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What are the objectives of audit?

An audit ensures that a business is following the standard rules and regulations imposed on it. A hospital audit makes sure that the hospital isn't placing patient's lives at risk.


What are the three components of Audit risk?

Inherent Risk, Control Risk and Detection Risk


How Internal audit is different from Risk based internal audit?

A risk base internal audit is latest approach to ensure best practices aiming at maximizing the impact of audit by focusing on the major strategy ,regulatory, financial and operation risk that confront an organization while internal audit is traditional independent examination of financial and operation of an organization to ensure economic,effective and efficiency utilization of an organizations resources


What is the difference between audit and due diligence?

usually audit is limited to financial analysis but due diligence is not only analysis of financial statments but also business plan ,sustainablity of business,future aspects ,corporate and management structure,legal issues etc the audit gives us positive assurence that is true and fair view whereas due diligence gives us negative assurence i.e identify the risk if any , audit is of recurring nature but due diligence is occasinal event


Who should internal audit department report to?

The internal audit department should ideally report to the board of directors or an audit committee within the board, rather than management. This structure helps ensure independence and objectivity in the audit process, allowing auditors to provide unbiased assessments of the organization's risk management, control, and governance processes. Reporting to the board also fosters transparency and accountability, enhancing the overall effectiveness of the internal audit function.

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What are the objectives of audit?

An audit ensures that a business is following the standard rules and regulations imposed on it. A hospital audit makes sure that the hospital isn't placing patient's lives at risk.


What are the three components of Audit risk?

Inherent Risk, Control Risk and Detection Risk


What are analytical procedures?

Analytical procedures are "one of many financial audit processes which help an auditor understand the client's business and changes in the business, and to identify potential risk areas to plan other audit procedures." So essentially these are the procedures that an auditor goes through to look at risks within the business.


What is audit committee?

Audit Committe enhance communication between Internal Audit, External Audit and CFO. Audit Committe assist directors to avoid litigatio risk.


Audit risk assessment and audit plan?

An audit is considered a risk assessment, therefore these terms are interchangeable. And audit plan can have various meanings, some consider this to be an annual audit plan which includes all the audits that will occur within a companies calendar year. Others consider this to be the plan for undertaking a specific audit. Its all in how you define the words, audit plan, audit schedule, audit check list.


What is the audit risk for Qantas?

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What is risk management software used for?

Risk management software is used to help an organisation/business manage their governance, legal risk and compliance issues, as well as organisational obligations.Typically, they are combined with risk minimisation techniques to reduce the implications of these risks.


What is a risk assessment acceptance decision?

When risk assessment is used for public health or environmental decisions, loss audit firm, risk assessment is a very crucial stage before accepting an audit.


How Internal audit is different from Risk based internal audit?

A risk base internal audit is latest approach to ensure best practices aiming at maximizing the impact of audit by focusing on the major strategy ,regulatory, financial and operation risk that confront an organization while internal audit is traditional independent examination of financial and operation of an organization to ensure economic,effective and efficiency utilization of an organizations resources


What is Risk based internal audit?

Risk based audit is an approach used in auditing to determine what areas in a business have a high risk of causing misstatements in the financial report. This method is also used to know what auditing procedures should be used in order to have an efficient and effective financial outcome.


What is the difference between audit and due diligence?

usually audit is limited to financial analysis but due diligence is not only analysis of financial statments but also business plan ,sustainablity of business,future aspects ,corporate and management structure,legal issues etc the audit gives us positive assurence that is true and fair view whereas due diligence gives us negative assurence i.e identify the risk if any , audit is of recurring nature but due diligence is occasinal event


Examine the concept of business risk and uncertainties and explain various business risk?

business risk is the risk ,a business face ,again the achieving of its objectives ,it can be of many types , like currency risk, political risk , industry specific risk , also financial risk that can also be business risk