Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Establishing an Appropriate
Conference Climate
Foster a professional courtesy
On-site Tour
The objective of the tour is to obtain an
overview of operations
Scan operations for unusual activities,
indication of inefficiency, unused facilities,
idle workers, poor maintenance of machines
Observe the employees attitudes toward
their jobs and how they relate to each other
and to management
Study of Documents
On-site perusal provides updated
information that indicates changes in the
organizational structure, responsibilities,
and operations
Documents studied: description of current
policies and procedures, organizational
charts, operational flow-charts, job
descriptions, performance reports
Analytical Procedures
Procedural Walk-Through
An auditor walks through a process by
Listing the steps to be performed in the process
Providing a check-off column indicating
whether each step has been performed
commenting on whats observed
Documentation Walk-Through
An auditor follows particular operation or
transaction from beginning to end through
documentation
It is one form of vouching transactions to
check whether specific controls are present in
a system
usually limited to only one or two
transactions
Preliminary Evaluation of
Internal Control System
Auditors use internal control matrices to
organize audit results up to this point. It
contains the following columns:
Specific audit objectives
Important results from preliminary survey and
review of internal control
The risks associated with each result
Appropriate controls relevant to each result
Auditors evaluation
Risk Assessment
After internal control evaluation, auditors
reassess the level of risk associated with the
auditees operation. Three things are likely:
The revised risk is low. Auditors should write a
report and go on to higher-risk areas.
Little to gain from further audit. Wrap up and
go to next audit project.
The risk remain high. Expand test of controls.