Chapter
Audit Evidence
Auditing and Ethics
34 topics
- Meaning of Audit Evidence
- Relevance and Reliability of audit evidence
- Sufficient appropriate audit evidence, Meaning of Assertions
- Assertions contained in the Financial Statements
- Source of audit evidence
- Test of controls
- Substantive Procedures- Test of details and Substantive analytical procedures, Audit procedures for obtaining audit evidence
- Evaluation of Audit Evidence (SA 500 Audit Evidence), Audit Trail. (Using the work of Internal Auditors – SA 610)
- Internal audit function
- External Auditor’s Responsibility for the audit, Evaluating the internal audit function
- Basics of Internal Financial Control and reporting requirements
- Distinction between Internal Financial Control and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
- Audit Sampling: (SA 530 Audit Sampling)
- Meaning of Audit Sampling
- Designing an audit sample
- Types of sampling (Approaches to Sampling)
- Sample Size and selection of items for testing
- Sample selection method
- Obtaining evidence of existence of inventory
- Audit procedure to identify litigation & claims, obtaining evidence regarding the presentation and disclosure of segment information (SA 501 Audit Evidence - Specific Considerations for Selected Items)
- External confirmation procedures
- Management’s refusal to allow the auditor to send a confirmation request
- Negative Confirmations (SA 505 External Confirmations)
- Audit evidence about opening balances
- Accounting policies relating to opening balances
- Reporting with regard to opening balances (SA 510 Initial Audit Engagements-Opening Balances)
- Meaning of Related Party
- Nature of Related Party Relationships & Transactions
- Understanding the Entity’s Related Party Relationships & Transactions (SA 550 Related Parties)
- Analytical Procedures
- Meaning, nature, purpose and timing of analytical procedures
- Substantive analytical procedures
- Designing and performing analytical procedures prior to Audit
- Investigating the results of analytical procedures (SA 520 Analytical Procedures)