Mark Menu Compliance Audit Report Made Easy

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okay let's look at this chart for audit reports and this is probably the most important thing you need to remember because this will help you fly through a task based simulation where you do one later it'll also help you fly through multiple-choice most importantly it helps you to understand the kind of opinion you're gonna give the report modification and it's fun at parties to entertain your friends although if your friends are entertained by that find a better party alright try for audit reports so when we look at this we're looking at the different types of opinions now with the chart for audit reports first of all we have three different situations basic situations we have disagreement scope limit and uncertainty now disagreement means you say one thing I say another I flat-out disagree with you I know you're wrong you say potato I say potato you say tomato I say tomato let's call the whole thing off hey right so that's what we're looking at with disagreement disagreement I disagree with you so non financial report and that means a non-financial reporting framework so if these statements are presented in some kind of accordance with but it's non financial reporting you know we talk about the applicable financial reporting framework applicable financial reporting framework GAAP for example but if we're doing our statements on some non applicable financial reporting framework that means the statements are non-gap they're not in conformity with whatever let's say gap for us inconsistency the numbers should be and the principle should be consistently applied from year to year to year if there's a change in principle from one year to the next then we have to ask ourselves do we concur means do you agree or do you not concur which means what disagree so they change from FIFO to LIFO they've changed from one method of accounting to another I go why did you do that we wanted to decrease our expense to increase our income to make the company look better I go whew I disagree with you that's disagreement or they say we did it for this reason I go oh that makes sense then I concur so we'll look at that later inadequate disclosure means what things are supposed to be adequately disclosed in the financial statements so let's say in the financial statements they're footnote disclosures are not adequate basically their own mitad disclosures they're omitted they're inadequate guess what I have a problem with that I disagree with you mm-hmm we've got scope limitation means there a restriction on your ability to obtain what sufficient appropriate audit evidence but if you think that to your audit report one of the things we mentioned is what the paragraph that said we believe that our audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate so in the report we say hey yeah we've obtained sufficient appropriate audit evidence that's why we can give an opinion well...