AUDITING RMU
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Chapter 12, Problem 12.9RQ
To determine
Concept Introduction:
Payroll audit: Every organization have payroll department and payroll costs takes major portion of the organization expenses. Hence auditors need to apply special procedures while auditing payroll related records.
To indicate: the importance of control activities over the classification of payroll transactions.
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