Article: Inherent risk reconsidered

AUDITING

THE PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE DOES NOT ADDRESS the auditor's need to divorce inherent risk from the controls that would mitigate the effects of that risk.

In October 1998, the Public Oversight Board (POB) appointed a Panel on Audit Effectiveness to assess the adequacy of independent audits of the financial statements of public companies. Among the Panel's suggestions were statements and recommendations regarding the audit risk model and one of its component factors, inherent risk. The Panel made sweeping recommendations regarding the audit risk model, extending and embedding the consideration of inherent risk (see the Sidebar) further into the audit. Regarding the audit risk model ...

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