Audit & Assurance Services
Statutory Audit
The Statutory Audit has never been more important. In today's business environment there is more scrutiny and scepticism of a company's financial statements than ever before.
At S H A S & Co, we have robust audit tools, resources and procedures to provide the means for our professionals to deliver high-quality audit services. In delivering these services we adhere to the auditing standards such as the Indian Standards on Auditing and ethical guidelines and those issued by Indian regulators and ICAI to maintain a level of quality and trust of all stakeholders in the auditing exercise. For organisations that require an audit for statutory or regulatory reasons associated with the filing of their annual and periodic financial information, we can provide high quality audit services.
Internal Audit
Internal Audit framework integrates compliance, internal controls and risk management. Keeping in mind the Risk Management framework, our internal audits adopt ‘Risk Based Audit’ (RBA) approach and other tools and techniques for accomplishing the audit objectives. As such, it can help you anticipating issues, increasing your effectiveness, eliminating duplication and identifying areas of potential performance improvement.
Internal audit is also an effective tool for evaluating:
- Efficacy of operations
- Reliability of financial reporting
- Compliance with various regulations
- Safeguarding of assets and various matters concerning the interest of the company, employees, stakeholders and society in general
Tax Audit
A Tax Audit involves an expression of the Auditors’ opinion on the truth and correctness of certain factual details, given by assessee to the Income Tax Authorities to enable an assessment of tax. Our endeavour is to mitigate the burden of tax and to review that disallowances and deductions if any, under the various provisions of Income Tax Act, 1961 are properly and correctly calculated, so that the income assessable can be computed correctly.
Our role includes following:
- Checking the correctness of the Claimable deductions as allowed in the Income Tax Act, 1961
- Effective reviews to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with the tax efficient policies
- Checking the various tax compliance norms as set out by the Income Tax Act, 1961
- Certification of the books of account being in agreement with the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account as per the requirements of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
- Issuing the Report of Tax Audit as required by the Income Tax Rules in the prescribed format.
Goods & Service Tax Audit
Goods and Service Tax (GST) is structured for efficient tax collection, eliminate cascading of taxes, easy inter-state movement of goods and a lot more. Audit under GST is the examination of records maintained by a registered dealer. The aim is to verify the correctness of information declared, taxes paid and to assess the compliance with GST. Every registered person having a turnover of more than Rs. 5 Crores is liable for GST audit conducted by Chartered Accountant or Cost Accountant.
It involves:
- Vouching and verification of invoices and supporting documents
- Reconciliation of income as per Profit/ Loss account and income reflected in GST returns
- Filing annual return along with audit report.
Bank Audit
Under the modernised era of Banking Sector, it is essential that services of a bank are regular, complete and compliant with applicable Laws & Regulations so as to eliminate a possible repercussion resulting into penal provision or heavy losses.
Chartered Accountants serve as representatives who can assure & certify about internal practices & controls of any banking company are as such designed to be well within regulatory provisions & compliant in nature. Such giant scope of certification is divided into several branches.
We at S H A S, through our associates, have more than 30 years’ experience in Bank Audit segment for several Co-operative as well as Nationalised banks. We provide following services under such domain:
- Statutory Bank Branch Audit
- Concurrent Audit
- Quarterly Internal Audit
- Risk Based Internal Audit
- Stock Audit
- Revenue Audit
Information Technology Audit
Business processes are increasingly getting automated and the growing dependence of most organisations on Information Systems and the related risks, benefits and opportunities, have made Information Systems Audit an increasingly critical tool for overall governance. An Information Systems Audit evaluates the Information Systems from different perspectives such as security, quality, efficiency, reliability etc. and reports on the risks and its impact on the organisation and also suggest measures to eliminate or minimize the risks. We provide professional services in the areas of Information Systems Audit which include evaluation of Information Systems and IT Controls considering Organisation standards and International Information Systems frameworks. Systems and IT Controls considering Organisation standards and International Information Systems frameworks. Our IT Assurance & Advisory services consist of following:
- Information Systems Audit
- Defining internal controls in IT environment
- Information security and privacy
- Operational effectiveness and efficiency
- Information processing and data integrity
- System development standards
- Application Review and Pre/Post – Implementation Review
- Data Migration Audit
Due Diligence
Due Diligence is commonly used as a pre-investment or pre-lending intelligence tool by Investors, bankers and acquirers, in order to obtain an independent and sophisticated report concerning the investee’s credentials. Promoters seeking investments or in negotiations with investors or join partners, too, mandate a mock Due Diligence to prepare themselves for the actual process initiated by the investor. The effectiveness of an independent reliable due diligence report is a decisive factor for investors looking to go ahead with a proposed investment.
We support transactions with
- Tax Due Diligence
- Financial Due Diligence
- Legal & Compliance Due Diligence.
- Feasibility & Viability Studies.