ASA 540 - Auditing Accounting Estimates, Including Fair Value Accounting Estimates, and Related Disclosures - October 2009
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COMPILATION DETAILS
AUTHORITY STATEMENT
CONFORMITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON AUDITING
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Application......................................................Aus 0.1-Aus 0.2
Operative Date.........................................................Aus 0.3
Introduction
Scope of this Auditing Standard..................................................1
Nature of Accounting Estimates.................................................2-4
Effective Date...............................................................5
Objective..................................................................6
Definitions.................................................................7
Requirements
Risk Assessment Procedures and Related Activities...................................8-9
Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement.........................10-11
Responses to the Assessed Risks of Material Misstatement............................12-14
Further Substantive Procedures to Respond to Significant Risks........................15-17
Evaluating the Reasonableness of the Accounting Estimates, and Determining Misstatements.....18
Disclosures Related to Accounting Estimates......................................19-20
Indicators of Possible Management Bias...........................................21
Written Representations.......................................................22
Documentation..............................................................23
Application and Other Explanatory Material
Nature of Accounting Estimates.............................................A1-A11
Risk Assessment Procedures and Related Activities..............................A12-A20
Considerations Specific to Smaller Entities....................................A21-A23
Method of Measurement, Including the Use of Models............................A24-A26
Relevant Controls.......................................................A27-A28
Management’s Use of Experts.................................................A29
Considerations specific to smaller entities.........................................A30
Assumptions..........................................................A31-A36
Changes in Methods for Making Accounting Estimates...............................A37
Estimation Uncertainty...................................................A38-A44