20 March 2008
Suppose firm named ABC (partnership firm) has following palses of bussiness 1)Ahmedabad (H.O.) 2)Vadodara (Branch) 3)Bihar(Branch) 4)Jaipur(Branch) then for the purpose of tax and other statutory audit how the audit will be conducted.i.e.Seperate audit for seperate branch and H.O. as per the criteria specified (like turnover) in the Act or we go by cosolidation of all the accounts and conduct audit only of H.O.
What would be the situation in case of company.(i.e. statutory audit under the Companies Act,1956.
20 March 2008
Consolidated accounts are to be audited and Consolidated balance is nothing but total of balances of Branches hence it is necessary that branch audit should be undertaken.