B. Nature and purpose of reserves

1. Securities Premium: The amount received in excess of face value of the equity shares is recognised in Securities Premium.

2. General Reserve: The Company transfers a portion of the Net Profit before declaring dividend to General Reserve.

3. Retained Earnings: Retained earnings are the profits that the Company has earned till date, less any transfers to General Reserve, Dividends or other distributions paid to shareholders.

The above reserves are to be utilised in compliance with provisions of the relevant acts.

OTHER NOTES FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. Dividend

The Board has recommended a dividend of Rs. 100 per equity share of paid-up and face value of Rs. 10 each (previous year Rs. 150 per equity share, including interim dividend of Rs. 90 per equity share, of paid-up and face value of Rs. 10 each) which, if approved by the shareholders, shall amount to Rs. 52,87.82 Lakhs (previous year Rs. 79,31.72 Lakhs, including interim dividend of Rs. 47,59.03 Lakhs).

2. Contingent Liabilities and Capital Commitments

(a) Claims against the Company not acknowledged as debts are Rs. 11,43.85 Lakhs (Previous Year: Rs. 12,15.34 Lakhs). These comprise of:

I. Excise Dufy, Service Tax, VAT, GST, PF, Utility Charges and other claims disputed by the Company relating to issues of applicability, classification etc. aggregating to Rs. 11,43.81 Lakhs (Previous Year: Rs. 12,15.30 Lakhs).

II. Income Tax claims disputed by the Company aggregating to Rs. 0.04 Lakhs (Previous Year: Rs. 0.04 Lakhs).

(b) Estimated amount of contracts remaining to be executed on capital account not provided for is Rs. 1,78.70 Lakhs (Previous Year: Rs. 1,68.71 Lakhs).

3. Segment Information

The Company operates in a single segment, manufacture, trading and sale of Kitchenware.

The revenues from customers attributed to the Company's country of domicile amount to Rs. 928,23.08 Lakhs (previous year: Rs. 876,46.36 Lakhs) and revenues attributed to all foreign countries amount to Rs. 61,72.02 Lakhs (previous year: Rs. 68,90.79 Lakhs).

No customer of the Company contributed to more than 10% of the total revenues during the current year and previous year.

4. Foreign Exchange Translations

The net profit/loss on foreign exchange translations credited/debited to the Statement of Profit and Loss is NIL (previous year: profit/loss credited/debited NIL).

5. research and Development Cost

Research and Development costs debited to the Statement of Profit and Loss are Rs. 6,11.27 Lakhs (previous year: Rs. 5,22.53 Lakhs). Research and Development expenditure of capital nature is Rs. 8.59 Lakhs (previous year: Rs. 4.77 Lakhs).

6. Financial Instruments - Fair Values and risk management (a) Accounting Classifications and Fair Values

Carrying amounts and fair values of financial assets and financial liabilities, including their levels in the fair value hierarchy, are presented below. It does not include the fair value information for financial assets and financial liabilities not measured at fair value if the carrying amount is a reasonable approximation of fair value.

Note: Other Non-current Financial Assets (being Security deposits and Fixed Deposit with banks with maturity of more than 12 months) and Current Financial Assets (being Trade receivables, Cash and cash equivalents, Other bank balances and Other financial assets) are all valued at amortised cost since the business model of the Company is to hold the assets in order to collect contractual cash flows. All Non-current financial liabilities (being Borrowings) and Current Financial Liabilities (being Borrowings, Trade Payables and Other Financial Liabilities) are valued at amortised cost.

(b) Measurement of Fair Values

The fair values of financial instruments have been classified into three categories depending on the inputs used in the valuation technique. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements).

NOTE 38 (continued)

7. Financial Risk Management

The Company's business activities are exposed to a variety of financial risks, namely Market Risk, Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk. The Company has a well established Risk Management Policy which has been duly approved by the Board of Directors. The Risk Management Policy has been established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Company as well as controls for mitigation of those risks. A periodical review of the changes in market conditions is also carried out to assess the impact of such changes on the Company and to revise the policies, if required.

(a) Management of Credit Risk

Credit risk refers to the risk that one party to a financial instrument will cause a financial loss for the other party by failing to discharge an obligation. The Company is primarily exposed to credit risk from its trade receivables and investments in the form of term deposits with scheduled banks.

The Company's credit risk exposure towards trade receivables is very low as the majority of its sales is on advance payment basis. Customer credit period ranges from 30 days to 60 days. Credit can be extended only to those customers who have been approved by the Company and only upto a predefined approved credit limit. The Credit limit is decided after assessing the credit worthiness of the customers based on the past trends and as per the established policies and procedures of the Company. The Company's customer base is widely distributed and the Company does not have concentration of credit risk in the hands of a few customers. Outstanding customer receivables are regularly monitored by the Company to ensure proper attention and focus on realisation. The historical experience of credit risk in collecting receivables is very low. Trade receivables are considered to be a single class of financial assets.

The Company usually invests surplus funds in fixed interest bearing term deposits with the scheduled banks.

The Company's maximum exposure towards the credit risk is the carrying value of each class of financial assets amounting to Rs. 156,12.86 Lakhs and Rs. 121,69.63 Lakhs as at March 31, 2023, and March 31, 2022, respectively, being the carrying amount of current account balances with the scheduled banks, term deposits with scheduled banks, trade receivables and other financial assets.

