1. MeetingWithITTR&CTeam
Risk Assessment
and Financial
Statement
Assertions
March 17th, 2015
R&C/ ITT-SAP: ; Luis Torres Garcia; Yannick Rostand
Kounga Taptue; David Vincent; Joseph Siegfried; Irynn
Chay; Mirza Zeeshan Ahmed; Randolph Parman;
Viswanathan Murugesh; Steven Diep; Naveed Ahmed

2. What is Financial Statement Assertions?
Financial statement assertions:
 A set of information that the preparer of financial statements is providing
to another party.
 Financial statements represent a very complex and interrelated set of
assertions.
 Are Management’s explanation regarding the recognition, measurements,
presentation and disclosure of information in the financial reports.
Types of Financial Statement Assertions:
 There are basically different financial statement assertions that the
auditors collect to justify each and every item in the financial statement.
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4
3
2
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Existence:
The assertion on existence is made to check whether the specified assets and
liabilities are present at the given date. It is also required to check that the
transactions that are recorded took place at the specified date.
Completeness:
Checking completeness of a financial statement is to analyze whether all the
transactions that are already given in the financial statement are correctly
included.
Valuation:
Valuation basically checks whether the different components of the financial
statement have been included in the right proportion. The components are
assets, liabilities, expense and revenue.
Rights and Obligations:
This is to check whether the assets that are included in the financial statement
are the rights and the liabilities are the obligations of the company.
Presentation and Disclosure:
This assertion is to ensure whether the items in the financial statements are
classified in the right way. It is important to check that the account balance is
calculated as well as disclosed properly.
FiveFinancialStatementAssertions

4. Management Assertions: Auditors decompose the broad assertions into a detailed set of
statements referred to as management assertions, separated into three categories:
CUTOFF: The transactions have been recorded in
the correct accounting period.
AUTHORIZATION: All transactions were properly authorized.
COMPLETENESS: All transactions that should have been recorded are
recorded.
ACCURACY: The transactions were recorded at the appropriate amounts.
This is not an assertion in Voyager.
CLASSIFICATION: The transactions
have been recorded in the proper
accounts.
Item
1
Item
2+3
Item
4
Item
5
Item
6
OCCURRENCE: The transactions recorded actually took place.
Set 1 • Transactions
Set 2
•Accounts
Balance:
Set 3
• Presentation
and
Disclosure:
Transactions
& Events

5. Management Assertions: Auditors decompose the broad assertions into a detailed set of
statements referred to as management assertions, separated into three categories:
VALUATION AND ALLOCATION: Assets,
liabilities and equity balances are included in the
financial statements at appropriate amounts and any
resulting valuation or allocation adjustments are
appropriately recorded.
COMPLETENESS: All assets, liabilities and equity balances
that should have been recorded have been recorded.
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS: The entity holds or controls the rights to its
assets and owes obligations to its liabilities.
Item
1
Item
2
Item
3
Item
4
EXISTENCE: Assets, liabilities and equity balances exist.
Set 1 •Transactions
Set 2
•Accounts
Balance:
Set 3
• Presentation
and
Disclosure:
Accounts
Balance as of
period end

6. Management Assertions: Auditors decompose the broad assertions into a detailed set of
statements referred to as management assertions, separated into three categories:
CLASSIFICATION AND UNDERSTANDABILITY: Financial
statements are appropriately presented and described, and
information in disclosures is clearly expressed.
COMPLETENESS: All disclosures that should have been
included in the financial statements have been included.
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS: The transactions pertained to the entity.
ACCURACY AND VALUATION:
Financial and other information is disclosed
fairly and at appropriate amounts.
Item
1
Item
2
Item
3
Item
4
Item
5
OCCURRENCE: The transactions have occurred.
Set 1
•Transacti
ons
Set 2
•Accounts
Balance:
Set 3
Presentation
and
Disclosure:

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