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LAW No. 304 of 20th NOVEMBER 1998 OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
This Law shall regulate the relations emerging between the state authorities, physical persons and legal entities, auditors, organisations of auditors and professional organisations of auditors in the course of carrying out auditing activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Article 1. The Fundamental Definitions Used in This Law
The following fundamental definitions are used in this Law:
1) accredited professional organisation of auditors (henceforth - professional organisation) - a non-profit organisation which is which unites auditors and auditing organisations;
2) accreditation - official recognition by the authorised body of the scope of professional organisations of auditors as specified by this Law;
3) audit - review for the purpose of expressing an independent opinion on the
financial statements and other information, relating to financial statements, in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
4) auditor — natural person certified by the Qualification Commission for Certification of Candidate Auditors (henceforth — the Qualification Commission), who received a qualification certificate granting the qualifications of an “Auditor”;
5) audit report - a written official document resulting from an audit that has been conducted;
6) audit activity - business activity associated with conducting audits of financial statements and other information, relating to financial statements, and rendering services related to a given profile of activities;
7) organisation of auditors - a commercial organisation that has been formed for the performance of audit activities;
8) auditee entity — a legal entity, affiliates and (or) representations of a legal entity acting on its behalf, individual entrepreneur of which an audit is carried out;
9) certification — procedure of valuation by the Qualification Commission of knowledge and skills of candidate auditors;
10) Code of Ethics - the compendium of professional ethics rules for auditors;
10-1) conflict of interest — situation whereby partiality of an auditing organisation may affect its opinion on the authenticity of financial statements of an auditee entity;
10-2) false audit report — audit report which is compiled in violation of the Republic of Kazakhstan legislation concerning auditing, containing false and (or) incomplete information on financial statements and concerning information provided for by auditing standards, misleading users;
11) deliberately false audit report - an audit report compiled without conducting an audit or containing an opinion that deliberately misleads the users;
13) standards of organisations — internal documents of an auditing organisation, which establish uniform requirements concerning the procedure for conducting an audit, not contradicting the Republic of Kazakhstan legislation;
14) authorised state body (henceforth - authorised body) - the central executive body that carries out regulation in the sphere of auditing and supervision of activities of auditing and professional organisations.
Article 2. The Republic of Kazakhstan Legislation Concerning Auditing
1. The Republic of Kazakhstan legislation concerning auditing shall be based upon the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and it shall consist of this Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. Where an international agreement ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan establishes different rules from those which are contained by the Republic of Kazakhstan legislation concerning auditing, the rules of the international agreement shall apply.
Article 3. Auditing Activity
1. The auditing organisations that have licences for the performance of auditing shall have the right to engage in auditing.
2. Auditing organisations, aside from auditing, may also render the following services in relation to the profile of their activity:
1) related services associated with the profile of their activity in accordance with the standards of auditing;
2) restoration and maintenance of accounting, compilation of financial statements;
4) consultation in issues of applying legislation concerning taxes and other obligatory payments to the budget and maintenance of accounts;
5) formation of primary statistical data;
6) analysis of financial-operational activities and financial planning, economic, financial and managerial consultation;
7) consultation concerning issues of maintaining accounts and compiling financial statements;
8) training in accounting and compilation of financial statements, taxation, auditing and analysis of financial and operational activities and financial planning;
9) recommendations associated with automation of maintaining accounts and compilation of financial statements, training in automated accounting and compilation of financial statements;
10) elaboration of methodological instructions and recommendations for the maintenance of accounts and compilation of financial statements, auditing, analysis of financial and operational activities and financial planning, rendering of related services associated with the profile of their activity in accordance with the standards on auditing;
11) legal services, associated with auditing;
Where in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Concerning Permits and Notices” the rendering of certain types of services according to the profile of own activity as stipulated by this paragraph requires to obtain permits or to deliver notices, auditing organisations shall have no right to render those services without the presence of permits or delivery of notices.
3. Auditing organisations shall be prohibited to engage in other types of business activities.
Article 4. The Fundamental Principles of Auditing and Standards on Auditing
1. The following shall be recognised as the fundamental principles of auditing:
observance of standards of the organisations;
2. Auditing shall be carried out in accordance with this Law and international standards on auditing (henceforth - auditing standards), that do not contradict the Republic of Kazakhstan legislation, as published by an organisation having a written permit for their official publication in the Republic of Kazakhstan from the Committee for International Auditing Practice attached to the International Federation of Accountants.
Article 5. Audits and Their Types