Chartered Accountancy IPCC Auditing and Assurance Syllabus

Auditing and Assurance

(One paper – three hours – 100 marks)

Level of knowledge: Working Knowledge

Objective:

To understand objective and concepts of auditing and gain working knowledge of generally accepted auditing procedures and of techniques and skills needed to apply them in audit and attestation engagements and solving simple case-studies.

Contents

1. Auditing Concepts  – Nature and limitations of Auditing, Basic Principles governing an audit, Ethical  principles and concept of Auditor’s Independence, Relationship of auditing with other disciplines.

2. Auditing and Assurance Standards – Overview, Standard-setting process, Role of International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in India. 

3. Auditing engagement  – Audit planning, Audit programme, Control of quality of audit work– Delegation and supervision of audit work.

4.  Documentation  – Audit working papers, Audit files:  Permanent and current audit files, Ownership and custody of working papers.

5.  Audit evidence – Audit procedures for obtaining evidence, Sources of evidence, Reliability of audit evidence, Methods of obtaining audit evidence, Physical verification, Documentation, Direct confirmation, Re-computation, Analytical review techniques, Representation by management.

6.  Internal Control  – Elements of internal control, Review and documentation, Evaluation of internal control system, Internal control questionnaire, Internal control check list, Tests of control, Application of concept of materiality and audit risk, Concept of internal audit.   

7. Internal Control and Computerized  Environment, Approaches to Auditing in Computerised Environment.

8. Audit Sampling – Types of sampling, Test checking, Techniques of test checks.

9. Analytical review procedures.

10. Audit of payments – General considerations, Wages, Capital expenditure, Other payments and expenses, Petty cash payments, Bank payments, Bank reconciliation. 

11. Audit of receipts – General considerations, Cash sales, Receipts from debtors, Other Receipts. 

12.  Audit of Purchases – Vouching cash and credit purchases, Forward purchases, Purchase returns, Allowance received from suppliers.

13.  Audit of Sales – Vouching of cash and credit sales, Goods on consignment, Sale on approval basis, Sale under hire-purchase agreement, Returnable containers, Various types of allowances given to customers, Sale returns.

14.  Audit of suppliers’ ledger and the debtors’ ledger – Self-balancing and the sectional balancing system, Total or control accounts, Confirmatory statements from credit customers and suppliers, Provision for bad and doubtful debts, Writing off of bad debts.

15. Audit of impersonal ledger – Capital expenditure, deferred revenue expenditure and revenue expenditure, Outstanding expenses and income, Repairs and renewals, Distinction between  reserves and provisions,  Implications of change in the basis of accounting.

16.  Audit of assets and liabilities.

17. Company Audit – Audit of Shares, Qualifications and Disqualifications of Auditors, Appointment of auditors, Removal of auditors, Powers and duties of auditors,  Branch audit, Joint audit, Special audit, Reporting requirements under the Companies Act, 1956. 

18. Audit Report  – Qualifications, Disclaimers, Adverse opinion, Disclosures, Reports and certificates. 

19. Special points in audit of different types of undertakings, i.e., Educational institutions, Hotels, Clubs, Hospitals, Hire-purchase and leasing companies (excluding banks, electricity companies, cooperative societies, and insurance companies).

20. Features  and  basic  principles  of  government  audit,  Local  bodies  and  not-for-profit organizations, Comptroller and Auditor General and its constitutional role.

Note: Candidates are expected to have working knowledge of relevant  Auditing and Assurance Standards issued by the ICAI with reference to above-mentioned topics.