Financial audit

easily collapse should the full amount of any one of their lawsuits be awarded. Auditor liability becomes an even more poignant issue if new auditing standards are enacted that permit ranges of balances on the financial statements. This would highlight the inherent limitations of financial reporting. As a profession, we need to ensure that greater transparency has the desired effect of increased investor confidence and does not open up the firms to additional litigation. On November 13,…

Following the preliminary engagement activities, the audit team should go about setting an audit strategy and have an audit plan developed. The strategy will go over aspects of how the audit procedure and discuss the scope, timing, and direction of the audit itself. This well help determine resources that the audit team will need in order to carry out the audit including experience of auditors, and the industry specific skills that may be necessary. Amount of resources should also be taken into…

purpose to produce financial statements is to provide information about their financial position and performance. This information is used by a wide range of stakeholders for making economic decisions. The owners of these…

| | | | |Discuss the type, scope, and timing of the audit with the owner/manager, board | | | | | |of directors or, if applicable, the audit committee. Also, discuss adequacy of| | | | | |working space for the audit team, access to client records, and assistance, if | | | |…

for Coopers, this was not hard to attain. These employees knew the audit planning strategies that would be implemented. Coopers historically did not perform audit testing of zero balance accounts, this would mean the “bucket-account” used to hide personal expenses would not be reviewed by the auditors. Coopers also gave Phar-Mor advanced knowledge of the stores where they would observe physical inventory counts for the annual audit. This lead to increase fictitious inventory levels at stores…

conducting an audit. It is used in order to help the auditor assume a position that is objective and unbiased throughout the audit. It is viewed by many within the auditing profession as an essential quality that the auditor must possess when conducting audit and can be a major factor in audit quality. But it is not the only factor when it comes to obtaining high audit quality, with audit quality itself be hard to define. Despite several researches over years, there is no exact definition of…

of SOX 2002, the public company audit committee is required to implement procedures for the receipt, retention, and treatment of complaints received by the whistleblowers concerning auditing matters, internal accounting controls, or accounting. Also, the complaints have to be treated confidentially by the audit committee by making whistleblowing procedures for the submission around dubitable accounting or auditing matters to be anonymous. To encourage this, the audit committee should make and…

The second step is Content of Audit Records. An audit record content must include (i) date and time of the event, (ii) the component of the information system where the even occurred, (iii) type of event, (iv) subject identity and (v) the outcome of the event. The third step is audit monitoring, analysis and reporting. Our team recommends regularly reviews/analyzes audit records in order to identify as well as investigate inappropriate, suspicious or…

The integration of the GAAS, the AICPA, the PCAOB and the IAS Background Information The Generally Accepted Auditing Standards refers to standards that are used to audit Private Corporations (Sunder, 2010 P. 100). The standards are divided into three categories. The categories include; fieldwork standards, reporting standards as well as general standards. The general standards address the individual’s qualifications to become an auditor as well as the minimum standards for the work product.…

intellectual decisions. For this obligation to be fulfilled, a quality audit must be performed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS). Executing a quality audit necessitates an auditor reasonably assures financial statements are presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and not materially misstated, whether due to errors or fraud. Furthermore, executing a quality audit obliges an auditor to utilize professional skepticism by…