The financial year may be extended up to 18 months. ASIC can grant relief if there is an unreasonable burden on the auditor or audit firm, or the audited body.
The Corporations Act's s. However, it does provide ASIC with limited power to modify the rotation requirements. It can:. Where an auditor has played a significant role in the audit for five continuous financial years, the relief stipulated in 1 applies.
Where an auditor has played a significant role in the audit for five out of seven successive financial years, the relief stipulated in 2 applies. The following titles are available for members to borrow from the CPA Australia library. Examines the role of professional associations and governments in developing and promulgating standards to foster auditor independence. The purpose of the paper is to examine the extent to which there is shared meaning of the concept of auditor independence between the three major groups of parties on the demand and supply sides of the audit services market — auditors, financial report preparers and financial report users.
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Many board members from publicly-traded companies encourage the nonprofit boards they serve to explore audit firm rotation as a best practice. But is it a best practice? The pandemic disrupted the way we do business. The rise of audit partner or audit firm rotation policies, in large part, is attributable to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of Curiously, with the exception of two very narrow provisions of the act dealing with document destruction and whistleblower policies, the act does not apply to nonprofits unless a nonprofit is also an issuer of publicly traded securities or has filed as a registrant to issue such securities under the Securities Exchange Act of or the Securities Act of , respectively.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has had effects—intended or otherwise—on the relationships between nonprofits and their auditors since its passage. Overall, the research suggests that rotating audit partners can raise the quality of an audit without the need to change audit firm. Many jurisdictions impose mandatory audit partner rotation, with tenures typically of five years, as is the case in the UK and China, or seven years in, for example, Australia and the US.
But the benefits need to be offset against the loss of client-specific knowledge when partners change. As a result, Professor Tianyu Zhang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong does not think having shorter rotation periods would further increase audit quality. Thus, we cannot infer that audit quality will increase more if the mandatory rotation period becomes shorter.
AB article 01 November Does mandatory rotation of partners result in better quality audit? Written by Nicky Burridge. A China-led survey examines whether mandatory rotation of partners results in better quality audit by bringing a fresh perspective to the process. Related topics Audit and assurance. Are shorter rotations the answer? Contact us Send us a message. Planned system updates View our maintenance windows.
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