Auditors Follow a Four-Step Approach to Reduce Assessed Control Risk

Multiple Choice

Auditors follow a four-step approach to reduce assessed control risk.What is the order of these four steps?
1) Identify key controls that should reduce control risk for each transaction-related audit objective.
2) Apply the transaction-related objectives to the class of transactions being tested.
3) Develop appropriate tests of controls for all internal controls that are used to reduce the preliminary assessment of control risk below maximum (key controls) .
4) For potential types of misstatements related to each transaction-related audit objective, design appropriate substantive tests of transactions.

A) 1, 2, 3, 4
B) 4, 1, 2, 3
C) 2, 1, 3, 4
D) 1, 3, 2, 4