NOTICE
Empanelment of Auditors for conducting Audit/Inspection of books of accounts of Commodity Exchanges and its Members
The Forward Markets Commission, regulator for Commodity Futures Markets, invites applications for empanelment of firms of Chartered Accountants to conduct Audit/Inspection of books of accounts of Commodity Exchanges and their Members.
Criteria for Empanelment
(i) Chartered Accountant firm should have a minimum of 10 years of experience in undertaking audits in areas of audits of banks, insurance companies, public sector units, Commodity Futures Markets/Securities Markets, large reputed organizations in private sector.
(ii) Firm should be empanelled with Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG), RBI (Statutory Central auditors of Public Sector Banks).
(i) A partnership firm should have at least the following number of partners.
No.of Partners
Metro Cities 4 of which at least 2 should be FCA's
Non-Metros 2of which at least 1 should be FCA.
(ii) At least one partner should have an association of 10 years or more with the firm and at least another partner of the firm should have association of 5 years or more with the firm.
(iii) The minimum number of professional staff (excluding typists, stenographers, computer operators, secretary/ies and sub-ordinate staff etc.) consisting of audit and articled clerks with the knowledge in book-keeping and accountancy and are engaged in outdoor audit should be:
In Metro Cities - 10
In Non-Metros - 5
Kindly arrange to send your detailed profile along with list of your experience in undertaking audits in the format below. The terms and conditions for empanelment of Auditors/CA firms are as per Annexure-I The detailed profile should be sent to the Commission by courier/by speed post with the envelope marked as "Application for Empanelment of Auditors" so as to reach us latest by 29.02.2012. A soft copy may also be sent by mail to athirababu.fmc@nic.in .
FORWARD MARKETS COMMISSION
Government of India ,
"Everest" 3rd floor, 100, Marine Drive ,
Mumbai – 400 002.
Tel. No. 022 - 22795300
FORMAT
1. Name of the Firm
2. Address
3. Contact Numbers
4. Constitution
5. Year of Establishment
6. Registration Number of ICAI
(Copy to be enclosed)
7. Details of Registration with CAG Office
(copy to be enclosed)
8. Details of Registration with RBI
(copy to enclosed)
9 Categorization by ICAI, if any
10. Income Tax PAN Number (copy to be enclosed)
11. Service Tax Registration Number (copy to be enclosed)
12. Gross income in last 3 financial years
13. Details of partners with their membership Number
14. Details of paid CA employees of the firm with their membership Number
15. Details of staff employed (specify the number of article clerks separately)
16. Number of CISA/DISA qualified Chartered Accountants
17. Details of Branches if any,
18 Any association (direct/indirect) with Commodity Exchange/Commodity Exchange Member to be disclosed
19 Details of professional experience in Banks Audit/PSU Audit/ Commodity Futures Market/Securities Market, other large reputed organizations in private sector
Annexure-I
Terms and Conditions for empanelment of Auditors/CA firms with Forward Markets Commission
1. The professional fee for Audit of National Commodity Exchange/Regional Commodity Exchange/Member of Commodity Exchange would be as follows:
(i) National Commodity Exchange – Rs. 1 Lakh ( Rupees One Lakh Only)
(ii) Regional Commodity Exchanges - Rs. 35,000/- (Thirty Five Thousand Rupees only).
(iii) Member of Commodity Exchanges - Rs. 35,000/- (Thirty Five Thousand Rupees only).
The fee is all inclusive (including Service Tax, Travel Expenses & all other out of pocket expenses).
2. In case of direct or indirect association with any Commodity Exchange or Member of Exchanges in any capacity, it should be disclosed in the application for empanelment.
3. The firm has to give declaration that no partner/Chartered Accountant employee of the firm of auditors has been held guilty of professional misconduct by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
4. The firm has to give a declaration that in case of empanelment and subsequent assignment of audit of an Exchange or Member of an Exchange then:
a. For the year of audit, and for a period of three years from the submission of inspection report of the audit assigned, no assignment for internal audit or consultancy or any other audit or service of the (i) Exchange or (ii) Member (member or its sister concerns) (including a subsidiary company/joint venture of the member, in case of corporate member) will be accepted, either by the firm or by its partners or relatives (husband, wife, brother or sister or any lineal ascendant or descendant) of the partners of the firm or by its associates.
b. the audit team shall consist of two or more persons – of which one should necessarily be a partner of the firm. The audit would not be done by a person (i) who is neither a partner nor an employee of the CA firm to which the audit has been allotted, (ii) who was earlier associated with the audit of the said Exchange or Member (member or its sister concerns) (including a subsidiary company/joint venture of the member, in case of corporate member) as a partner/employee of the previous auditor.
c. the partners, employees and other personnel of the firm will not divulge any information that has come to their possession during the course of inspection to any person other than the authorized officials of the Commission or to a statutory authority, under any provision of law.
5. Empanelment with the Commission does not automatically guarantee assignment of audit. Assignment of audit would be done, as per the needs of the Commission.
6. The firm(s) which fulfill the empanelment criteria would be short-listed and empanelled for a period of 2 years. The decision of the Forward Markets Commission regarding the selection, constitution and size of the panel would be final.
7. In case of violation of any of the above conditions, the firm would be liable to be removed from the panel of the Commission and for any other action deemed appropriate by the Commission and the decision of the Commission in this regard would be final.
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