There may be disagreement of fact or information in case of audit evidence, popularly known as contention.
These are as below:
#) the contention of book value and physical value – such as inventory in the books of accounts differs from the physical record; but management wants to establish the book value only.
#) the contention of estimation – such as bad debt estimation is too high; although the recovery is good in the last year.
#) the contention of mode of transaction – suppose there is a payment but no supporting voucher; although there is a supplier invoice as evidence of receiving materials.
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An auditor is concerned about various assertions while obtaining audit evidence for conduct of an audit. What are those various assertions with respect to balance at the period end.
An auditor is concerned about various assertions while obtaining audit evidence for conduct of an audit. What are those various assertions that the auditor is concerned about.
1) Obtaining sufficient audit evidence over the sales of a given company means that the auditor a) tested all sales transactions for the given period b) tested more than 50% of the sales transactions for the given period c) tested a reasonable sample of sales transactions for the given period d) tested only the sales transactions with an amount higher than the materiality
1. In performing the audit of Company A, an auditor picked a sample of recorded payables and performed the 3-way match testing (matching purchase order issued by the Company, good received note from the warehouse and invoice from the vendor). This is the most effective substantive procedure to test for the Existence assertion of Accounts Payable. A. True B. False 2. An auditor performed the walkthrough and the test of operating effectiveness and did not identify any exceptions. Does the...
The Performance section of the "Principles Underlying an Audit" is concerned with: Multiple Choice proper planning and supervision, appropriate materiality levels, and sufficient appropriate audit evidence. an audit opinion in accordance with the auditor's findings, whether the financials are presented fairly, and whether the financial are in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework. O whether the auditor has unrestricted access to those within the entity from whom the auditor needs to obtain audit evidence. complying with ethical requirement, appropriate...
The auditor should guard against unwarranted inferences in gathering audit evidence. The following are examples of inappropriate inferences that auditors may make because they use evidence that is not entirely relevant to the assertion being tested. The auditor tests the existence of the client’s equipment by inspecting the asset and concludes that the asset exists and is owned by the client. Select the statement that accurately evaluates the auditor’s test described above. a. The only purpose of inspecting the equipment...
Discussion Topic: When performing an audit, auditors are especially concerned about engagement risk. For this reason, they perform main activities to reduce engagement risks. Further, the auditing standards require auditors to understand the client's business, and its environments, and its internal controls when planning the audit so that they could better plan the nature, timing, and extent of the audit. Required: 1. Discuss why the auditor would be concerned about engagement risk and identify two or more activities the auditors...
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A detailed record of work completed, and evidence gathered in forming the audit opinion is confidential and should not be shared with client personnel is referred to as the audit plan should be submitted by the auditor to management for approval Is contained in the working papers The completeness assertion relates to all transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded all accounts are valued at their correct amounts all entries are recorded...
You are the auditor assigned to audit ABC utility company. While interviewing the internal auditor you discover that he has done some evaluation and testing on the control environment for his superior the V.P. What should you do as an external auditor to determine if you can use work from the internal auditor? Can you-the external auditor even rely on the work of the internal auditor?
The PCAOBs recently revised auditor reporting standard includes a requirement for he auditor to communicate ortical udt matters. Crical audit maters include those matters during the audit that involved diffcult, subjective, or complex auditor judgments or that posed dfoulty to the auditor in obtaining sufcient appropriate evidence or in foming the opinion on the financial statements Similarly, the Intemational Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AAS) recently revised the auditor's report in the ISAS to require auditors to communicate key audit...