a. Review Part I of the case and the situations in Part II and identify information that affects your assessment of acceptable audit risk. Note that only some of the situations in Part II will relate to acceptable audit risk.
Classify the information based on the three factors that affect acceptable audit risk.
External users’ reliance on financial statements
Likelihood of financial difficulties
Management integrity
b. Assess acceptable audit risk as high, medium, or low considering the items you identified in requirement a. (A risky client will be assessed as a low acceptable audit risk.) Justify your response.
c. Identify inherent risks for the audit of Pinnacle using the information from Parts I and II. For each inherent risk, identify the account or accounts that may be affected.
Inherent Risk
Account or Accounts Affected
Likelihood of financial difficulties