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July 2020

ISA (UK) 315 (REVISED JULY 2020):

Identifying and Assessing the Risks of

Material Misstatement

Financial Reporting Council

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CONTENTS

Page ISA (UK) 315 (Revised July 2020) Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material

Misstatement ........................................................................................................ ...... 2

Conforming and Consequential Amendments to Other International

Standards................ .................................................................................................. 107

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ON AUDITING

(UK) 315 (REVISED

JULY 2020)

IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING THE RISKS OF MATERIAL

MISSTATEMENT

(Effective for audits of financial statements for periods beginning on or after

15 December 2021)

CONTENTS

Paragraph

Introduction

Scope of this ISA (UK) .................................................................................. 1

Key Concepts .............................................................................................. 2

Scalability ................................................................................................... 9

Effective Date

.............................................................................................. 10

Objective

................................................................................................... 11

Definitions ................................................................................................. 12

Requirements .............................................................................................

Risk Assessment Procedures and Related Activities ............................................ 13-18 Obtaining an Understanding of the Entity and Its Environment, the Applicable Financial Reporting Framework and the Entity's System of Internal Control ......... 19-27 Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement ................................ 28-37

Documentation

............................................................................................ 38

Application and Other Explanatory Material

Definitions ................................................................................................... A1-A10

Risk Assessment Procedures and Related Activities ............................................ A11-A47

Obtaining an Understanding of the Entity and Its Environment, the Applicable Financial Reporting Framework and the Entity's System of Internal Control ......... A48-A183

Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement ................................ A184-A236

Documentation

............................................................................................ A237-A241

Appendix 1: Considerations for Understanding the Entity and its Business Model

Appendix 2: Understanding Inherent Risk Factors

Appendix 3: Understanding the Entity"s System of Internal Control Appendix 4: Considerations for Understanding an Entity"s Internal Audit Function Appendix 5: Considerations for Understanding Information Technology (IT) Appendix 6: Considerations for Understanding General IT Controls

ISA (UK) 315 (REVISED JULY 2020)

3 ISA (UK) 315 (Revised July 2020), Identifying and assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement, contains copyright material of the Financial Reporting Council Ltd (FRC) which is based on ISA 315 (Revised), Identifying and assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement, of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), published by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in December 2019 and used with permission of IFAC.

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Introduction

Scope of this ISA (UK)

1. This International Standard on Auditing (UK) (ISA (UK)) deals with the auditor"s responsibility to

identify and assess the risks of material misstatement in the financial statements.

Key Concepts in this ISA (UK)

2. ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016) deals with the overall objectives of the auditor in conducting

an audit of the financial statements, 1 including to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to reduce audit risk to an acceptably low level. 2

Audit risk is a function of the risks of material

misstatement and detection risk. 3 ISA (UK ) 200 (Revised June 2016) explains that the risks of ma terial misstatement may exist at two levels: 4 the overall financial statement level; and the assertion level for classes of transactions, account balances and disclosures.

3. ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016) requires the auditor to exercise professional judgment in

planning and performing an audit, and to plan and perform an audit with professional skepticism recognizing that circumstances may exist that cause the financial statements to be materially misstated. 5

4. Risks at the financial statement level relate pervasively to the financial statements as a whole

and potentially affect many assertions. Risks of material misstatement at the assertion level consist of two components, inherent and control risk: Inherent risk is described as the susceptibility of an assertion about a class of transaction, account balance or disclosure to a misstatement that could be material, either individually or when aggregated with other misstatements, before consideration of any related controls. Control risk is described as the risk that a misstatement that could occur in an assertion about a class of transaction, account balance or disclosure and that could be material, either individually or when aggregated with other misstatements, will not be prevented, or detected and corrected, on a timely basis by the entity"s system of internal control.

5. ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016) explains that risks of material misstatement are assessed at

the assertion level in order to determine the nature, timing and extent of further audit procedures necessary to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence. 6

For the identified risks of material

misstatement at the assertion level, a separate assessment of inherent risk and control risk is required by this ISA (UK). As explained in ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), inherent risk is higher for some assertions and related classes of transactions, account balances and disclosures than for others. The degree to which inherent risk varies is referred to in this ISA (UK) as the

‘spectrum of inhere

nt risk."

6. Risks of material misstatement identified and assessed by the auditor include both those due to

error and those due to fraud. Although both are addressed by this ISA (UK), the significance of 1

ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), Overall Objectives of the Independent Auditor and the Conduct of an Audit in Accordance

with International Standards on Auditing 2

ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), paragraph 17

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ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), paragraph 13(c)

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ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), paragraph A36

5 ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), paragraphs 15-16 6

ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), paragraph A43a and ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017), The Auditor's Responses to

Assessed Risks, paragraph 6

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5 fraud is such that further requirements and guidan ce are included in ISA (UK) 240 (Revised June 2016
7 in relation to risk assessment procedures and related activities to obtain information that is used to identify, assess and respond to the risks of material misstatement due to fraud.

