In this regard, the Corporate Affairs Ministry has made amendments to Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 under the new companies law.
According to the Ministry, the rule pertaining to consolidated financial statement would not be applicable on certain entities for the current financial year ending March 31, 2015.
This rule would not "apply for the financial year commencing from the April 1, 2014 and ending on the March 31, 2015, in case of a company which does not have a subsidiary or subsidiaries but has one or more associate companies or joint ventures or both, for the consolidation of financial statement in respect of associate companies or joint ventures or both, as the case may be".
Further, the Ministry in a statement said that "nothing in this rule shall apply in respect of preparation of consolidated financial statement by an intermediate wholly- owned subsidiary, other than a wholly-owned subsidiary whose immediate parent is a company incorporated outside India".
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Separately, the Ministry said that a trustee representing Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) or Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvITs) can be a partner in a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP).
The Ministry's observation has come after clarifications were in this regard.
"The matter has been examined in consultation with the Law Ministry and it is clarified that for the purposes of these trusts it is not barred for a trustee, being a body corporate, to hold partnership in an LLP in its name without the addition of the statement that it is a trustee," it said in a separate statement.