Review finding and decision
Ramachandran Sri Kumar, public-accountant registration 01588, failed to pass a revisit practice review. PAOC made the published orders on 20 February 2020. The notice lists these orders among others and does not reproduce the individual audit deficiencies.
Audit restrictions and their exact periods
All PIE audit/reporting is restricted for 24 months, 6 March 2020–5 March 2022.
Hot review: engagements, threshold and time
Six engagements exceeding S$10 million annual turnover require an approved hot-review partner within nine months starting 6 March 2020.
Audit-principal consequences
He cannot be an audit principal from 6 March 2020 until the restriction ends, and until hot review is completed if later. An audit principal supervises or oversees a pupil’s qualifying audit experience. The footnote requires at least five years in public practice and absence of an audit-principal prohibition, hot-review, restriction or suspension order.
Definitions and publication version
Public interest entities take their meaning from the professional Code of Conduct and Ethics, not merely entities casually described as large businesses. The hot-review footnote refers to Practice Direction 4 of 2010. The publication is a historical case record, not a confirmation that the person’s practice-review status has subsequently changed. The source says it was updated on 5 March 2026 to align with Practice Direction 1 of 2024, updated on the same date. That publication update does not change the order periods given above.
Official source
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