23. Although the LICPA has translated the IFAC 2005 Code of Ethics for
Professional Accountants, there is no system in place to ensure that practicing
accountants and auditors actually comply with it.7 As an aspiring IFAC member, the
LICPA must now examine methods that can be utilized to achieve compliance by the
local profession. Among accountants and auditors with whom the ROSC team met, there
is a varying degree of awareness of the actual content of the ethical standards. Without
any means of ensuring auditors are working in compliance with ethical standards, the
public cannot be assured of genuine commitment and adherence to the 5 internationally
agreed fundamental principles of professional ethics: integrity and objectivity,
professional competence and due care, confidentiality, professional behavior, and
technical standards.
24. Corporate management tends not to take full responsibility for preparing
financial statements. Some stakeholders have cited instances when company
management has either partly or fully relied on auditors to prepare financial statements.
The Law on Commercial Banks, Article 56 even requires that auditors should assist
banks in maintaining proper accounting records. This may be due to lack of qualified
professionals available for preparing financial statements and to corporate management’s
misperception about the role of auditors. The latter point arises from company directors’
lack of knowledge on auditing procedures thus impairing significantly their fiduciary
responsibility. In such cases, the auditors’ involvement in the preparation of bank
financial statements, and audit of the same financial statements may threaten auditors’
independence. This results in non-compliance with international good practices on
auditor’s professional ethics. In practice, the bank management as well as their
supervisors have very limited understanding of the value of an audit and the information
it contains. In the past they have not used the auditor’s reports as a guide to improvement,
but have often seen them as just another required report.
25. Relevant Lao laws do not provide for significant penalties against negligent
auditors. There is no legal requirement to have professional liability insurance. This
tends to impair an auditor’s accountability and in many cases has created an environment
of unconcern toward risks of malpractice suits by auditors. Lao PDR has not yet
experienced any litigation against auditors.
26. There is no actuarial profession in Lao PDR. This represents a serious problem
for the financial reporting by insurance companies, in particular where actuarial
valuations should be required for purposes of income recognition and the recognition and
measurement of assets and liabilities.
23. Although the LICPA has translated the IFAC 2005 Code of Ethics for
Professional Accountants, there is no system in place to ensure that practicing
accountants and auditors actually comply with it.7 As an aspiring IFAC member, the
LICPA must now examine methods that can be utilized to achieve compliance by the
local profession. Among accountants and auditors with whom the ROSC team met, there
is a varying degree of awareness of the actual content of the ethical standards. Without
any means of ensuring auditors are working in compliance with ethical standards, the
public cannot be assured of genuine commitment and adherence to the 5 internationally
agreed fundamental principles of professional ethics: integrity and objectivity,
professional competence and due care, confidentiality, professional behavior, and
technical standards.
24. Corporate management tends not to take full responsibility for preparing
financial statements. Some stakeholders have cited instances when company
management has either partly or fully relied on auditors to prepare financial statements.
The Law on Commercial Banks, Article 56 even requires that auditors should assist
banks in maintaining proper accounting records. This may be due to lack of qualified
professionals available for preparing financial statements and to corporate management’s
misperception about the role of auditors. The latter point arises from company directors’
lack of knowledge on auditing procedures thus impairing significantly their fiduciary
responsibility. In such cases, the auditors’ involvement in the preparation of bank
financial statements, and audit of the same financial statements may threaten auditors’
independence. This results in non-compliance with international good practices on
auditor’s professional ethics. In practice, the bank management as well as their
supervisors have very limited understanding of the value of an audit and the information
it contains. In the past they have not used the auditor’s reports as a guide to improvement,
but have often seen them as just another required report.
25. Relevant Lao laws do not provide for significant penalties against negligent
auditors. There is no legal requirement to have professional liability insurance. This
tends to impair an auditor’s accountability and in many cases has created an environment
of unconcern toward risks of malpractice suits by auditors. Lao PDR has not yet
experienced any litigation against auditors.
26. There is no actuarial profession in Lao PDR. This represents a serious problem
for the financial reporting by insurance companies, in particular where actuarial
valuations should be required for purposes of income recognition and the recognition and
measurement of assets and liabilities.
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