Best Practices for Identifying and Evaluating Audit Risk – Linking Risk to the Detailed Audit Plan

Properly identifying, assessing, and responding to risk through a detailed audit plan is critical to an effective and efficient financial statement audit. This module will emphasize the key concepts and best practices that drive a thoughtful risk-based approach to forming an opinion on the financial statements.

Major Topics:

• Overview of a risk-based audit process
• How the individual elements of the audit risk formula interrelate
• Emphasis on overall risk, fraud risk, and control risk
• Linking the assessed risk of material misstatement to the detailed audit plan
• Documenting risk assessment conclusions and responses