Rights & Duties of Auditor
Rights & Duties of Auditor
Rights & Duties of Auditor
The findings of the committee, headed by former president of ICAI Uttam Prakash Agarwal, states that though the statutoryauditors ofSatyam Computerswas Price Waterhouse, however,in realitythe audits were conducted byLovelock& Lewes, thereby breaching the mandatory confidentiality clause that every practising chartered accountant needs to follow under theChartered AccountantsAct, 1949.
. It was only last month that ICAI barred two chartered accountants of Lovelock & Lewes -- Pulavarthi Siva Prasad and Chintapatla Ravindernath, imposed a Rs 5 lakh penalty each and ordered striking off their names from the register of members permanently after they were found to have been grossly negligent in carrying out the statutory audit of Satyam from 2001 to 2008.
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