Revision of 18 accounting standards: ICAI to ask NFRA to withdraw RIA demand
The CA Institute will soon approach the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) asking it to “withdraw” its recommendation for a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) of the proposed revision in 18 Accounting Standards, which has now got into controversy. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) wants the 18 Accounting Standards to be revised for companies that are not required to follow Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS). It had submitted an Approach Paper to NFRA on this for the audit regulator’s nod before sending it to the government for final approval. A few days back, NFRA had written to the ICAI, recommending an RIA and wanted the Approach Paper to be developed in a transparent manner after extensive nationwide consultation. It also asked the ICAI to send to NFRA the analysis of the public comments on the Approach Paper if the CA Institute had done any public consultation on it. “The question of doing an RIA should not arise. That is our response and we are going to send it back to NFRA with a request to withdraw its letter. The erstwhile National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards ( NACAS) had already approved the Approach Paper,” ICAI president Nihar Jambusaria told BusinessLine. (NACAS was replaced by NFRA.) Before sending it to NFRA, “the entire procedure of having a draft, exposing it to stakeholders… was done. After receiving comments, it was changed and sent to NFRA in 2020. NFRA sat on it for 15 months. Now, NFRA has sent a letter to us asking for an RIA. This is not necessary given that NACAS had approved the Approach Paper and more than five years of hard work of CAs had gone into it,” Jambusaria said. Statutory audit of MSMCs

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