Planning an Audit, step by step
The planning sequence.
- Accept or continueAssess integrity, independence and competence to serve.
- Understand the entityBusiness, industry, regulation and control environment.
- Set materialityFor the statements as a whole and for particular balances.
- Assess risksIdentify where material misstatement is most likely.
- Design the responseControls testing, substantive testing, or both.
- Write the audit planScope, timing, resources and the team's assignments.
Materiality is often set as a percentage of profit, revenue or assets, then adjusted for risk and the users' needs.
Questions about the Planning an Audit poster
- What’s on the Planning an Audit poster?
- 6 numbered steps. The planning sequence. Accept or continue — Assess integrity, independence and competence to serve.; Understand the entity — Business, industry, regulation and control environment.; Set materiality — For the statements as a whole and for particular balances.; Assess risks — Identify where material misstatement is most likely.; Design the response — Controls testing, substantive testing, or both.; Write the audit plan — Scope, timing, resources and the team's assignments.. Materiality is often set as a percentage of profit, revenue or assets, then adjusted for risk and the users' needs.
- Who is the Planning an Audit poster for?
- Planning an Audit belongs to the Accounting & Finance section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning audit & assurance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Planning an Audit poster?
- Planning decides where the effort goes. Poor planning cannot be recovered by more testing. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Planning an Audit belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Planning an Audit?
- Assurance Engagements, Audit Documentation and Audit Evidence sit alongside Planning an Audit in the Accounting & Finance section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Assurance EngagementsAudit DocumentationAudit Evidence
- Is the Planning an Audit poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Planning an Audit downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Accounting & Finance section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Planning an Audit poster print at?
- Planning an Audit is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Planning an Audit loses nothing.Printing guide
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