What is the objective of an assurance engagement?
Well objective of every assurance engagement can be understood if we understand the elements of an assurance engagement. So let’s first of all understand the connection between three parties and what each do. Stakeholders like owner, employees, creditors, lenders and many other need financial information regarding financial performance and financial position of the business for […]
What is Inherent risk?
Inherent risk has been defined in the standards as follows: The susceptibility of an assertion about a class of transaction, account balance or disclosure to a misstatement that could be material, either individually or when aggregated with other misstatements, before consideration of any related controls. Simply put, management make assertions in financial statements which might […]
What are the FIVE Elements of an assurance engagement?
According to International Framework on Assurance Engagements, there are five elements of any assurance engagement which are as follows: A three party relationship involving practitioner (auditor), a responsible part (client) and intended users (users of financial statements) Subject matter; against which assurance is required by the intended users Criteria; which will be used by the […]
How sequentially numbered vouchers help auditors?
First of all let’s clear our confusions about the term Voucher itself. Voucher is any document on which an information about the business activity is recorded and the same is approved/authenticated/authorized by the relevant person in the management. Thus voucher is any document that proves that a particular transaction did happened and the person responsible […]
What is Sampling risk in auditing?
In order to express an opinion, auditor needs sufficient appropriate audit evidence. To obtain audit evidence, auditor applies range of audit procedures. But due to limited time and resources and also to conduct audit efficiently, auditor does not apply audit procedures to the whole population in consideration. Instead, he carefully selects reasonably small proportion, which […]
What is Non-sampling Risk?
Before we look at the definition of non-sampling risk, let’s understand the background why we are even discussing this question i.e. why we even have something with the name “non-sampling risk” In order to express an opinion, auditor needs sufficient appropriate audit evidence. To obtain audit evidence, auditor applies range of audit procedures. But due […]
What is the difference between negative assurance and positive assurance?
Positive assurance is a positive assertion or in other words when opinion is stated in “positive form”. On the other hand, negative assurance is simply an opinion expressed in negative wordings. We call negative assurances negative because of the sentence structure. Sentences that contain NOT in them are called negative sentences or negation But such […]
