Trustee-and-Member-Consent If we’re currently acting as your accountant, our services include arranging your SMSF audit and the fees for performing the annual audit are included in your monthly SMSF fees. So, read no further – you have been already covered.
If you prepare your own SMSF accounts and tax return, you will still need an independent audit, which we would be happy to arrange for you. You may be interested to know that apart from arranging audits for our SMSFs and private clients, we also provide the service for accounting and financial planning firms. The audit toolkit (below) lists the 10 simple steps you should follow to complete the audit process for your Fund with Superannuation Warehouse.
Audit Toolkit
Step 1 Get a Free Instant Audit Quote from us to see if our service price is right for you.
Step 2 If you’re satisfied with our quote, please click the Request Audit button on our Free Instant Audit Quote page and send us a signed Engagement Letter and Trustee Representation Letter.
Step 3 After we receive your audit request, we will send you a secure internet access code to upload all the relevant audit files for your SMSF.
Step 4 Complete, sign off the Audit Checklist and send it to us via email or upload it to the secure internet access folder (Dropbox) with all other supporting documentation as listed in the Audit Checklist. The main components are a permanent files section (Trust Deed, Minutes of Meetings, Investment Strategy, Trustee Declaration and Trustee-and-Member-Consent) and your previous year’s accounting and tax records (Financial Statements with notes, Tax Return, Audit Report).
Step 5 Upon receipt of all your SMSF’s audit supporting documentation, our auditors will start the audit process for your Fund.
Step 6 You will be contacted directly by us with audit clearance or Audit Comments if there are any queries or discrepancies for your Fund. Any further information we may require from you to complete the audit process will be stated as points in the Audit Comments we send you. If you don’t receive any Audit Comments from us, please go straight to Step 8.
Step 7 Please attend to all the points stated in the Audit Comments and send any further information we may required.
Step 8 Confirm that the Audit Fee for your Fund has been paid.
Step 9 An Audit Report will be sent to you via both email and regular mail. For SMSF’s with Audit Comments, an Audit Result will only be sent out after all the points stated in the Comments have been addressed correctly.
Step 10 You can now lodge your SMSF Tax Return with the ATO.
For a copy of the Trustee Representation and Engagement Letters please see the links below.
SMSF audits require a set of supporting documents for auditors to complete the audit process. Please see the link below for a copy of our audit checklist.
