Identify Five Deficiencies or Weaknesses in the Following Audit Report

question 26

Essay

Identify five deficiencies or weaknesses in the following audit report.
Audit Report
To the Management of XYZ Ltd
We have audited the financial report of XYZ Ltd for the year ended on 30 June 2004.
Directors' responsibility for the financial report
The directors of the entity are responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial report in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards.This responsibility includes designing, implementing, and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.
Auditor's responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial report based on our audit.We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards.These Accounting Standards require that we comply with relevant ethical requirements relating to audit engagements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial report is free from misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial report.The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgement, including the assessment of the risks of misstatement in the financial report, 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 report 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.An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial report.
Auditor's opinion
In our opinion, the financial report presents fairly in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards the financial position of XYZ Ltd and its performance.
Willie Ticket
A partner of the firm
CA Partners
Sydney NSW

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Definitions:

Similarity

A measure of how closely two or more distinct objects, ideas, or concepts resemble each other in appearance, function, or properties.

Common Region

A principle of perceptual organization where elements located within the same bounded space are perceived as being grouped together.

Closure

The psychological phenomenon of seeking a sense of resolution or completeness in perceptual or cognitive processes.

Contiguity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.