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What is relevance

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information that is useful in the audit of a company

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what is reliability

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Information that will not confuse investors

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What is assertion

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claim business owners make that states financial information is accurate

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What is an example of an agent

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Managers

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What is an example of principals

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Stockholders

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Information Asymmetry

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imbalance between two negotiating parties in their knowledge of relevant details (Agents vs principals.)

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Factors affecting demand for information

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Complexity, information in a timely manner, information for remote people, reliability

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Occurence

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transactions and events have been recorded or disclosed have occured

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Completeness (transactions)

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transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded

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Authorization

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All transactions have been properly authorized

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Accuracy

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amounts an other data relating to recorded transactions and events have been recorded appropriately

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Cutoff

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transactions and events have been recorded in correct accounting period

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classification

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transactions and events have been recorded in proper accounts

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presentation

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transactions and events are appropriately aggregated or disaggregated and clearly described

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Existence

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Assets, liabilities, and equity acutally exists

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Rights and Obligations

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the entity holds or controls the rights to assets, and liabilities are obligations of entity

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completeness (Accounts)

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all assets, liabilities, and equity interests that should have been recorded are recorded

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Valuation and allocation

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assets, liabilities, and equity interests are included in the financial statements at the appropriate amounts

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Accuracy, valuation, allocation

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assets, liabilities, and equity have been included in financial statements in proper amounts

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Classification

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Assets, liabilities, and equity have been recorded in proper accounts

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Presentation

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Assets, liabilities, and equity interests are appropriately aggregated and disaggregated and clearly described

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Auditing

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systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertion, about economic actions and events to ascertain the degrees of correspondence between assertions and established criteria and communicating results to users

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Materiality

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magnitude of an omission or misstatement of information that makes a potential investor change there mind

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Audit Risk

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Risk the auditor expresses, an inappropriate audit opinion when the financial statements are materially misstated

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Reasonable Assurance
implies some risk that a material misstatement could be present in the financial statements and the competent auditor will fail to detect it
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Audit evidence
consists of underlying accounting information or external information to the auditor
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Sufficient
Quantity of evidence
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Appropriateness
is evidence relevant and reliable
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Unqualified Opinion
Statements are free from material misstatements, so auditor does not need to qualify his opinion on company
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Qualified
Statements presented are fair EXCEPT for the misstatement found
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Adverse
statements are not presented fairly and should not be relied upon
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Disclaimer
not possible to express an opinion on the fairness of financial statements
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Four sections of CPA
auditing and attestation, business environment and concepts, financial accounting and reporting, regulation
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1887
AICPA is established
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Revenue Acts (1913/1918)
increased importance of accounting
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1932
Kreuger and Toll ponzi scheme exposed
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1933/1934
SEC established, audits are required
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1990's-2000's
Huge frauds (WorldCom, Enron), Arthur Anderson collapses, confidence in auditing is ruined
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SOX
Regulation of audit profession, PCAOB created
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SOX Implications
CEO/CFO certification of, statements, audit of internal controls, PCAOB, prohibition of certain not audit services
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Who is responsible for internal controls and fairness of financial statements
Management
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Corporate Governance
Board of directors mostly, then subgroup of audit committee
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Five Business Components
Revenue process, financing process, purchasing process, human resources, inventory
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ASB
Accounting standards board- nonpublic company audits
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PCAOB
public company accounting oversight board- public company audits
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ASB's auditing standards
Purpose, responsibilities, performance, reporting
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Ethics
system or code of conducts based on moral duties and obligations that indicate how we should behave
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professionalism
conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize a profession or professional person
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Utilitarian approach
decision making involves trade offs between the benefits and burdens of alternative actions and focuses on consequences and on individuals affected
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Rights Based Approach
requires recognition that individuals have certain rights and other individuals have a duty to respect those rights when making decisions
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Justice based approach
is concern with issues such as equity, fairness, and impartiality
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Responsibilities
exercise sensitive professional and moral judgements in all activities
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Public Interest
accept the obligation to act in a way that will serve the public interest, honor the public interest
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integrity
maintain and broaden public confidence, members should perform all professional responsibilities with the highest sense of integrity
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objectivity and independence
maintain objectivity and be free of conflicts in discharging professional responsibilities
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Due care
member should observe the profession's technical and ethical standard and continue to improve
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scope and nature of services
should observe the principles of the code of conduct in determine scope and nature of services provided
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Covered members
individual on the attest engagement team, position to influence the attest engagement, partner or equivalent or manager who provides more than 10 hours non-attest service's to client, partner or equivalent in the office in which lead attest engagement practices, firm including firms employee benefit plan, entity whos' operating, financial, or accounting policies can be controlled by any individuals entities if they act together
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Prohibited Financial Relationships
Direct and material indirect
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direct
financial interest that is owned directly by an individual or entity or is under the control of an individual or entity
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material indirect
may result when a covered member has a associate financial interest in an entity associated with an attest entity.
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Prohibited business relationships
CPA performs a managerial or other significant role for an entity's organization. CPA leaves firm and is employed by firm in key position
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Family Rules
Spouse is covered, children is covered (immediate family is CPA). Other family members impair if have financial interest and CPA knows or has close relationship
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Litigation
Instantly indicates impaired indipendence
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Four basic principles of objectivity
auditor should not audit own work, auditor should not function as management, auditor should not advocate, should not have mutual or conflicting interest
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General standards rule
professional competence, due professional care, planning, sufficient relevant data
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