Evaluate the importance of training and development particularly on technological advancement that could help to increase the quality and the success of Internal Audit in the future

1. Please explain main points of Docket 046: Quality Control (PCAOB). 2. What is/was the major focus of that standard - setting project concerning standard - setting activity? 3. Why does the subject matter to accountants and auditors in the future? 4. What was the result or conclusion reached (if the standard has been issued already), or what seems to be the main direction of the standard - setting project as of the date you reviewed it? 5. How might practitioners apply the article's recommendations or strategies in the real world of the auditing profession?

a) ISA 300 Planning an Audit of Financial Statements provides guidance to auditors. Planning an audit involves establishing the overall audit strategy for the engagement and developing an audit plan. Adequate planning benefits the audit of financial statements in several ways. Required: i) Identify and explain the five stages in audit process  ii) Discuss three importance of audit planning.

Financial vs. Operational Control; Behavioral Considerations in the Standard-SettingProcess You have been assigned to a strategic leadership committee that has been charged bythe CEO with developing and implementing a comprehensive management accounting and controlsystem. At the first planning session that you attended, the subject of financial-control systems arose,but there was some uncertainty regarding the nature of such systems and some of the behavioralconsiderations that might have to be made in the design process. You have been asked by the chair ofthe committee to prepare a short written document that could be used as the basis of discussion at thenext meeting. Specifically, you have been asked to define and distinguish between operational control and financial control and how such systems relate to an organization’s management accountingand control system; explain the theory behind the use of flexible budgets, standard costs, and variance analysis as elements of a…