Why Startups Need Accounting?

“Behind every good company is a great accountant.” Entrepreneurs must often learn and perform a number of business activities while starting a business. Accounting is a crucial business function to use when establishing a small firm. Despite the fact that many entrepreneurs are afraid of sifting through countless stacks of financial records, accounting frequently delivers the clearest picture of a […]

Auditor’s Responsibility to Evaluate the Risk of Material Misstatement (ROMM)

SA 315, Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement through understanding the entity and its environment deals with the auditor’s responsibility to identify and assess the risk of material misstatement in the financial statements, through understanding the entity and its environment. A risk assessment procedure is performed for the identification and assessment of risks of material misstatement at the financial statement […]

CLOUD GOVERNANCE & SECURITY

“Data is the new oil.” Being such a huge resource, it is important to protect it and also to keep it accessible, confidential and well-maintained. One such method of ensuring this is to maintain the data on the cloud. So, this shall be an appropriate time to ask ourselves how much are we aware of this new and emerging technique […]

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Audit

Background Auditing can be transformed with machine learning leading to increased productivity and accuracy. Historically, audit is done on sample basis to identify risks. This approach does not take into account the total information available and relies mainly on manual processing. Audit firms can automatically process large volumes of data to identify anomalies and high risk transactions which can be […]

Internal Audit and Big Data

What exactly is “Big Data?” Big data is the term used to describe the massive portfolio of data that is growing exponentially. Big data includes data that is unstructured & machine-generated, as well as data that resides outside of corporate boundaries. Analytics is the process of analysing data with the objective of drawing meaningful conclusions. Big Data analytics (BDA) means […]

Financial Guarantee under IND AS: All you need to know for practical implementation

Financial Guarantee: Meaning: A contract that requires the issuer (Guarantor) to make specified payments to reimburse the holder (loan giver) for a loss it incurs because a specified debtor (loan taker) fails to make payment when due in accordance with a debt instrument. Condition for classifying an instrument as financial guarantee: Payment to be made to holder only if: If above […]