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I. CLIENT AND ENGAGEMENT ACCEPTANCE AND CONTINUANCE
Identify
Changes
from Prior
Year (a)
Evaluate Client
Risk (e)
Perform
Background
Checks (b)
Evaluate Engagement
Risk (f)
Assess Conflicts of
Interest (c)
Confirm/Assess any
changes in scope (c)
Coordinate with client for
resources, contacts, or
internal audit (g)
Obtain Engagement
Letter (d)
Document Strategic
Audit Planning (h)
Communicate strategic
audit plan with other
engagement team
members (a)
ISA 315: Understand Nature of Entity; Objectives and Strategies and Related
Business Risks; Measurement and Review of Entity’s Financial Performance;
and Industry, Regulatory and Applicable Financial Reporting Framework
Control Risk
Information & Assessment (a)
Environment
Communication (a)
(a)
Control
Activities (a) Monitoring
(a)
Consider communication
to management, those
charged with governance
(f)
Assess control deviations (e)
Preliminary Consider
Assessment of effects on
Control Reliance substantive
Strategy (g) testing (h)
Incorporate results of
Incorporate control reliance
preliminary analytical
strategy (b)
review into plan by
account (a)
Engagement
Team
Discussion (g) Communicate with
Those Charged with
Governance (h)
Communicate to
Identify and test Communication to engagement team (g)
complimentary entity management,
controls (c) those charged with
governance (d)
Perform Substantive
Procedures (Substantive
Analytical Procedures or
Test of Details (a)
Identify exceptions/
misstatements including
disclosures (b)
Evaluate if exception/
misstatement is a control
deficiency including disclosures
(c)
Compile control
deficiencies (a) Determine sufficiency and
Evaluate the overall
financial statement documentation of fieldwork and
misstatement (d) assess adequacy of scope and
engagement risk (e and g)
Compile
misstatements (b)
Ref. documentation
to financial
statements (c) Perform summary (closing) audit
procedures (f)