Olivia Kirtley is an internal auditor in a small manufacturing
company’s internal audit function. She recently completed a
continuing professional education (CPE) course on statistical
sampling. She applied her newly gained knowledge in the audit she
is assigned. She used attribute sampling when she performed the
test of controls over the company’s procurement transactions.
Olivia figured that a tolerable deviation rate of 10 percent and
a 5 percent risk of assessing control risk too low were appropriate
for the tests...
Contrast and compare the role of the following: The internal
auditor. The external auditor. The external forensic accounting
consultant in an external audit.
Do not use a previous posted answer.
1. How is the work of an internal auditor different from that of
an external auditor (financial statements)?
2. What are the similarities and differences between the ethical
codes?
The following is an audit procedure that an auditor performs
relating to the financial report audit of a client. Identify the
broad category of audit test that is performed for the audit
procedure. (Hint: The possible answers would include test of
control, substantive test of ..., etc.) Examine creditor statement
reconciliation for a sample of suppliers with whom the client had
done business during the year
The following is an audit procedure that an auditor performs
relating to the financial report audit of a client.
State the most appropriate assertion which is being tested by
the audit procedure.
Note: No marks will be given if more than one category of
assertion is answered.
Examine a sample of duplicate sales invoices to determine
whether each one has a shipping document attached.
Match the terms as they relate to internal control and/or
auditor reporting on internal control with the best description.
Replies may be used more than once.
List of terms:
Adverse opinion
As of date
Complementary control
Control Deficiency
Detective control
Material weakness
None of the options apply
Preventive Control
Section 302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act
Significant deficiency
1.
A control deficiency that allows more than a remote possibility
of material misstatement
2.
A control deficiency that allows more than...