[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 12, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 12CFR715.9]

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                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
            CHAPTER VII--NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 715_SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE AUDITS AND VERIFICATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 715.9  Assistance from outside, compensated person.

    (a) Unrelated to officials. A compensated auditor who performs a 
Supervisory Committee audit on behalf of a credit union shall not be 
related by blood or marriage to any management employee, member of 
either the board of directors, the Supervisory Committee or the credit 
committee, or loan officer of that credit union.
    (b) Engagement letter. The engagement of a compensated auditor to 
perform all or a portion of the scope of a financial statement audit or 
supervisory committee audit shall be evidenced by an engagement letter. 
In all cases, the engagement must be contracted directly with the 
Supervisory Committee. The engagement letter must be signed by the 
compensated auditor and acknowledged therein by the Supervisory 
Committee prior to commencement of the engagement.
    (c) Contents of letter. The engagement letter shall:
    (1) Specify the terms, conditions, and objectives of the engagement;
    (2) Identify the basis of accounting to be used;
    (3) If a Supervisory Committee Guide audit, include an appendix 
setting forth the procedures to be performed;
    (4) Specify the rate of, or total, compensation to be paid for the 
audit;
    (5) Provide that the auditor shall, upon completion of the 
engagement, deliver to the Supervisory Committee a written report of the 
audit and notice in writing, either within the report or communicated 
separately, of any internal control reportable conditions and/or 
irregularities or illegal acts, if any, which come to the auditor's 
attention during the normal course of the audit (i.e., no notice 
required if none noted);
    (6) Specify a target date of delivery of the written reports, such 
target date not to exceed 120 days from date of calendar or fiscal year-
end under audit (period covered), unless the supervisory committee 
obtains a waiver from the supervising NCUA Regional Director;
    (7) Certify that NCUA staff and/or the State credit union 
supervisor, or designated representatives of each, will be provided 
unconditional access to the complete set of original working papers, 
either at the offices of the credit

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union or at a mutually agreed upon location, for purposes of inspection; 
and
    (8) Acknowledge that working papers shall be retained for a minimum 
of three years from the date of the written audit report.
    (d) Complete scope. If the engagement is to perform a Supervisory 
Committee Guide audit intended to fully meet the requirements of Sec. 
715.7(c), the engagement letter shall certify that the audit will 
address the complete scope of that engagement;
    (e) Exclusions from scope. If the engagement is to perform a 
Supervisory Committee Guide audit which will exclude any item required 
by the applicable section, the engagement letter shall:
    (1) Identify the excluded items;
    (2) State that, because of the exclusion(s), the resulting audit 
will not, by itself, fulfill the scope of a supervisory committee audit; 
and
    (3) Caution that the supervisory committee will remain responsible 
for fulfilling the scope of a supervisory committee audit with respect 
to the excluded items.