AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPLIANCE AUDITING Ram Mohan Johri Principal Accountant General Himachal Pradesh.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPLIANCE AUDITING Ram Mohan Johri Principal Accountant General Himachal Pradesh

DEFINITION Compliance audit deals with the degree to which the audited entity follows rules, laws and regulations, policies, established codes, or agreed upon terms and conditions, etc. Compliance auditing may cover a wide range of subject matters. In general, the purpose of a compliance audit is to provide assurance to intended users that the audited entity is complying with relevant criteria, which govern its functioning.

THE CAG’S REGULATIONS ON AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS, 2007 STATE : Compliance audit includes an examination of the rules, regulations, orders and instructions for their legality, adequacy, transparency, propriety and prudence and effectiveness that is whether these are:  intra vires the provisions of the Constitution of India and the laws (legality);  sufficiently comprehensive and ensure effective control over government receipts, expenditure, assets and liabilities with sufficient safeguards against loss due to waste, misuse, mismanagement, errors, frauds and other irregularities (adequacy);  clear and free from ambiguity and promote observance of probity in decision making (transparency);  judicious and wise (propriety and prudence); and  effective and achieve the intended objectives and aims (effectiveness).

COMPLIANCE AUDIT CONTD. Compliance audits are carried out by assessing whether activities, financial transactions and information comply, in all material respects, with the authorities, which govern the audited entity. It is concerned with regularity and propriety audit. Regularity–that the subject matter of the audit adheres to formal criteria emanating from the relevant laws, regulations and agreements which are applicable to the audited entity. Propriety– that general principles of sound public sector financial management and ethical conduct have been adhered to.

ELEMENTS OF COMPLIANCE AUDIT: 1.Three parties in the audit i.e. the auditor, the responsible party, intended user 2.Subject matter (refers to the information, condition or activity that is measured or evaluated against certain criteria while conducting an audit) 3.Authorities and criteria to assess the subject matter

AUTHORITIES Authorities are the most fundamental element of compliance auditing, since the structure and content of authorities furnish the audit criteria and therefore form the basis of how the audit is to proceed under a specific constitutional arrangement. Authorities include the Constitution, Acts, Laws, rules and regulations, budgetary resolutions, policy, established codes, agreed terms or the general principles governing sound public-sector financial management and the conduct of public officials.

CRITERIA Criteria are the benchmarks used to evaluate or measure the subject matter consistently and reasonably. The auditor identifies criteria on the basis of the relevant authorities. To be suitable, compliance audit criteria must be relevant, reliable, complete, objective, understandable, comparable, acceptable and available Criteria for regularity audits emanates from specific authorities while criteria for propriety issues would emanate from the General Financial Rules of the GOI and those codified in the corresponding State Financial Rules.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR COMPLIANCE AUDITS Auditors Should :  Plan and conduct the audit with ‘professional scepticism’ and exercise ‘professional judgement’ throughout the audit process.  Possess the necessary skills  Take responsibility for the overall quality of audit  Consider audit risk throughout the audit process.  Consider materiality throughout the audit process.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR COMPLIANCE AUDITS : CONTD. Prepare sufficient audit documentation. Maintain effective communication throughout the audit process. Determine the audit scope. Identify the subject matter, authorities and suitable criteria. Understand the audited entity Understand the control environment Perform a risk assessment

GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR COMPLIANCE AUDITS : CONTD. Develop an audit strategy and an audit plan Gather sufficient appropriate audit evidence Evaluate audit evidence and form relevant conclusions Prepare a report based on the principles of completeness, objectivity, timeliness and a contradictory process

COMPLIANCE AUDIT OBJECTIVES The overall Compliance Audit Objectives are: To assess whether the subject matter adheres to the formal criteria arising out of the laws, regulations and agreements applicable to the audited entity To assess whether the general principles of sound public sector financial management and ethical conduct have been adhered to. Report the findings and conclusions to the responsible party, those charged with governance, legislature and/or other parties as appropriate.

