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This Audit Risk Alert is intended to provide auditors of investment companies with an overview of recent economic, industry, technical, regulatory, and professional developments that may affect the audits and other engagements they perform. This alert can also be used by an entity’s internal management to address areas of audit concern. This alert is an important tool in helping you identify the significant risks that may result in the material misstatement of financial statements. Moreover, this alert delivers information about emerging practice issues and current accounting and auditing developments.
This alert includes discussion of recent economic events including the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and provides recent regulatory updates. You will find information on recently issued accounting and auditing standards such as:
Additionally, this alert discusses audit issues arising as a result of the current economic crisis including liquidity issues, going concern, auditing fair value measurements, and fraud.
You will also find information on emerging issues such as:
This publication is an other auditing publication as defined in AU section 150. Other auditing publications have no authoritative status; however, they may help the auditor understand and apply the Statements on Auditing Standards. The auditing guidance in this document has been reviewed by the AICPA Audit and Attest Standards staff and published by the AICPA and is presumed to be appropriate. This document has not been approved, disapproved, or otherwise acted on by a senior technical committee of the AICPA.
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Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement
.03 An auditor must obtain a sufficient understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control, to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements whether due to error or fraud, and to design the nature, timing, and extent of further audit procedures. An auditor's understanding of the entity and its environment consists of an understanding of the following aspects:
.04 The investment companies industry may be subject to specific risks of material misstatement arising from the nature of the business, the degree of regulation, or other external forces (for example, political, economic, social, technical, and competitive forces).
.05 The auditor should obtain an understanding of the entity's objectives and strategies and the related business risks that may result in material misstatement of the financial statements. Business risks result from significant conditions, events, circumstances, actions, or inactions that could adversely affect the entity's ability to achieve its objectives and execute its strategies or through the setting of inappropriate objectives and strategies. Just as the external environment changes, the conduct of the entity's business also is dynamic, and the entity's strategies and objectives change over time. An understanding of business risks increases the likelihood of identifying risks of material misstatement. However, the auditor does not have a responsibility to identify or assess all business risks. Most business risks will eventually have financial consequences and, therefore, an effect on the financial statements. However, not all business risks give rise to risks of material misstatement.
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