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Three Trends Shaping the South African Audit Profession
What’s News? As 2026 gets underway, the audit profession in South Africa continues to experience high expectations, scrutiny, and an environment that is evolving more rapidly than many firms would like. Several [...]
The Rabbit Hole of Substantive Testing
What’s News? For decades now, audit firms, especially small firms, or SMPs, as they are known nowadays, have insisted on the substantive approach, without any regard for controls. This was due to [...]
Taking responsibility for quality on the engagement – Partner or EQR
What’s News? With the implementation of quality management systems to comply with ISQM, audit firms are compelled to be aware of threats to the ability of engagement teams to issue appropriate audit [...]
Audit Issues & Trends
Failure to assess non-compliance under NOCLAR and report RIs
Failure to assess non-compliance under NOCLAR and report RIs It was found that auditors often do not assess non-compliance as required. This is a two-stage, escalating obligation: NOCLAR per Section 360 of the [...]
Implementation of IFRS 19
Implementation of IFRS 19 The introduction of IFRS 19: Subsidiaries without Public Accountability: Disclosures represents a notable step towards reducing the financial reporting burden for many private companies. Its primary benefit is the [...]
Risk Scoping
1. Risk scoping Many auditors are still grappling with applying the principles of ISA 315 (Revised 2019) when performing risk assessment and audit scoping. The standard requires the auditor to identify relevant assertions [...]
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Going Concern Audits: What ISA 570 Revised Means
The International Standard on Auditing (ISA) 570 (Revised 2024), [...]
Overview of the IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard 2025 Update
On 27 February 2025, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued [...]
Professional Scepticism
Misstatements in financial statements originate from errors or fraud. The [...]
Audit of Body Corporates and Homeowners’ Associations
Difference between body corporates and homeowners’ associations While both [...]
Proactive Audit Quality: A Continuous Improvement Approach Under ISQM 1
Proactive Audit Quality: A Continuous Improvement Approach Under ISQM 1 [...]
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