Essay
Match nine of the terms (a-i) with the definitions provided below (1-9):
a. Business risk
b. Preliminary judgment about materiality
c. Inherent risk
d. Planned detection risk
e. Audit assurance
f. Acceptable audit risk
g. Tolerable misstatement
h. Control risk
i. Materiality
________ 1. A measure of the risk that audit evidence for a segment will fail to detect misstatements exceeding a tolerable amount, should such misstatements exist.
________ 2. The risk that the auditor or audit firm will suffer harm because of a client relationship, even though the audit report rendered for the client was correct.
________ 3. A measure of the auditor's assessment of the likelihood that misstatements exceeding a tolerable amount in a segment will not be prevented or detected by the client's internal controls.
________ 4. A measure of how much risk the auditor is willing to take that the financial statements may be materially misstated after the audit is completed and an unqualified audit opinion has been issued.
________ 5. The materiality allocated to any given account balance.
________ 6. The maximum amount by which the auditor believes that the statements could be misstated and still not affect the decisions of reasonable users.
________ 7. This term is synonymous with acceptable audit risk.
________ 8. The magnitude of an omission or misstatement of accounting information that makes it probable that the judgment of a reasonable person would have been changed.
________ 9. A measure of the auditor's assessment of the likelihood that there are material misstatements before considering the effectiveness of internal control.
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