SCC Holdings Berhad Annual Report 2017

SCC Holdings Berhad (511477-A) | Annual Report 2017 25 By virtue of their interests in the shares of the Company, Chee Long Sing @ Cher Hwee Seng, Cher Sew Seng and Cher Lip Chun are also deemed interested in the shares of all the subsidiary companies during the financial year to the extent that the Company has an interest under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2016. None of the other Directors in office at the end of the financial year had any interest in shares in the Company or its related corporations during the financial year. Directors’ Benefits Since the end of the previous financial year, no Director of the Company has received or become entitled to receive a benefit (other than a benefit included in the aggregate amount of remuneration received or due and receivable by Directors as shown in Note 28(c) to the financial statements) by reason of a contract made by the Company or a related corporation with the Director or with a firm of which the Director is a member, or with a company in which the Director has a substantial financial interest, other than Director who have significant financial interests in companies which traded with certain companies in the Group in the ordinary course of business and legal fee paid to a firm in which a Director is a member as disclosed in Note 28(b) to the financial statements. Neither during nor at the end of the financial year, was the Group or the Company a party to any arrangement whose object was to enable the Directors to acquire benefits by means of the acquisition of shares in, or debentures of, the Company or any other body corporate. Indemnity and Insurance Costs There was no indemnity given to or insurance effected for the Directors, officers and auditors of the Company in accordance with Section 289 of the Companies Act, 2016. Other Statutory Information (a) Before the financial statements of the Group and of the Company were prepared, the Directors took reasonable steps: (i) to ascertain that action had been taken in relation to the writing off of bad debts and the making of allowance for doubtful debts and satisfied themselves that adequate allowance had been made for doubtful debts and there were no bad debts to be written off; and (ii) to ensure that any current assets which were unlikely to be realised in the ordinary course of business including the value of current assets as shown in the accounting records of the Group and of the Company had been written down to an amount which the current assets might be expected so to realise. (b) At the date of this report, the Directors are not aware of any circumstances: (i) which would render it necessary to write off any bad debts or the amount of the allowance for doubtful debts in the financial statements of the Group and of the Company inadequate to any substantial extent; or (ii) which would render the values attributed to current assets in the financial statements of the Group and of the Company misleading; or (iii) not otherwise dealt with in this report or the financial statements which would render any amount stated in the financial statements of the Group and of the Company misleading; or (iv) which have arisen which would render adherence to the existing method of valuation of assets or liabilities of the Group and of the Company misleading or inappropriate. (c) At the date of this report, there does not exist: (i) any charge on the assets of the Group and of the Company which has arisen since the end of the financial year which secures the liabilities of any other person; or (ii) any contingent liability of the Group or of the Company which has arisen since the end of the financial year. DIRECTORS’ REPORT (CONT’D)