For the CPA Program • Elective subject
Advanced Audit and Assurance for the CPA Program, cut to 43 pages of notes, 60 flashcards, a two-page cheat sheet and a 60-question practice exam, so you study what carries the marks. Packs $45 to $120 AUD, instant PDF download.
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About the subject
Advanced Audit and Assurance is an elective in the CPA Program. This study guide covers the whole audit: the assurance framework, planning, gathering evidence, forming the opinion and reporting, plus the other assurance engagements.
The exam is all multiple choice, and most questions are built around an audit scenario. You have to take a standard, scepticism, materiality, the opinion types, and apply it to facts you have never seen before, which is where most marks are won or lost. The notes are built for that: the framework and the wording first, then how to use them in the exam.
The subject splits into five modules, weighted evenly. The notes cover each one at the same depth the exam does.
What's inside
Three parts that work together. Learn it in the notes, drill it with the exam, lock it in with the cards.
The whole subject rewritten in plain English, the way a colleague who passed last year would explain it.
Sixty multiple-choice questions, built around real audit scenarios and written for an open-book exam, matching the real all-multiple-choice format.
The last-week toolkit. Quick recall on the go, and one quick reference sheet for the open-book exam.
A look inside
This is the actual work, not a description of it. Genuine pieces from the notes, flashcards, cheat sheet and exam, so you can see the quality before you spend a cent. It is a taste. The full pack goes a lot deeper.
An assurance engagement is one in which a practitioner aims to obtain sufficient appropriate evidence to express a conclusion that raises the confidence of intended users in a subject matter measured against suitable criteria.
The exact wording to use, pulled out so you cannot miss it.
All five must be present for the work to be an assurance engagement.
The wording difference the exam tests again and again.
Distinguish reasonable assurance from limited assurance.
Reasonable assurance is a high but not absolute level, given by an audit and expressed as a positive opinion. Limited assurance is a lower level, given by a review and expressed in the negative form. The difference reflects the amount of evidence gathered.
Print double-sided, cut, and drill them anywhere.
| Reason | Material, not pervasive | Material and pervasive |
|---|---|---|
| Statements materially misstated | Qualified opinion | Adverse opinion |
| Cannot obtain sufficient evidence | Qualified opinion | Disclaimer of opinion |
Two reasons, two levels, three opinions. The whole reporting decision on one grid.
Name all five correctly. The exam penalises a dropped or renamed principle.
A material uncertainty that is disclosed adequately, where the going concern basis is still appropriate, gets an unmodified opinion plus a separate Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern section. It is not a qualification.
The single most common wrong answer in this topic, ruled out before you sit.
During the audit of Brightwater Ltd, the team finds the gross margin has jumped well above the industry norm. The financial controller gives a brief explanation that does not sit easily with the sales records, and the senior accepts it and moves on without obtaining any supporting evidence. Which requirement has the senior most clearly failed to apply?
Sixty questions, matching the real all-multiple-choice format, every one worked through.
Professional scepticism is an attitude that includes a questioning mind and a critical assessment of evidence, and accepting an explanation that conflicts with the records without seeking corroboration is the classic failure of that attitude. Nothing suggests a lack of skill or an independence problem; the issue is mindset.
Discussing records with management is a normal part of an audit and raises no confidentiality issue. No relationship or interest is described that would threaten independence. And the senior could test the margin but chose not to, so the failure is scepticism rather than competence.
Every question is marked up like this, including why each distractor is wrong, so you learn why you missed it, not just that you did.
And this is a sample. The full pack has all 43 pages, 60 cards, the cheat sheet, and the complete 60-question exam with worked solutions.
Made for studying after work
You are fitting this around a full-time job. The notes are cut down so your study time goes to the parts that earn marks, not to re-reading the textbook.
Five modules of material sorted into what gets tested and what does not.
The modules that carry the most marks get the most space. The rest is kept short.
Worked solutions show how to take a principle and answer a scenario you have not seen.
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