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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Feb, 2018
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) on Saturday said it
is set to introduce four new auditing standards to be followed by
Company Secretaries across the country, that would harmonise the
secretarial audit process and help maintain "quality and compliance" in
the companies.
"We will soon be releasing four auditing standards
for the secretarial audit and other certifications. These auditing
standards are individual auditing standards to be followed by each and
every practising Company Secretaries. Once these auditing standards are
followed, the quality and the compliance would be maintained," ICSI
President Makarand Lele told reporters here.
It is a mandate for
all the listed companies in India to conduct secretarial audit through a
practising company secretary since 2013. "This covers issues of
compliance, core governance, core reporting,and core processes that a
company is adopting," he said.
Lele also said that the new auditing standards are at their final stage and would be released within the next one or two months.
About
the auditing standards to be introduced, he said it would include the
appointment process of recruitment for the Company Secretaries, nuances
of documentation, and secretarial audit process and hoped they would
bring harmony in the auditing process.
"Also, whenever a new law
is implemented, the compliance of those laws are required to be verified
by the Company Secretaries," he pointed out.
Asked whether the
Rs 11,300 crore Punjab National Bank scam, that has surfaced recently,
has prompted them to introduce the new auditing standards, he said the
Institute of Company Secretaries has no role to play in statutory audits
that was at work in the PNB case.
"It would be difficult to
directly comment on the alleged scam as it is a sub judice matter but we
have to see if any corporate governance compromises has happened in the
entire process or not," he added.
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