Accounting Theory And Current Issues For Financial Auditor

Discussion of the steps needed to consider before accepting to do an audit and applying them to BSF Ltd.

Describe about the Accounting Theory and Current Issues for Financial Auditor.

The management of a firm decided to take up an audit that is to be done for the financial statements which designed to be presented. This auditing is to carry out by the auditor who is appointed and is intended to give a clear and accurate evaluation of the company’s financial details by attaining the moral, ethical and professional obligations towards the stakeholders and investors (Deegan, 2012). Therefore to make the clear report for the financial statements, all the ambiguities must be taken into consideration which makes the details about all the revenues, assets and the expenses. Auditor must be that must honest for the particular task by addressing the stakeholder about all the interests and the total management of the firm (Abernathy et al, 2015).

It is mandatory for an auditor before taking up the task to check out for the guidelines whether it is ethical or professional. The accountant that is willing to take up the task must aware of the situation that the task can act as a threat which can affect its integrity. This concept basically gives idea about the overall knowledge of the auditor about the client, outline of work, activities of the business, all the nature and the complications related to the task before making the decision for choosing the task (Dyckman & Zeff, 2014).

 Before the choosing of the task, the guidelines to be followed with utmost care before the acceptance of any new proposal, therefore if having any type of risks the task must be rejected.

Once the Auditor is finalised by the client, the firm must definitely evaluate the task with that much sure shot objectivity. The absence of the objectivity cannot be compromised. Again if there are few partners for the particular task then there would have some potential threats which must be identified and treated by the team of audit (Libby, Tan & Hunton, 2015). Due to any type of threats or any type of risks the proposal cannot be always cancelled, rather to take some steps to avoid those risks is better to carry on the audit work (Messier Jr, 2016).

The auditor is intended to identify any of the conflicts attached to the task so that there must be have measures which are taken while the evaluation of task for safeguard which will be helpful for the avoidance of the risks (Crawford & Lepine, 2013). The auditor before taking any task must check its capacity and skill specialization must have the evaluation of the work based the quality of the client, if the client is like of BSF. If the task has been accepted by the auditor without evaluating the capacity then there will have a severe threat to the self interest of the auditor.

Auditing is the work which at every instance includes many types of risks whether it is inherent, detection or control risk. The risks of audit can be said to be as the time of decision of eth auditors regarding the task.

Whether the audit firm should accept the role of doing an audit of BSF Ltd., if the inherent risk of the BSF Ltd. is estimated as 90% and the control risk and detection risk are estimated at, respectively, 5% and 80%

The inherent type of risk of the audit comes in the place where there is any issue in the financial statement as a result of the misstatements by any means which basically happens in the application of different forms of controls. The case of inherent risk takes up the case of the BSF where the same issue has happened (Miller & Power, 2013). The work that has been carried by BSF can be said to be qualitative and highly subjective which usually have the high risk of the inherent.

In that place the BSF is also having the control risk which is said to be 5%. This type of risks is having its foundation due to the issues in the control mechanism which supposed to be subjected for the detection of the misstatements (Hall, Hunton & Pierce, 2015). The BSF is such an organization where there are provisions for the checking of these misstatements by specific measures which accounts towards the BSF’s internal control which must be effective as required.

The organization of BSF is having the amount of issues or risks just because of not having a well defined management with high positions and size which sometimes take sup measure to handle the situation and sometimes applies the internal control of the organization (Hunton & Weir, 2015).

Another type of risk is the detection risk which is described by the inefficiency of the auditors in solving the issues and finding of the misstatements which are basically intended to create a risk to management of the firm (Gold, Hunton & Gomaa, 2015). When the auditors usually fails in its work of detection of the misstatements in those financial statements then the whole total process of auditing will be found as detrimental with respect to the interest of the user but it is also said that this issue can be rectified by taking the samples for observation to reach the final statement.

The model that is meant to give the overview of the audit risk process by the team of audit, then all the three risks, i.e.., detection, control and inherent, there will be multiplication of these three.

Audit risk = Inherent risk x Control risk x Detection risk

The determination of the inherent and the control risks are being done in a formal manner which is basically intended for the team discussion. It is also evident that if there is any type of over risk in the particular task, then the task will not be accepted. Therefore it is said that before choosing the task every type of pros and cons must be checked with respect to the capacity of the auditor (Schnader, Bedard & Cannon, 2015).

