The U.S. Congress adopted the Single Audit Act (SAA; Public Law 98-502) in 1984 to establish entity-wide audit requirements for state and local governments and Indian tribal governments receiving federal financial assistance.
Establish uniform requirements for audits of federal funds provided to state and local governments
Audit requirements are triggered by federal funds expended rather than funds received
Before the SAA, federal agencies had the authority to require an audit of each federally funded program or activity. Thus, audit overlaps and organizational inefficiencies existed as there was no coordination among the federal agencies.
Yes, the USA PATRIOT Act requires financial institutions to establish an independent audit function as part of their anti-money laundering (AML) programs. This function is essential for assessing the effectiveness of the AML controls and ensuring compliance with the regulations outlined in the Act. The audit must be conducted periodically and should be independent of the institution's operations to provide an unbiased evaluation.
The amendments exempt entities receiving a relatively small amount of federal funds, enacts guidelines to ensure that high-risk programs are subject to audit, and simplifies reporting requirements.
Audit under any statute in a Country(State) is called statutory audit & Audit under any taxation law is called tax audit. For example books of accounts are audited under the Companies Act, 1956 (Statutory Audit) and Financial Statements of companies are prepared as per the provisions of this Act. Books are also audited under the Income Tax Act, 1961 and the income arrived at as per the provisions of this Act is taxed (Tax Audit).
establishing systems to monitor, audit and enforce ethical standards ?
The provision of the company act in audit requires that all the companies be audited after a given duration of time.
The goal of the SAA is that one audit can provide both a basis for an opinion on the recipient entity's financial statement and a basis for determining whether federal financial assistance program resources are being managed and controlled appropriately
The director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is responsible for dictating policies, procedures, and guidelines to carry out the SAA.
Section 301 of the act contains an amendment to Section 10A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which relates to independence of audit committee members.
There are many laws drafted in India that govern different kinds of audits like an income tax audit, cost audit, stock audit, company, or statutory audit as per the Companies Act, 2013. Income tax audit evaluates whether an individual or company has filed tax returns of the assessment year appropriately. Section 44AB of the Income Tax Act of 1961 lays down the provisions for an income tax audit.