HI6026 – Audit, Assurance, and Compliance

Assessment item 1 —  Individual Assignment

Due date: 11.00pm Friday Week 6

Weighting: 20%

Research Assessment:

Download a company annual report which is listed in ASX and must be present in the ASX   S&P   300   index, along with this annual report, the student should download the corporate statement of the same company.

Structure of your research report:

1. Executive Summary of the assessment
2. Focus in each headline the implication of ASX  Corporate  Governance  Principles from your selected company (reference link B).  Conceptualize  and  explain  how  to your   selected   company   implements   ASX   CGC   principles   (read   carefully   from reference link A.3 and A.4 to follow)
3. Risk assessment (When performing an audit, you use risk assessment procedures to assess the risk that material misstatement exists.  This step is very important because the whole point of a financial statement audit is finding out if the financial statements are materially correct. How exactly do you assess audit risk?) There are various  steps  of  risk  assessment  procedures,  but  your  report  will  focus  mainly:

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Recognizing the nature of the company, what ’s the company ’s market overview?  Who  (if anyone) regulates the client?  What’s the company’s business strategy?   Computation   of   income   statement   and   balance   sheet   ratio,   and

Development of common-size financial statements and focus on relevant audit risk and potential steps to reduce risk (reference link C).

Additional Resources Reference link:

A.

1.https://www.asx.com.au/regulation/corporate-governance-council.htm

2.https://www.asx.com.au/documents/asx-compliance/cgc-principles-and-recom mentions-3rd-edn.pdf

3.http://www.orionequities.com.au/sites/default/files/20171018%20OEQ%20ASX

%20Corporate%20Governance%20Statement%20-%202017.pdf

4.https://www.transurban.com.au/content/dam/transurban-pdfs/02/corporate-governance/Corporate_Governance_Statement.pdf

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1. ASX CGS Principles:

The Principles and Recommendations are structured around, and seek to promote 8 central principles:

1. Lay solid foundations for management and oversight: Your selected company should establish and disclose the respective roles and responsibilities of its board and management and how their performance is monitored and evaluated.
2. Structure the board to add value: Your selected company should have a board of an appropriate size, composition, skills, and commitment to enable it to discharge its duties effectively.
3. Act ethically and responsibly: Your selected company should act ethically and responsibly.
4. Safeguard integrity in corporate reporting:  Your selected company should have formal and rigorous processes that independently verify and safeguard the integrity of its corporate reporting.
5. Make timely and balanced disclosure: Your selected company should make timely and balanced disclosure of all matters concerning it that a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on the price or value of its securities.
6. Respect the rights of security holders: Your selected company should respect the rights of its security holders by providing them with appropriate information and facilities to allow them to exercise those rights effectively.
7. Recognize and manage risk: Your selected company should establish a sound risk management framework and periodically review the effectiveness of that framework.
8. Remunerate fairly  and  responsibly:  Your  selected  company  should  pay  director remuneration  sufficient  to  attract  and  retain high-quality directors  and  design  its executive remuneration to attract, retain and motivate high-quality senior executives and to align their interests with the creation of value for security holders
9. Risk Assessment
10. http://www.auasb.gov.au/admin/file/content102/c3/ASA_520_27-10-09.pdf
11. Assessing Risk   with   Analytical   Procedures:   Do   Systems-Thinking   Tools   Help

Auditors Focus on Diagnostic   Patterns? O’Donnell,   Ed;  Perkins,   Jon   D.  Auditing; Sarasota    Vol.    30,    Issue.    4,     (Nov 2011): 273-283.

3.https://auditinghelp.com/identifying-and-assessing-the-risks-of-material-misstate

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4.http://accounting-financial-tax.com/2010/04/the-use-of-analytical-procedures-in- auditing/

Marks Allocation:

1. Executive Summary – 2 marks
2. The body of the report (ASX CGS Principles -8 marks and Risk Assessment Procedures-8 marks)
3. Reference list, in-text citation – 2 marks

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