Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
The Auditing Profession
- The concept of accountability
- Economic demand for auditing
- Auditing as a monitoring device
- The historical development of auditing practices.
- The demand for auditing and other assurance services
- The CPA profession
- Audit reports
- Professional ethics
- Legal liability
The Audit Process
- Audit responsibilities and objectives
- Audit evidence
- Audit planning and materiality
- Assessing the risk of material misstatement
- Assessing and responding to fraud risks
- Internal control and COSO framework
- Assessing control risk and reporting on internal controls
- Overall audit strategy and audit programme
Application of the Audit Process to the Sales and Collection Cycle
- Tests of controls and substantive tests of transactions
- Audit sampling for tests of controls and substantive tests of tests of transactions
- Completing the tests in the sales and collection cycle: accounts receivable
- Audit sampling for tests of details of balances
Application of the Audit Process to other Cycles
- Audit of the acquisition and payment cycle: tests of controls, substantive tests of transactions, and accounts payable
- Completing the tests in the acquisition and payment cycle: verification of selected accounts
- Audit of the payroll and personnel cycle
- Audit of the inventory and warehousing cycle
- Audit of the capital acquisition and repayment cycle
- Audit of cash and financial instruments
Completing the Audit
- Perform additional tests for presentation and disclosure
- Review for contingent liabilities and commitments
- Review for subsequent events
- Final evidence accumulation
- Evaluate results
- Issue the audit report
- Communicate with the audit committee and management
- Subsequent discovery of facts
