Auditing
Overview
- Professional standards, ethics and legal liability.
- Audit objectives, evidence, procedures and documentation.
- Planning, materiality and risk.
- Internal control.
- Audit sampling.
- Computer auditing including the use of data analytics as an audit tool.
- Revenue and collection cycle and acquisition and expenditure cycle.
- Inventory and capital asset balances, production and payroll cycle, and finance and investment cycle.
- Investments, long term debt and shareholders’ equity balances, and completion of the audit.
Lectures, seminars and group discussions.
All methods of instruction apply to in class, hybrid and/or online modes of learning.
Assignments/projects/cases/tests | 30% |
Midterm examination | 35% |
Final examination | 35% |
100% |
Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.
Students must write both the midterm examinations and the final examinations to pass the course.
To pass this course, students must obtain a minimum of 50% on invigilated assessments, with the 50% calculated on a weighted average basis.
Invigilated assessments include, in-class quizzes, in-class tests, midterm exam(s) and the final exam.
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
At the end of the course, the successful student should be able to:
- Discuss the environmental context and issues relating to the attest function;
- Plan an audit taking into account concepts of evidence, risk and materiality;
- Evaluate internal controls;
- Explain sampling techniques and auditing in a computer environment using data analytics where appropriate;
- Discuss and perform audit procedures as and when appropriate;
- Explain the importance of data integrity and systems reliability in supporting effective decision making.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Robertson & Smieliauskas, Auditing: An International Approach, latest Canadian edition. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, or other textbooks as approved by the accounting department.
Instructor compiled materials (if applicable).
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration approved calculators
Requisites
Prerequisites
ACCT 3880 with a grade of C or better
AND
[ACCT 3310 with a grade of C or better AND ACCT 3410 with a grade of C or better AND (BUSN 2429 with a grade of C or better OR BUSN 3431 with a grade of C or better)
OR
ACCT 3310 with a grade of C or better AND currently active in the PDD Accounting or PDD Accounting Studies or PBD Accounting or PBD Accounting & Finance programs]
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for ACCT 4750 |
---|---|
Capilano University (CAPU) | CAPU BFIN 331 (3) |
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU ACCT 3444 (3) |
Langara College (LANG) | LANG FMGT 3263 (3) |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU BBUS 4230 (3) |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU BUSI 426 (3) |
University Canada West (UCW) | UCW ACCT 305 (3) |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV BUS 347 (3) |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC COM 4XX (1.5) |