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1 Evidence By David N. Ricchiute
AUDITING CHAPTER 6 Evidence By David N. Ricchiute

2 TOPICS Acquisition & evaluation of evidence
Financial statement assertions, audit objectives, & audit procedures Tests of controls, substantive tests, analytical procedures & nonfinancial measures Audit documentation GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

3 AUDIT EVIDENCE Sufficient competent evidential matter is to be obtained through inspection, observation, inquiries, and confirmations to afford a reasonable basis for an opinion regarding financial statements under audit. SAS 31 & SAS 80, Amendment to SAS 31. GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

4 MEANING OF SUFFICIENT, COMPETENT EVIDENCE
Sufficient: quantity of evident necessary to test management’s assertions Competent: relevant, valid, reliable Kinds of evidence necessary to test management’s assertions Link audit risk & audit evidence Relevance Amount of evidence GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

5 EVIDENTIAL MATTER Underlying accounting data Corroborating information
Records of original entry (journals, ledgers, etc.) Data files Spreadsheets Corroborating information Documents (checks, invoices, contracts) Written representations from 3rd parties (vendors, attorneys) Inquiries of management GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

6 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ASSERTIONS
Existence or Occurrence Completeness Rights & Obligations Valuation or Allocation Presentation & Disclosure GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

7 ACCOUNTS & JOURNAL ENTRIES
Purchase & sale of inventory Inventory Accounts payable Cost of Goods Sold GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

8 EXISTENCE OR OCCURRENCE ASSERTION
All assets, liabilities, equities exist All transactions occurred Example Test whether inventory physically existed at balance sheet date GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

9 COMPLETENESS ASSERTION
All transactions that occurred during period are reported for the time period All accounts complete as to data Examples Test whether all purchases goods, services are recorded Test whether all obligations included as liabilities GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

10 RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS ASSERTION
Entity entitled to assets (rights) Entity liable for obligations Example Test whether all inventory is owned, not on consignment GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

11 VALUATION OR ALLOCATION ASSERTION
Assets, liabilities, equities, revenues, expenses recorded at proper amounts Example Test whether inventory valued at lower cost/market Revenues, costs, expenses allocated to proper accounting periods GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

12 PRESENTATION & DISCLOSURE ASSERTION
Financial statement components properly classified, described & disclosed Example Test to assure financial statements, notes reveal substance of recorded transactions GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

13 AUDIT PROCEDURES Observation Documentation Confirmation
Mechanical tests Analytical procedures (Comparisons) Inquiries GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

14 RELATING OBJECTIVES TO OBSERVATION
Direct evidence about existence Example: physically observing client’s assets GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

15 RELATING OBJECTIVES TO DOCUMENTATION
Internal evidence in documentary form to support existence, valuation Example: vouch documents supporting selected cash disbursements or liabilities GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

16 RELATING OBJECTIVES TO CONFIRMATION
External evidence from third parties supporting existence, valuation of account balances Example: request confirmation of accounts receivable GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

17 RELATING OBJECTIVES TO MECHANICAL TESTS
Direct evidence to support valuation Example: recomputing (footing) cash receipts journal Direct evidence to support presentation Example: trace transactions through accounting system for proper recording, classification GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

18 RELATING OBJECTIVES TO COMPARISONS
Analytical procedures (Comparisons) Direct evidence about completeness, presentation, disclosure Example: examine trends for advertising expense to determine whether more procedures necessary Example: compare disclosures with prior periods GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

19 RELATING OBJECTIVES TO INQUIRIES
Direct evidence although less persuasive, may help generate leads Corroborated through other procedures GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

20 TESTS OF CONTROLS & SUBSTANTIVE TESTS
Audit procedures to assess the ability of controls to prevent or detect material misstatements Provide evidence about control risk Substantive tests Audit procedures that detect material misstatements Provide evidence about detection risk GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

21 TESTS OF CONTROLS Procedures address questions such as
How are controls applied? Are controls applied consistently? By whom are controls applied? GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

22 TESTS OF CONTROLS & CONTROL RISK
Tests of controls are procedures to assess control risk Assessed level control risk helps determine acceptable level detection risk GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

