Principles Of Auditing & Other Assurance Services
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ISBN: 9781259916984
Author: WHITTINGTON, Ray, Pany, Kurt
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 11, Problem 41OQ
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Identify the given statements are correct or incorrect with respect to the confirmation process when applied to accounts receivable.
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the auditor is planning to use accounts payable confirmations when auditing the client's accounts payable. The use of accounts payable confirmations will test which of the following assertions?
a. rights and obligations
b. existence (only)
c. existence and completeness
d. cutoff
Confirmation of accounts receivable is a presumptively mandatory audit procedure. In performing this procedure, auditors use positive confirmation requests or negative confirmation requests or a combination of both.
Describe three conditions that should exist for the auditors to use the negative form of request.
Choose the one correct answer.
Sending accounts receivable confirmation letters to the client's customers is consistent with the auditor's objective of validating client's receivable assertion on: A. Completeness and rightsb.Completeness and valuationc. E xistence and rightsd. Existence and valuatione. None of the above
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- Which of the following most likely would be included with the client’s confirmation letter, when an auditor decided to confirm customers’ account balances rather than individual invoices.? Select one: Question 28Answer a. A client-prepared letter reminding the customerthat a nonresponse will cause a second request tobe sent. b. An auditor-prepared letter explaining that a nonresponse may cause an inference that the accountbalance is correct. c. An auditor-prepared letter requesting the customer to supply missing and incorrect informationdirectly to the auditor. d. A client-prepared statement of account showingthe details of the customer’s account balance.arrow_forwardWhen an audit team does not receive a response on a positive accounts receivable confirmation, auditors should do all of the following excepta. Send a second request.b. Do nothing for immaterial balances.c. Examine shipping documents.d. Examine client correspondence files.arrow_forwardDuring the confirmation of accounts receivable, an auditor receives a confirmation via the client’s fax machine. Which of the following actions should the auditor take?a. Not accept the confirmation and select another customer’s balance to confirm.b. Not accept the confirmation and treat it as an exception.c. Accept the confirmation and file it in the working papers.d. Accept the confirmation but verify the source and content through a telephone call to the respondent.arrow_forward
- To gather audit evidence related to accounts receivable, the client should mail the confirmation requests. TRUE OR FALSE? WHY?arrow_forwardWhich of the following statements about confirming accounts receivable (A/R) and accounts payable (A/P) is true? Question options: A/R confirmations are more likely to include the client's balance than A/P confirmations. A/R and A/P are always confirmed regardless of the materiality of the balance or risks of material misstatement. The assertion with the highest risk of material misstatement for A/R and A/P is Existence. Positive and negative confirmations are always used to audit A/R and A/P.arrow_forwardConfirmation of accounts receivable that have been categorized initially by an auditor as "exceptions" most likely could be due to: O Responses that were mailed rather than faxed to the auditor. O Customers who have credit or zero balances with the client. Payments mailed to the client that have not been recorded. O Accounts receivable that have been classified as uncollectablearrow_forward
- Which of the following most likely would be included with the client’s confirmation letter, when an auditor decided to confirm customers’ account balances rather than individual invoices.? Select one: a. An auditor-prepared letter requesting the customer to supply missing and incorrect information directly to the auditor. b. A client-prepared letter reminding the customer that a nonresponse will cause a second request to be sent. c. A client-prepared statement of account showing the details of the customer’s account balance. d. An auditor-prepared letter explaining that a nonresponse may cause an inference that the account balance is correct.arrow_forwardThe typical procedures performed to verify that the client has not omitted any amounts from the payables balance include: Select one: a. performing confirmations of payables accounts b. performing analytical review procedures c. vouching recorded payables to supporting documentation d. subsequent payments testingarrow_forwardChoose the one correct answer. Which of the following statements is invalid relating to confirmation of accounts receivable? a. A negative form of confirmation is preferable to use when individual account balances of customers are relatively smallb. A positive confirmation provides more reliable evidence than the negative confirmation because the auditor can perform follow-up procedures if no response is received from the debtorc. An auditor must consider using the negative form of confirmation when there is reason to believe that there may be a substantial number of accounts in dispute or with inaccuracies or irregularitiesd. In negative confirmation, failure to reply must be regarded as a correct response, even though the debtor may have ignored the confirmation requeste. None of the abovearrow_forward
- Which of the following is correct regarding the use of confirmation letters in an audit of financial statements: a. Blank confirmation letters are usually preferred when the auditor expects an overstatement error in the account balance. b. A reply from a receivable confirmation letter received from the customer through the client is considered an invalid reply, thus another set of confirmation letter should be sent. c. A positive confirmation letter is preferred over a negative confirmation letter when the auditor, based on his past experience with the client, expects minimal to zero errors. d. When an auditor does not receive a reply from a customer for a negative confirmation letter in a considerable period of time, the auditor should send out another set of confirmation letter.arrow_forwardChoose the one correct answer Which of the following statements is valid relating to confirmation of accounts receivable? * a. A positive confirmation provides more reliable evidence than the negative confirmation because the auditor can perform follow-up procedures if no response is received from the debtorB. A negative form of confirmation is preferable to use when individual account balances of customers are relatively largec. In positive confirmation, failure to reply must be regarded as a correct response, even though the debtor may have ignored the confirmation requestd. An auditor must consider using the negative form of confirmation when there is reason to believe that there may be a substantial number of accounts in dispute or with inaccuracies or irregularitiese. None of the abovearrow_forwardAn auditor reviews aged accounts receivable to assess likelihood of collection to support management’s assertion about account balances of: Select one: a. rights and obligations b. existence. c. valuation and allocation d. completenessarrow_forward
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