Ryzyko w badaniu sprawozdań finansowych

The article presents the nature of financial statements audits and the audit risks involved. It analyses the risks which must be considered by the auditor in the analysis of the financial statements and the interactions between the particular risk categories (i.e. the audit risk, the risk of material misstatem ent and the detection risk). It also concentrates on the risks usually omitted in the literature but which must be considered by the financial statements’ readers which use the financial statements in the business decisionmaking processes. The article questions the generally accepted financial statements audit model due to the significant concentration of risk resulting from the sample-based approach and the professional judgment applied by the auditor as well as resulting from the factors affecting the auditor’s independence.