Institute of Commercial Management | Qualification Subject

Auditing Practices

ICM Professional Diploma Unit

Auditing Practices enables learners to understand the processes and standards required by the professional auditor.

Main Topics of Study:

Planning and Conducting Audits

  • Quality control in organisations 
  • Accounting systems
  • Internal controls
  • Audit testing
  • Sampling and analysis review techniques
  • Working papers
  • Reports to directors
  • Errors, frauds and misstatements

Audit Evidence

  • Collecting evidence
  • The audit of assets
  • The audit of liabilities
  • Audit planning and risk assessment
  • Methods of testing
  • Involving auditing specialists

Auditors’ Report

  • Qualified reports
  • Managing misstatements
  • Post balance sheet events
  • Reporting on going concern

Review of Financial Statements

  • True and fair view
  • The Management letter

Example Candidate Response Booklet

Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).

Recommended Reading

Main Text:

Millichamp, A. and Taylor, J. (2021). Auditing. 12th ed. Andover: Cengage Learning

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Millichamp, A. and Taylor, J. (2018). Auditing. 11th ed. Andover: Cengage Learning

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Turner, C. (2020) Audit: An Introduction. Independently Published

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Blackwell, N., Lefton, A., and Woolf, A., (2022) Audit and Assurance Study Text. Emile Woolf International

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IAASB (2023). International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. Available here (Accessed: 22 November 2023).

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