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23WA-0144: SAS No. 122, AU 315, Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement (Webinar)

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
1:00pm - 4:30pm Central Time
3 CPE (3 technical)

If you do not understand the entity that you are auditing, you won't know what type of transactions they should be entering into. As a result, you won't recognize those transactions that should not be there. In other words, you will be performing the audit without having any idea of what you should be looking at. This statement requires that the auditor document their understanding of the entity and its environment that it operates in as well as assessing the risks of material misstatement. Prior to this statement, auditors often assessed risk at maximum and did not evaluate internal controls. A big change made by this statement is that, while it allowed the auditor to continue to assess risk at maximum, they now must first evaluate internal controls in order to have a basis for making such an assumption. As a result, auditors are now required to document their evaluation of internal controls on every financial statement audit.

This presentation is an overview of the many procedures auditors are now required to perform and document on every audit related to their understanding of the entity and its environment and the basis for assessing the risk of material misstatement.

Major subjects

  • How the effect of a misstatement due to error effects the scope of our audit vs a misstatement due to fraud
  • Inquiries of management...and others
  • The audit planning process; when we start and when we stop
  • The importance of brainstorming and what two things should a talk about
  • Revisions of our risk assessment
  • Determining materiality

Learning objective(s)

  • Determining risk
  • Identify and assess the risk of material misstatement either due to error or fraud
  • Distinguishing between an error or a fraud
  • Understanding intent
  • Evaluating the internal control process - When it begins and when it stops
  • Developing risk assessment procedures
  • Understanding the dangerous of complex transactions

Who should take this program?

External and Internal Auditors; Fraud Examiners

Fees

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More program information

Instructor Dennis Dycus, CPA, CFE, CGFM
Location Online
Area
of study
Accounting & audit
Field(s)
of study
Auditing - Technical (3.0)
Level Intermediate
Format Group Internet Based
Sponsor Business Professionals' Network, Inc.
NASBA ID#: 107810
Prerequisites Prereq. None
Advance
prep
None
Cancellation
policy
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If you have questions about this event, please call us at 952-831-2707.