AUDITING & ASSURANCE SERVICES CONNECT AC
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.27P
To determine
Introduction: While planning a financial statement audit, audit risk and audit components must be understood by the auditor so that he can plan all the necessary
To select:The most directly illustrated component of audit risk with respect to the given illustration.
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The auditor should consider audit risk when planning and performing an audit of financial statements. Audit risk should also be considered together in determining the nature, timing, and extent of auditing procedures and in evaluating the results of those procedures.
Required:
a. Define audit risk
b. Describe the components of audit risk (e.g., inherent risk, control risk, and detection risk).
c. Explain how these components are interrelated
its components. The firm of Pack & Peck evaluates the risk of material isstate-
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4-27 When planning a financial statement audit, a CPA must understand au sk
its components. The firm of Pack & Peck evaluates the risk of materiai
ment (RMM) by disaggregating RMM into its two components: inherentisk and
control risk.
Required:
For each illustration, select the component of audit risk that is most directly illus-
trated. The components of audit risk may be used once, more than once, or not at all
Components of Audit Risk:
a. Control risk
b. Detection risk
c. Inherent risk
Component
of Audit Risk
Illustration
1. A client fails to discover employee fraud on a timely basis because bank accounts
are not reconciled monthly.
2. Cash is more susceptible to theft than an inventory of coal.
3. Confirmation of receivables by an auditor fails to detect a material misstatement.
4. Disbursements have occurred without proper approval.
5. There is inadequate segregation of duties.
6. A…
The auditor should consider audit risk when planning and performing an audit of financial statements. Audit risk should also be
considered together in determining the nature, timing, and extent of auditing procedures and in evaluating the results of those
procedures.
Required:
a. Define audit risk.
b. Describe the components of audit risk (e.g., inherent risk, control risk, and detection risk).
c. Explain how these components are interrelated.
(AICPA, adapted)
Chapter 4 Solutions
AUDITING & ASSURANCE SERVICES CONNECT AC
Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.1RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.2RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.3RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.4RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.5RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.6RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.7RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.8RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.9RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.10RQ
Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.11RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.12RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.13MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.14MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.15MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.16MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.17MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.18MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.19MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.20MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.21MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.22MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.23PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.24PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.25PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.26PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.27PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.28PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.29PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.30PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.31PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.32P
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