Case Study: The Audit Senior

Describe how you would conduct the audit process, incorporating the analytical procedures you would use to investigate selected business transactions?

1. There are numerous differences between performing a review and actual audit on the financial statements, but the major one is that the review does not contemplate obtaining an understanding of internal control structure. Also, a review does not assess control risk, tests of accounting records and responses to inquiries by obtaining corroborating evidence through inspection, observation or any other audit procedure. It can point out significant matters of the financial statements but does not provide assurance of their accuracy. The issue with ZZZZ Best case is that the auditors review was not sufficient enough to review any misstatements on the financial statements. Ernst & Whinney never questioned the internal control, reviewed

The Auditor by James K. Loebbecke tells a story about the life and career of an auditor named Jack Butler. The book shows Jack’s career from his education all the way to his promotion to partner. Loebbecke designed this story about Jack as a teaching tool to give students an understanding about the life of an auditor.

Dave is responsible for auditing separations and processing overpayments for 26 agencies including Human Services, State Police, and Military and Veterans Affairs. He consistently meets established deadlines while producing quality results and providing exceptional customer service to his agencies.

You are the internal audit senior responsible for conducting an assurance engagement of the XYZ Company payroll process. This process has not been audited for three years and, as such, is due in the normal audit cycle. There have been no significant changes since the previous audit, that is, there were no system changes, no reorganization of personnel, and no substantive procedural changes. However, during the last assurance engagement, the internal audit function identified several observations, some of which were considered significant. The significant observations related to:

Introduction A clinical audit is an approach used to determine if healthcare is administered in the most effective and appropriate manner whilst meeting internationally recognized standards. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)(1) recently updated published standards of care for management of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB). The medical records of eighty-seven patients who presented with an upper gastrointestinal bleed over a three month period from December 2013 to February 2014 to the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH) were audited. Results showed that recommendations in the NICE guidelines were followed accordingly. Acute upper gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB) can be defined as bleeding from a source (duodenum,

Governments must not, however, accept uncritically the claims from the industry that any constraint on profits will threaten truly valuable innovation. However, new drug developments that lead to improvements in health outcomes are valuable to society and truly innovative drugs should be appropriately rewarded. (Mossialos)

An intangible asset is an identifiable, non-monetary asset that has no physical presence. IAS 38 states that an intangible asset should be recognized initially at cost if some criteria are met such as the following:

Employees Trainers Auditors Coverage % 30% 25% 25% 20% 20% 20% 15% 10% 10% 10% 10% Auditees Training Hrs 64 80 96 112 128 160 192 384 576 768 928 Auditor Prep./ Follow-up Time per Auditee 90 150 225 240

The improvement of its operational efficiency through the industrialisation of processes and the pooling of resources The development of internal synergies Attracting talents and developing best practices in terms of management A constant and reinforced vigilance on risk control

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However, the auditor must perform direct tests of application controls in order to assess control risk below a high level.

to last year’s audit. Some accounts seem to need adjusting just by analyzing the analytical procedures and looking at the audit from last year to this year. Some significant accounts include accounts receiable, allowance for doubtful accounts, bad debt expense and sales.

* Objectiviteit (Het niet toelaten dat het professioneel of zakelijk oordeel van de accountant wordt aangetast door een vooroordeel, belangentegenstelling of ongepaste beïnvloeding door een derde.).

A significant-amount, $975000, has been capitalised during-year in relation to costs arising on-development of new cool-top product-range. This represents 9•3% of total assets. Risk of inappropriately-capitalised, as IAS 38 Intangible Assets only permits capitalisation of development costs as an internally generated intangible asset when certain criteria have been met. There is a risk that non-current assets and operating-profit are overstated-by $975000. As criteria-have not been met, market-research does not demonstrate that new product will generate a future economic-benefit. There is also a risk that inappropriate-expenses, such as amortisation-cost needs to add back. Significant risk, write off intangible-asset, profit for year is $1553500, and retained-earnings will also be low.