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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 2619 Views 2 comments Print


Latest News


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


CBDT – Kindly explore the mechanism to Monitor & Regulate Tax Audits by using MEF data

August 18, 2015 2235 Views 3 comments Print

Your attention is drawn towards a need of the hour that Tax Audits allotment be monitored through the department. It is certain that the tax audit reports shall be more qualitative and certainly result in achieving the objective of the Tax Audits. The said allotment may be monitored through your field offices under the 40 Principal CIT spread over to throughout the country.

General Checklist Of Audit Analysis/ Documentations/Evidences

August 18, 2015 190147 Views 8 comments Print

CA Durgesh Kabra Audit Reporting (which is on the basis of the Audit procedures and evidences) is governed by The Companies Act 2013 and relevant rules and standards notified by Central Government or agencies so appointed for the same. As all of us are aware about the Standards on Auditing are applicable to the Auditor […]

National Audit Cannot Be Compromised For International Audits Says CAG

July 22, 2015 1108 Views 0 comment Print

Stating that there is a significant difference between the audit environment in India and in the international institutions the CAG advised to use appropriate language while drafting the management letters. He further advised the Audit fraternity to maintain professional scepticism and strike a fine balance; be open‐minded and carefully consider the views of the management.

RBI issues revised guideline on Concurrent Audit System in Commercial Banks

July 16, 2015 4486 Views 0 comment Print

As you are aware, guidelines on ‘concurrent audit system in commercial banks’ were issued by us vide our circular DOS.No.BC.16/08.91.021/96 dated August 14, 1996 setting out the scope and coverage of concurrent audit system in commercial banks.

Service Tax / Excise Audit- Frequently Asked Question

July 2, 2015 18560 Views 11 comments Print

The Central Excise officers posted in Commissionerate of Audit conducts Audit which include Assistant / Deputy Commissioner, Joint /Additional Commissioner or Joint Director (Cost).

Applications for Empanelment as Stock Auditor with Allahabad Bank

June 25, 2015 18311 Views 0 comment Print

Applications are invited from the Firms of Chartered Accountants for the purpose of Stock and Book Debts audit of accounts with various branches of Allahabad Bank in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Those firms having branch (es) either in A.P. or in Telangana and are interested to empanel as Stock Auditors with Bank may submit application as per the format attached and the last date for receipt of the application at our office at the above address shall be 06.07.2015.

Audit Under Banking Environment

June 23, 2015 4324 Views 0 comment Print

Banking sector: The IT saga in Indian banking commenced from the mid-eighties of the twentieth century when the RESERVE BANK took itself the task of promoting automation in banking to improve customer service, book keeping, MIS and productivity.

Satyam Case-: an eye opener

June 23, 2015 6900 Views 0 comment Print

We have been taught that an audit conducted with a view to give an opinion about the truthful and fairness of financial statements, it does not include the objective to find out frauds / errors. Though the principle has remained constant, the expectations thereof have gone a sea change.

Optimal Size of CA Firm for Government Audits

June 15, 2015 24277 Views 4 comments Print

There is always debate in the minds of practicing Chartered Accountants over the size of the firms and their role in innovation. Some argue for their importance of large size having the top slab of the categories of firms, while some others argue for small size firms. In fact, the size of a firm is not clear in our minds that are correlated with the innovatory advantage.

Positioning Of Internal Audit In Corporate Framework

June 13, 2015 3956 Views 0 comment Print

The scope of internal auditing within an organization involves topics such as an organization’s governance, risk management and management controls. Internal auditing may also involve conducting proactive fraud audits to identify potentially fraudulent acts; participating in fraud investigations under the direction of fraud investigation professionals, and conducting post investigation fraud audits to identify control breakdowns and establish financial loss.

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