The amount of the detection risk is always lower to the inherent and control risk, even if sometimes the inherent goes higher with lower amount of control then also the detection will be lower amount only. But taking the case of BSF into consideration, then there is always a rise in the risk of both the inherent and detection. Therefore the calculation of the total audit risk is done: Audit Risk = Inherent Risk x Control Risk x Detection Risk

List and discussion of what should be included in an audit program for the BSF Ltd.

                                       = 0.9 x 0.05 x 0.8 = 0.036 or 3.6%

The value that came from the calculation somehow can be said as moderate as per the terms of general audit norms which says if the value is less than 10% then said to be moderate. Therefore the amounts of risk involved in the audit of BSF Ltd.is lower which is definitely to be accepted (Bonin, 2013).

The process of audit is mostly carried out by the team of audit which gives the total idea of procedure that is required for the collection of the evidence of the audit. This process will start until and unless there will have a clear understanding of the matter of understanding of the process of accounting which is generally noticed in the case of BSF Limited (Hunton & Weir, 2015). This process is basically carried out in a process of vivid understanding for the total scenario. The proposal for the audit programme must be total collection of below criteria: The monthly financial report, quarterly financial report, account listing chart, balance trail of the company in the year end, review work of the auditor, funding and report list, the opening balance checking, relevant ledgers checking, the bank deposit summary, bank statement of the account, details of the bank transactions, large transfers and their authorization, checking of the creditors for liabilities, checking the bank payment interests with the verification of the loan amount with long term and short term interests (Crawford & Lepine, 2013).

Before the start of the auditing work, the auditor team must go through the journals to get an emphasis on the control of the work which will be helpful for the client firm department of accounting. Basically they keep an eye on the accuracy of the work that is to be done by the external auditors in unearthing the financial irregularities.

There are many researches that are done on the BSF and many resultants are there to give a success in the auditing activity of the auditor which makes the use of the market tools by satisfying the needs of the customer (Parker, 2012).

To have that accurate auditing system, there will have to be many research and development for making the plan to get the targets identified and fulfilled. The reports that are got from the researches of the BSF to check the commercial potency are to match with the marketing reports to get a successful report (Parker, 2012).

The costing of the research to carry out on the BSF is mostly to be sent on the material collection and the capital equipment which takes the account for the capital and all the expenditure. Therefore there must have the total expenditure which is subjected to the team of audit and established in the market to larger extends (Abernathy et al, 2015).

 CSIRO has given a grant of a particular amount that is basically spent on a purpose of demarcation, out of which $400 million is spent, which the management must describe in detail about any of the deviation of the financial matter.

Discussion of any concerns the auditor should have for

Basically the word triple bottom line is intended towards the traditional reporting extension which takes into consideration about the social, environmental and economic all performances that takes place in a firm which has been approached by Freer Spreckley. This triple bottom line concept has been very well done by the BSF Ltd in preparing the whole report of the financial statement.

These processes that are carried out are said to be environment friendly and very social but if it is take in the perspective of audit there will be exaggeration in it. Therefore the approach that is being given in some instances is restricted by many classes of people which led to the change in the work procedure of the firm (Miller & Power, 2013).

All the discussions show that at initial stage there is a restriction for the establishment for the approach but afterwards there is rectified, due to which the hesitation of the auditor to sign the documents also made a new way that says to mention all the details in the report or endorsement that are resultant of the research. This report or endorsement also can be subjected for the further discovery process.

The question raise here asks regarding the signing of statement, so the answer for it will be yes. As the auditor is very much willing to do the same after going through the all types of researches that are done on the market upon which the documents are being prepared. Basically the patent’s value is noticed depending upon its ability of it for the revenue generation, which the management also knows. If the market is not having any more competition then also the duplication of it will be time taking by any means due to which the firm will not be subjected to face any type of such difficulty basing on the market competition (Schnader, Bedard & Cannon, 2015). Therefore the patent’s value in future is expected to be changed with the change in the condition of the market. If once the team gets the evaluation completed according to the conditions of the market then the auditor will no subject any apprehension to this issue.

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