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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Strategic Risk Analysis (external focus)
Strategies for Managing Risk
Residual Risks
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
Control Risk
2. Control over the organization by individuals external to org(customers - suppliers - board of directors - regulatory agencies - external audits - owners)
Assertions of Management
Control Risk
External Controls
OBM
3. 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
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
High Residual Risks
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
Control Risk
4. 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
Types of Evidence
Control Risk
Risk Management Process type
Process Maps
5. Authorization - adequate documents and records - safeguarding of assets and records - independent checks on performance - separation of duties
OBM
Risk Mitigation
Inherent Risk
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
6. 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
Acceptable Audit Risk
Risk Mitigation
Internal Control attributes
ERM: Risk
7. Process designed by management to provide reasonable insurance - within economic limits - that the organization's objectives are being met
Business Process Controls
ERM: Risk
Internal Control
Risk Identification
8. Its a systematic and continuous process. Risk management is iterative where control is temporary and depends on current circumstances - not a permanent condition
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
Limitations on Management Controls
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
Risk Management Process type
9. Identify Risks - Identify Management's Response - Asses Residual Risk (Separate What is and is not important)
ERM: Top Down Approach Steps per level
High Residual Risks
Business Process Controls
Risk Management Process
10. Risk Assessment - Response by Management - Information Reliability - Performance Results - Reaction by Management
Control Risk
OBM
Risk Identification
Risk Management Process
11. Process Risk Analysis (internal focus)
Assertions of Management
Planned Detection Risk
Control Risk
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 2
12. Authorization(relates to ownership and existence) - Existence - Completeness - Accuracy (relates to valuation) - Timing (relates to completeness) - Posting and Summarization (relates to valuation)
Internal Control auditors
Internal Control Objectives
Internal Control attributes
Sources of Risk
13. 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
Process Maps
Types of Evidence
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Residual Risks
14. Diagnosticity - objectivity
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
External Threat Analysis
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Management controls
15. Avoidance (of activities) - Acceptance (inevitable - unavoidable) - Insurance (transferred through assurance or risk sharing) - Reduction (by implementing proactive procedures-internal control)
Components of ARM
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
Strategies for Managing Risk
Control Risk
16. Existence/Occurrence - Rights/Obligations - Valuation/Allocation - Completeness - Presentation/Disclosure
External Controls
Process Maps
Assertions of Management
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
17. Control Environment - Risk Assessment - Control Activities - Information and Communication - Monitoring
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
Internal Control attributes
Five Elements of Internal Control
Two Levels of Internal Controls
18. Management Controls Systems over Management Processes - Business Process Control Systems over Business Processes
Sources of Risk
OBM
Two Levels of Internal Controls
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
19. 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
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
Assertions of Management
OBM
Residual Risks
20. Residual Risk Analysis (linkage of risk to audit objectives)
Acceptable Audit Risk
Process Maps
Risk Identification
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 3
21. Assess the impact of process risks and the associated internal controls - Risk Identification - Risk Mitigation - Risk Monitoring
Risk Identification
Internal Control Objectives
Management controls
Internal Threat Analysis
22. 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
Risk Management Process
ERM: Risk
Control Risk
23. 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
Limitations on Management Controls
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 1
24. The susceptibility of the financial statements to material error assuming no internal control
Inherent Risk
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 3
External Threat Analysis
Internal Control Objectives
25. A process - management's responsibility - provides reasonable assurance to to inherent limitations (human failure - collusion - bypassing of control by senior management)
Internal Control
Internal Control attributes
Strategies for Managing Risk
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
26. Risk that the auditor is willing to take that the financial statements are not fairly stated after the quit
Internal Control auditors
Acceptable Audit Risk
Attributes that influence effectiveness of control mechanism
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 2
27. 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
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Business Process Controls
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Residual Risks
28. 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
Internal Control auditors
Process Maps
ERM: Top Down Approach Steps per level
Internal Control SOA requirements (management)
29. Markets - Competitors(adv/dis) - Resources - Internal Processes - External Agents - Strategic Partners - low cost or diff - broad or narrow group of consumers
Risk Monitoring
OBM
Process Maps
Risk Mitigation
30. Competitive Environment - Management or Employee Improper or Incompetent Actions - Process Breakdowns Within Organization - Inaccurate Processing of Information
Sources of Risk
Components of ARM
Risk Identification
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
31. Planned Detection Risk - Acceptable Audit Risk - Inherent Risk - Control Risk
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Business Process Controls
Process Maps
Components of ARM
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)
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Internal Control attributes
33. Authorization - Independent Checks on Performance - Separation of Duties - Physical Control of Assets and Records - Adequate Documents and Records
Strategies for Managing Risk
Risk Mitigation
Business Process Controls
ERM: Top Down Approach Step 2
34. Industry (competitors - potential entrants - substitutes - suppliers - customers) - Macro environmental Forces (Political - Economic - Social - Technological)
External Threat Analysis
Internal Control auditors
Risk Identification
Acceptable Audit Risk
35. Identifies measures of performance to assess whether process risks are and immediate threat
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
Strategies for Managing Risk
Planned Detection Risk
Risk Monitoring
36. Leadership - integrity - regulatory - technology - financial planning - human resource - operational - information
OBM
Risk Identification
Risk Management Process type
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
37. 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
Internal Control SOA requirements (auditor)
Residual Risks
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
Inherent Risk
38. Assessment of whether a client's internal control structure is effective for preventing and/or detecting errors
ERM: Risk
Sources of Risk
Control Risk
ERM: Top Down Approach Steps per level
39. 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
High Residual Risks
Management controls
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Inherent Risk
40. Organizational Business Models - External Threat Analysis
Planned Detection Risk
Step 1: Strategic Risk Analysis
Step 2: Process Risk Analysis
Internal Control
41. 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
Step 3: Residual Risk Analysis
Residual Risks
Five Elements of Internal Control
Internal Control auditors