Background:
The Accounting Law provides the legal framework for accounting, auditing, and corporate reporting in Vietnam. Under the Accounting Law, all companies are
required to prepare and present legal entity financial statements in accordance with Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS). The MOF is the accounting and
auditing standard setting body.
The VASs are researched and established based on the most updated ISA and IFRS. The VAS system is comprehensive and harmonized with international
standards not only in terms of content, basis of evaluation and recognition but also in the format of its presentation.
VAA’s role in this process consists of lending its expertise to the standard preparation committee, holding seminars and conferences on accounting and auditing
standards and issuing instructive documents to the members applying the standards. The MOF has also assigned VACPA, a member association of the VAA, to
directly draft some auditing standards.
Between 2000 and 2006, the MOF has promulgated 26 Vietnam Accounting Standards (VAS) and 37 Vietnam Standards of Auditing (VSA) based on
international accounting and auditing standards.
The Independent Audit Law No. 67/2011/QH12 promulgated on 29 March 2011 by the National Assembly of Vietnam shall come into effect from 01 January
2012. VAA will be initiating a review of the existing professional process in order to bring it in line with the law.