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Statement 1.

Sufficiency is one of the attributes


b. When reporting on comparative financial
of good evidence. Statement 2: Gathering all
statements, the independent auditor may
the information is necessary to provide perfect
discard working papers after two years.
evidence.
c. Working papers may be regarded as a
Select one:
substitute for the client's accounting records.
a. False; False
d. The auditor should document the
b. True; True  understanding of the client's internal control
c. False; True obtained to plan the audit
Statement 1: Audit report assures the
d. True; False management that business risks are well
The following are the testing process, except controlled. Statement 2: Audit report does not
support action plans prepared by client
Select one: management.
a. Perform the test Select one:
b. Interpret the results a. True; True
c. Define the test objective b. True; False 
d. Give opinion c. False; True
All are fraud equation, which is not?
d. False; False
Select one: Which of the following is an objective of audit
a. Opportunity report?
b. Attraction  Select one:
c. Motive a. To bring problems to management’s
attention. 
d. Means
b. To alert them to areas where there are
An independent, objective assurance and defined risk exposures.
consulting activity designed to add value and
improvement an organization’s operations is c. To advise them on steps necessary to
called as improve risk management strategies.
Select one: d. To assure management that business risks
are well controlled.
a. Internal Audit 
Determines whether key controls are adhered
b. External Audit to.
c. Compliance Audit Select one:
d. None of the above a. Compliance 
Which of the following statements about b. Dual purpose
working papers is correct?
c. Substantive
Select one:
d. Walk-Through
a. Working papers are not permitted to be
used as a reference source by the client.  The end goal of internal auditing is to bring
continuous improvement to the organization
and offer alternative solutions to better the
conduct of business
Select one:
c. True; False 
a. Operational Effectiveness 
d. True; True
b. Quality control
Operational auditing is primarily oriented
c. Designed to add value toward:

d. Assurance and Consultancy Select one:


The ________should coordinate internal and a. The accuracy of data reflected in
external audit efforts to minimize duplication of management’s financial records
audit work and to increase the effectiveness of
audit work. b. Past protection provided by existing internal
control 
Select one:
c. Verifying that a company’s financial
a. CEO statements are fairly presented
b. Management d. Future improvements to accomplish
c. CAE  management’s goals
Which of the following don’t belong to the
d. Board category of fraud?
It is an audit planning approach which focuses
Select one:
on the strategic, regulatory, financial, and
business risks to which an organization has a. Undiscovered
exposure.
b. Known and recorded publicly
Select one:
c. Known and recorded internally
a. Traditional Audit Planning
d. Conspiracy 
b. Corporate Governance-Based Planning
It is the act of securing suitable evidence to
c. Risk-Based Planning  support an audit.

d. Transaction-Based Planning Select one:


Which is not a type of test? a. Sampling
Select one: b. Planning
a. Compliance c. Testing 
b. Substantive d. Reporting
c. Dualcore  This refers to the way organization is directed
and controlled
d. Walkthrough
Select one:
Statement 1: The objective of audit report is to
provide assurance to management on their a. Corporate Strategy
activities. Statement 2: Audit report aims to
show managers how their problems may be b. Corporate Activities
solved. c. Corporate Governance 
Select one: d. Corporate Development
a. False; False They are responsible for plan setting on what
step to take if fraud is reported or detected.
b. False; True
Select one:
a. Internal Audit b. one of the inherent limitations of accounting
and internal control systems is the possibility
b. Management 
that the procedures may become inadequate
c. Auditor due to changes in conditions and compliance
with procedures may deteriorate. 
d. BOD
c. most internal controls tend to be directed at
Who deal with the whistleblowers? non-routine transactions.
Select one:
d. accounting and internal control systems
a. Auditor provide management with conclusive evidence
b. Management that objectives are reached
When should a risk be avoided?
c. Internal Audit 
Select one:
d. BOD
a. When the risk event is unacceptable–
Some of the sampling methods fall under generally one with a very high probability of
substantive testing. Which of the following occurrence and high impact
does not belong to the group?
b. When the risk event has a low probability of
Select one: occurrence and low impact 
a. Difference Estimates c. A risk event can never be avoided
b. Discovery Sampling 
d. When it can be transferred by purchasing
c. Monetary Unit Sampling insurance
Is titled to aid an organizational mission as well
d. Variable Sampling
as a guide to what the company stands for and
Corporate directors, management, external will uphold to its consumers.
auditors and internal auditors all play important
roles in creating a proper control environment. Select one:
Top management is primarily responsible for a. Whistleblowing
Select one: b. Corporate Social Responsibility 
a. Establishing a proper environment and c. Corporate Governance
specifying overall internal control 
b. Ensuring that external and internal auditors d. Ethical Reporting
adequately monitor the control environment It is a type of tests that involves taking a small
sample of items that are traced through the
c. Reviewing the reliability and integrity of system to ensure that the auditor understands
financial information and the means used to the system.
collect and report such information
Select one:
d. Implementing and monitoring controls that
are designed by the board of directors a. Dual Purpose
Which of the following is correct about internal b. Compliance
control? c. Walk-through 
Select one:
d. Substantive
a. management does not consider costs of the Uncertainty is often used in conjunction with
accounting and internal control systems the term risk, implying that uncertainty is risk.
Uncertainty is an unknown situation that may
result from a lack of information to sufficiently
a. Control Risk Self-Assessment 
quantify the probability of occurrence of an
event and to determine the most likely b. Control Environment
outcome. Therefore, any uncertainty that has a
c. Safeguard of Asset
potential for a major impact in a project should
be d. Enterprises–Wide Risk Management
Select one: When reviewing audit working papers, the
primary responsibility of an audit supervisor is
a. Resolve before project implementation but
to determine that:
must be resolved before starting that area of
work  Select one:
b. Study to determine alternatives that may a. Working papers adequately support the
have a high risk index but are fully understood audit findings, conclusions, and report. 
c. Ignored until additional information can be b. Each worksheet is properly identified with a
obtained to resolve the actual risk exposure descriptive heading.
d. Assigned a risk exposure index of greater c. Working papers are properly referenced and
than or equal to eight pending further kept in logical groupings.
resolution of the risk exposure
d. Standard departmental procedures are
Effective internal control requires adhered to with regard to work paper
organizational independence of departments. preparation and technique.
Organizational independence would be
impaired in which of the following situations The uncertainty of outcome within a range of
exposures arising from a combination of impact
Select one: and probability of potential events is
a. The cashier reports to the treasurer  Select one:
b. The payroll accounting department reports a. Occurrence
to the chief accountant
b. Contingency
c. The internal auditors report to the audit
committee of the board of directors c. Risk 

d. The controller reports to the vice-president d. Probability


of production A reason to establish internal control is to
The ____________should have periodic Select one:
quality assurance reviews.
a. Encourage compliance with organization
Select one: objectives
a. The Audit Committee  b. Ensure the accuracy, reliability and
b. Management timeliness of information