7. The auditor"s risk identification and assessment process is iterative and dynamic. The auditor"s

understanding of the entity and its environment, the applicable financial reporting framework, and the entity"s system of internal control are interdependent with concepts within the requirements to identify and assess the risks of material misstatement. In obtaining the understanding required by this ISA (UK), initial expectations of risks may be developed, which may be further refined as the auditor progresses through the risk identification and assessment process. In addition , this ISA (UK) and ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017) require the auditor to revise the risk assessments, and modify further overall responses and further audit procedures, based on audit evidence obtained from performing further audit procedures in accorda nce with ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017), or if new information is obtained.

8. ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017) requires the auditor to design and implement overall responses

to address the assessed risks of material misstatement at the financial state ment level. 8

ISA (UK)

330 (Revised July 2017) further explains that the auditor"s assessment of the risks of material

misstatement at the financial statement level, and the auditor"s overall responses, is affected by the auditor"s understanding of the control environment. ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017) also requires the auditor to design and perform further audit procedures whose nature, timing and extent are based on and are responsive to the assessed risks of material misstatement at the assertion level. 9

Scalability

9. ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016) states that some ISAs (UK) include scalability considerations

which illustrate the application of the requirements to all entities regardless of whether their nature and circumstances are less complex or more complex. 10

This ISA (UK) is intended for audits of

all entities, regardless of size or complexity and the application material therefore incorporates specific considerations specific to both less and more complex entities, where appropriate. While the size of an entity may be an indicator of its complexity, some smaller entities may be complex and some larger entities may be less complex.

Effective Date

10. This ISA (UK) is effective for audits of financial statements for periods beginning on or after 15

December 202

1, early adoption is permitted.

Objective

11. The objective of the auditor is to identify and assess the risks of material misstatement, whether

due to fraud or error, at the financial statement and assertion levels thereby providing a basis for designing and implementing responses to the assessed risks o f material misstatement. 7

ISA (UK) 240 (Revised June 2016), The Auditor's Responsibilities Relating to Fraud in an Audit of Financial Statements

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ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017), paragraph 5

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ISA (UK) 330 (Revised July 2017), paragraph 6

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ISA (UK) 200 (Revised June 2016), paragraph A65a

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Definitions

12. For purposes of the ISAs (UK), the following terms have the meanings attributed below:

(a) Assertions - Representations, explicit or otherwise, with respect to the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of information in the financial statements which are inherent in management 10a representing that the financial statements are prepared in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework. Assertions are used by the auditor to consider the different types of potential misstatements that may occur when identifying, assessing and responding to the risks of material misstatement. (Ref: Para. A1) (b) Business risk - A risk resulting from significant conditions, events, circumstances, actions or inactions that could adversely affect an entity"s ability to achieve its objectives and execute its strategies, or from the setting of inapprop riate objectives and strategies. (c) Controls - Policies or procedures that an entity establishes to achieve the control objectives of management or those charged with governance. In this context: (Ref: Para. A2 -A5) (i) Policies are statements of what should, or should not, be done within the entity to effect control. Such statements may be documented, explicitly stated in communications, or implied through actions and decisions. (ii) Procedures are actions to implement policies. (d) General information technology (IT) controls - Controls over the entity"s IT processes that support the continued proper operation of the IT environment, including the continued effective functioning of information processing controls and the integrity of information (i.e., the completeness, accuracy and validity of information) in the entity"s information system.

Also see the definition of

IT environment.

(e) Information processing controls - Controls relating to the processing of information in IT applications or manual information processes in the entity"s information system that directly address risks to the integrity of information (i.e., the completeness, accuracy and validity of transactions and other information). (Ref: Para. A6) (f) Inherent risk factors - Characteristics of events or conditions that affect susceptibility to misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, of an assertion about a class of transactions, account balance or disclosure, before consideration of controls. Such factors may be qualitative or quantitative, and include complexity, subjectivity, change, uncertainty or susceptibility to misstatement due to management bias or other fraud risk factors 11 insofar as they affect inherent risk. (Ref: Para. A7-A8) (g) IT environment - The IT applications and supporting IT infrastructure, as well as the IT processes and personnel involved in those processes, that an entity uses to support business operations and achieve business strategies. For the purposes of this ISA (UK): (i) An IT application is a program or a set of programs that is used in the initiation, processing, recording and reporting of transactions or information. IT applications include data warehouses and report writers. (ii) The IT infrastructure comprises the network, operating systems, and databases and their related hardware and software. 10a In the UK, those charged with governance are responsible for preparing the financial statements. 11

ISA (UK) 240 (Revised June 2016)௅

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7 (iii) The IT processes are the entity"s processes to manage access to the IT environment, manage program changes or changes to the IT environment and manage IT operations. (h) Relevant assertions - An assertion about a class of transactions, account balance orquotesdbs_dbs14.pdfusesText_20

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