...Jessica Ganyuma Audit Planning and Control Professor: August 23, 2015 Ernst & Young is an accounting firm founded by Arthur Young (1863-1948) and Alwin C Earnest ((1881- 1948). Alwin started Ernst and Ernst with his brother Theodore in 1903. Arthur formed his accounting firm with his brother Stanley named Arthur Young and Company in 1906. Both companies were a success and quickly emerge into the global marketplace. Around 1924 both firms “ allied with prominent British firms”( ). Ernst and Young never met one anther and died days of each other. Their firms combined in 1989 forming Ernst &Young. Ernst & Young provides audit, tax, business risk, technology and security risk services and human capital services worldwide. Ernst & Young is one of the “Big Four” accounting firms. The company has over 190,000 employees and operates in over 150 companies. There are steps in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. When it comes to planning the auditor must first decide whether or not to accept a new client. The audior must identify “ whey the client wants or needs and audit” (p 209). The auditor must obtain an understanding with the firm about the terms of engagement to avoid any misunderstanding and the auditor must develop “an overall strategy for the audit, including engagemetnet staffing and any required audit specialists” (209). When it comes to designing an effective audit program the auditor...
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...Watershed Date: December 28, 2010 RE: Audit Plan Our audit team, Anderson, Olds, and Watershed, will be auditing the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2010. We will begin on January 11, 2011 and end February 5, 2011. The audit will follow a tentative time budget (reference P-1 Time Budget). Our objective is to correctly attest, following AICPA rules, as to whether the company Peach Blossom Cologne has issued financial statements that are fair by GAAP. The team has identified various risk factors involved in this audit engagement. As evidenced by our Internal Control Questionnaire, PBC has failed to prepare an organization chart, which would ensure that the employees are aware of their restricted duties and responsibilities to the company. We have also identified that management does not require personnel who have financial responsibilities to take annual vacations, which increases risks that frauds and/or errors may not be caught in the absence of the employee. Also, output devices such as printers are not located in a secure area and LAN reports are left unlocked. Upon further consideration of internal controls, we have noticed a few weaknesses regarding the handling of mail and separation of duties. All of these internal control deficiencies will be considered in the audit of PBC’s financial statements. Our team’s initial horizontal, vertical and ratio analyses have raised a few questions that we plan to investigate in the audit. There were significant changes...
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...Audit procedures which an auditor should perform when planning attendance at a Company stock take. 1.Review and planning: The auditor must review prior year’s working papers to enable himself to familiarize with the nature volume and location of inventories. Consideration must be made with regard to the controlling and recording procedures over inventory and the timing of the count. 2.Problem identification and reliance: The must identify problem areas in relation to the system of internal control and decide whether reliance can be placed on internal auditors. This also assists in risk assessment and timing audit procedures. 3.Risk and materiality: Assessment of inherent, control and detection risks is necessary for a comprehensive stocktaking audit programme and this will assist the auditor to establish materiality levels before undertaking the stock count. 4.Inventory held by third parties: Arrangement must be made to ensures that third party holding inventories confirms .Depending on materiality of the inventory held the auditor should also consider the integrity and independence of the third party and whether it is necessary to arrange for other auditors to observe the count or whether it is sufficient to obtain another auditor’s report on the adequacy of the third party’s systems or merely to inspect relevant documentation held at client place. 5.Expert assistance: Assessment must be made by the auditor regarding the nature of the...
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...TIM 685 STRATEGIC PLANNING COMPANY AUDIT HEWLETT PACKARD Contents Abstract 3 HP Background 3 Company Mission 4 HP’s Corporate Objectives 5 Mission and governance Analysis 5 Recommendations 6 HR Report on HP 7 Recommendation 8 Internal Analysis 8 Recommendation 8 Mergers Acquisitions and Spin-offs 9 Recommendation 9 External and Global Environment 9 External Analysis 10 Recommendation 11 Porter five forces Analysis of HP 12 Recommendation 14 SWOT Analysis 14 Conclusion / Recommendation 15 Reference: 16 Abstract This Company audit was conduct using publicly available information about Hewlett-Packard. The Audit includes mission statement, company philosophy, PEST SWOT, Financial Analysis, market position analysis, corporate governance analysis. The analysis uses industry standards for company audits such as, Porter, SWOT, and PEST as a guideline for the areas to be assessed. HP Background Hewlett Packard is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The firm was started by Bill Hewlett and David Packard. The merger with Compaq was one of HP’s major strategic moves recently. Even in naming the new company the two founders flipped a coin in the famous garage, Dave Packard won the coin toss but conceded to pit Hewlett name at the front. "It is...
