Filling the certificate
Exposures in crores, the parent-hedge disclosure, and the four figures behind EBID.
Five steps: the entity, the period, the exposures, EBID, then review and issue.
1. Entity & Engagement
Name, constitution, registered office, PAN and GSTIN, with the certificate and engagement dates.
2. Period & Submission
- Financial Yearrequired
The exposure is certified as at 31 March, and EBID for the year then ended.
- Name of the Bank / Authorised Dealerrequired
The RBI Direction is a lender's requirement, so this is normally the entity's banker.
- Addressrequired
- The entity prepares consolidated financial statements
Keeps the handbook's "(where the entity prepares consolidated financial statements)" qualification.
- The entity is a company
Retains the "as specified under section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013" phrase. Ticked by default.
- Your audit opinionrequired
Unmodified or modified.
- Date of your audit reportrequired
Note
There is no "audited by another firm" option here, unlike the other certificates. This one is issued by the auditor, on their own audit.
3. Foreign Currency Exposures
One row per exposure line, in INR crores.
- Exposurerequired
One of the circular's eight lines. The Statement puts it under FCY Receivables or FCY Payables on its own.
- Unhedged — up to 1 year, over 1 year
- Hedged — up to 1 year, over 1 year
- Natural Hedge — up to 1 year
The two Total columns are computed from the buckets beside them.
Warning
These figures are in crores, not rupees. It is the only place in OptiCertificate where that is true, because it is the unit the FEDAI circular prescribes.
Add only the lines the entity actually has. An exposure with nothing against it is still printed, so leave it out rather than adding a row of zeroes.
Below the grid, two optional fields appear behind toggles: the exposure hedged and managed by a parent entity, and the date of the letter explaining it. Fill both and the handbook's bracketed disclosure is printed; leave them and it is not.
4. EBID
Four figures from the audited accounts.
- Profit / Loss after tax for the yearrequired
A loss is entered as a negative figure.
- Add: Depreciation and Amortisation expenserequired
- Add: Interest on Debtrequired
Includes interest on lease liability — the Statement carries that footnote.
- Add: Lease Rentals
The Direction says "if any", so this may be nil.
Earning before interest and depreciation is their sum, shown read-only.
Note
You cannot type EBID. The certificate asserts that the computation accords with the RBI Direction, and a typed total could contradict the very thing being certified.
5. Review & Issue
Check the preview, choose the issuing firm, enter the UDIN.
Warning
Statement A carries a declaration signed by the entity's authorised signatory, not by you. Make sure the entity is ready to sign it before you issue — an unsigned declaration makes the Statement incomplete.
Submitting takes you to the editor. The grid and the EBID computation are the second and third pages.
Last updated 22 Sept 2026
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