Ashish Karkera is a Chartered Accountant with years of expertise working in leading organizations like HDFC and Deloitte.
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Historically, the internal audit system in banks has been concentrating on transaction testing, testing of accuracy and reliability of accounting records and financial reports, integrity, reliability, and timeliness of control reports, and adherence to legal and regulatory requirements. Recently, vide circular DoS.CO.PPG./SEC.04/11.01.005/2020-21 dated January 07, 2021, RBI asked banks to align their internal audit function…
Revenue audit of a bank branches is the audit of items governing income & expenditure of banks.The audit is conducted with a view to verify the accuracy, relevance of expenditure incurred & Incomes earned by the banks according to applicable latest notification and circulars. The audit is entrusted to a Charted Accountant who has to…
In our previous posts we talked about In our previous posts we talked about various types of audits conducted in banks such as (1) Statutory Audit (2) Long Form Audit Report 3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Emergence of Risk-Based Internal Audits in Banks (7) Tax audit, and (8) What is the stock audit? For details, you may read those articles.…
In our previous posts we talked about (1) Tax audit, (2) What is the stock audit, and (3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. In this post let us study what is a statutory audit. RBI issues new guidelines for the Appointment of Statutory…
The Reserve Bank of India in consultation with the ICAI appoints qualified Chartered Accountants as Statutory Auditors of the banks. The auditor appointed as statutory auditor of a bank branch shall conduct the audit at the end of the financial year i.e.as of 31st March of the relevant year. Nowadays, the bank branches are working…
In our previous posts we talked about (1) Tax audit, (2) What is the stock audit, and (3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (6) What is a statutory audit? In this post let us study how the loan accounts are verifying the loan…
In our previous posts, we talked about What is a statutory audit? In addition to the normal audit report as per the statutory requirements, the terms of the public, private & foreign sector banks involve the auditors to furnish an LFAR. The overall objective of the Long Form Audit Report (LFAR) is to identify and…
In our previous posts we talked about In our previous posts we talked about various types of audits conducted in banks such as (1) Statutory Audit (2) Long Form Audit Report 3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (6) Emergence of Risk-Based Internal Audits in Banks and (7) Tax audit, For details, you may read those…
In our previous posts we have talked about In our previous posts we talked about various types of audits conducted in banks such as (1) Statutory Audit (2) Long Form Audit Report 3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (6) Emergence of Risk-Based Internal Audits in Banks (7) Tax audit, and (8) What is the stock audit? For details,…
In our previous posts we have talked about In our previous posts we talked about various types of audits conducted in banks such as (1) Statutory Audit (2) Long Form Audit Report 3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (6) Emergence of Risk-Based Internal Audits in Banks (7) Tax audit, and (8) What is the stock audit? For details,…
