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Joint audit

29 March 2021

"each joint auditor is entitled to rely on the work performed by another joint auditor and need not review the work performed by others"
what is the meaning of this?

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CA. Sourav Sarkar (Chartered Accountant ) (24578 Points)
Replied 29 March 2021

In joint audit, the audit work is divided among the auditors according to the nature of assets, liabilities, expenses etc. Each auditor is responsible for their own work. But as a whole each auditor might review their work for understanding

Giridhar S Karandikar (Team Lead) (7543 Points)
Replied 29 March 2021

Each auditor being a qualified CA, it's always expected, that he must have performed his part of work diligently, so in order to respect the profession, each auditor relies upon the work of another auditor, without believing that other auditor might have not performed his work deligently