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NVK & Associates

Secretarial audit

Secretarial Audit, signing of Annual Return of Private / Public / Listed companies, and Stock Exchange related CS certification.

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Private, public, and listed companies that need a practising Company Secretary to examine the records and issue the prescribed report or certificate.

A practising Company Secretary conducts secretarial audit under the Companies Act, signs annual returns, and issues certifications required by FEMA, SEBI, stock exchanges, and other regulators. Acting as scrutinizer for a postal ballot is a related engagement.

Secretarial audit examines whether the company has complied with the applicable provisions and whether the books and returns support that compliance. The report is issued in the form the Act and the rules prescribe for the class of company.

Annual-return signing for private, public, and listed companies, and the CS certificates that stock exchanges, SEBI, and FEMA filings require, are separate certificates on the same practice list.

The underlying company-law records are retainership work, listed under Company Law. Write to a partner with the class of company and the certificate or report required.

Contact about this work
  • Secretarial Audit
  • FEMA related CS certification
  • SEBI related CS certification
  • Stock Exchange related CS certification
  • Regulator related CS certification
  • Acting as Scrutinizer for Postal Ballot
  • Signing of Annual Return of Private / Public / Listed companies

How the work proceeds

  1. 01

    Confirm the class of company and the report or certificate required.

  2. 02

    Examine the registers, minutes, filings, and supporting records against the applicable provisions.

  3. 03

    Issue the secretarial-audit report, signed annual return, or regulator CS certificate in the prescribed form.

Related

Other practices

  • Advisory and Consultancy

    Setting up of new business, FDI related guidance, and check-lists for internal audit for CEO / CFO certification.

  • Business Set-up

    Incorporation of private and public companies, plus PAN, GST, Professional Tax, and Shop & Establishment registrations.

  • Company Law

    DIN and DSC, retainership for private, listed, JV and not-for-profit companies, and meetings, filings, buy-back, and governance.

  • Approval and Appearances

    Liaison with Registrar and Share Transfer Agents, Stock Exchange(s), and appearances before RD, ROC, and NCLT.

  • FEMA and RBI

    Liaison with the Reserve Bank of India and obtaining necessary approvals, including FDI reporting.

Questions about this work

Do you conduct secretarial audit?

Yes. The engagement is secretarial audit under the Companies Act, annual-return signing, and the FEMA, SEBI, and stock-exchange CS certificates.

Do you issue stock-exchange CS certification?

The firm issues stock-exchange CS certification, alongside SEBI, FEMA, and other regulator-related CS certification.

Do you sign annual returns?

The firm signs the annual return of private, public, and listed companies.

Can you act as postal-ballot scrutinizer?

Acting as scrutinizer for a postal ballot is a related engagement to secretarial audit and the CS certificates.