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Assurance - Chapter 3 - ST
Assurance - Chapter 3 - ST
PROCESS OF ASSURANCE:
PLANNING THE ASSIGNMENT
Planning Materiality
Audit Risk
3-1 Planning
3-2 Analytical Procedures
3-3 Materiality
3-4 Audit Risk
3-5 Fraud
Tests of controls
Unsatisfactory Report
to management
Satisfactory
Report to management
Overall review of
financial statements Full substantive tests
Why?
• To identify and assess the risks of material misstatement in the financial
statements
• To enable the auditor to design and perform further audit procedures
• To provide a frame of reference for exercising audit judgement
- New products/services
Objectives and strategies
- Expansion
and related business risks
- Use of IT,…
5 components of internal
Internal control
control
In order to obtain an understanding of the entity, auditors must use a combination of which four
of the following procedures?
A. Inspection
B. Observation
C. Inquiry
D. Analytical procedures
E. Computation
Heading/ratio Formula
Short-term liquidity Current assets :
Current ratio Current liabilities
Receivables + current investments +
Quick ratio cash :
Current liabilities
Long-term solvency Net debt
Gearing ratio Equity
Profit before interest payable
Interest cover
Interest payable
Heading/ratio Formula
Efficiency Revenue
Net asset turnover Capital employed
Cost of sales
Inventory turnover
Inventories
Inventory × 365
Inventory days
Cost of sales
Trade receivables × 365
Trade receivables collection period
Revenue
Trade payables × 365
Trade payables payment period
Credit purchases
ISA (UK) 320 Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit states that
'materiality and audit risk are considered by the auditor when:
• Identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement;
• Determining the nature, timing and extent of audit procedures; and
• Evaluating the effect of uncorrected misstatements, if any, on the financial
statements and in forming the opinion in the auditor's report.’
(ISA (UK) 320, para.A1)
ISA (UK) 320, Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit paragraph A1 states
that ‘materiality and audit risk are considered throughout the audit, in particular,
when:
• identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement;
• determining the nature, timing and extent of further audit procedures; and
• evaluating the effect of uncorrected misstatements, if any, on the financial
statements and in forming the opinion in the auditor’s report’.
• The higher the assessed risk, the lower the performance materiality must be set.
This means that the auditor will perform more audit work than if the concept of
performance materiality did not exist.
Audit risk: The risk that the auditor expresses an inappropriate audit
opinion when the financial statements are materially misstated.
(FRC Ethical Standard, Glossary of terms)
Detection risk: The risk that the procedures performed by the auditor to
reduce audit risk to an acceptably low level will not detect a misstatement
that exists and that this error could be material, either individually or when
combined with other factors.
The auditor manages overall audit risk by manipulating detection risk, the
only element of audit risk the auditor has control over. This because the
more work the auditors carry out, the lower detection risk becomes,
although it can never be entirely eliminated due to the inherent limitations
of an audit.
Characteristics of fraud
Two types of fraud causing material misstatement in financial statements:
• Fraudulent financial reporting: involves intentional misstatements, including
omissions of amounts or disclosures in financial statements, to deceive financial
statement users
• Misappropriation of assets: involves the theft of an entity’s assets and is often
perpetrated by employees in relatively small and immaterial amounts. However,
it can also involve management who are usually more capable of disguising or
concealing misappropriations in ways that are difficult to detect