CA Priti is appointed as the statutory auditor of Moon Ltd. for the financial year 2024-25 to audit the complete set of financial statements. The…
CA Final · Advanced Auditing, Assurance and Professional Ethics · MTP · May 2026
CA Priti is appointed as the statutory auditor of Moon Ltd. for the financial year 2024-25 to audit the complete set of financial statements. The company has also assigned the audit of Property, Plant and Equipment to CA Priti as a separate engagement for the financial year 2024-25. While drafting the audit report of complete set of financial statements, CA Priti decides to give an adverse opinion based on the audit observations noted during the course of audit. At the same time, she is also finalizing the audit report of the separate engagement where she wants to give an unmodified opinion. Comment with reference to the relevant Standard on Auditing regarding the opinion to be given by CA Priti in audit report of separate engagement of audit of Property, Plant and Equipment.
Suggested Answer and Working Notes:
Audit Report of Separate Engagement of Audit of PPE: As per SA 805, "Special Considerations—Audits of Single Financial Statements and Specific Elements, Accounts or Items of a Financial Statement", if the auditor undertakes an engagement to report on a single financial statement or on a specific element of a financial statement in conjunction with an engagement to audit the entity's complete set of financial statements, the auditor shall express a separate opinion for each engagement. If the auditor concludes that it is necessary to express an adverse opinion or disclaim an opinion on the entity's complete set of financial statements as a whole but, in the context of a separate audit of a specific element that is included in those financial statements, the auditor nevertheless considers it appropriate to express an unmodified opinion on that element, the auditor shall only do so if: (i) The auditor is not prohibited by law or regulation from doing so; (ii) That opinion is expressed in an auditor's report that is not published together with the auditor's report containing the adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion; and (iii) The element does not constitute a major portion of the entity's complete set of financial statements. In the given situation, CA Priti is statutory auditor of Moon Ltd. for the financial year 2024-25 for the complete set of financial statements and has also assigned the audit of PPE as a separate engagement for the same financial year. Considering the same, it can be concluded that CA Priti can give separate opinions on separate engagement i.e. adverse opinion for statutory audit and unmodified opinion for separate engagement provided the above conditions are satisfied.
Topics: Standard on Auditing (SA)
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