AUDTHEO THEO TB Flashcards
(36 cards)
Which of the following is the most appropriate action to be taken by a CPA who has been asked to
perform a consulting services engagement concerning the analysis of a potential merger if he/she
has little experience with the industry involved?
a. Accept the engagement but he/she should conduct research or consult with others to obtain sufficient competence.
b. Decline the engagement because he/she lacks sufficient knowledge.
c. Accept the engagement and issue a report that contains his/her opinion on the achievability of
the results of the merger.
d. Accept the engagement and perform it in accordance with Philippine Standards in Auditing
(PSAs).
Accept the engagement but he/she should conduct research or consult with others to obtain sufficient competence.
Governmental auditing often extends beyond examinations leading to the expression of opinion on
the fairness of financial presentation and includes audits of efficiency, economy, effectiveness, and
also
a. Accuracy
b. Compliance
c. Evaluation
d. Internal Control
Compliance
The term “efficiency” in performance auditing refers to
a. Using resources to maximize output for a given input, or to minimize input for any given
quantity and quality of output.
b. The achievement of intended results of operations, programs or activities.
c. The achievement of objectives within a specified time frame.
d. The acquisition of resources at appropriate times and within a specified time frame
Using resources to maximize output for a given input, or to minimize input for any given
quantity and quality of output.
Which of the following statements is not true in respect of internal auditor?
a. The scope of audits performed by the internal auditor is primarily in respect of financial
report audits.
b. An internal auditor does not require a license to practice.
c. Internal auditors are usually employed by companies and government units.
d. Primary responsibility of the internal auditor is to the board of directors.
The scope of audits performed by the internal auditor is primarily in respect of financial
report audits.
The internal auditing department’s responsibility for deterring fraud is to
a. Establish an effective internal control system.
b. Maintain internal control.
c. Examine and evaluate the system of internal control.
d. Exercise operating authority over fraud prevention activities.
Examine and evaluate the system of internal control.
In conducting an appraisal of the economy and efficiency with which company resources are used,
an internal auditor’s responsibility is to
a. Verify the accuracy of asset valuation.
b. Review the reliability of operating information.
c. Verify the existence of assets.
d. Determine whether operating standards have been established
Determine whether operating standards have been established
Internal auditors should review the means of physically safeguarding assets from losses arising
from
a. Exposure to the elements.
b. Underusage of physical facilities.
c. Misapplication of accounting principles.
d. Procedures that are not cost justified.
Exposure to the elements.
What is the proper organizational role of internal auditing?
a. To serve as an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity that adds value to operations.
b. To assist the external auditor in order to reduce external audit fees.
c. To perform studies to assist in the attainment of more efficient operations.
d. To serve as the investigative arm of the audit committee of the board of directors
To serve as an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity that adds value to operations.
Which of the following can be significantly affected by a financial statement audit?
a. Business Risk
b. Information Risk
c. Inherent Risk
d. The risk-free interest rate
Information Risk
Which of the following activities would generally account for a significant proportion of an internal
auditor’s time?
a. Checking the company is complying with all of its rules and regulations of operation.
b. Verifying all invoices before payment is made.
c. Ensuring the company is operating within budget.
d. Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of all phases of an entity’s operations
Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of all phases of an entity’s operations
Which of the following actions would be an appropriate response by companies to improve the
public’s perception of their financial reporting?
a. Increased adoption of audit committees.
b. Keeping external and internal auditing work separated to maintain independence.
c. Requiring internal auditors to report all significant findings of fraud and illegal activity to the
company president.
d. None of the above.
Increased adoption of audit committees.
The internal auditing profession has advanced primarily as a result of
a. Increased interest by BSA graduates and experienced auditors.
b. Job qualification specifications that include added emphasis on background knowledge
and skills.
c. The limitation of financial statement audit scope.
d. Increased complexity and sophistication of business operations.
Increased complexity and sophistication of business operations.
Which of the following factors would most likely cause an auditor to decline a new audit
engagement?
a. Concluding that the entity’s new management probably lacks integrity.
b. An inability to perform preliminary analytical procedures before assessing control risk.
c. An inadequate understanding of the entity’s internal control.
d. The close proximity to the end of the entity’s reporting period.
