O value at risk - VAR como instrumento de avaliação do risco da atividade de auditoria contábil

Abstract

One of the largest current concerns for the companies of Auditing is treated in the process of evaluation of the Risk contained in their activity. The Risk of the Activity of Auditing can be defined as the Risk contained in their customers and in the case of an inconsistent evaluation on the part of the responsible auditors for the emission of an opinion about the Financial Statement, can cart several occurrences, from the simple warning by the organ regulator until the bankruptcy of the company of Auditing. To certify that the evaluation of those risks is accomplished in a reliable and appropriate way the independent auditors apply a series of technical procedures that assure them the obtaining of evidences that propitiate the safe evaluation. Among the procedures now in use there is a series that has in their base statistical calculations that help the auditor to make the necessary decision, based in scientific data. Such statistical procedures are related to obtaining samples and analysis of variations in the accounting initials, in a way to allow a solid evaluation as for the nature and extension of the other exams to be made. This statistical technology applied by the companies of Auditing has the characteristic of orientating the auditor's work as for the nature, that is, it shows what exam should be made, as well as its extension, the amount of tests to be applied to obtain the certainty about the qualification of the Financial Statement. However, some statistical tools are being applied, in order to help the auditor directly on the quantification of the risk, and consequently its evaluation. In this case, this work presents a bibliographical research on the existent Risks in the activity of accounting Auditing and on the statistical tool of risk evaluation used by the financial institutions denominated Value at Risk - VaR. The study consisted of presenting a conceptual study about the use of Value at Risk - VaR in the measuring and evaluation of the Risks involved in the activity of Accounting Auditing. It was verified, through the bibliographical revision that Value at Risk - VaR can help the companies of Accounting Auditing in the measuring and evaluation of the Risks involved in its activity, as well as corroborates the hypothesis that it is applicable to the Evaluation of the Risk of the Activity of Accounting Auditing, not only in the financial segment, but, also in companies of the industrial and commercial branches.