CA, CS, CMA : Explore the significance of SA 570 in financial audits, focusing on the going concern basis, auditor responsibilities, risk assess...
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Company Law : Unlock the compliance guide to auditor appointment and removal under the Companies Act, 2013. Dive into the nuances of appointing ...
Company Law : Explore intricacies of Section 139(2) in Companies Act, covering appointment of statutory auditors and addressing casual vacancies...
Company Law : The concept of Auditor independence requires the auditor to carry out his or her work freely, with integrity and in an objective m...
CA, CS, CMA : It is requested to kindly consider amendment in the explanation to Section 288(2) of the Income 'lax Act. 1961 'so as to include t...
CA, CS, CMA, Company Law : 1. Revised SA 700, Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements. 2. New SA 701, Communicating Key Audit Matters in the...
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Finance : That being the case, some of the people that you knew while they were in public accounting have completely disappeared never to he...
Company Law : Challenge to constitutional validity of section 140(5) of Companies Act, 2013 fails and it is observed and held that section 140(5...
Company Law : NFRA issued a circular highlighting statutory auditors' obligations to report fraud in accordance with Companies Act, 2013. Circu...
CA, CS, CMA : NFRA imposes monetary penalty of Rs Five Lakhs upon CA Rajiv Bengal In addition he is debarred for Five years from being appointed...
Fema / RBI : I am directed to refer to NABARD's letters NB.HO.IDD/260/RRB-322/2017-18 dated 2nd June 2017 and NB.HO.IDD/468/RRB-322/2017-18 dat...
India Inc is against rotation of auditors every few years. At a closed-door meeting with Sebi chairman CB Bhave, nearly 45 top honchos expressed their opposition to this move, being demanded by foreign institutional investors (FIIs). The attendees included K V Kamath, Uday Kotak, Mihir Doshi and U K Sinha.
State co-operation minister Harshavardhan Patil on Sunday said that a task force will be set-up to look into the matters of government auditors who are working with the co-operatives commissionerate.
The self regulatory body for auditors, ICAI is pushing for compulsory rotation of auditors by companies in view of mounting pressure from local financial institutions. “A high-powered committee is currently examining the option and a decision will be taken, based on their recommendation, very soon,” ICAI president Ved Jain told.
Embroiled in the Satyam scam, auditing firm Price Waterhouse’s assurance leader Thomas Mathew – a top executive in the organisation’s hierarchy stepped down from his position on Tuesday with immediate effect. The firm also suspended S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri, the two arrested partners in the Hyderabad office of the company, from their positions until […]
In view of the Satyam scandal, software exporter HCL Technologies today said it has appointed KPMG as an independent auditor to review its balance sheet in addition to its statutory auditor Price Waterhouse. Price Waterhouse was the statutory auditor for Satyam Computer Services Ltd. “We have appointed an additional accounting firm (KPMG) to independently review […]
Sources in the Hyderabad police said the CB-CID police have arrested Satyam’s two Pricewaterhouse auditors S Gopal Krishnan and Srinivas Talluri last night. Pricewaterhouse had not responded to the arrest, at the time of filing the report.
The Satyam scandal continues to reverberate, with a host of competing companies aiming to pick up some U.S. business and some big firms facing questions about why they did business with the Indian outsourcer.
“Satyam Scam has raised basic questions about the depth and devotion in statutory audit conducted by one of the big four audit firms, the PWC. In India the professional depth and devotion of small and medium size audit firms are of quite high level but unfortunately their potential remains heavily under utilized. One of the […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has decided to serve show cause notice to the auditors of the tainted Satyam Computers, ICAI central council member K Raju said on Monday.
The two auditors of Satyam Computer Services, appointed by PWC to audit the accounts of the company, were not partners of the audit firm at that time, people close to the investigation told.
