An Auditor Is Required to Establish an Understanding with a Client

question 74

Multiple Choice

An auditor is required to establish an understanding with a client regarding the services to be performed for each engagement. This understanding generally includes:

• A) The auditor's responsibility for determining the preliminary judgments about materiality and audit risk factors.
• B) Management's responsibility for identifying mitigating factors when the auditor has doubt about the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.
• C) The auditor's responsibility for ensuring that those charged with governance are aware of any significant deficiencies in internal control that come to the auditor's attention.
• D) Management's responsibility for providing the auditor with an assessment of the risk of material misstatement due to fraud.

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