Guide
Financial auditing guidance for risk-based audit planning
A compact field guide for teams who need a shared spine before the kickoff meeting.
What this guide covers
Risk-based planning is not a slogan. It is a sequence: understand the entity, rank assertions, evaluate controls that matter, set residual risk, and let procedures follow. This page outlines that sequence in language your team can reuse.
Sequence at a glance
- Frame the entity’s reporting pressure points for the period.
- Draft inherent risk by assertion with defendable drivers.
- Identify controls that could change residual risk — ignore the rest for planning leverage.
- Write residual risk before you finalize sample sizes.
- Brief partners and committees from the residual map, not the process atlas.
Korea context notes
Engagements anchored in Korea often combine local statutory expectations with group IFRS instructions. Document where those frames diverge. Our office in Chungcheongbuk-do works with teams who need English-language planning discipline while operating in that dual context.
Where to go next
Deepen the sequence in our flagship course, or ask which enrollment path fits your calendar.