Glossary Flashcards
Engagement in which a practitioner is engaged to issue or does issue an EXAMINATION, REVIEW, or AGREED UPON PROCEDURES Report on a subject matter, or an assertion about the subject matter, that is the responsibility of another party.
Attest Engageements
A ratio that measures how effectively an enterprise is using their assets:
Activity Ratio
An auditors report stating “do not present fairly”
Adverse Opinion
An engagement in whip a practitioner is engaged to issue a report of findings based on specific agreed upon procedures.
Agreed-Upon Peocedures
An approximation of a financial statement element, item, or account used because data is either not readily available or is dependent upon the outcome of future events.
Accounting Estimate
One of the three categories of financial statement assertions relating primarily to assets, liabilities, and equity interests.
Account Balances
The underlying accounting data and corroborating information that must be obtained to support auditor conclusions.
Audit Evidence
A listing of audit procedures necessary to accomplish the objectives of the audit; required for every audit.
Audit Plan
A committee of the board of directors, generally made up of 3-5 members of the board who are “outside directors.”
Audit Committee
Responsible for the selection and appointment of the independent external auditor and for reviewing the nature and scope of the engagement.
Audit Committee
Goals of audit testing, developed in light of financial statement assertions.
Audit Objectives
An overall plan for the audit, typically used to develop the more detailed audit plan.
Audit Strategy
An engagement in which an accountant presents in the form of financial statement information that is the representation of management.
Compilation
A financial statement assertion appearing in all three assertion categories and indicating that all transactions, events,assets, liabilities,mad equity interests that should have been reported have been recorded, and that all disclosure that should have been included in the financial statements have been included.
Completeness
In sampling, the selection of groups of adjacent items
Block (cluster) sampling
A technique in which the auditor tests the input data, processes the data independently, and then compares his or her independently determined results to the program results.
Auditing Around the Computer
An open exchange of ideas; required as a means of evaluating the potential for material misstatements due to fraud.
Brainstorming
What are the attributed of risk (four characteristics used in analyzing risk:)
Type
Significance
Likelihood
Pervasiveness
An IT department employee who converts data into machine-readable form during the input stage (e.g. Keypunch operator).
Computer Operator
An IT Department employee who develops and writes computer programs.
Computer Programmer
In sampling, a measure of how certain the auditor wants to be that his or her result are accurate.
Confidence Level.
*Note that the confidence level plus the risk of being ineffective = 100%
A weakness that exist when the design or operation of a control procedure does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis.
Control Deficiency
The tone of the an organization including management attitudes, participation of those charged with governance, organizational stricture, and human resource policies.
Control Enviornment
Evidence indicative of the sequential flow of accounting operations.
Audit Trail
A schedule that itemizes transfers of cash among banks including the record date per the client and the and the transaction date per the bank.
Bank transfer schedule
A schedule that compares the cash balance reported by the bank to the cash balance reported by the client and explains any differences.
Bank Reconciliation
A form of parallel simulation where the auditor observes an actual processing run and compares the actual results to the expected results based on the auditor’s own program.
Controlled Processing
A form of parrallel simulation where the auditor uses a archived copy of the program in question (generally auditors controlled copy) to preprocess transactions. The results are then compared to the results from the normal processing run.
Controlled Reprocessing
A bank statement sent directly to the auditor, usually shortly after period end.
Cutoff Bank Statement
A ratio that measures security for long term creditors/investors.
Coverage Ratio.
An audit procedures in which the auditor uses the same transaction as both test of controls and a substantive test.
Dual Purpose Test
A special type of attribute sampling appropriate when the auditor believes the population deviation rate is zero or near zero.
Discovery Sampling
A sampling plan that uses the average difference between the audited (correct) calues of items and their book values to project the actual population value.
Difference Estimation
In sampling, the error rate founf in a sample used to estimate the overall error rate in the population.
Deviation Rate
A collection of audit documentation applicable to the year under audit.
Current File
A section of application program code that collects transaction data for the auditor.
Embedded Audit Module
A document identifying all significant audit findings and issues; required by the PCAOB standards for audits of issuers.
Engagement Completion Document
An auditors report stating the auditor does not express an opinion on the financial statement. “We were engaged to audit”
Disclaimer of Opinion
The end of the period during which the auditor assembles the final audit documentation file. After this date existing documentation must NOT BE DELETED, and additions to the workpapers MUST BE DOCUMENTED. Auditing standards define this date as ______ days after the reporty release date. PCAOB standars define this date as ______ days following the report release date.
Documentation Completion Date:
Nonissuers (Auditing Standards): Report Release Date + 60 Days
Issuers (PCAOB Standards) Report Release Date + 45 Days
A paragraph included in the auditors report when required by GAAS or at the auditors discretion when referring to a matter that is appropriately presented or disclosed in the financial statement and is of such importance that it is fundamental to the users unerstanding of the financial statements.
Emphasis-of-Matter Paragraph
A financial statement assertion in the “transactions and events” catergory indicating that transactions and events have been recorded in the proper period.
Cutoff
A financial statement in the “account balance” category indicating assets, liabilities, and equity interest exist.
Existence
An engagement that provides positive assurance (an opinion) based on procedures such as search, verification, inquiry, and analysis.
Examination
In sampling, the auditors best estimate of the rate of deviation from a prescribed control procedure.
Expected Deviation Rate
Software that is used to interrogate files, extract and analyze data, and allow performance of test directly on the client’s system.
Generalized Audit Software Package (GASP)
A financial statement that reflects the expected financial redults of a future period based on expected conditions and expected courses of action. (General & Limited Use Allowed)
Financial Forecast
A financial statement that reflects the financial results of a future period based on hypothetical (“what if”) assumptions. (Limited Use only)
Financial Projection
The set of accounting rules established by the Financial Accountng Standards Board.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Qualitative standards that provide a measure of audit quality and of objectives to be achieved in an audit.
Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS)
Standards for audits of governement organizations, audits of governement assistance received by nongovernmental and government organizations.
Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)
The partner responsible for the overall quality of the engagement
Engagement Partner
A review that is required by the PCAOB standards that is performed by a partner who is not otherwise associated with an issuer audit engagement.
Engagement Quality Review
Evaluated the significant judgments made by the engagement team and the overall conclusion reached on the engagement.
Engagement Quality Reviewer
A written communication documenting the understanding between an accountant and his or her client.
Engagement Letter
A component of internal control that deals with the identification, capture, and exchange of information in a timely and useful manner, and with an understanding of individual roles and responsibilities.
Information and Communication System
An engagement that provides an opinion on financial statements as well as testing and reporting on compliance with the laws and regulations that authorize the spending of public funds.
Government Audit
Automated means of originating, processing, storing, and communicating information.
Information Technology (IT)
The provision that the auditor is unable to obtain absolute assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatement because of the nature of financial reporting, the nature of audit procedures, the timliness of financial reporting, and the balance between cost and benefit.
Inherrent Limitations of an Audit