Effective for audits of financial statements for periods beginning on or after December 15, 2001, unless otherwise indicated. .01 An independent auditor plans, conducts, and reports the results of an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Auditing standards provide a measure of audit quality and the objectives to be achieved in an audit. Auditing procedures differ from auditing standards. Auditing procedures are acts that the auditor performs during the course of an audit to comply
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Apollo Shoes, Inc. Audit Report The audit firm of Anderson, Olds, and Watershed, CPA (AOW) has been engaged by Apollo Shoes, Inc. to audit the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2007, and file the Form 10-k with the SEC within 60 days of this date. It has also been agreed that AOW will prepare the state franchise tax and federal tax returns for Apollo Shoes, Inc. The field work for the audit will begin mid-January, with the trial balance to be sent to AOW shortly after
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2010). One of their guidelines is that public accounting firms that provide audit services to public companies can no longer provide any bookkeeping, consulting, actuarial, or investment services that may interfere with their objective findings in an audit, and to guarantee auditor independence the act provides for the mandatory rotation of lead auditor's. Title III– Corporate Responsibility The act also provides for an audit committee whose primary duty is to the Board of Directors and the investing
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period. Audit procedures must ensure that transactions occurring near year-end are recorded in the financial statements in the proper period. For example, the auditor may want to test proper cutoff of revenue transactions at December 31. This can be done by examining a sample of shipping documents and sales invoices for a few days before and after year-end. Audit evidence: Audit Evidence is evidence obtained during a financial audit and recorded in the audit working papers. In the audit engagement
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while performing audits on companies’ financial statements, thus ensuring its accuracy, consistency, and verifiability (Morris, 2013). Hence, these standards provide the ground rules for conducting every audit in such a way that the auditor is able to properly express an opinion on a company’s financial statements giving reasonable assurance to stakeholders interested in those statements about whether (or not) these statements fairly present the company's financial condition. Audit Section 150 states
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to follow the audit standards in place with the passing of Sarbanes Oxley. Audit planning is very important. The initial audit planning should be done in the early stages of the audit. The auditor must determine whether to accept the client. It is late in the year to accept new clients, and there are also some major issues with the way the company is being run, in spite of these challenges; Keller CPA’s has agreed to accept Smackey Dog as a client. The second stage in audit planning is to
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concept of the audit of financial statements and the issues surrounding the audit of such statements EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of the course, the student is expected to be able to; a) b) c) d) e) f) Explain what is an audit and the qualifications and duties of an auditor Understand the legal and professional rules governing the audit and the auditor Able to design an adequate internal control system Able to design an audit plan and an audit program to conduct an audit Able to audit a computerized
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1. The major difference between review and audit are the following: The review does not contemplate obtaining an understanding of internal control structure. The review does not assess control risk, tests of accounting records and responses to inquiries by obtaining corroborating evidence through inspection, observation or any other audit procedure. It can point out significant matters of the financial statements but does not provide assurance of their accuracy. A review service provides a moderate
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Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Mandatory audit firm rotation has been discussed by different accounting boards numerous times since the 1970s. Mandatory audit firm rotation would cause auditing firms to change clients after a certain amount of years with the client. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has recently opened a discussion on audit firm rotation because the Board is concerned about the many problems that have come up on different auditing reports made by top auditing
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AUDITING ONLINE TEST 1. A limitation of an audit is caused by: a. The nature of financial reporting. b. The nature of audit procedures c. The need for the audit to be conducted within a reasonable period of time and at a reasonable cost d. All of the above 2. Which of the following is NOT true about Corporate Social Responsibility assurance? a. Reporting is voluntary and is becoming more widespread. b. Includes both financial and non-financial information
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