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Is it legal for a large company to get it's financial statements audited by more than one audit firms?

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Date de publication: 2014/08/22
Mohammad Ruslan Mispan
par Mohammad Ruslan Mispan , Senior General Manager/ Director/ Advisor , Sapura Industrial Berhad (Public listed Company)

one audit is sufficient to audit the company. The important is the Audit firm MUST be internationally qualified according Standard Accounting Practice.

Robert Ndungu
par Robert Ndungu , ACCOUNTANT REVENUE AND PAYMENTS , FIDELITY SHIELD INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED - KENYA

As per International Accounting Standards and applicable corporate law, only one auditor is requred to give an opinion on the finacial statements of a company for the statutory audit. Accountants are bound by a code of ethics which prohibits such a scenario unless the second audit is not the minimum set by law for an annual statutory audit.

However, an entity can engauge several auditors to give opinions other than that of a statutory audit. eg. other aspects of oparation e.g. fraud investigation.

Muhammad Javed
par Muhammad Javed , Financial Analysts , Fatima Enterprises Limited

Its depends upon the nature of the company's operation and services which it obtain from its audit firm, if audit firm not specialist in one area of operation, then company can got the services of other audit firm in this scenerio. 

Usually in parant and subsidiaries companies causes, companies used different audit firms

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN
par VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.

In case of Audit of large Firms with multilocation world over/within the country/within the region which is having100s of1000s of branches, One Single Audit Firm/or even a few number of firms, it is practically not possible to perform all the Audit functions. Under such cases there will One lead Auditor and he will hold the right to Certify the Consoldiated Audit Reports.  Lead Auditor will have the right to fix certain parameters for the Audit and to be maticulously followed by the others in the Team all over.  Two/more Lead Audit Firms cannot perform Audit in case of a legally appointed Lead Auditor without delegated authority from the Lead Auditor.  

حسام السداتى
par حسام السداتى , مدير تسويق , أكاديمية السادات للعلوم الإدارية

This is done in companies, international companies and multiple entities

Ahmed Abd Alwahab Awad Ibrahim
par Ahmed Abd Alwahab Awad Ibrahim , Chief Accounting , ICCDP

Yes it is already at multinational companies

Shaikh Mujib-ur-Rehman
par Shaikh Mujib-ur-Rehman , Assitant Mall Manager , Landmark Central Market co.wll

No, one Audit firm is enough to get audited..

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