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66 ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING PERSPECTIVES earlier application is permitted only when accompanied by the relevant amendments to Accounting Standard No. 27. ♦ Sale of assets held for rental: Entities that routinely sell items of property, plant and equipment that it has held for rental to others, shell transfer such assets to inventories at their carrying amount when they cease to be rented and are held for sale. The proceeds from the sale of such assets should be recognized as revenue in accordance with Accounting Standard No. 25, Income. Cash payments to manufacture or acquire such assets and cash receipts from rental and sale of such assets are to be included within operating activities in the statement of cash flows. Transitional provisions require the application of the amendments retrospectively (for periods commencing January 1 st 2010) and earlier application is permitted only when accompanied by the relevant amendments to Accounting Standard No. 27. 6.5. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AUDITING STANDARDS IN ISRAEL An auditor in Israel performs an audit in order to express an opinion as to whether the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the company, the results of its operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or IFRS (if a listed entity). In performing the audit, the auditor is required to comply with the Auditor’s Regulations (Auditor's Mode of Performance), professionally and prudently. Furthermore, the auditor is required to perform the audit independently and objectively. Various opinions regulate the conduct of an auditor and his mode of operation during the audit of financial statements in Israel. In addition, specific regulations exist with respect to audits, such as the requirements of the State Controller, municipalities and local authority auditors and auditor’s regulations, published in accordance with the Certified Public Accountants Law. The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel regularly publishes guidelines for recommended auditing procedures to be applied by auditors including, inter alia, examining factors of corporate risk and focus on them. The Committee for Auditing Standards in Israel took significant steps towards general adoption of IFAC’s standards (except for minor adjustments due to the business environment and judicial developments in Israel). BDO Israel
BDO Israel DOING BUSINESS IN ISRAEL Israeli GAAS contain diverse principles and procedures. During 2010 and early 2011, the three following audit standards were published: Audit Standard No. 102, amendment to Audit standard No. 99 "Amending Audit Standard No. 90 concerning 'The Uniform Auditor's Opinion on the Financial Statements' ": Audit standard No. 102 amends the effective date for Audit Standard 99, thus it is effective for audits of financial statements issued on or after December 15, 2009. Audit Standard No. 103, Audit of internal control over financial reporting integrated with an audit of financial statements: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (3) , requiring company management to assess and report on the effectiveness of the company's internal control, was demanded by Israeli legislation and regulations for specific entities, Israeli banks and credit card companies (2008), government companies (and their subsidiaries) ascending specific quantity thresholds (2009) and institutional parties (2010)]. Aspiring to set existing reporting and auditing internal control over financial reporting at the level defined under US GAAS, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel has concluded that, with respect to the above entities, it is appropriate to adopt the PCAOB standards for audits of internal control over financial reporting (PCAOB - Auditing Standard No. 5). Consequently, the Institute published Audit Standard No. 103, enforcing PCAOB's AS 5 with appropriate references to other Israeli GAAS (instead of the parallel US GAAS). Audit Standard No. 104, Audit of internal control components over financial reporting: This Standard was published along with the publication of Audit Standard No. 103. Standard No. 104 is designed to determine the way accountant's audit of internal control components over financial reporting for the year ended December 31, 2010 (excluding the audit of entities specified by Audit Standard No. 103). Such an audit is designed to identify the control components to be audited, in order to achieve a reasonable degree of assurance that these components are carried out effectively, in all material respects. (3) The act, among other things, established new provisions related to internal control over financial reporting. 67
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PREFACE This publication has been p
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7. INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AND TRADE
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8 THE ISRAELI ECONOMY IN 2010 The I
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138 Dividends % Interest % TAXATION
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140 FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL AND PR
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