provided by certified public accountants (CPAs). Two types: Increase reliability of information Putting information into a form or context that facilitates decision making. Types of Services Assurance Services Attestation Services Example: Audits of Financial Statements‚ Examinations of Internal Control Other Assurance Services Example: CPA ElderCare Prime Plus Services NonAssurance Services Tax Services Management Consulting Services Other Notes: Reliability reduces information risk
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AUDIT PLANNING AND CONTROL 1.0 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ readers should be able to understand: ! The general concept of audit strategy. ! The Importance of audit strategy as an effective plan for an audit. ! Internal control systems‚ evaluation and assessment. ! Audit documentation. ! Relationship with experts. ! Audit risks and its relative importance to audit. ! Components of audit risks. ! How to assess audit risks. 1.1 INTRODUCTION Auditing has developed over many years
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The Audit Firm Culture and its Affects on Quality Audits By Danielle Reynolds A company’s culture has a large impact on the ethical behavior of employee’s and an employee’s ethical behavior plays an important role in the quality of the audit. Now‚ there are several factors that affect the quality of an audit but the one that will be focused on in this paper is the effect the audit firm culture has on the audit quality. Audit firm culture effects so many different things at a firm including
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CHAPTER 6 Audit Evidence |Learning Check | 6-1. a. Audit evidence is all the information used by the auditor in arriving at the conclusion on which the audit opinion is based. Audit evidence includes (1) the accounting records underlying the financial statements and (2) other information that corroborates the accounting records and supports the auditor’s logical reasoning about fair presentation in the financial statements. b. Any information that is obtained
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expected ease of transition from the old system to the new system should be considered. ANS: T PTS: 1 6. One-time costs include operating and maintenance costs. ANS: F PTS: 1 7. When preparing a cost-benefit analysis‚ design costs incurred in the systems planning‚ systems analysis and conceptual design phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle are relevant costs. ANS: F PTS: 1 8. A tangible benefit can be measured and expressed in financial terms. ANS: T PTS: 1 9. Instead of implementing
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average d. median average 3. easy d Auditors are responsible for determining whether financial statements are materially misstated‚ so upon discovering a material misstatement they must bring it to the attention of: a. regulators. b. the audit firm’s managing partner. c. no one in particular. d. the client’s management. 4. easy c The FASB definition of materiality emphasizes what class of financial statement users? a. Regulators. b. Informed investors. c. Reasonable persons
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Audit Proposal—Kudler Fine Foods Previously Kudler Fine Foods had asked accounting firm 123 Accounting for their recommendation on a system which would improve automation in their business processes. Accounting firm 123 Accounting provided Kudler with a recommended course of action to take towards automating their accounting information system‚ as well as provided a flowchart to assist in describing the process by which the software will help management consolidate their financial data. Currently
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Audit Working Papers Presented By: Kanza Masood Presented To: Miss Iram Butt Semester: Semester 6 Date: 18th Feb’13 Course: Audit Internal Control ------------------------------------------------- Audit working papers Audit working papers are the documents which record all audit evidence obtained during financial statements auditing‚ internal management auditing‚ information systems auditing‚ and investigations. Audit working papers are used to support the audit work done in order to provide assurance
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Chapter 10 AUDIT WORKING PAPERS Section 1000 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 Contents Purpose Importance of Working Papers Confidential Nature of Working Papers Purposes Served by Working Papers Planning and Preparing Working Papers Principles and Methods of Documentation Working Paper Format Specific Standards for Each Workpaper Review of Audit Workpapers Arranging and Filing Standardized Workpapers Retirement of Audit Workpapers Special Project Workpapers Backup
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Running head: Beginning the Audit Report Beginning the Audit Report Gina Taylor Auditing ACC/546 Selina Ashworth August 20‚ 2012 AUDIT ENGAGEMENT LETTER August 20‚ 2012 Larry Lancaster Apollo Shoes 10253 W. Higgins Rd. Ste 600 Rosemont‚ IL 60018 Dear Mr. Lancaster: This letter is to confirm our understanding of the terms and objectives of our engagement and the nature and limitations of the services we will provide. Services We will audit the financial statements of Apollo Shoes as of
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