, respectively (Note 22) ................................ (75) (75) (2)
-------------- -------------- -----------
Total stockholders' equity ............................... 19,080,613 27,457,267 562,303
-------------- -------------- -----------
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity ............... Rs. 26,187,461 Rs. 33,754,587 $ 691,267
============== ============== ===========
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-------------------------------------------------------------------
2000 2001 2002 2002
-------------- -------------- -------------- ----------------
CONVENIENCE
TRANSLATION INTO
US $
(UNAUDITED)
Revenues:
Global IT Services and Products
Services ......................................... Rs. 10,206,078 Rs. 17,670,426 Rs. 21,456,945 $ 439,421
Products ......................................... -- -- 955,281 19,563
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products
Services ......................................... 1,512,717 1,872,703 1,913,547 39,188
Products ......................................... 6,576,580 6,771,347 5,036,948 103,153
Consumer Care and Lighting ........................... 3,151,116 3,143,537 2,938,630 60,181
Others ............................................... 1,380,583 1,328,915 1,680,138 34,408
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Total ............................................ 22,827,074 30,786,928 33,981,489 695,914
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Cost of revenues:
Global IT Services and Products
Services ......................................... 6,219,980 9,204,649 11,505,827 235,630
Products ......................................... -- -- 890,730 18,241
India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products
Services ......................................... 900,934 984,307 862,628 17,666
Products ......................................... 5,640,228 5,456,545 4,233,847 86,706
Consumer Care and Lighting ........................... 2,251,238 2,215,349 2,021,080 41,390
Others ............................................... 1,070,031 961,779 1,354,189 27,733
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Total ............................................ 16,082,411 18,822,629 20,868,301 427,366
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Gross profit ............................................. 6,744,663 11,964,299 13,113,188 268,548
Operating expenses:
Selling, general, and administrative
expenses ....................................... (3,251,298) (4,835,095) (4,873,326) (99,802)
Research and development expenses ................ -- -- (126,930) (2,599)
Amortization of goodwill ......................... (1,000) (45,389) (175,567) (3,595)
Foreign exchange gains, net ...................... 51,603 120,226 218,968 4,484
Others, net ...................................... 73,219 348,918 158,474 3,245
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Operating income ......................................... 3,617,187 7,552,959 8,314,807 170,281
Gain on sale of stock of affiliate, including
direct issue of stock by affiliate (Note 13) ......... 412,144 -- -- --
Other income/(expense), net (Note 19) .................... (283,627) 86,847 838,839 17,179
Income taxes (Note 21) ................................... (525,298) (1,150,042) (970,746) (19,880)
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Income before share of equity in earnings of
affiliates ........................................... 3,220,406 6,489,764 8,182,900 167,579
Equity in earnings of affiliates (Note 13) ............... 112,590 (53,181) 147,078 3,012
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Income from continuing operations ........................ 3,332,996 6,436,583 8,329,978 170,591
Discontinued operations (Note 3)
Income tax benefit on sale of interest ............... 218,707 77,735 -- --
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Income before cumulative effect of accounting
change ............................................... 3,551,703 6,514,318 8,329,978 170,591
Cumulative effect of accounting change, net of tax ....... -- (59,104) -- --
-------------- -------------- -------------- ------------
Net income ....................................... Rs. 3,551,703 Rs. 6,455,214 Rs. 8,329,978 $ 170,591
============== ============== ============== ============
Earnings per equity share: Basic
Continuing operations ................................ 14.63 28.07 36.04 0.74
Discontinued operations .............................. 0.96 0.34 -- --
Cumulative effect of accounting change ............... -- (0.26) -- --
Net income ........................................... 15.59 28.15 36.04 0.74
Earnings per equity share: Diluted
Continuing operations ................................ 14.58 27.83 35.98 0.74
Discontinued operations .............................. 0.96 0.34 -- --
Cumulative effect of accounting change ............... -- (0.26) -- --
Net income ........................................... 15.54 27.91 35.98 0.74
Weighted average number of equity shares used in
computing earnings per equity share:
Basic ................................................ 227,843,378 229,325,989 231,132,500 231,132,500
Diluted .............................................. 228,648,134 231,254,523 231,534,876 231,534,876
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
Equity Shares Additional
---------------------------- Paid in Deferred Stock Comprehensive
No. of Shares Amount Capital Compensation Income
-------------- ----------- ------------- -------------- -------------
Balance as of March 31, 1999 ................ 229,156,350 Rs. 458,313 Rs. 182,562 Rs. (154,348) Rs. --
Cash dividends paid ......................... -- -- -- -- --
Shares issued by Trust, net of
forfeitures ............................ -- -- -- -- --
Sales of shares by Trust .................... -- -- 466,768 -- --
Compensation related to employee
stock incentive plan, net of
reversals .............................. -- -- 150,908 (150,908) --
Amortization of compensation
related to employee stock
incentive plan ......................... -- -- -- 96,898 --
Comprehensive income
Net income ............................. -- -- -- -- Rs. 3,551,703
Other comprehensive income
Unrealized gain/(loss) on
investment securities, net ....... -- -- -- -- (1,024)
-------------
Comprehensive income ........................ Rs. 3,550,679
=============
Balance as of March 31, 2000 ................ 229,156,350 458,313 800,238 (208,358) --
------------- ------------ ------------- ------------
Cash dividends paid ......................... -- -- -- -- --
Common stock issued ......................... 3,162,500 6,325 5,796,449 -- --
Shares forfeited, net of issuances
by Trust ............................... -- -- -- -- --
Issuance of equity shares on
exercise of options .................... 114,169 228 123,759 -- --
Compensation related to employee
stock incentive plan, net of
reversals .............................. -- -- (24,151) 24,151 --
Amortisation of compensation related
to employee stock incentive plan ....... -- -- -- 87,160 --
Comprehensive income
Net income ............................. -- -- -- -- Rs. 6,455,214
Other comprehensive income
Unrealized gain/(loss) on
investment securities, net ....... -- -- -- -- (341)
-------------
Comprehensive income ........................ Rs. 6,454,873
=============
Balance as of March 31, 2001 ............... 232,433,019 464,866 6,696,295 (97,047)
------------- ------------ ------------- ------------
Cash dividends paid ......................... -- -- -- -- --
Shares forfeited, net of issuances
by Trust ............................... -- -- -- -- --
Issuance of equity shares on exercise
of options ............................. 32,670 66 35,414 -- --
Net reversal of compensation related
to employee stock incentive plan ....... -- -- (14,480) 2,362 --
Amortization of compensation related
to employee stock incentive plan ....... -- -- -- 90,841 --
Income tax benefit arising on exercise
of stock options ....................... -- -- 10,577 -- --
Comprehensive income
Net income ............................. -- -- -- -- Rs. 8,329,978
Other comprehensive income
Unrealized, gain/(loss) on
investment securities, net ....... -- -- -- -- 50,430
-------------
Comprehensive income ........................ Rs. 8,380,408
=============
Balance as of March 31, 2002 ................ 232,465,689 Rs. 464,932 Rs. 6,727,806 Rs. (3,844)
------------- ------------ ------------- ------------
Balance as of March 31, 2002 Convenience
translation US $ (unaudited) ........... $ 9,521 $ 137,780 $ (79)
============ ============= ============
Accumulated Equity Shares held by a
Other Controlled Trust Total
Comprehensive Retained ---------------------------- Stockholders'
Income Earnings No. of Shares Amount Equity
-------------- -------------- ------------- ------------- --------------
Balance as of March 31, 1999 ................ Rs. 2,796 Rs. 2,158,969 (1,409,485) Rs. (68) Rs. 2,648,224
Cash dividends paid ......................... -- (75,622) -- -- (75,622)
Shares issued by Trust, net of
forfeitures ............................ -- -- 138,280 (10) (10)
Sales of shares by Trust .................... -- -- 54,745 3 466,771
Compensation related to employee
stock incentive plan, net of
reversals .............................. -- -- -- -- --
Amortization of compensation
related to employee stock
incentive plan ......................... -- -- -- -- 96,898
Comprehensive income
Net income ............................. -- 3,551,703 -- -- 3,551,703
Other comprehensive income
Unrealized gain/(loss) on
investment securities, net ....... (1,024) -- -- -- (1,024)
Comprehensive income ........................
Balance as of March 31, 2000 ................ 1,772 5,635,050 (1,216,460) (75) 6,686,940
-------------- -------------- ------------ ------------- --------------
Cash dividends paid ......................... -- (75,121) -- -- (75,121)
Common stock issued ......................... -- -- -- -- 5,802,774
Shares forfeited, net of issuances
by Trust ............................... -- -- (64,425) -- --
Issuance of equity shares on
exercise of options .................... -- -- -- -- 123,987
Compensation related to employee
stock incentive plan, net of
reversals .............................. -- -- -- -- --
Amortisation of compensation related
to employee stock incentive plan ....... -- -- -- -- 87,160
Comprehensive income
Net income ............................. -- 6,455,214 -- -- 6,455,214
Other comprehensive income
Unrealized gain/(loss) on
investment securities, net ....... (341) -- -- -- (341)
Comprehensive income ........................
Balance as of March 31, 2001 ............... 1,431 12,015,143 (1,280,885) (75) 19,080,613
-------------- -------------- ------------ ------------- --------------
Cash dividends paid ......................... -- (128,534) -- -- (128,534)
Shares forfeited, net of issuances
by Trust ............................... -- -- (40,450) -- --
Issuance of equity shares on exercise
of options ............................. -- -- -- -- 35,480
Net reversal of compensation related
to employee stock incentive plan ....... -- -- -- -- (12,118)
Amortization of compensation related
to employee stock incentive plan ....... -- -- -- -- 90,841
Income tax benefit arising on exercise
of stock options ....................... -- -- -- -- 10,577
Comprehensive income
Net income ............................. -- 8,329,978 -- -- 8,329,978
Other comprehensive income
Unrealized, gain/(loss) on
investment securities, net ....... 50,430 -- -- -- 50,430
Comprehensive income ........................
Balance as of March 31, 2002 ................ Rs. 51,861 Rs. 20,216,587 (1,321,335) Rs. (75) Rs. 27,457,267
-------------- -------------- ------------ ------------- --------------
Balance as of March 31, 2002 Convenience
translation US $ (unaudited) ........... $ 1,062 $ 414,020 $ (2) $ 562,303
============== ============== ============= ==============
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002 2002
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CONVENIENCE
TRANSLATION INTO
US $
(UNAUDITED)
Cash flows from operating activities:
Income from continuing operations .................... Rs. 3,332,996 Rs. 6,436,583 Rs. 8,329,978 $ 170,591
Adjustments to reconcile income from
continuing operations to net cash
provided by operating activities:
Cumulative effect of accounting
change, net of tax ................................ -- (59,104) -- --
Loss/(gain) on sale of property, plant
and equipment ................................... 22,944 (154,457) (26,003) (533)
Depreciation and amortization ..................... 738,723 1,037,119 1,588,489 32,531
Non-cash interest expense on long-term
debt ............................................ 34,176 148,864 -- --
Deferred tax charge ............................... 166,488 (41,389) 56,403 1,155
Gain on sale of investment securities ............. (681) -- (201,536) (4,127)
Gain on sale of stock of affiliate,
including direct issue of stock by
affiliate ....................................... (412,144) -- -- --
Amortization of deferred stock
compensation .................................... 96,898 87,160 78,723 1,612
Undistributed equity in earnings of
affiliates ...................................... (97,890) 85,030 (141,982) (2,908)
Other non-cash items .............................. -- -- (96,000) (1,966)
Income tax benefit arising on exercise
of stock options ................................ -- -- 10,577 217
Changes in operating assets and
liabilities:
Accounts receivable ........................... (858,439) (1,758,562) (102,618) (2,102)
Costs and earnings in excess of billings
on contracts in progress .................... (9,396) (55,938) (944,461) (19,342)
Inventories ................................... 237,965 (517,963) 64,951 1,330
Other assets .................................. (221,384) (1,564,562) (1,166,691) (23,893)
Accounts payable .............................. (523,951) 549,826 391,657 8,021
Accrued expenses .............................. 622,528 404,784 44,258 906
Advances from customers ....................... 216,820 201,316 150,136 3,075
Other liabilities ............................. 169,633 12,664 26,295 539
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Net cash provided by continuing
operations ......................................... 3,515,286 4,811,371 8,062,176 165,107
Net cash provided by discontinued
operations ......................................... -- 77,735 -- --
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Net cash provided by operating
activities ......................................... 3,515,286 4,889,106 8,062,176 165,107
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002 2002
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CONVENIENCE
TRANSLATION INTO
US $
(UNAUDITED)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Expenditure on property, plant and
equipment ................................... (1,317,958) (2,626,273) (2,484,863) (50,888)
Proceeds from sale of property, plant
and equipment ............................... 32,333 226,054 307,501 6,297
Funding of discontinued operations ............ (855,793) -- -- --
Purchase of minority interest, net of
cash acquired ............................... (67,500) (1,083,450) -- --
Investments in affiliate ...................... -- (72,967) -- --
Proceeds from sale of investments in affiliates 153,128 -- -- --
Proceeds from sale of assets of the
peripherals division ........................ -- 156,280 -- --
Purchase of investment securities ............. (833,622) (2,469,807) (9,759,309) (199,863)
Proceeds from sale and maturities of
investment securities ......................... 95,974 174,000 7,198,754 147,425
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Net cash used in investing activities ......... (2,793,438) (5,696,163) (4,737,917) (97,029)
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Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from issuance of common stock ........ -- 5,926,761 35,480 727
Proceeds from/(repayments of) short-term
borrowing from banks, net ................... (1,688,043) 232,846 (164,390) (3,367)
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt ...... 976,043 -- -- --
Repayment of long-term debt ................... (755,049) (188,351) (1,312,465) (26,878)
Sale of shares by Trust ....................... 466,771 -- -- --
Redemption of preferred stock ................. -- (250,000) -- --
Proceeds from issuance of common stock
by a subsidiary/affiliate ................... 502,345 -- -- --
Payment of cash dividends ..................... (75,622) (75,121) (128,365) (2,629)
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Net cash provided by/(used in)
financing activities ........................ (573,555) 5,646,135 (1,569,740) (32,147)
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Effect of de-consolidation of a subsidiary on
cash and cash equivalents ................... (1,943) -- -- --
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Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
during the year ............................. 146,350 4,839,078 1,754,519 35,931
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning
of the year ................................. 637,253 783,603 5,622,681 115,148
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Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the
year ........................................ Rs. 783,603 Rs. 5,622,681 Rs. 7,377,200 $ 151,079
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Supplementary information:
Cash paid for interest ........................ Rs. 335,545 Rs. 69,844 Rs. 69,826 $ 1,430
Cash paid for taxes ........................... 221,233 1,120,889 1,251,346 25,627
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA AND WHERE OTHERWISE STATED)
1. OVERVIEW
Wipro Limited (Wipro), together with its subsidiaries Wipro Inc.,
EnThink Inc., Wipro Prosper Limited, Wipro Welfare Limited, Wipro Trademarks
Holdings Limited, Wipro Net Limited, Wipro Japan KK, Netkracker Limited and
affiliates Wipro ePeripherals Limited and Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited
(collectively, the Company) is a leading India based provider of IT services and
products globally. Further, Wipro has other businesses such as India and AsiaPac
IT Services and Products, Consumer Care and Lighting and Healthcare systems.
