Study Materials
The F8 Audit and Assurance paper aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of the process of carrying out an assurance engagement, using the external audit as an example. As well as emphasising the practical aspects of carrying out assurance engagements, this paper also seeks to establish your understanding of the professional regulatory framework in place.
It focuses on the following key themes:
- Audit framework and regulation, including ethical and professional considerations
- Internal audit and how this differs from the external audit
- The external audit process, from planning through to audit fieldwork and final review
- Reporting – the audit report and other reports.
Study Text
Price: £30
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 47317
The examiner-reviewed F8 Study Text includes everything you need for this paper, including detailed guidance on the exam and the pilot paper questions. The question bank includes questions in the style of the F8 paper, and each chapter contains useful exam focus points. The Study Text provides an excellent introduction to the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, focussing on ethics and regulation, before going through the external audit process as an example of a key assurance engagement.
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Practice and Revision Kit
Price: £16
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 46877
The F8 Practice & Revision Kit provides you with a range of exam-standard questions in the style of the F8 paper, as well as a suggested question plan to assist you in your revision phase. All answers include useful references back to the Study Text so that you can go back to the material if you need to. Questions contain excellent commentary in the form of 'top tips' and 'easy marks' guidance to aid in perfecting your exam technique. The kit also contains three mock exams, including the pilot paper.
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Passcards
Price: £10
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 46655
The F8 passcards provide a visual means of highlighting the factors that have most impact on external audit work, and demonstrating clearly the key stages in audit decision-making.
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i-Learn
Price: £40
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 47539
The F8 i-Learn product guides you through the external audit process, with a detailed look at the professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements. Questions and interesting visuals help reinforce your knowledge and application skills for this challenging paper.
i-Pass
Price: £30
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 47096
The F8 i-Pass CD is an excellent product as it allows you to test your knowledge of the Audit and Assurance syllabus throughout your revision phase. Each answer provides detailed explanations in the form of an advice section. The CD has been designed to follow the sequence of topic areas in the Study Text, Passcards and i-Learn CD products for this paper so guides you through the external audit process from start to finish.
Success CD
Price: £15
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 47551
The Success CD for paper F8 provides you with a very useful revision tool for the Audit and Assurance paper, because it goes through the key stages of the external audit process in detail, from initial planning and risk assessment through to audit fieldwork and reporting, interspersed with important exam tips and guidance from experienced audit and assurance tutors.