auditing assignment

Semester 2-2013

ASSIGNMENT

This assignment is to be completed in groups of three and comprises twenty per-cent of the
marks for this course. Choose any five (5) of the nine questions – each worth four (4) marks.

Assessment Criteria:

Student work will generally be assessed in terms of the following criteria:

1. Effectiveness of communication – i.e. readability, legibility, grammar, spelling,
neatness, completeness and presentation will be a minimum threshold requirement for
all written work submitted for assessment. Work that is illegible or incomprehensible
and does not meet the minimum requirement will be awarded a fail grade.

2. Demonstrated understanding – This will be evidenced by the student’s ability to be
dialectical in the discussion of contentious issues.

3. Evidence of research – This will be evidenced by the references made to the statutes,
auditing standards, books, journal articles and inclusion of a bibliography.

Note:
1. All written work must conform with the University of Ballarat General Guide for the

Presentation of Academic Work.

2. For all written work students must ensure that they submit their own original work. Any
act of plagiarism will be severely penalised.

Plagiarism is presenting someone else work as your own and is a serious offence with serious
consequences. As set out in the University Regulation 6.1.1, students who are caught
plagiarising will, for a first offence, be given a zero mark for that task. A second offence will
result in a failing grade for the course(s) involved and any subsequent offence will be referred
to the Student Discipline Committee. Student must be aware of the University Regulation 6.1.1
Student Plagiarism, available at http://www.ballarat.edu.au/legislation/6.1.1-plagiarism. The
link to the library website for more information is:
http://www.ballarat.edu.au/library/assignment-and-research-help/referencing
Students must:
 fully reference the source(s) of all material, even if you have re-expressed the ideas,

facts or descriptions;
 acknowledge all direct quotations; and
 not submit work that has been researched and written by another person.

The Business School

BUACC3741: Auditing

Question 1.

1. What is there to suggest that this is true?
2. What would lend support to this proposition?

Question 2.

Question 3.

Discuss

Question 4. “Doctor, Doctor. Every time I go on an audit I get covered in rashes.
What could it be?””Mmmm. Let me take a look. Aaah. As I suspected. Ticks.”

Beware of the auditor – they only tick boxes.

Discuss

Question 5.

Discuss

Question 6.

Do auditors take the ‘going-concern’ assumption seriously?

Question 7.

He is a watchdog, but not a bloodhound – Discuss

Question 8.

Discuss

Question 9.

Discuss