Showing posts with label 70.3 Audit Terms of Engagement. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Audit Engagement Letter Contents

Audit Engagement Letter Contents

        1.    Objective & Scope of Audit

First content of engagement letter is to describe the objective and scope of audit.

        2.    Responsibility of Auditor

Second content of engagement letter is auditor responsibilities. Auditor responsibility may be explained in term of reporting responsibility, responsibility of obtaining audit evidence and planning and conducting audit in accordance with international auditing standards.

         3.    Responsibilities of Management

Third content of engagement letter is to describe the responsibilities of management i.e. responsibility of preparation of financials statement, establishing of relevant internal control for preparation of financial statement, access to the auditor to the record.

         4.    Applicable Financial Framework

Fourth content of the engagement letter is the mentioning of applicable financial reporting framework.


Terms of Audit Engagement

Terms of Audit Engagement

Auditor and management of entity must agree on term of audit engagement. This agreement should be in the written form. Technically this agreement is known as engagement letter.

Significance of Terms of Engagement

Engagement letter is very important document, because it set a formal agreement between management and auditor, and secondly it avoids any confusion and misunderstanding between auditor and management.

Terms of Engagement for Recurring audit

Auditor will determine the two things in case of recurring audit
1)    Terms of engagement requires revision
2)    Need of reminder of term of engagement

Change in Terms of Engagement

Auditor shall carry out the audit in accordance with original term of condition, and shall not agree to a change in term of engagement, unless there is reasonable justification. If terms of engagement are changed then auditor and client must be agree to new terms.

Change in Terms is not agreed

Where auditor is not agree with new terms and auditor is not allowed to carry out the audit in accordance with original terms , then auditor shall withdraw from the audit ( if possible under law) ,and determine that whether this is need to report to the other parties . Sometime there is contractual requirement to report to other parties in aforesaid situation