At Syllabus New
At Syllabus New
At Syllabus New
Assuming a recurring audit, in which of the following situations would the auditor be unlikely to
send a new engagement letter to the client?
a. A recent change in partner and/or staff involved in the audit engagement.
b. A change in the terms of engagement.
c. A recent change of client management.
d. A significant change in the nature or size of the client's business.
Adequate audit planning helps ensure that appropriate attention is devoted:
a.
b.
c.
To important areas of the audit
Yes
Yes
Yes
So that potential problems are promptly identified
Yes
Yes
No
So that the work is completed expeditiously
No
Yes
No
d.
Yes
No
Yes
In planning an examination, the auditor would consider all of the following matters, except
a. Anticipated reliance on internal controls.
b. Preliminary judgment about materiality levels for audit purposes.
c. Financial statement items likely to require adjustment.
d. The kind of opinion (unqualified, qualified, disclaimer, or adverse), likely to be given.
This includes distributing assignments among staff assistants and reviewing the progress of
such assignments on a periodic basis.
a. Supervision b. Staff training c. CPE d. Planning.
The senior auditor responsible for coordinating the fieldwork usually schedules a pre-audit
conference with the audit team primarily to
a. Give guidance to the staff regarding both technical and personnel aspects of the audit.
b. Discuss staff suggestions concerning the establishment and maintenance of time
budgets.
c. Establish the need for using the work of specialists and internal auditors.
d. Provide an opportunity to document staff disagreements regarding technical issues.
An auditor obtains knowledge about a new clients business and its industry to
a. Make constructive suggestions concerning improvements to the clients internal control.
b. Develop an attitude of professional skepticism concerning managements financial
statement assertions.
c. Evaluate whether the aggregation of known misstatements causes the financial
statements taken as a whole to be materially misstated.
d. Understand the events and transactions that may have an effect on the clients financial
statements.
Which of the following procedures would an auditor most likely perform in planning a financial
statement audit?
a. Reviewing investment transactions of he audit period to determine whether related parties
were credited.
b. Performing analytical procedures to identify areas that may represent specific risks.
c. Reading the minutes of stockholder and director meetings to discover whether any
unusual transactions have occurred.
d. Obtaining a written representation letter from the client to emphasize managements
responsibilities.
When planning an examination, an auditor should
a. Consider whether the extent of substantive tests may be reduced based on the results of the
internal control questionnaire.
b. Make preliminary judgments about materiality levels for audit purposes.
c. Conclude whether changes in compliance with prescribed control procedures justifies
reliance on them
d. Prepare a preliminary draft of the management representation letter.
In considering materiality for planning purposes, an auditor believes that misstatements
aggregating P100,000 would have a material effect on an entitys income statement, but the
misstatements would have to aggregate P200,000 to materially affect the balance sheet.
Ordinarily, it would be appropriate to design auditing procedures that would be expected to
detect misstatements that aggregate
a. P100,000
b. P200,000
c. P150,000
d. P300,000
The concepts of audit risk and materiality are interrelated and must be considered together
by the auditor. Which of the following is true?
a. Audit risk is the risk that the auditor may unknowingly express a modified opinion when in
fact the financial statements are fairly stated.
b. The phrase in the auditor's standard report "present fairly, in all material respects, in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" indicates the auditor's belief
that the financial statements taken as a whole are not materially misstated.
c. If misstatements are not important individually but are important in the aggregate, the
concept of materiality does not apply.
d. Material fraud but not material errors cause financial statements to be materially
misstated.
A basic tool used by the auditor to control the audit work and review the progress of the audit.
a. Audit program
c. Engagement letter.
b. Progress flowchart
d. Time and Expense Summary
Which item would not be contained in an audit program?
a. Staff assigned to the audit.
b. List of specific tasks to be performed.
techniques including
a. Inquiry.
b. Calculations.
c. Analytical procedures.
d. Confirmations.
A procedure that would most likely be used by an auditor in performing tests of control
procedures that involve segregation of functions and that leave no transaction trail is
a. Inspection.
b. Reperformance. c. Observation.
d. Reconciliation.
The primary responsibility for the prevention and detection of fraud and error rests with
a. The auditor.
c. The management of an entity.
b. Those charged with governance.
d. Both b and c.
The following are examples of error, except
a. A mistake in gathering or processing data from which financial statements are prepared.
b. An incorrect accounting estimate arising from oversight or misinterpretation of facts.
c. A mistake in the application of accounting principles relating to measurement, recognition,
classification, presentation, or disclosure.
d. Misrepresentation in the financial statements of events, transactions or other significant
information.
The types of intentional misstatements that are relevant to the auditors consideration of fraud
include
I. Misstatements resulting from fraudulent financial reporting
II. Misstatements resulting from misappropriation of assets
a. I and II
b. I only
c. II only
d. Neither I nor II
Which statement is incorrect regarding the auditors responsibility to consider fraud and error in
an audit of financial statements?
a. The auditor is not and cannot be held responsible for the prevention of fraud and error.
b. In planning the audit, the auditor should discuss with other members of the audit team the
susceptibility of the entity to material misstatements in the financial statements resulting from
fraud or error.
c. The auditor should design test of controls to reduce to an acceptably low level the risk that
misstatements resulting from fraud and error that are material to the financial statements
taken as a whole will not be detected.
d. When the auditor encounters circumstances that may indicate that there is a material
misstatement in the financial statements resulting from fraud or error, the auditor should
perform procedures to determine whether the financial statements are materially misstated.
