Follow a statutory audit assignment from the vantage point of an audit clerk:
The team leader makes the initial assessment of the assignment and its background. He/she finds out about the client’s situation, and takes care of the logistics (setting up teams, appointment schedules, etc.).
This stage enables us to learn more about the company’s in-house procedures and evaluate them, to understand the company’s business and the sector it operates in.
This stage enables us to validate our intermediate research. We check and cross-check the information we obtained previously and prepare the next stage.
We give our opinion on the accounts, with special attention to any risks we may have observed earlier.