According to Paragraph 4 of Auditing Standard No. 3 (PCAOB 2004)‚ “The auditor must prepare audit documentation in connection with each engagement conducted pursuant to the standards of the PCAOB. Audit documentation should be prepared in sufficient detail to provide a clear understanding of its purpose‚ source‚ and the conclusions reached. Also‚ the documentation should be appropriately organized to provide a clear link to the significant findings or issues.” Referring to Paragraph 4‚ the audit
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case “The Subsidiary”: * Diane is a Principle Auditor working in the firm of Blott and Twiggy (B & T). * Doug Blott is Diane’s Audit Manager who has 9 years audit experience. David Blott is the senior partner in B & T. * Diane is auditing a plastics subsidiary which is a material component of a large Australian unlisted public company. It is Diane’s responsibility to complete the yearend audit of the company on behalf of B & T. * The plastics market is in mature stage and
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AUDITING CHAPTER-HEADS Chapter 1 : INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 : TYPES OF AUDIT Chapter 3 : INTERNAL CONTROL AND INTERNAL CHECK Chapter 4 : VOUCHING AND VERIFICATION Chapter 5 : AUDIT PLANNING AND DOCUMENTATION Chapter 6 : COMPANY AUDITOR Chapter 7 : COMPANY AUDIT Chapter 8 : TYPES OF REPORT UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION Q1. Define an ‘Audit’ and state the various objects of an audit. Or ‘Two main objects
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framework used to conduct its assessment of internal controls. Discuss the options in selecting a control framework. Regarding the control framework‚ the SEC has made specific reference to COSO as a recommended model. Furthermore‚ the PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5 endorses the use of COSO as the framework for control assessment. Although other suitable frameworks have been published‚ any framework used should encompass all of COSO’s general themes 24. Prior to SOX‚ external auditors were required
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would stratify a population into meaningful groups if A. Probability-proportional-to-size (PPS) sampling is used. B. The population has highly variable recorded amounts. C. The auditor’s estimated tolerable misstatement is extremely small. D. The standard deviation of recorded amounts is relatively small. 6. An auditor is preparing to sample a client’s customer receivables for overstatement. A statistical sampling method that automatically provides stratification when using systematic selection
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accordance with an identified financial reporting framework. An auditor is setting out to achieve enhanced credibility of information disclosed to increase reliability for the users of the financial statements. A definition from the Committee on Basic Auditing is as follows: A systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between those assertions and established criteria and communicating
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AUDIT TECHNIQUES I. NATURE and PURPOSE of AUDIT TECHNIQUES Auditing Techniques are the basic tools utilized by auditors to obtain audit evidences. Auditing Technique is defined as any technique as any technique used to determine deviations from actual accounting and controls established by a business or organization as well as uncovering problems in established processes and controls. Auditing Techniques can be used to aid organizations by uncovering errors in business practices and providing
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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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DIMENSIONS OF TOURISM REVISION * How has tourism evolved over the ages? * What factors have influenced its growth? DARK AGES * Premodern & modern tourism * Started in the Dark ages with the nomadic movement of people and survival was the focus rather than tourism then it moved to Mesopotamia and technological factor allowed easy movement of people which facilitated tourism * Then Greece ancient Rome again infrastructure played a major roles road networkds and the birth
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Q1 (a) Highlight four control objectives that would be essential in a sales cycle (b) Outline three tests of control that should be performed by an auditor in each of the following areas: i. Cash receipts ii. Cash payments iii. Bank reconciliations (c) Summarize seven sources of internal control risks that have an impact on the financial reporting framework in an organization. Q2 (a) Outline four audit procedures you would carry out to verify the following items: i. Leased property
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