Wipro is headquartered in Bangalore, India.
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of
assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses and disclosure of contingent
assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
Basis of preparation of financial statements. The accompanying
consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Functional currency. The functional and reporting currency of the
Company is the Indian rupee as a significant portion of the Company's activities
are conducted in India.
Convenience translation. The accompanying financial statements have been
prepared in Indian rupees, the national currency of India. Solely for the
convenience of the readers, the financial statements as of and for the year
ended March 31, 2002 have been translated into United States dollars at the noon
buying rate in New York City on March 29, 2002, for cable transfers in Indian
rupees, as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York of $ 1 = Rs. 48.83. No representation is made that the Indian rupee amounts
have been, could have been or could be converted into United States dollars at
such a rate or any other rate.
Principles of consolidation. The consolidated financial statements
include the financial statements of Wipro and all of its subsidiaries, which are
more than 50% owned and controlled. All material inter-company accounts and
transactions are eliminated on consolidation. The Company accounts for
investments by the equity method where its investment in the voting stock gives
it the ability to exercise significant influence over the investee.
Cash equivalents. The Company considers all highly liquid investments
with remaining maturities, at the date of purchase/investment, of three months
or less to be cash equivalents.
Revenue recognition. Revenues from software development services
comprise income from time-and-material and fixed-price contracts. Revenue with
respect to time-and-material contracts is recognized as related services are
performed. Revenue with respect to fixed-price contracts is recognized in
accordance with the percentage of completion method of accounting. Provisions
for estimated losses on contracts-in-progress are recorded in the period in
which such losses become probable based on the current contract estimates.
Maintenance revenue is deferred and recognized ratably over the term of the
agreement. Revenue from customer training, support, and other services is
recognized as the related service is performed. Revenue from sale of goods is
recognized, in accordance with the sales contract, on dispatch from the
factories/warehouses of the Company, except for contracts where a customer is
not obligated to pay a portion of contract price allocable to the goods until
installation or similar service has been completed. In these cases, revenue is
recognized on completion of installation. Revenues from multiple-element
arrangements are allocated among separate elements based on the fair value of
each element. When the Company receives advance payments from customers for sale
of products or provision of services, such payments are reported as advances
from customers until all conditions for revenue recognition are met. Revenues
from product sales are shown net of excise duty, sales tax and applicable
discounts and allowances.
Effective April 1, 2001, the Company adopted EITF 00-14: Accounting for
Certain Sales Incentives, EITF 00-22: Accounting for Points and Certain Other
Time-based or Volume-based sales, Incentive Offers and Offers for Free Products
or Services to be Delivered in the Future and EITF 00-25: Vendor Income
Statement Characterisation of Consideration from a Vendor to a Retailer.
Reported data for previous periods have been reclassified to make it comparable
with the current presentation. These reclassifications had no impact on reported
net income.
Shipping and handling costs. Shipping and handling costs are included in
selling, general and administrative expenses.
Inventories. Inventories are stated at the lower of cost and market.
Cost is determined using the weighted average method for all categories of
inventories.
Investment securities. The Company classifies its debt and equity
securities in one of the three categories: trading, held-to-maturity or
available-for-sale, at the time of purchase and re-evaluates such
classifications as of each balance sheet date. Trading and available-for-sale
securities are recorded at fair value. Held-to-maturity securities are recorded
at amortized cost, adjusted for the amortization or accretion of premiums or
discounts. Unrealized holding gains and losses on trading securities are
included in income.
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Temporary unrealized holding gains and losses, net of the related tax effect, on
available-for-sale securities are excluded from income and are reported as a
separate component of stockholders' equity until realized. Realized gains and
losses from the sale of available-for-sale securities are determined on a
specific identification basis and are included in income. A decline in the fair
value of any available-for-sale or held-to-maturity security below cost that is
deemed to be other than temporary results in a reduction in carrying amount to
fair value. Fair value is based on quoted market prices. Non-readily marketable
equity securities for which there is no readily determinable fair value are
recorded at cost, subject to an impairment charge for any other than temporary
decline in value. The impairment is charged to income.
Investments in affiliates. The Company's equity in the earnings of
affiliates is included in the statement of income and the Company's share of net
assets of affiliates is included in the balance sheet.
Shares issued by subsidiary/affiliate. The issuance of stock by a
subsidiary/affiliate to third parties reduces the proportionate ownership
interest in the investee. Unless the issuance of such stock is part of a broader
corporate reorganization or unless realization is not assured, the Company
recognizes a gain or loss, equal to the difference between the issuance price
per share and the Company's carrying amount per share. Such gain or loss is
recognized in the statement of income when the transaction occurs.
Property, plant and equipment. Property, plant and equipment are stated
at cost. The Company depreciates property, plant and equipment over the
estimated useful life using the straight-line method. Assets under capital lease
are amortized over their estimated useful life or the lease term, as
appropriate. The estimated useful lives of assets are as follows:
Buildings .............................. 30 to 60 years
Plant and machinery .................... 2 to 21 years
Furniture, fixtures and equipment....... 2 to 5 years
Vehicles ............................... 4 years
Computer software ...................... 2 years
Software for internal use is primarily acquired from third-party vendors
and is in ready to use condition. Costs for acquiring this software are
capitalized and subsequent costs are charged to the statement of income. The
capitalized costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated
useful life of the software. Deposits paid towards the acquisition of property,
plant and equipment outstanding as of each balance sheet date and the cost of
property, plant and equipment not ready for use before such date are disclosed
under capital work-in-progress. The interest cost incurred for funding an asset
during its construction period is capitalized based on the actual investment in
the asset and the average cost of funds. The capitalized interest is included in
the cost of the relevant asset and is depreciated over the estimated useful life
of the asset.
Intangible assets. The Company records as assets, costs incurred on
assets which are of enduring value at the consideration paid for it and
amortizes the cost by systematic charges to income over the period estimated to
be benefited. Goodwill resulting from acquisitions is reported as an intangible
asset and amortized over a period of five years.
Start-up costs. Cost of start-up activities including organization costs
are expensed as incurred.
Research and development. Revenue expenditure on research and
development is expensed as incurred. Capital expenditure incurred on equipment
and facilities that are acquired or constructed for research and development
activities and having alternative future uses, is capitalized as tangible assets
when acquired or constructed. Software product development costs are expensed as
incurred until technological feasibility is achieved.
Impairment of long-lived assets and long-lived assets to be disposed of.
In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 121,
Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to
be Disposed Of, long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangibles are
reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate
that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of
assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of
an asset to future net undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by the
asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be
recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets
exceeds the fair value of the assets. Assets to be disposed of are reported at
the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell.
Foreign currency transactions. The functional and reporting currency of
the Company is the Indian rupee. Foreign currency transactions are translated
into Indian rupees at the rates of exchange prevailing on the date of the
respective transactions. Assets and liabilities in foreign currency are
translated into Indian rupees at the exchange rate prevailing on the balance
sheet date. The resulting exchange gains/losses are included in the statement of
income.
Earnings per share. In accordance with SFAS No. 128, Earnings Per Share,
basic earnings per share is computed using the weighted average number of common
shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed
using the
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weighted average number of common and dilutive common equivalent shares
outstanding during the period, using the treasury stock method for options and
warrants, except where the results would be antidilutive.
Income taxes. Income taxes are accounted for using the asset and
liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the
future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial
statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their
respective tax bases and operating loss carry-forwards. Deferred tax assets and
liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be
recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a
change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the
enactment date. The measurement of deferred tax assets is reduced, if necessary,
by a valuation allowance for any tax benefits of which future realization is
uncertain.
Stock-based compensation. The Company uses the intrinsic value based
method of Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25 to account for its
employee stock based compensation plans. The Company has therefore adopted the
pro forma disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-based
Compensation.
Accounting change. Effective January 1, 2001, the Company adopted the
provisions of Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101 (SAB 101) issued by the
Securities and Exchange Commission, which provides guidelines in applying
generally accepted accounting principles to selected revenue recognition issues.
Accordingly, the Company changed its policy to recognize revenues from sale of
goods only on completion of installation. Prior to the adoption of SAB 101,
revenues were recognized on dispatch to the customer with an appropriate
provision for costs of installation.
The initial adoption resulted in a cumulative catch up adjustment of Rs.
59,104, which is recorded as a charge to income in fiscal 2001. The effect of
this change in accounting principle on net income of fiscal 2001 is immaterial.
Similarly, the effect of the change on net income of fiscal 2000 is immaterial.
The cumulative effect of the change on retained earnings at the beginning of
fiscal 2001 is included in the restated net income of the year ended March 31,
2001. Revenues for the year ended March 31, 2001 include an amount of Rs.
701,455 as a result of the cumulative effect adjustment.
Derivatives and hedge accounting. On April 1, 2001, Wipro adopted SFAS
No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities as
amended, when the rules became effective for companies with fiscal year ending
March 31.
The Company enters into forward foreign exchange contracts where the
counterparty is generally a bank. The Company purchases forward foreign exchange
contracts to mitigate the risk of changes in foreign exchange rates on accounts
receivable and forecasted cash flows denominated in certain foreign currencies.
Although these contracts are effective as hedges from an economic perspective,
they do not qualify for hedge accounting under SFAS No. 133, as amended. Any
derivative that is either not designated as a hedge, or is so designated but is
ineffective per SFAS No. 133, is marked to market and recognized in income
immediately. No initial transition adjustments were required to adopt SFAS No.
133.
Recent accounting pronouncements. In June 2001, the Financial Accounting
Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations, and SFAS No.
142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. SFAS No. 141 requires that the
purchase method of accounting be used for all business combinations initiated
after June 30, 2001 as well as all purchase method business combinations
completed after June 30, 2001. SFAS No. 141 also specifies the criteria
intangible assets acquired in a purchase method business combination must meet
to be recognized and reported apart from goodwill, noting that any purchase
price allocated to an assembled workforce may not be accounted for separately.
SFAS No. 142 will require that goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite
useful lives no longer be amortized, but instead be tested for impairment at
least annually in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 142. SFAS No. 142
will also require that intangible assets with definite useful lives be amortized
over their respective estimated useful lives to their estimated residual values
and reviewed for impairment in accordance with SFAS No. 121 and SFAS No. 144.
Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.
The Company is required to adopt the provisions of SFAS No. 141
immediately, and SFAS No. 142 effective April 1, 2002. Furthermore, any goodwill
and any intangible assets determined to have an indefinite useful life that are
acquired in a purchase business combination completed after June 30, 2001, will
not be amortized, but will continue to be evaluated for impairment in accordance
with the relevant accounting literature that is applicable until the adoption of
SFAS No. 142. Goodwill and intangible assets acquired in business combinations
completed before July 1, 2001, will continue to be amortized prior to the
adoption of SFAS No. 142.
Upon adoption of SFAS No. 142, SFAS No. 141 will require the Company to
evaluate its existing intangible assets and goodwill that were acquired in prior
purchase business combinations, and to make any necessary reclassifications in
order to conform with the new criteria in SFAS No. 141 for recognition apart
from goodwill. Upon adoption of SFAS No. 142, the Company will be required to
reassess the useful lives and residual values of all intangible assets acquired
in purchase business combinations, and make any necessary amortization period
adjustments by the end of the first interim period after adoption. In addition,
to the extent an intangible asset is identified as having an indefinite useful
life, the Company will be required to test the intangible asset for impairment
in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 142 within the first interim
period. Any impairment loss will be measured as of the date of adoption and
recognized as the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle in the
first interim period.
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In connection with the transitional goodwill impairment evaluation, SFAS
No. 142 will require the Company to perform an assessment of whether there is an
indication that goodwill is impaired as of the date of adoption. To accomplish
this the Company must identify its reporting units and determine the carrying
value of each reporting unit by assigning the assets and liabilities, including
the existing goodwill and intangible assets, to those reporting units as of the
date of adoption. The Company will then have up to six months from the date of
adoption to determine the fair value of each reporting unit and compare it to
the reporting unit's carrying amount. To the extent a reporting unit's carrying
amount exceeds its fair value, an indication exists that the reporting unit's
goodwill may be impaired and the Company must perform the second step of the
transitional impairment test. In the second step, the Company must compare the
implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill, determined by allocating
the reporting unit's fair value to all of its assets (recognized and
unrecognized) and liabilities in a manner similar to a purchase price allocation
in accordance with SFAS No. 141, to its carrying amount, both of which must be
measured as of the date of adoption. This second step is required to be
completed as soon as possible, but no later than the end of the year of
adoption. Any transitional impairment loss will be recognized as the cumulative
effect of a change in accounting principle in the Company's statement of income.
As of the date of adoption, the Company will have unamortized goodwill
in the amount of Rs. 656,240, which will be subject to the transition provisions
of SFAS Nos. 141 and 142. Amortization expense related to goodwill was Rs.
1,000, Rs. 45,389 and Rs. 175,567 for the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and
2002, respectively. Adoption of SFAS Nos. 141 and 142, will not have a
significant impact on the financial statements of the Company.
In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 143, Accounting for Asset
Retirement Obligations. SFAS No. 143 requires entities to record the fair value
of a liability for an asset retirement obligation in the period in which it is
incurred. When the liability is initially recorded, the entity capitalizes a
cost by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. Over
time, the liability is accreted to its present value each period, and the
capitalized cost is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. Upon
settlement of the liability, an entity either settles the obligation for its
recorded amount or incurs a gain or loss upon settlement. The standard is
effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2002.
In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 144, which requires that
specified long-lived assets be measured at the lower of carrying amount or fair
value less cost to sell, whether reported in continuing operations or in
discontinued operations. Under SFAS No. 144, discontinued operations will no
longer be measured at net realizable value or include amounts for operating
losses that have not yet been incurred. The provisions of SFAS No. 144 are
effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2001.
Adoption of SFAS Nos. 143 and 144, will not have a significant impact on
the financial statements of the Company.
Reclassifications. Certain reclassifications have been made to conform
prior period data to the current presentation. These reclassifications had no
effect on reported income.
3. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
The Company was involved in the financial services business through
Wipro Finance, a majority owned subsidiary. The Company, for strategic reasons,
decided to concentrate on its core businesses and as a result, in March 1999,
the Company decided to exit the financial services business and approved a
formal plan for winding down the operations of this business. Under the plan,
Wipro Finance will not accept any new business and the existing assets and
liabilities would be liquidated as per their contractual terms.
In December 1999, the Company sold 50% of its interest in Wipro Finance
to certain investors for a nominal amount. Subsequent to the sale, the Company
did not have a controlling interest in Wipro Finance. The financial statements
of Wipro Finance were not consolidated for the year ended March 31, 2000. In
fiscal 2001, the Company sold the balance 50% interest in Wipro Finance for a
nominal amount. The tax benefit of Rs. 218,707 and Rs. 77,735 arising on the
sales has been reported separately as a component of discontinued operations in
fiscal 2000 and 2001, respectively.
4. CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
Cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2001 and 2002 comprise of
cash, cash on deposit with banks and highly liquid money market instruments.
5. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
Accounts receivable as of March 31, 2001 and 2002 are stated net of
allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful
accounts based on present and prospective financial condition of its customers
and aging of the accounts receivable. Accounts receivable are generally not
collateralized.
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The activity in the allowance for doubtful accounts receivable is given
below:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Balance at the beginning of the period ..... Rs. 277,841 Rs. 196,602 Rs. 297,884
Additional provision during the period ..... 299,122 212,990 250,867
Bad debts charged to provision ............. (380,361) (111,708) (57,107)
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Balance at the end of the period ........... Rs. 196,602 Rs. 297,884 Rs. 491,644
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6. INVENTORIES
Inventories consist of the following:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Stores and spare parts ..................... Rs. 44,689 Rs. 31,425
Raw materials and components ............... 483,807 453,018
Work-in-process ............................ 101,932 84,722
Finished goods ............................. 836,669 832,981
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Rs. 1,467,097 Rs. 1,402,146
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Finished goods as of March 31, 2001 and 2002 include inventory of Rs.
340,124 and Rs. 467,546, respectively, with customers pending installation.
7. OTHER ASSETS
Other assets consist of the following:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Prepaid expenses ........................... Rs. 757,893 Rs. 748,142
Advances to suppliers ...................... 173,390 68,917
Balances with statutory authorities ........ 114,234 38,821
Deposits ................................... 533,684 533,247
Inter-corporate deposits
GE Capital Services India .............. 367,500 819,891
ICICI Limited .......................... 684,500 1,245,200
Advance income taxes ....................... -- 311,257
Others ..................................... 444,144 463,917
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3,075,345 4,229,392
Less: Current assets ....................... 2,356,261 3,481,308
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Rs. 719,084 Rs. 748,084
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Debt securities, held-to-maturity as of March 31, 2002, mature between
one through three years.
Dividends from available-for-sale securities during the years ended
March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002 were Rs. 22, Rs. 14 and Rs. 36, respectively, and
are included in other income.
In October 2001, the Company acquired a 17% equity interest in
Spectramind eServices Private Limited (Spectramind) for a consideration of Rs.
144,300. Additionally, the Company acquired non-voting convertible preference
shares of Rs. 215,700. The convertible preference shares shall be converted to
equity at a conversion ratio of 0.3234 equity share per convertible preference
share, on occurrence of any of the events specified in the shareholders
agreement. These events are liquidation of Spectramind, initial public offering
by Spectramind and valuation of Spectramind reaching specified levels based on a
fresh issue of equity shares by Spectramind or sale of shares by existing
shareholders. If any of these events do not occur within 18 months from the date
of investment, the convertible preference shares shall be converted on expiry of
the period. The current voting equity interest of Wipro does not give it the
ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial
policies of Spectramind. As the equity securities do not have a readily
determinable fair value, such investments are recorded at cost, subject to an
impairment charge for any other than temporary decline in value.
9. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
Property, plant and equipment consist of the following:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Land .......................................... Rs. 201,253 Rs. 370,079
Buildings ..................................... 1,173,134 1,585,515
Plant and machinery ........................... 4,806,457 5,469,300
Furniture, fixtures, and equipment ............ 1,038,276 1,264,870
Vehicles ...................................... 322,534 420,843
Computer software for internal use ............ 542,009 742,305
Capital work-in-progress ...................... 801,218 1,116,082
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8,884,881 10,968,994
Accumulated depreciation and amortization ..... (3,405,556) (4,707,137)
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Rs. 5,479,325 Rs. 6,261,857
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Depreciation expense for the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002,
is Rs. 734,473, Rs. 991,262 and Rs. 1,411,291, respectively. This includes Rs.
53,261, Rs. 140,624 and Rs. 204,492 as amortization of capitalized internal use
software, during the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002, respectively.
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10. INTANGIBLE ASSETS
In October 1999, the Company acquired the 45% minority interest in Wipro
Computers Limited for a consideration of Rs. 67,500. The acquisition resulted in
goodwill of Rs. 10,500. In December 2000, the Company acquired the 45% minority
interest held by the KPN Group in Wipro Net Limited for a consideration of Rs.
1,087,216. The acquisition resulted in goodwill of Rs. 867,786. Goodwill is
amortized over a period of 5 years. As of March 31, 2002, the carrying value of
the goodwill is Rs. 656,240.
11. OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES
Other current liabilities consist of the following:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Statutory dues payable .......... Rs. 352,328 Rs. 357,822
Taxes payable ................... 71,534 72,707
Others .......................... 69,685 63,421
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Rs. 493,547 Rs. 493,950
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12. OPERATING LEASES
The Company leases office and residential facilities under cancelable
operating lease agreements that are renewable on a periodic basis at the option
of both the lessor and the lessee. Rental expense under such leases was Rs.
237,693, Rs. 277,018 and Rs. 320,029 for the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001
and 2002, respectively.
Prepaid expenses as of March 31, 2001 and 2002 include Rs. 187,720 and
Rs. 214,838, respectively, being prepaid operating lease rentals for land
obtained on lease for a period of 60 years. The prepaid expense is being charged
over the lease term.
13. INVESTMENTS IN AFFILIATES
Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd. (Wipro GE). The Company has accounted for
its 49% interest in Wipro GE by the equity method. The carrying value of the
investment in Wipro GE as of March 31, 2001 and 2002, was Rs. 586,749 and Rs.
820,849, respectively. The Company's equity in the income of Wipro GE for the
years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002, was Rs. 138,749, Rs. 184,315 and Rs.
234,100, respectively.
Wipro Net Ltd. Until December 1999, Wipro Net was a 100% subsidiary of
the Company. In December 1999, the Company diluted its interest in Wipro Net to
55% through a sale of shares and direct issuance of shares by Wipro Net. The
resultant gain was recorded in the income statement. As the minority
shareholders of Wipro Net had significant participating rights, Wipro Net was
accounted for by equity method subsequent to the dilution. In December 2000, the
Company acquired the 45% minority interest in Wipro Net. In May 2001, Wipro
decided to legally re-organize the operations of Wipro Net whereby Wipro Net
would be merged with Wipro. The merger was completed in April 2002 after
obtaining regulatory approvals.
The carrying value of the investment in Wipro Net as of March 31, 2000
was Rs. 270,586. The Company's equity in the loss of Wipro Net for the year
ended March 31, 2000 and 2001, was Rs. 26,159 and Rs. 135,893 respectively.
Netkracker Ltd. In December 2000, the Company established Netkracker by
transferring its retail internet business. A strategic investor acquired a 51%
equity interest in the entity with Wipro retaining the balance 49%.
Additionally, Wipro acquired convertible preference shares in Netkracker. The
carrying value of the investment in Netkracker as of March 31, 2001 was Rs.
44,054. The Company's equity in the loss of Netkracker for the year ended March
31, 2001, was Rs. 112,133.
During the year ended March 31, 2002, the Company recorded equity method
losses of Rs. 110,698, which reduced the carrying value of the equity interest
and other investments to zero.
In March 2002, Wipro and the strategic investor entered into certain
agreements whereby the convertible preference shares were converted to common
stock increasing Wipro's equity interest from 49% to 79%. Additionally, Wipro
would acquire 19% equity interest in Netkracker from the strategic investor for
a cash consideration of Rs. 30,000 and a contingent consideration that is
payable on occurrence of specified events. The Company has determined that the
events that trigger contingent payments are within its control and no contingent
consideration will be payable under the arrangement.
The transaction has been accounted for as a purchase business
combination. Prior to the acquisition, Netkracker had a deferred tax asset of
Rs. 135,000 for carry-forward business losses, for which a valuation allowance
had been established due to the significant uncertainty on realization on a
standalone basis. Subsequent to the acquisition, Wipro will fully utilize the
benefit of the carry-forward business losses and accordingly the valuation
allowance has been reversed. The amounts assigned to the net assets of
Netkracker exceed the cost of acquisition. This excess was initially used to
reduce the amounts allocable to certain eligible assets and the remaining excess
of Rs. 96,000 is reported as a component of other income. As the remaining
excess is not material it is not reported as an extraordinary gain.
