**TRUE or FALSE**3. All allowances to customers for returned or defective merchandise should be supported by a serially numbered credit memo signed by an officer or responsible employee having no duties relating to handling cash or the maintenance of customers' ledgers.4. The auditors should perform alternative auditing procedures on all negative confirmation requests that are not returned.5. When it is “impossible” to confirm accounts receivable, the auditors can never issue an unqualified opinion on the client’s financial statements.6. Inspection of notes receivable on hand should be performed concurrently with the count of cash and securities to prevent the concealment of a shortage by substitution of cash for misappropriated negotiable instruments, or vice versa.7. A confirmation is considered documentary evidence secured from outside the organization and sent directly to the auditors.8. The auditor needs the client’s permission to send out “confirmations.”9. A customer’s response to a receivable confirmation request may contain restrictive language concerning its use. All restrictions would invalidate the reliability of the response as audit evidence.

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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

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Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions

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In testing controls over cash disbursements, an auditor most likely would determine that the person who signs the check also: A. Approves the voucher for payment. C B. C. D. Stamps, perforates or otherwise cancels supporting documents. Returns the checks to accounts payable. Is denied access to the supporting documents.
Provide an appropriate response based on the following scenarios. Assume that the accounting clerk posts a customer’s payment for the wrong amount, giving the customer credit for less than he or she actually paid. How will this error be detected? How might this error have been prevented? Assume that the employee who opens the mail steals a customer payment. How will this theft be detected? How might this theft have been prevented?
The expense cycle offers employees many opportunities to commit fraudin processing cash purchases and cash disbursements. Buyers usually becomeeasy targets for suppliers who offer large returns if willing to transactmore. Analytical procedures are a cost-effective means of identifying accounts in the expense cycle that are misstated.a. Please list some of the analytical procedures the auditor may use forestimate the likelihood of misstatement and explain the significance of the audit?b. Why a trade payable turnover day analysis provides a more precise analysis of debteffort rather than current ratio?c. Why do auditors pay more attention to debt understatement than debt overstatement?d. Please identify the elements of environmental control that are relevant toinitiation and recording of purchases?
Sam Fenton wants to ensure that sales in a retail outlet are not recorded at the wrong amount. Which preventive control will help him ensure his objective? O The signature of the goods by the warehouse receiver on a receiving report or a bill of lading. O A credit check by the credit manager. O Automatic pricing of sales invoices using a master price file. O None of the above.
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 warchouse, 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. For each of the above deficiencies, identify the possible impact on the company's operation and recommend a control to address it. Explain why an auditor cannot perform only test of control in an audit.

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