Cost audit report & compliance certificate

Filing of Cost Audit Report and Compliance Report in EXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mode.

The Ministry has vide its General Circular No. 8/2012 dated 10th May, 2012 [as amended on 29th June, 2012], mandated that all cost auditors and the concerned companies shall file their Cost Audit Reports and Compliance Reports for the year 2011-12 onwards [including the overdue reports relating to any previous year(s)] only in the XBRL mode. For this purpose, the applicable taxonomy, business rules, validation tools, etc. and also the “Product Group” classification required for preparing the cost audit reports and compliance reports as per the notified Cost Accounting Records Rules, 2011 and Cost Audit Report Rules, 2011 are under preparation and would soon be made available by the Ministry. The actual date for enabling XBRL filing will be intimated separately.

Therefore, It has now been decided by the Ministry that all cost auditors and the concerned companies will be allowed to file their Cost Audit Reports and Compliance Reports for the year 2011-12 [including the overdue reports relating to any previous year(s)] with the Central Government in the XBRL mode, without any penalty, upto 31st December, 2012.

Detailed Circualr attached herewith for your ready reference.