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...Essay: Auditing Planning Broadly speaking, audit planning is specific guidelines for auditor to perform an audit. Audit planning is usually conducted at the beginning stage of audit process. AICPA (American Institute of Certificate Public Accounting), PCAOB (Public Company Oversight Board), and IFAC (The International Federation of Accountants) are organizations or non-profit corporations who contributes to developing standards and guidance in auditing area, including standards for audit planning. Thus, this essay will discuss the requirement, and compare and contrast, of standards and guidance for auditing planning that has been issued by them; as well, analyze the impact on the performance of the audit. AICPA, by its publication titled AUC Section 300, addresses guidance for auditors in planning an audit. This contains introduction, objective, requirements, and application and other explanatory material. First, the introduction part includes the scope in planning the audit, the role and timing of planning, and the effective date of this standard. The scope of planning an audit explains the responsibility of the auditor to plan an audit of financial statement. This section also mentioned to refer to section 600, Special Considerations – Audits of Group Financial Statements (Including the Work of Component Auditors) for further information related to the auditor’s responsibility. The role of planning and timing explains the adequate benefit in planning the audit of financial...
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...1 Session 4 Audit Planning; Materiality and the audit risk model Auditing: Principles and Methods 2 After studying this session you should be able to: 1. Discuss why adequate audit planning is essential 2. Make client acceptance decisions and perform initial audit planning 3. Gain an understanding of the client’s business and industry 4. Assess client business risk 5. Perform preliminary analytical procedures 6. Apply the concept of materiality to the audit 7. Define risk in auditing and the audit risk model Auditing: Principles and Methods 3 8. Consider the impact of engagement risk on acceptable audit risk 9. Discuss the relationship of risks to audit evidence 10. Answer the Review Questions Auditing: Principles and Methods 1. Audit Planning 4 Why is adequate audit planning essential? “The auditor must adequately plan the work and must properly supervise any assistants”. There are three main reasons why the auditor should properly plan engagements: to enable himself to obtain sufficient appropriate evidence, to keep audit cost reasonable and to avoid misunderstanding with the client. Auditing: Principles and Methods 1. Audit Planning 5 An important part of audit planning is assessing acceptable audit risk and inherent risk because it helps determine the amount of evidence that will need to be accumulated and staff assigned to the engagement. Acceptable audit risk is a measure of how willing the auditor is to accept that the FSs...
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...CHAPTER 6 Audit Planning, Understanding the Client, Assessing Risks and Responding Brief Topical Outline A. The audit process 1. Obtaining clients (PowerPoint 6-2) — Submit a proposal — communicate with predecessor auditors 2. Overall process (PowerPoint 6-3,4) B. Audit planning (PowerPoint 6-5) 1. Establish an understanding with client, ordinarily through use of an engagement letter (PowerPoints 6-6, and 6-7) 2. Overall on audit planning (PowerPoint 6-8) C. Obtain an understanding of the client and its environment 1. Risk assessment procedures (PowerPoint 6-9) 2. Business risk approach to the audit (PowerPoint 6-10 through 6-16) 3. Materiality D. Assess the risks of material misstatement and design further audit procedures 1. Overall approach (PowerPoint 6-17) 2. Assessing fraud risks (PowerPoints 6-18 through 6-21) 3 Design further audit procedures (PowerPoints 6-22 and 6-23) E. Organization of the audit program 1. The systems portion 2. The substantive test portion (PowerPoint 6-24) 3. Analyzing transactions affecting accounts (PowerPoint 6-25) 4. Indirect verification of income statement accounts (PowerPoint 6-26) 5. Assertions, objectives and procedures (PowerPoint 6-27) — Management assertions — Direction of audit testing (PowerPoint 6-28) — Substantive objectives for the audit of asset accounts ...
