BAO5524 Professional Auditing - Free Samples to Students

You are assigned to the audit team of your firm’s new client, Sustainability Bank Ltd (SBL) for the year ended 31 December, 2018. As part of your responsibilities you have been asked to assist in the planning process of SBL’s audit and are provided with the following information:

• SBL is a retail bank which services mainly households and small-to-medium businesses. It does not operate in the larger corporate banking area. It prides itself in providing a high standard of personal service to its customers with a minimum of fees on personal banking. The principal activities of SBL include residential and investment property lending, consumer lending, financial planning services, mortgage insurance cover, commercial lending and funds management.
• SBL operates through a network of 100 retail branches and agencies all over Australia and is particularly popular in the rural and country areas. It also provides payments services through an expanding network of automatic teller machines (ATM) and electronic funds transfer at point of sale ('EFTPOS') terminals. It encourages internet banking and rewards customers by charging reduced bank fees on internet transactions.

Computer Assisted Accounting Techniques

The use of CAAT is a popular technique for performing computerized based auditing as the auditing industry progresses and advances much in the field of accounting and data analytics. The computer assisted accounting technique will help bring efficiency in the field of information technology and accountancy that will smoothen the work and role of accounting together to work and solve the data analytics. The use of Active Data that is an add on function in the excel that helps in determining the use and availability of the data.  The stratified analysis would help in classifying the information a group basis and the grouping of data was easily done with the help of stratified analysis were the data. The total count for each data and the corresponding value was calculated.

The use of digital analysis was done in order to find any difference or abnormality in the sample data provided. The digital analysis is a special type of analytical tool that looks for abnormal occurrence of the data, which violates the Benford’s law and it, gives a statistical presentation of the data of the data should actually be presented.

The analysis of the data was done with the help of a stratified analysis. The data were stratified on the group basis and stratified on the 95% Confidence Interval. The data distribution helped us focus on key variable and data validation from the population data collected. The digital analysis for the same was perfumed using the Active Data software (Bierstaker, Janvrin and Lowe 2014).

Reference

Bierstaker, J., Janvrin, D. and Lowe, D.J., 2014. What factors influence auditors' use of computer-assisted audit techniques?. Advances in Accounting, 30(1), pp.67-74.