MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

05.01.2007

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

TROOP SOFTWARE – DIVISION OF LALA RAM FINANCE AND INVESTMENT COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

132, Industrial Estate, Nunhai, Agra-282006, Uttar Pradesh

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2006

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

23.01.1996

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

20-19379

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U74140UP1996PTC019379

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

VOIP Implementation Service and Software Development

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

B

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average/normal.

Small

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

 

 

 

Status :

Small Company

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Slow but Correct

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Troop Software is an IT division of Lala Ram Finance and Investment Company Private Limited, a company engaged in finance and investment activities. There is very limited business in the company as confirmed by Mr. Hargobind Singh of the company. Trade relations are reported as fair. Payments are reported as fair. Payments are reported as slow but correct.

 

The company can be considered for small to mediocre business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions.

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

132, Industrial Estate, Nunhai, Agra-282006, Uttar Pradesh, India

Tel. No.:

91-562-2280870

E-Mail :

anujashoksingh@yahoo.co.in

Area :

3500 Sq. ft.

Location :

Leased

 

 

Head Office :

A-152, Sector 63, Noida-201303, India

Tel. No.:

91-120-4061100 to 10

Fax No.:

91-120-4601100 to 10

E-Mail :

hargobind@troopsoftware.com

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Dinesh Gupta

Designation :

Director

Address :

4341, Vijay Nagar Colony, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Birth/Age :

15.08.1951

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mukesh Gupta

Designation :

Director

Address :

4341, Vijay Nagar Colony, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mahesh Gupta

Designation :

Director

Address :

4341, Vijay Nagar Colony, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Birth/Age :

09.09.1950

Date of Appointment :

01.04.2002

 

 

Name :

Mr. Umesh Chandra Gupta

Designation :

Director

Address :

4341, Vijay Nagar Colony, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Birth/Age :

15.11.1946

Date of Appointment :

01.04.2002

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rama Shankar Gupta

Designation :

Director

Address :

4341, Vijay Nagar Colony, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Appointment :

01.04.2002

 


 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mr. Siddharth Gupta

Designation :

Chief Executive Officer and Business Manager, Offshore Development Services

Mobile No. :

91-9897093999

E-Mail :

sidharth@troopsoftware.com

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS

 

Names of Shareholders

No. of Shares

Mr. Dinesh Gupta

1000

Mr. Mukesh Gupta

1000

Mr. Umesh C. Gupta

1000

Mr. Mahesh Gupta

1000

Mrs. Asha Rani Gupta

1000

Mrs. Mathura Devi

1100

Mrs. Meera Gupta

1000

Mrs. Vibha Gupta

1000

Mrs. Manju Gupta

1000

Mrs. Sandhya Gupta

1000

Mr. Gaurav Gupta

100

Mr. Vishal Gupta

100

Mrs. Vandana Gupta

100

Ms. Arti Gupta

100

Ms. Shikha Gupta

100

Mr. Rohit Gupta

100

Ms. Divya Gupta

100

Mrs. Richa Gupta

100

Mr. Sidartha Gupta

100

Ms. Shruti Gupta (Minor)

100

Ms. Dakshita Gupta

100

Ms. Devayani Gupta

100

Mr. Abhishek Gupta

100

R. S. Gupta & Sons

1100

U. C. Gupta & Sons

100

Mahesh Gupta & Sons

100

Dinesh Gupta & Sons

100

Mukesh Gupta & Sons

100

U.C. Gupta & Brothers

100

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

VOIP Implementation Service and Software Development

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Customers :

Financial Sector


Jyoti Jain Investment & Finance
Seeta Portfolio Management

Government Sector


Allahabad High Court

Telecom Sector


KGNetworks

Enterprise Sector
Canada Online Healthlink Inc., Canada
GCS Consulting, Canada
Acpl Exports, India
TARAASH, India
APPL, India
Divya Jewellers, India
Metro America Sales Inc., USA
Shakti Deep, India

 

 

Bankers :

v      Canara Bank, Agra

v      HDFC Bank, Delhi

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

--

 

 

Auditors :

Manish Brij Garg & Company

Chartered Accountants

Address :

