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UNDERSTANDINGTHEENTITY
Questions
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The purpose of the team meeting on fraud risk is designed to allow the more
experienced team members to share insights and exchange ideas about how and
where the entitys financial statements might be susceptible to material
misstatement due to fraud, to discuss how to design appropriate tests to detect
the misstatements, and to emphasize the importance of maintaining the proper
degree of professional skepticism regarding the possibility of fraud.
4.
During the planning process, the auditors make preliminary estimates of both
risk and materiality for the engagement. The auditors must plan their
engagements to reduce the audit risk of issuing an unqualified opinion on
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5.
(a) Auditors must obtain an understanding of the client and its environment in
order to determine whether the client should be accepted and to plan the
audit. This understanding encompasses the following:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
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During the tour of the client's plant facilities, Sison inspects all inventory areas
and makes note of the location, types, security, "housekeeping," and general
condition of the inventories. He also visits the receiving and shipping
departments and reviews the types of documents maintained. His observations
in these areas enable him to form a preliminary impression of the adequacy of
internal controls for inventories, and possible problems with respect to obsolete
or slow-moving inventories. He also can begin formulating plans for staffing
and carrying out the physical inventory observation.
Sisons observation of the productive processes will acquaint him with the
client's physical plant facilities and layout, the nature of the products and
computer applications employed in the production process. He may also obtain
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8.
(a) Shin may respond to fraud risks in the following three ways:
(1)
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a
d
d
d
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10.
d
d
d
d
d
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Cases
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