In: Accounting
How do you think an auditor should determine the reliability of potential audit evidence? You may wish to provide an example of what you think is reliable audit evidence.
Audit evidence is the information which is used by the auditors to arrive to the conclusions on the basis of which, he may provide his opinions and present the financial statements of the company. To verify if the evidence collected are correct and fully satisfying, they must be collected from a reliable source.
The reliability of audit evidence is influenced by its source and its nature and also depends on the circumstances under which they were obtained.
The reliability of audit evidence can be checked in the following ways:
The examples of audit evidence are checks, invoices, general and
subsidiary ledgers, worksheets, minutes of
meetings, confirmations from third parties, analysts' reports.