Below Is a Sample of the Auditor's Responsibility Section of a Standard

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Below is a sample of the auditor's responsibility section of a standard audit report for Gawronski's Hockey Manufacturing Company, a private company.There are two errors in this report.Describe the errors.
Auditor's Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain absolute assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error.In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control.Accordingly, we express no such opinion.An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.