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Preparation of unaudited financial statements In SIngapore
An unaudited financial statement is one that you have not subjected to an independent verification and review process by ACRA. Your financial statements remain unaudited until they are scrutinized and approved by a certified external auditor.
Unaudited financial statements
All companies in Singapore, except small companies and dormant companies, need to file audited reports to ACRA. Under the Companies Act, it is mandatory to appoint an auditor within 3 months of its incorporation. The directors would have to appoint an auditor to audit the accounts.
Failure to maintain proper accounting records could result in Directors being fined up to S$2,000 or imprisoned for a term of up to 3 months in addition to a default penalty. Directors could also be fined up to S$50,000 if the financial statements do not comply with the FRS. The preparation of unaudited financial statements in Singapore is definitely important to ensure that you would not get into any legal trouble for not preparing them at all. Take a look at our sample of unaudited financial statement templates below.
Exemptions from Statutory Audit
Even if your company is exempt from statutory audit, you are still required to prepare and file unaudited annual financial statements. The annual financial statements help to compute and prepare the corporate tax returns of your company. However, when your company is exempt from audit, you don’t need to appoint an auditor within 3 months of incorporation and your accounts do not undergo official auditing.
At Tianlong Services, you can engage us to perform the necessary schedules and prepare the unaudited financial statement reports in accordance with Singapore Financial Reporting Standards so long as your business qualifies as a ‘small company’ or ‘dormant company.’ Unaudited financial statement requirements in Singapore may be confusing for some but here at Tianlong Services, we assure you that we guide you every step of the way to making the preparation of unaudited financial statements in Singapore easier for you.
Qualifications for Small Companies
According to the Singapore Company’s Act, corporations that qualify for the “small company” category must be private companies in the current financial year, and must meet at least two of the following three criteria within the last two consecutive financial years:
- Total annual revenue of SGD$10 million or less;
- Total assets of SGD$10 million or less; or
- 50 employees or less.
Small companies are required to submit their unaudited financial statements. Here at Tianlong Services, with regards to the unaudited financial statement requirements in Singapore, we are here to guide you through this journey to ensure that the submission of audited and unaudited financial statements in Singapore is easy to understand for you and your business.
Small companies are also required to submit their unaudited profit and loss statements to ensure that they tally. The unaudited profit and loss statements are also important to ensure that the company is able to track the different profits and losses that the company has gone through. It is also important so that your company is able to plan on how to improve your company financially or in other aspects of your business.
Qualifications for Dormant Companies
The IRAS defines a dormant company as a business that has not generated any income during a specific period of time, typically a financial year. However, it may have incurred expenses.
On the other hand, ACRA defines a dormant company to have no accounting transactions during a financial year. However, certain activities of a Singapore company are not considered accounting transactions. These include:
- The appointment of an auditor;
- The appointment of a company secretary;
- The maintenance of a legal address;
- The payment of fees and/or penalties applied by ACRA;
- The maintenance and bookkeeping of registries and company books; and
- Transactions related to the taking of shares by a new shareholder or subscriber under certain conditions.
Here at Tianlong Services, we can assist you and your company with providing unaudited financial statement templates. After a simple consultation with us and engaging our services, we are more than pleased to help you with your financial statements.
The Outcome of our Preparing Unaudited Annual Financial Statements
The compilation report or unaudited financial statements are usually tabled when filing income tax with IRAS and filing Annual Returns with ACRA. In addition to filing with ACRA and IRAS, it is also important to get the compilation report or unaudited financial statements ready when tabled during the AGM.
Tianlong Services helps you keep track of all the changes and implement them in the preparation of unaudited financial statements as required in Singapore. We will also keep track of all your businesses’ audited and unaudited financial statements, making sure that your company is always in the good books of the financial market regulators.