c. Internal Auditor c. Have a basis of planning the audit

d. External Auditor d. Provide reasonable assurance that the


objectives of the organization are achieved 
A tool used businesses to promote risk
management in teams, projects, through Which of the following is/are the function of the
processes and generally throughout the audit report? I. To assure management that
organizational. business risk are well controlled. II. To alert
them to areas where there are defined risk
Select one: exposures. III. To advise them on steps
necessary to improve risk management
strategy. IV. To support action plans prepared
c. Expenditures for fixed assets have been
by client management.
recorded in the proper period
Select one:
d. Non-capital repair expenditures have been
a. II and III recorded in the proper period
b. I and II Internal auditors are most likely to issue a
report on which of the following?
c. I, II, III, and IV 
Select one:
d. I, II and III
a. Annual financial statement reporting
Internal audit definition, audit objectives must
be carried out in unbiased manner and free b. Internal control 
from influence of management.
c. Tax compliance
Select one:
d. Quarterly financial statement reporting
a. Assurance and consulting activity
A test of 200 invoices randomly selected by the
b. Independence  internal auditor revealed that 40 had not been
approved for payment. At the 95% confidence
c. Designed to add value level and tolerable error rate of 20%, the
d. Systematic approach auditor may conclude that
Statement 1: Achieving good governance is a Select one:
major concern for companies as they have to
a. The internal controls employed are effective 
report on their activities to an often sympathetic
shareholder group whose only interest in the b. The internal controls employed are
business is whether it is making money or not. dependent upon the nature of transactions
Statement 2: Is a relationship among
c. The internal controls employed are
stakeholders that is used to determine and
overruled by the management
control the strategic direction and performance
of organizations. d. The internal controls employed are
Select one: ineffective
The auditor communicates the results of his
a. True; False
work through the medium of the
b. True; True
Select one:
c. False; True 
a. Audit Report 
d. False; False b. Engagement Letter
Identification of an appropriate population to
c. Financial Statements
sample is dependent upon audit objectives. A
population of entries in an asset repairs d. Management Letter
expense file would be an appropriate
It is perpetrated by parties and organizations to
population if the audit objective is to determine
obtain money, property or services.
whether
Select one:
Select one:
a. Attraction
a. Non-capital repair expenditures have been
properly charged to expense  b. Concealment
b. Expenditures for fixed assets have been c. Motive
improperly expensed.
d. Fraud 
Corporate governance codes and policies have
c. For very large populations, the absolute size
become to be relied on to re-establish the
of the sample has more impact on the
performance/conformance balance to ensure
precision of its results than does its size
Select one: relative to its population
a. Integrity, responsibility and accountability d. The limitations of an incomplete sample
b. Integrity, openness and accountability  frame can almost always be overcome by
careful sampling techniques
c. Integrity, fair play and accountability The main advantage of properly indexed
d. Integrity, honestly and accountability working papers is to
Statement 1: During audit planning, the Select one:
management should review all relevant
a. Reduce the size of the file.
information such as risk models/risk analysis,
audit plans, audit assignments, and activity b. Facilitate the efficient use of audit staff. 
reports. Statement 2: The chief audit executive
c. Better organize the working papers.
should provide written policies and procedures
to guide the audit staff. d. Allow division of labor within the audit team.
Select one: The audit plan should include the following,
except
a. True ; True
Select one:
b. False ; True 
a. The approximate starting date for each
c. True ; False
audit.
d. False ; False b. An estimate of the time required for each
Statement 1: Agency Concept is the basis for audit, risk, exposure and potential loss to the
the main driver for Corporate Governance. organization.
Statement 2: The desires or goals of the
c. A detailed schedule of areas to be audited
principal and agent conflict and they are
during the coming year.
difficult or expensive for the principal to verify
that the agent has behaved appropriately. d. Major changes in operations in one of the
Select one: departments. 
Internal audit works and is guided by a set of
a. False; True
standards to ensure credibility, reliability and
b. False; False quality of internal audit practitioners and their
audit work. This professional discipline called
c. True; True  as
d. True; False Select one:
Which one of the following statements about
a. Code of Ethics
sampling is true?
b. Audit Professionalism 
Select one:
c. Code of Standards
a. For a given sample size, a simple random
sample always produces the most d. Corporate Governance
representative sample 
It is the response to risk and decisions made in
b. A larger sample is always more respect of available choices and resources.
representative of the underlying population
Select one:
than a smaller sample
a. Opportunities
b. Assessment
c. Corporate objectives

d. Risk Management 
All of the following are parameters of statistical
sampling. Which is not?
Select one:
a. Difference Estimates 
b. Confidence
c. Precision

d. Error rate
Statement 1: Engagement working papers
generally support the accuracy and
completeness of the work performed.
Statement 2: Working papers should be signed
by the management and the board.
Select one:
a. True; True
b. True; False 
c. False; True

d. False; False

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