23 CATEGORIES OF CONTROL ACTIVITIES
Controls that create documentation, i.e., leave an audit trail Manager’s initials for credit approval Prevention control Controls that do not create documentation Bank reconciliation provides no evidence of independence of preparer for cash function Detection control GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

24 COMBINED SUBSTANTIVE & CONTROL TESTS
Dual-purpose tests Provide evidence about control risk & monetary error Example: recomputing extensions on sales invoices GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

25 SUBSTANTIVE TESTS Tests of details Analytical tests Transactions
Balances Analytical tests GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

26 ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES
Evaluations of financial information made by a study of plausible relationships among both financial and nonfinancial data SAS No. 56 GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

27 TESTS OF DETAILS v. ANALYTICAL TESTS
Comparisons Tests of details tests all 5 assertions but analytical procedures do not support existence or rights & obligations Analytical procedures are high level tests Tests of details lead to conclusions about aggregated data but analytical procedures test aggregated data GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

28 USING ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES
When Purpose Planning (required) Directs attention to likely misstatements Substantive tests Supports or refutes account balances Overall review (required) Reviews reasonableness account balances GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

29 TYPES ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES
Trend analysis Ratio analysis Activity ratios Profitability ratios Liquidity ratios Solvency ratios Modeling Statistical tests, i.e., regression GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

30 JUDGMENT ERRORS & ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES
Over reliance on unaudited numbers Disregard for unchanging account balances Overreliance on management’s explanations GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

31 CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE & SKEPTICISM
Issue Professional skepticism Time Declining on-time delivery rates Quality Performance Increasing customer complaints Cost Failure to be low-cost provider GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

32 INTERNAL BUSINESS & SKEPTICISM
Issue Professional skepticism Development Failure to be first to market Quality Increasing defect rates Productivity Unfavorable price, quantity variances Core competencies Employees fail certification exams GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

33 INTERNAL LEARNING & SKEPTICISM
Issue Professional Skepticism Improved performance Poor performance against industry best practices Innovation Lagging product development GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

34 COGNITIVE BIASES IN EVALUATING EVIDENCE
Heuristics: simplifying rules of thumb that may bias decision making Representativeness Availability Anchoring-and-adjustment GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

35 COGNITIVE BIASES: Representativeness
Given an item, b, and a class of items, A, making a judgment based on how much b resembles other items from class A rather than making a judgment based on the probability that b came from class A. GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

36 COGNITIVE BIASES: Availability
The decision maker evaluates the likelihood of a particular outcome based on infrequent but highly publicized outcomes rather than outcomes predicted by the profession’s collected experience. GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

37 COGNITIVE BIASES: Anchoring-and-Adjustment
The decision maker assesses likelihood of an outcome with an initial, sometimes biased probability estimate (anchor) then adjusts the probability insufficiently when discovering new information. GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

38 AUDIT DOCUMENTATION ASB Standards
Auditor’s judgment about nature, extent of documentation depends on Risk of misstatement Judgment about audit work Nature of procedures Significance of evidence Nature, extent of assertions tested GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

39 AUDIT DOCUMENTATION PCAOB
Reviewability standard Derived from governmental standards Documents sufficient for experienced auditor to understand work performed, when, why Rebuttable presumption Absent documentation of audit work, presumption that work not performed GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

40 AUDIT DOCUMENTATION FILES
Correspondence (administrative) file Permanent file Information of continuing interest & relevance Tax file Past, present, future income & property tax obligations GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

41 ROLE OF AUDIT DOCUMENTATION
Work was adequately planned, supervised, and reviewed (1st standard fieldwork) Internal control considered as basis for substantive tests (2nd standard fieldwork) Sufficient competent evidential matter was obtained (3rd standard fieldwork) GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

42 AUTOMATED DOCUMENTATION
Spreadsheet software Analytical procedures, data import/export, graphing, sorting Database management Relational structuring: combining 2 or more files for single query Text retrieval Access & retrieve electronically stored text GBW 8th ed., Ch. 6

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