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Emergence of risk-based internal audits in banks: The objectives and scope

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…

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How revenue audit carried out in Banks?

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…

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Concurrent Audit System in Banks

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.…

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Statutory audit of banks explained

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…

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Which are the Tax-Related Items verified by the bank’s statutory auditors?

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…

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What is a Long Form Audit Report (LFAR)?

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…

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