Central Government to specify audit of items of cost in respect of certain companies

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....e production of such goods or providing such services as may be prescribed, direct that particulars relating to the utilisation of material or labour or to other items of cost as may be prescribed shall also be included in the books of account kept by that class of companies: Provided that the Central Government shall, before issuing such order in respect of any class of companies regulated under....

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....t of cost records: Provided further that the auditor conducting the cost audit shall comply with the cost auditing standards. Explanation.-For the purposes of this sub-section, the expression "cost auditing standards" mean such standards as are issued by the 2[Institute of Cost Accountants of India], constituted under the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 (23 of 1959), with the appr....

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....r sub-section (2) furnish the Central Government with such report along with full information and explanation on every reservation or qualification contained therein. (7) If, after considering the cost audit report referred to under this section and the information and explanation furnished by the company under sub-section (6), the Central Government is of the opinion that any further information....