Advanced Auditing and Professional Ethics-I

Paper Code: 
BCP-513
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
9.00

Auditing Standards, Statements and Guidance Notes
Auditing and Assurance Standards (AASs); Statements and Guidance Notes on Auditing issued by the ICAI; Significant differences between Auditing and Assurance Standards and International Standards on Auditing

9.00

Audit strategy, planning and programming
Planning the flow of audit work; audit strategy, planning programme and importance of supervision: review of audit notes and working papers; drafting of reports; principal’s ultimate responsibility; extent of delegation; control over quality of audit work; reliance on the work of other auditor, internal auditor or an expert

9.00

Risk Assessment and Internal Control
Evaluation of internal control procedures; techniques including questionnaire, flowchart; internal audit and external audit, coordination between the two.
Audit under computerized information system (CIS) environment
Special aspects of CIS Audit Environment, need for review of internal control especially procedure controls and facility controls. Approach to audit in CIS Environment, use of computers for internal and management audit purposes: audit tools, test packs, computerized audit programmes; Special Aspects in Audit of E-Commerce Transaction.

9.00

Special audit techniques
(a) Selective verification; statistical sampling: Special audit procedures; physical verification of assets, direct confirmation of debtors and creditors
(b) Analytical review procedures
(c) Risk-based auditing.

9.00

Audit of limited companies
Statutory requirements under the Companies Act 1956; Audit of branches: joint audits; Dividends and divisible profits % financial, legal, and policy considerations.

References: 

1. Study Material Published by ICAI
2. Scanner-Arun Kumar (Suchitra Prakashan (P) Ltd)
3. Contemporary Auditing Kamal Gupta-(Tata McGraw Book Co., New Delhi )
4. Advanced Auditing and Investigation -Emile Woolf etal (Mcdonald & Evans, U.K. )
5. Management Auditing: A questionnaire approach R.J. Thirauf AMACOM Publication.
6. Auditing Today: Emile Woolf (Prentice Hall)
7. Compendium of Statements and Standards — Accounting and Auditing
8. Compendium of Guidance Notes Vol 1,11,111 and IV
9. Modem Internal Auditing (A Ronald Press Publication) Victor Z. Brink and Herbert Witt John Wiley & Sons USA
Note-
(1)The candidate shall be permitted to use battery operated pocket calculator that should not have more than 12 digits, 6 functions and 2 memories and should be noiseless and cordless

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