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Chapter 5: Evidence and Documentation Flashcards

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Types of Management Assertions

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  • Transaction & Events
  • Account Balances
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Transaction and events assertions

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  • Occurrence
  • Accuracy
  • Cutoff
  • Completeness
  • Classification
  • Presentation
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Account balance assertions

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  • Existence
  • Rights & Obligations
  • Accuracy, valuation, and allocation
  • Completeness
  • Classification
  • Presentation
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PCAOB Assertions

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  • Existence or occurence
  • Completeness
  • Valuation or allocation
  • Rights and obligations
  • Presentation and disclosure
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Concepts of Audit Evidence

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  1. Nature of audit evidence (Accounting Records & Other Information)
  2. Sufficiency and appropriateness of audit evidence
  3. Evaluation of audit evidence
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Sufficiency

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QUANTITY of audit evidence (greater risk of misstatement; higher quantity needed)

Evidence must be relevant to the assertion being tested

Evidence may have varying levels of reliability

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Appropriateness

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QUALITY of audit evidence (higher quality evidence; lower quantity needed)

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Two types of Appropriateness of Audit Evidence

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  1. Relevant
  2. Reliable
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Relevant Appropriateness of Audit Evidence

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Relationship to the assertion or to the objective of the control being tested

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Reliable Appropriateness of Audit Evidence

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Whether a particular type of evidence can be relied upon to signal the true state of an assertion

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Factors that influence the reliability of evidence

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  • Independence of the source
  • Effectiveness of internal control
  • Auditor’s direct personal knowledge
  • Documentary evidence
  • Original documents
  • Qualifications of the provider
  • Degree of objectivity
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Types of evidence

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  • Internal
  • External
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Internal Evidence

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Prepared/edited by entity (purchase orders, overhead cost allocation sheet, materials requisition form)

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External Evidence

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Prepared/edited by external party (bank statement, remittance advice, contract signed by both parties, vendor invoice)

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Types of Audit Procedures

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  • Inspection
  • Observation
  • Confirmation
  • Inquiry
  • Recalculation
  • Reperformance
  • Analytical procedures
  • Scanning
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Inspection

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Physical examination of assets or documents

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Observation

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Watching a process or procedure being performed (someone else does it, low reliability cause people know you’re watching)

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Confirmation

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Obtaining information from a third party in WRITING

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Inquiry

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Consider qualifications and experience; ask clear questions; consider reactions (low reliability cause people can lie, but you learn a lot; better face to face)

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Recalculation

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Determining mathematical accuracy of documents (footing a statement; high reliability because auditor does it)

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Reperformance

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Auditor’s execution of procedures or controls that were originally performed as part of the internal control system (high reliability because auditor does it)

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Analytical procedures

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Study of plausible relationships of financial and non-financial data

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Scanning

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Review of account data for significant or unusual items

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Types of Analytical Procedures

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  1. Trend analysis
  2. Ratio analysis
  3. Reasonableness analysis
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Trend Analysis
Analysis of changes in an account over time Takes last year's account balances and compares to current balance Need to compare multiple years to discover trend
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Ratio Analysis
Comparison, across time or to a benchmark, of relationships between financial statement accounts or between an account and non-financial data More effective than Trend Analysis
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Reasonableness Analysis
Involves forming an expectation using a model (EX: depreciation expense can be modeled by taking book value divided by average useful life for lass of assets) Since it forms an explicit expectation, reasonableness analysis typically forms a more precise expectation than trend or ratio analysis
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Risk Assessment Procedures
Used to gain an understanding of the entity, and determine nature, timing, and extent of audit procedures
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Substantive Analytical Procedures
Used to obtain evidential matter about particular assertions related to account balances or classes of transactions
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Final Analytical Procedures
Overall review of the financial information in the final review stage of the audit
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Transactions and Events and Related Disclosures: Occurrence/Existence
DURING THE PERIOD Transactions and events that have been recorded or disclosed have occurred, and such transactions and evens pertain to the entity (sometimes referred to as validity)
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Accounts Balances and Related Disclosures: Occurrence/Existence
END OF THE PERIOD (B/S) Assets, liabilities, and equity interests exist
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PCAOB Assertions: Occurrence/Existence
Assets or liabilities of the company exist a given date, and recorded transactions have occurred during a given period
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Account Balances and Related Disclosures: Rights and Obligations
END OF THE PERIOD (B/S) The entity holds or controls the rights to assets, and liabilities are the obligations of the entity
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PCAOB Assertions: Rights and Obligations
The company holds or controls the rights to the assets, and liabilities are obligations of the company at a given date
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Transactions and Events and Related Disclosures: Completeness
DURING THE PERIOD All transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded, and all related disclosures that should have been included in the financial statements have been included
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Account Balances and Related Disclosures: Completeness
END OF THE PERIOD (B/S) All assets, liabilities, and equity interests that should have ben recorded have been recorded, and all related disclosures that should have been included in the financial statements have been included
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PCAOB Assertions: Completeness
All transactions and accounts that should be presented in the financial statements are so included
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Transactions and Events and Related Disclosures: Accuracy
DURING THE PERIOD Amounts and other data relating to recorded transactions and events have been recorded appropriately, and related disclosures have been appropriately measured and described
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Account Balances and Related Disclosures: Accuracy/Valuation, and Allocation
END OF PERIOD (B/S) Assets, liabilities, and equity interests have been included in the financial statements at appropriate amounts, and any resulting valuation or allocation adjustments have been appropriately recorded, and related disclosures have been appropriately measured and described
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PCAOB Assertions: Valuation and Allocation
Asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense components have been included in the financial statements at appropriate amounts
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Transactions and Events and Related Disclosures: Cutoff
DURING THE PERIOD Transactions and events have been recorded in the correct accounting period
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Transactions and Events and Related Disclosures: Classification
DURING THE PERIOD Transactions and events have been recorded in the proper accounts
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Account Balances and Related Disclosures: Classification
END OF PERIOD (B/S) Assets, liabilities, and equity interests have been recorded in the proper accounts
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Transactions and Events and Related Disclosures: Presentation
DURING THE PERIOD Transactions and events are appropriately aggregated or disaggregated and clearly described, and related disclosures are relevant and understandable in the context of the requirements of the applicable financial reporting framework
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Account Balances and Related Disclosures: Presentation
END OF PERIOD (B/S) Assets, liabilities, and equity interests are appropriately aggregated or disaggregated and clearly described, and related disclosures and relevant and understandable in the context of the requirements of the applicable financial reporting framework
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PCAOB Assertions: Presentation
The components of the financial statements are properly classified, described, and disclosed
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Vouching
Occurence - Picking a transaction on the GL to match a source doc
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Tracing
Completeness - Picking a source doc to make sure it is in the GL
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Why can't completeness ever be tested starting from the statements?
Violating the completeness assertions means that something that should be in the statements, isn't. Therefore, how are we supposed to know that something isn't in the statements by just looking at it?

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