Risk, Materiality & Evidence

6 important questions on Risk, Materiality & Evidence

Management assertions = audit objectives about financial statements. Which are they?

Transactions
  • Occurrence
  • Completeness
  • Accuracy
  • Cutoff
  • Classification

Accounts
  • Existence
  • Rights & Obligations
  • Completeness
  • Valuation & allocation


Presentation and Disclosure
  • Occurrence and rights and obligations
  • Completeness
  • Accuracy and valuation
  • Classification and understandability 

How does the conceptual model of the audit process look like?

Management Assertions / Audit Objectives -> Audit Procedures -> Audit Evidence -> Audit Conclusions -> ... Management Assertions / Audit Objectives (see slides)

What are the audit procedures to obtain audit evidence?

1. Risk assessment procedures: to gain an understanding of the client and its associated risks.
2. Test of controls: test the effectiveness of the client's internal control activities
3. Substantive procedures: produce evidence about management's assertions related to the amounts and disclosures in a client's financial statements (-> objective to decrease detection risk).
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What are the types of audit procedures?

  • Inspection (check existence)
  • External Confirmation (check existence and completeness)
  • Inspection of documents and records (useful for all assertions, not very reliable)
      • Vouching: used to test existence or occurrence assertions
      • Tracing: used to test completeness assertion
      • Scanning
  • Observation (used for test of controls)
  • Recalculation and reperformance (e.g. verifying summary totals)
  • Analytical procedures (comparison, relationships)
  • Client enquiry (useful to obtain information (corroborative))

What is Quality of Audit Evidence?

Quality depends on:
  • Relevance to the assertion
  • Independence of the provider
  • Extent of auditor's direct knowledge
  • Qualifications of the provider
  • Level of objectivity
  • Reliability and extent of internal processing

There are different fraud categories. Which are they?

  • Asset misappropriation (steal)
  • Fraudulent Statements (intentional misstatements in the financial statements)
  • Corruption (violation of law regulation)

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