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Auditing
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business-skills
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Answer 41 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pinpoints problems that show up in financial results - may suggest financial misstatements - may raise concerns about the viability of the company - may indicate a potential threat to the internal control environment - may highlight potential client
Risk Management Process type
Types of Evidence
Residual Risks
High Residual Risks
2. Assess the impact of process risks and the associated internal controls - Risk Identification - Risk Mitigation - Risk Monitoring
Internal Control Objectives
Management controls
Internal Threat Analysis
Risk Identification
3. Process Risk Analysis (internal focus)
External Controls
Limitations on Management Controls
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 2
Internal Threat Analysis
4. The susceptibility of the financial statements to material error assuming no internal control
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
Process Maps
Inherent Risk
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
5. Identifies measures of performance to assess whether process risks are and immediate threat
High Residual Risks
Inherent Risk
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
Risk Monitoring
6. Control Environment - Risk Assessment - Control Activities - Information and Communication - Monitoring
Risk Identification
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
Five Elements of Internal Control
7. Process Objectives(statement of what the process is trying to achieve) - Process Activities(reflect actions and steps performed to accomplish process objectives) - Process Data Streams(Information need and outputs of the process) - Accounting Impact
Process Maps
Types of Evidence
Business Process Controls
Internal Control Objectives
8. Risk Assessment - Response by Management - Information Reliability - Performance Results - Reaction by Management
Components of ARM
Risk Management Process type
Internal Threat Analysis
Risk Management Process
9. Responsible for giving an opinion of management's report on internal control - and must assess if the client's internal controls being used to effectively control risks
Strategies for Managing Risk
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Internal Control attributes
Control Risk
10. Authorization - adequate documents and records - safeguarding of assets and records - independent checks on performance - separation of duties
Risk Mitigation
Inherent Risk
Strategies for Managing Risk
Acceptable Audit Risk
11. Process Map(outlines each process) - Internal Threat Analysis(analyze each process) - Process(an organized unit within the company that has to accomplish a goal set by management) - Audit-Sensitive Processes(based on assessment auditor identifies cri
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 2
OBM
Process Maps
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
12. Authorization - Independent Checks on Performance - Separation of Duties - Physical Control of Assets and Records - Adequate Documents and Records
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
Business Process Controls
External Threat Analysis
Management controls
13. Competitive Environment - Management or Employee Improper or Incompetent Actions - Process Breakdowns Within Organization - Inaccurate Processing of Information
OBM
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Sources of Risk
Internal Control attributes
14. Process designed by management to provide reasonable insurance - within economic limits - that the organization's objectives are being met
Types of Evidence
Risk Management Process
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Internal Control
15. Residual Risk Analysis (linkage of risk to audit objectives)
Internal Control Objectives
ERM: Top Down Approach Steps per level
Internal Control auditors
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 3
16. Assessment of whether a client's internal control structure is effective for preventing and/or detecting errors
Risk Monitoring
High Residual Risks
Control Risk
Components of ARM
17. Planned Detection Risk - Acceptable Audit Risk - Inherent Risk - Control Risk
High Residual Risks
Control Risk
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
Components of ARM
18. Diagnosticity - objectivity
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
ERM: Risk
External Threat Analysis
Strategies for Managing Risk
19. Activities performed by senior management including strategic direction and planning and evaluating the overall performance of the organization by providing feedback about potential problems or risks that should be addressed
Management controls
Assertions of Management
Strategies for Managing Risk
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
20. Failure to communicate mission and objectives - Inaccurate or out of date assumptions - Undue focus on current conditions - Rigid organizational structure - Failure to enforce accountability - Communication breakdowns
Process Maps
Limitations on Management Controls
Acceptable Audit Risk
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
21. Authorization(relates to ownership and existence) - Existence - Completeness - Accuracy (relates to valuation) - Timing (relates to completeness) - Posting and Summarization (relates to valuation)
Internal Control Objectives
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Limitations on Management Controls
