CA, CS, CMA : The article explains how unusually flawless records may signal a managed presentation rather than genuine business performance, re...
CA, CS, CMA : Focusing only on receivables can miss significant risks embedded in related-party payables. A bilateral review reveals internal gr...
CA, CS, CMA : This comprehensive checklist covers every stage of a stock and receivables audit, from engagement acceptance to final reporting. I...
CA, CS, CMA : A perfect stock valuation can still conceal serious lending risks if critical operating licences have expired. Auditors should ver...
CA, CS, CMA : The article highlights practical dilemmas faced during stock audits by borrowers, auditors, and bankers. It explains how professio...
Income Tax : Join us for an insightful session with CA Bikash Bogi, a seasoned tax expert with over 15 years of practical experience, as he bre...
Company Law : Multinational companies cannot conduct surrogate audit work in India under Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and Companies Act, 2013...
CA, CS, CMA : Get expert support on auditing aspects for statutory audits. ICAIs Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) forms an expert p...
CA, CS, CMA : Discover the catalytic role of audit in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness, as emphasized by the Comptroller and Auditor Gener...
CA, CS, CMA : Explore the essential aspects of audit documentation, its nature, purposes, and compliance requirements. Learn best practices for ...
Service Tax : The High Court in this regard stayed CAG audit of a private limited company providing warehouse and logistical support services in...
Service Tax : Gujarat High Court granted stay on conducting audit of records of taxpayers under 5A of Service Tax Rules, 1994, by Officers of C&...
Finance : The Delhi High Court has delivered a judgement in the case of Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India Versus Uni...
Income Tax : and contributed by the assessee to a firm towards capital contribution should be treated as stock in trade even during the course ...
Income Tax : The Delhi High Court (HC) [2010-TIOL42-HC-DEL-IT] in the case of CIT v. Industrial Finance Corporation of India (Taxpayer) which...
Company Law : The ROC Ahmedabad penalized the company and its director for failing to appoint independent directors and constitute an audit comm...
Goods and Services Tax : Learn about the latest directive from the Ministry of Finance regarding joint audits by CGST and SGST officers. Understand the fra...
Company Law : NFRA issued a circular highlighting statutory auditors' obligations to report fraud in accordance with Companies Act, 2013. Circu...
CA, CS, CMA : (1) These Regulations may be called Regulations on Audit and Accounts (Amendments) 2020 (2) They shall come into force on the date...
CA, CS, CMA : Labour Department, Government of Haryana vide its Notification No. 11/38/2016-4Lab dated 10th August, 2016 formulated Third Party ...
India’s apex accounting standards body is convinced that 80 hours is all it will take for the country’s accountants to learn the nuances of an international standard that could soon become the way the world writes its books.
In continuation with the Circular No.F.1/5/SE/ 83 dated May 31, 1984 of Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economics Affairs, Stock Exchange Division, you are advised to direct your stock brokers/clearing members to carry out complete internal audit on a half yearly basis by independent qualified Chartered Accountants.
Apex accounting body ICAI today issued four new standards to help companies streamline internal audits for minimising pilferage, ensuring cost efficiency and mitigating waste.This will standardise the process of internal checks in companies, and “companies can now expect that professionals engaged in internal audit will be rendering services of such standards as being issued by the institute,
No.VAT/MMB-1006/152/Adm-3(Adm-6) Mumbai, dt. 31.07.2008 The Hon’ble High Court has dismissed the Writ petition No. 2000 of 2007 and allied petitions regarding Form 704. The date for filing of Form 704 was extended by the High Court to 30th June 2008. Accordingly, a trade circular cited at reference 13 was issued and the date for filing of Form 704 in respect of the year 2005-06 and 2006-07 was extended to 30th June 2008.
As expressly mentioned in Section 22, the primary object of business audit is to promote compliance with law. Business audit is a device with the Department to ascertain and ensure compliance of laws that are implemented by the Department. At a practical level, the object of audit is to ascertain the correctness of returns and to identify inadequacies in returns, if any when checked against the books of account and the circumstances of the business. If the returns are not filed then, the audit officer is expected to quantify the liability of the dealer and enforce recovery. (Trade Cir. No. 25 T of 2008)
In the first instance, 15 bought-leaf tea factories in Nilgiris have applied for energy audit under the energy conservation project launched by Tea Board in co-operation with United Nations Development Programme’s Global Environment Facility and implemented by Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE).
Appointment of branch statutory auditors of Public Sector Banks – Chartered Accountants from North Eastern Region. RBI has decided to relax the eligibility norm in respect of professional standing of individual auditors/proprietar y audit firms from the North-Eastern Region (viz. the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) by reducing the period from 3 years to 1 year from the year 2008-09 and onwards.
MVAT Audit Due date extended to 31St July 2008 for Financial Year 20005-06 and 2006-07. 1. The Hon’ble High Court has dismissed the Writ petition No. 2000 of 2007 and allied petitions regarding Form 704. The date for filing of Form 704 was extended by the High Court to 30th June 2008. Accordingly, a trade circular cited at reference 13 was issued and the date for filing of Form 704 in respect of the year 2005-06 and 2006-07 was extended to 30th June 2008.
The requirement of compulsory practical training is an integral part of the Chartered Accountancy course. Keeping this in view, the Council has recently issued a statement to ensure that working hours of articled assistants do not clash with any other activity undertaken by the articled assistants. However, it has been brought to the notice of the Institute that some of articled assistants are attending coaching classes during working hours of articled training. It is hereby clarified that articled assistants are not permitted to attend coaching classes during working hours. As stated earlier, articled training is an important part of CA curriculum.
The Government recognises the importance of financial reporting in providing essential financial information about the company to its shareholders and other stakeholders, as an integral and important part of good corporate governance. Such information needs to be reliable, free from bias and should enable comparison on the basis of common benchmarks. This, in turn, necessitates an appropriate, financial reporting system in the form of accounting standards that incorporate sound accounting principles and reflect a true picture of the financial health of the company while ensuring legally enforceable accountability.
