| A10. | Discussing the susceptibility of the entity's financial statements to material misstatement due to fraud with the engagement team: |
| Provides an opportunity for more experienced engagement team members to share their insights about how and where the financial statements may be susceptible to material misstatement due to fraud. |
| Enables the auditor to consider an appropriate response to such susceptibility and to determine which members of the engagement team will conduct certain audit procedures. |
| Permits the auditor to determine how the results of audit procedures will be shared among the engagement team and how to deal with any allegations of fraud that may come to the auditor's attention. |
| A11. | The discussion may include such matters as: |
| An exchange of ideas among engagement team members about how and where they believe the entity's financial statements may be susceptible to material misstatement due to fraud, how management could perpetrate and conceal fraudulent financial reporting, and how assets of the entity could be misappropriated. |
| A consideration of circumstances that might be indicative of earnings management and the practices that might be followed by management to manage earnings that could lead to fraudulent financial reporting. |
| A consideration of the known external and internal factors affecting the entity that may create an incentive or pressure for management or others to commit fraud, provide the opportunity for fraud to be perpetrated, and indicate a culture or environment that enables management or others to rationalize committing fraud. |
| A consideration of management's involvement in overseeing employees with access to cash or other assets susceptible to misappropriation. |
| A consideration of any unusual or unexplained changes in behavior or lifestyle of management or employees which have come to the attention of the engagement team. |
| An emphasis on the importance of maintaining a proper state of mind throughout the audit regarding the potential for material misstatement due to fraud. |
| A consideration of the types of circumstances that, if encountered, might indicate the possibility of fraud. |
| A consideration of how an element of unpredictability will be incorporated into the nature, timing and extent of the audit procedures to be performed. |
| A consideration of the audit procedures that might be selected to respond to the susceptibility of the entity's financial statement to material misstatement due to fraud and whether certain types of audit procedures are more effective than others. |
| A consideration of any allegations of fraud that have come to the auditor's attention. |
| A consideration of the risk of management override of controls. |
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