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BDO Israel<br />
DOING BUSINESS IN ISRAEL<br />
Israeli GAAS contain diverse principles and procedures. During 2010 and early<br />
2011, the three following audit standards were published:<br />
Audit Standard No. 102, amendment to Audit standard No. 99 "Amending<br />
Audit Standard No. 90 concerning 'The Uniform Auditor's Opinion on the<br />
Financial Statements' ": Audit standard No. 102 amends the effective date for<br />
Audit Standard 99, thus it is effective for audits of financial statements issued<br />
on or after December 15, 2009.<br />
Audit Standard No. 103, Audit of internal control over financial reporting<br />
integrated with an audit of financial statements: Section 404 of the<br />
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (3) , requiring company management to assess and report on<br />
the effectiveness of the company's internal control, was demanded by Israeli<br />
legislation and regulations for specific entities, Israeli banks and credit card<br />
companies (2008), government companies (and their subsidiaries) ascending<br />
specific quantity thresholds (2009) and institutional parties (2010)]. Aspiring to<br />
set existing reporting and auditing internal control over financial reporting at<br />
the level defined under US GAAS, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants<br />
in Israel has concluded that, with respect to the above entities, it is appropriate<br />
to adopt the PCAOB standards for audits of internal control over financial<br />
reporting (PCAOB - Auditing Standard No. 5). Consequently, the Institute<br />
published Audit Standard No. 103, enforcing PCAOB's AS 5 with appropriate<br />
references to other Israeli GAAS (instead of the parallel US GAAS).<br />
Audit Standard No. 104, Audit of internal control components over<br />
financial reporting: This Standard was published along with the publication of<br />
Audit Standard No. 103. Standard No. 104 is designed to determine the way<br />
accountant's audit of internal control components over financial reporting for<br />
the year ended December 31, 2010 (excluding the audit of entities specified by<br />
Audit Standard No. 103). Such an audit is designed to identify the control<br />
components to be audited, in order to achieve a reasonable degree of assurance<br />
that these components are carried out effectively, in all material respects.<br />
(3) The act, among other things, established new provisions related to internal control over<br />
financial reporting.<br />
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