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Auditing and Assurance Services in Australia: An integrated approach, 7e

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Alvin A. Arens , Michigan State University
Peter Best , Queensland University of Technology
Greg Shailer , Australian National University
Brenton Fiedler , University of South Australia
Randal J. Elder , Syracuse University
Mark Beasley , North Carolina State

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   ISBN:  9780733983849      ISBN10:  0733983847      RRP inc. GST:  $129.95
   Published:  9/02/2007      Format:  Book With CD     

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Auditing, Assurance Services and Ethics in Australia: An integrated approach, 8e
Alvin A. Arens ; Peter Best ; Greg Shailer ; Brenton Fiedler
ISBN 9781442504752   ISBN 10: 1442504757   ©2010

The eighth edition of Auditing, Assurance Services and Ethics in Australia: An Integrated Approach represents a conscious effort to focus on the Australian auditing environment in terms of the current...

Description top

Appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate accounting majors, for either a full year or one semester course.

Auditing and Assurance Services in Australia: An Integrated Approach, 7e, is an introduction to auditing for students who have not had significant experience in the field. This text represents a conscious effort to focus on the Australian auditing environment in terms of current practices and standards issued jointly by The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and CPA Australia. This edition of the text incorporates The Force of Law Auditing Standards (ASAs) issued by the Australian Auditing and Assurances Standards boards (AUASB) in May 2006; as well as the new Professional Standard: Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants operational from 1 July 2006.

Topics appear as they would during the audit planning and execution stage rather than as isolated pieces of information. There is a particular emphasis on the decision-making approach so that students will be able to determine the appropriate evidence they need to gather for an audit as well as how to evaluate the evidence obtained.


New To This Edition top

• NEW terminology throughout reflecting changes in The Force of Law Auditing Standards (ASAs) issued by the Australian Auditing and Assurances Standards boards (AUASB) in May 2006.
• NEW content updated throughout to incorporate the new auditing standards and the Professional Standard: Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants released by The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB). The text discusses the implications of these changes for the auditing profession.
• NEW updated Hillsburgh Hardware annual financial report colour supplement. Extracts from the annual report for the running case of the fictitious Hillsburgh Hardware Company are integrated into chapter content and illustrate chapter concepts in a ‘real world’ type business environment.
• NEW Student Study Guide has been updated to reflect changes in auditing standards and terminology.


Features and Benefits top

Pinnacle Manufacturing Integrated Case. Represented in six parts, the case uses a large, multi-dimensional company and is developed at the end of chapters to which the part relates. The parts of the case are connected so that students will gain a better understanding of how the sections of the audit are interrelated and integrated by the auditing process.
Increased emphasis on audit quality including updated and extended coverage of ethical responsibility and legal liability, in the context of the role of auditing in corporate governance.
ACL student version software CD packaged with the text. ACL is the market-leading global auditing software students will most likely encounter when they enter the business world. This supplement provides a wide range of opportunities for incorporating computer-assisted auditing techniques into the auditing curriculum.
Internet Problems—a number of chapters include Internet-based cases that require students to use the Internet to research relevant auditing issues.
• In chapters dealing with audit of transaction cycles, reference is made to the impact of e-commerce on control and other activities in the cycle.
End-of-chapter questions and problems reinforce student understanding of issues affecting the audit cycle.


Table of Contents top

Preface
Visual Preface
About the authors

Chapter 1          Demand for audit and assurance services
Chapter 2          Audit reports
Chapter 3          Auditors’ legal environment
Chapter 4          Audit quality and ethics
Chapter 5          Audit responsibilities and objectives
Chapter 6          Audit evidence
Chapter 7          Audit planning and documentation
Chapter 8          Materiality and risk
Chapter 9          Internal control and control risk
Chapter 10        Fraud auditing
Chapter 11        The impact of information technology on the audit process
Chapter 12        Overall audit plan and audit program
Chapter 13        Audit of the sales and collection cycle: tests of controls and substantive tests of transactions
Chapter 14        Completing the tests in the sales and collection cycle: accounts receivable
Chapter 15        Audit sampling
Chapter 16        Audit of transaction cycles and financial balance statements I
Chapter 17        Audit of transaction cycles and financial balance statements II
Chapter 18        Completing the audit
Chapter 19        Other assurance engagements and environments


About the Authors top

Alvin A. Arens (BBA, MS, PhD) is the Pricewaterhouse Coopers Auditing Professor at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. He has received many awards for teaching excellence, and his groundbreaking book Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach is currently in its 11th edition.

Peter Best (BCom, MEngSci, PhD, FCPA) is Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy at the Queensland University of Technology. He has taught accounting at the University of Queensland, University of Newcastle, University of Adelaide, Flinders University and QUT. Peter is a Fellow of CPA Australia and an Associate of the ICAA. He has acted as consultant to a variety of accounting firms and government departments both here and overseas. His specialist teaching areas include accounting information systems, auditing, information systems auditing and SAP R/3. Peter is co-author of Auditing Computer Based Systems, Horngren Accounting and Financial Accounting and previous editions of Auditing in Australia: An Integrated Approach.

Greg Shailer (BCom, MCom, PhD, FCPA) is a Reader in the School of Business and Information Management at the Australian National University. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate auditing courses and has taught in prominent Australian, UK and US universities. His research focuses on the role of auditing, corporate governance and disclosure regulation. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia and has prior public accounting experience with both small and large firms.

Brenton Fiedler (BA Acc, MBus, FCA) is an Associate Professor in the School of Commerce at the University of South Australia. Brenton is a fellow of the ICAA, and is a former senior manager in the Adelaide audit division of KPMG. His specialist teaching areas include auditing, financial accounting and corporate strategy, and he has taught both locally and overseas. Brenton is also the author of the Student Guide to Auditing in Australia: An Integrated Approach.



Target Audience top

Appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate accounting majors, for either a full year or one semester course.
 
Supports the competency units
  • FNSACCT602A         Audit and report on financial systems and records
  • FNSACCT606A         Conduct internal audit


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Supplements

  Auditing & Ass Services In Aust Ctb Sup, 7e
Arens
ISBN:
ISBN 10: 
9780733985478
0733985475    
Format: CD Only
Published: 19/03/2007

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You must login to access this resource PowerPoint Presentation: PowerPoint, Chapters 01-19 - Authored by Amanda Carrol, University of Canberra. 
You must login to access this resource Instructor's Manual: Chapters 01-19 - Authored by Amanda Carrol, University of Canberra. 
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You must login to access this resource PowerPoint Presentation: Computer-Assisted Auditing Techniques (CAATs) and ACL PowerPoint presentations - Compiled by Peter Best, Queensland University of Technology 
You must login to access this resource Miscellaneous: Podquiz - Podquiz is a series of revision questions, comprised of images specifically designed for the iPod screen. This download includes a folder of images for each chapter of the book and instructions for uploading the images to an iPod. 
You must login to access this resource Miscellaneous Student Resource: ACL Software update version 9 - Save and extract zip file to desktop. Click on setup.exe file and follow the Install proces for ACL 9 Education Edition. 

Student Resources top

Supplements

  Auditing Student Study Guide, 7e
Brenton Fiedler
ISBN:
ISBN 10: 
9780733983856
0733983855    
Format: Paperback
Published: 18/01/2007
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You must login to access this resource Miscellaneous Student Resource: ACL Student Material  
You must login to access this resource Miscellaneous Student Resource: ACL Software update version 9 - Save and extract zip file to desktop. Click on setup.exe file and follow the Install proces for ACL 9 Education Edition.