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Significant Risk in Auditing and Assurance

   

Added on  2023-01-04

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Running head: AUDITING AND ASSURANCE
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1AUDITING AND ASSURANCE
Significant risk is the assessed and identified risk owing to material misstatement that
requires special consideration of audit in accordance with the judgement of the auditors.
Risks of the material misstatement are assessed at – (i) assertion level and (ii) financial
statement level (Knechel and Salterio 2016)
Looking into the balance sheet of NAB, that provides banking solutions including
accounts, insurance, finance, credit cards personal loans and home loans for the year ended
3oth June 2018, accounts which are seemed to be at significant risk are –
1. Cash and cash balances with other bank
Cash and cash equivalents are always exposed to material misstatement due to its
liquid nature irrespective of the amounts involved with it. Cash is considered as at significant
risk as it can be embezzled, stolen or misstated if the internal control is not sufficient.
Further, the cash balance is associated with one major issue that is recording at proper
amount in the financial statement after reconciling the same with the bank account
(Capital.nab.com.au 2019). NAB records cash and liquid assets and the amounts due from
other banks that are readily convertible into cash within the period of 3 months under cash
and balances with other banks. As the cash is highly liquid, it is exposed significant risk of
changing the value (Brown-Liburd and Vasarhelyi 2015)
2. Deposits and other borrowings
Deposits and other borrowings involved the largest amount of obligation for NAB and
hence, it is at significant risk by the amount involved. While auditing debt, significant risk
can be involved regarding its classification if the covenant violations take place. Another
significant risk that can be involved with this item is that for inflating equity borrowing may
not be reported in the balance sheet or under-reported (Antipova 2016).

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