statutory auditors

The Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Shri R.P.N. Singh today informed the Lok Sabha that the statutory auditors of the companies incorporated under the Companies Act are appointed u/s of the Act. Replying to a written question the minister said there is no proposal to have the statutory auditors appointed by a Regulatory Authority in respect of listed companies like in the cases of Banks and Government Companies. Full Article

Auditors in public sector banks (PSBs) must be appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the current practice of allowing bank managements to decide on such appointments must be done away with, the new President of the CA Institute, Mr Amarjit Chopra, has said. Full Article

The issue relating to the internal assignments allotted to the audit firms at the time of their appointment as statutory auditors has been examined afresh and it has been decided as under: “Audit firms should not undertake statutory audit assignment while they are associated with internal assignments in the bank during the same year. In case the firms are associated with internal assignment it should be ensured that they relinquish the internal assignment before acce.. Full Article

Government of India vide their letter F.No.1/14/2004-BOA dated November 21, 2008 had advised all the public sector banks (PSBs) to follow the Road Map for implementation of autonomy in the matter of appointment of statutory auditors. As per the Road Map, RBI will forward to the PSBs a list of eligible audit firms containing the names of firms equal to twice the number of vacancies identified for the year 2009-10. Full Article

Almost a year after it was rattled by the Satyam scam, auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Monday announced a sudden change of leadership of India operations as its chairman Ramesh Rajan stepped down prematurely to make way for Gautam Banerjee, who takes over from Singapore with immediate effect. Full Article

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the multi-crore Satyam accounting fraud, has given a clean chit to PricewaterhouseCoop ers (PwC), the firm's erstwhile statutory auditors. The CBI, in its supplementary chargesheet filed on November 24 at the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, revealed that the auditors S Gopalkrishnan and Srinivas Talluri, were employees of Lovelock & Lewes (L&L) and that the remuneration, which Satyam paid to.. Full Article

The question whether there should be a system of rotation of statutory auditors introduced to avoid repetition of Satyam episode has been raised in some quarters. In the past, the Government had tried to introduce this system by proposing amendments in the Companies Act on two occasions. However, these amendments could not be implemented as the Parliamentary Committees which examined these proposal rejected them in view of the strong protests from our members and the Ins.. Full Article

Allows inclusion of technical write-offs while calculating provision coverage ratio. In a relief to a large number of banks such as Canara Bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed the lenders to include technical write-offs while increasing the provision coverage ratio (PCR) to 70 per cent. Full Article