Residual Risks
22. Identify Risks - Identify Management's Response - Asses Residual Risk (Separate What is and is not important)
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
ERM: Top Down Approach Steps per level
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
Risk Mitigation
23. Must state their responsibilities for establishing and maintaining internal controls and report on an evaluation of effectiveness of the controls within 90 days prior to periodic reports - state that signing officers have disclosed to auditors and c
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 3
Types of Evidence
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
Internal Control
24. Strategic Risk Analysis (external focus)
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
Acceptable Audit Risk
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Five Elements of Internal Control
25. Leadership - integrity - regulatory - technology - financial planning - human resource - operational - information
Risk Identification
Sources of Risk
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Residual Risks
26. Industry (competitors - potential entrants - substitutes - suppliers - customers) - Macro environmental Forces (Political - Economic - Social - Technological)
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
Components of ARM
External Threat Analysis
Five Elements of Internal Control
27. Avoidance (of activities) - Acceptance (inevitable - unavoidable) - Insurance (transferred through assurance or risk sharing) - Reduction (by implementing proactive procedures-internal control)
Types of Evidence
Strategies for Managing Risk
Internal Control Objectives
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
28. Risk that the auditor is willing to take that the financial statements are not fairly stated after the quit
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 2
Assertions of Management
High Residual Risks
Acceptable Audit Risk
29. Markets - Competitors(adv/dis) - Resources - Internal Processes - External Agents - Strategic Partners - low cost or diff - broad or narrow group of consumers
OBM
Internal Threat Analysis
Internal Control auditors
Control Risk
30. Existence/Occurrence - Rights/Obligations - Valuation/Allocation - Completeness - Presentation/Disclosure
Assertions of Management
Risk Mitigation
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 3
High Residual Risks
31. Control over the organization by individuals external to org(customers - suppliers - board of directors - regulatory agencies - external audits - owners)
External Controls
Internal Control auditors
Inherent Risk
Risk Management Process
32. Risk the auditor is willing to take that the audit procedures will fail to find material errors that were not detected by internal control
Planned Detection Risk
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
Process Maps
Inherent Risk
33. Documentation or Inspection of Records and Documents -Observation -Physical Examination or Inspection of Tangible Assets -Client Inquiry (do not use Independent Inquiry) -Confirmation -Recalculation and Reperformance -Analytical Procedures
Types of Evidence
OBM
Limitations on Management Controls
Internal Control
34. Most of the reference to risk concerns the company's risk of survival and includes any threat to an organization that reduces the likelihood that the organization will achieve one or more of its objectives. It is measured in terms of probability (lik
Five Elements of Internal Control
Risk Management Process type
Two Levels of Internal Controls
ERM: Risk
35. Its a systematic and continuous process. Risk management is iterative where control is temporary and depends on current circumstances - not a permanent condition
ERM: Top Down Approach Steps per level
OBM
Risk Management Process type
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
36. Assess probability of the event happening and potential damage - Consider whether internal controls have mitigated the inherent problems of the risk - Identify the high residual risks that will be major focus of audit
Two Levels of Internal Controls
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
Business Process Controls
ERM: Risk
37. Examine internal control as part of audit process to determine reliability of info processing related to transactions - and to access control risk involving (management decision making - process monitoring - compliance)
Internal Control auditors
External Controls
Sources of Risk
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
38. Auditors primary concern - most likely source of problems - reflect current conditions of threats - reflect areas where the auditor needs to focus most of auditing efforts
Residual Risks
Risk Management Process
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
Internal Control attributes
39. Organizational Business Models - External Threat Analysis
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
Acceptable Audit Risk
OBM
Risk Management Process type
40. A process - management's responsibility - provides reasonable assurance to to inherent limitations (human failure - collusion - bypassing of control by senior management)
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 3
Risk Management Process
Risk Management Process type
Internal Control attributes
41. Management Controls Systems over Management Processes - Business Process Control Systems over Business Processes
Residual Risks
Two Levels of Internal Controls
High Residual Risks
Process Maps