Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134728520
Author: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3, Problem 2EIA
Case 2. Brent Robertson and his banker were reviewing the quarterly income statements for his consulting business, Robertson and Associates, Inc. The banker was impressed with the growth of sales revenue and net income for the second quarter of this year as compared to the second quarter of last year. Brent knew it had been a good quarter, but didn’t think it had been spectacular. Suddenly, Brent realized that he failed to close out the revenue and expense accounts for the prior quarter, which ended in March. Because those temporary accounts were not closed out, their balances were included in the second quarter amounts for the current year. Brent then realized that the banker had the financial statements but not the general ledger or any
Should Brent have informed the banker of the mistake made, and should he have redone the second quarter’s income statement? Was Brent’s failure to close the prior quarter’s revenue and expense accounts unethical? Does the fact that the business will repay the loan matter?
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Suppose that you are the auditor of a major retail client who has reported the following income before taxes (IBT) for the first two
quarters of the year: 1st quarter = $1,200,000 and 2nd quarter = $1.500,000. You are in the process of establishing overall
materiality for the client. Based on prior years, the client has a 10 percent decline in IBT from the 2nd quarter to the 3rd quarter.
You also know that IBT in the 4th quarter increases by 25 percent over the 3rd quarter.
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Determine the amount of overall materiality for the audit based on these preliminary amounts.
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Suppose that you are the auditor of a major retail client who has reported the following income before taxes (IBT) for the first two quarters of the year: 1st quarter = $1,200,000 and 2nd quarter = $1,500,000. You are in the process of establishing overall materiality for the client. Based on prior years, the client has a 10% decline in IBT from the 2nd quarter to the 3rd quarter. You also know that IBT in the 4th quarter increases by 25% over the 3rd quarter.
Determine the amount of overall materiality for the audit based on these preliminary amounts.
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Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)
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