A. Other audit clients
B. Previous years
C. Other companies in the same industry
D. Budget
Related Mcqs:
- Analytical procedures issued in the planning stage of an audit, generally
A. Helps to determine the nature, timing and extent of other audit procedures
B. Directs attention to potential risk areas
C. Indicates important aspects of business
D. All of the above - Analytical procedures issued in the planning stage of an audit, generally?
A. helps to determine the nature, timing and extent of other audit procedures
B. directs attention to potential risk areas
C. indicates important aspects of business
D. All of the above - What are analytical procedures?
A. Substantive tests designed to assess control risk
B. Substantive tests designed to evaluate the validity of management’s representation letter
C. Substantive tests designed to study relationships between financial and nonfinancial
D. All of the above - The basic assumption underlying the use of analytical procedures is:____________?
A. It helps the auditor to study relationship among elements of financial information
B. Relationship among data exist and continue in the absence of known condition to the contrary
C. Analytical procedures will not be able to detect unusual relationships
D. None of the above. - What is the primary objective of analytical procedures used in the overall review stage of an audit?
A. To help to corroborate the conclusions drawn from individual components of financial statements
B. To reduce specific detection risk
C. To direct attention to potential risk areas
D. To satisfy doubts when questions arise about a client’s ability to continue - When applying analytical procedures, an auditor could develop independent estimate of an account balance to compare it to___________?
A. client’s unedited account balance
B. client’s unedited account balance adjusted for trends in the industry
C. Prior year audited balance
D. Prior year audited balance adjusted for trends in the industry - Which of the following statements is most closely associated with analytical procedure applied at substantive stage?
A. It helps to study relationship among balance sheet accounts
B. It helps to discover material misstatements in the financial statements
C. It helps to identify possible oversights
D. It helps to accumulate evidence supporting the validity of a specific account balance - Which of the following statements is most closely associated with analytical procedure applied at substantive stage?
A. It helps to study relationship among balance sheet accounts
B. It helps to discover material misstatements in the financial statements
C. It helps to identify possible oversights
D. It helps to accumulate evidence supporting the validity of a specific account balance - Which of the following is not an analytical procedure?
A. Tracing of purchases recurred in the purchase book to purchase invoices.
B. Comparing aggregate wages paid to number of employees
C. Comparing the actual costs with standard costs
D. All of them are analytical procedure - In an audit of financial statements, substantive tests are audit procedures that __________?
A. May be eliminated for an account balance under certain conditions
B. Are designed to discover significant subsequent events
C. Will increase proportionately when the auditor decreases the assessed level of control risk
D. May be test of transactions, test of balance and analytical procedures
