CA, CS, CMA : Explore the ethical issues in auditing, their consequences, and strategies for maintaining integrity. Understand how ethical stand...
CA, CS, CMA : Learn how to set audit materiality, performance materiality, and determine sample sizes using Excel. Enhance audit accuracy and co...
CA, CS, CMA : Explore significance of ISA 580 and crucial role of Management Representation Letters in audits. Learn their purpose, reliability,...
Company Law : Coffee Day Enterprises Limited (CDEL) operates in various sectors, including coffee retailing, logistics, financial services, and...
CA, CS, CMA : SAS 500 is the fifth of the 16 SAS, which will become effective once posted by ICAI SRO i.e ISAI. The prime objective is to drasti...
CA, CS, CMA : Framework for Social Audit Standards defines and describes the elements and objectives of a social audit performed by social audit...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI Social Audit Standard – 16 (ICSI SAS-16) aims to aid the Social Auditors with necessary instructions or guidelines for the ...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI Social Audit Standard – 15 (ICSI SAS-15) aims to aid the Social Auditors with necessary instructions or guidelines for the ...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI Social Audit Standard – 14 (ICSI SAS-14) aims to aid the Social Auditors with necessary instructions or guidelines for the ...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI Social Audit Standard – 13 (ICSI SAS-13) aims to aid the Social Auditors with necessary instructions or guidelines for the ...
Company Law : NFRA issued a circular highlighting statutory auditors' obligations to report fraud in accordance with Companies Act, 2013. Circu...
Company Law : Further deferral of SA 701 cannot be permitted and it remains applicable for audits of financial statements for periods beginning ...
The Income Tax (I-T) Department has issued a fresh notice to realty major DLF even as it’s appeal against an additional tax liability imposed on it by the I-T Department is being heard. The demand for additional tax payment first came after the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), which sets auditing standards, revised its accounting norms during 2005-06.
A report prepared by India’s apex accounting body that is investigating the role of the auditors in the fraud at Satyam Computer Services Ltd doesn’t shed any new light on the subject and, apart from repeating charges made by the Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s federal investigative agency, suggests generic measures to improve the audit process in companies.
The Government is planning to strengthen the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards (NACAS), a move that will make the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) report to NACAS. For this, it will hand over the supervisory role of both accounting and auditing standards to NACAS.
The Government will soon be empowered to swiftly incorporate in the Companies Act any changes in accounting standards through the rules governing the Act. It will not have to go through the long process of amending the Act.
Objecting to the Maharashtra government’s decision of removing the audit limit for non-CAs government-authoris ed auditors, the accounting regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has urged to restore the audit limit of Rs 1 lakh at the earliest. No audit limit enables the auditors to perform audit of trusts of any size.
Accounting regulator, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has asked the private and public-sector banks to hire the services of qualified auditors instead of chartered accountants who render ‘compilation engagement’ services. In a compilation engagement, a chartered accountant uses his accounting expertise as opposed to the auditing expertise to collect, classify and summarize financial […]
In order to make books of accounts of public sector entities more transparent, accounting regulator ICAI on Thursday said their foreign branches also should be audited by the CAG. “Foreign branches of the public sector undertakings are not audited… this is one issue which needs to be looked into by the Comptroller and Auditor General of […]
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India at its 286th meeting held on March 8, 2009 cleared two more Standards on Auditing (SAs), i.e., Revised SA 500, Audit Evidence and SA 720, The Auditor’s Responsibility in Relation to Other Information in Documents Containing Audited Financial Statements in the direction of enhancing the […]
To prevent recurrence of Satyam-like frauds, the ICAI on Monday tightened the auditing standards by introducing new guidelines which will enable auditors interlink information and reports of other stakeholders and evaluate them. The two new standards on auditing, said Atul Kumar Gupta, member of the regional council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), […]
The Big Four accounting firms are reputed to have strong process controls. How then could one such firm have failed to detect such a multi-year scam as is getting unravelled in Satyam? “There is a co-relation between the size of audit firms and the size of companies, and hence all large corporate frauds involve big […]
