On 4 September 2017 the Charity Commission issued updated guidance for independent examiners. The new guidance includes 3 new Directions that examiners must follow and gives guidance on how this can be achieved.
The full guidance can be found at CC32 guidance.
Direction 2
Check for any conflict of interest that prevents the examiner from carrying out an independent examination.
This states that the independent examiner must not be influenced, or perceived to be influenced, by either close personal relationships with the trustees of the charity, being a major donor or having control or significant influence over a major funder to the charity, or through day to day involvement in the administration of the charity being examined. The examiner must ensure that there are no matters and no potential matters that would reasonably give rise to a perception of their independence that would affect their ability to carry out the examination in a wholly objective manner.
Direction 7
The examiner must check that the trustees have considered if there were any related party transactions in the reporting period and check whether the trustees have made the disclosures required by the applicable Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) in the notes to the accounts.
Direction 9
The examiner must check whether the trustees have considered the financial circumstances of the charity at the end of the reporting period and, if the accounts are prepared on an accruals basis, check whether the trustees have made an assessment of the charity’s position as a going concern when approving the accounts.
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