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Company Law - 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....
Read MoreCompany Law - In this Flash editorial, the author begins by referring the provisions of Section 139 & 140 of Companies Act, 2013 relating to ratification of Auditor in every Annual General Meeting & Removal of auditor. The main thrust of the article, however, is upon the indirectly removal of Auditor through Non Ratification of Auditor...
Read MoreCompany Law - Third proviso to section 139(2) is applicable only in those cases wherein old Auditor is being continued and in case of appointment of new Auditor, the appointment shall be of five years as per section 139(1) & (2)....
Read MoreCompany Law - It is not mandatory to reappoint the retiring auditor even if 3 things stipulated in sub-section (9) are not attracted. The board of director may recommend any person other than retiring auditor for appointment as statutory auditor of the Company at the time of completion of term of existing auditor of the Company....
Read MoreCompany Law - An auditor has to keep himself abreast of the latest developments in the audit field by constant upgradition of his skills and knowledge through Internet, seminars, self-study and correspondence course. The Satyam multi-crore scam is still fresh in people's mind and investigations are in progress with the Chairman and Chief Finance Offic...
Read MoreCompany Law - 1. Revised SA 700, Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements. 2. New SA 701, Communicating Key Audit Matters in the Independent Auditor’s Report. 3. Revised SA 705, Modifications to the Opinion in the Independent Auditor’s Report. 4. Revised SA 706, Emphasis of Matter Paragraphs and Other Matter Paragraphs in the Indepe...
Read MoreCompany Law - The world's four biggest accounting firms are to appoint non-executive directors after coming under growing pressure from regulators over governance.Ernst & Young, which along with law firm Linklaters has been been accused of providing window dressing for Lehman Brothers' risky financial structures, today became the first of the big four ...
Read MoreCompany Law - That being the case, some of the people that you knew while they were in public accounting have completely disappeared never to heard from again. Those of you still at the mercy of the billable hour might assume that these refugees are loving life in their new jobs – working 40 hours a week, making far more money and seeing more than an...
Read MoreCompany Law - The Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) said it would probe the final years before the bank’s demise, focusing on the use of particular repurchase transactions, known within Lehman's as Repo 105s, allegedly used to displace assets during sensitive reporting periods....
Read MoreCompany Law - PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing an inquiry by accounting regulators into its failure to notice that JP Morgan was paying up to £16 billion of clients’ money into the wrong bank accounts. Last week the Financial Services Authority fined the investment bank £33.3 million...
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