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Audit and Assurance: Procedures for Obtaining Audit Evidence

   

Added on  2023-06-07

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AUDIT AND ASSURANCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

Question 1
(a)
(i)
Analytical procedure: This is used to gather audit evidence related to account balance via
comparison.
Inquiry: This is used to gather audit evidence related to unusual balance or information vial
seeking explanation from the management.
Inspection: This is used to get assurance on the account balance or transaction via reviewing
internal and external documents.
Observation: It is used to observe the real business process and its risk through observing and
comparing reported figures.
Recalculation: In this, auditor re-perform certain calculations to check accuracy of that
calculations (DRAFT, 2019).
(ii)
Examples
Analytical procedure: comparing sales of £5.2 million with last year.
Inquiry: Seeking management explanation on no receivables within Modern World.
Inspection: Inspecting sales invoice, goods dispatched notes and payment receipt to ensure
recorded revenue of Modern World are free from material misstatement.
Observation: Observing the sales figure through extended audit procedure.
Recalculation: Recalculating the number of cuddly toys available for sales.
(b)
Suitability and limitation of following procedure:
Analytical procedure: It is suitable for detecting a misstatement in financial statement. The
limitation of analytical procedure is that it is useless for reviewing financial statement during the
year.
Inquiry: The inquiry procedure is suitable for comparing the trends, revenue of the company
with past figures. The limitation of enquiry is that there is no guaranteed that management
provide true information while inquiry (Kumari and et.al., 2019).

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