CA, CS, CMA : The article explains why ERP records alone cannot establish asset existence and why physical verification remains essential for ac...
CA, CS, CMA : The article explains why debtor realisation and ageing should be analysed over at least three months to assess receivable quality ...
CA, CS, CMA : CMA data forms the backbone of working capital assessment by helping banks determine genuine funding requirements and borrower con...
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...
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 ...
Cost of Quality (COQ) can be defined as Costs associated with quality-related efforts and deficiencies – these include assuring, preventing, detecting, and remediating product issues related to quality. Quality involves in creating, maintaining, upgrading and delivering a product having some standards that meets or exceeds the expectations of the customers.
Auditor shall design and perform audit procedures in such a way as to enable the auditor to obtain sufficient (quantity of audit evidence) and appropriate (quality of audit evidence) audit evidence to be able to draw reasonable conclusions on which to base the auditor’s opinion.
Reading the current headlines such as Sebi has directed the exchange to appoint an independent forensic auditor to verify any misrepresentation of financials and business of VDPL as well as any misuse of the funds or books of accounts’ and Sebi has directed the NSE to conduct forensic audit on two companies — ARSS Infrastructure Projects and Nu Tek India makes us question what forensic audit is all about.
In common parlance audit refers to the systematic examination and verification of the records, transactions, documents and physical inspection of the activities by qualified personnel.
Audit Audit denotes an examination or inspection of various books of accounts maintained by businesses. Audit under GST Laws The examination of records, returns & other documents maintained by the registered person; To verify the correctness of turnover declared, taxes paid, refund claimed & input tax credit availed; & To assess his compliance with the […]
When used with other audit procedures, external confirmations can be an effective audit tool in detecting fraud in accounts. In addition, to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence, debtor and creditor confirmations assist the auditor in discovering exceptions in the accounts.
Generic Internal Audit Checklist in excel format for ready reference of readers.
There are numerous reasons to analyze BRS prepared by an entity. One major reason why should an auditor has to be vigilant while performing BRS audit is discussed below. BRS is a statement prepared to reconcile or tally the balance shown in cash book of an entity with that of bank statement.
Due to amendment in Finance Act, 2016, applicability of Tax audit in cases where turnover is less than 1 crore and net profit less than 8%, tax audit will not be required to be conducted.
If an auditor of a company, in the course of the performance of his duties as auditor, has sufficient reason to believe that an offence involving fraud, is being or has been committed against/in the company by officers or employees of the company, he shall report the matter in the manner stated hereinafter.
