Assurance Review Engagement Manual
Our Assurance Review Engagement Manual provides you with the current and permanent file programmes needed to undertake an assurance review engagement for a limited company in accordance with the International Standard on Review Engagements (ISRE) 2400 (Revised) and ICAEW Audit and Assurance Faculty Technical Release 09/13 (Revised).
The manual also includes:
- accounts disclosure checklists, including versions for new UK GAAP in accordance with FRS 102, including FRS 102 Section 1A
- guidance and procedures notes that set out how review engagements are conducted, including in accordance with the relevant quality control requirements
- example engagement letters, reports and supporting statements.
Our Assurance Review Engagement Specialist Assignment Manual is written in Microsoft word and includes our tailoring tool 'Creator', which will help you select and edit your current and permanent file documentation.
- Guidance and procedures notes that provide you with a summary of the relevant legal and regulatory framework within which an assurance review engagement (review engagement) is undertaken and set out the firm's procedures for undertaking such an engagement.
- Example engagement letters for undertaking review engagements for limited company clients. There is also an example letter of representation.
- Example reports and supporting statements.
- Example audit exempt limited company pro-forma abbreviated accounts, small company (FRS 102 Section 1A) and full FRS 102 accounts. Example Abridged accounts (FRS 102 Section 1A) are also included.
- Limited company accounts disclosure checklists for audit exempt abbreviated, small (FRS 102 Section 1A) and full accounts.
- Permanent file documentation that provides a structure for your permanent files and outlines the information required which is of continuing importance to a review engagement over a number of years.
- Limited company current assurance file documentation that covers planning, completion, detailed work programmes, a file index and lead schedules.
- A cold file review checklist that will help you perform reviews of review engagements for quality control purposes.
The latest version of Assurance Review Engagement Manual is version 5.0, dated 02/19.
This update principally dealt with:
- Updated guidance from the ICAEW Audit and Assurance Faculty Technical Release 09/13AAF (Revised) Assurance Review Engagements on Historical Financial Statements as published on 25 September 2018;
- Financial reporting changes including FRS 102 and company law amendments and where relevant updated and / or new disclosure checklists and proforma accounts have been included; and
- Other changes including the incorporation of GDPR into engagement letters, re-positioning of the Bannerman paragraph in your assurance report and updated money laundering forms.
This update to the Assurance Review Engagement Manual should be used with immediate effect.
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