DECK 2 Flashcards
THE RISK THAT AN AUDITOR DOES NOT IDENTIFY A MATERIAL MISTATEMENT
DETECTION RISK
The nature, timing, and extent of planned substantive audit procedures for each audit area.
Audit program
The relative size of financial statement misstatements that the auditor’s planned substantive audit procedures is designed to detect.
Planning-stage materiality
The susceptibility of an assertion to a material misstatement, assuming that there are no related controls.
Inherent risk
A material misstatement of the financial statements caused by the theft of cash receipts concealed by false entries in the accounting records.
Misappropriation of assets
When an auditor increases the assessed level of control risk because certain control procedures were determined to be ineffective, the auditor would most likely increase the
Extent of tests of details
a decrease in the number of misstatements in a class of transactions that an auditor could tolerate most likely would cause the auditor to
Perform the planned auditing procedures closer to the balance sheet date.
if an auditor concludes that there is a high risk of material misstatement?
Select more effective substantive tests.
The existence of audit risk is recognized by the statement in the auditor’s standard report that the
Auditor obtains reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.
As the acceptable level of detection risk increases, an auditor may change the
Timing of substantive tests from year end to an interim date.
The acceptable level of detection risk is inversely related to the
Assurance provided by substantive tests.
inherent risk is evaluated to help an auditor assess
The susceptibility of a financial statement assertion to a material misstatement assuming there are no related controls.
The risk that a material misstatement will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by the client’s internal controls.
control risk
an auditor decides to increase the assessed level of control risk from that originally planned.
To achieve an overall audit risk level that is substantially the same as the planned audit risk level, the auditor would
Decrease detection risk
types of risk increases when an auditor performs substantive analytical audit procedures for financial statement accounts at an interim date?
Detection