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Government of India

Ministry of Corporate Affairs

18-July-2012 15:16 IST

MCA’s Fresh Mandate on Filing of Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account in Extensible Businessreporting Language (XBRL) Mode

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided to further mandate the following select class of companies to file their Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account in XBRL mode for the financial year commencing on or after 1.4.2011 :

(i) all companies listed with any Stock Exchange(s) in India and their Indian subsidiaries; or

(ii) all companies having paid up capital of Rupees five crore and above; or

(iii) all companies having turnover of Rupees one hundred crore and above; or

(iv)all companies who were required to file their financial statements for FY 2010-11, using XBRL mode.

However, banking companies, insurance companies, power companies and Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) are exempted from XBRL filing till further orders.

The applicable taxonomy as per Schedule VI of the Companies Act, 1956 has already been placed on the Ministry’ s website www.mca.gov.in . The Business Rules, validation tools, etc. required for preparing the financial statements in XBRL format ,as per the revised Schedule-VI and Accounting Standards, are under preparation and would soon be made available by the Ministry. The actual date for enabling XBRL filing will be intimated separately.

Additional Fee Exemption: All companies referred to in the 1st Para, will be allowed to file their financial statements in XBRL mode without any additional fee/ penalty up to 15th November, 2012 or within 30 days from the date of their AGM, whichever is later.

Training Requirement: Stakeholders are advised to visit the Ministry’s websitewww.mca.gov.in/ XBRL/ index.html regularly to have training in XBRL on taxonomy related issues.

It may be noted that, Vide Companies (Filing of documents and forms in Extensible Business Reporting Language) Rules, 2011 notified vide GSR No. 748E dated 5.10.2011, select class of companies were required to file their Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account and other documents as required u/ s 220 of Companies Act , 1956 with the Registrar of Companies for the financial year ending on or after 31st March, 2011.

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XBRL filing mandate requires select companies to submit financial statements in standardized XBRL format with transitional fee relief. The Ministry mandates XBRL filing of Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account for a specified class of companies for the financial year commencing 1 April 2011, covering listed companies (and their Indian subsidiaries), large companies by capital and turnover, and those already subject to XBRL requirements; banking, insurance, power and NBFCs are exempt until further orders. The Schedule VI taxonomy is published online, business rules and validation tools are being prepared, a transitional waiver of additional fees is provided for timely XBRL filing, and stakeholders are directed to the Ministry's XBRL portal for training.