Anti-Fraud Collaboration Publication: The Role of the Auditor: Exercising and Maintaining Professional Scepticism

2025-11-28T14:16:44+02:00

LATEST UPDATE Anti-Fraud Collaboration Publication: The Role of the Auditor: Exercising and Maintaining Professional Scepticism This publication provides insights into practices, guides and considerations that can help external auditors exercise, and maintain their professional scepticism effectively during the audit. It discusses the auditor’s responsibilities to exercise professional scepticism as required by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standards in the US. The publication is available on: https://antifraudcollaboration.org/rota-fraud-exercising-and-maintaining-professional-skepticism/ more LEAFQuest Advance Your Knowledge in Auditing Enroll in Our Latest Courses! Quests List [...]

Anti-Fraud Collaboration Publication: The Role of the Auditor: Exercising and Maintaining Professional Scepticism2025-11-28T14:16:44+02:00

External Auditor Assessment Tool: A Tool for Audit Committees

2025-11-26T12:27:04+02:00

LATEST UPDATE External Auditor Assessment Tool: A Tool for Audit Committees The Centre for Audit Quality (CAQ) issued a targeted assessment tool that audit committees can use to evaluate whether to retain the external auditor. The questionnaire focuses on four key areas: service quality and resources, communication effectiveness, and the auditor’s independence and objectivity. Constructive, two-way dialogue with the auditor strengthens audit quality and committee oversight. The evaluation should cover the auditor’s qualifications, firm-wide quality practices, transparency, and professional scepticism. The tool is available on: https://www.thecaq.org/external-auditor-assessment-tool-a-tool-for-audit-committees/ more LEAFQuest Advance [...]

External Auditor Assessment Tool: A Tool for Audit Committees2025-11-26T12:27:04+02:00

Auditing of Compliance with Financial Reporting Frameworks – The Presentation Assertion

2021-02-22T13:59:41+02:00

Auditing of Compliance with Financial Reporting Frameworks – the Presentation Assertion Audit regulators are reporting that financial statement disclosure deficiencies have increased substantially over the past few years. It is crucial for auditors to realise that they need to have a sound understanding of the financial reporting framework applied by the entity and perform thorough audit procedures to determine whether the financial reporting framework has been correctly applied. This does not merely require the completion of a disclosure checklist, but also the verification of recognition and measurement, in terms of the financial reporting framework and reporting responsibilities placed [...]

Auditing of Compliance with Financial Reporting Frameworks – The Presentation Assertion2021-02-22T13:59:41+02:00

Transactions that are not at arm’s length

2021-09-19T17:36:53+02:00

Transactions that are not at arm’s length Due to the prevalence of fraud over the past few years, the IRBA issued a staff audit practice alert in June 2020 to provide auditors with guidance and considerations, with respect to transactions that are not at arm’s length, and the possible audit responses to the resulting audit risks. This article provides a summary of the key aspects addressed in the IRBA staff audit practice alert and encapsulates the message in simpler terms. Please remember to also [...]

Transactions that are not at arm’s length2021-09-19T17:36:53+02:00

Fraud – IRBA Staff Audit Practice Alert 4

2021-02-26T10:50:33+02:00

Fraud - IRBA Staff Audit Practice Alert 4 The IRBA issued a staff audit practice alert in June 2020 to provide auditors with implementation guidance in responding to the risks of material misstatements due to fraud and/or non-compliance with laws and regulations. As is normally the case, this publication is quite lengthy and written in a format which makes it difficult for a practitioner to read and analyse in one sitting.This is a shorter interpretation of the alert to reduce the volume thereof and to highlight [...]

Fraud – IRBA Staff Audit Practice Alert 42021-02-26T10:50:33+02:00
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