Contemporary Auditing
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ISBN: 9781337650380
Author: KNAPP
Publisher: Cengage
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Audit situations 1 through 10 present various independent factual situations an auditor might encounter in conducting an audit. List A represents the types of opinions the auditor ordinarily would issue, and List B represents the report modifications (if any) that would be necessary. For each situation, select one response from List A and one from List B. Select, as the best answer for each item, the action the auditor normally would take. Items from either list may be selected once, more than once, or not at all.
Assume the following:
The auditor is independent
The auditor previously expressed an unqualified opinion on the prior-year financial statements unless otherwise noted
Only single-year (not comparative) statements are presented for the current year (unless otherwise stated)
The conditions for an unqualified opinion exist unless contradicted in the factual scenario
The conditions stated in the factual scenario are material
No report modifications are to be made except in…
Match five of the items (a-i) with the definitions provided below (1-5):
Audit programs
Audit procedures
Audit objectives
Analytical procedures
Budgets
Competence of evidence
Relevance if evidence
Persuasiveness of evidence
Sufficiency of evidence
_______1. The pertinence of the evidence to the audit objective being tested
_______2 Detailed instructions for the collection of a type of audit evidence.
_______3. Written records of the client’s expectations for the period.
_______4. Detailed instructions for the entire collection of evidence.
_______5. The degree to which the auditor is convinced that the evidence supports the audit opinion
Assume that items 1–8 are situations that Blas, CPA, has encountered during his audit of GELAY, Inc., a private company.
List A represents the types of opinions the auditor ordinarily would issue, and List B represents a portion of the needed report modifications — whether an additional paragraph will be included. For each situation, select one response from List A and one (1) from List B. Select the best answers for each item the action the auditor would normally take. The types of opinions in List A and the report modifications in List B may be selected once, more than once, or not at all.
Assume the following:
The auditor is
The auditor previously expressed an unmodified opinion on the prior year’s financial
Only single-year (not comparative) statements are presented for the current
The conditions for an unmodified opinion exist unless contradicted by the
The conditions stated in the items to be answered are material, unless otherwise
Each item to be answered is independent of the…
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