Finalising the audit engagement based on Draftworx (ISA 315 and ISA 330) - (2025)

In-house course

2 Days
Attendance at this seminar will secure 13 hour/s verifiable CPD points including other professional bodies (SAICA, SAIBA, ACCA, IACSA, IRBA & etc)
LYNETTE BADENHORST   nerissa@probetatraining.co.za

Finalising an audit file involves more than just signing off on the report. It requires a thorough review of the evidence gathered during the audit and ensuring that the audit opinion is properly supported by the facts. The completion stage is critical to enhancing audit quality and compliance with standards.

This course focuses on finalising an audit using Draftworx, covering essential tasks like evaluating evidence, reviewing financial statements, addressing reporting obligations, and issuing the appropriate audit opinion. Delegates will work through a simulated case study to apply practical knowledge using Draftworx, ensuring they leave with the skills to complete an audit confidently.

This course equips participants with the skills to finalise audit engagements effectively using Draftworx, ensuring compliance with auditing standards and high-quality audit outcomes

Why Knowledge of Standards Is Essential

Understanding auditing standards is crucial before using Draftworx to ensure that the requirements are correctly applied and documented.

This knowledge ensures that the audit is aligned with relevant ISAs, reducing the risk of deficiencies and non-compliance.

The documents in Draftworx are designed to comply with these standards, and proper application ensures that audit quality is maintained and legal obligations are met.

• Sampling and its role in the completion stage
• Identifying and testing related parties, transactions, and disclosures
• Recognising and documenting litigation, claims, contingent liabilities, and commitments
• Evaluating the client’s going concern plans and auditing cash flow forecasts
• Assessing subordination agreements and identifying insolvencies
• Identifying and documenting subsequent events and their impact on financial statements
• Performing a final or overall analytical review
• Obtaining external confirmations to validate key balances
• Evaluating misstatements, including calculating final materiality, assessing individual and qualitative misstatements, and determining the impact of uncorrected misstatements
• Reporting deficiencies and significant deficiencies in internal controls to management
• Obtaining written representations from management
• Deciding on the appropriate audit opinion and setting up the audit report in line with the revised ISA 700
• Including Key Audit Matters (KAMs) in the report according to ISA 701
• Reporting reportable irregularities to the IRBA
• Identifying non-compliance with laws and regulations and understanding reporting obligations under the Code of Conduct
• Determining if non-compliance must still be reported even if it is not a reportable irregularity

Draftworx Documents Covered
• 02.00 Reporting checklist
• 02.05 Materiality
• 02.10 Schedule of identified misstatements
• 02.15 Final analytical review
• 03.05 Final fraud impact
• 03.15 Going concern
• 03.20 Subsequent events
• 03.25 Reportable irregularities
• 03.30 Laws and Regulations
• 03.35 Key audit matters
• 06.40 Management report
• 06.45 Management responsibility

• Third-year SAICA trainees
• Fourth-year SAICA trainees
• Fifth-year SAICA trainees
• Audit managers
• Audit partners
• Auditors

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