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Stock & Receivables Audit: A Beginner’s Guide to Indian Banking Audits

CA, CS, CMA : Learn how banks use stock and receivables audits to independently verify inventory and debtors before allowing working capital wit...

May 22, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

Insurance Coverage of Hypothecated Stock: Key Checks for Stock Auditors

CA, CS, CMA : The article explains how inadequate insurance coverage of hypothecated stock can expose banks to major financial losses despite va...

May 21, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

Why Stock Statements and Audited Financials Never Match in Stock Audits?

CA, CS, CMA : Differences between audited balance sheets and stock statements can significantly impact drawing power calculations. This article ...

May 20, 2026 588 Views 0 comment Print

Audit Committees – The Conscience Keeper

CA, CS, CMA : The Audit Committee ensures oversight of audits, controls, and compliance beyond financial reporting. Its effectiveness depends on...

April 14, 2026 414 Views 0 comment Print

Materiality in Auditing: Meaning, Benchmarks & Practical Use

CA, CS, CMA : This explains what materiality means in an audit and why it matters for financial decision-making. The key takeaway is that materi...

January 6, 2026 2616 Views 2 comments Print


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Webinar on Budget 2025 – In-depth Analysis of Income Tax Amendments

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...

January 31, 2025 17910 Views 1 comment Print

Surrogate Audit Work by Multinational Companies in India

Company Law : Multinational companies cannot conduct surrogate audit work in India under Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and Companies Act, 2013...

December 6, 2024 846 Views 0 comment Print

Expert Panel for Addressing queries related to Statutory Audit

CA, CS, CMA : Get expert support on auditing aspects for statutory audits. ICAIs Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) forms an expert p...

April 11, 2024 2241 Views 0 comment Print

Audit Plays Catalytic Role in Promoting Efficiency and Effectiveness: CAG

CA, CS, CMA : Discover the catalytic role of audit in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness, as emphasized by the Comptroller and Auditor Gener...

March 19, 2024 471 Views 0 comment Print

Exposure Draft SA 230 Audit Documentation

CA, CS, CMA : Explore the essential aspects of audit documentation, its nature, purposes, and compliance requirements. Learn best practices for ...

November 24, 2023 2967 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


CAG cannot carry compulsory service tax audit of private agencies after GST

Service Tax : The High Court in this regard stayed CAG audit of a private limited company providing warehouse and logistical support services in...

October 17, 2020 2274 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat High Court stays Service Tax Audit under Rule 5A by CAG

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&...

October 18, 2018 8733 Views 1 comment Print

CAG can audit Pvt. Companies if Govt Revenue is in question

Finance : The Delhi High Court has delivered a judgement in the case of Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India Versus Uni...

January 7, 2014 6538 Views 0 comment Print

Surplus arising to a partner from transaction of contribution of land held by it to a firm as capital contribution shall be taxable u/s 45

Income Tax : and contributed by the assessee to a firm towards capital contribution should be treated as stock in trade even during the course ...

January 24, 2010 2942 Views 0 comment Print

Deductibility of premium on forward contracts in the year of entering into such contracts

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...

January 21, 2010 6020 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Penalty Imposed for Delay in Forming Audit Committee & Appointing Independent Directors

Company Law : The ROC Ahmedabad penalized the company and its director for failing to appoint independent directors and constitute an audit comm...

November 13, 2025 726 Views 0 comment Print

Framework for conducting Joint Audit by CGST and SGST officers

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...

April 3, 2024 2226 Views 0 comment Print

NFRA Circular on Statutory Auditors’ Responsibilities in Reporting Fraud in a Company

Company Law : NFRA issued a circular highlighting statutory auditors' obligations to report fraud in accordance with Companies Act, 2013. Circu...

June 26, 2023 12390 Views 0 comment Print

Regulations on Audit and Accounts (Amendments) 2020

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...

August 20, 2020 11547 Views 0 comment Print

Practising CS can do Third Party Certification Audits in Haryana

CA, CS, CMA : Labour Department, Government of Haryana vide its Notification No. 11/38/2016-4Lab dated 10th August, 2016 formulated Third Party ...

