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A "statutory audit" is a legally required review of the accuracy of a company's or government's financial records. The purpose of a statutory audit is the same as the purpose of any other audit – to determine whether an organization is providing a fair and accurate representation of its financial position by examining information such as bank balances, bookkeeping records and financial ...
[1] [2] It was established on July 1, 1961 to regulate the profession of accountancy and audit in Pakistan. It is an autonomous statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Ordinance, 1961. However, with the significant growth in the profession, the CA Ordinance and By-Laws were revised in 1983.
An auditor is a person or a firm appointed by a company to execute an audit. [1] To act as an auditor, a person should be certified by the regulatory authority of accounting and auditing or possess certain specified qualifications.
Secretarial auditor/Statutory secretarial auditor is an independent firm engaged by the client subject to the audit of secretarial and applicable laws/compliances of other applicable laws to express an opinion on whether the company's secretarial records and compliance of applicable laws are free of material misstatements, whether due to fraud ...
A Court of Audit or Court of Accounts is a supreme audit institution, i.e. a government institution performing financial and/or legal audit (i.e. statutory audit or external audit) on the executive branch of power.
The Auditor General of Pakistan (Urdu: محاسبِ اعلٰی پاکستان) is a government organization and the prime and supreme audit institution (SAI) in the country for ensuring public accountability and fiscal transparency and oversight in governmental operations. The organization is expected to bring improvements in the financial ...
An auditor's report is a formal opinion, or disclaimer thereof, issued by either an internal auditor or an independent external auditor as a result of an internal or external audit, as an assurance service in order for the user to make decisions based on the results of the audit.
The CAG is also the statutory auditor of Government-owned corporations and conducts supplementary audit of government companies in which the government has an equity share of at least 51 percent or subsidiary companies of existing government companies. The CAG is also the statutory auditor of the Lokpal. [4]