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The accountant may use and make reference to the report of another accountant on a review of interim financial information of a significant component of the reporting entity. A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures to financial data and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. Further, such interim review procedures do not provide assurance that the accountant will become aware of all matters affecting the accountant’s judgments about the quality of the entity’s accounting principles that would be identified as a result of an audit. If, in the accountant’s judgment, the audit committee does not respond appropriately to the accountant’s communication within a reasonable period of time, the accountant should evaluate (a) whether to resign from the engagement related to interim financial information, and (b) whether to remain as the entity’s auditor or stand for re-election to audit the entity’s financial statements.

Interim financial statements – Assessing the impact

It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. These financial statements (information) are (is) the responsibility of the company’s management. If restrictions on the scope of a review of interim financial information preclude completion of such a review, the accountant should not permit the use of his or her name. Paragraph added, effective for reviews of interim financial information for interim periods ending on or after March 15, 2000, by Statement on Auditing Standards No. 90.

Fn 10 If interim financial information of a prior period is presented with that of the current period and the accountant has conducted a review of that information, the accountant should report on his or her review of the prior period. Fn 9 Other reporting issues involved in the dating of reports or concerning subsequent events are similar to those encountered in an audit of financial statements (see section 530, Dating of the Independent Auditor’s Report). Fn 8 See paragraph .37 concerning a client’s representation when the scope of a review of interim financial information has been restricted. The auditor need not expand his or her report on the audited financial statements in the circumstances described in c and d if his or her separate review report, which refers to those circumstances, is presented with the information. We attempted but were unable to review the quarterly data in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants because we believe that the company’s internal control for the preparation of interim financial information do not provide an adequate basis to enable us to complete such a review.

Communication With Audit Committees

• An impairment loss recognised for goodwill is not reversed in subsequent periods, even if it was recognised in an interim period of the same financial year.
• The accountant’s knowledge of an entity’s business and its internal control influences the inquiries made and analytical procedures performed.
• 15Information that might be disclosed is set forth in paragraph .10 of AS 2415, Consideration of an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern.
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When a public entity does not have its annual financial statements audited, an accountant may be requested to review its annual or interim financial statements. If there are significant changes in the amount of expected credit losses, then the company provides in its interim financial statements an explanation of, and an update to, the relevant information included in the financial statements of the last annual reporting period. This section also provides guidance on reporting by the independent auditor when certain selected quarterly financial data required to be presented with audited annual financial statements by item 302(a) of Regulation S-K of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are not presented or are presented but have not been reviewed (see paragraph .43 for guidance).

6 Interim financial reporting considerations for private companies

These procedures target high-risk account balances or those previously adjusted by auditors. Absent external oversight, managers with bad news to report may be tempted to artificially inflate revenue and profits in interim reports. If your company is underperforming, it may call for corrective measures and/or updated financial forecasts. This is especially true when a company’s financial performance has deteriorated over the last year or when the industry is experiencing a downturn or implementing new regulations. Sometimes, they may want more than one “snapshot” per year of your company’s financial well-being.

IFRS Example Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 2025

The illustrative letters assume that management and the accountant have reached an understanding on the limits of materiality for purposes of the written representations. To avoid misunderstanding concerning the meaning of such terms, the accountant may wish to furnish those definitions to management or request that the definitions be included in the written representations. If matters exist that should be disclosed to the accountant, they should be indicated by modifying the related representation. Analytical procedures may include such statistical techniques as trend analysis or regression analysis and may be performed manually or with the use of computer-assisted techniques. The quantity, type, and content of the documentation are matters of the accountant’s professional judgment. Following is an example of such a modification of the accountant’s report.

• For example, in my company, we prepare unaudited interim financial statements every month.
• Fn 3 Nonpublic entities frequently include interim financial information as supplementary information.
• For example, a loan for which covenants are breached at the interim reporting date, such that the liability becomes repayable on demand, would need to be classified as current, unless the company obtained a waiver before the interim reporting date.
• If, in performing a review of interim financial information, the accountant becomes aware of information that leads him or her to question whether the interim financial information to be reported conforms with generally accepted accounting principles, the accountant should make additional inquiries or employ other procedures he or she considers appropriate to provide the limited assurance for a review engagement.
• Testing for impairment in a previous period generally does not provide any relief from doing so in a current period when warranted.

How to prepare interim financial statements

To the best of our knowledge and belief, no events have occurred subsequent to the balance-sheet date and through the date of this letter that would require adjustment to or disclosure in the aforementioned interim financial information (statements).