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Messier employs the audit approach currently being used by auditing professionals. This approach is a direct result of the demands of Sarbanes-Oxley, which has changed the way auditors do their jobs. The approach emphasizes understanding the entity (i.e., the organization or business being audited) and its environment (i.e. industry), and then assessing the business risks faced by the entity and how management controls those risks. This audit process focuses on business processes instead of accounting cycles. This unique and innovative approach has been developed in response to changing market dynamics. The systematic approach, referred to in the subtitle of the text, reflects the early introduction of three basic concepts that underlie the audit process: materiality, audit risk, and evidence; this allows Messier to build upon this model in subsequent chapters. These are central to everything an auditor does and a unique feature of Messier. As such, this approach helps students develop auditor judgment, a vital skill in today’s auditing environment.

Table of Contents:
Auditing and Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach, Seventh Edition Part I Introduction to Assurance and Financial Statement AuditingChapter 1 An Introduction to Assurance and Financial Statement AuditingChapter 2 The Financial Statement Auditing EnvironmentPart II Basic Auditing Concepts: Risk Assessment, Materiality and EvidenceChapter 3 Risk Assessment and MaterialityChapter 4 Audit Evidence and Audit DocumentationPart III Planning the Audit, and Understanding the Auditing Internal ControlChapter 5 Audit Planning and Types of Audit TestsChapter 6 Internal Control in a Financial Statement AuditChapter 7 Auditing Internal Control over Financial ReportingPart IV Statistical and Nonstatistical Sampling Tools for AuditingChapter 8 Audit Sampling: An Overview and Application to Tests of ControlsChapter 9 Audit Sampling: An Application to Substantive Tests of Account BalancesPart V Auditing Business ProcessesChapter 10 Auditing the Revenue ProcessChapter 11 Auditing the Purchasing ProcessChapter 12 Auditing the Human Resource Management ProcessChapter 13 Auditing the Inventory Management ProcessChapter 14 Auditing the Financing/Investing Process: Prepaid Expenses, Intangible Assets, and Property, Plant and EquipmentChapter 15 Auditing the Financing/Investing Process: Long-Term Liabilities, Stockholders’ Equity, and Income Statement AccountsChapter 16 Auditing the Financing/Investing Process: Cash and InvestmentsPart VI Completing the Audit and Reporting ResponsibilitiesChapter 17 Completing the Audit EngagementChapter 18 Reports on Audited Financial StatementsPart VII Professional ResponsibilitiesChapter 19 Professional Conduct, Independence, and Quality ControlChapter 20 Legal LiabilityPart VIII Assurance, Attestation, and Internal Auditing ServicesChapter 21 Assurance, Attestation, and Internal Auditing Services

About the Author :
Professor William F. Messier, Jr., is the Deloitte & Touche Professor at the School of Accountancy, Georgia State University. He holds a Professor II position at the Institute for Accounting and Auditing, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and he is a visiting professor at SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy. Professor Messier has a BBA from Siena College, an MS from Clarkson University, and an MBA and DBA from Indiana University. He is a CPA in Florida and has taught at the Universities of Florida and Michigan.Professor Messier has served as the Chairperson of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and as co-editor of the Journal of Accounting Literature. He currently serves on the AICPAs International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. Professor Messier has authored or co-authored over 45 articles in accounting, decision science, and computer science journals. Professor Steven M. Glover is the K. Fred Skousen Professor and Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. Professor Glover is a CPA in Utah and holds a PhD and BS from the University of Washington and an AA in Business from BYU Idaho. He previously worked as an auditor for KPMG LLP and as a director in the national office of PwC LLP. Professor Glover is currently serving on the AICPA Auditing Standards Board and has served on the audit committee of a nonprofit organization. He has served on the board of advisors for technology companies and he actively consults with public companies and public accounting firms. He has also served as an expert witness. Professor Glover is a past President of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and he has been on auditing-related task forces of the AICPA. Professor Glover is or has served on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, The Accounting Review, Current Issues in Auditing, and the review board of the AAA/CAQ Access to Audit Personnel Program. He has authored or coauthored over 40 articles and books primarily focused in the areas of auditor decision making, audit education, and audit practice. Together with Professor Prawitt and KPMG, LLP, he co-authored an award-winning monograph designed to accelerate the professional judgment of auditors and auditing students, as well as a monograph on professional skepticism commissioned by the Standards Working Group of the GPPC, an international consortium of the six largest public accounting network firms. Professor Douglas F. Prawitt is the Glen Ardis Professor of Accountancy at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. Professor Prawitt is a CPA in Utah. He holds a PhD from the University of Arizona, and BS and MAcc degrees from Brigham Young University. Professor Prawitt was awarded the Marriott Schools Teaching Excellence and Outstanding Researcher awards in 1998 and 2000. He received the Merrill J. Bateman Student Choice Teaching Award in 2002, BYUs Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education in 2006, and the American Accounting Associations Deloitte/Wildman Award in 2013.