Compliance information for auditors and audit companies
Lodging online using the auditors portal
Use our online lodgement service to:
- change or update your registration details, and
- lodge your annual statement.
Lodging online is recommended as it is:
- cheaper
- quicker
- more accurate, and
- allows you to view which documents have been lodged and their current status.
Here's how to apply for a user name and password to lodge online
Changing or updating your registration details
Use form 905 to:
- change any of your registration details, or
- notify us that you are ceasing to practise as an auditor or authorised audit company.
You can lodge form 905 online using the auditors portal, or
download a copy of form 905 as a PDF file.
Lodging your annual statement
From 1 January 2005, all registered company auditors and audit companies must lodge an annual statement within one month of the anniversary of their registration.
Outstanding triennial statement?
Find out if you still need to lodge an outstanding triennial statement and the period to be covered in your first annual statement.
Use form 912 to lodge your annual statement:
Notifying ASIC about contraventions of the Corporations Act
For guidance on when you must report contraventions of the Corporations Act to us read Regulatory guide 34: Auditors’ obligations: reporting to ASIC.
Where to send your audit notifications and how we will deal with them
Authorised audit companies: Insurance arrangements
The professional indemnity insurance requirements for authorised audit companies, which were the subject of a policy proposal paper issued in April 2004, have now been included as Part B in PS 180.
For more information read our ASIC issues final versions of CLERP 9 policies.
Information about whistleblowing for company auditors
Company auditors and members of external audit teams have legal obligations under the Corporations Act (Act) if they receive a revelation from a whistleblower. Unless audit staff handle the revelation correctly they may inadvertently breach the Act if they tell the audit partner. But if the revelation is not shared with the audit partner then the quality of the audit may be in jeopardy.
Find out how you can prepare your auditors and audit team members for a whistleblower’s revelation
Further information
Guidance for auditors and audit companies
Registering as an auditor
Information about CLERP 9
Financial reporting
ASIC Website: Printed 12/03/2008
