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Lesson 5 of 23

Understanding the Independent Auditors' Report

This lecture looks at the standard audit report for an unqualified opinion. An unqualified audit report basically says that the financial statements are fair in all material aspects which is in your opinion as the auditor. Before you can say that, you need to pass through five important gates:

  1. You're engaged to perform an audit.
  2. You followed GAAS
  3. You gathered sufficient appropriate audit evidence
  4. You have evaluated the fairness of presentation relative to GAAP/IFRS
  5. You have no reservations whatsoever.

If all of these have been achieved, it's time to draft the audit report.

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23 lessons

Lessons

1
Introduction to Auditing
2
Players in the Audit Industry
3
Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) - Overview
4
Auditing Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct
5
Understanding the Independent Auditors' Report
6
Auditor's Report with Reservations
7
The Auditing Process
8
Auditing: Management Assertions
9
The Audit Evidence
10
Audit Risk Models
11
Auditing: Assessing Inherent Risk
12
Auditing: The Concept of Materiality
13
Auditing: Client Risk Profile
14
How Auditors Document Their Work?
15
Internal Controls in a Company
16
COSO - Integrated Internal Control Framework
17
Assessing Control Risk
18
Testing Internal Controls
19
Auditing Issues in Small Businesses
20
Auditing Planning Approach
21
Audit Programs
22
Auditing the Sales Cycle
23
Substantive Audit Procedures
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