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Types of Auditing
Forensic audit also needs to follow ethical guideline like an audit of financial
statements. This kind of engagement is not so popular as an audit of financial
statements or statutory auditing.
#4: Statutory Audit
Statutory audit is referring to an audit of financial statements for the specific
type of entities that required by law or local authority. For example, all
banking sectors required their financial statements to be audited by
qualified audit firms approved by their central bank.
The statutory audit might be the difference from financial statements
auditing as the financial audit is referring to the audit of all types of entity’s
financial statements including both meet or not meet the government’s
requirement.
However, statutory audit refers to only auditing of the entity’s financial
statements that required by local law. The statutory audit is normally
performed by external audit firms and the audit report will be issued by the
auditor and submit to government body by the entity. The best example of
the firm that offering statutory auditing are KPMG, PWC, EY, …. etc.
The common criteria set by law that required entities to have the auditing of
their financial statements by qualified audit firm are amount annual
turnover, the value of assets, and the number of staffs.
Some countries may require company in specific industries like bank,
mineral, and others based on their decision to have those company’s
financial statements audited.
Companies listed on the stock exchange are generally required and enforce
by stock exchange authority to have qualified audit form audited their
financial statements.
#5: Financial Audit
Financial audit refers to the audit of the entity’s financial statements by an
independence auditor where audit opinion will be provided on those
financial statements.
Financial audit normal perform by an external audit firm who hold CPA.
Financial audit normally performs annually and at the end of the accounting
period. This type of audit is also known as financial statements auditing.
But, sometimes as require management, bank, security exchange, regulation,
or else, the financial audit is also performing on a quarterly as well. Most of
the entity prepares its financial statements based on IFRS, and some entity’s
financial statements are prepared based on local GAAP.
For example, the entity register in the US, their financial statements are
prepared based on US GAAP. If the financial statements are prepared based
on IFRS, the financial audit needs to be audit against IFRS.
However, if the financial statements are prepared based on local GAAP, then
audit needs to be performed against those local GAAP. The audit standards
that use by the auditor to conduct financial audit need to adopt international
standards and requirement of local law.
Some country requires an audit firm to follow its audit standards while some
other countries have adopted the international standards and transform it
to be local.
#6: Tax Audit
Tax audit is a type of audit that performing by government tax department
or tax authority. Tax audit could be performed as the result of in-compliant
found by a government agency or the schedule set by the government tax
department.
An entity needs not to invite or engage with the tax authority to come to
perform a tax audit. They will come by themselves. To minimize the penalty
as the result of the tax audit, the entity is recommended to follow all the
requirement set by tax law and for those areas that they are not sure, the
entity should engagement with tax consulting firm for advising.