Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.38190/ope.12.1.5
Audit of time unlimited operations
Željko Tintor
orcid.org/0000-0002-5405-4843
; RETRA d.o.o. for auditing and business consulting
Abstract
All companies at the end of the business year, regardless of its size, are required to prepare basic financial statements, Balance Sheet that presents their financial position, Profit and Loss Account showing the results of operations in the accounting period and Notes to the financial statements which further clarify detailed reports. Medium-sized companies are also required to prepare a Cash Flow Statement, and large enterprises are required to prepare a Statement of Changes in Equity. The assumption of indefinite operation is fundamental for the preparation of financial statements. The assumption of indefinite operation implies that the company will continue to operate in the foreseeable future without the intention or need of liquidation, significant reduction of the scope of business or seeking protection from creditors in accordance with legal regulations. The report prepared in this way, apart from the owners, is interesting to workers as a guarantee of employment, business partners as a guarantee of business continuity, banks as a guarantee of loan repayment and investors as a guarantee of potential investment. Therefore, it is important to objectify and confirm whether the management has applied the stated assumption of indefinite operations in preparing the financial statements. This is the task of an independent audit of financial statements, which includes auditing management’s assessment of the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. This means that during the audit of financial statements, the auditor will pay special attention to identifying events that could raise significant doubt as to whether management has assessed the company’s ability to continue as a going concern and to what extent its assessment is realistic, that is, to determine whether management has identified events and circumstances that may cast doubt on the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. In this procedure, the auditor will apply standard audit methods and analysis, but also special procedures aimed at objectifying and confirming the company’s ability to continue with indefinite operations. This paper is devoted to presenting the auditor’s objectives, his procedures in obtaining relevant evidence to determine whether there is significant uncertainty about events that may affect the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Accordingly, the auditor has the obligation and responsibility to express his opinion in the auditor’s report, so that all interested parties have knowledge of the fact that the presented financial report was prepared under the assumption of indefinite operations.
Keywords
financial statements; indefinite operations; audit; auditor’s report
Hrčak ID:
279777
URI
Publication date:
28.6.2022.
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