Which of the following statements describes why a properly designed and executed audit may
not detect a material fraud?
a. Audit procedures that are effective for detecting an unintentional misstatement may be
ineffective for an intentional misstatement that is concealed through collusion.
b. An audit is designed to provide reasonable assurance of detecting material errors, but there
is no similar responsibility concerning material fraud.
c. The factors considered in assessing control risk indicated an increased risk of intentional
misstatements, but only a low risk of unintentional errors in the financial statements.
d. The auditor did not consider factors influencing audit risk for account balances that have
pervasive effects on the financial statements taken as a whole.
The auditors ability to detect a fraud depends on factors such as
I. The skillfulness of the perpetrator.
II. The frequency and extent of manipulation.
III. The degree of collusion involved.
IV. The relative size of individual amounts manipulated.
V. The seniority of those involved.
a. All of the above
b. I, III and V only
c. I, II, III and V only
In comparing management fraud with employee fraud, the auditors risk of failing to discover the
fraud is
a. Greater for employee fraud because of the higher crime rate among blue collar workers.
b. Greater for management fraud because of managements ability to override existing internal
controls.
c. Greater for employee fraud because of the larger number of employees in the organization.
d. Greater for management fraud because managers are inherently smarter than employees.
According to PSA 400 Risk Assessments and Internal Control, audit risk means
a. The susceptibility of an account balance or class of transactions to misstatement that could
be material, individually or when aggregated with misstatements in other balances or
classes, assuming that there were no related internal controls.
b. The risk that a misstatement, that could occur in an account balance or class of
transactions and that could be material, individually or when aggregated with misstatements
in other balances or classes, will not be prevented or detected and corrected on a timely
basis by the accounting and internal control systems.
c. The risk that an auditors substantive procedures will not detect a misstatement that exists
in an account balance or class of transactions that could be material, individually or when
aggregated with misstatements in other balances or classes.
d. The risk that the auditor gives an inappropriate audit opinion when the financial statements
are materially misstated.
Inherent risk and control risk differ from detection risk in that inherent risk and control risk are
a. Elements of audit risk while detection risk is not.
b. Changed at the auditors discretion while detection risk is not.
c. Considered at the individual account-balance level while detection risk is not.
d. Functions of the client and its environment while detection risk is not.
The relationship between acceptable level of detection risk and the combined level of inherent
c. Parallel
d. Independent
An auditor decides to increase the assessed level of control risk from that originally planned on
the basis of audit evidence gathered and evaluated. To achieve an overall audit risk level that
is substantially the same as the planned audit risk level, the auditor would
a. Decrease substantive testing.
c. Increase inherent risk.
b. Increase materiality levels.
d. Decrease detection risk.
As the acceptable level of detection risk decreases, the assurance directly provided from
a. Substantive tests should increase.
c. Substantive tests should decrease.
b. Tests of controls should increase.
d. Tests of controls should decrease.
The auditor should determine overall responses to address the risks of material misstatement
at the financial statement level. Such responses least likely include
a. Emphasizing to the audit team the need to maintain professional skepticism in gathering
and evaluating audit evidence.
b. Assigning more experienced staff or those with special skills or using experts.
c. Incorporating additional elements of unpredictability in the selection of further audit
procedures to be performed.
d. Performing substantive procedures at an interim date instead of at period end.
Which statement is incorrect regarding the nature of further audit procedures?
a. The nature of further audit procedures refers to their purpose and their type.
b. Certain audit procedures may be more appropriate for some assertions than others.
c. The higher the auditors assessment of risk, the less reliable and relevant is the audit
evidence sought by the auditor from substantive procedures.
d. The auditor is required to obtain audit evidence about the accuracy and completeness of
information produced by the entitys information system when that information is used in
performing audit procedures.
Which statement is incorrect regarding substantive procedures?
a. Substantive procedures are performed in order to detect material misstatements at the
assertion level, and include tests of details of classes of transactions, account balances,
and disclosures and substantive analytical procedures.
b. The auditor always performs substantive procedures for each class of transactions, account
balance, and disclosure.
c. When the auditor has determined that an assessed risk of material misstatement at the
assertion level is a significant risk, the auditor should perform substantive procedures that
are specifically responsive to that risk.
d. In order to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence, the substantive procedures related
to significant risks are most often designed to obtain audit evidence with high reliability.
4.0 Audit Objectives, Procedures, Evidences and Documentation
4.1 Nature and significance
4.2 Evidential matters
4.3 Audit procedures/techniques
4.4 Audit working papers
5.0 Completing the Audit/ Post-Audit Responsibilities
5.1 Completing the audit and audit report preparation
5.1.1 Analytical procedures for overall review
5.1.2 Related party transactions
5.1.3 Subsequent events review
5.1.4 Assessment of going concern assumption
5.1.5 Obtaining client's representation letter
5.1.6 Evaluating findings, formulating an opinion and drafting the audit report
5.2 Post-audit responsibilities
5.2.1 Subsequent discovery of facts
5.2.2 Subsequent discovery of omitted procedures
6.0 Reports on Audited Financial Statements
6.1 The unqualified auditor's report
6.2 Basic elements of the unqualified auditor's report
6.3 Modified auditor's report
6.3.1 Matters that do not affect the auditor's opinion
6.3.2 Matters that do affect the auditor's opinion
6.4 Report on comparatives
7.0 Auditing in a Computerized Information Systems (CIS) Environment
7.1 Internal control in a CIS environment
7.1.1 Introduction
7.1.2 Impact of computers on accounting and internal control systems
7.1.2.1 General controls
7.1.2.2 Application controls
7.1.3 Unique characteristics of specific CIS
7.1.3.1 Stand alone
7.1.3.2 On-line
7.1.3.3 Database system
7.2 Basic approach to the audit of CIS environment
7.2.1 Introduction
7.2.2 Effects of computers on the audit process
7.2.3 Computer assisted audit techniques
8.0 Other Assurance and Non-assurance Services