SCOPE OF AUDIT The scope is the boundary of audit. It defines “what to audit”, “who to audit”, “where to audit” and “which period to audit”. The proprietary issues are to be seen in all units selected to be audited. However, the selected specific subject matter for regularity audit would define the scope for “what to audit” and would also determine the criteria. Where to audit - brings us to selection of units for audit within the audited entity and also to the selection of transactions, areas etc. Sampling decisions would be crucial for this stage

RISK ASSESSMENT Risk assessment is an essential part of performing a compliance audit. Due to the inherent limitations of an audit, a compliance audit does not provide a guarantee or absolute assurance that all instances of non-compliance will be detected. Inherent limitations in a compliance audit may include factors such as: Judgement may be applied by the executive in interpreting laws and regulations Human errors Systems may be improperly designed or function ineffectively Controls may be circumvented Evidence may be concealed or withheld

RISK ASSESSMENT In performing compliance audits, auditors assess risks and perform audit procedures as necessary throughout the audit process. This is done in order to reduce audit risk to an acceptably low level in the particular circumstances, so as to obtain reasonable assurance to form the basis for the auditor’s conclusions

AUDIT PROCEDURES Document scrutiny Physical inspection/site visits Observation Questionnaires Surveys Confirmation Re-performance Analytical procedures

CONCEPT OF MATERIALITY What constitutes material non-compliance is a matter of professional judgement and includes consideration of the circumstance, quantitative and qualitative aspects of the transactions or the issues concerned. Such factors may include the following:  Extent and importance of amounts involved, which include both monetary values and other quantitative measures  Nature of the non-compliance  Cause leading to the non-compliance  Possible effects and consequences of the non-compliance  Visibility and sensitivity of the program in question  Needs and expectations of the legislature, public and other users of audit reports

AUDIT CONCLUSION  Audit conclusion should clearly bring out the nature and extent of non-compliance, cause of such non-compliance, its materiality and also the effect of non-compliance, if possible. The audit conclusions in case of regularity issues should also indicate whether non-compliance is a solitary one-off case, or wide spread systemic issue in the audited entity.

AUDIT DOCUMENTATION  Documentation of audit evidence supports audit conclusions and confirms that the audit was carried out in accordance with relevant standards.  “Adequate documentation is important for several reasons. It will:  Confirm and support the auditor’s opinion and report;  Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of audit;  Serve as a source of information for preparing reports or answering any enquiries from the audited entity or from any other party;  Serve as evidence of the auditor’s compliance with Auditing Standards  Facilitate planning ad supervision; and  Provide evidence of work done for future reference”

AUDIT DOCUMENTATION  Some of the broad characteristics of working papers are :  Completeness and accuracy: Provide support to audit conclusions.  Clarity and conciseness: Facilitates understanding the entire audit process without need for any supplementary examination.  Legibility and neatness : Applies particularly to photocopies  Relevance: Working papers should be restricted to matters, which are important, pertinent and useful for the intended purpose.  Ease of reference: Working papers may be organised in volumes in a manner that facilitates easy reference. An omnibus, easy to follow, index may be created for all the volumes with a proper narration to broadly explain their contents. Each of the volumes may further be internally indexed.  Documentation should take place throughout the entire audit process. The confidentiality of documentation should be maintained and they should be retained for a period sufficient to meet the professional, legislative and legal requirements

AUDIT DOCUMENTATION  Ease of review: Working papers should contain cross references to audit memoranda, discussion papers, audit observations, field audit report and the compliance audit report as the case may be to enable Accountants General and supervisory officers to link the working papers to audit findings and conclusions.  Complete audit trail of analysis: Working papers should provide a complete trail of the audit procedures performed, evidence that were gathered and evaluated, audit findings and conclusions that were drawn. This should contain evidence for positive findings as well

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