Taxmann Practical Workbook for Bank Statutory Branch Auditors (In accordance with ICAI Standards and RBI Guidelines) by Ishwar Chandra – 6th Edition March 2022

One-stop-reference manual cum audit notebook (with Hints & Check-Lists) for statutory branch auditing with complete & current contents. This book is written to reduce the audit risk, besides documenting the audit work simultaneously.

This book is helpful for branch auditors in accomplishing their branch audit more purposefully & bringing more comfort to the Statutory Central Auditors, Boards and Management.

The Present Publication is the 6^th Edition & amended up to 1^st March 2022, authored by CA Ishwar Chandra, with the following noteworthy features:

• [New Chapters] have been added in this book, which are as follows:
  • Audit of Provisioning
  • Audit of Resolution of Stressed Assets
  • Audit of Restructurings including the following:
    • Agriculture
    • MSME Advances covering RBI Resolution Framework – 1.0 & Resolution Framework 2.0
• [Complete & Current Contents]
  • New Directions for Banks on Financial Statements Presentation and Disclosures [30^th August 2021]
  • New Master Circular on Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning (IRACP) [1^st October 2021]
  • Various other new Directions were issued by the RBI in 2021
• [Revised Chapters on CBS Environment] Useful System Generated Reports & CBS reports, which are helpful for the auditors (which are also available in Finacle 10, BaNCS and Flexcube), have been added
• [Changes made by RBI’s Extant Guidelines] have been added in the following chapters:
  • Audit of Capital Adequacy
  • Special-purpose Certifications
• [RBI’s LFAR Review] has been added in the chapter of LFAR Procedures, which seeks information from banks’ head office and the branches; various formats suggested to collect the information have been modified based upon such new audit requirements
• [Procedures for Accepting/ Planning/ Performing and Reporting an Audit] along-with audit procedures for Branch Audit/ LFAR/ Tax Audit and Special Purpose Certifications
• The contents of the book are as follows:
  • Introduction to Audit of Financial Statements
  • Pre-Acceptance Procedures
  • Post-Acceptance Procedures
  • Planning Considerations
  • CBS Environment: Useful System Generated Reports
  • Offsite Planning
  • Onsite Planning
  • Performing Preliminary (Routine) Audit Procedures
  • Audit of New Advances
  • Audit of Credit Monitoring
  • Audit of Special Mention Accounts (SMA)
  • Audit of Income Recognition and Asset Classification
  • Audit of Provisioning
  • Audit of Resolution of Stressed Assets
  • Performing General Ledgers (GL) and Profit & Loss (PL) Audit Procedures
  • Long Form Audit Reporting (LFAR) Procedures
  • Audit of Capital Adequacy
  • Special-Purpose Certification Procedures
  • Issuing Independent Branch Auditors’ Report