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The risk that an entity will fail to meet its objectives. If the company fails to meet its objectives enough times, the company will ultimately fail

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Business Risk

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The probability that the information circulated by a company will be false or misleading

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Information risk

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Independent professional services that improve the quality of information or its context for decision makers

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Assurance services

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The provision of an opinion on subject matter or an assertion about the subject matter that is the responsibility of another party

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Attestation engagement

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The systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between the assertions and established criteria and communicating the results to interested users

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Auditing

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Defined in the professional auditing standards as having an attitude that “includes a questioning mind and a critical assessment of evidence.” Essentially, it is an auditor’s tendency to NOT believe management’s assertions without corroboration

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Professional skepticism

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Asserts that each of the balance sheet and income statement balances actually exist (general rule- relates to account balances)

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Exsistence

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Asserts that each of the income statement events and transactions actually did occur. (general rule- relates to events, transactions, presentations and footnote disclosures)

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Occurrence

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In financial statements, management asserts that they have property rights for all amounts reported as assets on balance sheet and amounts reported as liabilities represent the company’s own obligations

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Rights and Obligations

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Management asserts that all transactions, events, assets, liabilities and equities that should have been recorded have been recorded.

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Completeness

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Special classification of completeness referring to accounting for revenue, expenses and other transactions in the proper period

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Cutoff

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Management asserts that the transactions and events have been recorded accurately and that the assets, liabilities and equities on the balance sheet have been valued in accordance with GAAP

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Accuracy and valuation

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Refers to the appropriate recording of the transactions involving assets, liabilities and equities

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Accuracy

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Management asserts that all transactions and events have been presented correctly in accordance with GAAP and that all relevant information has been disclosed to financial statement users, usually in the footnotes to the financial statements

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Classification and Understandibility

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Disclosures must be relevant, reliable and understandable or transparent to financial statement users

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Understandability

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Transactions must be classified in the correct accounts

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Classification

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Appropriate competence and capabilities to perform the audit, complying with relevant ethical requirements, maintaining professional skepticism and exercising professional judgment, throughout the panning and performance of the audit

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Responsibilities

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The extent to which others (particularly financial statement users) perceive auditors’ to be independent

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Independent in appearance

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An auditors’ mental attitude and impartiality with respect to the client

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Independent in fact

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Expertise, education, experience

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Competence and capabilities

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A level of performance that would be exercised by reasonable auditors in similar circumstances; auditors are expected to possess skills and knowledge of others in their profession and are not expected to be infallible

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Due care

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A state of mind that is characterized by appropriate questioning and a critical assessment of audit evidence

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Professional skepticism

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The application of relevant training, knowledge and experience in making informed decisions about appropriate courses of action during the audit engagement

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Professional judgement

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Responsibility principle (competence and capabilities/ relevant ethical requirements-independence)

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Obtain (retain) engagement

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Sets forth general quality criteria for conducting an audit. Five elements: (1) reasonable insurance (2) planning and supervision (3) materiality (4) risk assessment (5) audit evidence

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Performance

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Concept that a GAAS audit may not detect all material misstatements and auditors are not “insurers” or “guarantors” regarding the fairness of the entity’s financial statement

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Reasonable assurance

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(1) preparing an audit plan and supervising the work (2) obtaining knowledge of the client’s business and (3) dealing with differences of opinion among the accounting firm’s own personnel

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Planning and supervising (engagement planning)

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As it relates to financial reporting, the dollar amount that would influence the lending of investing decisions of financial statement users

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Materiality

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Stage of audit that requires an understanding of the client, its operating environment and its industry

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Risk assessment

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Policies and procedures implemented by an entity to prevent or detect material accounting frauds or errors and provide for their connection on a timely basis

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Internal control

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the probability that a material misstatement, either error or fraud will occur

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Inherent risk

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the probability that a material misstatement, either error or fraud will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by the entity’s internal controls

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control risk

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The final element of the performance principle requires that the audit team collects and evaluates sufficient appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for their opinions

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Audit Evidence

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The information that auditors use in arriving at the conclusions on which to base the audit opinion and includes the underlying accounting data and all available corroborating information

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Evidence

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Evidence must be trust worthy (reliable) and must provide the audit team with information of interest (relevant). (evidence quality)

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Appropriate

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Relates to the number of transactions or components evaluated. (evidence quantity)

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Sufficiency

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Risk that the audit team’s substantive procedures will fail to detect a material misstatement

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Detection risk

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Based on the evaluation of the evidence obtained, the auditor expresses in the form of a written report, an opinion in accordance with the auditor’s findings or states that an opinion cannot be expressed. Ultimate objective

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Reporting Principle

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Set of criteria used to determine the measurement, recognition, presentation and disclosure of material items in the financial statements (ex: GAAP, IFRS)

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financial reporting framework