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...7 Planning Materiality C a s es inc lu de d in t his Se ction 7.1 Anne Aylor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Determination of Planning Materiality and Tolerable Misstatement O t he r c ase s t h at discuss topics rel ated to this section 5.6 Sarbox Scooter, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Scoping and Evaluation Judgments in the Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting 12.1 EyeMax Corporation . . . Evaluation of Audit Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 12.2 Auto Parts, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Considering Materiality When Evaluating Accounting Policies and Footnote Disclosures Instructor Resource Manual — Do Not Copy or Redistribute Instructor Resource Manual — Do Not Copy or Redistribute Anne Aylor, Inc. C a s e 7.1 Determination of Planning Materiality and Tolerable Misstatement Mark S. Beasley · Frank A. Buckless · Steven M. Glover · Douglas F. Prawitt Ins tr uc t ional O b je c t ive s [1] To provide experience with establishing planning materiality. [2] To provide experience with establishing tolerable misstatement for individual financial statement accounts. [3] To illustrate factors considered when establishing planning materiality...
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...Audit Process Letter Laura Sferra ACC/546 November 23, 2015 Allen Foster Mrs. Susan Right Senior Partner Anderson, Olds, and Watershed 1 Shoe Street New York, NY. 90001 Dear Mrs. Right, Mr. Lancaster, President of Apollo Shoes, has expressed his satisfaction with the services that our firm offers and would like to continue with a full audit. Because our client does not want our firm to talk to the predecessor auditor, I recommend accepting a prospective engagement after I perform an investigation by gathering information about our client's reputation and background. Client acceptance and continuance procedures are the foundation of the risk assessment process (SAS No. 8). Upon acceptance of our client, I am confident that we will be able to move forward under the AICPA auditing standards to determine that the financial reporting framework is appropriate. My objective is to plan the audit so that it is conducted efficiently and effectively, in accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. I will take into consideration the preliminary planning activities such as the client acceptance, ethical position of our audit firm and our understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control, to develop an effective and efficient overall audit strategy that will appropriately respond to assessed risks. Our engagement letter, will include the timetable of fieldwork, the scope and duration of...
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...Article Review: McDonald and Leppard (1993) The Marketing Audit The Marketing Audit Model Any marketing plan will only be as good as the information on which it is based, and the marketing audit is the means by which information for planning is organised. A marketing audit is a systematic, critical and unbiased review and appraisal of all the external and internal factors that have affected an organisation’s commercial performance over a defined period. By providing an understanding of how the organisation relates to the environment in which it operates, the marketing audit enables management to select a position within that environment based on known factors. Any organisation carrying out an audit will be faced with two kinds of variable: those over which if has no direct control and those over which it has complete control. The former include economic and market factors, while the latter usually concern the organisation’s resources, or operational variables. This suggests that the marketing audit should be structured in two parts: * External audit—the uncontrollable variables (business and economic environment, the market, the competition). * Internal audit—the controllable variables (organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, operations and resources in relation to the environment and competitors). Chapters 1—6 McDonald and Leppard’s The Marketing Audit Model is a comprehensive set of exercises that a company can go through to develop insight into all aspects...
