Excerpt from course description
- Norwegian
- GRA 6257
- 6 Credits
Introduction
The course aims to give students a deeper understanding of the theoretical and methodological basis for the subject area of financial auditing and how it is practised.
Course content
- Auditing, certification and assurance services and connected auditor tasks
- The objective of the audit
- Comprehension of the need for financial audits legal regulation vs. market mechanisms
- Acceptance of audit assignments, content and formulation of appointment letter, including an understanding of the companys activities, legal conditions
- The role of auditing in a corporate governance perspective
- The audit process
- Strategic planning of auditing, auditing of business processes
- Detailed understanding of materiality and risk assessments, including organizations business risk, with consequences for the audit and the audit risk model
- The auditors assessment of the clients internal control (must be considered in connection with the course Auditing III and IV)
- Types and combinations of audit evidence for various audit areas
- Analytical auditing
- Audit of the sales and collection cycle
- Samples for testing, random checks and test methods, including the use of statistical random checks
- Assessment of faults and irregularities, discovered violations of the law, consequences for further auditing and reporting
- Latent obligations
- Events after balance sheet date
- Assessments of the conditions for continued operations
- Audit of the boards annual report, management obligations
- Quality requirements of the audit (including generally accepted auditing standards)
- The auditors reporting to external users, formulation of the auditors report, types of auditors reports
- Sanctions against the auditor
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