AUDITING & ASSURANCE SERVICES CONNECT AC
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Chapter 18, Problem 18.17MCQ
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Audit report includes the opinion of the auditor on the financial statements. Auditors provide their opinions based on the audit evidences obtained during the
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When comparative financial statements are presented but the predecessor auditor's report is not presented, the current auditor should do which of the following in the audit report?
a.
Disclaim an opinion on the prior year's financial statements.
b.
Identify the predecessor auditor who audited the financial statements of the prior year.
c.
Indicate the type of opinion expressed by the predecessor auditor.
d.
Make no comment with respect to the predecessor audit.
e.
Include a KAM paragraph that indicates the refusal by the predecessor auditor to re-issue the prior-year opinion.
When financial statements are presented in comparative form and another firm audited the prior years’ financial statements (but the other firm’s report is not presented with the financial statements), the auditors’ report on the current-year financial statements shoulda. Disclaim an opinion on the prior years’ financial statements.b. Not refer to the prior years’ financial statements.c. Refer to any procedures performed by the current auditor to verify the opinion on the prior years’ financial statements.d. Refer to the report and type of opinion issued by the other firm on the prior years’ financial statements.
How is the auditors’ responsibility for expressing the opinion on financial statements disclosed in the standard (unmodified) report for a nonpublic company?a. Stated explicitly in the Auditor’s Responsibility section.b. Unstated but understood in the Auditor’s Responsibility section.c. Stated explicitly in the opinion paragraph.d. Stated explicitly in the introductory paragraph.
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