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...– Yes/No | Description of To Do | | Other Notes | Planning | | 6 | Yes | GA-1 | No | 2. Draft Engagement Letter using the sample letter from the previous auditors in Blackboard. You will need to type this in word from scratch. You will need to make appropriate changes as needed and as discussed in class. | | | Planning | | 6 | Yes | GA-2 | No | 3.Draft short staffing requirements memo | | | Planning | | 37 | Yes | Varies | Yes | Note you do not need to search for audit programs – Refer to Blackboard for Audit Program Templates that are included with each audit area. You will need to reference and sign off each audit step as required (note that all audit steps provided in the audit program may not be needed.) | | | Planning | | 38 | Yes | GA-3 | Yes | Draft workpaper for the notes and information obtained from the 2011/2012 minutes (as discussed in class) | | | Planning | | 42 | Yes | A-1, A-2 etc | Yes | Trial Balance numbers for 2011 and 2010 9pages 43-44 are already input into the excel worksheets to use as a trial balance template | | | Planning | | 45 | Yes | A-1,A-2 etc | Yes | Use excel trial balance worksheets to calculate analytics as we demonstrated in class. You must complete items 1a and b. Financial Statement and changes and financial ratios Also, we completed item 2 - using items {a}–{j} but not in memo form – so you will need to include this info also | | | Planning | | 45 | No | N/A | N/A | 1c – You will not need to compare...
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...Audit of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Final Audit Report Audit and Evaluation Branch June 2006 Tabled and approved by DAEC on January 9, 2007 Audit of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Industry Canada (IC) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 2 1.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 2 1.2 OVERALL ASSESSMENT.................................................................................................... 2 1.3 MAIN FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................. 2 1.3.1 Business Continuity Plan Governance (See Section 3.1 of the BCP Standard) ......... 2 1.3.2 Business Impact Analysis (See Section 3.2 of the BCP Standard).............................. 3 1.3.3 Business Continuity Action Plans and Arrangements (See Section 3.3) .................... 4 1.3.4 BCP Program Readiness (See Section 3.4 of the BCP Standard) .............................. 5 1.3.5 BCP Training and Awareness (See Section 3.4 of the BCP Standard) ...................... 5 2.0 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 7 2.1 BACKGROUND .................................................................................................................. 7 2...
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...Complete overview of an Audit Executive summary A financial audit refers to the verification of the financial statements of a company by an audit firm in order to express a professional opinion regarding their credibility. This process begins when a client approaches the auditor if deemed reputable the auditor accepts he begins by planning how to carry out the audit. This is done by assessing several factors such as risk, materiality etc. and then obtaining feedback in order to draw up the audit plan. At this point an audit team is assembled based on the audit strategy who visit the clients premise to carry out the procedures agreed upon in the planning stage through practical work or field work. Once enough evidence is accumulated to support the auditor’s opinion a draft audit report is drawn up. The client is contacted after this and feedback is obtained to make final necessary adjustments. Once finished the final audit report is issued which expresses the auditors professional opinion and recommendations, depending on the issues at hand a follow-up review may be carried out afterwards to see clients progress in adopting the suggested changes thus concluding the audit process. Table of Contents Particulars | Page # | Introduction | 3 | Stage 1: Planning | 3 | Step 1: Notification/Engagement Letter | 4 | Step 2: Audit Strategy | 4 | Step 3: Initial Meeting | 4 | Step 4: Planning Analytical Procedures | 5 | Step 5: Risk, Materiality and Control assessment...
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...risk-based audit, adequate planning is of paramount importance as it allows to direct the audit effort towards the areas expected to be most at risk of material misstatement. Additionally, adequate planning helps identify and resolve problems on a timely basis and allows the auditor to organize the engagement, including selecting suitably experienced team members to deal with specific risks, so that it can be performed in an effective and efficient manner. ISA 300 in particular requires setting out an overall audit strategy and a detailed audit plan. The overall audit strategy should indicate the scope of the work, the resources to be allocated to specific high-risk areas in terms of experienced staff or hours and the timing of the work. A more detailed audit plan follows on from the approach identified in the audit strategy and indicates the audit procedures to be performed in respect of specific items in the financial statements and their timing. The audit strategy and the audit plan are not necessarily separate documents or processes as they are strictly interrelated. For example the results of initial risk assessment procedures, like the entity’s business risk assessment or the assessment of internal control, will inform the planning for further audit procedures and, vice versa, the outcome of detailed audit procedures may be so different from what expected at the time of planning to require a modification of the audit strategy and audit plan. As such, the audit strategy and...
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