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explain and distinguish the following concepts with clarity:

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  • October 13, 2014 at 3:39 pm #204303
    vivian
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    (a) Audit strategy and audit plan
    (b) Control procedure and audit procedure
    (c) Risk factors and areas of concern
    (d) Test of control and substantive procedures
    (e) System based approach and substantive based approach

    Please help me because i’m not very understand the different between these..
    TQ

    October 13, 2014 at 5:17 pm #204322
    Ken Garrett
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    Audit strtegy/plan: audit strategy is the big plan eg systems based or substantive based. Plan is the detail: how many audit staff, when to do the audit, when report needed by.

    Control procedure: what the client does to establish control eg all overtime payments should be authorised. Autif procedure: what the auditor does to collect evidence about the operation of a control (eg select a sample of overtime claims and ensure each has been authorised by a manager), or substantive tests (such as writing to customers asking them to confirm the balance owing)

    Risk factor = area of concern. Amounts on the FS that are particularly prone to material misstatement and which therefore require more audit work. Eg inventory in a jewellery business.

    TOC/substantive. TOC = testing that a control operates correctly. Eg select a sample of purchase invoice and ensure that each has been cancelled when paid. Substantive test: nothing to do with controls but directly collecting information about a figure eg write to customer to comfirm balances, trace amounts form invoices to nominal ledger to ensure proper classification.

    System based approch: TOC plus limites substantive tests; substantive based approach: no reliance on controls but enhanced substantive testing.

    October 14, 2014 at 2:29 pm #204408
    vivian
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    Thanks for yo reply..

    But i still not very understand about the risk factor and the area of concern..Can u explain further?

    October 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm #204719
    vivian
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    But i still not very understand about the risk factor and the area of concern..Can u explain further?

    October 17, 2014 at 2:59 pm #204722
    Ken Garrett
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    They are the effectively the same. Inventory in a jewellery business is a risk factor because it is very portable, of high value and it is difficult to distinguish diamonds from inferior products. There is a therefore a high risk that jewellery inventory is stolen or misstated.

    Therefore, inventory valuation should be an area of concern for the auditor.

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