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Wipro ePeripherals. On September 1, 2000, the computer peripherals
division of Wipro was spun-off into a separate legal entity, Wipro ePeripherals.
In consideration of the transfer, Wipro received a 38.7% equity interest in the
new entity, 12.5% non-convertible debentures and cash. Wipro ePeripherals issued
61.3% of its equity to strategic investors and employees for cash. Shares were
issued to Wipro and the new investors at the par value of Rs. 10. Wipro accounts
for its 38.7% interest by the equity method. In March 2002, Wipro ePeripherals
issued additional equity shares to certain investors, which resulted in dilution
of Wipro's interest to 33.8%. The impact of this issuance on the carrying value
of the investment was not material.
The carrying value of the investment in Wipro ePeripherals as of March
31, 2001 and 2002 was Rs. 58,890 and Rs. 77,470, respectively. The Company's
equity in the income of Wipro ePeripherals for the year ended March 31, 2001 and
2002 was Rs. 10,530 and Rs. 23,676 respectively.
14. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND CONCENTRATION OF RISK
Concentration of risk. Financial instruments that potentially subject
the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash
equivalents, investment securities, accounts receivable and inter-corporate
deposits. The Company's cash resources are invested with financial institutions
and commercial corporations with high investment grade credit ratings. Limits
have been established by the Company as to the maximum amount of cash that may
be invested with any such single entity. To reduce its credit risk, the Company
performs ongoing credit evaluations of customers. No single customer accounted
for 10% or more of the revenues or accounts receivable as of March 31, 2001 and
2002.
Derivative financial instruments. The Company enters into forward
foreign exchange contracts and interest rate swap agreements, where the
counterparty is generally a bank. The Company considers the risks of
non-performance by the counterparty as non-material. The following table
presents the aggregate contracted principal amounts of the Company's derivative
financial instruments outstanding:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Forward contracts ....... $ 39,531,243 (sell) $ 62,845,414 (sell)
Interest rate swaps ..... $ 3,250,000 $ Nil
The foreign forward exchange contracts mature between one to nine
months.
15. BORROWINGS FROM BANKS
The Company has a line of credit of Rs. 2,650,000 from its bankers for
working capital requirements. The line of credit is renewable annually. The
credit bears interest at the prime rate of the bank, which averaged 13.1%,
12.8%, and 12.2% in fiscal 2000, 2001 and 2002, respectively. The facilities are
secured by inventories, accounts receivable and certain property and contain
financial covenants and restrictions on indebtedness.
16. LONG-TERM DEBT
Long-term debt consist of the following:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Foreign currency borrowings ................. Rs. 127,582 Rs. --
Rupee term loans from banks and financial
institutions ................................ 1,245,459 48,200
Others ...................................... 48,186 60,563
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1,421,227 108,763
Less: Current portion ....................... 1,326,196 78,993
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Rs. 95,031 Rs. 29,770
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In December 1999, the Company had transferred an 8% interest in Wipro
Net to a financial institution. Under the terms of the transfer, the Company had
a call option to repurchase the transferred shares at a determinable
consideration. Additionally, the financial institution had a put option to sell
the shares to the Company at a determinable consideration. The Company had
recorded the transfer as a secured borrowing with pledge of collateral. The
principal shareholder of the Company had pledged certain shares held in Wipro to
further secure the borrowing. Interest was imputed at the implicit yield on the
put option. As of March 31, 2001 rupee term loans include Rs. 1,177,259
representing the borrowing. In June 2001, the financial institution exercised
the option resulting in repayment of the borrowing.
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All long-term debt is secured by a specific charge over the property,
plant and equipment of the Company and contains certain financial covenants and
restrictions on indebtedness.
An interest rate profile of the long-term debt is given below:
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Rupee term loans from banks and financial institutions ....... 13.9% 14.2%
A maturity profile of the long-term debt outstanding as of March 31,
2002, is set out below:
Maturing in the year ending March 31:
2003 ............... Rs. 78,993
2004 ............... 28,305
2005 ............... 1,253
2006 ............... 105
Thereafter ......... 107
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Rs. 108,763
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17. EQUITY SHARES AND DIVIDENDS
The Company presently has only one class of equity shares. For all
matters submitted to vote in the shareholders meeting, every holder of equity
shares, as reflected in the records of the Company on the date of the
shareholders meeting shall have one vote in respect of each share held.
In September 1999, the Company effected a five-for-one share split. All
references in the consolidated financial statements to number of shares and per
share amounts of the Company's equity shares have been retroactively restated to
reflect the increased number of equity shares outstanding resulting due to the
share splits.
In October 2000, the Company made a public offering of its American
Depositary Shares, or ADSs, to international investors. The offering consisted
of 3,162,500 ADSs representing 3,162,500 equity shares, at an offering price of
$41.375 per ADS. The equity shares represented by the ADS carry similar rights
as to voting and dividends as the other equity shares.
Should the Company declare and pay dividend, such dividend will be paid
in Indian rupees. Indian law mandates that any dividend, exceeding 10% of the
common stock, can be declared out of distributable profits only after the
transfer of upto 10% of net income computed in accordance with current
regulations to a general reserve. Also, the remittance of dividends outside
India is governed by Indian law on foreign exchange. Dividend payments are also
subject to applicable taxes.
In the event of liquidation of the affairs of the Company, all
preferential amounts, if any, shall be discharged by the Company. The remaining
assets of the Company, after such discharge, shall be distributed to the holders
of equity shares in proportion to the number of shares held by them.
The Company paid cash dividends of Rs. 75,622, Rs. 75,121 and Rs.
128,534 during the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002, respectively. The
dividends per share were Rs. 0.30 during the years ended March 31, 2000 and 2001
and Rs. 0.50 during the year ended March 31, 2002.
18. RETAINED EARNINGS
The Company's retained earnings as of March 31, 2001 and 2002, include
restricted retained earnings of Rs. 274,038 and Rs. 259,538 respectively, which
are not distributable as dividends under Indian company and tax laws. These
relate to requirements regarding earmarking a part of the retained earnings on
redemption of preference shares and to avail specific tax allowances.
Retained earnings as of March 31, 2001 and 2002, also include Rs.
567,126 and Rs. 794,719 respectively, of undistributed earnings in equity of
affiliates.
Rs. 53,980, Rs. 48,000 and Rs. 20,000 of interest has been capitalized
during the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002, respectively.
20. SHIPPING AND HANDLING COSTS
Selling general and administrative expenses for the years ended March
31, 2000, 2001 and 2002, include shipping and handling costs of Rs. 48,570, Rs.
62,200 and Rs. 47,922, respectively.
The reported income tax expense differed from amounts computed by
applying the enacted tax rates to income from continuing operations before
income taxes as a result of the following:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Income from continuing operations before taxes ..... Rs. 3,858,294 Rs. 7,586,625 Rs. 9,300,724
Enacted tax rate in India .......................... 38.5% 39.55% 35.7%
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Computed expected tax expense ...................... 1,485,443 3,000,510 3,320,358
Effect of:
Income exempt from tax in India .................. (1,104,111) (2,388,705) (2,861,967)
Reversal of deferred tax asset on legal
re-organization of subsidiary .................. -- -- 199,512
Others ........................................... (30,954) 135,485 (15,687)
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Domestic income taxes .............................. 350,378 747,290 642,216
Effect of tax on foreign income .................... 174,920 402,752 328,530
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Total income tax expense ........................... Rs. 525,298 Rs. 1,150,042 Rs. 970,746
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Deferred tax assets reported as of March 31, 2001 include Rs. 199,512
being the difference between the tax basis and the amount for financial
reporting of Wipro Net, a domestic subsidiary. The deferred tax asset has been
reversed during the year ended March 31, 2002, on legal re-organization of Wipro
Net as a result of which the benefit of the deferred tax asset will no longer be
available to the Company.
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A substantial portion of the profits of the Company's India operations
are exempt from Indian income taxes being profits attributable to export
operations and profits from undertakings situated in Software Technology and
Hardware Technology Parks. Under the tax holiday, the taxpayer can utilize an
exemption from income taxes for a period of any ten consecutive years. The
Company has opted for this exemption from the year ended March 31, 1997, for
undertakings situated in Software Technology and Hardware Technology Parks.
Profits from certain other undertakings are also eligible for preferential tax
treatment. In addition, dividend income from certain category of investments is
exempt from tax. The aggregate rupee and per share (basic) effects of these tax
exemptions are Rs. 1,104,111 and Rs. 4.85 per share for the year ended March 31,
2000, Rs. 2,388,705 and Rs. 10.42 per share for the year ended March 31, 2001,
Rs. 2,861,967 and Rs. 12.38 per share for the year ended March 31, 2002.
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Deferred tax assets
Property, plant and equipment ............................. Rs. -- Rs. 15,661
Allowance for doubtful accounts ........................... 56,318 57,329
Investments in mutual fund units .......................... -- 58,333
Accrued expenses .......................................... 73,893 48,842
Carry-forward capital losses .............................. 145,280 122,810
Carry-forward business losses ............................. 47,918 182,918
Difference between tax basis and amount for financial
reporting of a domestic subsidiary ...................... 199,512 --
Others .................................................... 17,587 81,154
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Total gross deferred tax assets ........................... 540,508 567,047
Less: valuation allowance ................................. (170,728) (122,810)
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Deferred tax assets ....................................... 369,780 444,237
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Deferred tax liabilities
Property, plant and equipment ............................. Rs. 25,489 Rs. --
Undistributed earnings of affiliates ...................... 64,966 86,061
Unrealized gain on available for sale securities .......... 187 29,392
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Total gross deferred tax liability ........................ 90,642 115,453
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Net deferred tax assets ................................... Rs. 279,138 Rs. 328,784
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Management believes that based on a number of factors, the available
objective evidence creates sufficient uncertainties regarding the generation of
future capital gains and realizability of the entire carry-forward capital
losses. Accordingly, the Company has established a valuation allowance for the
carry-forward capital losses arising on sale of shares in Wipro Finance, a
discontinued operation. These losses expire after eight years succeeding the
year in which they were first incurred. The carry-forward capital losses as of
March 31, 2002 will expire by 2009.
During the year ended March 31, 2002, management implemented certain tax
planning strategies that make it more likely than not that deferred tax assets
relating to carry-forward business losses of foreign operations will be
realized. This has resulted in reversal of valuation allowance aggregating to
Rs. 47,918. Similarly, based on historical taxable income, projections of future
taxable income and tax planning strategies, management believes that it is more
likely than not that the Company will realize the benefit of carry-forward
business losses relating to certain Indian operations.
The carry-forward business losses as of March 31, 2002, expire as
follows:
Although realization of the net deferred tax assets is not assured,
management believes that it is more likely than not that all of the net deferred
tax assets will be realized. The amount of net deferred tax assets considered
realizable, however could be reduced in the near term based on changing
conditions.
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22. EMPLOYEE STOCK INCENTIVE PLANS
Wipro Equity Reward Trust (WERT). In fiscal 1985, the Company
established a controlled trust called the WERT. Under this plan, the WERT would
purchase shares of Wipro out of funds borrowed from Wipro. The Company's
Compensation Committee would recommend to the WERT, officers and key employees,
to whom the WERT will grant shares from its holding. The shares have been
granted at a nominal price. Such shares would be held by the employees subject
to vesting conditions. The shares held by the WERT are reported as a reduction
from stockholders' equity. 679,450 and 555,910 shares held by employees as of
March 31, 2001 and 2002, respectively, subject to vesting conditions are
included in the outstanding equity shares.
In February 2000, the WERT sold 54,745 shares of Wipro to third parties.
The proceeds of the sale, net of the realized tax impact have been credited to
additional paid-in capital.
The movement in the shares held by the WERT is given below:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Shares held at the beginning of the period ..... 1,409,485 1,216,460 1,280,885
Shares granted to employees .................... (254,100) (4,250) --
Sale of shares by the WERT ..................... (54,745) -- --
Grants forfeited by employees .................. 115,820 68,675 40,450
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Shares held at the end of the period ........... 1,216,460 1,280,885 1,321,335
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Deferred compensation is amortized on a straight-line basis over the
vesting period of the shares which ranges from 6 to 60 months. The
weighted-average-grant-date fair values of the shares granted during the years
ended March 31, 2000 and 2001 are Rs. 1,028 and Rs. 2,212. The amortization of
deferred stock compensation, net of reversals, for the years ended March 31,
2000, 2001 and 2002, was Rs. 96,898, Rs. 87,160 and Rs. 78,723, respectively.