56, Old Vijay Nagar Colony, Agra, Uttar Pradesh-282004, India

Mobile No.:

91-9837590909

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

ACPL Exports, Agra

Line of Business : Export House

 

ACPL Jewels, Agra

 

Divya Jewellers, Agra

 

Agra Machine Tools, Agra

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

50000

Equity Shares

Rs.10/- each

Rs.0.500 millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

20000

Equity Shares

Rs.10/- each

Rs.0.200 millions

 

Capital Investment :

 

Owned :

27.716 millions

Borrowed :

87.041 millions

Total :

114.757 millions

 


 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

Particulars

 

31.03.2005

31.03.2004

31.03.2003

Sales Turnover

22.134

14.507

6.771

 

 

 

 

Profit/Loss for the year

13.396

6.475

0.120

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

 

0.200

200

2] Share Application Money

 

0.000

0

3] Reserves & Surplus

 

27.516

19486

4] (Accumulated Losses)

 

0.000

0.000

NETWORTH

 

27.716

19.686

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

 

87.040

63895

TOTAL BORROWING

 

87.040

63.895

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

114.756

83.581

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

 

16.946

7.362

Capital work-in-progress

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

 

40.639

32.098

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

0.000

0.000

 

Sundry Debtors

 

0.000

1.809

 

Cash & Bank Balances

 

18.181

24.439

 

Other Current Assets

 

0.823

0.015

 

Loans & Advances

 

41.606

18.412

Total Current Assets

 

60.610

44.675

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

3.417

0.524

 

Provisions

 

0.021

0.029

Total Current Liabilities

 

3.439

0.553

Net Current Assets

 

57.171

44.122

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

114.756

83.581

 


 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

PAT / Total Income

(%)

 

NA

NA

 

 

 

 

 

Net Profit Margin

(PBT/Sales)

(%)

 

NA

NA

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Total Assets

(PBT/Total Assets}

(%)

 

NA

NA

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Investment (ROI)

(PBT/Networth)

 

 

NA

NA

 

 

 

 

 

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

 

3.26

3.27

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

 

17.62

80.68

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

 

The subject company is shifted from Delhi to Noida.

 

The new address of the subject is as follows:

 

A-152, Sector 63, Noida-201303, India

Tel. No.: 91-120-4061100 to 10

Fax No.: 91-120-4601100 to 10

E Mail : hargobind@troopsoftware.com

 

The subject has further claimed that “Troop Software” is the Division of Lal Ram Finance and Investments Private Limited. However, any details could not be traced about Lal Ram.

 

The division was started in the year 2000

 

Website Details :

 

Company

 

Troop Software is a global provider of business communication applications, systems and services focused entirely on serving the needs of businesses large to small.


Their team of experienced energetic professionals have a technology and process oriented approach as the foundation of all their service offerings.

 

Their communication applications, systems and services help simplify complex communications and work with existing technologies, enabling customers to unlock value and potential from their network. And by embedding communications into the very business processes of an enterprise, they help to improve the way organizations work - making people more productive, processes more intelligent and customers more satisfied.

 

Service Offerings

 

VOIP Consulting & Integration

Software Development

Openstheirce Application Customization & Implementation

Database Management

 

Opensource IP Telephony Integration

Asterisk Consulting & Integration

 

Overview


Troop VOIP Consulting & Integration Services can help you implement Asterisk based telephony systems across their business. They help customers choose the right infrastructure elements to work with Asterisk and also integrate their legacy telephony infrastructure to get value from their previous investments. They also ensure that their Asterisk based communications environment is secure and manageable. Their team of experts can also help you plan, design, and optimize their network for IP Telephony.

 

Benefits


Customers benefit from their expertise and experience in deploying Asterisk based telephony systems. Troop provides you the expertise, tools and resources to plan, design, integrate and optimize multi-site branch office for their Asterisk implementation project. Their comprehensive solution delivers the technical knowledge and processes required to successfully and rapidly deploy enterprise branch solutions on time and on budget.

 

Application Integration


Based on their business objectives, Troop experts can design and integrate various custom developed and opensource applications with their Asterisk implementation to enhance effectiveness of their business communication.

