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Auditing and Assurance in Australia

   

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Running head: AUDITING AND ASSURANCE IN AUSTRALIAAuditing and Assurance in AustraliaName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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AUDITING AND ASSURANCE IN AUSTRALIA2Executive summaryThe present discussion deals with the illustration that directs the responsibilities of theassessors of the corporation listed under the ASX to properly communicate key audit mattersaccording to the ASA 701. However, in the mechanism for determining the key audit matters,the evaluators of the companies have the requirement to establish from the communicatedmatters with the specific ones charged with liability of governance of the companies. Thestandard of ASA 315 is referred to in the discussion for the identification and evaluation ofthe risks of material misstatement with the help of understanding the particular business andentity environment.
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AUDITING AND ASSURANCE IN AUSTRALIA3Table of ContentsExecutive summary....................................................................................................................2Introduction................................................................................................................................4Background................................................................................................................................4The key audit matters that are disclosed in the annual report include the following:................6-Impairment of particularly goodwill and other intangible assets: Audit procedures................7Research on accounting strategies as well as policies:..............................................................8Evaluation of financial announcement of selected corporations................................................8Significance of assessment of audit risk....................................................................................8The process in which it can be linked with the financial statement of the chosen Companiesunder the ASX limited...............................................................................................................9The importance of business risk in the Audit Plan....................................................................9Processes that can be performed by an assessor in order to analyse the risk...........................10Significant rise of internal control to a specific organisation and to the independent auditors..................................................................................................................................................10Material misstatement risk:......................................................................................................11Going concern Considerations.................................................................................................12Analysing business entities as well as business environment..................................................13Recommendation and conclusion............................................................................................14References................................................................................................................................14
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AUDITING AND ASSURANCE IN AUSTRALIA4IntroductionAs the title recommends the current report orients around evaluation of the newlydeveloped auditing standard that is to say, communicating key audit matters in particularlyindependent assessors’ report. The current report explains in detail regarding the auditing ruleASA 701 that proposes about regulations as regards communication of various key auditmatters principally in independent announcements of the assessors. The auditing directiveunder consideration is the ASA 701 that specifies about “Communicating Key Audit Matters”in the Independent Audit Report is primarily designed at the setting of international financialcrisis. The current study takes into account operations of firms operating in the retailsegment. The firms include Wesfarmers, Woolworths, Jb hifi, Bapcor ltd, Speciality fashiongroup, Webjet ltd, Whitehawk, Myer holding ltd, OROTONGROUP LIMITED andTEMPLE & WEBSTER GROUP LTD. BackgroundThe present section accomplishes elaborate analysis of financial crisis and theassociated liability of the evaluators. The period of different monetary instability cannecessarily aid in understanding varied notions associated to crisis. Fundamentally, there ismanifestation of different challenges specifically from economic, political together withsocial environment. Alzeban and Sawan (2015) suggests that worldwide economic crisis talksabout tension, disorder together with critical assessment that necessarily gets manifested inthe entire community. Therefore, financial crisis discusses about demonstration of diversefinancial crisis that again replicates distrusts in financial framework, considerable decline indealings of stock exchange along with disorders of the market transactions.
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