The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have published letters for auditors and accountants to provide information in case of a no-deal Brexit.
As it stands, the UK is due to leave the EU at 11pm on 29 March and, with only 32 days to go, there is not yet a deal in place on the future relationship between the EU and the UK.
The FRC and BEIS said: “If you are approved to conduct audit work in the EEA based on a UK audit qualification, then you need to urgently contact the competent authority in the EEA State(s) where you are currently approved to find out whether UK qualifications will continue to be recognised on and after 30 March. You need to do this for each EEA state where you have an approval.”
While recognition may continue and no further action will be needed to be taken, it could be that the competent authority in the EEA state where the auditor is currently approved will no longer recognise UK audit qualifications.
In this scenario, the auditor will have to re-establish its eligibility to carry out statutory audit work in that EEA state.
This may require the auditor to complete a new aptitude test or requalify by sitting some or all the examinations and also to meet any other requirements needed to obtain an audit qualification.
In the case of ongoing audits, where the auditor is expected to sign the audit report after exit day, the auditor will have to check with the authority in the jurisdiction in which that company is incorporated to check whether or not it can do so in accordance with local law read more
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