Audit of Equity
Audit of Equity
Overview
• Auditing equity is usually one of the easiest parts of an audit. For
some equity accounts, you agree the year-end balances to the prior
year ending balance, and you’re done. For instance paid-in-capital
seldom changes. Often, the only changes in equity are from current
year profits and owner distributions. And testing those equity
additions and reductions in equity takes only minutes.
Auditing
Financial Statements Philippine Standard on Auditing
Source document/transactions
Variation/ Components of Equity
• Common stock
• Paid in capital
• Preferred stock
• Treasury stock
• Retained Earnings
• Non-controlling interests
• Members’ equity (for an LLC)
• Net assets (for a nonprofit)
• Net position (for a government)
Audit assertions for Equity
1. Existence - Share capital reported on the balance sheet really exists at the
reporting date.
2. Completeness - All share capital transactions that should have been
recorded have been recorded.
3. Valuation - Share capital balances are valued in accordance with applicable
accounting standards.
4. Presentataion and disclosure - Sufficient information about share capital
have been properly disclosed in accordance with applicable accounting
standards.
Equity Walkthroughs
Early in your audit, perform a walkthrough of equity to see if there are any
control weaknesses. As you perform this risk assessment procedure, what
questions should you ask? What should you observe? What documents should
you inspect?
However, the term "equity" may simply be used for all the business
organizations.
Actually, accounting records for these business organizations are practically the
same except the accounting for the capital accounts.
In a single proprietorship and partnership, the investment of
the owner or owners and the changes therein resulting from
net income or loss from operations are recorded in the capital
accounts.
Generally, the ordinary share gives the owner the right to vote,
to share in the income, and in the event of liquidation, to share
in all assets after satisfying creditors' and preference
shareholders' claims.
The ordinary shareholders have no fixed or specific return
on investment.
Journal entry
Share premium 350,000
Stock listing fee 150,000
Cash 500,000
Watered share
Watered share is share capital issued for inadequate or
insufficient consideration. The consideration received is
less than par or stated value, but the share capital is
issued as fully paid.