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[3] [4] Financial statement assertions provide a framework to assess the risk of material misstatement in each significant account balance or class of transactions. [5] Both United States and International auditing standards include guidance related to financial statement assertions, although the specific assertions differ.
Financial statement assertions [ edit ] It is stated in ISA 315 (paragraph A.124) that the auditor should use assertions for classes of transactions, account balances, and presentation and disclosures in sufficient detail to form a basis for the assessment of risks of material misstatement and the design and performance of further audit procedures.
Finally in the conclusion and opinion formulation stage, audit evidence is the information considered by the auditor before determining whether the financial statements as a whole present with completeness, validity, accuracy, and consistency with the auditor's understanding of the entity.
Lists of assertion-level control objectives are available in most financial auditing textbooks. Excellent examples are also available in AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards No. 110 (SAS 110) [6] for the inventory process. SAS 106 includes the latest guidance on financial statement assertions. [7]
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Substantive procedures (or substantive tests) are those activities performed by the auditor to detect material misstatement at the assertion level. [1]Management implicitly assert that account balances and disclosures and underlying classes of transactions do not contain any material misstatements: in other words, that they are materially complete, valid and accurate.
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