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Fraud Risk Assessment: A Study on Auditing Firms

Dr. Ashok Kumar Kothari

DIP: 18.02.022/20170201

DOI: 10.25215/2455/0201022

Received: December 16, 2016; Revision Received: February 18, 2017; Accepted: March 25, 2017

Abstract

The viability of audits in recognizing deceitful misstatements in financial statements is of significant worry to the auditing calls. This worry prompted the issuance of Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 82, which rolled out a few improvements in the way in which reviewers are needed to consider the risk of material misstatements because of misrepresentation. This composition reports the aftereffects of an investigation of the acts of CPA firms in executing SAS No. 82. We looked at review manuals and practice helps and talked with firm faculty from the entirety of the Big 5 firms and two second-level firms. Consequences of this examination show that review firms contrast as to (1) regardless of whether their training helps for extortion risk appraisal are discrete or coordinated with other risk evaluation practice helps, (2) the circumstance of the misrepresentation risk survey ment, and (3) the strategy for surveying misrepresentation risk. Moreover, albeit the entirety of the organizations considered incorporating the entirety of the SAS No. 82 factors in their review practice helps, certain other misrepresentation risk factors distinguished in the academic examination are excluded from firm practice helps.

The authors profoundly appreciate all the people who have successfully contributed to ensuring this paper in place. Their contributions are acknowledged however their names cannot be mentioned.

The author declared no conflict of interest.

This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Dr. Ashok Kumar Kothari @ ashokmgc10@gmail.com

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

DIP: 18.02.022/20170201

DOI: 10.25215/2455/0201022

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Volume 02, Issue 1, January – March, 2017

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