Dear Sir/Madam,
Once cost audit applicable it will be applicable till the company exists even TO got zero.
Reference: FAQs-1 dated 19/03/2015
1.10 A company meets the threshold limits for both maintenance of cost records and cost
audit in Year-0 (previous year) and consequently comes under the purview of the
Rules in Year-1 (current year). If the turnover of company gets reduced to lower than
the prescribed threshold limit in Year-1 (current year), whether Cost Records and
Cost Audit will be applicable for Year-2 (next year).
Rule 3 of the Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Rules, 2014 states that a company
engaged in the production of the goods or providing of services as prescribed having
an overall turnover from all its products and services of rupees thirty five crore or
more during the immediately preceding financial year, shall include cost records for
such products or services in their books of account. Since the threshold limit for
applicability of maintenance of cost accounting records is met in Year-0, the cost
records are required to be maintained from Year-1. Once the maintenance of cost
records becomes applicable, it would be maintained on a continuous basis in the
subsequent years also. In the same line, cost audit will be applicable from Year-1 and
for every year thereafter.
Hope you got your answer.
Thanks & Regards
Satish Kumar Gupta (CMA, CS, LLB, M.Com)
Cost Accountant