Amendment: Others Matters to be included in Auditors Report
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has amended the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 and these rules may be called the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Amendment Rules, 2021 which shall come into force from 01.04.2021.
Notification: https://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/AuditAuditorsAmendmentRules_24032021.pdf
By this amendment, the MCA has amended the Rule 11 of Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014
Rule 11: Other Matters to be Included in Auditors Report
The auditor shall also include its views and comments in theaudit report on the following matters, namely:
(a) whether company has disclosed the impact, of pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statement (if any).
(b) whether the company has made provision, as required under any law or accounting standards, for material foreseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts including derivative contracts.
(c) whether there has been any delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the company.
(e) (i) Whether the management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, other than as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
(ii) Whether the management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, other than as disclosed in the notes to the accounts, no funds have been received by the company from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and
(iii) Based on such audit procedures that the auditor has considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to the notice that has caused them to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) contain any material misstatement.
(f) Whether the dividend is declared or paid during the year by the company is following section 123 of the Companies Act, 2013.
(g) Whether the company has used such accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has been operated throughout the year for all transactions recorded in the software and the audit trail feature has not been tampered with and the audit trail has been preserved by the company as per the statutory requirements for record retention.
Note: Rule 11 Clause (e), (f) and (g) has been added by the amendment in Rule 11.