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#2222089 - 09/23/19 03:26 PM Audit Confirmations
rguiltner Offline
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I'm curious how banks are confirming account balances with their account holders? We currently send audit confirmation notices to 10% of our account holders on an annual basis asking them to review their balance. Would like to hear what other banks are doing. Do you send them annually or less frequently? Is it completely outsourced or inhouse? Do you send it to 10% of your account holders...more...less?

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Rebekah

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#2222094 - 09/23/19 03:44 PM Re: Audit Confirmations rguiltner
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We outsource this process to our internal audit firm and it's annual, around the time our financials are being audited.

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#2222114 - 09/23/19 04:55 PM Re: Audit Confirmations rguiltner
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We also outsource this on an annual basis.
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#2222116 - 09/23/19 05:02 PM Re: Audit Confirmations Sunshine Lady
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We outsource as well, but it's handled by our external audit firm. I used to work at bank that had an internal audit department and they performed the confirmations. I can't remember the sampling process but it was based on account type and account balance,

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#2222182 - 09/24/19 12:12 PM Re: Audit Confirmations rguiltner
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We do not confirm account balances. Our external auditors might send confirmations with respect to their audit.

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#2222268 - 09/24/19 10:36 PM Re: Audit Confirmations osucpa
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We used to do annual account confirmations in-house, then outsourced it to our external audit firm a few years ago. I don't believe their sample is based on a percentage, they typically confirm 150-200 deposit accounts and the same for loans.
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#2223087 - 10/04/19 06:39 PM Re: Audit Confirmations rguiltner
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Former bank - Internal audit sent them out in conjunction with external audit for the annual financial audit.

External audit provided the guidelines and internal audit produced, balanced and mailed confirmations, with all mail going to external audit. IA basically did the grunt work, saving the $100+ per hour external charge. If I remember correctly, they used random on checking and savings, and dollar unit sampling on CD's and loans.
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