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217: 72:. A risk-based approach will seek to identify risks with the greatest potential impact. Strategic risk analysis will then include political and social risks such as the potential effect of legislation and demographic change. 45:
required directors to provide a statement to shareholders of the significant risks to the business. This then encouraged the audit activity of studying these risks rather than just checking compliance with existing controls.
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An experiment suggested that managers might respond to risk-based auditing by transferring activity to accounts which are ostensibly low risk. Auditors would need to anticipate such attempts to game the process.
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Bowlin, Kendall (July 2011), "Risk-Based Auditing, Strategic Prompts, and Auditor Sensitivity to the Strategic Risk of Fraud",
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Eilifsen, Aasmund; Knechel, W. Robert; Wallage, Philip (2001), "Application of the Business Risk Audit Model: A Field Study",
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A traditional audit would focus upon the transactions which would make up financial statements such as the
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4360. The latter is now the basis for a family of international standards for risk management —
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auditing
risk
Turnbull Report
corporate governance
risk management
COSO
AS/NZS
ISO 31000
balance sheet
Griffiths 2005
Griffiths 2005
Eilifsen, Knechel & Wallage 2001
Bowlin 2011
doi
10.2308/accr-10039
doi
10.2308/acch.2001.15.3.193
ISBN
0566086522
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stub
expanding it
v
t
e
Categories
Types of auditing
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