ACCO 450 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trial Balance, Inverse Relation, Precession

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Materiality calculation: 5-10%: income before income tax, 0. 5-5%: gross pro t, 0. 5-1%: total assets, 0. 5-5%: s/h equity, 0. 5-2%: revenues (sales) Audit risk: probability that auditor will fail to nd a material misstatement that exists in an account balance. Relation between materiality & audit risk: materiality refers to magnitude of misstatements while audit risk refers to. Probability of undiscovered misstatements to the desired assurance that material misstatements do not exist. Auditors make these assessments independently through the use of: professional judgements, knowledge of clients f/s users, knowledge of industry, result of previous audits. Both deal with suf ciency of evidence & extent of audit evidence collected. Inspections: consist of examining records & documents or looking at assets with physical substance. Vouching: auditor selects sample of nancial information items from an account. & goes backwards to the accounting & controls system to nd & examine source of documentation supporting supporting items. Grave to cradle: assertions testing: existence, occurrence not recorded.

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