You are auditing the accounts receivable for Conor Company as of December 31, 2022 One of your procedures was to send positive confirmations to a sample of 50 accounts.  Of those 50 confirmations, 40 have been positively confirmed without comments, 7 had minor differences that have been cleared satisfactorily.  The remaining 3 had the following comments:   “We received $6,000 of goods on consignment on November 20, 2022. We have not sold them yet.” “We received these goods on January 5, 2023 and mailed a check on January 7, 2023.” “The balance of $2,000 was paid on December 10, 2022.”   For each of these comments, identify the steps that you would take to clear (resolve) them.

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  1. You are auditing the accounts receivable for Conor Company as of December 31, 2022 One of your procedures was to send positive confirmations to a sample of 50 accounts.  Of those 50 confirmations, 40 have been positively confirmed without comments, 7 had minor differences that have been cleared satisfactorily.  The remaining 3 had the following comments:

 

  1. “We received $6,000 of goods on consignment on November 20, 2022. We have not sold them yet.”
  2. “We received these goods on January 5, 2023 and mailed a check on January 7, 2023.”
  3. “The balance of $2,000 was paid on December 10, 2022.”

 

For each of these comments, identify the steps that you would take to clear (resolve) them.

 

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