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Opinion that concludes that the entity’s financial statements present its financial condition, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP

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Unqualified opinion

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Opinion that concludes that the entity’s financial statements are not presented in conformity with GAAP (or other frameworks)

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Adverse opinion

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Opinion that concludes that except for a relatively isolated (limited) departure, the entity’s financial statements are presented in conformity with GAAP

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Qualified opinion

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In some cases (ex: if auditor lacks independence), auditors may choose not to express an opinion

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Disclaimer

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(1) perform procedures regarding the acceptance or continuance of audit client relationships (2) determine compliance with independence and ethics requirements (3) reach a contractual understanding with client for the terms and conditions of the audit engagement

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Pre-engagement activities

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Decision whether or not to accept a new client or to continuing providing services to existing clients

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Client acceptance or continuance

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The public accounting firm that has been terminated or has voluntarily withdrawn from an audit engagement

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Predecessor auditor

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To reduce the risk of accepting a problem client, auditing standards require a prospective auditor to initiate contact with and attempt to obtain basic information directly from the predecessor regarding issues that reflect directly on the integrity of management

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Communications with predecessor auditor

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The responsibilities principle requires auditors to comply with appropriate ethical requirements for each audit engagement: two important requirements (1) independence (2) due care

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compliance with independence and ethical requirements

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This letter sets forth the understanding with the client, including in particular (1) the objectives of engagement (2) management’s responsibilities (3) auditors’ responsibilities (4) any limitations of the engagement

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Engagement letter

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Comprehensive list of the specific audit procedures that the audit team needs to perform to gather sufficient appropriate evidence on which to case their opinions on the financial statements

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Audit plan

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Should include all team members (engagement partner/quality assurance partner) and focus on the financial statement accounts that represent the highest risk of material misstatement. Also brainstorming sessions: (1) ensure that all audit team members are informed about potential risks in the engagement (2) increase team members’ awareness for potential fraud

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Staffing the engagement- planning team meetings

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External auditors should consider objectivity and competence

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Internal auditors

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Standards that identify necessary qualifications and characteristics or auditors and guide the conduct of the audit examination

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Generally accepted auditing standards

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The specialized actions auditors take to obtain evidence in an egagement

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Auditing procedures

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The audit quality guides that apply to all audits

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Auditing standards

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Audit procedures to gain understanding of clients and risks associated with the client

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Risk assessment

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Audit procedures to test the operating effectiveness of internal controls

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Tests of control

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Audit procedures to gather evidence about management assertions related to amounts and disclosures in the financial statements

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Substantive procedures

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vouching, tracing, scanning

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inspection

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An audit procedure in which an auditor selects an item of financial information, usually from a journal or ledger and follows its path back through the processing steps to its origin

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Vouching

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An audit procedure in which the auditor selects a basic source document and follows its processing path forward to find its final recording in a summary journal or ledger. In practice, however, the term tracing may be used to describe following the path in either direction

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tracing

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Audit procedure- way auditors exercise their general alertness to unusual items and events in clients’ documentation

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scanning

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Examining property, plant and equipment: inventory, and securities certificates. Physical inspection provides compelling evidence of existence and may provide tentative evidence of valuation

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Inspection of tangible assets

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View clients’ physical facilities and personnel on an inspection tour. Can produce general awareness of events in clients’ office

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observation

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Procedure that generally involves the collection of oral (sometimes written) evidence from independent parties and management

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Inquiry

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Procedure that can produce evidence of existence and rights and obligations and sometimes of valuation and cutoff. Auditors typically limit use to specific transactions

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Confirmation

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Used to provide evidence of valuation for all other financial data. Mathematical evidence can serve the objectives of existence and valuation

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Recalculation

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Can involve any client control procedure. Auditor can verify that an accounts receivable aging schedule was prepared properly. Like recalculation but broader

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Reproformance

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Auditors can evaluate financial statement accounts by developing expectations about what an account balance should be based on an analysis of relevant non/financial data. Required to use when planning and when performing review of financial statements near the end of the audit before audit report is issued

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Analytical procedures

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The written basis for the auditors’ conclusions that provides the necessary support for the auditor’s assertions and representations made in the auditors’ report

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Audit documentation

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The audit documentation containing information of continuing audit significance for current and past audits of the same client

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Permanent files

72
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Include all client acceptance or continuance documentation along with planning documentation for the year under audit (planning memorandum)

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Current files

73
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The probability that the information circulated by an entity will be false or misleading

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Information risk

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The risk that the auditor will express an inappropriate opinion when the financial statements are materially misstated (i.e. giving an unmodified opinion on fin state that are misleading b/c of material misstatements that auditors failed to discover)

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Audit risk

75
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The deliberate fraud committed by management that injures investors and creditors through materially misstated information. Auditor is responsible to design procedures to provide reasonable assurance that frauds are detected

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Management fraud risk

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