In March of 2023, IRBA published a brand new trust account assurance report template for auditors of a property practitioner’s trust accounts.

The new template features additional audit procedures to be carried out, addressing compliance of a property practitioner’s trust accounts with the Property Practitioners Act and Regulations.

Not only that, but the template also introduces two additional agreed-upon procedures engagements to be conducted on the trust accounts / trust accounting practices of the property practitioner.
• Introduce the new IRBA template trust audit report
• Simplify the contents of the trust audit report, looking at Part A and Part
B
• Identify what procedures are to be carried out on the trust accounts as
part of the compliance audit
• Identify what is required of the auditor as part of the two agreed-upon
procedures engagements and what the AUP procedures look like
• Discuss the need for engagement letters and where findings are to be
communicated (i.e., through reports)
• Briefly point out two further template reports issued by IRBA related to
trust accounts audited by Payment Processing Agents.