Taxonomy Related FAQs
http://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/Costing_Taxonomy_2012-11-22_v1.0.zip
Yes. Ministry of Corporate Affairs has developed separate validation tool to validate the instance documents of Cost Audit Report or Compliance report. The MCA XBRL validation tool can be downloaded from the XBRL website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs from the following link: http://xbrltool.mca.gov.in/XBRL/XBRL_TOOL/MCAXBRLCostingTaxonomy_ValidationTool_Version2.0.zip
Yes. The in-Cost taxonomy contains elements for both Cost Audit Report and Compliance Report. The entry points are different. However, common elements are defined at one place only.
In XBRL mode, only the requisite data & other information as per the Costing Taxonomy is required to be filed by attaching the valid instance document with the relevant e-Form. No other formats as earlier notified are required to be filed. The final Costing Taxonomy as available on the MCA website supersedes the formats of Cost Audit Report and Compliance Report as given in the earlier notified Cost Accounting Records Rules and Cost Audit Report Rules.
“Product or Activity Group classification” shall be strictly in accordance with the notification issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide S.O. No. 1747(E) dated 7th August 2012. The link for accessing the product group notification is:
http://mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/S.O.(E)1747_07_08_2012.pdfIn the XBRL format, you are required to file only one consolidated Cost Audit Report for the company as a whole. If a company has multiple Cost Auditors, then in such case, one of them may be designated/nominated as the lead Cost Auditor who will file the consolidated cost audit report for the company as a whole. However, the lead Cost Auditor would be required to provide details of all the Cost Auditors of the company including the report of the individual Cost Auditors with their comments and observations separately for each Cost Auditor in the consolidated report. Only the data contained in para 3 to 11 would be consolidated, wherever applicable.
In the Costing taxonomy, there is provision for separate link Table for Industry Specific Operating Expenses in the Abridged Cost Statement of the Cost Audit Report. Such cost details, for which no matching corresponding cost element is found in the Abridged Cost Statement, such cost elements are to be defined and reported in the industry specific operating expenses link table.
http://www.mca.gov.in/XBRL/pdf/ITC_HS_codes.pdf
The 8-digit NPCS Code can be accessed from the link:
http://mca.gov.in/XBRL/pdf/NPCS_codes.pdf