Auditing & Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach (Irwin Accounting)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780077732509
Author: William F Messier Jr, Steven M. Glover Associate Professor, Douglas F. Prawitt Associate Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 10, Problem 10.15MCQ
To determine
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Credit limits are allowed by the company to its customers. The auditor needs to consider this area while auditing the accounts receivables. The auditor should check the proper authorization of credit limit allowed to the customers.
To choose: the procedure to be followed by the auditor to audit the credit limits.
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Sandol Corporation has numerous customers. A customer file is kept on disk storage.
Each customer file contains name, address, credit limit, and account
balance. The auditor wishes to test this file to determine whether credit limits are being
exceeded. The best procedure for the auditor to follow would be to:
a. Develop test data that would cause some account balances to exceed the credit
limit and determine if the system properly detects such situations.
O b. Request a printout of a sample of account balances so they can be individually
checked against the credit limits.
c. Request a printout of all account balances so they can be manually checked
against the credit limits.
O d. Develop a program to compare credit limits with account balances and print out
the details of any account with a balance exceeding its credit limit.
You are a forensic accountant for a public accounting firm whose client hired your team to perform a fraud investigation of the accounts payable processes. As part of your fraud testing, you have acquired vendor data including bank accounts to which payments are sent and employee data including bank accounts for direct deposit of paychecks. You need to compare the main vendor table to the
main employee table to search for potential fictitious vendors. Analyze the fields in the two tables on the next page, looking for identical or similar fields. Based on what you find, identify three red flags for accounts payable fraud. Provide the record numbers from
the tables in your answer.
Vendor record # Employee Record#
________ ___________
________ ____________
_________ ____________
You are a forensic accountant for a public accounting firm whose client hired your team to perform a fraud investigation of the accounts payable processes. As part of your fraud testing, you have acquired vendor data including bank accounts to which payments are sent and employee data including bank accounts for direct deposit of paychecks. You need to compare the main vendor table to the
main employee table to search for potential fictitious vendors. Analyze the fields in the two tables on the next page, looking for identical or similar fields. Based on what you find, identify three red flags for accounts payable fraud. Provide the record numbers from
the tables in your answer.
Vendor record # Employee Record#
________ ___________
________ ____________
_________ ____________
Chapter 10 Solutions
Auditing & Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach (Irwin Accounting)
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