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Materiality and risk in audit and review engagements

Table of Contents
Module 1: Materiality +

• The role of materiality

• The determination of materiality

• Materiality and review engagements

• Determination and documentation of materiality — An example

• Review questions

• Review solutions

Module 2: Audit risk and the risks of material misstatement +

• Introduction

• Audit risk

• Risk and review engagements

• Documentation of the assessment of audit risk

• Assessing the risk of material misstatement

• Review questions

• Review solutions

Module 3: The auditor's responses to assessed risks +

• At the financial statement level

• At the assertion level for classes of transactions, account balances, and disclosures

• Application to test of controls

• Application to substantive testing

• Interpretation of “low,” “moderate,” and “high”

• Evaluating the sufficiency of audit evidence obtained

• Detection risk and review engagements

• Review questions

• Review solutions

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Illustration 1: Evaluating misstatements

Illustration 2: Evaluating misstatements – Adjustments

Appendix A: Canadian Hardware Sales Ltd. and select PPM forms

Appendix B: Select PPM forms

Glossary