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1. Understand the audit risk model, its components, and its relevance to audit planning
2. Explain the inheremt risk assessment process and assess inherent risk
3. Distinguish between overall risk response and risk response at the assertion level
4. Perform a preliminary fraud risk assessment
5. Describe the fraud triangle and identify conditions for fraud
6. Develop responses to identified fraud risks
1. CAS 200 Overall objectives of the independent auditor and the conduct of an audit in
accordance with Canadian auditing standards
2. CAS 240 The auditors responsibilities relating to fraud in an audit of financial statements
3. CAS 315 Indetifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement
4. CAS 330 Auditor’s responses to assessed risks
This chapter, we continue our discussions auditor’s risk assessment, with a focus on inherent
risk factors and significant risks (including fraud risk).
a) Complexity
b) Subjectivity
c) Change
d) Uncertainty
e) Susceptibility to misstatement due to management bias and/or
fraud risk factors
2) Identifying and assessing overall financial statement risk, are risk that
pervasively to the financial statements a whole, and can potentially affect
many assertions. Explains that once auditors identifity overall financial
statement risk they will
a) Determine whether the risks affect the assessment of risks at the
assertion level
b) Evaluate the nature and extent of their pervasive effect on the financial
statements
Below are some examples of events and conditions that are pervasive risks
that cannont be isolated to specific accounts and assertions.