CORAA

Certificate of Authorized Signatory Format — CA Issued (Word)

A CA certificate confirming who is authorised to sign, operate accounts, or transact on behalf of an entity — based on board resolutions, partnership deeds, or proprietorship records examined.

Free · CORAA original — SA-aligned
Updated 28 Jul 2026
Type
Certificate (not an audit opinion)
Confirms
Named signatories' scope of authority per the document examined
Issued for
Bank/regulator verification of who may transact for the entity
UDIN
Required on every CA certificate
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Your firm — letterhead
Appears at the top of the document as the audit firm letterhead.
Used as the letterhead block.
Engagement details
The client and period this document is for.
What’s inside

An excerpt from the template.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY

This is to certify the person(s) authorised to sign, operate accounts, or otherwise transact on behalf of ___ (a ___), as at ___, based on ___ and other constitutional documents produced before us and the information and explanations given to us.

This certificate is issued for the purpose of: ___.

This certificate reports the authority conferred under the specific document(s) examined and produced to us, as at the stated date; it does not track subsequent changes in authority, and the recipient should independently confirm no later resolution or deed amendment has superseded the position certified here before relying on it for a current transaction. This certificate is based on the information furnished and verified to the extent considered necessary; it does not constitute an audit opinion within the meaning of the Standards on Auditing.

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About this template

What you’re downloading, and when to use it.

This template follows the format published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in the AASB Audit Working Paper Templates (June 2023), the authoritative reference for Indian statutory-audit documentation. Fill in your firm’s letterhead and the engagement details on the form above, click Download Word file, and you’ll get a fully formatted .docx ready to use.

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Common questions

FAQs.

What document should the CA actually examine before issuing this certificate?
It depends on the entity's constitution — a board resolution for a company, the partnership deed or a partners' resolution for a firm, the LLP agreement for an LLP, or the proprietor's own written authorization for a proprietorship. The specific document examined should always be named on the certificate (the "authorizing document" field), not left generic, since the recipient may want to independently verify it.
Does this certificate remain valid indefinitely?
No — it certifies authority as at a stated date, based on the document examined at that time. A subsequent board resolution, deed amendment, or resignation can change signing authority at any point afterward, and this certificate has no mechanism to track that; recipients relying on it for an ongoing relationship should periodically ask for a refreshed certificate.
Can this certificate cover more than three signatories?
The template provides three signatory slots as a common case; for a larger authorized-signatory list, list every name and scope of authority within a single signatory's "scope" text field as an itemised note, or engage a firm to extend the table — the underlying certification principle (authority per the document examined, as at a stated date) stays the same regardless of how many names are listed.
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