What is the relationship between audit risk and materiality?
Audit risk has an inverse relationship with materiality. The lower the materiality, the higher the audit risk as a lower materiality means there is less room for error.
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What is audit risk?
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If risk of material misstatement is set at high, what should detection risk be set to?
Detection risk has an inverse relationship with the assessed risk of material misstatements (Inherent risk X control risk). Therefore, if risk of material misstatement is high, then detection risk would be set to low. Since detection risk is to low, that means that the acceptable level of risk is low, and the audit team should...
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If risk of material misstatement is set at low, what should detection risk be set to?
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If risk of material misstatement is set at low, what should detection risk be set to?
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