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What are the duties of the auditor under the Companies Act 1965?

According to Companies Act 1965 Section 174, auditor should perform the following duties, a) Statutory Duties. Auditor should examine and form an opinion whether the financial statements get a true and fair view and compliance the financial reporting standards of Malaysia and the Companies Act 1965. b) Duty to carry out audit or perform audit procedure. Auditor should examine and form an opinion whether the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial statement such as financial position of the auditee as of the financial year end and of its financial performance and cash flows of the year end. c) Duty to report to appropriate management. Auditor should report the accounting and other records and the registers required by the Companies Act to be kept by the company have been properly kept in accordance with the provisions of the Act. d) Duty to be independent. Auditor is under a duty to exercise the appropriate standard of care to shareholders and outsiders. e) Duty to use reasonable care and skill. Auditor should obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatements.

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The auditor must plan the audit so as to enable him/her to detect all

misstatements. Discuss. The purpose of planning stage is plan the audit so that it will be performed in an effective manner. During the planning stage, auditor should design and perform the audit planning to detect the potential threat that may be occurred and also limited the audit risk to a lower level. Auditor will get the knowledge of the clients business, auditor able to identify the potential threat that may be occurred. The planning stage will be emphasis on the material misstatement based on the professional judgement but not absolute detect all the misstatement such as immaterial misstatement will not be concern.

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Explain the steps to be taken by the auditor if there are reasons to

believe that there are (i) errors and (ii) frauds. According to SAS 110, the auditors shall indicates that fraud or error that exist by understanding of the nature of the event and the circumstances, and sufficient other information to determine and evaluate the possible implication on the financial statements. If the auditors believe that the indicated fraud or error could have a material effect on the financial statements, they should perform appropriate modified or additional procedures. Where there is a significant error or fraud, the auditor shall consider the necessity for disclosure of the error or fraud in financial statements, and report to the relevance third party (management level). If adequate disclosure is not made, there shall be a necessity for a suitable disclosure in audit report so called qualified audit report.

(4)

What is an audit engagement letter? What steps should be taken by the

auditor after receiving the audit engagement letter? According to standard, audit engagement letter refers to a written contract between the client and accounting firm. Its purpose is to acceptance the relationship between the auditee and the audit firm. It defines the matters such as the objectives of the engagement, the scope of the audit, the duties and responsibilities of each party and so on. It has statutory binding force. After receiving audit engagement letter, there will be an interview or opening conference between engagement parties and audit firm. During the meeting, auditee is asked about or describes the relevance resource required by audit firm. The auditor may be required to meet the person in charge those relevance resources. After getting the required information, auditor will perform a general overview on it and review the internal control of the auditee in order to determine the audit risk that may be occurred.

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What are the purposes of the audit working papers?

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1. It provides a basis of audit planning. During the planning stage, auditor may need to use the information from the previous year, such as the evaluation of internal control, the time budget. 2. It provides the evidence accumulated record keeper and the results of the tests. It refers to primary resources of documenting an adequate audit that was performed. 3. It provides resources for deciding the proper type of audit report. Those resources are used in planning and determining the scope of the audit and also the fairness with which the financial statements are stated. 4. It provides a platform for management to review such as manager and partners. They need to use the audit documentation to measure whether sufficient appropriate evidence was accumulated in order to justify the audit report. This audit documentation has several purposes during the auditing and after the auditing is completed. The main purpose is for reviewer to review the file prepared by auditor. Next, it uses to plan the subsequent year audit such as audit planning. Besides that, it demonstrates that the auditor has record and accumulated sufficient appropriate evidence which may be need to defend the audit at a later date. Therefore, audit documentation is important to provide sufficient information so that the person reviewing an audit schedule knows the name of the client, contents of the audit schedule, period covered, who prepared the audit schedule, when it was prepared, and how it ties into the rest of the audit files with an index code.

(6) file.

Describe the different types of information that are kept in the current

Current audit file include following resources: 1. Audit plan, report and audit programmes copies 2. Clearance the problems that occurred in audit work such as journal entries and minutes of meetings. 3. Copies of annual records such as trade account, trial balance and profit and loss account and balance sheet 4. Bank reconciliation statement 5. Minutes of meetings
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6. Current financial statements 7. Working papers supporting account 8. Paper of calculation of tax bonus. 9. List of lost proofs 10. Paper regarding stock evaluation

(7)

State the nature and the importance of audit evidence.

According to ISA, there is nine type of audit evidence which include physical examination, confirmation, documentation, analytical procedures, inquiries,

scanning, recalculation, reperformance and observation. The nature of audit evidences includes invoices, contracts, and worksheets, general and subsidiary ledger and so on. Audit evidence is important as it provides the auditor with the information regarding the potential threat or weakness that may be occurred in the client's financial statements. Audit evidence is useful as it provides the auditor with some degree of competent evidential support for the expression of an audit opinion. It facilitates the completion of audit programme scheduled and undertaken by finding out the compliance of a companys financial statements with the GAAP applicable to the jurisdiction of the entity.

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According to ISA 500, what type of evidence is the auditor required to

collect? According to ISA 500, auditor required to collect sufficient and appropriate audit evidence in order to make reasonable conclusions based on the audit judgment and opinion. Both of them are used to apply in audit evidence from both tests of controls and substantive tests. Sufficiency refers to a measure of the quantity of evidence and it refers to sample size and items to select. Higher quality evidence will be results in a lower quantity of audit evidence. It means that a low amount of sample is need during the audit performance.

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Appropriateness is a measure of the relevance and reliability of audit evidence. It also refers to a degree on which evidence can be trust. Appropriateness relates to the audit procedures selected, including the timing of when those procedures are performed.

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References
Malaysian Insttute of Acountants (Mar 2009). ISA 500. Retrieved on December 20, 2012, from http://www.mia.org.my/handbook/guide/MASA/ISA500.pdf Law of Malaysia. (2006). Companies Act 1965. Retrieved on December 10, 2012, from http://jpt.mohe.gov.my/RUJUKAN/akta/akta%20syarikat.pdf Malaysian Financial Reporting Standards. Retrieved on December 10, 2012, from http://www.masb.org.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i d=1649&Itemid=14 Messier, William Jr (2003). Auditing and Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach. Third Edition, New York: McGraw-Hill. Shaari Isa (2008). Understanding Auditing in Malaysia. Second Edition, Kuala Lumpur, Pearson Prentice Hall. The Chartered Accountant. (Nov 2002). Auditors Responsibility to Consider Fraud and Error in an Audit of Financial Statements. Retrieved on December 10, 2012, from http://www.icai.org/resource_file/11624p509525.pdf

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