CA, CS, CMA : This explains how internal audit focuses on ongoing risk prevention while forensic accounting investigates suspected fraud. The ke...
Company Law : Learn which companies must appoint internal auditors under Section 138, the eligibility criteria, and the statutory compliance ste...
CA, CS, CMA : Discover how internal auditors use financial management concepts like inventory, cash, and capital management to assess efficiency...
CA, CS, CMA : A practical guide to integrating AI into internal auditing, covering its applications in risk assessment, fieldwork, reporting, an...
CA, CS, CMA : Explore how cost accounting methods enhance internal audit through variance analysis, marginal costing, CVP, and risk-based auditi...
CA, CS, CMA : A public sector bank has invited quotations to appoint external auditors for reviewing its internal audit and compliance functions...
CA, CS, CMA : Discover the latest developments in the engagement of CA firms by PSBs. Explore changes in concurrent audit policies, RBI directiv...
CA, CS, CMA : Proposed amendments to Section 138 of Companies Act, 2013 by ICSI. Understand why Company Secretaries are equipped to conduct inte...
CA, CS, CMA : Firm of Chartered Accountants cannot accept branch Audit of the Bank if one of the partners has taken the loan from any branch of ...
CA, CS, CMA : The concurrent Auditor of a Branch can undertake the assignment of LFAR only with respect to Branches which are not subject to Sta...
Company Law : The issue involved non-compliance with mandatory internal auditor appointment requirements. The authority imposed penalties as the...
Company Law : ROC Mumbai held that once delay in appointing an Internal Auditor was compounded by the Regional Director and default rectified, n...
Company Law : ROC Chennai held that listed companies must appoint an internal auditor under Section 138. Non-compliance over multiple years resu...
Company Law : The adjudicating authority held that non-appointment of an internal auditor despite crossing the statutory turnover threshold viol...
Company Law : The appeal was dismissed as no documentary evidence of internal auditor appointment was produced. The key takeaway is that statuto...
We all know that in addition to the Management, companies also need a governance framework primarily with a view to preserving the shareholder value. There are some major landmarks that defined the role of Audit Committees in augmenting the Governance aspects in companies.
Ministry of Corporate Affairs has amended Rules for Chapter 10 (Audit and Auditors) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Reporting on Internal Financial Control u/s 143 (3) (i) of the Companies Act, 2013 has been deferred for one year i.e., up to 31.03.2015. The auditor shall report on the existence of adequate internal financial control and its operational effectiveness for the financial years on or after 01.04.2015.The auditor may voluntarily report for the year from 01.04.2014 to 31.03.2015.
CA Sameer Thakur INTRODUCTION :- 1. DEFINITION OF INTERNAL AUDIT :- Internal auditing is an independent objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve organizational operations. It helps an organisation to accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic approach to evaluate and improve the risk management, control & compliance process. (Institute of […]
The word concurrent itself defines its meaning, concurrent means happening at the time. Concurrent Audit means doing the examination of the financial transactions at the time of happening or parallel with the transaction. Most of the new articles who have been assigned to do the concurrent audit become terrified when they have to go to […]
In past about a decade, if one gives a close look at the business environment, professional experience with clients and employer expectations, one could derive that the period has witnessed a theory of ‘Big change’. The drivers at macro level are altering the business environment radically and as a result transforming the accounting profession.
The recent global financial crises, intense regulatory requirements, extensive competitive pressures, voluminous data, have created a challenging environment for financial institutions to operate, make effective decisions, manage risk, thereby affecting financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
This has reference to emails being received by the Institute about the Finance Ministry’s latest circular dated 26th September, 2012 containing general guiding principles on Internal Audit, Information System, Concurrent and Branch Statutory Audit to be followed by all the PSBs suitably.
It has been observed that there is a multiplicity of overlapping audits in the Public Sector Banks (PSBs). While the audit is essential for the health of the PSBs, it has been observed that multiple overlapping audits throughout the year engage a lot of attention, resources and time of the PSBs. It has also been observed that there is a need to revamp the audit system in PSBs in the wake of increasing computerization and shifting of operations on I.T. based system. The present audit system is lagging behind the technological advancement achieved by PSBs.
Now, the world is in twenty first century, everywhere changes could be visualised but with respect to accounting, auditing etc, where is the change? Modern organisations have become more sophisticated and thus resulted in decentralisation of their activities and consequently the top management is remotely concerned with the day to day activities of the Organisation. With this backdrop the internal auditing has acquired a great deal of significance. The following are my opinion about modern Internal Audits. Let us see what it is……..
SEBI has modified the norms for appointment of its internal auditor, a move that enabled the capital market regulator to retain chartered accountants firm Chokshi & Chokshi for two more years. The decision to give a two-year extension to the firm was taken at the last Board meeting of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