The stock-based compensation has been allocated to cost of revenues and selling,
general and administrative expenses as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Cost of revenues ................................. Rs. 36,299 Rs. 32,363 Rs. 29,504
Selling, general and administrative expenses ..... 60,599 54,797 49,219
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Rs. 96,898 Rs. 87,160 Rs. 78,723
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Wipro Employee Stock Option Plan 1999 (1999 Plan). In July 1999, the
Company established the 1999 Plan. Under the 1999 Plan, the Company is
authorized to issue up to 5 million equity shares of common stock to eligible
employees. Employees covered by the 1999 Plan are granted an option to purchase
shares of the Company subject to the requirements of vesting. The Company has
not recorded, any deferred compensation as the exercise price was equal to the
fair market value of the underlying equity shares on the grant date.
Stock option activity under the 1999 Plan is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2000
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ----------------- ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ..... -- -- -- --
Granted during the period ...................... 2,558,150 Rs. 1,024 - 2,522 Rs. 1,091 66 months
Forfeited during the period .................... (146,000) 1,086 1,086 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ........... 2,412,150 1,024 - 2,522 1,091 66 months
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Exercisable at the end of the period ........... -- -- -- --
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2001
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ------------------ ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ..... 2,412,150 Rs. 1,024 - 2,522 Rs. 1,091 66 months
Granted during the period ...................... 2,672,000 1,853 - 2,419 1,860 62 months
Forfeited during the period .................... (405,550) 1,086 1,086 --
Exercised during the period .................... (114,169) 1,086 1,086 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ........... 4,564,431 1,024 - 2,522 1,542 59 months
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Exercisable at the end of the period ........... 86,491 Rs. 1,024 - 2,522 Rs. 1,284 54 months
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ----------------- ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ..... 4,564,431 Rs. 1,024 - 2,522 Rs. 1,542 59 months
Forfeited during the period .................... (645,803) 1,086 - 1,853 1,542 --
Exercised during the period .................... (32,670) 1,086 1,086 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ........... 3,885,958 1,024 - 2,522 1,550 47 months
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Exercisable at end of the period ............... 637,062 Rs. 1,024 - 2,522 Rs. 1,385 46 months
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Wipro Employee Stock Option Plan 2000 (2000 Plan). In July 2000, the
Company established the 2000 Plan. Under the 2000 Plan, the Company is
authorized to issue up to 25 million equity shares to eligible employees.
Employees covered by the 2000 Plan are granted an option to purchase equity
shares of the Company subject to vesting. The Company has not recorded any
deferred compensation as the exercise price was equal to the fair market value
of the underlying equity shares on the grant date.
Stock option activity under the 2000 Plan is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2001
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ----------------- ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ..... -- -- -- --
Granted during the period ...................... 3,520,300 Rs. 2,382 - 2,746 Rs. 2,397 67 months
Forfeited during the period .................... (305,950) 2,382 2,382 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ........... 3,214,350 2,382 - 2,746 2,397 67 months
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Exercisable at the end of the period ........... -- -- -- --
--------- ----------------- ----------- ---------
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ------------------ ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ..... 3,214,350 Rs. 2,382 - 2,746 Rs. 2,397 67 months
Granted during the period ...................... 5,745,844 1,032 - 1,670 1,582 60 months
Forfeited during the period .................... (487,680) 1,032 - 2,651 2,397 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ........... 8,472,514 1,032 - 2,746 1,846 58 months
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Exercisable at the end of the period ........... 411,414 Rs. 2,375 - 2,651 Rs. 2,397 55 months
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Stock Option Plan (2000 ADS Plan). In April 2000, the Company
established the 2000 ADS Plan. Under the 2000 ADS Plan, the Company is
authorized to issue options to purchase up to 1.5 million American Depositary
Shares (ADSs) to eligible employees. Employees covered by the 2000 ADS Plan are
granted an option to purchase ADSs representing equity shares of the Company
subject to the requirements of vesting. The Company has not recorded any
deferred compensation as the exercise price was equal to the fair market value
of the underlying ADS on the grant date.
Stock option activity under the 2000 ADS Plan is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2001
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ----------------- ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ...... -- -- -- --
Granted during the period ....................... 268,750 $ 41.375 $ 41.375 67 months
Forfeited during the period ..................... (4,000) 41.375 41.375 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ............ 264,750 41.375 41.375 67 months
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Exercisable at the end of the period ............ -- -- -- --
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
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WEIGHTED
WEIGHTED-AVERAGE AVERAGE
RANGE OF EXERCISE EXERCISE PRICE AND REMAINING
SHARES ARISING PRICES AND GRANT GRANT DATE FAIR CONTRACTUAL LIFE
OUT OF OPTIONS DATE FAIR VALUES VALUES (MONTHS)
-------------- ----------------- ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at the beginning of the period ..... 264,750 $ 41.375 $ 41.375 67 months
Granted during the period ...................... 409,200 20.75 - 36.40 35.49 61 months
Forfeited during the period .................... (26,500) 41.375 41.375 --
Outstanding at the end of the period ........... 647,450 20.75 - 41.375 37.66 55 months
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Exercisable at the end of the period ........... 35,738 $ 41.375 $ 41.375 44 months
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Wipro Net Plan. In December 1999, Wipro Net established an Employee
Stock Option Plan (Wipro Net Plan). Under the Wipro Net Plan, eligible employees
were granted an option to purchase equity shares of Wipro Net subject to the
requirements of vesting. Wipro Net has not recorded any deferred compensation as
the exercise price was not less than the fair market value of the underlying
equity shares on the grant date.
During the year ended March 31, 2002, consequent to the decision to
legally re-organize the business of Wipro Net by merging Wipro Net with Wipro,
stock options in the stock of Wipro Net, issued to employees of Wipro Net, have
been exchanged for stock options of Wipro under the 2000 Plan. The exchange did
not result in an increase in the aggregate intrinsic value of the award or a
reduction in the ratio of the exercise price per share to the market price per
share. As the new options were granted at the fair value on the grant date, no
compensation cost has been recorded.
The Company has adopted the pro forma disclosure provisions of SFAS No.
123. Had compensation cost been determined in a manner consistent with the fair
value approach described in SFAS No. 123, the Company's net income and earnings
per share as reported would have been reduced to the pro forma amounts indicated
below:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Net income
As reported .................... Rs. 3,551,703 Rs. 6,455,214 Rs. 8,329,978
Adjusted pro forma ............. 3,383,749 5,198,098 6,411,866
Earnings per share: Basic
As reported .................... 15.59 28.15 36.04
Adjusted pro forma ............. 14.85 22.67 27.74
Earnings per share: Diluted
As reported .................... 15.54 27.91 35.98
Adjusted pro forma ............. 14.80 22.58 27.73
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The fair value of each option is estimated on the date of grant using
the Black-Scholes model with the following assumptions.
A reconciliation of the equity shares used in the computation of basic
and diluted earnings per equity share is set out below:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Basic earnings per equity share-weighted average
number of equity shares outstanding ................... 227,843,378 229,325,989 231,132,500
Effect of dilutive equivalent shares-stock options
outstanding ........................................... 804,756 1,928,534 402,376
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Diluted earnings per equity share-weighted average
number of equity shares and equivalent
shares outstanding .................................... 228,648,134 231,254,523 231,534,876
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Shares held by the controlled WERT have been reduced from the equity
shares outstanding and shares held by employees subject to vesting conditions
have been included in outstanding equity shares for computing basic and diluted
earnings per share.
Options to purchase 3,214,350 and 5,451,924 equity shares were
outstanding during the years ended March 31, 2001 and 2002, respectively, but
were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because the
exercise price of the options was greater than the average market price of the
equity shares.
24. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
Gratuity. In accordance with applicable Indian laws, the Company
provides for gratuity, a defined benefit retirement plan (Gratuity Plan)
covering certain categories of employees. The Gratuity Plan provides a lump sum
payment to vested employees, at retirement or termination of employment, an
amount based on the respective employee's last drawn salary and the years of
employment with the Company. The Company provides the gratuity benefit through
annual contributions to a fund managed by the Life Insurance Corporation of
India. Under this plan, the settlement obligation remains with the Company,
although the Life Insurance Corporation of India administers the plan and
determines the contribution premium required to be paid by the Company.
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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CHANGE IN THE BENEFIT OBLIGATION
Projected Benefit Obligation (PBO) at the beginning of the year .......... Rs. 53,783 Rs. 54,558
Service cost ............................................................. 4,110 3,798
Interest cost ............................................................ 5,653 5,723
Benefits paid ............................................................ (5,635) (6,444)
Acturial (gain)/loss ..................................................... (3,353) 1,552
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PBO at the end of the year ............................................... 54,558 59,187
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CHANGE IN PLAN ASSETS
Fair value of plan assets at the beginning of the year ................... 24,502 27,892
Actual return on plan assets ............................................. 2,482 2,856
Employer contributions ................................................... 6,543 2,415
Benefits paid ............................................................ (5,635) (6,444)
---------- ----------
Plan assets at the end of the year ....................................... 27,892 26,719
---------- ----------
Funded status ............................................................ (26,666) (32,468)
Unrecognized actuarial (gain)/loss ....................................... (2,259) (535)
Unrecognized transition obligation ....................................... 9,635 8,330
Unrecognized actuarial cost .............................................. 10,415 9,173
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Accrued liability ........................................................ Rs. (8,875) Rs.(15,500)
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Net gratuity cost for the years ended March 31, 2000, 2001 and 2002
included:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
-----------------------------------
2000 2001 2002
--------- --------- ---------
Service cost ................................ Rs. 4,049 Rs. 4,110 Rs. 3,798
Interest cost ............................... 5,512 5,653 5,723
Expected return on assets ................... (2,351) (1,654) (2,992)
Amortization of transition liabilities ...... 1,874 1,874 2,516
--------- --------- ---------
Net gratuity cost ........................... Rs. 9,084 Rs. 9,983 Rs. 9,045
========= ========= =========
The actuarial assumptions used in accounting for the Gratuity Plan are:
AS OF MARCH 31,
--------------------
2001 2002
---- ----
Discount rate ............................... 11% 10%
Rate of increase in compensation levels ..... 10% 9%
Rate of return on plan assets ............... 10.5% 9.5%
Superannuation. Apart from being covered under the Gratuity Plan
described above, the senior officers of the Company also participate in a
defined contribution plan maintained by the Company. This plan is administered
by the Life Insurance Corporation of India. The Company makes annual
contributions based on a specified percentage of each covered employee's salary.
The Company has no further obligations under the plan beyond its annual
contributions.
Provident fund. In addition to the above benefits, all employees receive
benefits from a provident fund, a defined contribution plan. The employee and
employer each make monthly contributions to the plan equal to 12% of the covered
employee's salary. A portion of the contribution is made to the provident fund
trust established by the Company, while the remainder of the contribution is
made to the Government's provident fund. The Company has no further obligations
under the plan beyond its monthly contributions.
The Company contributed Rs. 161,723, Rs. 249,341 and Rs. 153,901 to
various defined contribution and benefit plans during the years ended March 31,
2000, 2001 and 2002, respectively.
25. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
The Company has the following transactions with related parties:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
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Wipro GE:
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and
administrative and management support services ........ Rs. 54,535 Rs. 17,396 Rs. 26,208
Fees for usage of trade mark ............................ -- 8,820 39,344
Rent paid ............................................... 1,198 -- --
Wipro Net:
Fees for consultancy services ........................... 12,186 13,100 --
Fees for computer and network maintenance support ....... -- 10,452 --
Revenues from sale of computer equipment ................ -- 109,871 --
Wipro ePeripherals:
Revenues from sale of computer equipment
and services .......................................... -- 13,984 9,230
Fees for usage of trade mark ............................ -- -- 53,016
Interest received on debentures ......................... -- 4,704 5,000
Payments for services ................................... -- -- 1,160
Purchase of printers .................................... -- 169,000 138,676
Netkracker:
Fees for technical and infrastructure support
services .............................................. -- 37,018 96,155
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and
services .............................................. -- -- 987
Azim Premji Foundation:
Revenues from sale of computer equipment and
services .............................................. -- -- 1,442
Principal Shareholder:
Payment of lease rentals ................................ 1,200 1,200 1,200
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The Company has the following receivables from related parties, which
are reported as other current assets in the balance sheet.
AS OF MARCH 31,
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2001 2002
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Wipro GE .................................................................... Rs. 13,295 Rs. 56,181
Wipro ePeripherals .......................................................... -- 17,037
Azim Premji Foundation ...................................................... -- 348
Security deposit given to Hasham Premji, a firm
under common control ...................................................... 25,000 25,000
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Rs. 38,295 Rs. 98,566
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The Company has the following payables to related parties, which are
reported as other current liabilities in the balance sheet.
AS OF MARCH 31,
--------------------------
2001 2002
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Wipro ePeripherals .......................................................... Rs. 2,297 Rs. 25,875
Netkracker .................................................................. 10,000 --
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Rs. 12,297 Rs. 25,875
========== ==========
As of March 31, 2001, the Company held convertible preference shares of
Rs. 54,000 in Netkracker. As of March 31, 2001 and 2002 the Company held 12.5%
non-convertible debentures of Rs. 40,000 in Wipro ePeripherals. These
investments are reported as non-current investment securities.
26. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Capital commitments. As of March 31, 2001 and 2002, the Company had
committed to spend approximately Rs. 400,280 and Rs. 241,338, respectively,
under agreements to purchase property and equipment. These amounts are net of
capital advances paid in respect of these purchases.
Guarantees. As of March 31, 2001 and 2002, performance guarantees
provided by banks on behalf of the Company to certain Indian Government and
other agencies amount to approximately Rs. 346,764 and Rs. 467,020 respectively,
as part of the bank line of credit.
Other commitments. The Company's Indian operations have been established
as a Software Technology Park Unit under a plan formulated by the Government of
India. As per the plan, the Company's India operations have export obligations
to the extent of 1.5 times the employee costs for the year on an annual basis
and 5 times the amount of foreign exchange released for capital goods imported,
over a five year period. The consequence of not meeting this commitment in the
future, would be a retroactive levy of import duty on certain computer hardware
previously imported duty free. As of March 31, 2002, the Company has met all
commitments required under the plan.
Contingencies. The Company is involved in lawsuits, claims,
investigations and proceedings, including patent and commercial matters, which
arise in the ordinary course of business. There are no such matters pending that
Wipro expects to be material in relation to its business.
27. SEGMENT INFORMATION
The Company is organized by segments, including Global IT Services and
Products, India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products, Consumer Care and Lighting
and other segments. Each of the segments has a Vice Chairman/Chief Executive
Officer who reports to the Chairman of the Company. The Chairman of the Company
has been identified as the Chief Operating Decision Maker as defined by SFAS No.
131, Disclosure about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information. The
Chairman of the Company evaluates the segments based on their revenue growth,
operating income and return on capital employed. Until fiscal 2000, interest
income by lending to other segments, was included as a component of total
revenue and operating income for segment data. From fiscal 2001, the Chief
Operating Decision Maker evaluates revenue growth and operating income of the
segments excluding interest income earned by the segment from lending to other
segments within the Company.
The Global IT Services and Products (Wipro Technologies) segment
provides research and development services for hardware and software design to
technology and telecommunication companies and software application development
services to corporate enterprises.
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The India and AsiaPac IT Services and Products (Wipro Infotech) segment
focuses primarily on addressing the IT and electronic commerce requirements of
companies in India and AsiaPacific region.
The Consumer Care and Lighting segment manufactures, distributes and
sells soaps, toiletries, lighting products and hydrogenated cooking oils for the
Indian market.
Others consists of various business segments that do not meet the
requirements individually for a reportable segment as defined in SFAS No. 131.
Corporate activities such as treasury, legal and accounting, which do not
qualify as operating segments under SFAS No. 131 have been considered as
reconciling items.
Information on reportable segments is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2000
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INDIA AND
GLOBAL IT ASIAPAC IT CONSUMER
SERVICES SERVICES AND CARE AND OTHERS (NET OF RECONCILING
AND PRODUCTS PRODUCTS LIGHTING ELIMINATIONS) ITEMS ENTITY TOTAL
-------------- ------------ ------------- -------------- ------------- --------------
Revenues..................... Rs. 10,206,078 Rs. 8,089,297 Rs. 3,151,116 Rs. 1,380,583 Rs. -- Rs. 22,827,074
Exchange rate fluctuations... 88,946 (13,923) (2,090) -- (72,933) --
Interest income on funding
other segments, net.......... 163,500 -- 43,000 -- (206,500) --
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- --------------
Total revenues............. 10,458,524 8,075,374 3,192,026 1,380,583 (279,433) 22,827,074
Cost of revenues............. (6,219,980) (6,541,162) (2,251,238) (1,070,031) -- (16,082,411)
Selling, general and
administrative expenses.... (1,345,009) (1,097,902) (461,823) (224,046) (122,518) (3,251,298)
Amortization of goodwill..... -- (1,000) -- -- -- (1,000)
Exchange rate fluctuations... -- -- -- -- 51,603 51,603
Others, net.................. 15,000 25,000 5,929 5,000 22,290 73,219
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- --------------
Operating income of
segment ................. Rs 2,908,535 Rs. 460,310 Rs. 484,894 Rs. 91,506 Rs. (328,058) Rs. 3,617,187
============== ============= ============= ============== ============= ==============
Total assets of segment...... Rs. 5,116,501 Rs. 3,788,784 Rs. 1,282,676 Rs. 764,433 Rs. 1,725,959 Rs. 12,678,353
Capital employed............. 2,711,042 1,474,491 678,549 521,146 3,048,562 8,433,790
Return on capital
employed (1)............... 92% 32% 70% -- -- --
Accounts receivable.......... 2,163,931 1,743,789 133,889 389,751 -- 4,431,360
Depreciation................. 526,511 68,105 86,002 43,225 10,630 734,473
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2001
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INDIA AND
GLOBAL IT ASIAPAC IT CONSUMER
SERVICES SERVICES AND CARE AND OTHERS (NET OF RECONCILING
AND PRODUCTS PRODUCTS LIGHTING ELIMINATIONS) ITEMS ENTITY TOTAL
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- -------------- ---------------
Revenues..................... Rs. 17,670,426 Rs. 8,644,050 Rs. 3,143,537 Rs. 1,328,915 Rs. -- Rs. 30,786,928
Exchange rate fluctuations... 126,291 (46,387) -- -- (79,904) --
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- -------------- ---------------
Total revenues............. 17,796,717 8,597,663 3,143,537 1,328,915 (79,904) 30,786,928
Cost of revenues............. (9,204,649) (6,440,852) (2,215,349) (961,779) -- (18,822,629)
Selling, general and
administrative expenses.... (2,574,518) (1,392,304) (538,753) (161,484) (168,036) (4,835,095)
Amortization of goodwill..... -- (1,000) -- -- (44,389) (45,389)
Exchange rate fluctuations... -- -- -- -- 120,226 120,226
Others, net.................. 20,000 61,000 61,113 9,000 197,805 348,918
Operating income of
segment.................. Rs. 6,037,550 Rs. 824,507 Rs. 450,548 Rs. 214,652 Rs. 25,702 Rs. 7,552,959
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- -------------- --------------
Total assets of segment...... Rs. 9,242,116 Rs. 3,921,596 Rs. 1,205,128 Rs. 1,668,108 Rs. 10,150,513 Rs. 26,187,461
Capital employed............. 7,760,449 1,090,097 846,978 1,271,686 10,007,101 20,976,311
============== ============= ============= ============== ============== ==============
Return on capital
employed (1)............... 115% 64% 59% -- -- --
Accounts receivable.......... 3,453,330 1,674,773 158,927 591,255 -- 5,878,285
Depreciation................. 708,274 94,166 63,901 50,169 74,752 991,262
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YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002
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INDIA AND
GLOBAL IT ASIAPAC IT CONSUMER
SERVICES SERVICES AND CARE AND OTHERS (NET OF RECONCILING
AND PRODUCTS PRODUCTS LIGHTING ELIMINATIONS) ITEMS ENTITY TOTAL
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- -------------- --------------
Revenues..................... Rs. 22,412,226 Rs. 6,950,495 Rs. 2,938,630 Rs. 1,680,138 Rs. -- Rs. 33,981,489
Exchange rate fluctuations... 255,810 (202) 411 87 (256,106) --
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- -------------- --------------
Total revenues............. 22,668,036 6,950,293 2,939,041 1,680,225 (256,106) 33,981,489
Cost of revenues............. (12,396,557) (5,096,475) (2,021,080) (1,354,189) -- (20,868,301)
Selling, general and
administrative expenses.... (2,533,337) (1,278,248) (517,701) (430,265) (113,775) (4,873,326)
Research and
development expenses....... (126,930) -- -- -- -- (126,930)
Amortization of goodwill..... -- (2,000) -- -- (173,567) (175,567)
Exchange rate fluctuations... -- -- -- -- 218,968 218,968
Others, net.................. (2,395) 4,786 3,256 18,542 134,285 158,474
-------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- -------------- --------------
Operating income of
segment ................. Rs. 7,608,817 Rs. 578,356 Rs. 403,516 Rs. (85,687) Rs. (190,195) Rs. 8,314,807
============== ============= ============= ============== ============== ==============
Total assets of segment...... Rs. 11,196,573 Rs. 3,532,129 Rs. 1,076,291 Rs. 1,631,088 Rs. 16,318,506 Rs. 33,754,587
Capital employed............. 8,724,898 962,381 708,041 1,606,970 15,954,694 27,956,983
Return on capital
employed (1)............... 92% 56% 52% -- -- --
Accounts receivable.......... 3,700,657 1,810,889 172,426 296,931 -- 5,980,903
Depreciation................. 974,452 138,991 61,596 168,743 67,509 1,411,291
(1) Return on capital employed is computed based on the average of the
capital employed at the beginning and at the end of the year.
The Company has four geographic segments: India, the United States,
Europe and Rest of the world. Revenues from the geographic segments based on
domicile of the customer is as follows:
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,
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2000 2001 2002
-------------- -------------- ---------------
India.................. Rs. 12,244,102 Rs. 12,463,900 Rs. 11,552,033
United States.......... 6,522,166 11,430,738 12,688,593
Europe................. 2,350,170 5,070,806 8,255,195
Rest of the world...... 1,710,636 1,821,484 1,485,668
-------------- -------------- ---------------
Rs. 22,827,074 Rs. 30,786,928 Rs. 33,981,489
============== ============== ===============
29. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The fair values of the Company's current assets and current liabilities
approximate their carrying values because of their short-term maturity. Such
financial instruments are classified as current and are expected to be
liquidated within the next twelve months.
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Exhibit 99.1
WIPRO LIMITED
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, DEPOSITARY
P.O. BOX 43062, PROVIDENCE, RI 02940-5115
The undersigned, a registered holder of American Depositary Receipt(s)
representing Equity Shares of Wipro Limited, of record June 5, 2002, hereby
requests and authorizes JPMorgan Chase Bank, Depositary, through its Nominee or
Nominees, to vote or execute a proxy to vote the underlying Equity Shares of the
Company represented by such American Depositary Receipt(s), on the Resolutions
at the Fifty Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at the
Registered Office of the Company situated at Doddakannelli, Sarjapur Road,
Bangalore on Thursday, July 18, 2002 at 4:30 p.m., or at any adjournment
thereof.
These instructions, when properly signed and dated, will be voted in the manner
directed herein. If you mark the box indicating that you wish to give a
discretionary proxy to a person designated by the Company, the underlying Equity
Shares represented by such American Depositary Receipt(s) will be voted by such
person in his or her discretion. If these instructions are properly signed and
dated, but no direction is made, the underlying Equity Shares represented by
such American Depositary Receipt(s) will be voted by the Depositary FOR all
Resolutions at the Meeting.
NOTE: In order to have the aforesaid shares voted, this Voting Instruction Card
MUST be returned before 3:00 p.m., July 9, 2002.
PLEASE VOTE, DATE AND SIGN ON REVERSE AND RETURN PROMPTLY IN THE ENCLOSED
ENVELOPE.
Please sign this Voting Instruction Card exactly as your name(s) appear(s) on
the books of the Depositary. Joint owners should each sign personally. Trustees
and other fiduciaries should indicate the capacity in which they sign, and where
more than one name appears, a majority must sign. If a corporation, this
signature should be that of an authorized officer who should state his or her
title.
HAS YOUR ADDRESS CHANGED?
ORDINARY BUSINESS
1. Receive, consider and adopt the audited Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2002
and the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date and the
Reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon.
2. Declare final dividend on equity shares.
3. Appoint a Director in place of Dr. Ashok Ganguly, who retires by rotation
and being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
4. Appoint a Director in place of Mr. N Vaghul, who retires by rotation and
being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
5. Appoint a Director in place of Mr. B. C. Prabhakar, who retires by rotation
and being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
6. Appoint M/s N. M. Raiji & Co. as Auditors to hold office from the
conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next Annual General
Meeting of the Company and fix their remuneration.
SPECIAL BUSINESS
7. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolution as ORDINARY RESOLUTION:
RESOLVED THAT Prof. Eisuke Sakakibara, who was appointed as an Additional
Director of the Company by the Board of Directors and who ceases to hold
office under Section 260 of the Companies Act, 1956, and in respect of whom
the Company has received a notice in writing proposing his candidature for
the office of Director, be and is hereby appointed as a Director of the
Company.
8. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolution as ORDINARY RESOLUTION:
RESOLVED THAT Mr. Priya Mohan Sinha, who was appointed as an Additional
Director of the Company by the Board of Directors and who ceases to hold
office under Section 260 of the Companies Act, 1956, and in respect of whom
the Company has received a notice in writing proposing his candidature for
the office of Director, be and is hereby appointed as a Director of the
Company.
9. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolution as ORDINARY RESOLUTION:
RESOLVED THAT pursuant to the resolutions passed under the provisions of
Section 269, 309, 311 and other applicable provisions, if any, of the
Companies Act, 1956, the reappointment of Mr. P. S. Pai as Vice Chairman of
the Company with effect from December 1, 2001 until July 31, 2002 as well
as the payment of salary, commission and perquisites (hereinafter referred
to as "remuneration"), as detailed in the explanatory statement attached
hereto, subject to the overall ceiling of the total managerial remuneration
for the year 2002-03 as provided under Section 309 of the Companies Act,
1956 be and is hereby approved.
10. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolutions as ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLVED THAT pursuant to the resolutions passed under Section 269, 309,
311 and other applicable provisions, if any, of the Companies Act, 1956 at
the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on July 29, 1999, the
partial revision in terms and conditions of the remuneration payable to Mr.
Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's
Technologies Business with effect from February 1, 2002 as detailed in the
explanatory statement attached hereto, subject to the overall ceiling of
the total managerial remuneration for each year as provided under Section
309 of the Companies Act, 1956 be and is hereby approved.
RESOLVED FURTHER THAT all other terms and conditions of his appointment
including commission and perquisites as decided by the Board at their
earlier meetings continues to be payable to Mr. Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman
without any change whatsoever.
11. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolutions as ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLVED THAT Mr. D. A. Prasanna, who was appointed as an Additional
Director of the Company by the Board of Directors and who ceases to hold
office under Section 260 of the Companies Act, 1956, and in respect of whom
the Company has received a notice in writing proposing his candidature for
the office of Director, be and is hereby appointed as a Director of the
Company.
RESOLVED FURTHER THAT pursuant to the provisions of Section 269, 309, 311
and other applicable provisions, if any, of the Companies Act, 1956, the
Company hereby approves the appointment of Mr. D. A. Prasanna, as Vice
Chairman and Executive Officer of the Company's Health Care and Life
Science Business, for a period of three (3) years with effect from April
19, 2002, on the payment of salary, performance incentive and perquisites
(hereinafter referred to as "remuneration"), subject to the overall ceiling
of the total managerial remuneration for each year as provided under
Section 309 of the Companies Act, 1956, and other terms and conditions as
may be determined by the Board of Directors for each year, as detailed in
the explanatory statement annexed hereto.
12. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolution as SPECIAL RESOLUTION:
RESOLVED THAT pursuant to Section 309 of the Companies Act, 1956 and
Article 175 (b) of the Articles of Association of the Company and within
the limits stipulated in Section 309(4) of the Companies Act, 1956, the
Company be and is hereby authorized to pay remuneration by way of
commission to any one or more or all of the Non-Executive Directors (other
than Chairman and Managing Director as well as Vice Chairmen of the
Company) in such amounts or proportions and in such manner as may be
decided by the Board of Directors of the Company from time to time, for a
period of five years commencing from April 1, 2002, which cumulatively
shall not exceed 1% of the net profits of the Company, as computed under
Section 198 of the Companies Act, 1956 in any financial year.
Exhibit 99.2
[WIPRO LOGO]
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FIFTY SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF WIPRO
LIMITED WILL BE HELD AT THE REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY SITUATED AT
DODDAKANNELLI, SARJAPUR ROAD, BANGALORE ON JULY 18, 2002 AT 4.30 P.M., TO
TRANSACT THE FOLLOWING BUSINESS:
ORDINARY BUSINESS
1. Receive, consider and adopt the audited Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2002
and the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date and the
Reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon.
2. Declare final dividend on equity shares.
3. Appoint a Director in place of Dr. Ashok Ganguly, who retires
by rotation and being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
4. Appoint a Director in place of Mr. N. Vaghul who retires by
rotation and being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
5. Appoint a Director in place of Mr. B.C. Prabhakar who retires
by rotation and being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
6. Appoint M/s. N.M. Raiji & Co., as Auditors to hold office from
the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next
Annual General Meeting of the Company and fix their
remuneration.
SPECIAL BUSINESS
7. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification,
the following resolution as ORDINARY RESOLUTION:
RESOLVED THAT Prof. Eisuke Sakakibara, who was
appointed as an Additional Director of the Company by the
Board of Directors and who ceases to hold office under Section
260 of the Companies Act, 1956, and in respect of whom the
Company has received a notice in writing proposing his
candidature for the office of Director, be and is hereby
appointed as a Director of the Company.
8. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification,
the following resolution as ORDINARY RESOLUTION :
RESOLVED THAT Mr. Priya Mohan Sinha, who was appointed
as an Additional Director of the Company by the Board of
Directors and who ceases to hold office under Section 260 of
the Companies Act, 1956, and in respect of whom the
Company has received a notice in writing proposing his
candidature for the office of Director, be and is hereby
appointed as a Director of the Company.
9. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification,
the following resolution as ORDINARY RESOLUTION :
RESOLVED THAT pursuant to the resolutions passed under
the provisions of Section 269, 309, 311 and other applicable
provisions, if any, of the Companies Act, 1956, the
re-appointment of Mr. P.S. Pai, as Vice Chairman of the
Company with effect from December 1, 2001 until July 31,
2002 as well as the payment of salary, commission and
perquisites (hereinafter referred to as "remuneration"), as
detailed in the explanatory statement attached hereto, subject
to the overall ceiling of the total managerial remuneration for
the year 2002-03 as provided under Section 309 of the
Companies Act, 1956 be and is hereby approved.
10. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolutions as ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLVED THAT pursuant to the resolutions passed under Sections 269, 309,
311 and other applicable provisions, if any, of the Companies Act, 1956 at
the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on July 29, 1999, the
partial revision in terms and conditions of the remuneration payable to Mr.
Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's
Technologies Business with effect from February 1, 2002 as detailed in the
explanatory statement attached hereto, subject to the overall ceiling of
the total managerial remuneration for each year as provided under Section
309 of the Companies Act, 1956 be and is hereby approved.
RESOLVED FURTHER THAT all other terms and conditions of his appointment
including commission and perquisites as decided by the Board at their
earlier meetings continues to be payable to Mr. Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman
without any change whatsoever.
11. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolutions as ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLVED THAT Mr. D.A. Prasanna, who was appointed as an Additional
Director of the Company by the Board of Directors and who ceases to hold
office under Section 260 of the Companies Act, 1956, and in respect of whom
the Company has received a notice in writing proposing his candidature for
the office of Director, be and is hereby appointed as a Director of the
Company.
RESOLVED FURTHER THAT pursuant to the provisions of Sections 269, 309, 311
and other applicable provisions, if any, of the Companies Act, 1956, the
Company hereby approves the appointment of Mr. D.A. Prasanna, as Vice
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's Health Care and Life
Science Business, for a period of three (3) years with effect from April
19, 2002, on the payment of salary, performance incentive and perquisites
(hereinafter referred to as "remuneration"), subject to the overall ceiling
of the total managerial remuneration for each year as provided under
Section 309 of the Companies Act, 1956, and other terms and conditions as
may be determined by the Board of Directors for each year, as detailed in
the explanatory statement annexed hereto.
12. Consider and if thought fit, to pass with or without modification, the
following resolution as SPECIAL RESOLUTION:
RESOLVED THAT pursuant to Section 309 of the Companies Act, 1956 and
Article 175 (b) of the Articles of Association of the Company and within
the limits stipulated in Section 309(4) of the Companies Act, 1956, the
Company be and is hereby authorised to pay remuneration by way of
commission to any one or more or all of the Non-Executive Directors (other
than Chairman and Managing Director as well as Vice Chairmen of the
Company) in such amounts or proportions and in such manner as may be
decided by the Board of Directors of the
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Company from time to time, for a period of five years commencing from April
1, 2002, which cumulatively shall not exceed 1% of the net profits of the
Company, as computed under Section 198 of the Companies Act, 1956 in any
financial year.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SATISH MENON
CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT-LEGAL & COMPANY SECRETARY
1. A MEMBER ENTITLED TO ATTEND AND VOTE AT THE MEETING IS ENTITLED TO APPOINT
ONE OR MORE PROXIES TO ATTEND AND ON A POLL, TO VOTE INSTEAD OF HIMSELF. A
PROXY NEED NOT BE A MEMBER. PROXIES TO BE EFFECTIVE MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE
COMPANY NOT LESS THAN 48 HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING.
2. A bio-data of the Directors proposed to be re-appointed at Serial Numbers
3, 4 and 5 of the Ordinary Business and Serial Numbers 7, 8, 9 and 11 of
the Special Business are enclosed as Annexure A to the Notice.
3. Explanatory statement as required by Section 173(2) of the
Companies Act, 1956 is enclosed as Annexure B to the Notice.
4. Only bonafide members of the Company whose names appear on the Register of
members/Proxy holders in possession of valid attendance slips duly filled
and signed, will be permitted to attend the meeting. The Company reserves
its right to take all steps as may be deemed necessary to restrict
non-members from attending the meeting.
5. Members are requested to bring their copies of Annual Report to the Meeting
as the same will not be circulated at the meeting.
6. The dividend declared at the Annual General Meeting will be paid to those
members whose names appear on the Register of Members of the Company as on
July 3, 2002 i.e. the date on which the Register of Members of Company
closes under Section 154 of the Companies Act, 1956.
7. As usual, to facilitate the shareholders to reach the venue of the meeting,
the Company would be arranging transport from four specified destinations
at 3.00 pm on July 18, 2002;
a. St. Marks Road, Bangalore (opposite to Koshys Restaurant)
b. Dr. Rajkumar Road, at the entrance of Raghavendra Temple, Rajaji
Nagar, Bangalore
c. At the entrance of Gitanjali Theatre, Malleswaram Circle, Bangalore
d. BDA Complex, Koramangala Main Road, Bangalore
Those who wish to avail of this facility are requested to get
confirmation to this effect at the following numbers:
080-8440011 (Extn.183) and 080-8440078. (Contact: G. Kothandaraman).
Alternatively, you may also send your requests by fax at 080-8440051.
Your requests must reach us latest by July 14, 2002.
ANNEXURE A TO THE NOTICE
The relevant information relating to the Directors who would be
appointed/re-appointed at the ensuing Annual General Meeting to be held on July
18, 2002 are given below:
DR. ASHOK GANGULY
Dr. Ashok Ganguly has served as our Director since January 1999. He has also
been Chairman of ICI India Limited since August 1996. From June 1980 to May
1990, he served as Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited. From May 1990 to May
1997 he served as Director of Unilever NV and Plc. Currently, he is also on the
boards of British Airways Plc., Technology Network (India) Pvt. Ltd., ICICI
Knowledge Park Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., as well as on the Central Board
of Directors of Reserve Bank of India and, most recently, Tata AIG Life
Insurance Co. Ltd. Dr. Ganguly holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Bombay University
and an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
MR. N. VAGHUL
Mr. Vaghul has served as our director since June 1997. He has been Chairman of
the Board of ICICI Limited since September 1985. Mr. Vaghul is also a director
of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Nicholas Piramal India Limited, Technology
Network (India) Pvt. Ltd., and Air India Limited. Mr. Vaghul is also the
Chairman of the Compensation and Benefits Committee of Mahindra and Mahindra
Limited and Nicholas Piramal India Limited. Mr. Vaghul holds a Bachelor of
Commerce in Banking from Madras University.
MR. B.C. PRABHAKAR
Mr. B.C. Prabhakar has served as our Director since February 1997. He has
practiced law in his own firm since April 1970. Mr. Prabhakar holds a Bachelor
of Arts in Political Science and Sociology and an LLB from Mysore University.
PROF. EISUKE SAKAKIBARA
Prof. Eisuke Sakakibara became a director of our company on January 1, 2002. He
has been a Professor of Economics in Keio University of Japan since 1999. After
working with the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan since 1965, he was
posted as Economist, International Monetary Fund in 1971 and was the visiting
Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He has also served as
Director-General, International Finance Bureau, Japan between 1995 and 1997. In
1997 he became the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan.
Prof. Sakakibara holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo and a
Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
MR. PRIYA MOHAN SINHA
Mr. Priya Mohan Sinha became a director of our company on January 1, 2002. He
has served as the Chairman of PepsiCo India Holdings Limited and President of
Pepsi Foods Limited since 1992. From October 1981 to November 1992, he was on
the Executive Board of Directors of Hindustan Lever Limited. From 1981 to 1985,
he also served as Sales Director of Hindustan Lever. Currently, he is also on
the Boards of ICICI Bank Limited, Bharti Televentures and Lafarge India. Mr.
Sinha was also Chairman of Stepan Chemicals Limited between 1990 and 1993 and on
the Boards of Brooke Bond India Limited, Lipton India Limited, Indexport Limited
and Lever Nepal Limited. Mr. Sinha holds a Bachelor of Arts from Patna
University and he also attended an Advanced Management Program in the Sloan
School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MR. P.S. PAI
Mr. Pai has served as our Director, Vice Chairman of the Board and Executive
Officer of Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting since
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January 1999 and served as Group President from July 1996 to December 1998. Mr.
