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