Practical compliance guides

Audit · 13 min read

Appointing First Statutory Auditor: ADT-1 Filing and the 30-Day Deadline

Your company has been incorporated. You have the Certificate of Incorporation, PAN, and TAN. Within the next 30 days, you must appoint a sta...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 8

Audit · 11 min read

Appointing First Statutory Auditor: ADT-1 Filing and the 30-Day Deadline

The moment your company receives its Certificate of Incorporation, a 30-day countdown begins for one of the most critical post-incorporation...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 8

Audit · 12 min read

Form ADT-1 Reappointment: Auditor Rotation and 5-Year Term Rules for Private Companies

Your company appointed its first auditor within 30 days of incorporation. That auditor held office until the first AGM. At the first AGM, sh...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 8

Audit · 12 min read

ABC Analysis in Stock Audit: How to Focus on High-Value Inventory First

A stock auditor at an auto-component manufacturer in Chakan, Pune was given 2 days to verify inventory worth Rs 8 crore across 1,200 SKUs. W...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Audit · 12 min read

Technology in Stock Audit: Barcodes, RFID, ERP Integration and Digital Verification

If your stock audit still involves teams of people walking warehouse aisles with clipboards and pen, you are not just losing time - you are...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Audit · 14 min read

Multi-Location Stock Audit: How to Audit Warehouses, Branches and Consignment Agents

A building materials distributor in Maharashtra operated from one central warehouse in Bhosari, two branch warehouses in Nashik and Kolhapur...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Audit · 13 min read

Perpetual vs Periodic Inventory System: Which Makes Stock Audits Easier and Cheaper?

Two auto-component manufacturers in Chakan, Pune - both with Rs 6 crore inventory and 800+ SKUs - had very different stock audit experiences...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Audit · 18 min read

Expert CA Analysis: Statutory Audit Service Under New 2026 Rules - What Really Changed

If you run a company in India - Pvt Ltd, OPC, or public - your statutory audit for FY 2025-26 is about to be different. Not dramatically dif...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 2

Audit · 19 min read

Stock Audit: Professional Advice You Won't Get from Free Online Resources

You searched 'how to do stock audit' and found 50 articles with the same advice: count your stock, compare with books, report differences. M...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 2

Audit · 12 min read

Appointment Of Auditor: CA-Assisted Process from Patron Accounting - Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Gurugram

Appointing a statutory auditor is one of the first and most important compliance obligations for every company in India. Yet it is one of th...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 2

Audit · 14 min read

When Should You Apply for Tax Audit Service? Timing and Deadline Guide

The tax audit deadline is 30 September. Everyone knows this. What most businesses get wrong is when to start.The audit itself - the CA revie...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 2

Audit · 12 min read

Change Of Auditor Requirements for Indian Businesses: The Complete List

Changing your company’s auditor is one of the most procedurally complex compliance tasks under the Companies Act, 2013. Unlike other complia...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 2