Chapter 6 Financial Auditing Slides
Chapter 6 Financial Auditing Slides
Chapter 6
Audit Responsibilities and
Objectives
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Learning Objectives (1 of 3)
6.1 Explain the objective of conducting an audit of financial
statements and an audit of internal controls
6.2 Distinguish management’s responsibility for the
financial statements from the auditor’s responsibility for
verifying those statements
6.3 Explain the auditor’s responsibility for discovering
material misstatements due to fraud or error
6.4 Describe the need to maintain professional skepticism
when conducting an audit
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Learning Objectives (2 of 3)
6.5 Describe the key elements of an effective professional
judgment process
6.6 Identify the benefits of a cycle approach to segmenting
the audit
6.7 Describe why the auditor obtains assurance by
auditing transactions and ending balances, including
presentation and disclosure
6.8 Distinguish among the management assertions about
financial information
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Learning Objectives (3 of 3)
6.9 Link transaction-related audit objectives to
management assertions for classes of transactions
6.10 Link balance-related audit objectives to management
assertions
6.11 Explain the relationship between audit objectives and
the accumulation of audit evidence
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Management’s Responsibilities
• Management’s responsibility includes:
– Adopting sound accounting policies
– Maintaining adequate internal control
– Making fair representations in the financial statements
– Certifying the quarterly and annual financial
statements
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Let’s Discuss (1 of 6)
• State the objective of the audit of financial statements.
– In general terms, how do auditors meet that objective?
• Describe management’s responsibility for the financial
statements.
– Do you believe the CEO and CFO of a public
company perceive an even greater responsibility as a
result of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act requirement to certify
the financial statements submitted to the SEC?
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Auditor’s Responsibilities (1 of 2)
• The overall objectives of the auditor are to:
– Obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements as a whole are free from material
misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, thereby
enabling the auditor to
Express an opinion on whether the financial
statements are presented fairly, in all material
respects, in accordance with an applicable financial
reporting framework
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Auditor’s Responsibilities (2 of 2)
• The overall objectives of the auditor are to:
– Report on the financial statements, and communicate
as required by auditing standards, in accordance with
the auditor’s findings
• Auditor are also responsible to:
– Detect material unintentional mistakes
– Detect material fraud
– Consider laws and regulations relevant to the client
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Professional Skepticism (1 of 2)
• Audit must be planned and performed with an attitude of
professional skepticism
• Professional skepticism consists of two primary
components:
– A questioning mind
– A critical assessment of the audit evidence
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Professional Skepticism (2 of 2)
• Elements of professional skepticism include:
– Questioning mindset
– Suspension of judgment
– Search for knowledge
– Interpersonal understanding
– Autonomy
– Self-esteem
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Professional Judgment
• Professional skepticism is one component of professional
judgment
• The profession has developed frameworks to assist
auditors in making appropriate judgments during an audit
to make them aware of their own judgment tendencies,
traps, and biases
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Source: Professional Judgment Resource, provided courtesy of the Center for Audit
Quality (2014).
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Source: Professional Judgment Resource, Provided courtesy of the Center for Audit
Quality (2014).
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Let’s Discuss (2 of 6)
• Distinguish between management’s and the auditor’s
responsibility for the financial statements being audited.
• What is the auditor’s responsibility when noncompliance
with laws or regulations is identified or suspected?
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Let’s Discuss (3 of 6)
• What are the six elements of professional skepticism?
– Describe two of those six elements.
• Describe two of the more common judgment traps and
biases.
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Management Assertions
• Management assertions are implied or expressed
representations by management about:
– Classes of transactions and the related accounts and
disclosures in the financial statements and
– They are directly related to the financial reporting
framework used by the company
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PCAOB Assertions
• The PCAOB describes five categories of management
assertions:
– Existence or occurrence
– Completeness
– Valuation or allocation
– Rights and obligations
– Presentation and disclosure
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Let’s Discuss (4 of 6)
• Identify the cycle to which each of the following general
ledger accounts will ordinarily be assigned:
– sales, accounts payable, retained earnings, accounts
receivable, inventory, and repairs and maintenance.
• Distinguish between the general audit objectives and
management assertions.
– Why are the general audit objectives more useful to
auditors?
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• Timing
– Transactions are recorded on the correct dates
• Presentation
– Transactions are appropriately aggregated or
disaggregated and described, and disclosures are
relevant and understandable
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• Existence
– Amounts included exist
• Completeness
– Existing amounts and related disclosures are included
• Accuracy
– Amounts included are stated at the correct amounts,
and disclosures are appropriately measured and
described
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• Cutoff
– Transactions near the balance sheet date are
recorded in the proper period
• Detail tie-in
– Details in the account balance agree with related
master file amounts, foot to the total in the account
balance, and agree with the total in the general ledger
• Realizable value
– Assets are included at the amounts estimated to be
realized
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• Classification
– Amounts included in the client’s listing are properly
classified
• Rights and obligations
– Assets are owned or controlled by the entity, and
liabilities are obligations of the entity
• Presentation
– Amounts are appropriately aggregated or
disaggregated and described, and disclosures are
relevant and understandable
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Let’s Discuss (5 of 6)
• Describe what is meant by the cycle approach to auditing.
What are the advantages of dividing the audit into different
cycles?
• Define what is meant by a management assertion about
financial statements.
– Describe how PCAOB assertions and assertions in
international and AICPA auditing standards are similar
and different.
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Let’s Discuss (6 of 6)
• What are specific audit objectives?
– Explain their relationship to the general audit
objectives.
• Identify the four phases of the audit.
– What is the relationship of the four phases to the
objective of the audit of financial statements?
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