ICWA INTERMEDIATE COMPANY ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT

SECTION A – GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING 

PRINCIPLES (GAAP)

Study Note 1 : Conceptual Framework for Preparation 

  • Presentation of Financial Statements
  • Meaning and Objective of Financial Statement
  • Component of Financial Statement
  • Frame Work
  • Users and their Information Needs

Study Note 2 : Accounting Standards 

  • AS 11 : The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates (Revised 2003)
  • AS 12 : Accounting for Government Grants
  • AS 15 : Employee Benefits
  • AS 19 : Leases
  • AS 20 : Earning Per Share
  • AS 26 : Intangible Assets
  • AS 29 : Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets

SECTION – B ACCOUNTS OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES 

Study Note 3 : Accounting for Shares and Debentures 

  • Share Capital
  • Follow on Public Offer & Rights Issue
  • Buy-back of Shares
  • Issue & Redemption of Preference Shares
  • Debentures-Issue and Redemption
  • Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), Employees Stock Option Scheme (ESOS)
  • Underwriting of Shares and Debentures

Study Note 4 : Presentation of Financial Statements (Schedule III) 

  • Part I – Form of Balance Sheet
  • Part II – Form of Statement of Profit and Loss
  • Managerial Remuneration

Study Note 5 : Cash Flow Statement (AS 3) 

  • Statement of Cash Flows
  • Meaning of Cash and Cash Equivalent
  • Types of Cash Flow

Study Note 6 : Segmental Reporting (AS 17) 

  • Need for Segmental Reporting
  • International Scenario
  • The Indian Scenario
  • Segmental Reporting Problems & Difficulties
  • Specific Issues Relating to Management Accounts
  • Segmental Disclosure – A practical example

Study Note 7 : Business Combinations and Corporate Restructuring 

  • Merger
  • Acquisitions
  • Accounting for Mergers And Acquisitions
  • External Reconstruction
  • Profit Prior to Incorporation

Study Note 8 : Liquidation of Companies 

  • Modes of Liquidation
  • Liquidators’ Statement of Account
  • Deficiency Account, in the context of Liquidation of Companies
  • Overriding Preferential Payments U/S 326 of the Companies Act,2013
  • Preferential Payment U/S 327 of the Companies Act, 2013
  • Liquidators’ Final Statement of Account

SECTION – C AUDITING 

Study Note 9 : Auditing Concepts 

  • Evolution of Auditing
  • Definitions
  • Nature of Auditing
  • Scope of Auditing
  • Comparison between Book Keeping, Accounting and Auditing
  • Relationship and Distinction Between Auditing and Accounting
  • Auditor
  • Audit and Investigation
  • Aspects to be Covered in Audit
  • Objectives Of Auditing
  • Basic Principles Governing an Audit
  • Significance of Audit
  • Advantages of Audit
  • Inherent Limitations of an Audit
  • Auditor’s Engagement
  • Functional Classification of Audit – External Audit and Internal Audit
  • Types of Audit
  • Audit Evidence
  • Concept of True and Fair
  • Concept of “Materiality” in Planning and Performing the Audit
  • Contemporary Issues in Auditor’s Independence —
  • Issues, Tools, Institutions (Basic Knowledge)
  • Disclosure of Accounting Policies

Study Note 10 : Type of Audit 

  • Introduction
  • Classification of Type of Audit
  • Voluntary Audit or Private Audit
  • Advantages of Auditing for Sole Proprietors
  • Advantages of Auditing for Partnership Firms & Others
  • Statutory Audit
  • Government Audit
  • Difference between Private (Voluntary) Audit and Statutory (Mandatory) Audit
  • Difference between Statutory Audit and Government Audit
  • Difference between Audit of a Company and a Firm
  • Independent Financial Audit
  • Internal Audit
  • Difference between Statutory Audit and Internal Audit
  • Cost Audit
  • Management Audit
  • Tax Audit
  • Secretarial Audit
  • Forensic Audit
  • Difference between Statutory Audit and Forensic Audit
  • Information Security Audit
  • Social Audit
  • Environmental Audit
  • Efficiency-Cum-Performance Audit
  • Propriety Audit
  • Operational Audit
  • Continuous Audit
  • Information Systems Audit
  • Annual Audit
  • Interim Audit
  • Balance Sheet Audit
  • Difference between Balance Sheet Audit and Annual Audit
  • Difference between Balance Sheet Audit and Continuous Audit
  • Complete, Partial and Detailed (in Depth) Audit
  • Statutory Report

