-The Company is subject to many laws and regulations where the consequences of non-compliance could have a material effect on amounts or disclosures in the financial statements. We identified the following laws and regulations as the most likely to have a material effect if noncompliance were to occur; financial reporting legislation, tax legislation, anti-bribery legislation and employment law as well as industry specific legislation;
-We communicated relevant laws and regulations and potential fraud risks to all engagement team members, and remained alert to any indications of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit;
-We understood how the Company is complying with those legal regulatory frameworks by making enquiries of management. We corroborated our enquires through our review of management minutes and certain other procedures;
-Based on the results of our risk assessment we designed further audit procedures to identify non-compliance with such laws and regulations identified above. Our procedures involved journal entry testing, with a focus on journals meeting our defined risk criteria based on our understanding of the business and enquiries of management;
-These audit procedures were designed to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements were free from fraud or error. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error and detecting irregularities that result from fraud is inherently more difficult than detecting those that result from error, as fraud may involve collusion, deliberate concealment, forgery or intentional misrepresentations. Also, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it;
-Assessment of the appropriateness of the collective competence and capabilities of the engagement team included consideration of the engagement team’s:
-understanding of, and practical experience with audit engagements of a similar nature and complexity through appropriate training and participation,
-knowledge of the industry in which the client operate,
-understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements specific to the entity including the provisions of the applicable legislation, the regulators rules and related guidance, including guidance issued by relevant authorities that interpret those rules and the applicable statutory provisions,
-In assessing the potential risks of material misstatement, we obtained an understanding of: the Company’s operations, including the nature of their revenue sources, products and services and of its objectives and strategies to understand the classes of transactions, account balances, expected financial statement disclosures and business risks that may result in risks of material misstatement
-the Company’s control environment, including the policies and procedures implemented to comply with the requirements of its regulator, including the adequacy of the training to inform staff of the relevant legislation, rules and other regulations of the regulator, the adequacy of procedures for authorisation of transactions, internal review procedures over the entity’s compliance with regulatory requirements, the authority of, and resources available and procedures to ensure that possible breaches of requirements are appropriately investigated and reported.