(b) management of Liquidity risk

The liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will encounter difficulty in meeting obligations associated with the financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or another financial assets. Management of liquidity risk ensures that it has sufficient funds to meet its liabilities when due without incurring unacceptable losses.

The Company manages liquidity risk by maintaining sufficient cash and cash equivalents in the form of fixed interest rate bearing term deposits with the scheduled banks and also through an adequate amount of committed credit and overdraft facilities from banks. The Company generates sufficient cash flows from operations which are used to service the financial liabilities occurring on a day to day basis. Shortfall, if any, is supported by the said committed credit and overdraft facilities available to the Company from the banks.

Liquidity risk exposure

The following are the remaining contractual maturities of financial liabilities at the reporting date.

The Company has not entered into any Forward Exchange Contracts during the year or has other derivative instruments as at the end of the year.

(c) management of market risk

Market risk is the risk that the fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market conditions. These changes may result from changes in the Foreign Currency exchange rates and in interest rates.

I. Currency risk

Currency risk is the risk that the fair value of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The Company has very minimal exposure towards foreign currency fluctuation on account of advances

received from the foreign customers before the shipment of the goods. Production/delivery of goods is closely monitored to mitigate the said foreign currency risk.

The Company has not entered into any Forward Exchange Contracts during the year or has other derivative instruments as at the end of the year.

Sensitivity analysis

This analysis assumes that all the other variables remain constant and ignores any impact of forecast sales and purchases. An analysis of strengthening or weakening of the INR against the foreign currencies which the company is exposed to as at the balance sheet date is as follows:

Weakening and strengthening of Rupee against the foreign currencies would not have led to any impact in the Statement of Profit and Loss for the year 2022-23 and also in the previous year.

II. Interest Rate Risk

Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in Market interest rates. The Company does not have any exposure to interest rate risks since all its borrowing and investments are fixed interest bearing.

III. Price Risk

Price risk is the risk that the fair value of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market value of investments. The Company does not have any material investments in the form of shares, mutual funds, etc.

8. Capital Management

The Company manages its capital structure so as to ensure that all strategic as well as day to day capital requirements are met with the maximum focus on increasing the shareholders' wealth. The Management and the Board of Directors of the Company monitor the return on capital and the level of dividends to shareholders taking into account the Company's profitability, circumstances and requirements of the business. The Management of the Company ensures there is sufficient liquidity to meet the Company's short term and long term financial liabilities without any shortfalls or delays. The Company maintains sufficient levels of investments in the form of term deposits with scheduled banks. The Company also raises funds from the public and its shareholders in the form of fixed deposits of upto three years tenure as per the applicable laws, as an alternative source to bank borrowings, in order to meet its working capital needs.

9. Employee Benefits

(a) Defined contribution plan

The Company's defined contribution plans include Provident Fund, Superannuation Fund, Deposit-linked and Employee State Insurance. Contribution to these funds are recognised as an expense in the Statement of Profit and Loss under the line item employee benefit expenses. The Company has recognised an expense of Rs. 5,97.50 Lakhs (net) during the year (previous year Rs. 6,53.40 Lakhs) towards contribution to defined contribution plans.

(b) Defined benefit plan - Gratuity I. Plan characteristics

Nature of Benefits: The Company operates a defined benefit final salary gratuity plan. The gratuity benefits payable to the employees are based on the employee's service and last drawn salary at the time of leaving. regulatory Framework: There are no minimum funding requirements for a gratuity plan in India. The trustees of the gratuity fund have a fiduciary responsibility to act according to the provisions of the trust deed and rules. Besides this if the Company is covered by the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, then the Company is bound to pay the statutory minimum gratuity as prescribed under this Act.

Governance of the Plan: The Company has setup irrevocable trust fund to finance the plan liability. The trustees of the trust fund are responsible for the overall governance of the plan.

Inherent risks: The plan is of a final salary defined benefit in nature which is sponsored by the Company and hence it underwrites all the risks pertaining to the plan. In particular, there is a risk for the Company that any adverse salary growth or demographic experience or inadequate returns on underlying plan assets can result in an increase in cost

These sensitivities have been calculated to show the movement in the defined benefit obligation in isolation and assuming there are no other changes in the market conditions at the accounting date. There have been no changes from the previous periods in the methods and assumptions used in preparing the sensitivity analysis.

X. Funding arrangements and funding policy: The money contributed by the Company to the fund to finance the liabilities of the plan has to be invested. The trustees of the plan have outsourced the investment management of the fund to an insurance company. The insurance company in turn manages these funds and the asset allocation which is within the permissible limits prescribed in the insurance regulations. Due to the restrictions in the type of investments that can be held by the fund, it is not possible to explicitly follow an asset-liability matching strategy to manage risk actively. There is no compulsion on the part of the Company to fully pre-fund the liability of the Plan. The Company's philosophy is to fund the benefits based on its own liquidity and tax position as well as level of under funding of the plan.

Transactions between the Company and Hawkins Cookers Limited Employees Provident Fund Trust and the Status of outstanding balances as at March 31,2023 (Previous year’s figures given in brackets):

During the year company has paid Rs. 6,20.66 Lakhs (previous year: Rs. 5,79.48 Lakhs) to Hawkins Cookers Limited Employees Provident Fund Trust towards the Company's and the employees' contribution. Balance payable to the said Trust as at March 31,2023: Rs. 52.56 Lakhs (Previous Year: Rs. 49.79 Lakhs).

11. All the values have been stated in Rs. Lakhs unless otherwise indicated.