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The audit firm receives 40% of its total revenue from one audit client. this is an example of: Select one: O a. Familiarity threat. B) Self-review threat. C) Intimidation threat. d) Self-interest threat.
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- Which of the following actions would be considered as self-interest threats? Select which two options are correct. Select one or more: A. A member of the assurance team is a director of the client. B. An auditor acts as an advocate on behalf of an assurance client. C. An auditor has potential employment with an assurance client. D. One client provides a high percentage of total audit fees.2.You are an external auditor and you have agreed on a task completion a task with required outcomes to obtain a fee. Which of the following threat it will arise?Single choice. Self review threat Intimidation threat Advocacy threat Familiarity threat25. An audit firm has been asked by a client to attend a meeting between the client and its prospective investors in order to discuss the company’s financial performance in the last year. According to the Code of Professional Ethics for Accountants, what type of threat to objectivity will be created if the auditor attends this meeting? a. Advocacy threat b. Self review threat c. Self-interest threat d. Intimidation threat
- Imagine that you are a senior auditor and your firm has been selected to audit a medium-sized company with a single location. Describe the four phases of an audit and discuss the key factors that would help you determine how to plan the audit for this company. Provide specific examples. Determine both the relationship of risks in the planning of the audit and factors that influence those risks. Speculate on which type of risk creates the most uncertainty for the auditor and recommend at least two ways to plan the audit to mitigate those risks. Provide specific examples.An auditor leaves an audit firm and takes the role of the CFO of an audit client two months after completing the audit. This would involve some of the following threats. Select which three options are correct. Select one or more: A. Familiarity B. Intimidation C. Self-interest D. Self-reviewA lead audit engagement partner has been providing audit service to the same non-PIE audit client for the last 10 years. What type of threat to independence might this create? Intimidation Self-review Familiarity Advocacy
- Which of the following conditions most likely would pose the greatest risk in accepting a new audit engagement?a. Staff will need to be rescheduled to cover this new client.b. There will be a client-imposed scope limitation.c. The firm will have to hire a specialist in one audit area.d. The client’s financial reporting system has been in place for 10 years.2. An audit firm is required to perform a risk assessment in order to determine whether to accept the new client or continue with repeat clients annually. Question 2 options: a) True b) FalseAn IT auditor is performing a test of the company's user access administration process, and has selected a random sample of 25 user access requests to evaluate. The IT audit test procedures revealed that 1 of the 25 sampled user access requests has not been properly authorized according to company policy. As a key next step in the IT audit process, the IT auditor should (select the BEST response): a) Communicate this concern to the Chief Executive Officer as soon as possible. b) Communicate this concern to the Audit Committee as soon as possible. c) Disregard the finding entirely. d) Perform additional audit procedures to better understand the risks related to the issue, as well as the root cause of the problem.
- A client operates two plants. In Plant A, throughout the entire cutoff test window, all sales have been recorded as FOB shipping point. In Plant B, all sales have been recorded as FOB shipping point in the cutoff window prior to year-end and either FOB shipping point or FOB destination in the cutoff window subsequent to year end. Which plant would an auditor judge to have higher fraud risk? Question 27 options: Plant A would have higher fraudulent financial reporting risk than Plant B. Plant B would have higher risk of the misappropriation of assets than Plant A. Plant A would have higher risk of the misappropriation of assets than Plant B. Plant B would have higher fraudulent financial reporting risk than Plant A.Audit risks for particular accounts and disclosures can be conceptualized in the model: Audit risk (AR) = Inherent risk (IR) × Control risk (CR) × Detection risk (DR). Use this model as a framework for considering the following situations and deciding whether the auditor’s conclusion is appropriate.a. Paul, CPA, has participated in the audit of Tordik Cheese Company for five years, first as an assistant accountant and the last two years as the senior accountant. Paul has never seen an accounting adjustment recommended and believes the inherent risk must be zero.b. Hill, CPA, has just (November 30) completed an exhaustive study and evaluation of the internal controls of Edward Foods Inc. (fiscal year ending December 31). Hill believes the control risk must be zero because no material errors could possibly slip through the many error-checking procedures and review layers that Edward used.c. Fields, CPA, is lazy and does not like audit jobs in Philadelphia. On the audit of Philly…Patrick Houghton was meeting with his manager to plan audit strategy in order to determine the amount of time to spend testing the client's internal controls and conducting detailed testing of transactions and account balances. Determining the audit strategy occurs during which phase of the audit? a. client acceptance stage b. planning stage c. performing stage d. reporting stage