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COMPONENTS OF INTERNAL
CONTROL
1. Control Environment
2. Risk Assessment
3. Information and Communication
System
4. Control Activities
5. Monitoring
RISK ASSESSMENT
The auditor should obtain an understanding of the
entitys process for identifying business risks
relevant to financial reporting objectives and
deciding about actions to address those risks, and
the results thereof.
CONTROL ACTIVITIES
The auditor should obtain a sufficient understanding of
control activities to assess the risks of material
misstatement at the assertion level and to design
further audit procedures responsive to assessed risks.
Examples of specific control activities include those
relating to the following:
1. Performance reviews.
2. Information processing.
3. Physical controls.
4. Segregation of duties.
MONITORING
The auditor should obtain an understanding of the
major types of activities that the entity uses to
monitor internal control over financial reporting,
including those related to those control activities
relevant to the audit, and how the entity initiates
corrective actions to its controls.
CONSIDERATION OF INTERNAL
CONTROL
Consideration of the entitys internal control system
involves:
1. Obtaining an understanding of the internal control
2. Document the understanding of accounting and
internal control systems
3. Assess the level of control risk
4. Perform test of controls
5. Document the assessed level of control risks
OBTAINING AN UNDERSTANDING OF
THE INTERNAL CONTROL
Obtaining an understanding of internal control
involves evaluating the design of a control and
determining whether it has been implemented.
COMMUNICATION OF INTERNAL
CONTROL WEAKNESSES
The auditor should make those charged with
governance or management aware, as soon as
practicable, and at an appropriate level of
responsibility, of material weaknesses in the design or
implementation of internal control which have come to
the auditors attention.