Ministry of Finance seeks public feedback

December 31, 2022
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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is searching for views and suggestions from Singaporeans in training for Budget 2018, it said in a press release on Sunday (Dec 3).
The public can provide their perspectives thru several channels.
From Monday (Dec 4), Singaporeans can visit the REACH Pre-Budget 2018 microsite to post their views, MOF said.
“Individuals, households, and organizations are welcome to provide comments on issues which include how our organizations can compete, how our humans can capture new possibilities, how we take care of and guide each other, and the way we plan for destiny needs,” MOF brought.
During the feedback length, REACH will organize nine Pre-Budget 2018 Listening Points throughout Singapore to give their views in person.

Locations of these Listening Points may be discovered on REACH’s website.

Besides, REACH will organize a Pre-Budget 2018 Conversation with contributors of the public on Tuesday, Dec five, 2017.
The Conversation may be hosted by way of Ms. Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister of State within the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Finance, and Mr. Sam Tan, Minister of State within the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Manpower and REACH chairman.
A Pre-Budget Facebook Q&A session has been planned for Jan four, 2018, from 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm, where participants of the general public can be a part of the chat hosted on the REACH Facebook web page.

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Besides, Singaporeans can deliver their views and recommendations for the approaching Budget 2018 online, including through the Singapore Budget Website, the REACH Discussion Forum, the REACH Budget microsite, and the REACH Singapore Facebook web page.

Financial Reporting & Auditing In Singapore

The Accounting Profession of Singapore

The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) is the countrywide frame representing Singapore’s accounting career. It keeps a register of qualified accountants comprising mainly neighborhood graduates. Membership is open to contributors of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, and some other accounting bodies. Generally, before being admitted as a full member, they have to attend per week-lengthy pre-admission route. Members are exact as certified public accountants (CPA).

The Public Accountants Board, whose council participants are appointed through the Ministry of Finance, licenses and registers accountants who desire to prepare. It also handles exercise tracking, disciplinary matters, and rules of professional conduct.

Accounting Records in Singapore

All organizations included below the Companies Act are required to preserve books of bills that sufficiently explain the agency’s transactions and monetary role.

The books can be stored either at the enterprise’s registered office or any other area the directors assume healthily. If the books are maintained out of Singapore’s doors, sufficient information should be maintained in Singapore to facilitate the practice and/or audit of monetary statements that replicate the agency’s monetary role appropriately.

Sources of Accounting Principles

Financial Periods Commencing before 1 January 2003 The important source of accounting principles in Singapore, namely Statements of Accounting Standards (SAS) and Interpretation of Statements of Accounting Standards (INT), are issued by using ICPAS. These requirements are basically International Accounting Standards (IAS) modified for positive transitional provisions. They provide recommendations on the accounting measurements and disclosure necessities. Businesses may also go away from such requirements if the requirements warfare with disclosure exemptions are granted by using the law. Otherwise, ICPAS may also take disciplinary movement against any of its participants who violate the standards.

Rules on accounting measurements are normally mounted utilizing SAS and INT. Disclosure necessities are governed by way of SAS, INT, and the Companies Act.

ICPAS is a member of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). Compliance with IASC standards are not obligatory, but the institute supports the IASC targets of formulating and publishing requirements for observance in the course of the presentation of audited economic statements and selling worldwide recognition of such standards.

Financial Periods Commencing on or after 1 January 2003 With the implementation of phase 37 of the Companies (Amendment) Act 2002, SAS issued by using ICPAS will not be used with impact from annual economic durations taking off on or after 1 January 2003. Instead, the Singapore Financial Reporting Standards (FRS), issued by way of the brand new accounting standards-setting body, the Council on Corporate Disclosure and Governance (CCDG), are actually powerful. FRS is basically adopted from International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). However, the previous SAS had been followed from the identical set of IFRS (formerly called IAS), with the amendment to certain transitional provisions. Consequently, there are differences between FRS and SAS.

Interpretations of Standards are authoritative steerage at the software of the applicable standards. CCDG adopted all global interpretations as Interpretations of FRS (INT FRS) with effect from financial durations starting on or after 1 January 2003.

Compliance with FRS is a statutory requirement whereby any non-compliance amounts to a breach of the Companies Act by way of the directors.

Financial Reporting in Singapore

The Companies Act calls for an audited set of financial statements, made up to not more than six months earlier than each Annual General Meeting, to be offered to the shareholders at the assembly. Generally, if an organization integrated into Singapore has one or more subsidiaries, it should prepare consolidated monetary statements unless it meets positive standards as furnished for in FRS 27 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements. Economic statements beneath the Companies Act encompass the balance sheet and earnings declaration collectively with explanatory notes. With the Companies (Accounting Standards) Regulations 2002 getting into operation for monetary intervals on or after 1 January 2003, a complete set of economic statements will contain the stability sheet, income statement, statement of adjustments in fairness, coins flow declaration explanatory notes.

The financial statements must be followed using the administrators’ and auditors’ reviews and an announcement from the directors declaring that the monetary statements display a true and fair view. It is reasonable to consider that the organization can fairly pay its debts as they become due.

Companies that meet particular provisions of the Companies Act may be exempt from having their accounts audited but must prepare economic statements that follow the Companies Act.