Referral, by design. We do not sign statutory trust account audits in-house. To protect your independence, we arrange them through an independent registered company auditor and stay alongside you to prepare, respond and remediate.
Real estate, strata and (adjacent) conveyancer trust accounts must be audited annually and the report lodged on time. To keep that assurance genuinely independent of the people who reconcile the account, the statutory audit should be signed by someone who does not also keep the books.
A properly independent statutory audit, lodged on time, with the preparation and follow-through handled around it.
Where this maps in the law
Property and Stock Agents Act 2002 (NSW) — annual trust account audit under ASAE 3000 / ASAE 3100, lodged via Auditor’s Report Online by 30 September.
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Prove every recovered dollar was recoverable — before a tenant’s auditor tests it.
A clean audit says the records reconcile. It does not say no one is stealing.
Find the gap in a health check in May — not in the audit findings in September.