Assurance services profession

Chapter 1 - Assurance and auditing: an overview. This chapter presents the following content: overview of current environment, auditing profession’s response to crisis of confidence, the assurance framework, objective of assurance engagement, forms of assurance services,...

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Chapter 2 - The structure of the profession. This chapter presents the following content: Professional status of the auditor, regulation of auditing, registered company auditor, professional accounting organisations, profile of the audit profession and audit firms,...

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Chapter 5 - Overview of elements of the financial repport audit process. This chapter presents the following content: Accounting and auditing contrasted, areas of audit interest, audit evidence, audit procedures, the audit trail, selecting audit procedures,...

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Chapter 3 - Ethics, independence and corporate governance. This chapter outlines the nature and importance of ethics, and the responsibilities imposed on auditors by the profession through the code of professional ethics. One fundamental ethical requirement for an auditor is independence. This chapter explains the concept of independence and how it is supported by legislation and the ethical rules.

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Chapter 4 - The legal liability of auditors. This chapter presents the following content: Establishing the auditor’s duty, reasonable care and skill, negligence claims, liability to clients - recent cases, liability to third parties - early test - special relationship,...

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Chapter 7 - Inherent risk assessment and materiality. After studying this chapter you should be able to: explain the factors that influence the assessment of inherent risk; explain the auditor’s consideration of the special risk areas of fraud, related parties and the appropriateness of the going concern basis; and explain the concept of materiality.

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Chapter 6 - Planning, knowledge of the business and evaluating strategic business risk. After studying this chapter you should be able to: explain why the decision to accept a client is important, and describe the primary features of client acceptance and continuance; indicate the purpose and content of an audit engagement letter; describe the decisions made by an auditor in preparing an audit plan, the knowledge on which the decisions are based and the procedures used to obtain that knowledge;...

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Chapter 8 - Understanding the internal control structure and assessing control risk. After studying this chapter you should be able to: Define internal control, and explain the audit logic of assessing control risk; understand the concepts of inherent limitations and reasonable assurance with regard to internal control; describe the general objectives of internal control and how the auditor uses them to develop specific control objectives;...

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Chapter 9 - Tests of controls. After studying this chapter you should be able to: understand that tests of controls are undertaken when the auditor intends to rely on a control to reduce a risk of material misstatement; appreciate that when undertaking tests of controls, the auditor must collect audit evidence about the existence, effectiveness and continuity of controls; identify factors affecting the auditor’s assessment of the sufficiency and appropriateness of evidence of tests of controls.

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Chapter 10 - Substantive tests of transactions and balances. After studying this chapter you should be able to: identify and distinguish between tests of controls and substantive tests of transactions, and between substantive tests of transactions and substantive tests of balances; Describe and understand the use of computer-assisted audit techniques in substantive testing.

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Chapter 11 - Audit sampling. After studying this chapter you should be able to: define audit sampling and its objective and describe the requirements that apply to all audit samples - statistical and non-statistical, identify the various means of gathering audit evidence, identify factors influencing the determination of sample size,...

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Chapter 12 - Completion and review. After studying this chapter you should be able to: explain the significance of the date of the auditor’s report and the audit engagement; define subsequent events of audit interest, and describe the audit procedures applied specifically to identify such events; describe the nature and purpose of written representations obtained from the entity’s management and solicitors;...

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Chapter 13 - The auditor’s reporting obligations. After studying this chapter you should be able to: understand the nature and significance of the auditor’s reporting obligations; understand the structure and qualitative characteristics of the auditor’s report; explain the differences between the concepts of ‘true and fair’ and ‘presents fairly in accordance with’, and between a fair presentation framework and a compliance framework;...

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Chapter 14 - Other assurance services. After studying this chapter you should be able to: explain the different levels of government in Australia and their main responsibilities; explain the concept of accountability; outline the different bases of accounting used in the public sector; explain public sector audit requirements; describe the nature of performance auditing; and describe the nature of regularity audits.

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Chapter 15 - Internal auditing. After studying this chapter you should be able to: understand the evolving nature of internal auditing; appreciate the professional standards developed for internal auditing; understand what internal auditors do in practice; gain an appreciation of the issues that may face the internal audit profession in the future; and appreciate the approaches to assessing risk management, control and governance processes.

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Chapter 16 - Audit and assurance services in the public sector. After studying this chapter you should be able to: explain the different levels of government in Australia and their main responsibilities; explain the concept of accountability; outline the different bases of accounting used in the public sector; explain public sector audit requirements; describe the nature of performance auditing; and describe the nature of regularity audits.

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Chapter 17 - Advanced topics in assurance services. After studying this chapter you should be able to: appreciate the framework of standards under which assurance services are currently offered, and how specific standards relate to different types of assurance services; understand the assurance provider’s obligations in relation to audits of financial information other than general-purpose reports, including special-purpose reports, components of financial reports and summarised financial reports;...

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Chapter 1 - Assurance and auditing: an overview. In this chapter we will discuss: overview of current environment, auditing profession’s response to crisis of confidence, the assurance framework, objective of assurance engagement, forms of assurance services.

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Chapter 5 - Overview of elements of the financial report audit process. In this chapter we will discuss: Accounting and auditing contrasted, areas of audit interest, audit evidence, audit procedures, the audit trail, selecting audit procedures.

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Chapter 6 - Planning, understanding the entity and evaluating business risk. In this chapter we will discuss: explain why the decision to accept a client is important, and describe the primary features of client acceptance and continuance; indicate the purpose and content of an audit engagement letter; describe the decisions made by an auditor in preparing an audit plan, the knowledge on which the decisions are based and the procedures used to obtain that knowledge.

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