Auditing, Assurance and Risk Assessment

• • Assurance and auditing: an overview
  • Ethics, independence and corporate governance
  • Overview of elements of the financial reporting audit process
  • Planning, understanding the entity and evaluating business risk
  • Assessing inherent risk and other specific business risks
  • Understanding and assessing internal control
  • Tests of controls
  • Substantive tests of transactions and balances – cash, sales, purchases and inventory system
  • Substantive tests of transactions and balances – accounts payable, payroll, non-current assets/liabilities, owners’ equity
  • Completion and review
  • The auditor’s reporting obligations

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

one of

• CUR-ACC201-Accounting for Corporations
• CUR-ACC230-Financial Reporting (No longer available)

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

An overview of assurance and ethics, independence and corporate governance. Understanding of the company audit process including audit planning - the concepts of materiality and audit risk. The evaluation and testing of internal control systems and substantive audit testing of transactions and balances. The finalisation of the audit and audit reporting.

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Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

• Case Study (40%)
• Semester Test (10%)
• Final Invigilated Exam (50%)

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