Auditing And Assurance Services
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ISBN: 9780134897431
Author: ARENS, Alvin A.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Discuss the ways; the auditor could uncover the misstatement, assuming that there are no perpetual records.
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During the taking of physical inventory, the controller intentionallywithheld several inventory tags from the employees responsible for the physical count.After the auditor left the client’s premises at the completion of the inventory observation,the controller recorded nonexistent inventory on the tags and thereby significantly overstated earnings. How could the auditor have uncovered the misstatement, assuming thatthere are no perpetual records?
An auditor discovered the following errors and irregularities while performing tests of controls:
Inventory damaged by rain remains in inventory at full cost.
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What control would have prevented or detected each of the aforementioned errors/irregularities?
What tests should the auditor perform to test each control?
To which financial statement assertion does the error or irregularity relate?
As the auditor of Sample Limited you note the following matters relating to the internal control
of its sales system.
i) The sales department accepts order without first checking the inventory level with
the warehouse.
ii) Goods are dispatched to customers without recording customer's signatures as proof
of receipt of goods.
iii) Orders of goods placed by customers are properly recorded but they are not
forwarded timely to the dispatch department for fulfilling the order.
a) For each of the above deficiencies, identify the possible impact on the company's
operation and recommend a control to address it.
b) Explain why an auditor cannot perform only test of control in an audit.
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