Utah Admin. Code R590-254-13 - Definition, Availability, and Maintenance of Independent Certified Public Accountants Workpapers
(1)
(a) Workpapers are the records kept by the
independent certified public accountant of the procedures followed, the tests
performed, the information obtained, and the conclusions reached pertinent to
the accountant's audit of the financial statements of an insurer.
(b) Workpapers may include audit planning
documentation, work programs, analyses, memoranda, letters of confirmation and
representation, abstracts of company documents, and schedules or commentaries
prepared or obtained by the independent certified public accountant in the
course of an audit of the financial statements of an insurer and that support
the accountant's opinion.
(2)
(a) Each
insurer required to file an audited financial report pursuant to this rule,
shall require the accountant to make available for review by insurance
department examiners, all workpapers prepared in the conduct of the
accountant's audit and any communications related to the audit between the
accountant and the insurer, at the offices of the insurer, at the insurance
department or at any other reasonable place designated by the
commissioner.
(b) The insurer shall
require that the accountant retain the audit workpapers and communications
until the insurance department has filed a report on examination covering the
period of the audit but no longer than seven years from the date of the audit
report.
(3)
(a) In the conduct of the aforementioned
periodic review by the insurance department examiners, it shall be agreed that
photocopies of pertinent audit workpapers may be made and retained by the
department.
(b) Such reviews by the
department examiners shall be considered investigations and all working papers
and communications obtained during the course of such investigations shall be
afforded the same confidentiality as other examination workpapers generated by
the department.
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