Concluding that the entity’s new management probably lacks integrity.
Before accepting an engagement to audit a new client, an auditor is required to:
a. Obtain a copy of the client’s financial statements.
b. Prepare a memorandum setting forth the staffing requirements and documenting the preliminary
audit plan.
c. Make inquiries of the predecessor auditor after obtaining consent of the prospective
client.
d. Discuss the management representation letter with the client’s audit committee
Make inquiries of the predecessor auditor after obtaining consent of the prospective
client.
Which of the following conditions most likely would pose the greater risk in accepting a new audit engagement?
a. There will be a client-imposed scope limitation.
b. The client’s financial reporting system has been in place for 10 years.
c. The firm will have to hire an expert in one audit area.
d. Staff will need to be rescheduled to cover this new client.
There will be a client-imposed scope limitation.
The auditor faces a risk that the audit will not detect material misstatements in the financial statements. In regard to minimizing this risk, the auditor primarily
relies on:
a. Internal control.
b. Tests of controls.
c. Substantive procedures.
d. Statistical analysis.
Substantive procedures
The most difficult type of misstatement to detect is fraud based on
a. The over recording of transactions.
b. Related-party receivables.
c. Recorded transactions in subsidiaries.
d. The nonrecording of transactions.
The nonrecording of transactions.
Which of the following conditions identified during the audit increases the risk of employee fraud?
a. Inventory items of small size, but high value.
b. Existence of a mandatory vacation policy for employees performing key functions.
c. Presence of reconciling items on a client prepared year-end proof of cash.
d. Large amounts of cash in the bank.
Inventory items of small size, but high value.
An abnormal fluctuation in gross profit that might suggest the need for extended audit procedures for sales and inventories would most likely be identified in the planning phase of the audit by the use of:
a. Analytical procedures.
b. Tests of transactions and balances.
c. Specialized audit programs.
d. An assessment of internal control.
Analytical procedures.
- f believes that an understanding with the client has not been established, he or she should
ordinarily
a. Perform the audit with increase professional skepticism.
b. Decline to accept or perform the audit.
c. Assess control risk at the maximum level and perform a primarily substantive audit.
d. Modify the scope of the audit to reflect an increased risk of material misstatement due to fraud. - An auditor should design the written audit program so that
a. All material transactions will be selected for substantive testing.
b. Substantive tests prior to the balance sheet date will be minimized.
c. The audit procedures selected will achieve specific audit objectives.
d. Each account balance will be tested under either tests of controls or tests of transactions. - Which of the following fraudulent activities most likely could be perpetrated due to the lack of
effective internal controls in the revenue cycle?
a. Fictitious transactions may be recorded that cause an understatement of revenues and
overstatement of receivables.
b. Claim received from customers for goods returned may be intentionally recorded in other
customer’s accounts.
c. Authorization of credit memos by personnel who receive cash may permit the misappropriation
of cash.
d. The failure to prepare shipping documents may cause an overstatement of inventory balances. - Accepting an engagement to examine an entity’s financial projection most likely would be
appropriate if the projection were to be distributed to
a. All employees who work for the entity.
b. Potential stockholders who request a prospectus or a registration statement.
c. A bank with which the entity is negotiating for a loan.
d. All stockholders of record as of the report date. - In assessing control risk for purchases, an auditor vouches a sample of entries in the voucher
register to the supporting documents. Which assertion would this test of controls most likely support?
a. Completeness
c. Valuation or allocation
b. Existence or occurrence
d. Rights and obligations
- Decline to accept or perform the audit.
- The audit procedures selected will achieve specific audit objectives.
- Authorization of credit memos by personnel who receive cash may permit the misappropriation
of cash. - A bank with which the entity is negotiating for a loan.
