In your own words and understanding, list and explain briefly the phases/ steps of a control evaluation
Question:
In your own words and understanding, list and explain briefly the phases/ steps of a control evaluation of a client's internal control system- its design, placement, and operating effectiveness of their internal control system, and how to incorporate auditors' control risk assessment result** into audit plan (substantive audit testing plan). Please begin with the first step: "understanding your client's internal control structure" for the first time as a new client, and finish with the last step: "developing audit strategy/ audit program (meaning; designing your audit procedures by determining the nature, extent, timing of audit testing plan). **result from tests of controls performed by auditors (only if they have been performed) and result from auditors' assessed control risk steps. Remember ?: N-E-T (Nature, Extent, Timing)
Intermediate Accounting
ISBN: 978-0324300987
10th Edition
Authors: Loren A Nikolai, D. Bazley and Jefferson P. Jones