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Test Bank For Auditing An International Approach 8Th Edition By Wally Smieliauskas

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Chapter 03 - Auditors' Ethical and Legal Responsibilities Multiple Choice Questions Chapter 03 Auditors' Ethical and Legal Responsibilities 1. An auditor's responsibility to society can be divided into which three categories? A. Moral, professional, and fiscal. B. Moral, professional, and legal...

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,Chapter 01 - Introduction to Auditing

Chapter 01
Introduction to Auditing

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the main reason that independent auditors report on a
company's financial statements?
A. Management fraud may exist within the company and it is likely that the independent
auditors will detect it.
B. Users of financial statements need confidence in the numbers they base their decisions on.
C. Misstated account balances may be corrected as the result of the independent audit work.
D. The accounting system from which the financial statements are derived may have a poorly
designed system of internal control.

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Explain the importance of auditing.
Topic: 01-02 Introduction: The Concept of Auditing
Topic: 01-04 A Simple Illustration of the Importance of Auditing

2. Reducing information risk means the same as ________.
A. serving the public interest
B. monitoring economic activities
C. improving the credibility of information
D. ensuring generally accepted accounting principles are used to measure profit

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Explain the importance of auditing.
Topic: 01-02 Introduction: The Concept of Auditing
Topic: 01-04 A Simple Illustration of the Importance of Auditing

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3. In an audit engagement, the three-party accountability relationship involves all but which of
entities?
A. society
B. the users
C. the auditor
D. the accountable party

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Explain the importance of auditing.
Topic: 01-02 Introduction: The Concept of Auditing

4. The idea of recognizing auditing as playing a bigger part of social control is known as
_____.
A. Professional responsibility
B. An accountability relationship
C. The effective auditor concept
D. The audit society concept

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Explain the importance of auditing.
Topic: 01-02 Introduction: The Concept of Auditing

5. The agency problem can be mitigated by ________.
A. greater transparency
B. a higher degree of independence
C. design of contracts
D. internal auditing

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Explain the importance of auditing.
Topic: 01-05 Agency Theory and Accountability

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6. The underlying conditions that create demand by users for reliable financial information
include the fact that ________.
A. more reliable information will allow investors to calculate the rate of return on their
investment
B. users are separated from accounting records by distance and time
C. governments rely on such information to create tax policies
D. there is a need for the expression of an opinion as to the fairness of financial statements

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-02 Distinguish auditing from accounting.
Topic: 01-07 Accounting

7. The auditee is the person or company ________.
A. who will use the audited information
B. who performs an audit
C. who pays the audit fee
D. whose information is being audited

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-02 Distinguish auditing from accounting.
Topic: 01-08 More on Auditing

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