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My manager and I were wondering yesterday after discussing when the accountants were coming in who does the accountants accounts? are you allowed to do them yourself or do you have to pay another firm to do them
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I do my own
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No reason you can't do your own.
My boss does his but he gets it independently reviewed for a bit of objectivity0 -
what about the accounts of an accounts practice? like the big ones0
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If audited or independant review afterwards I can not see a problem with them doing their own0
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they would do their own I'm sure, why would they want the confidential details going elsewhere?0
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after reading this post one question came in my mind as well .... who audit the auditors ??0
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Another audit company.umerali2003 wrote: »after reading this post one question came in my mind as well .... who audit the auditors ??0 -
As long as you don't need to be audited, you can be pretty much independent though.0
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umerali2003 wrote: »why should one allow their competitors to audit their financial statements If they do the competitors can benefit a lot by looking at each others work . i am still confused who audit the auditors
Auditors will audit auditors, who else could do?!
I suppose you could have a small firm as Rinske mentioned, that comes under the limit to be audited, but then there couldbe issues with a large firm using them, if it accounted for a large proportion of their income...0 -
My friend used to be an auditor at PWC in Swansea and once a year used to get sent to audit PWC in London so they do their own.0
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I find that very odd, but then again, am not working in audit, so can't really say that much about it!
How can they say they are neutral when auditing their own books?0 -
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Auditors will audit auditors, who else could do?!
I suppose you could have a small firm as Rinske mentioned, that comes under the limit to be audited, but then there couldbe issues with a large firm using them, if it accounted for a large proportion of their income...
i think you mean to say those who are earning less then 5.62 M they are not required by law to get audited but that is totally a different argument
if you say auditors will audit auditors ........ DO KPMG gets audited by Ernst and young ?0 -
umerali2003 wrote: »Agree with you its like marking your own exam
Or marking the exam of a colleague from another branch!
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but in both cases the independence is questionable ?0
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Wouldn't that be nice?umerali2003 wrote: »Agree with you its like marking your own exam
At least you would be able to keep all those circumstances and distractions in mind. Plus you can read what you meant to say instead of what you actually said if the first is closer to the answers.
On topic: I still find it unlikely auditors can audit their own books, and would expect others to check it.
It might be a particular issue with competitive advantage, but the stringent rules which auditors have to apply to, are supposed to stop them from using what they learned in the audit, although I have no clue how that would be checked.0 -
Aren't most of the big accountancy practices partnerships which don't need a legal audit?0
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BW I was thinking that. Though I would expect them to be LLPs, I don't know if that changes it (I would guess so)0
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Professional bodies audit the auditors! For example my firm is regulated by ACCA so we have a monitoring visit by ACCA inspectors every few years to make sure standards are being maintained (they concentrate on audit files and regulated clients [e.g. solicitors] but also review non-audit files). If you are very good you get a seal of approval (as we did last year - yey!!!) called the 'Quality Checked' seal of approval by ACCA. ICAEW regulated firms are regulated by their Quality Assurance Directive (QAD) who do the same as the ACCA Monitoring Unit. The Big 4 audit firms are regulated by the Audit Inspection Unit (AIU) who are a branch of the Financial Reporting Council.
Kind regards
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lol this turned into quite a thread just from my manager and i having a ponder over a cuppa0
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Steve Collings wrote: »Professional bodies audit the auditors! For example my firm is regulated by ACCA so we have a monitoring visit by ACCA inspectors every few years to make sure standards are being maintained (they concentrate on audit files and regulated clients [e.g. solicitors] but also review non-audit files). If you are very good you get a seal of approval (as we did last year - yey!!!) called the 'Quality Checked' seal of approval by ACCA. ICAEW regulated firms are regulated by their Quality Assurance Directive (QAD) who do the same as the ACCA Monitoring Unit. The Big 4 audit firms are regulated by the Audit Inspection Unit (AIU) who are a branch of the Financial Reporting Council.
Kind regards
Steve
Nice one thank you very much steve0 -
Indeed. Thank you very much Steve!0
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