September 9, 2016 7261 Views 0 comment Print


14 Benefits from GST Audits to business

April 29, 2018 25995 Views 7 comments Print

With the end of the 1st (First) Financial Year of Goods & Service Tax Act being implemented in India, we would certainly be trying to avoid errors on the GST Compliance Part. Errors like Non-payment / Short Payment of Output liability, Excess claim of Input Tax Credit (ITC) / Non-reversal of Input Claim, failure (willingly/unwillingly)

An open letter to PM of India- Why Frauds happen in Banks: Auditor Perspective

April 21, 2018 36264 Views 55 comments Print

The spirit of Audit is losing ground as the time is passing. The general perception that use of technology in banks has eliminated the chance of frauds is just an eye wash. The Nirav Modi case is just a tip of ice berg and day is not far when we will see the whole ice meltdown, if remedial steps are not taken and auditor is not allowed to discharge its responsibility with full independence .

Revised SA 299 Joint Audit of Financial Statements

March 29, 2018 40296 Views 1 comment Print

The practice of appointing more than one auditor to conduct the audit of large entities is followed for a longtime, sometimes voluntarily by the shareholders or sometimes due to the requirements of laws or regulations.

Tax Automation & Future of Audit De-humanized

March 18, 2018 1293 Views 0 comment Print

Evolution of disruptive technologies is fast shipping the global economies or should we say, rewriting the rules of global businesses. Disruptive technologies are not only creating new products, services, business models but also providing vast amount of data for carrying out various analysis from different perspectives suitable to a variety of users and purposes.

Statutory branch audit of branches of PSU banks- In wake of recent developments/ irregularities in PNB

March 17, 2018 31062 Views 29 comments Print

Environment created after change in policy of appointment of branch statutory auditors (giving autonomy to bank management) has not yielded desired results for the banking industry. Our regulatory body, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAO has been opposing this change from the very beginning.

Advisory for CAs on Allocation of Work among Joint Auditors in case of Bank Audits

March 6, 2018 13242 Views 0 comment Print

Where joint auditors are appointed, they should, by mutual discussion, divide the audit work among themselves. The division of work would usually be in terms of audit of identifiable units or specified areas. In some cases, due to the nature of the business of the entity under audit, such a division of work may not be possible.

PNB Appoints BDO for forensic Audit of 5 Nirav Modi group companies

March 2, 2018 6777 Views 0 comment Print

PNB Bank had initiated the process of assigning Forensic Audit in the accounts of Nirav Modi Group and bids were invited from major audit firms. Bid from M/s BDO India LLP was Ll and after negotiations with them, M/s BDO India LLP has been appointed as Forensic Auditor for 5 group companies of Nirav Modi on 27.02.18

PNB Fraud – Buck Stops With The Regulator ??

March 1, 2018 11424 Views 9 comments Print

Is the PNB fraud an operational failure or a auditing failure or a regulatory failure is the question (leaving alone the political slugfest) in the people mind and there are lot of claims and counter claims on the basic reasons for such a massive scam to have happended. No bank is without operational risks and […]

HR compliance sheet for Audit

February 23, 2018 33276 Views 4 comments Print

Details of Returns to be filed under The Employment Exchanges (CNV) Act,1959 & Rules, The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, The Factories Act, 1948, The minimum Wages Act, 1948, The Payment of Wages Act,1936 & related Mines Rules, The Contract Labour 9 (R&A) Act, 1970 & Rules, The Apprenticeship Act, 1961, The Payment of Bonus Act, […]

Create Automated Auditor Appointment Agency to ensure auditors independence

February 23, 2018 2670 Views 9 comments Print

In order to ensure independency of auditors, I suggest overall change in the auditor’s appointment procedure so that no one should be able to influence auditors. In today’s modern technological environment, this can be achieved by creating Automated Auditor Appointment Agency (4A).

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