Become an External Auditor - External Audit Process Level 1

Audit cash and bank balance by examining internal controls, performing tests, identifying errors and potential fraud, and applying extended audit procedures to general cash accounts for material fraud.

Learn how to audit cash and bank balances by evaluating existence, completeness, accuracy, cut-off, presentation and disclosure, and ledger footing, while maintaining professional skepticism.

Learn how audit procedures test management's assertions for assets and liabilities—existence, valuation, and rights—using confirmations, inspections, and recalculation.

Distinguish between test of details of class of transactions and test of details of account balance; additions reflect transactions, while beginning and ending balances reflect the account balance.

Learn substantive procedures for cash and bank balances, including analytical procedures, bank confirmations, and tests of completeness, existence, rights, and cut-off, with emphasis on inter-bank transfers and kiting risks.

Verify the bank reconciliation against the cash book and bank confirmation, trace deposits in transit, confirm charges on the statement, and ensure proper cut-off while identifying irregular items.

auditors set a tone of professional skepticism and apply fraud-focused cash procedures, including proof of cash, tests for kiting, inter-bank transfer schedules, and lapping.

Create a cash and bank balances working paper in Excel, reconciling the balances with the general ledger and trial balance, performing currency recalculation, variance analysis, and interbank transfer cutoff checks.

Explore auditing receivables within the external audit process, covering completeness, existence, rights and obligations, and valuation.

Assess the accounts receivables working paper to test existence, valuation, completeness, and rights, including aging and provisions, and review subsequent collections.

Learn how to audit non-current assets by outlining the objective, identifying inherent risks, and designing analytical procedures and tests of account balance for fixed assets.

Master the key assertions for auditing fixed assets: completeness, existence, rights and obligations, and valuation, by verifying acquisitions, disposals, ownership, and depreciation against accounting standards.

Identify inherent risks in fixed assets, including estimating useful life and construction-stage uncertainties. Monitor reevaluation objectivity, capitalization policies for repairs, movable high-value assets, obsolescence risk, idle assets, and disposal authorization.

Audit liabilities by testing completeness, rights and obligations, and valuation through analytical procedures, cash disbursements, and cutoff tests, while checking bank statements for unrecorded liabilities and ensuring accurate presentation disclosure.

examines liabilities through a detailed working paper approach, focusing on current liabilities and accounts payable, and tests year-end movements, completeness, and materiality using supporting documents and creditor statements.

Learn how to audit revenue by testing occurrence and completeness, sampling sales transactions, and linking them to invoices, contracts, and delivery notes, with analytical procedures for collectability and fraud risk.

Examine the revenues working paper to identify advertising and other revenue sources, analyze year-over-year variance and margins, and apply sampling and substantive tests to transactions.

Master order sampling and the steps of sampling, select representative samples, and explore statistical and non statistical sample selection methods for external audit.

Auditors design audit procedures by selecting samples based on item characteristics to gather sufficient evidence, understanding that sampling cannot project to the entire population but complements other evidence.

Design the sample based on the audit objective, population, and sample size to select representative items. Evaluate results after procedures, document errors, and conclude on the population.

Select a representative sample by random sampling when key items lack enough assurance. Recognize sampling risk from testing a portion of the population and distinguish it from not sampling risk.

Calculate the required sample size in an external audit using an Excel-based formula with a variability factor and confidence in client controls, then select representative random samples of key items.

Examine the expenses working paper to detect understatements and verify expense breakdowns. Audit payroll details, sample employees, and assess the rise in research and development against contracts to ensure accuracy.

Compile the external audit process requirements by reviewing client financial statements, confirming assets and liabilities with bank statements and reconciliations, and validating revenue, expenses, payroll, and key contracts.