New accounting standard on going concern uncertainties under FASB

During your work, you discuss with others on the following issues.   One of the partners at the ABC Auditing Firm is auditing an international firm that is cross listed in the United States. There is a new accounting standard issued by FASB that requires managers to evaluate and disclose a firm’s going concern uncertainties on a quarterly basis. Previously, such mandates were not included in the U.S. GAAP. GAAS (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards) requires auditors to assess a firm’s going concern ability and issue the going concern audit opinion deemed necessary. The partner is discussing with you the potential impact of this new standard. Please suggest the possible reasons that led to the issuance of this new going concern standard. Explain the management’s consideration in providing going concern disclosure and the auditor’s consideration in issuing going concern opinion. As an auditor, how would you assess a firm’s going concern ability and what are the relevant factors in such assessment? One junior auditor is confused about the degree to which auditors should rely on the internal controls. One of his questions is “which assertion(s) help explain why auditors need to rely on internal controls at some minimal level?” Please explain to him The junior auditor is also unclear about how the assertion related to fraud detection in CAS 240 different from other assertions in auditing. Please explain to him. A new feature incorporated in the audit report in recent years has greatly increased the accountability of a specific individual. Please explain what this new feature is and identify that individual .   Machine learning has been an important topic for the auditing profession. Please explain the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning.   Part II Audit Data Analytics As an auditor, you are asked to check the sales transaction, cash collection, and the balance in accounts receivable. You are provided with an excel dataset: Part II - Sales_Cash_Receipt.xlsx. This dataset containing two data tabs: Sales_Order and Cash_Receipt. Sales_Order contains all sales transactions that occurred during January to September, 2019. The company has a policy stating that accounts receivables should be collected within 60 days of the sale. Assume that the beginning balance of accounts receivable is zero and the only activities that affect the balance of accounts receivable are sales and cash receipts. There is no unapplied cash receipt.