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?

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Audit Procedures are methods and techniques performed by the auditor to determine the quality of financial information of clients, thereby expressing an opinion on true & fair view of financial statements and entity position. They are identified and applied at the planning stage of audit after determining audit objectives, scope, approach, and risk assessment.