- Existence or occurrence
According to Section 9(A) of the IRR, the Commission upon the recommendation of the Board,
shall create an auditing standard setting body to be known as the
a. Auditing and Assurance Standards Council (AASC)
b. Auditing Standards and Practices Council (ASPC)
c. Auditing Standards Board (ASB)
d. Auditing Standards Council (ASC)
a. Auditing and Assurance Standards Council (AASC)
24.The auditor’s risk assessment procedures should always include the following, except
a. Inquiries of management and of others within the entity
b. Analytical procedures
c. Observation and inspection
d. Substantive test procedures and tests of controls
25.The auditor’s risk assessment procedures
a. By themselves, do not provide sufficient appropriate audit evidence on which to base the audit
opinion
b. Should not consider information obtained from the auditor’s previous experience with entity
c. Are designed to detect material misstatement at the assertion level of classes of transactions,
account balances and disclosures
d. Are designed to test the effectiveness of the entity’s controls
26.Which of the following statements concerning audit risk and its components is incorrect?
a. Regardless of the assessed levels of inherent and control risks, the auditor should always
perform some substantive procedures for material account balances and classes of
transactions
b. The higher the assessment of inherent and control risks, the more evidence the auditor should
obtain from the performance of substantive procedures
c. The assessed level of inherent risk need not be considered in determining the nature, timing,
and extent of substantive procedures required to reduce audit risk to an acceptably low level
d. After obtaining an understanding of the accounting and internal control systems, the auditor
should make a preliminary assessment of control risk, at the assertion level, for each material account balance or class of transactions
- Substantive test procedures and tests of controls
25.By themselves, do not provide sufficient appropriate audit evidence on which to base the audit
opinion - The assessed level of inherent risk need not be considered in determining the nature, timing,
and extent of substantive procedures required to reduce audit risk to an acceptably low level
28.An entity’s internal control system contains manual elements and often contains automated
elements. Manual elements in internal control may be less reliable than automated elements
because
a. Manual control elements can be more easily bypassed, ignored, or overridden and they also
more prone to simple errors and mistakes
b. Manual control elements facilitate the additional analysis of information
c. Consistency of application of manual control elements can always be assumed
d. Manual control elements include reliance on systems or programs that are inaccurately
processing data, processing inaccurate date, or both
29.Which of the following components of an entity’s internal control includes development and use of
training policies that communicate prospective roles and responsibilities to employees?
a. Monitoring of controls
c. Control environment
b. Control activities
d. Information and communication
30. Control activities relate to the following, except
a. Segregation of duties
b. Performance reviews
c. An internal audit function
d. Authorization
31.Internal control should be designed to provide reasonable assurance that
a. Management’s planning, organizing, and directing processes are properly evaluated
b. Management’s plans have not been circumvented by employee collusion
c. Material errors or fraud will be prevented, or detected and corrected within a timely period by
employees in the course of performing their assigned duties
d. The internal auditing department’s guidance and oversight of management’s performance is
accomplished economically and efficiently
- Manual control elements can be more easily bypassed, ignored, or overridden and they also
more prone to simple errors and mistakes - Control environment
- An internal audit function
- Material errors or fraud will be prevented, or detected and corrected within a timely period by
employees in the course of performing their assigned duties
34 The establishment of an overall audit strategy involves
I. Determining the characteristics of the engagement that define its scope
II. Ascertaining the reporting objectives of the engagement to plan the timing of the audit and the
nature of the communications required
III. Considering the important factors that will determine the focus of the engagement team’s
efforts.
a. I and II only c. I and III only
b. II and III only
d. I, II and III
35.Which of the following should be included in the audit plan?
I. The nature, timing and extent of planned risk assessment procedures, as determined under
PAS 315 (Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatements trough Understanding
the Entity and its Environment)
II. The nature, timing and extent of planned further audit procedures at the assertion level, as
determined under PSA 330 (The Auditor’s Responses to Assessed Risks)
b. I only
c. Both I and II
c. II only
d. Neither I nor II
36.Which of the following matters would an auditor most likely consider when establishing the scope
of the audit?
a. The expected audit coverage, including the number and locations of the entity’s components to
be included
b. The entity’s timetable for r4epoting, such as at interim and final stages
c. The discussion with the status of audit work throughout the engagement and the expected
deliverables resulting from the audit procedures
d. Audit areas where there is a higher risk of material misstatement
- I, II and III
- Both I and II
- The expected audit coverage, including the number and locations of the entity’s components to
be included