Study Note 11 : Audit Planning, Programme and Procedures 

  • Introduction
  • Audit Planning
  • Continuous Audit
  • Final Audit
  • Audit Working Papers
  • Audit Note Book
  • Quality Control for Audit Work
  • Audit Sampling
  • Audit Risk
  • Surprise Checks

Study Note 12 : Internal Control, Internal Check and Internal Audit 

  • Internal Control
  • Internal Check
  • Difference between a Checklist and an Internal Control Questionnaire
  • Distinction between Internal Check, Internal Audit and Internal Control
  • Brief Difference between Internal Audit, Internal Control and Internal Check
  • Surprise Check
  • Cut off Procedures
  • Examination in Depth/Auditing In Depth: ‘’Walk Through Test”
  • Difference between Test Checking and Statistical Sampling
  • Internal Audit
  • Organisational Independence
  • Standards on Internal Audit (SIA)

Study Note 13 : Vouching and Verification 

  • Voucher: Meaning and Object
  • Vouching
  • Cash Vouching Procedure
  • Teaming & Leading / Lapping
  • Audit of Payments
  • Verification of Assets and Liabilities

Study Note 14 : Audit of Regulated and Non-Regulated Industries 

  • Audit of an Educational Institution
  • Audit of Hospital
  • Government Expenditure Audit
  • Audit of a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)
  • Audit of Charitable Institution
  • Audit of a Hotel
  • Audit of a Cinema Hall
  • Audit of a Recreation Club
  • Audit of a partnership firm
  • Audit of Small Companies
  • Audit of a Sole Trader
  • Audit from Incomplete Records
  • Propriety Audit in the context of Government Audit
  • Audit of Commercial Accounts

Study Note 15 : The Company Auditor 

  • Appointment of Auditors [Section 139]
  • Class of Companies
  • Manner of Rotation of Auditors by the Companies on expiry of their term
  • Removal, Resignation of Auditor and Giving of Special Notice [Section 140]
  • Eligibility, Qualifications and Disqualifications of Auditors [Section 141]
  • Remuneration of Auditors [Section 142]
  • Powers and Duties of Auditors and Auditing Standards [Section 143]
  • Audit of Branch Office
  • Other matters to be included in Auditor’s Report
  • Duties and powers of the Company’s Auditor with reference to the audit
  • of the branch and the Branch Auditor
  • Reporting of frauds by Auditor
  • Auditor not to render Certain Services [Section 144]
  • Auditor to sign Audit Reports, etc. [section 145]
  • Auditors to attend General Meeting [Section 146]
  • Punishment for Contravention [Section 147]
  • Role of Cost Audit
  • Scope of Audit Committee

Study Note 16 : The Company Audit 

  • Audit of Shares
  • Audit of Debentures [Section 71]
  • Audit of Divisible Profit
  • Loans to Directors [Section 185]
  • Inter-Corporate Loans and Investment [Section 186]
  • Remuneration of Directors [Section 197]

Study Note 17 : Audit Report 

  • Scope, Basic Elements and Significance of Audit Report
  • Unqualified Opinion
  • Qualified Opinion/ Report
  • Disclaimer of Opinion
  • Piecemeal Opinion
  • Adverse or Negative Report
  • Audit Report under The Companies Act, 1956
  • CARO – Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2003
  • Auditor’s Report on Revised Accounts of Companies Before
  • Circulation to Shareholders
  • Revision of The Audit Report
  • Audit of Abridged Financial Statement
  • Provision For Proposed Dividend
  • Accounts of Liquidators / Report U/S 551 Of Companies Act, 2013
  • 293A of The Companies Act and the Auditor
  • Audit of Consolidated Financial Statements (CFS)
  • Corporate Governance
  • Audit Certificate

Study Note 18 : Standards on Auditing (SA) 

  • International Resources to Auditing needs
  • India’s Response to Auditing needs
  • Rationale of Auditing Standards
  • Auditing Standards–Setting in India
  • International Harmonisation of Auditing Standards
  • Compliance with Auditing Standards
  • The Objectives and Functions of the Auditing and
  • Assurance Standard Board (AASB)
  • Standards Issued by Auditing and Assurance Standard Board under the
  • Authority of the Council
  • New/Revised Standards Issued under the Clarity Project
  • Comparative Statement of AS & IND AS
  • Standard on Auditing