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Chapter 6 - Planning Flashcards

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What are the benefits of planning?

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  • more efficient
  • better understanding of where things might go wrong
  • audit team can be selected with the right skills and experience
  • quality management procedures can be built
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Why must an auditor follow the auditing standards?

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  • provides a checklist of what the auditor must do
  • confidence in the opinion of the auditor
  • consistency
  • better quality to check against
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What are the 2 key planning documents an auditor will create?

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  • the audit strategy
  • the audit plan
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What is the audit strategy?

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  • provides overall framework for the audit
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What are the 4 main areas of the audit strategy?

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  • reporting objectives, timing and communication
  • significant factors and preliminary engagement activities
  • Nature, timing and extent of resources
  • characteristics of the engagement
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What are the key elements of reporting, objectives, timing and communication?

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  • timetable for reporting
  • communication with client, team and 3rd party
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What will reporting objectives, timing and communication cover?

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the practicalities of the audit in order to make sure it is completed on time. Involve setting deadlines.

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What are the key elements of significant factors and preliminary engagement activities?

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  • materiality
  • risk assessment
  • internal controls
  • need for scepticism
  • changes in laws and regulations
  • significant developments
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Significant factors and preliminary engagement activities will include what?

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  • planning activities, which will shape the rest of the audit, are documented.
  • the results of the risk assessment and document
  • preliminary materiality assessment
  • auditor’s views of the client’s internal controls
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What are the key elements of nature, timing and extent of resources?

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  • selection of audit team
  • budget
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What are the key elements of characteristics of the engagement?

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  • FR framework
  • Industry reporting
  • knowledge of business
  • internal audit
  • service organisation]
  • use of ATTs
  • Availability of client staff
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The strategy document sets the overall approach for the audit. This will vary from client to client depending on what?

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  • which accounting standards they are using
  • whether there are any additional reporting responsibilities
  • whether they have an internal audit function or use a service organisation which influences how the auditor can obtain some of the audit evidence
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What is the job of the audit plan?

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to take the audit strategy which ends with an overall general approach to the audit and to turn it into a detailed schedule of the work to be done

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When is the audit plan produced?

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at the end of the planning process

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What is some common content between the audit strategy and the audit plan?

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  • results of risk assessment
  • determination of materiality
  • special audit considerations
  • deadlines
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The audit plan includes what?

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  • what specific work should be done on each area
  • who on the team should do each test
  • how much work should be done on each area - how big a sample
  • when should each part of the work be done - at which visit
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How many stages will an audit be performed?

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one or two stages

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If an audit is performed all in one go, the audit work will be performed when?

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at the final audit stage

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If an audit is performed in 2 stages, when will the audit work be performed?

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some work at the interim audit stage and some work will be performed at the final audit stage

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What occurs before the year end?

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  • interim audit.
  • No full year FS so limit to what testing can be performed
    - auditor will document client systems and make decision on whether reliance can be placed on the internal controls
    - significant purchases can be tested
    - inventory system can be reviewed
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What will occur at the year end?

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  • client may perform a full inventory count and auditor is required to attend
  • Auditor may visit the client shortly after year end to organise a receivables circularisation (sample of the clients customers asked to confirm what they owe at YE)
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What will occur after the year end?

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  • every audit will have a final audit
  • majority of the audit work will be done
  • focus on detailed testing of the year end balances
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Fraud and error is one of the examples of what?

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the expectation gap

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What is fraud?

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an intentional act by one or more individuals among management, those charged with governance employees or third parties involving the use of deception to obtain an unjust illegal advantage

25
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When would we inform shareholders if fraud has occurred?

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only if it has led us to modify our audit opinion

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What are the 2 types of fraud?

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fraudulent financial reporting
missappropriation

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what is fraudulent financial reporting?

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deliberately misstating the financial statements to make the company’s performance or position look better/worse than it actually is

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what is misappropriation?

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the theft of a company’s assets such as cash or inventory

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what is error?

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an unintentional misstatement

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when would we identify fraud to managemenet?

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communicate the fraud on a timely basis

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When would we identify fraud to those charged with governance?

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if the suspected fraud involves management

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when would we identify fraud to 3rd parties?

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if there is a duty to report

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If the auditor finds that the client has not complied with the relevant laws and regulations what must the auditor do?

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  • understand the nature and circumstances
  • obtain further information
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How does the auditor understand the nature and circumstances?

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Auditor must obtain an understanding of what has happened:
- was it deliberate?
- is it a serious breach?
- has anybody suffered harm?
- does the regulatory authority need to be made aware?

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How does the auditor assess whether the non-compliance will have a material impact on the FS?

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  • discussing the issue with management and company’s legal department
  • reading correspondence from the regulatory authority
  • reading minutes of board and/or management meetings
  • reviewing bank statements
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What is non-compliance?

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acts of omission or commission by the entity, either intentional or unintentional, which are contrary to the prevailing laws or regulations

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When would an auditor report non-compliance to management?

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communicate the non-compliance on a timely basis

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When would an auditor report non-compliance to those charged with governance?

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if the non-compliance is a deliberate act by management

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When would an auditor report non-compliance to 3rd parties?

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if there is a duty to report e.g., to a regulator

40
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When would an auditor report non-compliance to shareholders?

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by modifying the auditor’s opinion

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When might the auditor decide that they need to withdraw from the engagement?

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  • the non-compliance laws and regulations is so serious they can no longer maintain a relationship
  • breakdown of trust
  • auditor has doubts about the competence of management
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What are the 3 most important quality management standards?

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  • engagement resources
  • engagement performance
  • monitoring and remediation
43
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What does engagement resources comprise of?

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-human resources
- technological resources
- intellectual resources

44
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What are human resources?

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refers to the audit team which must have appropriate experience and expertise to perform a high-quality audit

45
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what are technological resources?

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use technology, such as automated tools and techniques, computerised audit files, video calls to facilitate meetings etc

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What are intellectual resources?

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allow for consistency in approach, such as the audit firm’s templates and checklists, which ensure auditing standards have been followed

47
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What is engagement performance?

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looks at the quality measures that should be in place for each individual engagement

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What is the composition of the audit team?

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  • audit engagement partner
  • audit seniors
  • audit juniors
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What are the key elements to engagement performance?

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  • direction and supervision of audit
  • review of the work
50
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What is an engagement quality review?

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additional quality measures that will be used for listed and other high-risk clients

51
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What is the purpose of working papers?

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  • to allow the audit partner to form an appropriate opinion
  • to be our defence in a negligence case that the qudit was carried out correctly and completely
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how long should the working papers be kept for?

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5 years after the auditor’s report is signed

53
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What are the 2 files the working papers are kept?

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  • permanent file (all items to use to future audits)
  • current file (all working papers relevant to work done on this years audit)
54
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What are the qualities of a good working paper?

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  • client name and y/e
  • prepared by and date prepared
  • reviewer name and date reviewed
  • work performed, results and conclusion

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