Bank confirmation for audit purposes
- For more efficient exchange of information, a standardized audit confirmation form has been developed
- If necessary, supplementary audit confirmation forms are available based on an unstandardized requests
To speed up the time necessary for the preparation and issuance of the confirmation, we offer the issuing of standardised audit confirmations based on the requests submitted by auditors or audit companies.
What is a bank confirmation for audit purposes?
It is a certificate required by auditors in forming an opinion on the company's annual financial statements or in carrying out audit of another kind in the company.
What is an auditor?
An auditor is a sworn auditor, an auditor or an audit company, which request official information from all commercial banks with which the company has an account or the customer of which the company is and uses the particular services thereof.
How to properly prepare an auditor's request?
For the bank to provide information, the auditor shall prepare, on behalf of the company, an appropriate request to the particular commercial bank (or simultaneously to several commercial banks), ensuring that the request:
- is signed by the company’s authorised representative/signatory;
- contains the company's consent /acknowledgement of the delivery of the relevant details on the company to the auditor;
- specifies the relevant type of the delivery of the response (for example, by mail to a specific address, by email with electronic signature).
Submitting of the request
An auditor's request may be submitted:
- by post/postal delivery;
- email with a secure electronic signature, or
- at the bank’s branch.
Information provided by the bank to the auditor
In response to the auditor’s original request, the bank will prepare a standardized bank confirmation for audit purposes (regardless of the amount of information requested). Additional information (other than that included in the standardised bank confirmation for audit purposes form) can be requested. A commission fee for non-standard references will be charged for the preparation of such a bank confirmation for audit purposes, in accordance with the Price List.
Please get acquainted with the standard bank confirmation for audit purposes template: