Payroll Fraud
Manipulation of the payroll process for personal gain — ghost employees, inflated hours, unauthorised rate changes — tested for through red-flag analytics rather than vouching alone.
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- Net Worth (Companies Act)
Defined under Section 2(57) as the aggregate of paid-up share capital and reserves created out of profit, less accumulated losses and write-back of depreciation — a threshold used across several Companies Act provisions.
- Other Matter Paragraph
A paragraph referring to a matter other than those presented in the financial statements, relevant to users' understanding of the audit, the auditor's responsibilities, or the report.
- Peer Review (ICAI)
A review of a chartered accountant firm's attest function by another practising member, mandated by ICAI for firms conducting statutory audits of specified entities.
- Performance Materiality
An amount set below overall materiality, to reduce to an appropriately low level the probability that the aggregate of uncorrected and undetected misstatements exceeds materiality.
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