Pai joined Wipro in 1979. He significantly contributed to the brand building of
Sunflower, Santoor, Wipro Shikakai, Wipro Baby Soft and Wipro Lighting products
and also helped to build one of the largest distribution systems in the country.
Mr. Pai holds a B. Engineering from Mysore University and Post Graduate Diploma
in Industrial Engineering from IIT, Madras.
MR. D.A. PRASANNA
Mr. D.A. Prasanna is appointed as our Additional Director effective April 15,
2002 and Whole-time Director designated as Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Company's Health Care and Life Science business. Mr. Prasanna has
been a part of the Wipro Corporate Executive Council since 1978, heading the
Human Resource and Business Development function till 1989. Mr. Prasanna moved
to Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited as the first Chief Executive Officer. He led
the creation of a USD 450M global business in Healthcare for GE Medical Systems
(GEMS) in South Asia and South East Asia. Immediately prior to his appointment
as Vice Chairman in Wipro, he was the Chairman of GEBEL, GEMS IT Ltd., and GE
X-ray (South Asia), in addition to his responsibility as the Managing Director
of Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited. During his tenure with GE, he has held key
positions in GE USA and Japan including as director of Yokogawa GEMs and Samsung
GEMS Korea. As CIO and Quality Leader in GEMS Asia, Mr. Prasanna launched
Information Technology and Six Sigma initiatives. Mr. Prasanna is a GE certified
Six Sigma Quality Leader.
ANNEXURE B TO THE NOTICE
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 173(2) OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
In conformity with the provisions of Section 173(2) of the Companies Act, 1956,
the following Explanatory Statement sets out all the material facts relating to
the items of Special Business at Item Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Notice dated
April 19, 2002 and the same should be taken as forming part of the Notice.
ITEM NO. 9
Mr. P.S. Pai was re-appointed as Vice Chairman of the Company
effective December 1, 2001 by the Board of Directors of the
Company until July 31, 2002. The terms and conditions of the
remuneration payable to Mr. P.S. Pai, Vice Chairman during the
tenure of his appointment was determined by the Board of Directors
vide Board resolution passed on January 17, 2002 as detailed below:
i. SALARY: Rs. 190,000 per month as basic salary and Allowances of Rs.
125,000 per month, which are eligible for revision.
ii. COMMISSION: Not exceeding 0.1% of the net profits of the Company
calculated and payable on the quarterly net profits of the Company
payable on a quarterly basis effective quarter ending on December 31,
2001, and subsequent financial years up to the date of his retirement.
The commission paid to the Vice Chairman on a quarterly basis shall be
recomputed based on the net profits of the Company for the full year
2002-03 and proportionate up to the date of his retirement.
iii. PERQUISITES: The Vice Chairman shall be entitled to all the perquisites
listed herein below in addition to the salary, allowances and
performance linked compensation mentioned above;
a) HOUSING: The Company shall provide rent free furnished residential
accommodation as per Company policy. In case no accommodation is
provided by the Company, the Vice Chairman shall be entitled to such
house rent allowance as may be decided by the Board of Directors
from time to time subject however to a limit of 60% of his salary.
b) MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT: Reimbursement of medical expenses incurred,
including premium paid on health insurance policies whether in India
or abroad, for self and family including hospitalisation, surgical
charges, nursing charges and domiciliary charges for self and for
family.
c) LEAVE TRAVEL ALLOWANCE: Rs. 75,000 per annum.
d) CLUB FEES: In accordance with the rules of the Company as applicable
to its senior managers for one club.
e) PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE: Premium not to exceed Rs. 7,200/- per
annum.
f) PROVIDENT FUND/PENSION: Contribution to Provident Fund and Pension
Fund to the extent such contributions, either singly or put together
are not taxable under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Contribution to
Pension Fund will be paid only on basic salary.
g) GRATUITY: Gratuity payable shall be in accordance with the
provisions of the payment of Gratuity Act.
h) USE OF CAR WITH DRIVER: The Company shall provide the Vice Chairman
a car with driver for business and personal use.
i) TELEPHONE FACILITY AT RESIDENCE: Telephone facility shall be
provided at the Vice Chairman's residence as per Company policy. All
personal long distance calls shall be billed by the Company to Vice
Chairman.
OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
j) In the event of absence or inadequacy of profits in any financial
year during the tenure of the Vice Chairman, salary and perquisites
subject to the limits stipulated under Schedule XIII of the
Companies Act, 1956, is payable.
k) "Family" means the spouse, dependent children and dependent parents
of Mr. P.S. Pai.
l) Leave with full pay and allowances shall be allowed as per the
Company's rules.
m) Reimbursement of entertainment expenses actually and properly
incurred in the course of business of the Company shall be allowed.
n) No sitting fees shall be paid for attending the meetings of the
Board of Directors or Committees thereof.
This explanatory note together with the accompanying Notice, should be treated
as an abstract under Section 302 of the Companies Act, 1956.
Mr. P.S. Pai, Vice Chairman is concerned and interested in this
resolution.
The Board of Directors recommend the passing of the proposed
resolution.
ITEM NO. 10
The partial revision in terms and conditions of the remuneration payable to Mr.
Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Company's Technologies
Business during the tenure of his appointment was determined by the Board of
Directors vide Board resolution passed on April 19, 2002 as detailed below:
a) BASE SALARY: USD 400,000 per annum as Base salary effective February 1,
2002, which is eligible for revision from time to time.
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b) COMMISSION & PERQUISITES: No change to the terms of payment of
commission and provision of perquisites.
c) OTHER BENEFITS: In addition to the base salary, perquisites and
performance linked compensation, the Vice Chairman shall be entitled to
following benefits up to a maximum ceiling at 18% of the Base salary.
i. Premium towards Life Insurance, Personal Accident Insurance &
Medical Insurance
ii. Retirement benefits
iii. Tax saving benefit plan or any other such plan applicable to the
employees in US.
The administration cost of such plans shall be borne by the Company.
This explanatory note together with the accompanying Notice, should be treated
as an abstract under Section 302 of the Companies Act, 1956.
Mr. Paul, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is concerned
and interested in this resolution.
The Board of Directors recommend the passing of the proposed
resolution.
ITEM NO. 11
Mr. D.A. Prasanna was appointed as Additional Director of the
Company on April 15, 2002 by the Board of Directors of the
Company. According to the provisions of Section 260 of the
Companies Act, 1956, he holds office as Director only up to the
date of the ensuing Annual General Meeting. As required by Section
257 of the Act, a notice has been received from a member signifying
his intention to propose appointment of Mr. D.A. Prasanna as
Director. The Board recommends the said appointment.
The terms and conditions of the remuneration payable to Mr. D.A.
Prasanna, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Company's
Health Care and Life Science business during the tenure of his
appointment was determined by the Board of Directors vide circular
resolution passed on April 19, 2002 as detailed below:
i. BASIC SALARY: Rs. 178,000 per month as basic salary and Allowances of
Rs. 264,316 per month, effective April 19, 2002, both of which are
eligible for revision as per Company policy.
ii. INCENTIVE COMPENSATION: Annual incentive compensation proportionate to
the performance of Company's Health Care and Life Science business
should be paid, which at normal performance level shall be Rs. 4.65
Million per annum and at maximum performance level shall not exceed Rs.
10 Million per annum. Incentive compensation shall be payable on
quarterly basis.
iii. PERQUISITES: The Vice Chairman shall be entitled to all the perquisites
listed herein below in addition to the salary and allowances mentioned
above.
a) SEMI FURNISHED HOUSING: The Company shall provide rent free semi
furnished residential accommodation as per Company policy. In case
no accommodation is provided by the Company, the Vice Chairman shall
be entitled to House Rent Allowances of Rs. 85,000/- pm.
b) MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT: Reimbursement of medical expenses incurred,
including premium paid on health insurance policies whether in India
or abroad, for self and family including hospitalization, surgical
charges, nursing charges and domiciliary charges for self and for
family.
c) LEAVE TRAVEL ALLOWANCE: Not exceeding Rs. 75,000/- per annum.
d) CLUB FEES: In accordance with the rules of the Company as
applicable to its senior managers for one club.
e) PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE: In accordance with the rules of the
Company as applicable to its senior managers.
f) PROVIDENT FUND/PENSION: Contribution to Provident Fund and Pension
Fund to the extent such contributions, either singly or put together
are not taxable under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Contribution to
Pension Fund will be paid only on basic salary.
g) GRATUITY: Gratuity payable shall be in accordance with the
provisions of the payment of Gratuity Act.
h) USE OF CAR WITH DRIVER: The Company shall provide the Vice Chairman
a fully maintained car with driver for business and personal use.
i) TELEPHONE FACILITY AT RESIDENCE: Telephone facility shall be
provided at the Vice Chairman's residence as per Company policy. All
personal long distance calls shall be billed by the Company to Vice
Chairman.
OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
a) In the event of absence or inadequacy of profits in any financial year
during the tenure of the Vice Chairman, salary and perquisites subject
to the limits stipulated under Schedule XIII of the Companies Act, 1956
is payable.
b) "Family" means the spouse, unmarried children up to 25 years of age and
dependent parents of Mr. D.A. Prasanna.
c) Leave with full pay and allowance shall be allowed as per the Company's
rules.
d) Reimbursement of entertainment expenses actually and properly incurred
in the course of business of the Company shall be allowed.
e) No sitting fees shall be paid for attending the meetings of the Board of
Directors or Committees thereof.
This explanatory note together with the accompanying Notice, should be treated
as an abstract under Section 302 of the Companies Act, 1956.
Mr. D.A. Prasanna, Vice Chairman is concerned and interested in
this resolution.
The Board of Directors recommend the passing of the proposed
resolution.
ITEM NO. 12
The Company currently has six non-executive directors on its Board,
namely Mr. N. Vaghul, Mr. B.C. Prabhakar, Dr. Ashok Ganguly,
Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth, Prof. Eisuke Sakakibara and Mr. P.M. Sinha.
Each of these directors are currently being paid professional fees
as decided by the Board of Directors of the Company from time to
time.
Henceforth, the Company proposed to discontinue the procedure of payment of
professional fees and substitute with payment of a remuneration by way of
commission up to such amount as may be decided by the Board of Directors of the
Company from time to time.
Mr. Vaghul, Mr. Prabhakar, Dr. Ganguly, Dr. Sheth, Prof. Sakakibara and Mr.
Sinha, Non-Executive Directors of the Company are concerned and interested in
this resolution.
The Board of Directors recommend passing of the proposed resolution.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SATISH MENON
CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT - LEGAL & COMPANY SECRETARY
PLEASE REFER TO THE REVERSE OF THIS CARD
FOR THE RESOLUTIONS TO BE VOTED AT THE MEETING.
Mark box at right if an address change has been noted on the reverse of this
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ORDINARY BUSINESS
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Resolution 1 [ ] [ ] Resolution 4 [ ] [ ]
Resolution 2 [ ] [ ] Resolution 5 [ ] [ ]
Resolution 3 [ ] [ ] Resolution 6 [ ] [ ]
SPECIAL BUSINESS
FOR AGAINST FOR AGAINST
Resolution 7 [ ] [ ] Resolution 10 [ ] [ ]
Resolution 8 [ ] [ ] Resolution 11 [ ] [ ]
Resolution 9 [ ] [ ] Resolution 12 [ ] [ ]
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TO THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF
AMERICAN DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS ("ADRs")
REPRESENTING EQUITY SHARES OF
WIPRO LIMITED
JPMorgan Chase Bank (the "Depositary") has received advice that the Fifty Sixth
Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of Wipro Limited (the "Company") will be
held at the Registered Office of the Company situated at Doddakannelli, Sarjapur
Road, Bangalore on Thursday, July 18, 2002 at 4:30 p.m., for the purposes set
forth on the reverse of this card.
If you are desirous of having the Depositary, through its Nominee or Nominees,
vote or execute a proxy to vote the Equity Shares represented by your American
Depositary Receipt(s) for or against the Resolutions, or any of them, to be
proposed at the Meeting, kindly execute and forward to JPMorgan Chase Bank the
attached Voting Instruction Card. The enclosed postage paid envelope is provided
for this purpose. This Voting Instruction Card should be executed in such manner
as to show clearly whether you desire the Nominee or the Nominees of the
Depositary to vote for or against the Resolutions, or any of them, as the case
may be. You may include instructions to give a discretionary proxy to a person
designated by the Company. The Voting Instruction Card MUST be forwarded in
sufficient time to reach the Depositary before 3:00 p.m., July 9, 2002. Only the
registered holders of record at the close of business June 5, 2002, will be
entitled to execute the attached Voting Instruction Card.
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