Principles Of Auditing & Other Assurance Services
21st Edition
ISBN: 9781259916984
Author: WHITTINGTON, Ray, Pany, Kurt
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Which of the following would provide an auditor with the most reliable evidence reguarding the existence of accounts receivable?
A. A copy of the invoice sent to the customer.
B. Acopy of the customer's sales order held by the client.
C. An accounts receivable confirmation received by the auditor from the client's customer.
D. An aging schedule showing the composition of the year-end-accounts receivable balance.
Which of the following procedures will an auditor most likely perform for year-endaccounts receivable confirmations when the auditor did not receive replies to secondrequests?(1) Review the cash receipts journal for the month prior to year end.(2) Intensify the study of internal control concerning the revenue cycle.(3) Inspect the shipping records documenting the merchandise sold to the debtors.(4) Increase the assessed level of detection risk for the existence assertion.
Which of the following procedures would an auditor most likely perform in searching for unrecorded liabilities? *A. Scan the cash disbursements entries recorded just before year end for indications of unusual transactions.B. Compare a sample of purchase orders issued just after year end with the year-end accounts payable trial balance.C. Obtain a copy of the receiving report until year end and its related sales invoice and trace them to the purchases journal.D. Compare the entries recorded in the purchases journal and the cash disbursements journal just before year end.
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- Which of the following audit procedures is aimed most directly at testing the completeness assertion for accounts payable? Footing the list of accounts payable. Tracing shipping reports after year-end to related customer purchase orders and invoices. Examining underlying documentation for cash disbursements in the period after year-end. Tracing shipping reports issued on or before year-end to related customer purchase orders and invoices.arrow_forwardThe following are specific balance-related audit objectives applied to the audit of accounts receivable (a. through h.) and management assertions about account balances (1 through 4). The list referred to in the specific balance-related audit objectives is the list of the accounts receivable from each customer at the balance sheet date. Specific Balance-Related Audit Objective a . There are no unrecorded receivables. b . Receivables have not been sold or discounted. c . Uncollectible accounts have been provided for. d . Receivables that have become uncollectible have been written off. e . All accounts on the list are expected to be collected within 1 year. f . The total of the amounts on the accounts receivable listing agrees with the general ledger balance for accounts receivable. g . All accounts on the list arose from the normal course of business and are not due from related parties. h . Sales cutoff at year-end is proper. Management Assertion about Account Balances 1…arrow_forwardFor each of the following audit procedures, state which type of evidence-gathering technique is being used: (1) inspection or (2) computation or (3) confirmation or (4) analytical procedures or (5) enquiries or (6) observation. Agreeing the total of the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger to the accounts receivable general ledger Discussing the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful debts with the credit manager. Comparing the current year gross margin with the gross margin for the last four years. Examining a new machine to ensure that this major acquisition was Watching the client’s warehouse personnel count the raw materials Performing test counts of the warehouse personnel’s count of the raw Obtaining a letter from the client’s solicitor indicating that there were no lawsuits in progress against the Tracing the prices used by the client’s billing program for pricing sales invoices to the client’s approved price Sending a written request to the client’s customers requesting that…arrow_forward
- Which of the following is the best audit procedure for determining the existence of unrecorded liabilities?a. Examine confirmation requests returned by creditors whose accounts are on a subsidiary trial balance of accounts payable.b. Examine a sample of cash disbursements in the period subsequent to year-end.c. Examine a sample of invoices a few days prior to and subsequent to the year-end to ascertain whether they have been properly recorded.d. Examine unusual relationships between monthly accounts payable and recorded purchases.arrow_forwardAn auditor is likely to perform each of the below procedures to obtain evidence regarding the potential understatement of accounts payable at year-end (i.e., the Completeness assertion) except… Question options: Inspect purchase orders and receiving reports for accounts payable recorded at year-end. Inspect the open invoice file for invoices to be paid after year-end. All options describe procedures that can be used to identify a potential understatement of accounts payable. Analyze cash disbursements made during the first few weeks of the subsequent year and inspect supporting documentation for each disbursement.arrow_forwardMatch each example audit procedure with its correct general audit objective related to accounts receivable. Select a sample of sales invoices in the subsequent period, and examine the related shipping documents for date of shipment to ascertain whether some of those shipments at the end of the period were inadvertently not recorded Provide a list of related parties to all members of the audit team to assist in identification of the transacations Existence of assets Rights to assets Review confirmations of liabilities to determine if receivables have been sold Completeness of assets Compare the amount of credits given to customers in the subsequent period to the amount estimated by management Cutoff of transactions Confirm a sample of receivables by direct communication with the debtors Valuation of assets Vouch sales and cash receipt transactions occurring near period end Financial statement presentation and disclosure ofarrow_forward
- Which of the following procedures is MOST likely to be performed before the balance sheet date? a. Determine the date of the Letter of Representations b. Make a legal determination whether fraud has occurred. c. Search for unrecorded liabilities. d. Confirmation of receivables. e. Updating the predecessor's audit report date.arrow_forwardThe following audit procedures are consistent with gathering evidence about the valuation assertion of a client's accounts receivable balance, except: a. Inquiry with the management with regard the client policy of providing allowance for doubtful accounts.b. Vouching entries in the sales journal to the delivery receipt to test the propriety of the sale transaction and the resulting receivable balance.c. Recomputation of the client's aging schedule and the required allowance for doubtful accounts.d. Testing the reasonableness of the client's estimation policy in determining the portion of the receivables that are doubtful of collection.e. None of the above.arrow_forwardWhich of the following procedures would an auditor most likely perform in searching for unrecorded liabilities? A. Vouch a sample of cash disbursements recorded just after year end to receiving reports and vendor invoices. B. Compare a sample of purchase orders issued just after year-end with the year-end accounts payable balance. C. Scan the cash disbursement entries recorded just before year end for indications of unusual transactions. D. Vouch a sample of accounts payable entries recorded just before year end to the unmatched receiving report file.arrow_forward
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