 

They have developed various applications which work together with Asterisk based telephony systems to address many unique business requirements.

 

Some opensource applications which they have successfully integrated with Asterisk are:

SugarCRM


SugarCRM is an open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than many proprietary applications. SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships.

 

VICIDIAL


This is a list dialer(another real-time web-client) that can be added to Asterisk and is highly configurable with detailed logging. VICIDIAL can dial one-call-at-a-time or can put it in auto-dial mode and it acts as a predictive dialer. VICIDIAL also can function as an ACD for inbound calls or for Closer calls coming from VICIDIAL fronters and even allows for remote agents that may only have a phone.

 

AsterFAX


AsterFax is an email to fax gateway for the transmission of faxes using Asterisk. AsterFax builds on the services provided by Asterisk to provide a full fledged email based Fax Gateway. With AsterFax can send faxes from their desktop sing their standard email client without have to install any software on their desktop. AsterFax supports a growing number of file formats such as PDF, Tiff, Postscript, MS-Word and OpenOffice Writer. If any errors occurring during transmission an error report is sent back to their inbox. One can also preview how the fax will look by sending email to the special 'preview' address.

 

Astbill


AstBill is a web-based, user friendly billing interface for Asterisk and VOIP. AstBill includes the functionality needed by most businesses for their billing solutions. It is also very efficient as a platform for small VOIP providers.

 

IP Telephony Solutions

Solutions by Industry

 

ISP
Contact Center

Financial
Media
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Retail

 

CRM

 

Troop Software's CRM Solution provides the companies, the cutting edge they need to drive ahead of their competitors.

 

CRM helps companies to exercise their full potential by streamlining the company's processes to make the business more "Customer Centric" to suit the needs and rising demands of Customers. CRM gives them all the tools that they require to record and manage the communication and activities of marketing, sales and customer support.

 

CRM enables the companies to efficiently manage and grow in the following areas:

 

Sales Management

Marketing Automation

Customer Support

Reporting
Collaboration


Troop Software offers the CRM on hosted business model, where-in they host the client's CRM on their own secured server, so that the client doesn't have to invest in expensive hardware and physical setup.

 

Products

Impact Messaging System

 

IMPACT is a leading messaging system that facilitates real time communication. With its superior feature set and unprecedented reliability, IMPACT aims to provide businesses with an increased efficiency in their communication processes.         

Small, fast, cross-platform

The IMPACT Messaging Client is very thin, loads fast, and runs on most platforms including Windows 95/98/NT/XP, Mac OS, and UNIX/Linux


Compelling end-user experience

The IMPACT Client has one of the easiest and most intuitive user interfaces ever created



Customizable look and feel

One has total control over the user interface elements, the look and feel, company logo and more

Broadcast Messaging

Send messages to all connected users at the touch of a button


Controlled Private one-to-one messaging

Authorized users can engage in private conversations with other connected users

Seamless integration with their website

The messaging system can easily be integrated with their existing website to provide messaging
services for their customers


Easy, flexible administrative control

With several levels of user permissions you can separate between “normal” users, operators, and
administrators

Remote Management

Manager Console provides management of messaging server from anywhere in the world with the
use of an Internet connection and a Java-enabled web browser


Real-time Statistics

IMPACT allows an administrator to view real-time usage statistics and user details

Other features

 

Employs multi-threaded technology

Scan and purge technology ensures consistent chat server integrity. Prevents the

occurrences of "ghost" users

Superb Load-Handling Architecture

Lower memory utilization

Lower bandwidth utilization

 


CMT REPORT [Corruption, Money laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.44.42

UK Pound

1

Rs.86.61

Euro

1

Rs.58.46

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

4

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

4

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

4

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

5

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

3

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

4

--LEVERAGE

1~10

4

--RESERVES

1~10

3

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

3

--MARGINS

-5~5

--

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

NO

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

NO

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

34

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)                  Ownership background (20%)                         Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                            Market trend (10%)                                             Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average/normal.

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

Credit not recommended

NR

In view of the lack of information, we have no basis upon which to recommend credit dealings

No Rating

 

 

 

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