Auditing Standard ASA 2021-4 Amendments to Australian Auditing Standard ASA 800 Special Considerations – Audits of Financial Reports Prepared in Accordance with Special Purpose Frameworks
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Amendments to ASA 800
- The existing text of paragraph Aus A1.1 is amended to read as follows:
The Corporations Act 2001, * other applicable law or regulation, or certain parties, may determine whether a financial report is required to be prepared and whether compliance with Australian Accounting Standards is required. Australian Accounting Standards set out requirements for General Purpose Financial Statements. Under the Corporations Act 2001, financial reports are required to be prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards. Accounting Standard AASB 101 Presentation of Financial Statements defines a reporting entity and general purpose financial statements. In some circumstances, entities are permitted to prepare Special Purpose Financial Statements as defined in Accounting Standard AASB 1054 Australian Additional Disclosures. Such circumstances include for-profit private sector entities required only by their constituting document or another document (e.g., a loan agreement) to prepare financial statements that comply with Australian Accounting Standards, provided that the relevant document was created or last amended before 1 July 2021, as well as not-for-profit entities that assess themselves to be non-reporting entities. defines special purpose financial statements. Australian Accounting Standards set out requirements for general purpose financial statements. “Reporting entities” are required to prepare general purpose financial statements. “Non-reporting entities” may prepare general purpose financial statements or apply a special purpose framework for their financial reporting.
Amendments to ASA 800 Appendix 1
- Existing Appendix 1 of this Auditing Standard is amended to read as follows:
Illustrations of Independent Auditor’s Reports on a Special Purpose Financial Report
Illustration 1: An auditor’s report on a financial report of an entity other than a listed entity prepared in accordance with the financial reporting provisions of a contract (for purposes of this illustration, a compliance framework).
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[Aus] Illustration 4: An auditor’s report on a financial report prepared by a non-reporting entity under the Corporations Act 2001 (for purposes of this illustration, a fair presentation framework). [Deleted by the AUASB as a result of changes to the Australian Accounting Standards impacting the ability for certain for-profit entities to prepare Special Purpose Financial Statements.[#]]
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- As a result of the amendment above, existing [Aus] Illustration 4 is deleted.