Internal Audit

Various Laws Applicable to Co-op. Societies 1) The Maharashtra Co-op. Societies Act, 1960 (MCS Act) – having 167 sections effective from 26/1/1962 and The Maharashtra Co-op. Societies Rules, 1961 – having 110 rules effective from 23/12/1963. Full Article

Accounting regulator ICAI today issued a clarification saying that internal auditors appointed as tax auditors can continue to do their work if their selection for the job took place before December 12 last year.  The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India decided that with effect from December 12 last year internal auditors cannot be appointed [...] Full Article

The Council in its 281st meeting held from 3rd to 5th October, 2008 decided that an internal auditor of an assessee, whether working with the organization or an independently practicing Chartered Accountant being an individual chartered accountants or a firm of chartered accountants, could not be appointed as his tax auditor. The said decision came [...] Full Article

On paper, this tech park had 37 units functioning on its premises — all entitled to income tax concessions. What they turned out to be were nothing less than maintenance rooms located in the car park! And the tech park owner stashed away Rs 75.8 crore that he had claimed as tax concessions for three [...] Full Article

MUMBAI: The “cleaning up” or restating of scam-tainted Satyam’s accounts is expected to take at least six months as the newly-appointed auditing firms will have to scrutinise the company’s fudged numbers back to 2002, a top source said. “Efforts to restate the accounts are progressing rapidly. The Board expects this task to take at least [...] Full Article

This programme of enterprise-wide risk management was highly successful and resulted in substantial savings and structured decision-making with learnings for the company. The Board appreciated the consulting role of the Internal Audit Department which had fulfilled its role aptly described as ‘Best Practice Transfer and Risk Management’ and directed the CIA to ensure that this programme was spread to all functions of the company. The Board also directed the CIA to su.. Full Article

Using several features of the audit tools, the auditor was able to increase the depth of his audit and also do it faster. In this way, he was able to focus on streamlining processes and spend more time interacting with officials on business issues which were useful sources for analytical information. This was appreciated by the management. Full Article

During the audit of a bank branch (which is a semi-urban branch and has been put under concurrent audit for the first time), the concurrent auditors found that the total working is in a mess. Loan applications for loans already disbursed are not on record, disbursement conditions are not complied with, hypothecation agreements are incomplete, mortgages wherever necessary are pending and number of lacunae are observed in the processing of proposals, which are under the Br.. Full Article