CHAPTER AUDIT PLANNING AND ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES THE FALL OF ENRON: DID ANYONE UNDERSTAND THEIR BUSINESS? 8 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to 8-1 Discuss why adequate audit planning is essential. Make client acceptance decisions and perform initial audit planning. Gain an understanding of the client’s business and industry. Assess client business risk. Perform preliminary analytical procedures. State the purposes of analytical procedures and the timing
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Summer 2010 Update for Auditing Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach 13th Edition and Alvin A. Arens Randal J. Elder Mark S. Beasley We are committed to providing students and faculty up‐to‐date content for use in the classroom and are pleased to provide this newsletter highlighting recent events affecting the audit and assurance profession. Pearson Prentice Hall SUMMER 2010 UPDATE AUDITING AND ASSURANCE SERVICES: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH‚ 13TH EDITION
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be straightforward and honest in all the professional and business relationships. In this case‚ an auditor has to be integrity to present their honest and fair to the client. Even Game’s Limited’s managing director is unhappy with the existing auditing firm has been changed. Objective An auditor has to be objective and fair. Auditor has to be fairness and objective to provide financial report. The client’s point of view must not affect auditor’s objective. In this case‚ Games Ltd has been
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definition of materiality has been brought into question. In the past‚ your rule for determining materiality was based solely on quantitative data‚ where an event was only material if its impact was more than a given percentage of the income statement amounts. Using a quantitative measure is effective because it keeps the process objective; however there are also times when the quantitative difference doesn’t adequately demonstrate the true effect of an action. For this reason‚ “materiality is an entity-specific
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In this simulation‚ our team did an audit process by selecting a base to calculate Planned Materiality. We allocated the Materiality to the relevant accounts and set a Tolerable Misstatement for each account. Then‚ we assessed Audit Risk‚ Inherent Risk‚ and Control risk to derive Detection Risk. As a result of these decisions‚ we derived Sample Size and Sampling Interval‚ and set an Expected Misstatement. We learned that certain accounts have to be audit 100 percent. Some of these accounts are
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any audit? Explain clearly 4) What is professional clearance? What is the importance of professional clearance in auditing? 5) An audit fee is an auditor’s remuneration. In what ways can the aspect of audit fees affect auditors’ independence? 6) Explain clearly the ethical codes that are required of any professional auditor? 7) Audit planning is an important input in the auditing assignment‚ discuss. 8) Assume you are an experienced auditor with an audit firm in Dar. Your senior has requested
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the audit? The types of auditing samples are broken down into two different categories: statistical and non-statistical sampling. The purpose of auditing samples are designed to give the auditor the results he or she seeks‚ without having to completely audit 100% of the items within the audit population. Here are some of the different types of auditing samples broken out into the two categories: Statistical Sampling Methods: Random Sampling – Is an auditing method that basically means
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and retained. The Professional Practices Framework for Internal Auditing (PPF) was designed by The IIA Board of Directors’ Guidance Task Force to appropriately organize the full range of existing and developing practice guidance for the profession. Based on the definition of internal auditing‚ the PPF comprises Ethics and Standards‚ Practice Advisories‚ and Development and Practice Aids‚ and paves the way to world-class internal auditing. This guidance fits into the Framework under the heading Development
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BCAF-05: ADVANCED AUDITING (MAJOR) Objective: This course aims at imparting knowledge about the advanced methods of auditing and there applications. Unit- I: Audit of Limited Companies: Inspection of documents Books and Registers. Audit of Preliminary expanses‚ profit prior to incorporation‚ public deposits‚ managerial remunerations‚ share capital. The Visible profits and dividends- meaning‚ provisions of Companies act in regard to declaration and payment of dividend. Auditor’s
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Week 5 Assignment What is the correct relationship of internal audit to senior management? The correct relationship to exist between internal auditors to senior management is one that meets the risk areas as defined by importance to senior management; this includes assurance and consultative reporting result. The same premise is also true for creating a correct relationship with operational management and the audit committee; under these cases‚ operational management desires consultative results
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