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Audit Planning, Types of Audit Tests and Materiality: © 2017 Mcgraw-Hill Education (Malaysia) SDN BHD
Audit Planning, Types of Audit Tests and Materiality: © 2017 Mcgraw-Hill Education (Malaysia) SDN BHD
Audit Planning,
Types of Audit
Tests and
Materiality
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The Phases of an Audit
that Relate to Audit Planning
Figure 3–1 The Phases of an Audit that Relate
to Audit Planning
Conflicts over
accounting and auditing Dispute over fees
issues
(continued)
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Internal Audit Function
Board of Directors
Audit Committee
3-13
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Establish Materiality
Establish overall
materiality
(more on this later!)
Low
Risk
The auditor correlates the amount of audit attention devoted to the location or
business unit with the level of risk present.
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Assess the Need for Experts
Be aware may
Consider laws have occurred;
and regulations investigate if
as part of audit brought to
attention
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Consider Non-Compliance
with Laws and Regulations
Table 3–3 Information or Circumstances that May
Indicate Non-Compliance
Internal
Risk
Reporting Benchmarking
Assessment
Processes
A
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Timing
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Extent
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Document Overall Audit
Strategy and Audit Plan
Inquiry Inspection
Observation
Walk-
Reperformance
Through
Substantive
Tests of
Analytical
Details
Procedures
Evaluations of
Tests for errors or financial information
fraud in individual through analysis of
transactions, account plausible
balances and relationships among
disclosures financial and non-
financial data
Substantive
Tests of
Tests of
Controls
Transactions
Dual-
Purpose
Tests
Misstatements,
Misstatements, including
including omissions,
omissions, areare considered
considered to to
be
be material
material ifif they,
they, individually
individually or
or in
in the
the aggregate,
aggregate,
could
could reasonably
reasonably be be expected
expected toto influence
influence the
the
economic
economic decisions
decisions of of users
users taken
taken on
on thethe basis
basis of
of the
the
financial
financial statements.
statements.
Step
Step 2:
2:
Determine
Determine Performance
Performance Materiality
Materiality
Step
Step 3:
3:
Evaluate
Evaluate Audit
Audit Findings
Findings
Examines
Examines thethe cause
cause of
of the
the misstatements
misstatements and
and determines
determines the the impact
impact
of
of the
the material
material misstatements
misstatements on on the
the assessment
assessment of of fraud
fraud and and control
control
risk.
risk.auditor compares the aggregate misstatement to overall
The
materiality.
Performance materiality can be used for determining the fair
presentation of the individual accounts.
If the aggregated misstatements are greater than overall materiality,
or if misstatements for individual accounts are in excess of
performance materiality, the auditor would require the entity to adjust
the financial statements or the auditor would have to issue a qualified
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