CA Bajarang Ramachandra Sawant
Senior Partner
FCA · B.Com
Banking & Financial Services
Statutory central and branch audit for public sector, private and co-operative banks.
Overview
Bank statutory audit runs to a compressed calendar against prescribed formats, and the judgement concentrates in a few places: asset classification, income recognition, provisioning and the adequacy of the underlying records. The work rewards teams that have done it before and know where the year-end pressure points sit.
What this covers
Branch-level audit and reporting in the prescribed formats.
Consolidation-level audit and reporting for the bank as a whole.
Income recognition, asset classification and provisioning norms.
Preparation of the long form audit report and related certifications.
Tax audit and the certificates banks require for regulatory purposes.
Common questions
Sawant & Kadrekar LLP holds RBI empanelment in Category I, and is empanelled with the Comptroller and Auditor General. The firm is also registered on the Multipurpose Empanelment Form each year; details are provided on request. Allotment of any particular audit remains a matter for the appointing authority.
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