The Practices and Precedence used by Auditor for forming the Audit opinion may be as per the historical perspective. Elucidate.

CS Professional · Secretarial Audit, Compliance Management and Due Diligence · PYQS · June 2024
The Practices and Precedence used by Auditor for forming the Audit opinion may be as per the historical perspective. Elucidate.

Answer & Explanation:

Precedence and Practices in context of Auditing implies that Auditor shall evaluate on the basis of general or on-going practices or procedures that whether the Records maintained, statements prepared in all material respects, in accordance with the requirements of the applicable laws, rules and regulations. This evaluation shall include consideration of the qualitative aspects of the Auditee's compliance practices, including indicators of possible bias in Management's judgements. The Practices and precedence used by Auditor for forming the Audit opinion may be as per the historical perspective i.e., methods used hitherto or generally used methods or practices or procedures be implemented for framing the opinion. Like, one of the methods involves selecting a sample size of total work and activities of a firm for conducting the audit process, which simultaneously depends upon the firm's size, operation of work and no. of branches, etc., or another practice includes having an unbiased approach while conducting the audit process in order to frame the honest and unbiased opinion.

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