Sunday, 18 September 2016

Audit Equation

Audit Risk Equation:  
Audit Risk = Risk of Misstatement × Detection Risk
Audit Risk = (Inherent Risk × Control Risk) × Detection Risk
Applicability:
Audit Risk = (IR ×CR) × DR
                    (High × HIgh) × Lowest
                     Highest × Lowest
                     Medium
Hence, despite of highest cumulative effect of inherent and control risk auditor is managed to keep the total audit risk at MEDIUM with the help of his in-depth substantive procedures.
From the above discussion we can understand that, combined effect of IR and CR should be inversely proportional to DR, if auditor wish to set its overall audit risk OPTIMISED.